Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Baaba Andam

consecutive blanks when moving to the right. 5. Briefly discuss how the history of classical AI is both a success and a failure. Give specific examples to support your opinions. 6a. What is overtraining in an artificial neural network? Give at least two reasons why overtraining might occur? Explain for each one how it contributes to overtraining. 6b. Explain why each of the following might occur for a neural network. ̇" low training error with low validation error ̇" low training error with high validation error ̇" high training and validation error 7. An ANN is being trained to differentiate between the letters P and Q. A database of handwriting samples of the letters is being collected to train

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.) (q) quantify and justify the financial impact of product and process 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following Program Outcomes. development and improvement (Note: Letters correlate with POs in ABET Self-Study Document.) (r) organize and use a project implementation plan None --- 1st year committed to defining current state of achievement of POs. (s) facilitate multidisciplinary group to accomplish q & r

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Albee; Laura Dillon; Jonathon Oleszkiewicz; George Stockman

above.void checkQueue ( Node* Front ){}// (4) Complete the definition of the function to insert a new data element into the queue.// The function should return true if the operation is completed and false if it cannot be completed.// (5) Complete the definition of the function to reset a queue Q by returning all of its nodes to// heap storage and setting F and R to NULL.void reset ( Node* &F, Node* &R){}int main (){ cout << "\n*** Lab Exam 3: queue1 ***\n"; // (2) Write declaration and assignment statements in the main program to build the data // structure shown above containing the integers 52, 79, 35, 44. // (3) Demonstrate the checkQueue function. // (4) Write and demonstrate a function to insert a new integer into

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

body language; excellent distraction; appropriate eye memorized major portions; eye contact, pace and contact, pace and volume. little or no eye contact; too volume. slow or fast; too soft or loud Conclusions/ Clear, insightful Most but not all points Inadequate summary; No Q&A conclusions; questions contained in the conclusion conclusion; questions & handled well answers handled

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

or conditions.V. AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of this work from the National ScienceFoundation through Grant EEC-0230681, “Planning Grant for a Courseless Curriculum”. Theauthors are indebted to Dr. Kolar, R. L., Dr. Knox, R., Ms. Patricia, R. Q. (School of Civil Page 9.128.9Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma), and Dr. Rhoads, T. R. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Johnson; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2492 2. Office of Institutional Analysis, Fall Semester 1991-2003. Enrollment Summary. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 3. http://www.emergeconsortium.org 4. http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ 5. http://www.cfed.org/ 6. http://search.msn.com/pass/results.aspx?q=Center+for+Budget+and+Policy+Priorities&FORM=SMCRT 7. http://measuringup.highereducation.org/2000/reporthome.htmMARY R. ANDERSON-ROWLANDMary R. Anderson-Rowland is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Fulton School of Engineering at ASU.She was selected for the National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by the AAES. In 2002 shewas named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

0.16 0.14 0.12 0.1 Q(watts) Disk a 0.08 Disk b 0.06 T2a T2b 0.04 0.02

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

, and includes not only the entire printed text, but also several sectionswhich are not in the bound volume. Although it does an excellent job of presenting the essentialelements of each topic, it seems that it had been “written by committee.” Notation is inconsistent(“h” stands for either enthalpy or film coefficient, “Q” represents volumetric flow rate or heat,etc.). There are several topics for which the text does not provide the desired coverage(turbomachinery, numerical methods, Reynolds transport theorem, combustion, etc.); since thethree texts used previously were issued by the same publisher as the TFSE text, permission wasobtained for specific chapters from the three texts to be used in conjunction with the newcurriculum. The long-term

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Johnson; Jeffrey Will

field which resulted in this. By seeing both the manifestation of a specified vector fieldand its associated equation, students were able to gain greater insight into the relationshipbetween the equations, operations, and manifestations of the fields they had been studying.Electromagnetics One daunting task for most students is to take an equation for a phenomenon and tellwhat it “means” or what it “does.” This is especially true in the area of electromagnetics, whereMaxwell’s equations have befuddled generations of students. Take for instance the equation forthe electrostatic field due to a point charge: r r r r q r -r

