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Val Girolamo; Seung Kim

Session 2464 A Laboratory Session in Plastics: Effect of Weld Line on Tensile Plastic Specimen Seung Kim, Valentino (Val) Girolamo Rochester Institute of Technology/ASMAT Precision Mold BuildersI. IntroductionPlastic materials have become irreplaceable and are used as adhesives, textiles, packaging,foams, elastomers, biomedical devices, optic elements, and composites. Such potentialapplications of plastics are so limitless that there is an exciting future in the plastics industry.Plastics technology is a multidisciplinary subject dealing with materials and properties

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Stephen McKnight; Gilead Tadmor; E Everbach; William E. Cole; Michael Ruane

Multimedia Session 2793 Teaching Computing to Engineering Freshmen Through a “High-Tech Tools and Toys Laboratory” S. W. McKnight, W. Cole, G. Tadmor, E. C. Everbach, and M. Ruane Northeastern University / Swarthmore College / Boston UniversityAbstractFreshman engineering courses in computing applications and programming often lackapplications that are sufficiently engaging without being overwhelming. Program outputs andgraphics within the reach of beginning students are often woefully primitive compared tocomputer graphics that are available in commercial gaming software. The students’ lack ofbackground in

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William T. Lin; Richard Pfile

Session 2526 Using Network Analysis Software To Teach the Internet Protocol Stack in the Laboratory Richard E. Pfile, William T. Lin Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IndianapolisAbstractThe stacked protocol concept is difficult to understand and to many students it’s an abstractnotion. Although students are masters at memorizing tasks the different protocol layers perform,they don’t grasp fundamental concepts of how the protocol stack functions in computercommunications. Message addresses reside at different layers in a stack, several stack

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Vicki Eller; Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Joel Balestra; Asha Rao

Session 1458 Multimedia Web-based Resources for Engineering Education: The Media Design and Assessment Laboratory at UMR Vicki M. Eller, Steve E. Watkins, Richard H. Hall, Joel Balestra, Asha S. Rao University of Missouri-RollaAbstract The design, development, and assessment of web-based multimedia learning resourcesare important aspects of engineering education. The Media Design and Assessment Laboratoryat the University of Missouri-Rolla was established to facilitate the interaction between webdesigners and content providers. It was created under the auspices of the Instructional

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Michael Warren; Jay Porter

Session 3547 A New Laboratory Curriculum Focused on Teaching Mixed-Signal Testing Concepts Using Low-Cost Test Equipment Jay R. Porter and Michael R. Warren Texas A&M UniversityAbstractAs the density of integrated circuit technology continues to increase, many commercial devices arecombining both analog and digital electronics onto a single chip. As the complexity of these chipsincreases, familiarity with testing mixed-signal devices is essential for the successful entry-level engineer. This paper discuss a laboratory curriculum being developed at

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J. Giolma; Kevin Nickels; Farzan Aminian

Session 2793 Bridging the gap between discrete and programmable logic in introductory digital logic laboratories Kevin Nickels, Farzan Aminian, J. Paul Giolma Department of Engineering Science Trinity UniversityAbstractMost contemporary introductory digital logic design laboratories utilize discrete small-scaleintegrated (SSI), medium-scale integrated (MSI), and programmable logic such as fieldprogrammable gate arrays (FGPAs) or complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs). Thesemore complex programmable devices (CPLDs and

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Steven Wright; Murat Ulasir; Michelle West; Lissa MacVean; Donald D. Carpenter

Session 1277 CEAL: Cooperative Learning Coupled With Hands On Experimentation in a Junior Level Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Murat Ulasir, Donald D. Carpenter, Michelle L. West, Lissa J. MacVean, Steven J. Wright University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109AbstractRecent curriculum changes in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at theUniversity of Michigan added a three-hour laboratory section to the existing junior level civilengineering Fluid Mechanics course. One important goal in adding this laboratory section to thecourse was to maximize

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Tolga Cangar; S. Engin Kilic; Ömer Anlagan; Burak Sari

