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Tushar Ghosh; Sudarshan Loyalka; Mark Prelas; Dabir Viswanath

Session # 2477 Digital Video and Internet as an Effective Supplement for an Innovative Course. T. K. Ghosh, M. A. Prelas, S. K. Loyalka and D. S. Viswanath* Nuclear Engineering Program University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 *Emeritus Professor, Chemical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes innovations in teaching a new course developed in the area of Terrorism andCounter Terrorism (TACT) during the Fall 2000 semester. The course was interdisciplinary and itcovered political as well

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William Lovegrove; Timothy Owens; Matthew Bronkema

Session 2793 The HallWalker Robot: An Interdisciplinary Design Project William P. Lovegrove, Timothy S. Owens, Matthew S. Bronkema Bob Jones UniversityAbstractThe fall 2000 Bob Jones University capstone design project is presented as a model of a successfulinterdisciplinary design project. It directly addresses the hardware/software co-design that is anintegral part of many modern electronic devices by employing a software team of ComputerScience majors and a hardware team of Electrical Engineering majors. In order to facilitatehardware/software co-design, the software team implemented a

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Otto Helweg

engineering designskills. Of even more interest are the studies that attempt to find aptitudes in other areas thateffect success in engineering studies. This area needs to be studied more so early interventionmay be taken to improve retention and success in engineering programs.Bibliography1 Page 6.1124.4 Ercolano, V. "Seeing is Achieving," ASEE Prism, December 1995, pp 29-31 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©, American Society for Engineering Education2 Medina, A.C., H. B. P. Gerson, and S. A. Sorby, "Identifying Gender Differences in the 3

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Raul Ordonez; Jahan Kauser; Ravi Ramachandran

(1) dt Ks + S dS 1 µ m SX =− (2) dt Y Ks + S An additional equation (3) was used to define oxygen uptake with time: dO x µ SX = Yox m + Yoxd K d X (3) dt Ks + SThe variables in the above equation are defined as follows: X Cell mass concentration (mg/L) S Substrate concentration (mg/L) Ox Oxygen Uptake (mg/L) Page 6.725.3 µm specific growth rate ((1/day) Kd

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Marlin Viss; Murat Tanyel

also like to thank the threeother students in the DSP class, Eric Eekhoff, James Grossman and Seth VerMulm for sharingtheir impressions frankly.Bibliography1. Nilsson, J. W. and Riedel, S. A. Electric Circuits, Sixth Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (2000).2. Rashid, M. H., Spice for Power Electronics and Electric Power, Engle wood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1993).3. Sedra, A. S. and Smith, K. C., Microelectronic Circuits, Fourth Edition, New York, NY: Oxford University Press (1998)4. Roberts, G. W. and Sedra, A. S., Spice for Microelectronic Circuits Third Edition by Sedra/Smith, New York, NY: Oxford University Press (1992).5. Howe, R. T.and Sodini, C. G., Microelectronics – An Integrated Approach, Upper Saddle

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

); Page 6.537.7 } Figure 4: A Sample Solution for the IPC Project (Part 1)Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education doOtherPartsOfP2 (m) { i = 1; /* index to the loop for P2 */ numFromP1 = 0; /* initialize the data from P1 */ while ( (numFromP1 != Bye) || (i <= m) ) { if ( (numFromP1 != Bye) && (i < m) ) turn = 1 + rand() % 2; /* decide whose turn it is */ else if (numFromP1 != Bye) turn = 1; /* P2 is done, P1’s turn */ else if (i < m

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Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

Recommendation Sourcea 1. Form a faculty committee to review the two-semester sophomore level class PO 3, 4 sequence to address the following specific issues: S • Create room for a significant design experience (i.e. a separate design class). • Formalized instruction on problem solving strategies. • Incorporate more open-ended and real-world problems. • FPE/ABE co-existence. 2. All ABE courses should be encouraged to incorporate more problem solving PO 3, 4 strategies, open-ended problems, and real-world problems. ABE classes need to update their

