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Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ruben Schwieger

. Peterson. Mathematics, 6th edition John Wiley and Sons, Danvers, MA 11. Otung, I.E., Reassessing the mathematics content of engineering education, Engineering Science and Education Journal, v10, August 2001, Institute of Electrical Engineers 12. Posamentier, Alfred S. and Jay Stepelman, Teaching Secondary Mathematics, 5th edition 1995 PrenticeHall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 13. Smith, Karl J., Problem Solving, 1991, Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA 14. Usiskin, Zalman, Anthony Peressini, Elena Anne Marchisotto, and Dick Stanley, Mathematics forHigh School Teachers 2003 Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 15. Willamowski, Jutta, Francois Chevenet, and Francois Jean

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Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

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Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

-Manufacturing, 99-02. He has published various papers,and has research grants and contracts over $2MRAJIV. S. MISHRARajiv Mishra is a full time Assistant Professor of Metallurgical Engineering Department at UMR. Hecurrently serves as coordinator for the School of Mines and Metallurgy in the Manufacturing EngineeringEducation Executive Committee (MEEEC) at UMR. He is a Research Investigator at the IntelligentSystems Center and the Materials Research Center at UMR.ANTHONY. C. OKAFORAnthony C. Okafor is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMR. He currently serves asthe Coordinator of the BSME-Manufacturing Option Program in Mechanical Engineering at UMR. He is aResearch Investigator at the Intelligent Systems Center at UMR. His teaching

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

Community, A New Future for Architectural Education and Practice”, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1996.[3] Nicol, D., and Pilling, S., “Changing Architectural Education”, E & FN Spon Press, 2000.[4] Boyer, E. and Mitgang, L., “Building Community, A New Future for Architectural Education and Practice”, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1996.Daniel DavisDr. Daniel Davis, AIA. is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at the University ofHartford. He is a Registered Architect in both NY and CT and has over 20 years experience as a Design Architect.Davis is also an Associate with Fletcher-Thompson, Architects and Engineers, where he is the Director of Design oftheir Hartford

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

, and it is expected thatongoing evaluation and formative assessment will drive continued program improvement.AcknowledgementThe support provided by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12Education Program under award #DGE-0139307 is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. National Science Foundation, “NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) ProgramSolicitation”, NSF 01-114, http://www.nsf.gov.pubs/2001/nsf01114, 2001.2. Project Lead the Way, http://www.pltw.org.3. The Junior Engineering Technical Society, http://www.jets.org.4. L.J. Bottomley, E.A. Parry, S. Brigade, l> Coley, L. Deam, E. Goodson, J. Kidwell, J. Linck, and B. Robinson,“Lessons Learned from the Implementation of a GK-12 Grant

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Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Hovde

Session #1601ConclusionIn schools of engineering and technology, standards and practices for assessingstudents’ communication abilities are evolving. The approach discussed here has thepotential to provide useful results while taking into account the amount of time andthe levels of expertise that faculty members can dedicate to all forms of assessment.We need to make continued efforts to overcome the obstacles to effective technicalcommunication assessment. The impetus provided by accrediting organizations canprovide us with opportunities to improve the communication abilities of engineeringand technology students and to improve E&T faculty members’ abilities to teachstudents to “communicate effectively.”Bibliography1. Cerri, S. “Effective

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

, vol. 16, no. 2, 2000, p.97-103. 2- Engineering Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, available at http://www.abet.org 3- R. Natarjan, The Role of Accreditation in Promoting Quality Assurance of Technical Education, Int. J. Engng.16, 2, 85-96, 2000. 4- D. Q. Nguyen, The Essential Skills and Attributes of an Engineer: A Comparative Study of Academics, Industry personnel and Engineering Students, Global Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, 65-76, 1998. 5- D. Thom, Engineering Education and the New Industrial Revolution, Int. J. Engng. Ed.,14, 294, 1998. 6- S. Florman, The Civilized Engineer, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1987, pp. 76-77. 7- E. Ferguson, The

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Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

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Melissa Lin

Coordination a & Management p t e Data r Transformation Web Server s Distribution Queuing & Persistence Message Transport ERP Applications Data warehouse

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Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joel Weinstein

gave students theopportunity to develop these skills in a real world environment. Students needed to learnhow to communicate with one another and to work effectively with other team memberswith whom they have little in common. Students learned that attention to detail isparamount when developing a product. Students became aware of the economic andfinancial side of building a product for a business. Students who participated in this classexperienced first hand the internal intricacies of the software industry and its inherentproblems. These students will be better equipped to compete for the best jobs and start ona path to a successful career upon graduation.BibliographyTQM for Computer Software-2nd Edition, Robert H. Dunn and Richard S. Ullman

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Retention of Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nadine Macauley; Edward Golovatch; Annita Alting; Ardie Walser

in all courses of the respective program appearing to violaterequisite(s) e.g., a student who was registered for CSc 102: Introduction for Computer 25 21.1 20 17.1 15 10 8.8 8.2 8.5 7.2 5 4.2 3.8

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Shull

the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Vol. 5 p. 2775-2778. 1998.2. Boaventura, C., Cordeiro, M., Couto, C., Morais, R., Salgado, P., and Serodio, C. “Solar Data Acquisition Wireless Network for Agriculture Applications.” 19th Convention of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel. P. 527-530. 1996.3. Kostic, M. “Instrumentation with Computerized Data Acquisition for an Innovative Thermal Conductivity Apparatus.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Session 2659. 1998.4. Lekas, S. “Searching for the Right Data Acquisition Software.” Evaluation Engineering. vol. 35, no. 12, p. 14-20. December, 1996.5. McDonald, D., and Mahajan, A. “Data-Acquisition Systems: An Integral Part of Undergraduate

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Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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Larry Richards

/lower cost. If the projects are better, we allwin, we get better products, and the engineer probably will get promoted before those who do not thrive inthe long distance environment.”Should this class be offered again in this format? Yes, this is exactly the kind of courseengineers practicing in industry want. They are seeking practical courses focused onbusiness issues. Was the second on-line version better than the first? Yes! We havelearned what works, and what doesn’t. The next time will be even better.References[1] Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D. Product Design and Development Second Edition. Irwin-McGrawHill, New York, 2000.[2] Bolanos, H. and Lewis, D. Entrepreneurship and Small Business: How to make money with YourIdeas The Big Purr

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King

Teaching,” in New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Motivating Professors to Teach Effectively, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, pp. 27-35. 7. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1982), “Intrinsic Motivation and Effective Teaching: A Flow Analysis,” in New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Motivating Professors to Teach Effectively, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, pp. 15-26. 8. Deci, E.L. and Ryan, R.M. (1982), “Intrinsic Motivation to Teach: Possibilities and Obstacles in Our Colleges and Universities,” in New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Motivating Professors to Teach Effectively, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, pp. 27-35. 9. King, F. G. and Schimmel, K. S., (2001), “A model for faculty

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

graphically simulate and operateconstruction process in a simple, accurate, safe, and effective way. The practice of class projectsgive students the encouragement to pursuit the research related to computer graphics. Also, moreadvanced construction simulation and integration concepts might be created with the solidfoundation developed in this course.References Page 8.1018.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposisition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationOualline, S, Practical C++ Programming. O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 0596004192; 2nd edition

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

, matrix material and 2particle size, and tableting pressure effect a tablet’s physical 1 M = 2 DC s Ct tproperties [3], (4) investigate the release kinetics of the drug 0 0 0.5 1 1 .5 2 2.5from the matrix and to determine whether Higuchi kinetics [2] Tim e 1/2 1/2 (h

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

their families, friends, and colleagues; and• to generate new and unique ideas for technological changes and developments that would be of benefit to women and families.We have held five such workshops at Santa Clara University, each time including severalwomen from the community. We invited women through several community connections wehave. Each workshop is relatively small, involving only twenty to thirty participants. We ensurea balance by insisting that the participants register early, and limit the number we can accept.We have included women ages 12 to 86, with educations from eighth grade through Ph.D.'s, andbackgrounds including technical and non-technical fields, laborers and professionals. Thewomen included full-time moms, moms

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Page 8.1195.57 - Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross (1993), Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education8 - Bloom, Benjamin S., editor (1984), Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook 1: Cognitive Domain. Longman, New York.WILLIAM B. BARATUCIWilliam B. Baratuci is a Senior Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

point where they can select the data acquisition hardware needed for specific transducers,determine the required digital signal processin g to enhance the signal, and, in some case, createtheir own virtual instruments. As various transducers are introduced in the laboratory, each ofthem with their-own operating requirements and output specifications, the instructor-writtenvirtual instrument act as a common interface to collect data from each transducer. In the samefashion that a specific physical parameter can be best measured with a s special transducer, thestudents understand that there are optimum hardware components and software rou tine to collectand process data from each sensor.The sequential exposure to more sophisticated data

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Srilekha Srinivasan; Robert Palmer; Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; A. John Boye

in ELEC 464. In order to address the two issues raised during the initial study, thenew quantitative study will utilize control and treatment groups that will remain intactthroughout the entire semester. Moreover, two more labs associated with course concepts will beimplemented in ELEC 304 in order to provide a more consistent laboratory experience. Thisstudy structure should produce better data regarding the source of any future studentimprovements and will mitigate statistical anomalies due to carry over knowledge.References 1. Buck, J. A., H. W. L. Owen, III, J. P. Uyemura, C. M. Verber, and D. J. Blumenthal, ``An Optical Communication Design Laboratory’’, IEEE Trans. Educ., 42(2), pp. 138--143, 1999. 2. Yurkovitch, S. and

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Krupczak

calculations (expressed in 2’s complement binarynumbers). Memory comprises 16 individually addressable 8-bit storage cells, numbered 0000through 1111 in binary. Memory is connected to the data bus (which supplies the data to bewritten to memory or receives data being retrieved from memory) and to the address bus (whichsupplies the address of the memory location involved in a write or read operation). In addition,memory is connected to the CPU by means of two control lines, E and W. The E (“enable”)signal is used to activate memory prior to a read or write operation. When the E signal isasserted, the W (“write”) line indicates whether a write or a read operation is to be performed.3.3 Input/Output DevicesThe input and output devices make it possible

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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G. Glenn Lipscomb

Pump Head Master Flex 77200-62 4 Flow Meter McMillan Company S-111 S6 4 Conductivity Controller Cole-Parmer U-19300-10 4 Conductivity Cell (flow through) Cole-Parmer U-19500-30 1 Dialysis Module Fresenius Medical Care NA F80A 1 Multifunction I/O NI-DAQ National Instruments PCI-6023E Channels used: 4 analog inputs and 4 grounds for flow meters 4 analog inputs and 4 grounds for conductivity meters 1 Analog

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

researchers. Also, they were required toThe students could choose any topic, but they relate the consequences of this event toneeded to give some history and discuss how engineering work in general and to thisthe experiment(s) achieved the reported laboratory course in particular.accuracy with emphasis on the difficulty of The results of the revised approach representedachieving the high accuracy. The students wrote a significant improvement over the previousthe reports and were required to exchange spring’s project: the reports were of a higherpapers and critique another student’s report caliber and the students showed a strongusing a peer review evaluation form. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

positive and we hope to be able to show progress within the next twoyears.Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the General Electric Faculty for theFuture program.BibliographyEngineering workforce commission, Engineering and Technology Enrollments. American Association ofEngineering Societies, Washington D. C, 1998. As cited on: http://www.engr.psu.edu/wep/nationalstats1199.htmlBiographical InformationMargot A-S. Vigeant is a graduate of Cornell University (BS) and The University of Virginia (MS, PhD) and aprofessor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. Her interest in women’s issues in engineering stemsfrom personal experience.Karen T. Marosi is a graduate of Lafayette College (BS) The Pennsylvania

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Giesey

done to maintain accreditation.In the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, beside myself, there were 3 nativeNamibians and 4 foreign faculty working on two-year contracts. The academic qualifications ofthe staff were 2 Ph.D.’s, 2 Masters, 1 Bachelors, and 2 National Higher Diploma. The standardteaching load was 3 courses or 15 contact hours. Reductions were granted for active researchprojects and administrative duties. However, very few of the staff were involved in research.The technology infrastructure for staff was very good. The students’ technology was not quite asgood with lines waiting for computers in the labs and slow Internet access. The library was smalland crowded and had a relatively small number of books and no

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Herbert Hess

Development for the 2015-2025 Time Frame,” US Army Communications-Electronics Command Technical Report, 31 July 2002, p. 27.[2] Farooque, M. and H.C. Maru, “Fuel Cells—the Clean and Efficient Power Generators,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 89, No 12, December 2001, pp. 1819-1829.[3] Lave, L., et.al., “Life Cycle Analysis of Alternative Automobile Fuel/Propulsion Technologies,” Environmental Science Technology, Vol 34, No 17, 4 August 2000, pp. 3598-3604.[4] Browning, L., “Projected Fuel Cell Use in California,” Arthur D. Little Report for the California Energy Commission, P600-01-022F, October 2001, pp. 20-23.[5] Bull, S., “Renewable Energy Today and Tomorrow,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 89, No 8, August 2001, p

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roberto Montoya

asking for. However, the statisticsmentioned are surprising, not only because they seriously question higher education institutionsfor an equivocal interpretation of university autonomy, but also the government’s will toguarantee quality assurance and high academic standards such programs are supposed to operateunder and offer11. Although since the mid 90’s, there is a growth tendency in the higher educationcoverage index in Colombia, the increase has been less than a point yearly, and it has not reachedthe dynamism of other countries in the area. Year 2000 comparative data show that whileColombia reached 15% coverage, as did Brazil and Mexico, Peru reached 26%, Venezuela 29%,Uruguay and Costa Rica 30%, Chile 32% and Argentina reached 36

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

benefits experienced by students and it alsoprovided a very viable means for students to solve engineering problems using computers.It was noted that students exposed to MATLAB and its capabilities in modeling,computation, and visualization in their earlier years of their engineering education usedthem effectively in the advanced level engineering courses. It also helped students developbetter reading and studying skills and a better understanding of the materials presented inengineering courses. Overall, this resulted in a positive, effective and efficient learningenvironment.Bibliography1. MATLAB 5.2 User’s Guide, The Math Works Inc., Natick, MA, 1998.2. Nakamura, S., Numerical Analysis and Graphical Visualization with MATLAB,Prentice Hall

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Burnham; Don Millard

operational amplifier (Op-Amp) module (shown in figure 4) was developed to offer students the opportunity to create andtest a variety of circuit configurations. Basic inverting, non-inverting, differential amplifier,integrator, differentiator and comparator circuits are available in either preset or “build your own”configurations. The user can choose the level and frequency of the input signal(s) along with thepower supply voltages (+Vcc and -Vcc) to explore both the ideal and real characteristics of thedevice. Page 8.479.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

filter in a home- use HVAC system is to block thedusty air particles from the incoming air and to remove contaminants introduced into there-circulated air from conditioned space1 . When a new filter is just installed, it provideslittle resistance to the airflow. The low resistance provides little friction loss in the system,thus requires less energy for the air mover (fan) than a system with a dirty filter. A clean airfilter can also produce a better air quality during the same operation time period of aHVAC system. To measure the change of the airflow between a clean filter and a dirtyfilter, s simple apparatus was developed by students in the MET program 2,3. A rectangularbox contains a fan and motor with openings at the fan discharge and

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Katie Torrey; James Hertel; Douglas Oppliger; Gretchen Hein; Glen Archer; Jason Keith

the original concept for this design project.References1. Sorby, S., Monte, A.E., Hein, G.L. “Implementing a Common First Year Engineering Program at Michigan Tech“, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.2. Malzahn Kampe, J.C., Knott, T.W., “Exposing First-Year Students to Green Engineering”, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3. Holtzapple, M.T., Reece, W.D., Foundations of Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 2000, pp. 61-89.4. Felder, R.M., Rousseau, R.W., Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Ed., pp. 154.5. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Web Site