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2000 Annual Conference

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George A. Perdikaris

Session 1359 COMPUTER CONTROL OF MACHINES AND PROCESSES George A. Perdikaris, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-ParksideAbstractA method is presented for controlling machines and processes by a microcomputer. Examplesof a motor drive plant (machine) and a heating plant (process) are presented. The computercontrolled systems are designed and simulated using the language SIMULINK.1 The motorcontrol system is implemented in the laboratory. Results obtained from computer simulation arecompared with laboratory findings.I. IntroductionIndustrial automation incorporating computers

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2000 Annual Conference

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

usually an internal combustion engine (ICE) or fuel cell. Properly designedHEVs synergistically maximize the advantages of their combined power plants while minimizingthe disadvantages. HEVs offer excellent potential for reduced emissions and lower energy usage.Three major objectives have driven the development of the GATE graduate program: First, is theestablishment of a laboratory environment that includes computer workstations for design andanalysis, data acquisition and control hardware, a hybrid powertrain dynamometer test cell and achassis (vehicle) dynamometer. Second, is the development of two new courses (one entitled HEVEnergy Analysis of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles: and the other entitled Modeling, Simulation andControl of Hybrid Electric

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

approaches to teaching.Lecture, recitation, structured laboratory exercises, and other methods that have been employedby universities for years were not successful with non-traditional students. The faculty at PurdueAnderson has spent considerable resources researching and developing instructional methodsthat produced good results with adult learners. However, instructional methods that have provensuccessful with non-traditional students have been less successful with this new influx oftraditional students. The faculty revisited their initial research and the assumptions theydeveloped about traditional and non-traditional learning in an attempt to identify methods thatwould produce good results for both groups of learners.II. Pedagogy versus

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2000 Annual Conference

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Doug Jacobson; Barbara L. Licklider

Introduction to Computer Engineering II. CprE 182X wasdesigned with special emphasis on the supporting laboratory experiments and interactive activities.The instructional approach focused on introducing cooperative learning strategies and teamingconcepts in the context of hands-on laboratory experiments. Students designed, implemented andtested computer based projects in an interactive, team oriented approach.CprE 182X met once a week for 2 hours and we spent most of the time working with the robotsand providing support for the other courses the students were taking. Most of the sessionsrevolved around building and programming the robots, however every class started with anopening go round and ended with a closing go round. The two go rounds allowed

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2000 Annual Conference

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William L. Scheller

Session 3563 Puttering Around -- An Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Project W.L. Scheller II, Ph.D. Kettering University, Flint, MichiganAbstractInnovative, interdisciplinary laboratory exercises are difficult to develop and successfully execute. Thispaper describes a joint manufacturing engineering/mechanical engineering project to design and machinethe head of a golf putter. The project spanned two terms. The project involved two separate courses,one in manufacturing engineering and another in mechanical engineering. Only one student in the firstterm was a member of both

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bernard Hoop; Eric W. Hansberry; Gerard Voland

as forinadequate and/or incomplete science literacy.It is our contention that student-centered interaction and engagement is particularlyeffective among students who do not perceive themselves threatened by, or at anintellectual disadvantage to one another. In this paper, we describe an attempt toengage students in the development of science activities for lay science students in twodifferent non-threatening ways within a traditional classroom lecture format. The first isby means of a design project of a science laboratory for lay science students in anengineering graphics design course. The second is by means of student-centeredinteractive-engagement methods in an introductory physical science course to promoteconceptual understanding in

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2000 Annual Conference

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

. This is an integrative course that utilizes engineering, all science Page 5.176.2disciplines, mathematics, and technology for creative problem solving as demonstrated throughprocess skills and product outcomes. Attention is paid to apparatus, instructional materials,instructional strategies, NASA’s Strategic Enterprises resources, and laboratory resources thatpromote science learning. Research-based experiences are planned collaboratively withgraduate students and instructors and are evaluated for application to classroom settings.A variety of innovative instructional and assessment strategies are used to accomplish theobjectives of this course

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

Page 7.513.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationour electronics lab, mainly for the purpose of instrument control and data acquisition throughIEEE 488 and RS 232, as opposed to the additional investment required for the alternatives wonthe day for my preference.National Instruments’ LabVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation EngineeringWorkbench) is based on the concept of data flow programming and is particularly suited to testand measurement applications10. The three important components of such applications are dataacquisition, data analysis and data visualization. LabVIEW offers