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Sheldon Jeter

Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWhere ∆t is the duration and NC is the number of cycles. This simple experiment can be repeateda number of times, and the average and the sample standard deviation (S. S. D.) of the series ofdata can be computed with the usual formula, (τ − τ AVE )2 u A (τ ) = S.S.D. = (5) N −1Where N is the number of data in the sample. If the number of cycles is taken to be essentially certain, then the only uncertainty istaken to

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Vikram Cariapa; Joseph Domblesky; James Rice

questionnaire modification.A latent variable (a variable which is not directly measurable) θ, was defined as: θ : student’ssatisfaction with discipline MEIE 143, Manufacturing Processes to assess the outcome from allactivities associated with the implementation of the Learning Factory. This is essentially ameasure of student satisfaction with the Learning Factory approach in MEIE 143. Currentlywork is underway to extend the methodology to assess student skills. According topsychometrics, θ, is located in the latent space with s dimensions and is represented by the vectorθ0. Therefore, one can express θ0 as a function of its vector components

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Durward Sobek

beforecomputers were widely available. As microcomputers became more cost effective and reliable,special purpose computers were developed in the late 1960’s to replace the cumbersome relayswitchboard.1 Ladder logic was developed based on relay logic to facilitate technician training.Implementation using a microcomputer allowed PLC developers to expand PLC capability toinclude timers, counters, analog-digital conversion, better user interfaces, and many otheradvanced functions.2Figure 1 describes a very simple control problem and shows the solution in ladder logic. The wayto interpret a ladder diagram is to think of the left rail as a positive electric terminal and right railas ground. Each rung has only one output. The inputs are logically “open” or

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Scott Wharton; Yesh Singh

the z-axis and translation along the z-axis. Since the revolute joint hasonly one degree of freedom a second mating reference was needed to complete the matingprocess. The second mating reference was the point origin of the fixed body must be coincidentwith the point origin of the moving body. The two mating references together constrained therevolute assembly to exhibit only the rotation about the z-axis of the assembly. A similarprocess of mating was carried out for each of the remaining 23 assembly models.The coordinate system for each body was added to the assembly drawing to help withvisualization of translation(s) and/or rotation(s). The global axes were fixed in space and thesecorrespond to the fixed rigid body. The local coordinate

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Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

development. This paper describes a framework that has been used to designexperiential learning programs for developing teamwork and leadership skills in undergraduateindustrial engineering students. The framework combines elements of traditional experientiallearning activities, ropes courses, and the U. S. Army’s Leadership Reaction Course in a series ofteam exercises designed to address specific teamwork and leadership issues. Isomorphic framingis used to present each exercise in a scenario that relates directly to the engineering classroom orworkplace, and debriefing sessions are structured to reinforce the transfer of knowledge betweenthe exercise and the classroom or workplace. The framework is flexible and can be easilyadapted to a variety of

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David J. Ahlgren; Igor Verner

robotics project at Meviot Eron was studied with a view to the value of contest-orientedcurricula and methods of interdisciplinary design education. As a result of the study severalimprovements were made in the curriculum of 2000-2001 currently in progress. The team isdivided into 2 groups of equivalent amount of project work and responsibilities: structure andfire extinction (S&FE), and sensors and software (S&S). The S&FE group examines a number ofalternative variants of the robot structure and fire extinction by means of physical andmathematical modeling, and CAD. The S&S group deals with robot XY kinematics, applicationof shaft encoders for the position control, and algorithms and software for maze navigation asrequired by new

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Don Horton; Chad Kidder; Mark Yeary; Rainer Fink

2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education1. Master-to-Master connection: One master always tried to establish a M/S connection with the other Master. It would not realize that the other was also a master and to break the connection with it. This resulted in double counting of slaves in a scatternet.2. Breaking the active connection of a Slave: The Link Manager kept a slave in a piconet despite the slave deciding to be in only one. This meant that since the Master had a valid connection with the slave still, it would count it in its list of users. This also resulted in double counting of slaves in a

