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2001 Annual Conference

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Christopher Carroll

Gadget has proven to be a remarkably versatile instrument. By providing usefulinput and output devices in the Gadget, students are able to design and build completepieces of digital computer circuits implementing data processing or data structure circuitswithout the extra complexity involved in getting data in or out of their designs.. Theinstrument has been used for several semesters in the “Computer Circuits” laboratory ofthe Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of MinnesotaDuluth, and has been dependable and reliable, despite rugged use by many students. TheGadget is inexpensive and uncomplicated, making it a very non-intimidating testinstrument in the lab. Carroll’s Gadget demonstrates that test equipment need not

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

Education”Today, institutions spearheading the effort to provide the latest and best training and education totheir students are reaping the reward by high graduate success rates and by being nationallyrecognized by prominent national organizations. Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) isone of these institutions that has been awarded the (LEAD) award for excellence in theApplication and Development of Integrated Manufacturing1. Penn state has constructed a new10,210 square feet facility called “Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME), astate-of-the-art laboratory that represents all the elements of a real manufacturing facility. Thegoal of the lab is to provide the hands-on experience needed for students to work in an

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Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

. Page 5.35.2A simulation routine has been developed that uses the model given in equation (1) andintroduces random errors in measuring resistance and temperature. Errors have standarddeviation equal to instrument accuracy and have a zero mean. In the first case it wasassumed that resistance and temperature could be measured with uncertainty of 1miliOhm and 0. 1 °C respectively. To more realistically portray the experiment, tenmeasurements were taken at each temperature point [-30 °, 0 °C, 50 °C, 100°C]. This isthe level of accuracy easily achieved in a student laboratory. The results are plotted infigure 2. The obtained parameters, a, b, d and R0, as well as deviation from the modelsuggest that the equipment used is not adequate for such an

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Muniram Budhu

, Soil Mechanics and Foundations Engineering. He is involved in developing multimediacourses and has recently published a textbook on Soil Mechanics and Foundations that is accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains interactive animations of the basics topics, interactive problem solving, virtual laboratories,quizzes, etc. Professor Budhu received his BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of the West Indiesand his Ph.D from Cambridge University. Page 5.46.6

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Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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Peter Ridilla; James Pocock

(portrayed by faculty)that they have studied their projects thoroughly and should be awarded the construction contract.Capstone Course After required freshman and sophomore “core” courses, the Air Force Academy’s civiland environmental engineering curricula begin with a hands-on “Field Engineering andReadiness Laboratory” (FERL) course between the sophomore and junior years. During thisthree-week course students complete 22 hands-on construction activities under the supervision offaculty and Air Force construction craftsmen. A sampling of the activities includes wood-frameconstruction, heavy equipment operation, concrete placement, and asphalt paving, as shown inFigure 2. Each activity integrates with one or more later major’s courses and

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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Wendy Reffeor

Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOnce approved by the instructor, students constructed their mechanisms to their engineeringdrawings using materials available in the engineering laboratory facilities. They tested theirmechanisms for accuracy and troubleshot any problems that occurred during testing.Modifications were made to the mechanisms and documented. Full documentation of changesincluding the reason for the change was required.Evaluation of the project was based primarily on the accuracy of the design calculations, thecorrelation between the design calculations and the final physical trials, the accuracy andcompleteness of the engineering drawings and the conclusions drawn from the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

get FDA approval milligram quantities are necessary to carry out clinical trials. The laboratory-scale bioreactors used in thepre-production are inadequate to meet the expected product demand (annual protein product market need to be 100 g per year). Since theProteinPlus used to obtain FDA approval was produced by SHP-77 cells, which are a human lung tumor cell line and grow in smallclusters in suspension, these same cells will be used for the large scale production. Observations of cell behavior in the laboratory-scalebioreactors suggest that the cells are both sensitive to mechanical damage and have a high metabolic rate. The doubling time of SHP-77cells under ideal conditions is 96 hr. The maximum cell density observed was 8.0 x 10+5 cells

