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Larry Williamson; William Drake

, report in which each ofthe team members tells, in a short paragraph, what they have done for the team in the past twoweeks. The team leader collected the individual comments from each team member andsubmitted this report to the professors in charge of the class. Each team leader was alsoresponsible for the evaluation of each of his or her team members based up on three-point scale:1 for below above average, 2 for average and 3 for above average. The professors evaluated theeffectiveness of the team leaders and how well they performed their evaluation of their teammembers. Page 6.743.5There has never been a formal "test" requirement in the

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Kenneth Roberts; Eric A. Cheek; Joseph Monroe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar

- Page 6.742.1edged NASA research into the undergraduate MSET student training experiences.North Carolina A&T State University has been recognized as being the largest producerof African-American engineers and scientists at the B.S. and M.S. levels in the UnitedStates and a top ten producer of African-American engineers at the Ph.D. level. TheUniversity was recently cited to be a leader in the training of future female engineers andscientists by featuring departments such as the Chemical Engineering which haveconsistently matriculated students classes containing 60%+ female students since 1994(1). The North Carolina A&T College of Engineering features well-established dualdegree relationships with several majority, women-serving, Native

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Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

celebrate theAcademy’s 200 years of service to the nation by (1) calling attention to the institution’sengineering heritage and (2) providing contestants with a high-quality educational experience.Consistent with these goals, we have developed the following specific objectives for the contest: • Achieve the broadest possible participation from U.S. high-school and middle-school students. • Provide a unique, engaging educational experience that stimulates interest in math, science, and engineering. • Provide a mechanism for teachers to integrate the contest into classroom instruction in math, science, and technology. • Provide a mechanism for engineering practitioners to integrate the contest into outreach activities

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Raymond Desrosiers; John Rivera; James Gregory; Don Baggert; Lloyd Heinze

sections fill,new sections are opened, and students drop courses in which they were previouslyregistered. Thus, the system is dynamic and often complicated by many choices thatinteract. Fortunately, most of the system dynamics can be analyzed electronicallymaking the process more efficient for both the student and the advisor.Advising ProcessAn advising process with currently available tools at Texas Tech University is outlined inTable 1. This process is followed by the Dean’s Office in the College of Engineering inadvising undecided students and students returning from suspension. Most advisors inthe College of Engineering are concerned with more than just the scheduling of classesand are dedicated to helping students achieve academic success

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engineeringprofession and the fundamentals of modern technology. Comparison of the resultsshowed a 300% increase in their basic knowledge of engineering, and a more detailedunderstanding of modern engineering design techniques and tools.A telephone interview was conducted three months after the teachers had returned to theirclassrooms, to investigate the level to which the workshop had influenced their teachingand assess how well the experience been integrated into their curriculum. The results ofthis interview showed that 1) teachers had used the contacts they made during the workshop to instigate student projects involving local companies (e.g., Community Power), 2) Others had developed new hands-on experiments, based on the labs they had done

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Valerie Taylor; Sumalatha Adabala; Jose Miguel-Alonso; Jose Fortes; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jan-Jo Chen

Technology The University of the Basque Country Abstract Computer engineers increasingly depend on the use of software tools to evaluate and inves- tigate the design of computer systems. It is therefore very important that educators in this eld promote extensive tool-based experimentation by students. However, the integration of today's complex tools into curricula poses several challenges to instructors. To deploy a tool-based class experiment, they must 1 obtain access to hardware resources that meet the requirements of the tool, and obtain access to student accounts on these resources; 2 install and maintain the tool software and

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Frederick Orthlieb

. Participants are each expected to spend at least 170 hours on the project, exclusive ofadvisory meetings and presentation rehearsals.8. Professional Component Contribution: Students are successful to the extent that their projects: 1) integrate material from their course preparationand demonstrate competence in math, science, engineering and the liberal arts, 2) adequately consider EC2000Criterion 4 impacts and constraints, and 3) demonstrate their achievements with respect to EC2000 Criterion 3categories and local Engineering program objectives as appropriate to their particular topic.9. Relationship to Program Objectives• Analytic work contributing to the project design activity reinforces analytic proficiency.• Problem definition