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Mike Lu; Mark Smith; Craig Somerton

k = 0.0756 W/(m2⋅K) Pr = 0.7126 µ = 4.6196 x 10-5 kg/(m⋅s) µ 4.6196 x 10 -5 ν= = = 1.5113 x 10 - 4 m 2 /s ρ 0.3057Then our Reynolds number is u ∞ D (9.32)(0.47) Re = = = 29,984 ν 1.5113 x 10 − 4At a surface temperature of 565 K we have µs = 2.955 x 10-5 kg/(m⋅s)Our Nusselt number correlation then gives [ ] 1/4 0.4

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Arthur Gerstenfeld

Session 2793 Africa: A Focus on the Southern Cone Arthur Gerstenfeld, Ph.D. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss an innovative project, partly based on a recentlypassed law entitled "Africa Growth and Opportunity Act" and to show how this presentsopportunities for universities and for businesses. The first part of this paper discussessome of the background regarding U. S. and Africa. The second part of the paperdescribes a project starting in summer 2001 that we believe may impact many studentsand faculty at our university

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Robert McLauchlan; Jennifer Crosby; Gary Weckman

2nd 2nd 3r d 3r d 10th 10th 1s t S em 1s t Sem 4th Sem 4th S em 5th Sem 5th Sem 6th S em 6th Sem 7th Sem 7th Sem 8th S em 8th Sem 9th Sem 9th S em S em Sem S em Sem Sem Sem FC TR FC TR FC TR FC TR FC TR FC TR FC TR

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Siddhartha Bagchi

mm 0 0 50 100 150 -5 -10 -15 mm Figure 1The energy of a flowing fluid at a particular point may be calculated as follows:E = Z + P/ γ + V2/ 2g …………..(1)Where, E= total energy head in cm; P/ γ = pressure head in cm ; V = velocity in cm/s ; V2/ 2g =velocity head in cm ; Z = elevation of the constant datum, which is considered as zero; g = Page 6.319.2acceleration due

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Heather Nachtmann

to provide a more in-depth look at one of the coursetopics or investigate an area of cost estimation that was not covered in course. The majority ofthe students opted to research a real world problem facing them at work or home. A sample ofthe selected project topics were:• cost estimation of home remodeling,• cost estimation for the residential conversion of a Wall Street office building,• cost estimation of starting a web business,• cost estimation of a wheelchair accessible van, and• activity based costing at Fort Knox, Kentucky.Projects provide students with the opportunities to further explore a course topic(s) of theirchoice and to improve written and oral communication skills. 11 The first benefit was validatedby several of the

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Howard Medoff

Session 3553 Use of a Courtroom/Trial in a Classroom to Illustrate Engineering Failures Howard Medoff The Pennsylvania State University Abington CollegeAbstractIf and when a component or structure fails, resulting in significant loss of life or property, peoplelook for someone (or group) to blame. The assignment of responsibility for the engineeringfailure may be the task of a prestigious government/industry commission or agency, to bedetermined over many months using a variety of resources. As the process of determining thecause(s) of this event unfolds, simultaneously, legal actions may

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Karim Nasr; Basem Alzahabi

implementation of anassessment plan. It will go beyond EC2000 outcomes by identifying diagnostic and criterionassessment mechanisms. The assessment process will focus on the performance criteria,performance metrics, grading methods, and tracking and feedback for continuous improvement.A survey-feature of the assessment plan will be tested on a typical engineering course and anexamination of how such a course would fit in the larger picture of an engineering program willbe performed. Finally, this paper concludes in matching EC2000’s educational outcomes (a-k)to the educational objectives of the course, maps the assessment tools of the course to Bloom’staxonomy of learning, and comments on the usefulness of an outcomes-based assessment survey.I

