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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

, cross-listed under Department of Materials Science and Engineeringand Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science, areinterdisciplinary in nature and are available as technical electives for all engineering students atUT.WWW-Based Courseware A well-written textbook on ceramic-matrix composites is presently not available since thetechnology breakthrough in ceramic-matrix composites did not come until about twenty yearsago. The research results on the processing, characterization, modeling, and applications ofceramic-matrix composites are published in a wide variety of journals, conference proceedings,and reports. Thus, the learning and teaching of such innovative subject matters is extremelychallenging. In

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Lyn Mowafy

hours of instructional activity. Electronic Delivery SystemA MATEC module consists of background information, learning plans, and support resources toenable successful delivery of the learning activities by the instructor and mastery of the targetedcompetency by the learner. Because these modules contain the technical core of a rapidlyevolving industry, it is critical that MATEC develop an equally nimble system for deliveringthem to the faculty. Traditional paper-based or conventional electronic delivery systems wouldprohibit rapid response to industry change. Therefore, MATEC is delivering the modules andtheir associated teaching materials to the faculty electronically, using a hybrid Internet/CD

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Fred Beaufait

Session 3663 "Creative Project Model"- A Research Experience for Undergraduate Students Ajay P. Malshe Materials & Manufacturing Research Laboratory (0RL) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 Abstract Tell them-they will forget Show them-they will remember Involve them- they will understand

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Francis J. Doyle III; Ferhan Kayihan

in the University laboratory, or at home with the StudentEdition of MATLAB/Simulink.6. AcknowledgmentsThe first author gratefully acknowledgements the support of the National Science Foundation(NYI Award CTS 9257159).7. How to Learn More About PCM and the Digester Benchmark ProblemInterested educators are referred to the Web-page for the Process Control Modules at: http://www.che.udel.edu/pcmInterested researchers and educators should contact fkayihan_ietek@msn.com for moreinformation about the IETek Digester Benchmark.8. References[1] Cooper, D.J., “Picles: A simulator for teaching the real-world of process control”, Chem. Eng. Educ., 27, 176-,1993.[2] Koppel, L.B., and Sullivan, G.R., “Use of IBM’s advanced control system in

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Michael A. Magill

failure due to fatigue loading on cracked anduncracked structures, designing to prevent failure, analyzing stress corrosion cracking, andconducting ASTM standard tests. An outline of course topics and laboratory projects is includedin this paper along with detailed highlights of effective course activities. This paperdemonstrates that the topics of fatigue and fracture mechanics fit well with the mechanicalengineering technology (MET) curriculum and the MET student.BACKGROUNDThe course has two primary components: fatigue and fracture mechanics. This section provides abrief description of these two topics.The term fatigue, in the engineering sense, means the mechanical fatigue of materials. Allstructural materials (i.e. metals, timber, concrete

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Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

selectedbased on a multidisciplinary approach to exploring how different facets of an embedded sys-tem are developed. Second, course modules and laboratory exercises were developed to givestudents hands-on experience with embedded systems for a given topic of study, for exam-ple, operating systems and digital logic. Third, several innovative teaching techniques weredeveloped and applied to facilitate the understanding of the course materials in the contextof embedded systems. Finally, two of the courses involved group projects in the applicationof new research techniques as applied to embedded systems.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the VESL projectwith respect to its short term and long term objectives. Section

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Terry Berreen

be used in either study mode or lecture mode and contains various exercises,animations and quantitatively correct simulations. The combining of these with other learningresources such as mathematical packages and laboratory work is considered.1. IntroductionThere would appear, from recent reviews of engineering education in the USA1 and inAustralia2 that there is strong impetus towards a broadening of engineering courses and astriving to make students more central in the whole educational process. Coupled with thesedirections is a highlighting of longlife learning aspects so that students progressively takegreater control of their learning. This means that as important as the technical skills is theobtaining of the learning skills to ensure

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Mahmood Nahvi

Session 1526 PS/18 DSP Does It Mahmood Nahvi, Professor Electrical Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaContents:1. Summary2. Introduction3. Objectives of the Course and Laboratory4. Students' Background5. Laboratory Facilities6. Experiments7. Programming DSP Boards and Chips8. Discussion and Conclusion9. References1. SummaryUndergraduate engineering students are generally more enthusiastic about subjects whichprovide them with

