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Z. Chambers; Terry H. Walker; M. B. Taylor; A. J. Baker

In summary, a web-based course was developed to teach the finite element methodwith aid of comprehensive laboratory exercises. This course was successfully taught as a livedistant education venue to biological engineering graduate students at Louisiana StateUniversity. Applications of the finite element method to biological engineering are unlimitedas problems become more demanding for the successful design of technologies for biologicalsystems. Fortunately, with computational analysis tools becoming accessible to the engineer’sdesktop, complex problems may now be addressed in ways not previously possible.Therefore, the need for learning the appropriate computational analysis tools will benecessary for the biological engineer to handle

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Thomas Libert; A. G. Enright

roles:Information, Discovery, Interaction, and Administration. We show how many web pages are"static", and provide the student only with an information stream. Other pages that includeitems such as Java and CGI are "dynamic," and allow students to perform self-discovery oftopics at their own pace. Other web features such as e-mail and ftp allow the student andinstructor to interact more readily. One potentially useful item is to use these same features toadminister the course, posting assignments and answers, as well as to conduct business withcolleagues and students remotely.We present several examples from our own courses, which are part of a four-year ComputerScience program that stresses a closed-laboratory environment6. Yet, all four techniques

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Committee, and has responsibility for theEnergy Laboratory at the university. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from MarquetteUniversity in Milwaukee, WI, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. He hasindustrial experience in the field of electric power generation, and teaches in the thermal scienceand fluid mechanics areas. Page 4.191.7

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Ronald A. Lessard

profile therobot path to be run open loop through the next maze block. Students consider the prosand cons of each approach. Page 4.227.4II. Course Goals and ContentEmbedded Systems is an applied discipline taught where the concepts are bestunderstood after a hands-on laboratory experience. A strong laboratory where studentsdiscover how to teach themselves the details of what they need to do for their owndesigns in the future is one of the course goals. Another course goal is that studentsapply knowledge from their past courses in solving the design problems. Students areoften pleasantly surprised about the applicability of the knowledge they have

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J. W. Pierre; Robert F. Kubichek; Jerry Hamann

microprocessors, hands-on experiences are difficult toachieve using standard "pencil and paper" homework assignments. Such courses can benefitgreatly by applying a variety of teaching styles to help a wider range of students who havedifferent learning styles. In particular, DSP courses can be made less abstract by employinghomework exercises and classroom demonstrations that employ multimedia technologies. Thispaper describes a number of audio signal processing homework exercises used to reinforceconcepts of signal processing. These exercises include some fundamental concepts of DSP(quantization, aliasing, Fourier analysis, and filtering) and more advanced areas (sampling rateconversion, LCMV filtering, adaptive filtering, and speech processing). All

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Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

. Rowan Hall has 92,000 sq.ft. space with multifunctional laboratories and classrooms suitablefor interactive learning. Mr. Rowan is the founder and the CEO of Inductotherm, Inc. which is the world’sleading induction melting equipment manufacturer.The Rowan engineering program addresses use of new innovative methods of teaching and learning to preparestudents for entry into a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace (2,3,4). The major hallmark ofour Rowan engineering program is a unique common class known as the engineering clinic. The engineeringclinic class is integrated throughout the entire curriculum for eight semesters. All four engineering departmentsof Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering have this common

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Michael J. Caylor; Bruce Chesley

-semester sequence of courses in spacecraft engineering. Throughout the sequence, students andfaculty from multiple disciplines and academic departments play key roles in the developmentprocess. In addition, we receive support from several other capstone design projects to addressspecific needs of the small satellite program.As with any major curriculum effort, operating a small satellite program with undergraduatestudents can be a formidable task. In particular, our program requires a substantial commitmentof faculty expertise, laboratory resources, external consultants, and funding. These strategicassets must be managed carefully to achieve program objectives. Nonetheless, overcoming thesechallenges allows for substantial student learning to

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Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

"learning communities" introductory course. Thecourse is being offered for its second year at the company’s site, and has targeted a wide varietyof employees with little or no previous technical training, including sales and marketingpersonnel, account managers, and assembly group leaders. Topics include basic electronics,PCB layout and fabrication, and electronics assembly. Each lesson is accompanied by a hands-on laboratory experience in the classroom or on the production floor. The laboratory sessionscover topics such as basic electrical measurement techniques, printed circuit board design, andhands-on manufacture and assembly of a functional, mixed technology circuit board.The course allows faculty to interact with the design and manufacturing

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John Aspnes

calculated values.The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) electric power option students complete a four-credit energy conversion course in the fifth semester and four-credit electric power courses inthe sixth and seventh semesters. The following material appears in the first electric powercourse in support of teaching symmetrical components. The author has used this laboratoryexercise for several years and has found that it enhances student understanding and acceptance Page 4.256.1of symmetrical components as a significant and useful tool for power system analysis. It alsoprovides anopportunity to discuss benefits of isolation provided by two-winding

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Michael A. Kriss

Beck was built aroundthe University of Chicago’s outstanding graduate research programs in the sciences. The Centerfor Imaging Science was organized around research programs that reflected the interests ofgroups of faculty members from the traditional departments of physics and astronomy,chemistry, mathematics, radiology and computer science. Faculty from the art department andpsychology department also participated in the research projects, as did scientists from ArgonneNational Laboratory. Missing from this research-focused effort was a formal curriculumdesigned to teach, in a unified way, the underlying science and technology. The most comprehensive effort to forge a complete program in Imaging Science wasundertaken by the Rochester

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John D. Cremin

Session 2548Generating Low Cost Serial Waveforms For Global Positioning System (GPS) Applications John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present a number of techniques for generating serial waveformsassociated with the Global positioning System (GPS) in a laboratory environment. The incentivefor this project was the need for simulating GPS data in a lab environment. The waveforms ofinterest are the output data signals provided by GPS receivers and used

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Frank Cheng; Daniel M. Chen

, tools, and methods of rapid deployment technology such as simulationinto current curricula and programs of engineering technology requires the academic study of thechanges, challenges and demands faced by today’s industries. Along with the efforts ofcurriculum development, state-of-the-art hardware and software components must be available toenhance the capability of existing teaching and laboratory facilities. Often undergraduatestudents in engineering technology programs graduate and leave for industries without enoughknowledge and experience about rapid deployment technologies due to limited laboratoryfacilities and inadequate financial resources. Partly addressing these issues, this paper describesthe authors’ initial experience of

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

overall student enthusiasm3. As the courseevolved, a wide variety of teaching techniques was incorporated, including traditional lectures,cooperative learning, hands-on activities in the computer laboratory with “electronic workbooks”developed by the authors, lectures and demonstrations in a multimedia classroom, and individualwork sessions. Additional variety was achieved by rotating lecture responsibilities between thetwo professors or by creating a classroom setting with both professors interacting. Moreindividual attention was possible with two professors to answer questions during work sessions.When the authors began team-teaching the course, three tests and a final examination were givenduring the semester. Later, the testing frequency was

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Warren R. Hill

to these factors except for CN which isdetermined by the course itself. TS is 3 for a lecture section and 2 for a lab section. The 0.5constant and 0.5 multiplier attempt to account for a division between that which is enrollmentdependent and that which is enrollment independent. NS for the department for which this workwas done ranges from 25 for lecture sections to 12 for laboratory sections. The faculty experiencefactor, FE, ranges from +0.6 for the first time an instructor teaches a course to -0.2 for the secondsection of a course taught in the same semester. The uniqueness factor ranges from 0.0 for acourse taught from a standard text up to +0.4 for a course where the instructor has to prepare atleast 50% of the material. TM ranges from

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Russel C. Jones

. Page 4.277.1Global Congress DiscussionsEffective Teaching Methods - Several papers presented at the Global Congress stressedthe need for ongoing innovation in teaching and learning methodologies in engineeringeducation. It was noted in discussion that there needs to be variety and balance inteaching methods, and that technologies appropriate to the subject matter should beutilized. Laboratory development was stressed as a very important component ofengineering education, and the integration of lectures with laboratory experiences andproject work was identified as an ideal scenario.It was noted that often the laboratory facilities available for engineering educationbecome obsolete, when compared with the current state-of-the-art in industry

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

Similarly named Program Criteria that has beenadopted by the Accreditation Board for engineering and Technology (ABET) and must besatisfied for a program to be accredited.3 The findings of the investigation could be utilized, forcomparative purposes, by other institutions and departments that may wish to study theircurriculum.II. Engineering CurriculumRecently, engineering educators have indicated that, overall, effective teaching is rated as theirhighest priority.1,2 Nevertheless, some authorities believe that a faculty member’s role is not toteach but to help students learn.6 In addition, it is believed that educators should assist students

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F. Andrew Wolfe; Christine M. LaPlante

half the freshmen engineering class, chose to design and build a trussbridge. The bridge was to be donated to the City of Schenectady and erected in Vale Park aspart of a trail system.This paper explores the teaching process used to provide the students with the necessaryknowledge to design and build a thirty foot truss bridge.II. Course OverviewUnion College operates on the trimester system. This gave the class 10 weeks to learn abouttrusses, design a truss, and then build and erect it on site. The course was divided into threeparts. The first four weeks were used for teaching and labs. The next two weeks were used fordesign and model building culminating in a presentation before the Vale Park Task Force. Thelast four weeks were designated

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has some observations which should be added to the mix. Last year, Karl Smith told us about the development of cooperative learning. One of thestrengths of that technique is team-building, which involves training students to function asteams with the requirement that group members feel a sense of positive interdependence andindividual accountability. They need to be trained in the process to develop the requisite socialskills, the ability to engage in group processing, and the knowledge of how to deal withcontroversy. It turns out that groups of students have been used in laboratory courses andsenior design projects for decades before cooperative learning arrived on the scene--not,perhaps, very effectively, but the idea was there

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Gopal Mohan; J. Michael Jacob

user who Page 4.412.1is responsible for interpreting the results of a simulation in comparison with the results frommanual calculations and lab measurements. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses.Proper analysis requires a comparison of the results from all three techniques. Students areintroduced to PSpice in the second semester of their freshman year in the second analogsequence course, Electronics Circuit Analysis (EET 157), and in the Digital Applications (EET157) course.The Electrical Engineering Technology department has instituted a policy wherein the labsections are cross-taught. This means that a faculty member teaches a lab

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Chemical Engineering atManhattan College where he was active in chemical engineering curriculum development and established alaboratory for advanced separation processes with the support of the National Science Foundation and industry. Dr. Page 4.117.7Slater’s research and teaching interests are in separation and purification technology, laboratory development, andinvestigating novel processes for interdisciplinary fields such as biotechnology and environmental engineering. Hehas authored over 70 papers and several book chapters. Dr. Slater has been active in ASEE, having served asProgram Chair and Director of the Chemical

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T. Scott; John P. O'Connell

Session 1613 Experiments to Accompany a First Engineering Thermodynamics Course T.C. Scott, J.P. O’Connell University of VirginiaAbstract Engineering Thermodynamics is a challenging subject to learn and teach. Often bothstudents and teachers loose sight of the subject’s physical motivations and connections. Webelieve these can and should be brought into courses to enhance learning. To this end, we havedeveloped and use a series of laboratory, computer workshop and field trip exercises for the firstsemester Engineering

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George H. Williams; James . Kenny

Electric Fund. One result is afirst-year curriculum that includes a new common course, “The Fundamentals of Engineeringand Computer Science.” The course is being offered for the third time in the 1998-99 academicyear. The catalog description of the course is provided in Appendix A; the course (ABET 2000)objectives and performance measurements are detailed in Appendices B and C.Union College offers undergraduate degrees in Civil, Computer System, Electrical, andMechanical Engineering. Material from each of these disciplines is incorporated in the first-yearcourse. The course includes basic lecture material with extensive handouts, reading assignments(from texts listed in Appendix D), economic case studies, and laboratory exercises that

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Roy R., Jr. Craig; Edward McConnell

course occurred that was centered around the shift to digital dataacquisition through the use of virtual instruments (VI’s) based on the LabVIEW™ software.1This paper discusses the development of the VI’s used in the course, the laboratory exercisesthat comprise the course, and the improvements in student morale and report-writing skills thathave resulted from the restructuring of the course.1. Introduction Measurements and Instrumentation (M&I) is a 3-hour, required, junior-level course inthe Aerospace Engineering curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin. A confluence ofcircumstances occurred in the early 1990’s that led to a major restructuring of the course: theearly medical retirement of the principal course instructor; the

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James N. Peterson; Herbert Hess

support theresearch and teaching functions of Taylor Ranch, a university facility far from the utility grid.After showing such a system to be feasible, they proceeded to design and build it. Technicalissues and stringent environmental regulations are addressed. The students documented theirdesign and developed instructions for installation and operation. The system was installed andcurrently provides electric power for Taylor Ranch. The first year of operation is brieflydescribed and photographs of the equipment are presented.Introduction Taylor Ranch is a University of Idaho College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences(CFWRS) field research and teaching facility. It is in the Frank Church Wilderness of CentralIdaho, 400km southeast of

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Charles Roth

commensurate with his ability and available time. 2. The student must demonstrate mastery of each study unit before going on to the next. 3. The written word is stressed; lectures are used only for motivation and not for transmission of critical information. 4. Use of proctors permits repeated testing, immediate scoring, and significant interaction with the students.A typical PSI course is divided into a series of 10 to 30 study units. A typical unit includes aclear statement of objectives, a study guide, and reading material. It may also include problemsto solve and laboratory exercises. No required lectures are given, and class time is devoted toself-study and taking readiness tests. Each time a student finishes

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Justin Pniower; Michael Ruane; Bennett Goldberg; Selim Unlu

Session 3232 Web-Based Educational Experiments Justin C. Pniower, Michael Ruane, Bennett B. Goldberg, M. Selim Ünlü Boston UniversityAbstractWeb-based educational experiments allow remote users to conduct laboratory explorations usingphysical experimental apparatuses in real time over the World Wide Web. Web-basedexperimentation is evolving rapidly and offers students convenient and repeated access to limitedlaboratory resources. The immediacy and accessibility of web-based experiments can also assistnew student outreach and faculty teaching effectiveness.Many web-based experiments can be

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Chih-Ping Yeh; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal

applications. Traditional teaching methods find it extremely difficult to relay theconcepts of electromagnetic phenomena on which the operation of the entire class of static androtating machinery lie. The simulation and visualization components and the interactive drag anddrop type of examples developed in order to enhance student learning of electric machines arediscussed. The visualizations accompany the computer-based courseware developed that presentsitself as a self-learning and self-assessing tool for the students. Adaptation of the developedmaterials into an electric machines course in the EET curriculum are discussed.I. IntroductionThough the traditional ‘Energy conversion course’ had remained almost unchanged for severaldecades, a redesigned

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E. H. Shaban

Session 2460 Electrical Engineering Education In Under Developed And Developing Countries E. H. Shaban Electrical Department, Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 70813 Email: eshaban@cluster.engr.subr.eduAbstract:Transfer of Technology in the classroom and/or the laboratory for engineering education inunderdeveloped and developing countries lags far behind developed and industrial countries.Personal computers, interactive multi user mainframe computers, engineering software forsimulation purposes

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J. Bredeson; M. E. Parten

, inductance and impedance À 3 hours Differential equations and electric circuits À 2 hours Transient response À 2 hours Steady state response À 2 hours AC circuit analysis À 9 hours AC power À 3 hours Transformers and three phase À 3 hours Tests and reviews À 4 hours Professional Component: This course prepares students with the basic skills of circuit analysis. This course includes engineering topics. Relationship of course to program objectives: This course addresses program objective A.One of the unique features of the Electrical Engineering Department at Texas Tech is thelaboratory structure.2-6 There are five 3-hour credit project laboratory courses not directlyassociated with any

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Daniel M. Chen

to acquire the CAE skills , because a CAE software can provide very accurateresults without dealing with in-depth theories and complex mathematical calculations. Manystudents in engineering technology have already had the experience in this area. They havestarted taken the courses which incorporate CAE software. The purpose of this study is to assesstheir learning outcomes via the evaluation of classroom and laboratory performance.At Central Michigan University, the CAE course was originally developed eight years ago formechanical engineering technology majors. Nevertheless, more students in both industrialtechnology and computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) today want to take this course even itis not required for their majors. Most of