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

professor in electrical and computer engineering at Lawrence TechnologicalUniversity, in Southfield, MI since 1991. Her research interests include computer networks, error correction anddetection, and freshman engineering design. She received the B.S. in industrial and operations engineering fromUniversity of Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in computer engineering from Wayne State University in1983 and 1991, respectively.ECE YAPRAKDr. Yaprak is an associate professor of engineering technology in the Division of Engineering Technology at WayneState University in Detroit, MI. She is involved in several ongoing research projects, including field programmablechip laboratory development for NSF, distributed computing for the US Army and CBT for

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; Jon Marvel

, fastening,metal forming, casting, plastics molding and conclude with nontraditional processes. In order tosupplement the lecture portion of the course, laboratory experiments provide the students withpractical experience operating and analyzing the effects of the parameters of a variety ofequipment, including standard manual mills, lathes, and several welding processes. The finalcomponent of the course is for the students to demonstrate their abilities to design and fabricate asimple component utilizing a variety of manufacturing processes.In the Machine Component Design course, students are introduced to many machine componentssuch as shafts, bearings, gears, springs, clutches and brakes, chains and belts, threaded fastenersand power screws. One

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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John Duke; Don Morris

of the form used to report a summary of the assessment results and anyrecommendations based on the evaluation of the results. Any particular assessment tool,homework, group project, laboratory reports, quizzes, testing, or combination deemed necessaryby the instructor could be used. The assessment might be used to monitor (M) or summatively Page 7.238.2assess (S) the student achievement. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFig. 2. Schematic diagram depicting the process for course

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Melvin Corley

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education ”The engineering course spans the first year and emphasizes problem-solving strategies by demonstratingapplication of these math and science principles, sometimes with laboratories, sometimes with in-classassignments. This course also includes information on engineering disciplines, communication skills,drawing and visualization, and computer tools for engineers.The engineering math sequence in this curriculum is significantly different from that in the traditionalprogram. The integrated curriculum uses a “just-in-time” approach to precalculus and calculus topics.Critical precalculus topics are reviewed just prior to the

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

component is too rigid to adjust for the unexpected. The skill ofcommunication with individuals outside of one’s expertise, such as customers, is paramount inorder to establish and become a component of the informal organization. Therefore newgraduates in engineering would need to have good communication skills in order to access thisinformal network.Kelley and Caplan examined the engineers at Bell Laboratories to determine what traits the starperforming engineers possessed.10 They discovered that neither IQ nor GPA indicated whichengineer would be highly productive. Instead, the approach the engineer used is what set thestars apart from the mediocre. The consensus from star engineers at Bell Laboratories shows thatessential skills to be a star may

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Eric Constans; Joseph Orlins

. The early exposure to allelements of design, testing, and evaluation aided student understanding of the basic concepts offluid mechanics, and familiarized students with design and fabrication techniques.IntroductionIn many traditional introductory courses in Fluid Mechanics, students do not gain a trueappreciation for the real-world applications where the concepts presented in the classroom arebrought to life. Laboratory experiments are used to demonstrate basic principles, but usuallyfollow a very limited and proscribed scope and format. Such labs are generally focused oninvestigations of fluid properties and the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Trueapplications of the basic principles (such as selection of pumps and system head

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Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

. Laboratory exercises can often “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”provide reinforcement to core lecture material more effectively than a textbook. It seemsthat appropriate use of finite element software, utilizing the powerful graphicscapabilities of the software, can produce a similar reinforcing effect.2. FEA Software as a Teaching ToolClearly, FEA is a relevant topic to engineering education. As noted above, a level ofcompetency in FEA seems essential for engineers graduating in today’s technicalenvironment. Of course, learning to use software that produces accurate results, forexample, in a heat

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2001 Annual Conference

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Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

emergency situation. All SOPs are now located inwell marked locations in the laboratories. No activity can take place in the laboratory without thestudents indicating on a checklist that they have read the relevant SOP.Students who are exploring, designing, and building are typically eager and tend to be in a rush.This might be good for getting things done but compromises safety. The tendency is to try thelatest idea to see if it works or to try to finish before a report deadline. To avoid this students aretold at the beginning that there are no deadlines. They are not judged on how much they getdone. They are judged on how well they function in the design group, on the procedures they useand how well documented their activities are in their lab

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Best Zone Paper Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