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

& Methods I 4 0 4AE-130 Architectural Engineering Graphics 2 2 3AE-200 Statics 4 0 4AE-201 Strength of Materials 4 0 4AE-213 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics 4 0 4AE-220 Building Construction Materials & 3 2 4 Methods IIAE-222 Construction Materials Laboratory 1 2 1AE-225 Specifications and Contracts

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn a sophomore-level mechanics course at Purdue University, this capability was initiallydemonstrated to the students in the Fall of 2001. The initial demonstrations have evolved intofaculty support of students performing their own modeling of homework and laboratory problemsas depicted above.The flexibility with which a solid model can be exported to analysis-specific Computer AidedEngineering (CAE) packages is a key factor in determining the utility of a particular solidmodeling software package as a helpful tool. Solid modeling packages that attempt to verticallyintegrate a plethora of analysis packages often cannot

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Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terra Smith

home staff, family members of residents, and health care surveyors wasfluids being inappropriately prepared for residents on swallow disorder (dysphagia) diets.Residents with dysphagia may take longer to swallow than normal, therefore, thickened fluidsmay be prescribed to determine inexpensive procedures for monitoring fluid consistencies, to usestatistical consistencies, and to promote training of the health care students on use of foodthickeners. The project was conducted at four sites: two long-term care facilities, the mechanicalengineering laboratory, and the food product development laboratory. Phase I was a preliminarystudy to determine appropriate data collection methods for a long-term care facility. Phase II,conducted in the

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jordan Rosenthal; James McClellan

most of the learning tasks are traditionalpaper-and-pencil assignments, e.g., homework problems, lab reports, etc.This assessment of student usage also shows that students will not use the GUIs without specificassignments. Therefore, to engage students in the interactive process of trying different cases withthe GUIs, we have written several laboratories centered on the GUIs for convolution and frequencyresponse. In these labs, the students run the GUIs to generate observations and then perform acompanion analysis to explain the observations with theoretical results. In addition, we are creatingnew GUIs that generate drill problems on other basic concepts such as spectrum diagrams andfactoring z-transform polynomials. The goal is to promote

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. Strategy for Retention.The Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University is investing resourcesand efforts to improve retention rates of engineering freshman through two required freshmancourses in mechanical engineering. These courses are ME 101 Introduction to MechanicalEngineering and ME 104 Engineering Analysis and Computing. ME 101 is delivered in onehour lecture and three hours of laboratory. The ME 104 class is delivered as a three hourlecture within a classroom equipped with computers. These courses showcase the type ofactivities engineers carry out in the modern practice of the engineering profession.Through these courses the department tries to alleviate some of the difficulties facing studentsas discussed earlier. By

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

ManufacturingPhys. Ed. /SH Phys. Ed. /SH Phys. Ed. /SH Music/Art/BusinessMusic/Art/Business Music/Art/Business Music/Art/Business Table 1: Sample PLTW high school programEquipment and the high school course contentsA breakdown of the estimated equipment costs to set up the labs for each course is foundat the PLTW web site. The following summary combines the categories of computers,equipment, supplies, furniture, software, and consumables. To set up a laboratory for 26students in the Gateway course it is estimated that $54,147 is required. An estimate of$95,508 is estimated to set up one high school laboratory with 20 student stations for allfive courses. Estimates for the first two courses

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

andbeams. After a series of guided, hands-on experiments and lectures on the mechanical behaviorof materials, four-person design teams are asked to build a weighing system that can accuratelyweigh objects within a specific weight range to a specified resolution. Team performance forthis design project is measured via design demonstrations, and an evaluation of each team’s Page 7.469.1design report. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering EducationDuring this project, a laboratory book [5] is used which

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2001 Annual Conference

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Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

-classlaboratory experiments that provide data to analyze with MathCAD or Excel. The third activity is ateam design project that is best performed around Halloween. Student feedback indicates that thesesimple hands-on activities effectively introduce students to fundamental engineering concepts.IntroductionThe Introduction to Engineering course at the University of South Carolina includes the learningoutcomes that the students: demonstrate knowledge of engineering; demonstrate the ability to use asuite of computer applications; and function on a team to complete a freshman design experience.An active-learning approach has been taken to develop these outcomes.“Full-Body Contact Statics” is an in-class laboratory experiment. The students apply static loads

