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on load-carrying capability. The necessary inclusion of material effects fordetermination of internal loads differs significantly from their previous mechanics coursework,so many students struggle with this initial encounter with interdependent variables. In order toaid the student as s/he strives to master this new idea, the typical elementary mechanics or Page 2.336.1 Rigid end supportsFigure 1: Statically indeterminate bar subjected to axial loadingstrength of materials textbook author includes detailed directions on how to solve problemswhich correspond to this model, and may include numerous examples

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-media project devoted to the characteristics, principles and physical phenomena of water from an energy/momentum perspective. The systems functions are to be integrated into an interactive mode, in which the viewer(s) may observe, experiment and inquire through the utilization of visual/sound and computer animation relating to an actual real time experimental demonstration. The concept of vertical programming will be employed as defined by an unrestricted development of an idea or vision. In the development of the presentation the following guide lines are to be followed. The presentation must: be entertaining stimulate the viewer relate to real world

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chosen field ofstudy and prepare a short written report defending that choice. A search of a career database,SIGI+, was a required part of the assignment.The third assignment in the series required the student to prepare a plan for his or her academiccareer. Each student was supplied with a semester by semester plan devised for the normalstudent. The normal plan assumes the student enters in the Fall term with adequate reading skillsand is prepared for College Algebra and English Composition. The plan lists all courseprerequisites and the term(s) offered. Since this course was designed specifically for theunderprepared student the normal plan is inappropriate. The student is expected to devise a planto complete his or her degree in a reasonable

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Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2392, CD-ROM, Washington, D.C., June 1996.[2] M. A. Palmer, J. B. Hudson, C. T. Moynihan and G. E. Wnek, “Using the Internet as a Teaching Aid,” 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2520, CD-ROM, Washington, D.C., June 1996.[3] M. Bartz, “The Electronic Classroom Via the World Wide Web,” 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2632, CD-ROM, Washington, D.C., June 1996.[4] S. K. Starrett, “A Beginner's Approach to Teaching with the Internet,” 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2632, CD-ROM, Washington, D.C., June 1996.[5] P. Penfield, Jr. and R. C. Larson, “Education Via Advanced Technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Special Issue on the Application of

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an innovation project this means picking the right product. This is done incooperation with marketing, especially with market research. At least sixteen ways ofidentifying what customers will buy have been identified. Engineers aid in this by performingtechnical forecasting -- what new products will be made possible by technology advances? Theyalso have a role by performing s-curve analysis. This is applying the life cycle curve to forecastreplacement of a product by another, e.g., fountain pens by ball point pens. Various marketresearch techniques are applied to gauge the likelihood of market acceptance, and cost estimatesof product engineering are made. Key questions at this point are: "What if the engineeringproject is successful?" and

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andethics. Uncertainty can be high and irreducible when dealing with complex natural systems, andwill need to be given proper consideration. Under conditions of scientific uncertainty, engineerswill participate in making decisions where value systems and ethics play a large role. Byexamining how values enter into engineering and exploring codes of ethics, educators canprepare students for real world situations.References1. Odum, H. T., W. L. Siler, R. J. Beyers, and N. Armstrong. 1963. Experiments with engineering of marine ecosystems. Publication of the Institute of Marine Science of the University of Texas 9:374-403.2. Mitsch, W. J. and S. E. Jørgensen. 1989. Introduction to ecological engineering. In: Ecological Engineering: An

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Shivakumar Raman; P. Simin Pulat; Hank Grant; Bob L. Foote; Adedeji B. Badiru

from the Industrial Engineering (IE)program at OU and three faculty members from the Industrial Engineering and Management(IE&M) program at OSU have developed a strong working relationship and have crafted animportant niche in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM). As part of these collaborativeactivities, the programs have fostered research exchanges including joint National ScienceFoundation (NSF) research projects, faculty and student exchanges, and two-way interactive,compressed digital video courses providing cross-institutional graduate credit.Integrated Production Management (IPM) ResearchA working sub-group of faculty from OU (B. Foote, S. Pulat, S. Raman and A. Badiru) and OSU(M. Kamath) were funded under a three year research

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Session 3260 CQI IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERS: Dynamics, Obligations and Myths S. Y. Eidgahy, Ph.D Jefferson Community College ABSTRACT: Professional development or continuing education of practicing engineers hasbecome paramount to our international competitiveness. Whether such educational efforts aredirected at learning new technologies and processes; simply updating existing skills andknowledge, or even completely retraining engineers for new careers; training is now an integralengineering activity. That is why this issue must be under constant