2793WEB BASED CIM LABORATORY EXPERIENCE IN ME CURRICULUM: PART DESIGN, NC-CODE GENERATION AND WORK ORDER DISPATCHING VIA INTERNET Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research Group Sari, B., Cangar, T., Anlagan, O. & Kilic, S. E. Department of Mechanical Engineering Middle East Technical University, Ankara, TurkeyAbstractThis paper focuses on how basic CIM laboratory work can be enhanced through the use ofInternet. In the typical CIM laboratory experiment students are asked to produce their NC-Codesfor a given task. By the

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Richard Smith; Marv Abrams

Session 2526 Experimental Validation of Computer Simulations Increases the Synergy Between Simulation and Physical Reality R. Frank Smith and Marvin C. Abrams California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA AbstractThis paper discusses the development of course materials at California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona, CA. that will demonstrate a pedagogical approach that allows the synergismof computer simulations and laboratory experimentation. The model being developed willinclude shared resources with other schools through computer

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Ahmad Ibrahim

Session 2247 Economical Integration of Virtual Laboratories in EET Curricula A. M. Ibrahim DeVry Institute of Technology Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAbstractVirtual Laboratories provide interactive environment for creating and conducting simulatedexperiments. Integrating virtual labs into an EET curriculum has the potential of enhancingclassroom delivery by establishing a timely connection between theory and practice. Virtual labscan also help institutions to cope with budget constraints without sacrificing quality.Nevertheless

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Lizette R. Chevalier; James N. Craddock

Session 1526 Interactive Multimedia Labware For Civil Engineering Curricula Lizette R. Chevalier, James N. Craddock Department of Civil Engineering Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901-6603 PH: 618-453-6648 FAX: 618-453-3044 e-mail: cheval@engr.siu.edu, craddock@ce.siu.eduAbstractA website and CD-ROM based laboratory manual for the Environmental Engineering andMechanics of Materials Laboratories is

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

programming course WIquarter. This fits well with an AU, SP pattern for the two courses.Other courses in graphics are offered by a Department in the College to both engineeringand non-engineering majors. Since it was anticipated that the new program would atleast partially share space, needs of these programs were also considered. Since opencomputer laboratories are available to freshman students in other nearby spaces, it wasnot necessary to plan for open computer lab time in the new facilities.Both IE (2-course sequence) and FEH (3-course sequence) have two components to eachcourse: basic skills and laboratory exercises. In the basics skills portion of the classstudents study sketching, visualization, oral and written communication, and use

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Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

;M University College Station, TX 77843-3123AbstractMechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University is reducing the required number ofundergraduate degree credit hours from 138 to 130 or 132 credit hours. Two long-standingcourses, Properties of Materials (4 credit hours) and Manufacturing Processes (3 credit hours),will become one new junior level course (4 credit hours). Both of the predecessor courses hadlaboratory components as will the new course. This paper describes the process used to developthe course. An outline of the topics covered and the laboratory activities are included in thepaper. One thrust of the laboratory portion of the course will allow students to make choices andto plan their

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James Haberly; Iskandar Hack

Session 0047 Low Cost FPGA Development System For Teaching Advanced Digital Circuits Iskandar A. Hack, P.E., Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne James Haberly, BMT Microelectronics CenterAbstractThis paper covers the development of student development system to use with the AlteraMax+ PLUS software for teaching Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’s) andComplex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLD’s). This software is available free ofcharge from Altera directly for students to download for use in at home or can be installedvia an educational license in any university laboratory. The

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Brian Huggins; Winfred K Anakwa; Gary Dempsey

program at BradleyUniversity. Use of the mini-project to increase the design content in our curriculum has been in place forten years. The results have been used successfully to implement course, laboratory, and curriculummodifications. The paper will discuss the small products developed, curriculum modifications, projectdevelopment time and costs, and how the mini-project will be used in the new Engineering Criteria2000 accreditation process.I. IntroductionThe six-week senior mini-project is a small but vital component of our Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) undergraduate laboratory sequence at Bradley University. The laboratory programconsists of a five semester sequence of independent lab courses culminating in a capstone designproject

