Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Haitham Logman; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley; Michael Hagenberger

academia. The UT-Austin ASEE student chapter was established in the fall of 1996.The steps taken to establish this student chapter are described by Matsumoto et al. 1 The primarypurposes of the student chapter at UT-Austin are: · to encourage students to consider careers in academia; · to enhance the teaching and presentation skills of prospective educators; · to develop the skills needed to establish and lead a research program; · to assist students in their search for academic positions. · to encourage undergraduate students to consider graduate school. The ASEE student chapter at UT-Austin has evaluated its effectiveness in achieving theseobjectives by surveying former graduate

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

L.Friedman’s popular book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization 1.Friedman suggests that a balance can be kept between allegiance to the Lexus (“…thedrive for sustenance, improvement, prosperity and modernization . . .”) and the olive tree,(“ . . . everything that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world . . . “).This leads us to concrete strategies for establishing and maintaining that balance.Suggested approachesIt appears that the issue of ‘engineer as commodity’ must be addressed directly, and soon,but who should lead the effort? Corporations and government agencies are unlikely toaddress it, given pressures for accountability and profit. Individual engineers or smallgroups of them are not able to make

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juris Reinfelds

Edsger W. Dijkstra 1, 2 developed a simple, yet very effective theory, whichprogrammers could use to reason about simple imperative single-thread programs. Earlier, RobertFloyd 3 had introduced the notions of preconditions, postconditions and loop invariants in mathe-matical terms and Sir Anthony Hoare FRS 4 had incorporated these concepts into a mathemati-cally oriented, precisely defined programming language. However such a mathematical theorywas not directly useful to programmers and very little use of these concepts was made until Dijk-stra and Peter Naur 5 expressed the theory in programmer’s terminology.The core of Dijkstra’s theory is very simple. First he observes that a program is a sequence of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teofilo Caceras; James Ochoa

Clocks QSM QSPI SCI Page 7.159.2 Figure 1: Overall MC68332 resources used in ENTC 349 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe overall microcontroller architecture is the first topic introduced in the class. Following this,each of the modules are

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

educators, in overcoming andaddressing these problems, necessitates the introduction of cheaper ways of delivering educationand attracting disfranchised groups to academic programs.This paper describes attempts by the authors to address the problem through distance education,home-practical kits with green methods, the Internet and special efforts directed at women.Elitist EducationEducation in the West is far more democratic and inclusive than in the rest of the World. This isrecognized in Table 1 which gives the enrolment in higher education, as given by UNESCO inits World Education Report 1, for the critical 18-22 age group for a sampling of countries. Thetable shows the disparities and improvements from 1985 to 1995. The World Bank’s

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

international law things are different. Human rights come increasingly through treatyobligations and are often in force without a national discussion. With engineers increasinglyengaged in multi-national transactions, they need to be mindful of their obligations to humanrights. The laws are international in character. We need clearly and necessarily to understand ourobligations. The legal argument for the importance of engineers’ knowing their human rightsobligations has been advanced by Hoole 1. We leave it to readers to consult that paper for details.Definition of Human RightsThere is really no formal definition of human rights except the meaning that derives fromlanguage – the rights of the individual human being. Its precise meaning has evolved

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wood; Mustafa Guvench

current of 333 mA. In addition, the excitationfrequency can be varied from 1Hz to 1 MHz. The operation of the controller is easy due to user friendlysoftware that runs on a PC with the Windows95 or the Windows 98 operating system. The system designedis ideal for anyone doing research with MEMS micromotors.1. IntroductionThis paper describes the design, operation, and use of a PC controlled drive circuit designed to be used toexperiment with different drive waveforms on electrostatic MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems)micromotors. The controller has been designed to drive different MEMS motors, namely, the wobblemotor and the rotary side drive. Figure 1 displays a micrograph of a wobble motor with 12 statorelectrodes while Figure 2 displays a

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie Ross; Denise Jackson

generator, tracking,wide range of usage, and ASP assured.Programs Report Generator Tracking Range of Usage ASP Fleet Maintenance Pro v.7.0 Y Y N Y STRACfast Maintenance v.2.0 Y Y Y YASP Developer Shareware Description Program Timewatch plc 1 Absolutely Freeware version of our Commercial Time FreeTime v.9.0 Recording, Billing, Costing PSA System. Amibroker.com AmiBroker Advanced technical analysis