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ronald Roth

1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Year Figure 1: Fall enrollment in Mechanical Engineering at CSUC Page 6.564.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationA SolutionIn the late 1980s Mechanical Engineering Design I (ME138) was perhaps the best liked MEcourse at CSUC. The course had two distinct parts: three 50-minute lectures per week onmachine design and a three-hour per week laboratory in which groups of students

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2001 Annual Conference

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Susan M. Blanchard

engineeringapplications. This made it possible for the BE curriculum to stay within the legislativelymandated maximum of 128 semester hours while meeting the requirements for ABETaccreditation.BAE 235 had three 1-hr lectures each week that were taught in the BAE Department’s classroomspace and one 3-hr lab that was taught in the same labs used for general biology. A collegebiology textbook1 was used for the course. The laboratory manual2 was the same one that was Page 6.607.1used for BIO 125: General Biology, which also had three lectures and a 3-hr lab each week. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kevin Davis; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationVIII. DeploymentThe AGC distributed display and control using LabVIEW provides a recent evolutionaryextension to our manual analog grade computer. Student involvement spans three, mid-semester, weeks. Unlike the focused topic laboratory experiments where we expect the studentto gain competance with analysis, build, measurement and interpetation of unit concepts wetreat the AGC as a supplement where the goal is awareness. The purpose of our demonstrationsystem also serves to supplement the course text and laboratory workbook with an organicallygrown capability relevant to overall department efforts in web based instrumentation andinstruction.We provide a set of mandatory exercises

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Denise Miller, Northern Arizona University; Elizabeth J. Brauer, Northern Arizona University; John Sharber, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

circuits class at our university, which is taken by majors in Page 22.744.2electrical, mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering. This introductory course coversbasic topics in linear circuits such as Ohm’s Law, nodal analysis, Kirchhoff’s Laws, op amps, acanalysis, 3-phase power, and transformers. A laboratory component is also required for electricaland mechanical engineering majors. Students typically have a mix of interest in the coursematerial, making this a difficult course to effectively teach all students.This class has a historically high number of grades of D, F, or W (withdrawal). As a result, wehave tried numerous methods to

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

StateUniversity found that minorities, in particular, increased their laboratory performance in a hybridenvironment. Perhaps the most compelling argument can be made by Landers7 in his doctoralthesis where a large number and variations of hybrid courses were analyzed. He states (p. 61):“it appears that online instruction is more effective than traditional instruction when seekingknowledge and problem solving gains”. In creating a hybrid Senior Design offering, facultymembers would have more opportunities to make connections with the on-line material and theteam project.Many of the present lecture topics apply directly to the design and construction of an object orstructure and dissemination of knowledge (lists and facts). The teams that work on projects

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Mechatronics in the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yang Cao, University of British Columbia

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Mechanical Engineering

more, the virtual simulator development gains students interest andmotivates student in learning robotics. It allows more lab-type of learning. Some homework canalso be readily verified using the virtual robot. For future teaching plan, the developenvironment will be open to students‟ choice. Other engineering tools, such as simMechanics,ADAMS will be considered for dynamics and control design purpose.References[1] T., Hakan; G, Metin; B, Seta, “Hardware in the Loop Robot Simulators for On-site and Remote Education in Robotics”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 22, Number 4, August 2006 , pp. 815- 828(14).[2] Costas S. Tzafestas, Nektaria Palaiologou, “Virtual and Remote Robotic Laboratory: Comparative

Conference Session

Design Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa, North Carolina A&T State University

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Manufacturing

Page 22.929.2are rising to this challenge and offering a rapidly increasing number of courses, at a variety oflevels, with „nano‟ in their titles. We are actively involved in nanomaterials-based research forthe past several years. We have enhanced undergraduate nanoscience and engineering educationin the area of devices and systems using the practical approach of direct engagement of graduateand undergraduate students in the advanced laboratories and ongoing research projects. Thisapproach has enabled the students more effectively with the knowledge of the fundamentals ofnanoscience and engineering and proficiency to conduct research and develop economically-viable nano-devices with innovative applications in all spheres of daily life. The

Conference Session

Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W Simoneau, Keene State College; Megan C Piccus, Springfield Technical Community College; Gary Masciadrelli, Springfield Technical Community College

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Manufacturing

time consuming projects since the work can progress throughout the entire ProductDesign I through IV sequence. Thematically, due to its institutional partners, the VIP hassustainable product design at its core. This has been accomplished through providing an earlydesign framework based on Okala and similar design tools that encourage the prudent use of rawmaterials and the creation of energy savings devices and services.Current VIP stakeholders recognize that there are constraints on the types of projects that can beundertaken. Therefore new partners are being recruited to overcome limitations in expertise,curriculum and laboratory facilities allowing more complex projects to be undertaken.Collectively the VIP model is evolving into a robust

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Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University

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Manufacturing

. Education impact of this project is usage of the created model for simulation ofthe testing vehicle in automotive laboratory and research activities.Keywords. three dimensional road model, road profile, laser measurement scanners 1. IntroductionMost of the automotive companies perform accelerated testing of trucks and cars in extremecondition, driving them on proving ground (Bosch, Ford, Chrysler, etc.). Durability roads usedfor testing the vehicles contain so called surface events, such as inverted bumps, cobblestones,resonance and undulating roads, chatter bumps, sine wave road; in addition there are gravel andcross-country roads1. This setup allow in short time to complete accelerated millageaccumulation testing of the vehicles in worst case

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Celis, University of Michigan

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Mechanical Engineering

22.1255.4Timoshenko allows us access into a detailed and rich history of engineering education’sdevelopment during the first half of the tumultuous twentieth century. Universities, researchinstitutes, laboratories, scientists, faculty members and students have the most relevant place inthe Timoshenko’s autobiography As I Remember. In his narration, the Bolshevik Revolution,World War I, and the rise of Nazis in Germany are the context through which engineering andthe sciences go forward into a new technological era. Timoshenko also devotes many episodes toexplain his teaching and learning experiences and his vision about comparisons amongengineering curricula in different countries. He taught in Russia, Yugoslavia, and in theAmerican East, Midwest, and West

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia A. Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-647: NINE YEARS OF CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW IN RHETORICAND ENGINEERING DESIGNPatricia A. Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson received the BA from the College of William and Mary and the MA and PhD from Duke University. She came to Rose-Hulman early in her teaching career and has taught a wide variety of courses. She is currently pursuing research interests in educational applications for Commmunication and Information Technology (CIT) Pat has held a number of American Society for Engineering Edu- cation summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and NASA’s Classroom of the Future in Wheeling, WV. She was

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

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NSF Grantees

transfer breaks down.Methodology The research being conducted under the NSF’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Page 22.1071.5Improvement Program (CCLI) consists of “pre-test” assessment at the start of a term of studentcapability in pre-requisite knowledge and skills (integration, differentiation, dot product,equilibrium conditions, etc.) across the curriculum. Student responses to these assessmentquestions are analyzed to determine the approach which each student took in addressing theproblem and to identify aspects of their thought processes: this is especially important in thoseproblems where the students answered the assessment questions

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Topics Related to Electrical Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. S. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University; Daryl Hunter White, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

of accelerometers. We were unable to develop any laboratory experiments with thesedonated items as the shaker was too bulky to move to and from storage and the accelerometersdid not function properly. The author was able to identify Daryl White, an MET senior/adviseewho owned a vibration measurement related business. White wanted to pursue his MET studiesfull time and therefore, donated several items to the University including a sound and vibrationanalyzer, a digital sound level meter, a microphone preamp, two microphones, an accelerometer,cables and connectors for use in our Vibration course. The author wanted to best utilize theWhite’s work experience and therefore, persuaded him to develop several table top experimentsfor the Vibration

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Curricular Issues in Computer-oriented Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason St. John, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

infeasible for agraduate course. System administrators can install clusters without the use of automated tools(manually), which is a very tedious task even when other tools are used to help automate theprocess. As an alternative, system administrators can use a cluster kit to assist in hostoperating system installation via PXE booting to configuring the package selection andnetworking for the cluster hosts. The three most notable cluster kits are: OSCAR (Open SourceCluster Application Resources) 5 , the Rocks Cluster Distribution ("Rocks") 11 , and thenow-defunct openMosix project 13 .OSCAR is a cluster kit developed primarily by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and isa community-driven open-source software project. OSCAR version 1.0 was