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Walter E. Thain Jr.; Thomas Fallon

theoretical foundation intelecommunications.The five technical courses in the BSTCET degree are designed to teach students about suchtopics as communication protocols, wide- and local-area networks, managing network resources,Internet-related concepts and development, and network security issues. These courses aresupported by numerous hands-on laboratory experiences. The four management courses providestudents with the principles necessary to manage people and projects. This paper discusses issuesconsidered during the development of the program, classroom and laboratory curricula, problemsconfronting the program today, and assessment.I. IntroductionTremendous growth in the telecommunications industry has inspired a similar growth ineducation

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James Leary

available in ABE, design and analysis*Course alphanumeric designation is pending. The “C” means the laboratory is included. Proceedings of the 2001American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Page 6.316.1 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcomponents, problem analysis and solution, introduction to engineering economy, andprofessional responsibilities and ethics. Major differences included laboratories for hands-onexperience, statistics, introduction to instrumentation and measurement equipment, curve fitting,data acquisition, and academic and career planning.Ten

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Robert Krchnavek; Shreekanth Mandayam

graduate school.Moreover, since this course has long been feared by students as one of the toughest in thecurriculum, the instructors tried to make leaning electromagnetics fun. Instructional techniquesthat were employed by the professors were based on a significant laboratory component thatincluded numerical modeling, visualization and experimentation. This paper describesclassroom/laboratory activity during the Fall 2000 semester offering of this course sequence.I. IntroductionOne of the unique challenges in the new Electrical & Computer Engineering program at RowanUniversity is to create and effectively deliver courses in the curriculum in 7-week integratedlaboratory-lecture modules. These courses complement the semester-long design

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Ronald Rockland

solve, the author incorporated various aspects ofproblem solving approaches for laboratory-based course in the lecture part of this course. Thispaper describes the multi-step approach in dealing with creative problem solving techniques forEET laboratory based courses that was presented to these students. Student experiences withthese concepts and laboratories that incorporate these steps are also discussed.IntroductionToo often, the concept of problem solving skills is confused with the ability of students to solveproblems. How a student approaches the problem, whether it is a calculus assignment or a labexperiment, is more important than just finding the correct solution. Understanding these skillscan aid the student in a variety of other

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Glenn Moffett; Thomas Hall

Session 2150 Delivering Electronics Engineering Technology Courses on the Web Thomas M. Hall, Jr. and Glenn W. Moffett Northwestern State University of LouisianaAbstractIs it feasible to offer an associate’s degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) on theWeb? The faculty in the Industrial and Engineering Technology (IET) Department atNorthwestern State University (NSU) have begun planning to do just that. While the universityhas been proactive in distance education using a variety of media, going on-line with a programthat demands extensive “hands-on” laboratory work has been greeted

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Raghu Echempati

) level, which means that both graduates andundergraduates can take this course. The undergraduates taking this course may also receivegraduate credits if they choose to do Masters at KU. The enrollment in this course steadilyincreased (from 3 to 11) in the past 4 to 5 terms, including the term in which this course wasoffered as a “Pilot Course”. The computational facilities although still limited for this course, havealso been upgraded and students now use the faster computers with larger disk quota per student.The number of computer laboratory experiments was increased from three or four to six differentexperiments – 3 experiments based on one-step solver (PAM-QuickStamp©) and the other threebased on incremental solver (DYNAFORM©). The overall

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Kenneth Reardon

Session 3553 A Project-Oriented Introduction to Engineering Course Kenneth F. Reardon Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering Colorado State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an introductory engineering course taught to first year students in chemical,environmental, and bioresource (agricultural) engineering at Colorado State University. In thislecture-laboratory course, a variety of "hard" (technical) and "soft" engineering subjects are putinto practice in a group design project, with the overall goal of providing students with a sense