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opportunity for informal interaction.STUDENT JOURNALSI’ve found that one of the most effective ways of getting to know students better is through theuse of student journals [1]. Sample instructions for the writing of journals are: “Every class day briefly write in your journal the most important thing(s) that you learned in class that day. In addition, write anything else you wish, particularly things that you can relate to chemical engineering. The journal does not have to be restricted to classroom issues. Please write freely. The pages will not be graded for grammar, spelling, punctuation, or technical or political correctness.”The journals are due on Friday, which gives me the chance to read them over the week-end

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Regulations (FAR) 23.473 (g) and FAR 23, Appendix C. This isequivalent to a 2 g impact load on the main wheel and strut. The following deflection formula willestablish acceptable strut cross-section dimensions based upon calculations developed for the Berkutaircraft.Aluminum leaf spring strut nomenclature. ∆ = strut deflection at the axle under 2 g impact load = ((W*l^3)/(3*E*i))*Sec(θ) W = Aircraft gross weight in pounds S = wing area in square feet. l = strut length in inches TD = Tire Deflection E = the modulus of elasticity i = moment of inertia of the strut θ = strut angle from the vertical Vd = descent velocity in ft/s d =vertical stopping distance in feet at Vd=0Note: according to Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) 23.473 (d), the

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10.4 16.7 79Border Technikon* 1,446 97.5 0.1 0.3 2.1 53 28.3 0.0 9.4 62.3 27Eastern Cape Technikon* 2,982 99.4 0.0 0.1 0.5 125 59.2 8.8 7.2 24.8 24Technikon South Africa 83,741 49.5 7.3 4.2 39.0 204 7.8 2.0 1.5 88.7 410* Historically Disadvantaged Technikon (HDT). Source (in part): Jan Lategan (Compiler) and Prof. Nick Kok (Editor), “Profiles of S A Technikons 1995” Compiled for the Committee of Technikon Principals, November 1995. Table 1. Students and Faculty at South Africa’s Technikons (with demographic data

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Kirk E. Hiles; David L. Walters; Vincent Wilczynski

forcemeasurements would not be affected by the stick and slip of the rubber ‘bungee’ cord over the sheave. The data from the force gauge was acquired through a serial port interface to Vernier SoftwareInc.’s MacMotion software with a sampling rate of 100 Hertz. The data was stored as an ASCII file on aMacintosh Powerbook portable computer. The initial start time of an egg drop was difficult to record.However, for a given data run, data acquisition was begun just prior to launch. Then, the launcher cord,which was attached to a small sliding trap door, was pulled abruptly in order to launch the egg and createa force spike which might be used in the data analysis as an initial time marker.ANALYSIS The data collected in the experiment allowed the

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2326 Multidisciplinary Experimental Experiences in the Freshman Engineering Clinic at Rowan University R. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan, A. J. Marchese C. S. Slater, J. L. Schmalzel, T. R. Chandrupatla, R. A. Dusseau Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 Session 2326 Introducing Freshmen Students to Engineering Paper No. 3 1997 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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interface ports.Each Host Interface can be configured as a 8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bit wide parallel port which may beconnected directly to the data bus of a host processor[MOTO89].The Texas Instruments TMS320C40 features six communications ports for high speed interprocessorcommunication. Each communications port allows for simple processor to processor communication Page 2.319.2while it’s bi-directional transfers help to maintain maximum communications flexibility. The C40’s sixchannel DMA coprocessor alleviates the CPU of burdensome I/O operations and thereby maximizessustained peak CPU performance. The DSPuP CPU contains a 40/32-bit floating

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this paper. REFERENCES1. Huband, F. L., "Matters of Assessment," ASEE Prism, p 4, September 1994.2. Prados, J. W., “What Are We Looking For,” The Editor’s Page, Journal of Engineering Education, p. 173, July 1996.3. Mehta, S. I., "An Attention Quiz; A Low-Tech, High Yielding Teaching Tip," Proceedings of the 1993 ASEE Annual Conference, Urbana, IL, pp. 1897-1901.4. Angelo, T. A., and K. P. Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, Jossey Bass Publisher, San Francisco, CA, 1993. Page 2.332.65. Cross, K. P., "Teaching for Learning