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Council of Sections

strategies that address challengesand barriers to recruitment, retention and success of minority students. Among the strategiesdeveloped for this project are two summer programs that were implemented for the first time insummer 2009. The Summer Math Jam is a two-week intensive mathematics program designedto improve student preparation for college-level math courses. The Summer EngineeringInstitute is a two-week residential summer camp that offers participating students the opportunityto gain insight into the engineering academic program through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, workshops and projects with engineering professionals. Preliminaryresults indicate success of both programs. Math Jam participants show improvement

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Best of Computers in Education Division

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Ali Yalcin, University of South Florida; Gwen Lee-Thomas, Old Dominion University and Quality Measures, LLC; Duc T. Nguyen, Old Dominion University; Melinda R. Hess; James A. Eison, University of South Florida; Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University; Glen H. Besterfield, University of South Florida; Corina M. Owens, Battelle Memorial Institute

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Computers in Education

- lished articles (in referred journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports), and funded projects Page 25.58.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 (approximately $3.5 million funded projects, from various government research laboratories, industrial sectors, and universities) in numerical methods, large-scale parallel algorithms and software develop- ments, finite element analysis and optimal design, and linear/nonlinear equation and Eigen-solutions have led to several international (1989 Cray Research, Inc. GigaFlops Award), national (NASA Langley Re- search

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Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Osama M. Jadaan, University of Mount Union; Tsunghsueh Wu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Yan Wu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Esther N. Ofulue

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defined in its mission statement. With an enrollment of over 1750 engineeringstudents, the engineering college is one of the largest undergraduate-only engineering programsin the United States.The engineering college has a long-standing reputation for excellent teaching, small class sizes,and extensive faculty-student contact and laboratory experiences. The vision of our College ofEngineering, Mathematics, and Science is to be “recognized as a leader in undergraduate …education in engineering, mathematics and science.” The College is further committed to“encourag(ing) departments to investigate opportunities for new programs which meet the needsof a changing society.”With this in mind, the fields of microsystems and nanotechnology were seen as

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The Best of Design in Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Rajesh Elara Mohan, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Sawako Kaijima, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Stylianos Dritsas, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Daniel D. Frey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Diana Moreno, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Kin-Leong Pey, Singapore University of Technology and Design

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4004: A SYMPHONY OF DESIGNIETTES: EXPLORING THEBOUNDARIES OF DESIGN THINKING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONProf. Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin Kristin L. Wood is currently a professor, Head of Pillar, and Co-director of the International Design Center (IDC) at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering (Division of Engineering and Applied Science) at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in Sept. 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing

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Robotics and Automation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kavya Mandhadi, University of Houston; Rupa Iyer, University of Houston

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Engineering Technology

Architecture The existing application converts the stored information into aunique format and transfers the files through the University of Houstonnetwork to the web server in the College of Technology. The users canutilize the application settings to store the bioreactor parameters andadjust their experimental parameters. The server updates the web pagecontents dynamically with live experimental data every time a userconnects to bioreactor website. A bioreactor website was created toallow the lab instructors and students to remotely view and edit theirexperiment parameters and settings reducing the overall time spent inthe laboratory providing flexibility to the overall system. As shown in the above figure, the communication between

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Robert Fithen

working in the research division ofWright Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio. Further information may be obtained at http://mengr.atu.edu Page 6.1093.7Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Fereydoun Jalali

, MEE, and PhD in Electrical Engineeringfrom North Carolina State University at Raleigh, North Carolina. He has taught a variety of courses in digitaland linear systems and in electromagnetic-related topics in both EE and EET programs, with a present interestin the application of innovative approaches to teaching "difficult" topics and to laboratory and project activities. Page 6.1121.5“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Zhongming Liang

engineering technologycurriculum. There are several reasons for the difficulty. The course materials are indeed quiteanalytical with little or no laboratory. The authors of the textbook are scholars in mechanics sothat some wordings are very theoretical. Some students were not interested in the course becausethey did not see much connection between the book examples and their current or future jobs.During a summer intern, the company wanted to use a ceramic cutter for higher cutting speed ona CNC lathe but needed to make sure that the work and the chuck would be safe at the highspeed. I was asked to do some safety checks based on the centrifugal forces.This project gave me the idea that there were many dynamics application examples in