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

building and testing ideas, and generally knew their way around atoolbox. That understanding can no longer be assumed, as technological processes increasinglyare treated as black boxes.1 In response to this concern we developed and have taught a coursedesigned to introduce sophomore students in engineering to field and laboratory techniques usedin biological systems, agricultural, and environmental engineering. Our experience has been thatstudents are generally very resistant to discovery-based laboratories since by definition thisapproach lacks explicit step-by-step guidance.The primary objective of the course is to provide students with physical applications oftheoretical concepts. This course is a common requirement across the undergraduate

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Robert King

technologies.1.2 The Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course SequenceThe objectives assessed in this paper is the Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory (MEL)sequence, which was replaced three traditional, closed, theory-verification laboratory courses inelectrical circuits, fluid mechanics, and stress analysis in 1997 3. As its name implies, MEL’seducational objectives are focused on experiments that integrate multiple subjects. MEL goalsare to prepare graduates that can integrate multiple disciplines, extend their knowledge to new Page 6.717.1topics over their professional lifetime, be team and project leaders, and

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Timothy Wright; Elizabeth Myers; Donald Bartel; Marjolein van der Meulen

the Sibley Schoolof Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and the Hospital for SpecialSurgery (HSS) affiliated with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The main goalwas to expose Cornell engineering students to research and clinical practice in a hospital setting.The Immersion Terms took place at HSS in New York City. Students from the graduate fields ofMechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the main campus spent either 6 weeks (doctoralstudents) or 3.5 weeks (masters students) at the hospital. The students participated in orientation,courses on musculoskeletal mechanics, independent studies, observation in the operating room,tours of laboratory research facilities, and multiple seminars and meetings. Based

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Roman Stemprok

Session 3148 Teaching and Curriculum Development of Electronic Classes in Malaysia Roman Stemprok University of North Texas, Department of Engineering Technology Denton, TexasAbstractElectronics classes with comprehensive laboratory training components were developed at thenewly established University at Batu Pahat in Malaysia. The students had previously earnedtheir bachelor’s degrees and were pursuing teaching positions at new institutions being built inMalaysia’s rural areas. The curriculum development included process/computer control and realtime

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Bertram Pariser

Session 1148 Teaching Critical Thinking Bertram Pariser TCI, The College for TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the challenge of Teaching Critical Thinking to a class of physicsstudents at TCI, The College for Technology in the fall semester of 2000. Besidesachieving its goal of helping students to think critically, teaching critical thinkingprovides fun and students find it quite rewarding. Students are encouraged to work oncreativity throughout the semester, in class, in laboratory experiments, on homeworkproblems and in the creation of examinations. 1

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Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

Session 1109 Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Research at the University of Hartford Michael Nowak, Donald Leone, Ronald Adrezin University of HartfordAbstract:Graduating biomedical engineers often work along side medical professionals with littleengineering background and must be able to communicate technical issues clearly. With theseissues in mind, we decided that all our students should have the experience of working inclinically-based research laboratories in the local area or near the students’ homes.With the assistance of a faculty

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Michael Ropp; Steven Hietpas

laboratory exercises. One such redesign, currently beingsupported under the Adaptation and Implementation track of the NSF’s CCLI program, is thesubject of this paper. An existing undergraduate “electric machines” course has been convertedinto an “EMEC systems” course in which power generation, power processing, and end-useequipment are integrated. A "just-in-time" strategy has been adapted and implemented into theEMEC course. Of particular interest is the need to provide students with end-to-end instructionon the analysis and design steps followed in the development of an electric drive system.I. IntroductionPower electronic devices have enabled unprecedented control over and flexibility of EMEC, andbecause of their advantages such devices have

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Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3547 Enhanced Electric Machines and Power Course Chih-Ping Yeh, Mulchand S. Rathod Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents our experiences in developing a NSF-funded CCLI project for enhancing the‘Electric Machines and Power’ course. The objective of this project is to provide a new structure tothe existing course to enhance student learning of electric machines. The project involves (1) improvingthe long existing rotating machine laboratory by adding modern power electronic drives and devisingreal time data acquisition for measurement and analysis