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

Improve communications skillsAn ancillary goal of the effort is to provide teaching and mentoring opportunities for upper-class engineers andgraduate students.The course is presented in a modular fashion, involving teams of faculty and student assistants who present materialto the students, and subsequently engage them in laboratory study and open-ended problem solving experiences. Wedesigned this course to pander to the “tinkerer” in all humans. A mapping of human features rendered in proportionto the extent of their coverage on the cerebral cortex provides an interesting figure called the homunculus. Thisfigure has a tiny body with huge face and hands. It provides an explanation not simply for the value of laboratorybased instruction but also

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Arthur M. Clausing

Page 3.49.1tour of selected departmental laboratories, teaching and research, and student projects, forexample, Formula SAE cars. The course concludes three weeks before the end of the semester;hence, it is completed before these incoming freshmen face the final round of hour examinationsand final examinations. The faculty member and LA that are assigned to each section areresponsible for the laboratory periods and both attend all nine of these two-hour sessions. Thus,we have a ratio of one instructor for every ten students.The use of Learning Assistants has many advantages. Specifically:1. The small student-faculty ratio enables us to use active learning techniques that we have found to be very effective.2. Freshmen relate well to our upper

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Ryan B. Wicker; Rolando Quintana; Michael Camet

amandatory problem-solving laboratory once a week. The department that the course was taughtout of as well as the status of the instructor (full or part time and length of time teaching thecourse) was collected. The instructor was contacted for textbook and syllabus information. Thedata collected is shown in Table 1. Note that the number one denotes "Yes", the number twodenotes "No", "R" denotes required, and "TE" indicates technical elective. Timing describes theapproximate time the course engineering economy is taken, with one being the first semester ofthe freshman year and eight being the second semester of the senior year. It should be noted that the semester during which engineering economy was taken is notnecessarily the same as when

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

corporation,AdvanceTek, and an international corporate institution in Malaysia have also proven invaluable,as have efforts to redefine the budgeting process by Indiana University through theResponsibility Center Management (RCM) system. At the heart of these new developmentsstand the PSET faculty and their students, two essential groups that are pursuing efforts toexpand the collaborative community of PSET through teaching, research, and service. Page 3.255.2Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI OverviewThe Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI is the largest undergraduatedegree-granting unit at IUPUI, serving a total of

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Scott Huff

development of training documents forquality control (QC) personnel under its Transportation Technician Qualification Program(TTQP).Scope of ProgramUnder the TTQP, technicians are qualified to provide QC testing on up to 35 field operatingprocedures (FOPs) relating to transportation materials. (See Appendix A for a complete listing.)The FOPs are based on standard laboratory test methods developed by the American Associationof State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) or NAQTC. The materials areseparated into four modules.• Aggregate• Concrete• Asphalt• Embankment and Base/In-Place DensityA major advance realized by this interstate cooperative effort is that state-by-state qualification isno longer required. Technicians

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

Electrical Engineering curriculum, and its concentration in Computers,requires at least two student written computer projects for all o its major courses. Word-processed technical reports and oral presentation have now became a norm in our program. Atleast two laboratories are equipped with latest model computers with major higher levelprogramming language compilers, and application software such as Matlab, LabVIEW,LabWindow and other simulation and modeling software. Students have access to Internet viaNetscape browser for information retrieval and use of resources that are available elsewhere.Computer-based data acquisition experience is acquired in the Control Systems, Circuits, andElectrical Systems Design Laboratories. Additionally many

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M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

Electrical Engineering curriculum, and its concentration in Computers,requires at least two student written computer projects for all o its major courses. Word-processed technical reports and oral presentation have now became a norm in our program. Atleast two laboratories are equipped with latest model computers with major higher levelprogramming language compilers, and application software such as Matlab, LabVIEW,LabWindow and other simulation and modeling software. Students have access to Internet viaNetscape browser for information retrieval and use of resources that are available elsewhere.Computer-based data acquisition experience is acquired in the Control Systems, Circuits, andElectrical Systems Design Laboratories. Additionally many

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Jack Swearengen; Hakan Gürocak

its extensive use of laboratories and computers. Moreover, the start-up phase isespecially expensive when enrollments are small and infrastructure acquisition is underway. Theper-FTE cost for the new program at WSUV in its first year is estimated to be three times thecost of the fourth year, in part because the laboratory building is not yet available. Thus severalrather innovative initiatives have been taken to permit the degree program to get underway at thesame time the infrastructure is being created. Two approaches to meeting laboratoryrequirements are described next.Lab classes without labsWhen the new WSUV campus opened in September 1996 it had classrooms and "wet chemistry"laboratories for teaching life sciences (biology, botany, and

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

-Class Participation and Connecting with Students— small group discussions and “ombuds” people Kathleen Coppock, Instructor Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin at MadisonAfter EESP I had the opportunity to teach a summer laboratory capstone course for graduatingseniors in which students are divided into six-person groups to conduct a series of formalexperiments. I thought this was an ideal opportunity to turn the traditional "lecture" part of thecourse before lab work into a participatory environment where the students could discuss thetheory related to their experiments. I notified each group the day before the lab that we would bediscussing the material as a

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Robert J. Beichner; Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; Ernest E. Burniston

://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/People/beichner.htmlLEONHARD E. BERNOLD is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University. He isthe founder and director of the Construction Automation and Robotics Laboratory at N.C. State, teaches courses inconstruction engineering and management, and conducts research related to both his technical specialties and tolearning and teaching styles in engineering education.ERNEST E. BURNISTON is Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University. His education-relatedinterests include mathematics curriculum reform and educational uses of technology. Further information can befound at http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/e/eeb/www/PHILIP R. DAIL is Coordinator of Advising of the

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John R. Williams; Dr. Martin Pike

the major components, teaching, research and creative endeavor, andservice are discussed, with emphasis on those components most familiar to the authors. Thesuccessful path to promotion and tenure also includes not only the activities and achievements ofthe candidate, but also the input and assistance of mentors, department head and senior faculty.These aspects will also be discussed as they relate to the success or failure to achieve promotionand tenure.This particular story ends in success. Promotion and tenure were granted to an author. It isimportant to remember that this paper would still have been written even if the journey hadended with a different result. The path is always a learning process. Every step is an importantpiece of the

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William E. DeWitt; Timothy L. Skvarenina

Session 1333 Development of an EET Electrical Power and Controls Course Timothy L. Skvarenina, William E. DeWitt Purdue University AbstractThis paper discusses the development of a new course combining topics from a conventionalelectromechanical energy conversion course with topics from controls and electrical distributioncourses. The paper begins with some background of why we developed the new course and theprocess that was used to develop it. The course topics and laboratory experiments are thendescribed in some detail

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John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

Session 3615 Introducing Civil Engineering Measurements through Bridges Kauser Jahan, Ralph A. Dusseau and John S. Schmalzel Rowan UniversityABSTRACTFreshman engineering students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering measurementsthrough a series of hands-on laboratories emphasizing teamwork, computer utilization, oral andwritten communication skills and professional ethics. The major focus of the freshman clinicclass for a full semester is engineering measurements and design. Problems are drawn from thefour disciplines to introduce students to laboratory and field measurements

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Hossein Moini

with the available equipment.PROJECT 2:Inverted pendulum problem is a standard project for controls laboratories. Offering this project ina course that does not have the subject of controls as its prerequisite can be consideredchallenging to some students. The main components of the project included a cart that wasmanufactured in the ME Department's machine shop, a stepper motor, a potentiometer (angularsensor), and an 80C32 controller. Challenges associated with this project encompassedinterfacing of the sensor with the processor and implementation of the control algorithms usingthe assembly language.EVALUATIONSAs it was predicted several years ago12, embedded computing with the use of microprocessors isexpanding quite rapidly. Teaching the

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Susan L. Murray; Linda M. Manning; Catherine A. Riordan; Elizabeth Cummins; Philip B. Thompson

[CNGGFWJQOGUVCRHCEWNV[JVONJVVRYYYUCWGFWEYKUKPVGTPGVYKNF(CEWNV[(CEWNV[HC[KPFGZJVO Teaching Improvement ResourcesThe Chalk Dust Collection: Thoughts and Reflections on Teaching in Colleges and Universities(1996). Linc Fisch. Stillwater: New Forums Press. ISBN: 0913507695. Collection of 35 essaysoffering, in both serious and lighthearted ways, tips for professors. A few chapter titles revealthe approach, coverage, and relevance to new science and engineering professors: $Coaching Page 3.22.2mathematics and other academic sports,# $Seven principles of teaching seldom taught in graduateschool,# and $The case for leaving things out

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Tian S. Lim

made great achievements in more than 1,170 research projects, of which282 won various prizes.The University now has 70 laboratories, 7 school-run factories and more than 22,000 pieces of Page 3.99.3instruments and equipment. All these facilities have created a favorable environment at theUniversity to promote its mission of teaching and research and to provide students theopportunity to acquire practical skills, and scientific knowledge.The great progress made at Fuzhou University during the last decade is by no means unique.Similar changes have taken place in many other engineering schools all over China

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Michael Safoutin; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim; Dale E. Calkins

Puerto Rico atMayaguez with Sandia National Laboratories. The first year of operation of the University ofWashington’s ILF is described including the successes and problems.1) Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP) The Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP), which consists of PennState University, University of Washington, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, and SandiaNational Laboratories, was formed in order to provide a new, practice-based, manufacturing-oriented engineering curriculum. MEEP provides a new paradigm for the undergraduateengineering experience by providing a proper balance between engineering science andengineering practice. The partnership, with essential input from industry leaders

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Louis L. Bucciarelli

, requiring no more thanwhat is already available to us in our current teaching. This mode of integration of designrequires the largest institutional investment - in faculty able to plan, manage and evaluate adesign task. Despite their diversity, all of these efforts have a common characteristic that make themsignificantly different from traditional teaching modes and offer the potential for leveraging achanging of our culture. They are all open-ended. Page 3.391.2How is this significant? The argument here is that the reform of engineering undergraduateeducation is not primarily a matter of new laboratory equipment and space, instrumentation

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Eldon D. Case

attended in July, 1997, at Center for theStudy of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP), Illinois Institute of Technology. The “Ethics Acrossthe Curriculum” workshop was a continuation of a personal interest in teaching ethics (I alsoattended the NSF “Teaching Research Ethics” Workshop at the Poynter Center, IndianaUniversity during the summer of 1996).This paper describes the handouts, homework questions, examination questions, and in-classdiscussions included in the ethics component of the two Materials Science courses, MSM 454and MSM 855. (I’ll focus on incorporating ethics into Materials Science courses, so I will notdiscuss the general freshman engineering course EGR 291, although teaching EGR 291 wascertainly an interesting experience.) As part

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George G. Karady; Daniel Tylavsky

solving.The difficulty observed in the undergraduate program, namely low student interest, is the resultof several interacting factors. Most of these factors are beyond the control of the students andinstructors. One factor that affects student interest and that we, as faculty, can control, is the waywe present material in the classroom. Students get bored when they do not understand what weteach and they do not understand what we teach when we offer material in a mode that isdifferent from their natural learning mode. Research has shown that about 75% of undergraduateengineering students are visual learners while (typically) in excess of 90% of our instruction isoral and written verbal communication [1]. Further, most students (60%) learn

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Tom Owen; Jack Carter; Connie Martin; Cheng Liu; Ambrose Barry; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley; Nan Byars

during each summer (from late May to early July). Each student completes threelaboratory experiments on a Saturday, then writes them up for submission two weeks later. Thelast laboratory session, for ELET Laboratory IV, may be offered as a new course, ELET 3641Senior Design Project, in the last year of the program. We anticipate requiring at least twofaculty members and one teaching assistant on each Saturday. Two sections will be offeredsimultaneously on the UNC Charlotte campus on four Saturdays. With the cooperation of Wake Technical College, two similar special sections oflaboratory sessions are being planned for the students at the Raleigh site to preclude their havingto make the 3-hour drive to Charlotte. A UNC Charlotte Engineering

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sophomore or junior years.It is impossible to estimate how many potential talented engineers leave the major because of thelack of visible application for the chemistry, physics, and calculus that dominate their freshman year. Christiansen1 observes that “the aim of teaching is not only to transmit information, but totransform students from passive recipients of other people’s knowledge into active constructors oftheir own.” One mechanism for attaining this goal is to involve engineering students in “hands-on”projects as early as their freshman year. The benefits of such an activity are clear and many.Ohlsson 2 argues that the key to effective teaching is to emphasize the process of acquiring andapplying disciplinary knowledge. Through these