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

current of MX given by: ( I D _ MX = k n' VInX − VthInx ) 2where CTotal is the sum of all capacitance connected to the floating gate node and VB isthe FET’s substrate or body potential and k’n is the FET gain factor. IIn+ IIn- 1-Bit Q Sign SRAM Cell Clk QNot C1x VInx

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Mueller; Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

transfer coefficient for a horizontal fin. This estimatedvalue is in close agreement with values of the average heat transfer coefficient that have been foundfrom the experimental temperatures.Despite the relatively simple analytical model proposed, the actual physical situation is rather com-plicated. Effects such as (1) currents in the air which indicate forced (or mixed) convection, (2) aninteraction between the flow around the mounting plate and the fin, and (3) radiative heat transferbetween the mounting plate and the fin warrant additional consideration.References 1. Kern, D. Q. and Kraus, A. D. Extended Surface Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, New York (1972). 2. Kraus, A. D. and Bar-Cohen, A. Design and Analysis of Heat Sinks, Wiley, New

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Humann

IntegratedApproach Toward Analysis and DesignBibliography1 IBM, CATIA V5 R122 C.T.-C. Nguyen, “Micromechanical Circuits For Wireless Communications,” Procedings, 2000 European Solid State Device Research Conference, Cork, Ireland, September 11-13, 2000, pp. 2-12.3 Kun Wang, Yinglei Yu, Ark-Chew Wong, C.T.-C. Nguyen, “VHF free-free beam high-Q micromechanical resonators,” Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 17-21 Jan. 1999, pp453-458.4 Frank D. Bannon, III, John R. Clark, and Clark T.-C. Nguyen, “High Frequency Microelectromechanical IF Filters,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35, no.4, pp. 440-445, April 1999.5 L. Paratte, H. Lorenz, R. Luthier, R

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arlie Donaldson

the environment by both radiation to theenvironment and interaction with surrounding air. With constant thermal properties and a“lumped mass” analysis, an initial value equation of the following form can be written: dT ‚mc ? i 2 ̇ / Â Q Loss Eq. (1) dtwhere mc is the product of the mass and heat capacity of the wire per unit length, i 2 ̇ is Jouleheating, T is temperature which is the dependent variable, and t is time which is the independentvariable. The quantities shown are typical symbols and can be found in popular heat transfertextbooks, e.g., Incropera and DeWitt 1. The heat loss term will reflect the expected modes ofthermal coupling

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

figure shows a 16-QAM system that was simulated to demonstrate the effects of I-Q impairment, amplifierdistortion and channel noise. The results of the simulation are shown in the constellationdiagram to the right. WinIQSIM does not provide flexibility to add additional modules to theblock diagram (as does Simulink and SystemView); but the real advantage to instruction is thatconcepts can be readily demonstrated without students having to perform any programming. Assuch, the author views this package as extremely powerful for undergraduate instruction.WinIQSIM is available as a free download through the Rohde & Schwarz website8. Students useWinIQSIM to develop and simulate signal cases prior to coming to lab (i.e., a pre-lab exercise

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

etc.Flow (f) can be a flow of material, momentum, electric current, entropy. The bond graph theoryhas been further developed by Karnopp3 et al (1990). Pairs of effort and flow (e,f) are for Page 9.472.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexample in mechanical systems force (F) and velocity (v), in electrical systems voltage (V) andcurrent (i), in pneumatic/hydraulic systems pressure (P) and volume flow rate (dQ/dt). Figure 1explains the correlation of pressure p, fluid flow q with force F

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

2003-data 2002-data 4.0 2.0 0.0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Question (Q)The students were also asked to openly comment on the process. One unexpected benefit thatstudents commented on was the increased exposure and contact with engineering professors. Asfreshmen, their schedule is dominated with classes from different disciplines such as math,chemistry, and physics. The feedback made it clear that the freshmen appreciated the connectionto the Engineering Technology

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. G. Edwards; E. W. LeFevre; W. M. Hale

engineering, geotechnical engineering, andconcrete design. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceEnvironmental Engineering QuestionsKnowledge levelQ. What is the primary function of an activated sludge basin?A. The biological conversion of organic compounds (BOD) in a wastewater to biosolids andCO2.Comprehension levelQ. Control of the activated sludge process is typically accomplished by monitoring whatoperational paramenters?A. mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS), mixed liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS),sludge blanket depth in the secondary clarifier, or sludge volume index (SVI).Q. The advantages of using membranes as a solids