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Robert Muelller

demonstrate neural network control applications. The simulator is fundamentally atemperature controller in which large-scale changes in forced airflow produce significant changes inheat load.The initial labs use PID control techniques to solve the temperature control problem and todemonstrate the problem that PID controllers have with large disturbances. The following labsaddress the same problem using a neural network control strategy. An actual neural networkcontroller is built and used to perform the same temperature control as the classical PID system.Capabilities and drawbacks of neural network control are demonstrated.IntroductionThe classical PID feedback control system is shown in Figure 1. The setpoint (SP) is the system’sinput and the

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

integer variables and addition.This is matched well with current database technology. The CMAC network, as many otherNeural Networks also do, tries to map the input space into a conceptual memory, and further intophysical memory. (Figure 1 shows the logical mapping from input to output.) For example, ifthe input range of eight integer variables is from 0 to +100 the size of the input space is 1008,which is an unmanageable size to contend with…much larger than memory sizes in today’scomputers. If the amount of memory that is actually being used is small in comparison to thetotal size, we can use a technique called hashing to store that information in a smaller physicalmemory size. The CMAC utilizes a hashing algorithm which is very similar to the

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Sheryl Sorby

to time/resource limitations. Recently, two factors converged at Michi-gan Tech that resulted in a significantly different introductory course for developing spatial skills.These factors were: 1) the development of multimedia software and a workbook as stand-aloneproducts for spatial skills remediation, and 2) the conversion to semesters at Michigan Tech. Thispaper describes the “new and improved” spatial visualization course for semesters at MichiganTech and presents results obtained from its first offering in the fall 2000 semester. Results andresource requirements from this new course will be compared and contrasted with those obtainedfrom the original version of the spatial skills course.BackgroundIt is well documented that spatial skills

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Robin Redfield; Brian Self

physicalunderstanding of dynamics and problem-solving methods.Each area of interest will be presented, with a brief description of student survey results. Thestudents scored the various projects on a five-point Likert scale shown below: Table 1 - Five Point Likert Scale 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly AgreeStudents rated “interest/motivation” and “understanding” for each activity. We makerecommendations for others that may wish to use these projects at the end of the projectdiscussions. We also compare the motivation and understanding derived from the projects tothat obtained from simply doing homework.ROCKET LAUNCHOne of the

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Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

regional schools offering four-year BME programs. The curriculum is to have a strong foundation in basic engineering sciences (physics, fluid and solid mechanics and the thermal sciences). It was desired to include a sufficient number of course electives so that from time- to-time new courses could be developed and offered as electives to provide an introduction to emerging BME technologies. In addition, with a substantial number of electives, the curriculum could serve as a basis for medical school application.III. Curriculum structureOur new undergraduate BME curriculum is presented in detail in Table 1 below. As can benoted, the curriculum

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Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

realworld problem. This paper describes the laboratory environment, discusses the projectguidelines, and presents the projects implemented in fall 2000. The paper also analyzesthe project-based approach and concludes that the project is an essential component of acomprehensive learning experience when teaching PLCs.I. IntroductionPLCs have been used extensively in a wide range of industries. As a result, manymechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineering technology programs teach PLCsand their applications [1-8]. This paper describes the development and implementation ofa new course that employs a project-based approach using an “out-of-the-box” integratedPLC. A major goal of the project is to prepare students to apply effective problem

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Mariusz Jankowski

program. They have beenused in class since 1996 and have undergone substantial revisions, most recently andsignificantly, in the spring semester of the 1999/2000 academic year. To the author’s bestknowledge, the materials which are available online atwww.usm.maine.edu/~mjkcc/courses/ele489, are the most comprehensive set of freelyavailable interactive lectures on digital image processing. There are 15 lectures coveringthe fundamentals of digital image processing. The notebooks supplement a traditional andwidely used textbook by R. Gonzalez and R. Woods5. The topics covered include: 1. Digital image representation 2. Elements of matrix theory 3. Image histogram 4. Luminance quantization 5. Point operations 6. Geometric operations

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Steven McCabe; Francis Thomas

Engineering Department, the manner in which the series was developed, and anassessment as to the success of the series.I. IntroductionThe Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Kansas has addressedthe continuing education requirements of the engineering community in a variety of ways. Thedepartment grants Bachelor degrees, various Masters degrees and Ph.D. degrees on theLawrence campus and also grants Masters degrees at the evening program located at theOverland Park, Kansas Edwards Campus, in suburban Kansas City. In addition to the degreeprograms, the department sponsors three, one-day technical conferences each year. Theconferences are: 1) the structural engineering conference, 2) the environmental