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

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student research projects and understand the have at least several months of experience before issues: the learning curve is too steep s(he) could be allowed to proceed unsupervised for safety.5 Time spent in advising / guiding Items 1- 3 above indicate that time spent in guiding undergraduates is much more poorly-prepared and unproductive graduate students, profitably spent guiding graduate is less productive than time spent guiding students, since that is counted as part enthusiastic undergraduates. Undergraduate of the Promotion/ Tenure criteria. assistants who stay on to graduate school have a

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Zhong Gu; Sheela Ramanna; James Peters; Hal Berghel; Daniel Berleant; Steve Russell

Cpr E 489 127 S. Russell Computer networking EE, ISU EE 424 43 J. Dickerson Digital signal processing CE, ISU Cpr E 305 78 A. Somani Computer system organization and design CE, ISU Cpr E 308 76 J. Davis Operating systems CE, ISU Cpr E/EE 465 37 W. Black VLSI layout and design CE, UM 24.374 84 J.F. Peters System engineering principles CE, UM 24.446 40 J.F. Peters Parallel processing EE, UM 24.771 30 J.F. Peters

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Rafiqul Islam

demands more and more networkcapacity every day. This trend for growing data rates is expected to continue in the foreseeablefuture. Optical fiber communication technology has kept up with the growing traffic volume.The concept of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has increased the capacities to greaterthan 1 Tb/s (1012 b/s ) over a single fiber by means of more than a hundred channels at 10 Gb/seach. Many research groups and developers in communication companies are exploring theways to extend this capacity from the backbone to some high-end users such as business premiserouters and high-speed workstations. The design and development of communication systems isgreatly focused on SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous

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Judith Waalen; Malgorzata Zywno

Session 1330 The Effect of Hypermedia Instruction on Achievement and Attitudes of Students with Different Learning Styles Malgorzata S. Zywno, Judith K. Waalen Ryerson UniversityAbstractThe goal of this ongoing action research project has been to increase student learning andsatisfaction using an innovative approach to instruction, evaluation and interaction with students.A process control course in electrical engineering was redesigned, introducing collaborative, activelearning using real-life applications. The course utilizes interactive hypermedia

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

knowledge of computer programming makes anengineering graduate more attractive to research oriented engineering employers as wellas graduate engineering programs. In order to enable students to use their programmingskills during the four years of engineering education, the best time for teachingprogramming is freshman year.In the past, Fortran was the engineering and scientific programming language. Duringthe1960’s, 70’s and, to some extend, the1980’s, Fortran was the only language withscientific functions. With the emergence of object oriented programming languages(C++, Java and Visual Basic) more attractive alternatives to Fortran became available.All of the new object-oriented programming languages have a comprehensive scientificfunction library

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Hakan Gurocak

remote control software (GROUP 1). Student #1 Student #2 Student #3 Task Completion # of Completion # of Completion # of time mistakes time mistakes time mistake s 5 questions Under 5 min. 0 Under 5 min. 0 Under 5 min. 4 Simple tasks (5 min. total) Task #1 20 sec. 0 20 sec. 0 20 sec. 0 Task #2 5 sec. 0 3 sec. 0 5 sec. 0 Task #3 25 sec. 0

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Doria Hickman; Bala Ram; Sanjiv Sarin; Paul Stanfield

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Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Steve Beyerlein; Michael Trevisan

., Gentili, K. L., Calkins, D. E., and Trevisan, M. S. (1998). Mid-Program assessment of team-basedengineering design: Concepts, methods, and materials. Washington State University, Pullman, WA.4. Davis, D.C., Gentili, K. L., Calkins, D. E., and Trevisan, M. S. (1998). Transferable integrated designengineering education – Final report. Washington State University, Pullman, WA.5. Trevisan, M. S., Davis, D. C., Crain, R. W., Calkins, D. E., and Gentili, K. L. (1998). Developing and assessingstatewide competencies for engineering design. Journal of Engineering Education, 87 (2), 185-193.6. Herman, J. L., Aschbacher, P. R., and Winters, L. (1992). A practical guide to alternative assessment.Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development