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4.21 4.22 1=none , 5 = considerable CAD improvement 1.43 3.39 1=none , 5 = considerable Level of motivation 3.93 4.11 1=low, 5 = high Level of structured environment 2.36 2.22 1=fle xible , 5=structured How prepared do you feel 3.29 3.22 1=not, 5=very pre pare d Overall course value 3.86 4.22 1=low, 5=high Preference of lecture vs activity based delivery Both course s strongly pre fered activity base d delive ry

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appropriate stage(s) of construction. You need to get permission tohave access to the site and have the weather cooperate.Once the photograph has been obtained, it will need to be scanned, saved in a digital format andmanipulated in to is final form. Some questions that need to be answered are; “What digitalformat (gif, tif, jpg, etc.)?”, “What bit size (number of colors)?” and “What is the size of thewindow in which it will be presented?”. All this work is necessary for just one image. To finallyget the photograph into its final form can take several steps, each using a different softwarepackage. Before the actual software development for this project began, over 500 photographswere taken during the construction of several buildings on campus and

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William W. Schultz; Roger W. Pryor; Michael Vaksman; Mark Schumack; Kevin Belfield; Vladimir Sheyman; Mukasa Ssemakula; Shuvra Das

exercises. Eachexperiment is preceded by a computer tutorial written in Labview® which introduces thecandidate to the background material, provides an application usually in the manufacturingcontext, assigns reading and homework problems, and demonstrates the experiment viaanimation. The modular experiments fit on table tops and are located at the CAT. Grading forthese five modules is based on homework sets and group laboratory reports. There are alsoindividual (pencil-and-paper) tests at the end of each module.The remaining thirteen modules, developed by M. Schumack, M. Vaksman, S. Das, and K.Belfield at the University of Detroit Mercy, W.W. Schultz at the University of Michigan, and V.Sheyman at Wayne State University, cover the foundational

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experience fills up the remainder of the term’s design hours. In Super Solids, the designexperience has taken on many forms depending on what project(s) have been cultivated fromindustry. There are two basic ways the class can operate for the projects: i) several unrelatedprojects can be undertaken by the student groups or ii) one project can be undertaken withdifferent student teams. Each way has its individual merits. When many projects are undertaken,the students can pick a topic of their choice. The professor should have several possible choices,since students don’t always have a project in mind. Often, and preferably, students bring aproject in from their work term. This benefits the class, the student, GMI, and the company. Thebig

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.BackgroundBloom's Taxonomy of Educational ObjectivesIn the early 1950's Benjamin Bloom[ 7 ], in conjunction with other educators, developed ataxonomy of educational objectives ranging from simple memorization to complex evaluation, asoutlined in Figure 1. Traditional teaching and testing methods tend to stress primarily the threelowest levels of Bloom's taxonomy -- knowledge, comprehension, and application. These levelsare easy to teach, comprehend, and evaluate, because problems based upon these levels tend tohave a specific concrete answer that is either right or wrong. The problem with the lower levelsof Bloom's taxonomy is that although they are useful for teaching students how to solve classictraditional problems, our students still have difficulties

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(faculty/TA instructional time) 3. Working at different times or different locations is important 4. Will impact a large number of users 5. Adequate computers are available at the site(s) Table 2. Some key criteria for developing computer-based training modules.A general flow chart for our tutorials is shown on Figure 1. Tutorial modules are brokendown into short (10 min or less) sessions, each with clear set of objectives, moduleinformation and several interactive exercises. At the end of each module, the student maythen take the quiz. If the student’s score does not reflect a good understanding of thematerial then he or she will have to revisit that module again. User identification, scoresand other session information

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of the analytical solution are distributed and also shown on the overhead. This phase of reviewing the analytical solution can include the following: • Determine if the problem requires a particle or rigid body solution. (i.e., Is the body rotating? Is the body’s size of consequence? Make a clear distinction between rotation and curvilinear motion.) • Determine if the problem requires a kinematic or kinetic solution or both. (i.e., Does this problem involve a force analysis or just motion geometry?) • If the solution requires a kinetic solution determine which procedure is best. • Establish the proper diagrams. • Set up the basic governing equation(s).• Obtain one or

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Gc(s) GPW s- P-type control: u(t) = Kp e(t) [Radians/Volt-set] [Radians/sec] Velocity Sensor n ffJ Sensor NoiseFigure 3. Closed-loop velocity control with position sensing, velocity estimation and disturbance input. Responses to sinusoidal inputs are also explored in laboratory 3, to

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-Hill, N. Y., 1993.[5] F. G. Dwyer and P. J. Lewis "Ethylbenzene" in Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design, editted by J. J. McKetta, 1984,Vol. 20, pp. 77-88. P. J. Lewis, C. Hagopian and P. Koch "Styrene" in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 1983,Vol. 21, pp. 770.[6] F. Rodriguez "Principles of Polymer Systems" Taylor & Francis, Washington, D. C., 1996.[7] R. K. Finn "Some Origins of Biotechnology", Swiss Biotech 7, 15, 1989.[8] P. A. Belter, E. L. Cussler and W.-S. Wu "Bioseparations: downstream processing for biotechnology" Wiley, N. Y.,1988.[9] R. K. Finn "Vitamin C Manufacturing", Module, Center for Manufacturing Enterprise, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 1996.[10] P

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, Page 2.155.4 full-duplex sound board software: VideoPhone, CuSeeMe, Netmeeting 2.0. Instructors: Univ. of Missouri - Rolla - H. Nystrom, D. Rodriguez S. Grenquist M. Daily Class Participants: Cibertec Technological Institute, Lima, Peru (faculty and students) telecommunication channel: dedicated line internet connection hardware: Pentium, digital color camera software: VideoPhone, CuSeeMe, Netmeeting 2.0

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. Soroos, M. S. "Beyond Sovereignty" The Challenge of Global Policy. University of South Carolina Press, pp.9 and 196, 1986.3. Nader R. et al. "The Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA and the Globalization of Corporate Power" EarthIsland Press, 1993.4. Ambrose S. E. "Rise to Globalism" Penguin Books, 5th. ed. 1988RAUL HERRERADr. Herrera obtained his B.S. and Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Politecnico Nacionalof Mexico (IPN) in Mexico City and his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. For ten years was aprofessor of chemical kinetics at the IPN and since 1983 has been a faculty member of The Ohio State University

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, Iss. 14, July 15, 19962. “Some Consequences of the ‘Engineering 2000 Criteria’ On Liberal Education”, LanceSchachterle, Session 3661, 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings3. Engineering Education for a Changing World; A Joint Project by the Engineering DeansCouncil and Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE,October 19944. Teaching Engineering, P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, McGraw-Hill, 19935. “Special Education and Engineering Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach toUndergraduate Training”, W. B. Hudson and B. S. Hudson, Proceedings ASEE/IEEE Frontiersin Education Conference, IEEE, 19916. Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, D. W. Johnson, R. T. Johnson, K. A.Smith, Interaction

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Shelly D. Burnside; Oliver K. Tse; Laura L. Beecroft; Jeffrey A. Smith; Eric D. Rodeghiero; Emmanuel P. Giannelis

and Need for Undergraduate Materials Science and Engineering Education,” MRS Bulletin, August 1990, pp. 27-30.3. Guard, Ray W., Stafford, S. W., “Recruitment and Retention of Metallurgy/Materials Students,” Journal of Metals, Vol. 38(2), February 1986, pp. 50-53. Page 2.285.44. Booth, Stephen A., “Essential Technology Guide to Education,” Popular Science, September 1996, p. 61.5. Negroponte, Nicholas, Being Digital, Vintage Books, New York, 1995, pp. 11-20.6. Decker, John A. Jr., “Graphite-Epoxy Acoustic Guitar Technology,” MRS Bulletin, March 1995, pp. 37-39.7. Michal, Gary M., “Overview of an Introductory Materials Science and

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%, B 49%, C 20%. D5%. The course during these years included labs, written reports, term papers, oral reports andmultiple choice tests with some essay questions. The pool of questions, excepting those labrelated, was the same for both time periods.Also the student background has changed over years. In the 80’s most were techniciansemployed by a nuclear power plant project. The 90’s group was a mixture of students withvaried work experience or none at all. The same instructor has taught all these years. It is hisopinion that the final student level of knowledge of materials has remained constant.APPENDIX I ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTSRecent high school graduates

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). Page 2.321.43. Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (1991).4. Yang, Edward S., Microelectronic Devices, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (1988).5. Streetman, Ben, Solid State Electronic Devices, IV Ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995).6. Nilsson, James W., and Reidel, Susan A., Electric Circuits, V Ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1996).7. Sedra, Adel S., and Smith, Kenneth C., Microeletronic Circuits, 3rd Ed.,Saunders College Publishing (1991).ROGER A. MESSENGER received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and has been atFlorida Atlantic University since then. He is currently Professor of Electrical