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

of 0.25 to 2. Tests with cylinder without fin werealso performed to obtain base-line data for comparison. Results indicate that the addition of fincauses a reduction in drag compared to a cylinder without a fin. Future research direction isoutlined.1. IntroductionUndergraduate engineering students at the University of the Pacific are encouraged to participatein research as a part of their academic requirements, and receive up to 4 credit hours for it. Theexperimental work reported here was carried out as an undergraduate research project while thefirst author was pursuing his B.S. degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.Undergraduate research activity has recently received attention among engineering educators.Reference 1 provides

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

include Diazo coupling with 7 8simultaneous reagent decomposition and Iodate/iodine reaction with neutralization. Examplesof parallel – series reactions or competitive-consecutive reactions include Diamines withisocyantes or other acylating agents, nitrations of dibenzyl, durene, and alkyl benzenes and diazocouplings. The experiments described in this paper involve this pair of parallel competitivereactions: H2BO3- + H+ ↔ H3BO3 (1) 5I- + IO3- + 6H+ ↔ 3I2 + 3H2O (2

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

environment that facilitates intelligent information exchange 1.Another interesting approach to service quality is Quality Function Deployment (QDF). QDFcan be used to identify performance measurements that reflect customers’ requirements, and toensure that these performance measurements are used and quantified in redesigned processes 2 .QFD originated in Japan in 1970 as a systematic technique for identifying the product featuresthat contribute the most to the product quality and customer satisfaction 2. It is based on a matrixapproach that maps the customer requirements with the means to achieve them. A series of chartsare developed for mapping relationships between the customer requirements and processes 2 ,similar to the way in which Entity

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugenia Fernandez

, or an equivalent course in problem solving (see Table 1), wasmade a prerequisite to the introductory programming course. The introductory programmingcourse was changed from a first semester course to a second semester course. These changeswere codified in the 1998 Plan of Study which took effect in Fall 1998. Both the QA1 courseand the introductory programming course are required of all CPT majors. Table 1. QA1 Equivalent Courses Department Course MATH Finite Mathematics PHIL Elementary Symbolic Logic EET Digital Fundamentals 1The study population consists of 183

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram S. Chandran; Janet Brelin-Fornari

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis DiBella; Eric Hansberry; Guido Lopez

the instructor to ensure that the Mini Design problemsimplemented always reflect current, useful design.Mini Design ProblemsThe following are examples of Mini Design problems implemented in the School of EngineeringTechnology and the Lowell Institute School at Northeastern University.Problems 1 and 2These examples of an initial Mini Design problems were created to familiarize students with Page 7.836.2orthographic projection, use of engineering scales and computer aided design (CAD) software. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Chaya

”OOPIC Software Organization and the Virtual CircuitThe OOPic language itself has some unique features of software organization. All variablesmust be declared as objects. The OOPic supports only integers of 1, 4, 8 or 16 bits. A bufferobject can store up to 32 bytes that can be interpreted as a string.Other objects support the on-chip interface hardware. For example, the oA2D object controls theon-chip A-to-D converter. Assigning the Value property of the oA2D object to a variabletransfers the A-to-D output to memory. The data can then be manipulated using a conventionalprogram with line-by-line execution. However, OOPic objects can also be "linked" to oneanother so that data is transferred directly from one object to another in what is termed a

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Omar Zia

the time,mainly due to the availability of volunteers to take part in the exchange. Theauthor from SPSU and Dr. Steven Liu from Fachhochschule were selected as thefirst participants of Summer 2001 Faculty Exchange program. Most of thenegotiations and communication were made via electronic mail. Both sidesoffered solutions for issues confronting them and made the following decisionswith regard to the scope and implementation of the exchange.1. The medium of teaching, will the courses be taught in English orGerman?The medium of teaching for classes offered under Faculty Exchange program willbe English. The obvious reason for this decision was the fact that the majority ofstudents at Hraz – Fachhochschole did speak and understood English. As a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Trotignon; Ian Simpson

XXXX An International Engineering Programme in France Ian R. Simpson, Jean-Pierre Trotignon ENST Bretagne/“n+1 programme”IntroductionIn the late 1990s, the French government realised that the numbers of international studentschoosing to come and study in France had been declining for several years. During the period1990-2000, other nations had been extremely active in offering attractive “study packages” forpotential, non-native students. For universities in some countries, such as Australia, therevenue resulting from such programmes now represents an extremely important

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Guillaume; Crist Khachikian

Session 1451 Attitudes vs. Performance in the Engineering Classroom Crist S. Khachikian, Darrell W. Guillaume California State University Los AngelesIntroductionThe paradigm subscribed to by most people is that if one believes that a goal can be achieved,success is more likely. This is especially true in the pursuit of educational goals 1. A new trendin introductory texts focusing on orienting students to higher education, including those used inengineering courses, is to place a high degree of emphasis on this point. For example the widelyused text by Landis 1 is filled with phrases such as

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron

Session 3220 Learning to program in the context of an industrial simulation: A pedagogical experiment in C++ and its implications for curriculum development Sylvie Ratté, Jocelyne Caron École de technologie supérieure / Université du Québec à Montréal1. IntroductionSince 1995, our programming courses have been supported by web sites where students can findsupplementary resources. Each site contains six main blocks: memo, theory, work, results, linksand help. The organizational structure of each block (Figure 1) includes a general home page andspecific

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

Wall StreetJournal, and The Economist.Here I describe in detail how an image of globalization was constructed at one of those events.The construction of the image includes several important elements: 1) a setting where the imageis constructed and presented; 2) experts who construct the image by using an array of visual,textual, and graphical resources; 3) an audience of engineers from different parts of anorganization; 4) attributions of agency to engineers; 5) articulations of cognitive and moralauthority about globalization; and 6) re-evaluations of what engineers do in order to convincethem to buy into the image.Setting, audience, and experts. In a mountain town in Northern Arizona, a major aerospacecompany sponsored a two-day seminar on

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

solutions to aproblem. During this instruction there is ample opportunity to poise (some students mightsay “foist-upon” is the correct phrase) the unexpected, ethical quandary onto the student.Examples of this method from actual classroom instruction follow.Example of Ethical Dilemma No. 1: The Vehicle License Plate Lighting SystemThe author as an instructor for the Capstone Design Project requires that the student keepan engineering journal. The journal is intended as an immediate and omni-presentrepository for the student’s ideas, inventions and solutions to the capstone project that isimmediately on the students To Do List. In a way of encouraging the use of the Journalthe Instructor also maintains his own engineering journal that is always “a

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

male-dominated occupations. J. A.Jacobs found that the most common explanation for occupational sex segregation is that women choosedifferent occupations because they are socialized to prefer different types of work from men (10). Sex-rolesocialization plays a crucial role in the reproduction of gender inequality in the workplace (10). TheAmerican Association of University Women (AAUW) shared a recent study that concurred with thesefindings and found the girls they surveyed were not told directly they were not competent in technologyand were not deterred from taking computer classes, however, they felt there were subtle messages thatdeterred them (1). And this disturbing trend continues through college and leads to the increasing gendergap in

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

introducing the students to the necessary computer tools to meet the needs oftheir future departments, introduce the concept of teamwork, and improve the communicationskills of the students. Part of the Engineering Library’s mission has been to work with freshmenin order to give them a solid orientation to library research in a university setting. The problemis how to create a curriculum that can satisfy all these missions.Academic ConcernsThe primary purpose of teaching is to facilitate student learning. Traditional teachingmethodologies have been shown to put students in a role of passive rather than active learning.[1] In addition, traditional instructional methods have also been shown to be very inadequate interms of the promotion of deep

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Segall

physicseducation has long recognized “sci fi’s” intrinsic value for teaching basic principles 1-3 at theundergraduate level. Since physics is certainly the foundation for engineering, the obviousquestion becomes: why not use science fiction to enhance and illustrate engineering as well?The answer is that “sci fi” can and should be used to convey a wide range of concepts from basicmechanics all the way up to advanced design and analysis concepts. For a number of reasons,the importance of this potential enhancement cannot be overstated. First, “sci fi’s” creation oflasting mental images to the underlying theory will help students through the seemingly abstractcore physics and mechanics classes. Arguably, a potent combination of theory and visualimagery may

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Fisher; David Roth; Fredrick Nitterright

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bertrand Côté

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Taylor; Emília Mironovová

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

increasingly more important as students compete for positions in the real world.Early in every student’s academic career the thought of breezing through assignment uponassignment has been short circuited by the amazingly easy process of simply failing to read andfollow the instructions given in that assignment. This is compounded when the assignmentsbecome more critical for one’s grade or the test that is being taken veers away from the objectivebecause the test taker has failed to follow numbers 1, 5, and 8 in the list of steps to accomplishthe task. We see on a daily basis student after student who arrive at one’s office hours trying toargue for a “better” grade because they failed to read the single line that said either “documentyour work” or

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

requirements ofthe science and engineering education, including current Engineering Criteria and Objectives bythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In its current form, it consistsof two “tandem” courses, EBME 313 (fall) and EBME 314 (spring), in the junior year, andincludes a number of educational components. These two courses are part of the BiomedicalEngineering Core, and traditionally are among students’ most favorite courses. 1. The course offers unique opportunities for the students to acquire hands-on experience in “real” research in a variety of biomedical engineering areas. Students perform experiments using the equipment and employing techniques that researchers use in their studies. 2. Students are