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

more engineering analysis activities (Solid Model, Static and/or DynamicAnalysis, and Design for Assembly (DFA) Analysis) than were the smaller teams.Activities and Evolution: The very first activity was to discuss the requirements in great detail. Questions naturally arose andclarifications/interpretations were sought as an entire laboratory section, occasionally using the Q & A webpage on the MineMadness website. Conceptual design was the next activity, and in many respects the most difficult. A traditional brainstormingsession (e.g. Adams [5]) was implemented semi-privately with each design team focusing initially on how to “get-over-the-wall”(believed to be THE tough problem and a good place to start the design effort) with the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

educational outcomes. Once these problems are solved, it is likely we will see a revolution in our view of whatare the best colleges.References 1. usnews.com (2003). America’s best colleges. Available on-line athttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php. 2. Coleman, J. S., Campbell, E. Q., Hobson, C. J., McPartland, J., Mood, A. M., Weinfeld, F. D., & York,R. L. (1966) Equality of educational opportunity. Washington, DC: US Department of Health, Education andWelfare. White, S.B., Reynolds, P., Thomas, M., & Gitzlaff, N. (1993). Socioeconomic Status and achievementrevisited, Urban Education 28, pg328. 3. Saterfiel, Thomas H. (1974) The relationship between

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

then present two ways ofconsidering capacitors. First, we present the physical model as a device that stores charge, anddraw the corresponding analogy from hydraulics (water stored in a tank or bucket). We then givea more abstract definition that a capacitor is a device that obeys the equation V = qC, and drawthe parallel to Ohm's law, (i.e., the R in Ohm’s law is replaced by C, and I by its integral q).Next the students construct a simple low-pass filter. Each team uses different RC time constants,and all teams use the function generator and oscilloscope to find the 3 dB point and the generalshape of the response curve of the circuit. Again, the teams swap data and plot the performanceof the circuits. The process is repeated for the high-pass

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

GEN. THERMAL SUPPLY FIGURE 1. SIMPLIFIED SCHEMATIC OF COGENERATION SYSTEM USED WITH FIRST LAW ANALYSIS Qdemand/Qeng.= 1.5 1 =MIN.Q demand Q,peak demand= 515583 Btu/hr Qfacility supply,Btu/Hr.= 515583 ENG. POWER= 60 kwe Want to MINIMIZE This & T,storage,hot= 200 F, STORAGE= 500 gal.s ENG. EFF= 0.28 MAXIMIZE This T,storage,cold= 160 F MASS= 4171 LBm ENG. REJ. HT.= 0.47 0% =% BLR. HEAT

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

time required the students to understand and apply (through exercise problems), anempirical densification rate equation to the literature data.Further analysis of the data of Fig. 1 would be useful for students majoring in Materials scienceand engineering. For example, the role of thermal activation during sintering can be revealedmore clearly in an Arrhenius plot of the experimental data as natural logarithm of the densityversus inverse temperature (Fig. 3). Two distinct linear regimes, each consistent with a formalArrhenius-type relationship (i.e., d = d0.exp [-Q/RT], with d and d0 being the density at atemperature T and at room temperature, respectively) can be identified in Fig. 3 over differenttemperature ranges. A somewhat abrupt

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

GEARE: A Comprehensive Program for Globalizing Engineering Education E. D. Hir leman 1, D. Atkinson 1, E. A. Gr oll1, J . Matthews1, L. Xu 1, B. Aller t 2, W. Hong2, A. Alber s3, S. L. K. Wittig4, Z. Q. Lin 5, and L. F. Xi5 1 School of Mechanical Engineer ing, Pur due Univer sity / 2Depar tment of For eign Languages and Liter atur e, Pur due Univer sity / 3Institut für Maschinenkonstr uktionslehr e und Kr aftfahr zeugbau, Univer sität. Univ. Kar lsr uhe / 4Ger man Aer ospace Center (DLR), Köln / 5School of Mechanical Engineer ing , Shanghai J iao Tong Univer sity GLOBAL ENGINEERING ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (GEARE)AbstractThe