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MaryFran Desrochers

very stressful experience. Many faculty find themselves in placesthey have never been, expected to do things they have never done. This list is a compilation ofsuggestions from many faculty, both new and experienced, on how to start out successfully:á Have a personal life. Join a bowling league. Go on vacation. Get married. Start a family. To be effective in any profession it is important to take time away from it. The time away will have you feeling refreshed and give you more energy for your job. When the students are having trouble working on a difficult concept or problem, I encourage them to take some time away from the problem and do something they enjoy.1 When they return to the problem they can look at it from a

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Michael Warren; Jay Porter

Capture Same as abovePower Supply E3631 (Agilent) – GPIB Controlled Triple Output Power SupplyOptional Equipment 54645 (Agilent) - Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope or any digital oscilloscope with 10 ns resolution* - currently being used at A&MBecause experiments such as measuring power supply rejection ratio require the ability to change powersupply voltages, a networked power supply such as the E3631 is required. Finally, optional equipmentsuch as a good digital oscilloscope allows students to make timing measurements such as propagationdelay as well as investigate concepts such as transmission line reflections. A picture of the completeequipment setup can be seen in Figure 1. The protoboard seen in

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Todd Morton

for Engineering EducationMotorola’s 68HC12 microcontrollers all have a Background Debug Module (BDM)5,6. TheBDM involves a special operating MCU mode, on-chip debugging circuitry, a small firmwareprogram contained in ROM, and a dedicated serial communications port.To control program execution and access memory and registers, the 68HC12 BDM has a set ofhardware commands, firmware commands, and on some MCUs, hardware breakpoints. Becauseextra hardware circuitry is used, this system is relatively non-invasive to the CPU. This is a verysignificant improvement over a resident monitor program, which requires the CPU to stopexecuting the user program to run a monitor command.The 68HC12 BDM hardware commands are shown in Table 1. They are used for

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Fred Lee; Connie Dillon; Arthur Breipohl

students.During year 1 we explored using technology to both provide access and improve the potential learningbenefit. Page 6.71.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education(a) Access Issues. Our goal here is two fold. First, we wish to make the course materials available toother universities interested in integrating these materials into their own curricula. Second, we hope tomake these courses available to students who are currently employed throughout the region.During year 1, we tested two delivery

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Stephen Maybar; Jerome Zornesky

ProgramFigure 1 below shows the typical structure of a two-term curriculum that may be used forteaching circuit analysis. It is derived from the 8th edition of Boylestad’s “Introductory CircuitAnalysis” published by Prentice-Hall. The development of this book is along classical lineswhere first DC and then AC topics are discussed. When we look at the list of topics we see thatalmost half of the second term’s material is a repeat of the first term’s material recast in the AC Page 6.72.1format. While repetition is a useful teaching tool, we wondered if there was a way to restructure Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Garen Gregorian; Francis Di Bella

Session 2333 NEW PARADIGMS IN ENERGY CONSERVATION and POWER GENERATION FOR THE WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS (Part 1) Francis A. Di Bella, PE 617-373-5240 (fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115 School of Engineering Technology and Garen Gregorian, PE Gregorian Engineers (617-484-3565) Consulting Structural Engineers

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Thomas Kullgren; David Pape

to performeffectively and to advance within an organization. The core courses are: • MGT 501 Leading and Managing the Technical Organization • MSTP 502 Safety, Regulatory Issues, and Ethics • MSTP 503 Information Technology and Management • MSTP 504 Design of ExperimentsConcentration Track (12 Credits)The selection of a concentration track depends upon a student’s career path and goals.Track 1 has been designed for manufacturing professionals. These individuals areemployed predominately in organizations affiliated with the automotive industry. Track2, for technical sector professionals, tends to attract students from chemical processes andinformation technologies companies. The selection of a concentration track by a

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Marie Plumb; Jerry Fong; Arnold Peskin

arelargely continued at the home campuses.BackgroundIt is widely recognized that there are systemic deficiencies in technician education.1-4Industry complains that new technician graduates often arrive with little understanding ofthe technical culture of the modern workplace, or how to effectively communicate andinteract therein. Page 6.74.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright O 2001, American Society of Engineering EducationOne reason for this arises from the chronic difficulty technical colleges have reliablyobtaining and maintaining state-of-the-art instrumentation and the

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Eckehard Doerry; Bridget Bero; David Hartman

Session 2660 Northern Arizona University’s "Design4Practice" Sequence: Interdisciplinary Training in Engineering Design for the Global Era Eckehard Doerry1, Bridget Bero2, David Hartman3 1 Computer Science and Eng., 2Civil and Environmental Eng, 3 Mechanical Eng. Northern Arizona University, Box 15600 Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011 USAAbstractIntroduction of computer technology, changing corporate structures, and global competition havesignificantly changed modern

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Rafael Rodríguez-Solís; Lynn Carpenter; José Colom-Ustáriz; Russell Barton

, but instead a“bull’s eye” plot is utilized. The advantage of the “bull’s eye” plot becomes apparent when morethan two output factors are analyzed.In this work a graphical technique to select a robust design point is presented. The technique isused in combination with a metamodel. The development of the metamodel is not discussedhere. The metamodel or mathematical model was easily generated using Minitab5.II. EXAMPLEIn Figure 1, the input parameters of a multilayer coupler are defined. For the multilayer case,four parameters were considered: the widths of the lines W1 and W2, and the spacings S1 and S2.The figure only shows the cross section of the structure, the top view is not shown since thelength of the four lines are constant to achieve a

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Ram Mohan; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Krishnamurthy Jayaraman; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Ed Evans; Charles Petty; Andre Bernard

of suspensions in a tank during the filling stage (Pharmecia),and Distribution of a two-phase refrigerant to heat exchanger tubes (The Trane Company), Designof a Slurry Bubble Column (Eastman Chemical Company).Students are taught the fundamentals of CFD at a 1-week intensive short course in the summer. Inthe Fall semester the student take a web based course on multiphase transport phenomena theoryand applications. Also in the Fall semester the students are assigned to teams to work on designproblems posed by sponsor companies and apply their skills in CFD.The results of the first cycle of this project are presented in this paper. Lessons learned andsuggestions for improvement are discussed

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Mark Smith

Page 6.183.2PCDuo Vector Networks Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationProxy Funk SoftwareReachOut Enterprise Stac SoftwareTimbuktu Pro NetopiaVNC Oracle Research LaboratoryTable 1: Enterprise System Remote-Control SoftwareFeatures & FunctionsThe features and functions of these software packages fall into the following categories:1. Remote control capabilities: what you can do/control on the

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Wayne Walter; Paul Stiebitz

determined the system functionalrequirements from the user requirements by developing a QFD House 1, and they developed aFAST Diagram that captured the system level critical parameters. This was part of the ConceptAnalysis Portion of the generic SE process model.The Function Scoping Phase was followed by the Requirements Documentation Phase in whichteams were asked to formalize the user, systems, and mission requirements by documentingthem in the User Requirements Document (URD), the Systems Requirements Document (SRD),and the Operational Requirements Document (ORD). They were also asked to develop arecommendation for a Requirements Management and Traceability mechanism that woulddocument the source of various requirements, allow them to be traced

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

computer technology. Additional challenges tothose developing course specific CIMS are twofold: 1) making the content interesting tostudents; and 2) incorporating features that are very difficult or even impossible to demonstratein textbooks or on the chalkboard.The focus of this paper is on the CIMS developed for the first course in engineering mechanics,commonly known as Statics (EM 2413), taught at Mississippi State University. Of the ninedifferent degree programs offered in the college of engineering, only students in ComputerScience and Computer Engineering are exempt from taking Statics. Students in Chemical,Electrical, and Industrial Engineering take Statics without it being a prerequisite to any othercourse in their degree programs

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Medhat Morcos; David Soldan

to build knowledge and develop skills. Networks enable the teacherto become a facilitator, providing educational structures, and guiding the learner in accessing thedata and organizing the information into knowledge. These systems serve to give learnersincreased control and agency in the knowledge-building process [1]. Page 6.758.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationEstablishing some form of personal contact with distance-education students and letting themknow what is required in a