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2001 Annual Conference

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D. Yogi Goswami

Session 1433 Present Status of Solar Energy Education D. Yogi Goswami Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, POB 116300, Gainesville, FL 32611-6300 USA Tel: 352/392-0812; Fax: 352/392-1071 Email: solar@cimar.me.ufl.eduAbstractThis paper briefly describes the history and status of solar energy education. The energyawareness in the early 1970s led to a concerted research and development effort in solarenergy applications. Solar energy education followed these efforts at the advanced collegelevel. However, R&D slowed

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2000 Annual Conference

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Mary C. Verstraete; Daniel B. Sheffer; Bruce C. Taylor

College of Engineering at The University of Akron. TheCo-op program at the University of Akron is one of the oldest in the country and has providedstudents with three semesters of hands-on experience and practical training in industry for manyyears. Students will be paired with industrial partners by area of interest and track. Thosestudents planning on continuing their education in graduate school or medical school will alsohave the opportunity to choose hospital or research laboratory internships to prepare them fortheir future endeavors.MARY C. VERSTRAETEMary C. Verstraete is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr.Verstraete received her BS, MS and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics/Biomechanics from

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2000 Annual Conference

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Elaine L. Craft; James C. Wood

. Page 5.345.4JAMES C. WOODJames C. Wood has BS and MS degrees in physics from Clemson University and Ph. D. from the University ofVirginia in physics. He has seven year of research experience in laboratories for American Cynamid and TRW. Hehas 25 year teaching experience in physics and engineering technology at Tri-County Technical College. He iscurrent Division Chair of the Industrial and Engineering Technology Division and Co-PI for a statewide curriculumdevelopment grant for engineering technology.ELAINE L. CRAFTElaine L. Craft is Director and Principal Investigator for the SC ATE Center of Excellence as well as Co-PrincipalInvestigator for the SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project, both National Science Foundation grants awarded to theSouth

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Ryan S. Magargle; Rami W. Zarrouk; Maurice F Aburdene

, conversion of binary-coded decimal to decimal equivalence,manipulation of matrices, and demonstration of statistical concepts such as finding the mean, thevariance, and the standard deviation.AcknowledgmentsMicrosoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.Mathcad is a trademark of Mathsoft incorporated.MAURICE FELIX ABURDENEMaurice F. Aburdene is the T. Jefferson Miers Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of ComputerScience at Bucknell University. He has also taught at Swarthmore College, State University of New York atOswego, and the University of Connecticut. Professor Aburdene was a project engineer and project manager at theBristol Company, a visiting research scientist at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision

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John P. Robinson; Edward M. Moldt

the University of Iowa and was instrumental in the development of theJohn Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. He has been closely associated with the Ewing Marion KauffmanFoundation as Entrepreneur in Residence and currently as Entrepreneurial Consultant. He was the secondrecipient of the Distinguished Owner-Manager Alumnus award from Indiana University. Ed is a PriceBabson Fellow and recipient of the Appel Prize for Entrepreneurial Leadership. His entrepreneurialcompanies cover a broad range of industries ranging from country clubs, equipment leasing, residentialcare, dental laboratories, primary health care, indoor sports facilities, real estate and dozens of other niches.He received an AB degree from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa; and, a BA

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Craig Johnson

MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) Program at Central Washington University (CWU) has anumber of course requirements addressing technical writing, presentations and speaking.However, unlike Seat and Lord2, we have no course requirement dedicated to group skills andfurther integration at a program level. In CWU’s MET program almost all of the courses havesome in-situ laboratory work, and therefore an opportunity to build teamwork skills on anactivity level.Class ActivitiesFor a number of years we have known of different teaching and learning styles, in many waysbest defined by personal traits (e.g. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator3). Felder incorporateddifferent educational methods into his chemistry courses at North Carolina State University, andeventually took

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Donald C. Richter

program fun and intuitive. Thesecond was that the cost was within our budget limitations. The program is free to UniversityProfessors for use in the laboratory for students. There is a small fee for student to own their owncopy of the program. The program can be downloaded of the web for a free 30 day trial. Unlike somany “free” software packages the software is extremely well done and stable.To give you a small glimpse of the functions, student friendly help and explanations that areavailable to the student the following brief explanation is offered using the Determinate BeamModule. The student is first presented with a dialogue box and asked to select how the beam issupported. ( please refer to figure #2) The student then chooses length of the