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Session 1620 Encouraging Interest In Engineering Through Embedded System Design M.L. Neilsen1, D.H. Lenhert2, M. Mizuno1, G. Singh1, J. Staver3, N. Zhang4, K. Kramer3, W.J. Rust3, Q. Stoll4, and M.S. Uddin4 1 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, College of Engineering, Kansas State University (KSU), {neilsen,masaaki,singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 3 College of Education, KSU, {staver,kkramer,wjr}@ksu.edu* 4 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

band-pass filter is a “singly tuned” LC circuit with a center frequency of 7.0 MHz. Abandwidth of 0.6 MHz was selected so that the filter 3 dB frequencies would span the range from6.7-7.3 MHz. Thus, the loaded Q of the resonator is 7/0.6 or 11.67. The inductor used for theresonator is a standard 10.7 MHZ intermediate frequency (IF) transformer with and internalcapacitance of 47 pF as shown in Figure 3. The transformer, T1, has a 7:1 turns ratio and a 14T Page 9.202.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

suggests – she providesexamples showing how “[q]uantification, comparison, and measurement are in themselvescultural activities, whose assumed values are not universally shared” (p. 414). She gives a seriesof wonderful ideas for improving the content of math classes by changing the purpose of mathquestions. Of math educators, she asks: “that we encourage our students to look for hidden assumptions and make them explicit…[w]e must teach them to expect a standpoint in any scientific statement and include it as part of their observations…[i]n mathematics, we should include more open- ended problems that require one to make assumptions in order to solve them. In standard word problems, we can append questions that ask

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

wordprocessing knowledge. Content management allows users to manage specific contentwithout affecting an entire Web page and requires little or no HTML skills are required towrite and upload content to Web pages. A Web browser is used to gain access withauthentication. This system includes a Q/A process that documents release or rejectionwith email to the content owner/editor.Fortunately, IEEE has already embarked on a major initiative to deploy contentmanagement to empower both its staff and volunteers to create and maintain content forthe Web. The IEEE Power Engineering Society is one of the first IEEE Societies to use acontent management system to enable its volunteers to create content for their Society’sweb site. Assigned subcommittee ownership and

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

.National Energy Policy Development Group (2001). National Energy Policy: Reliable, Affordable, andEnvironmentally Sound Energy for America’s Future. US Dept. of Energy (www.energy.gov/HQPress/releases01/maypr/energy_policy.htm).Navin, F. P. D. (1993). “Engineering creativity—doctum ingenium,” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 21(3),499-511.Peters, T.F. (1998). “How Creative Engineers Think.” Civil Engineering, 68(3), 48-51.Pereira, L. Q. (1999). “Divergent thinking and the design process,” International Conference on Design andTechnology Educational Research and Curriculum Development Conference Book, 224-229.Plucker, J. A. and Runco, M. A. (1998) “The death of creativity measurement has been greatly exaggerated: currentissues, recent

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

, rigid chamber at 25 flC and 1 atm. At some point, a spark plug ignites the mixture. What are the temperature and pressure of the products?When applied to this example, the First Law of Thermodynamics states that the internalenergy of the products must equal the internal energy of the reactants. Â N *h q P i f ,i - u i / u i ,ref + ? Â N i *h fq,i - u i / u i ,ref R + (10)where h fq,i is the enthalpy of formation of each species. In terms of the enthalpy ofcombustion, Fhc : Â N *u *T + / u + ? Â N *u *T + / u + / N P i i P i , ref

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

. Missile Barrage,” CBS Evening News – CBSNews.com, January 24, 2003, available at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/24/eveningnews/main537928.shtml, accessed December 2003. 2. Ullman, H. K. and Wade J. P., Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, December 1996, NDU Press, available at http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html, accessed December 2003. 3. Yurtseven, H. O., “How Does the Image of Engineering Affect Student Recruitment and Retention? A Perspective from the USA.” Global Journal of Engineering Education, 6(1), 2002, 17-23. 4. Davis, W. C., Villa, E. Q. and Stafford, S. W., “Discover Engineering Day: Collaborations in Pre-College Recruitment,” Proceeding of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference