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Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Wronecki

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society of Engineering Education”James A. Wronecki is a designer/educator with diverse experience in academics and digital design medias. Hereceived his Masters of Industrial Design from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pa and served as AdjunctProfessor at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia University, and The Art Institute of Atlanta. Mr. Wronecki isan Assistant Professor of Digital Product Design within the Technology Department at East Tennessee StateUniversity.1 Asimow, M. 1962 Introduction to Design Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hill2 KOBERG,D. 1991 The Universal Traveler “A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving & the

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

Chemical Engineering Division: Assessment of Teams, 3513 paper 832 An Approach to developing Student=s skill in Self Assessment Donald R. Woods and Heather D. Sheardown Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S 4L7Abstract: Self and peer assessment can be vital parts to any team assessment. Theassessment can be of the overall team or of the performance of team members.Assessment is a judgment as to the degree to which a goal has been achieved. Instudent self assessment, the judgment is made by the student. In this paper the fiveprinciples of assessment are summarized. Assessment is about performance notworth; is based on evidence not intuition

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

assessment process.Another advantage of formalizing the process in this way is that new faculty members can beintegrated into the teams seamlessly.Finally, since our department administers two programs, outcome portfolio assessment providesa useful tool to understand the differences between these programs. Such comparison highlightsopportunities for program improvement by drawing on the strengths of each program.Bibliography 1. ABET Continuous Program Improvement, Faculty Development Workshop, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 2. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, “Engineering Criteria 2000”, in How do you measure success, ASEE Professional Books, 1998, pp. 13-16. 3. Soundarajan, Neelam, “Preparing for

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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George York

Washington in 1999. His research interests include signal and image processing,embedded computer design, and ultrasound imaging. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, and Tau Beta Pi. Page 9.1192.7Email: george.york@ieee.org Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDANE F. FULLER is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his Master of Science inElectrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1997. His research interests include RADARTarget

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla.He has taught undergraduate courses in manufacturing materials and processes, computer-integrated manufacturing,quality control, and design of experiments.SCOTT J. AMOSScott Amos (Ph.D.) is a Professor and Head of the Industrial Management Department at Southwest Missouri StateUniversity where he also serves as Director of the Center for Industrial Productivity. His doctorate in CivilEngineering was earned from the University of Florida with an emphasis in Construction Engineering andManagement. His MS in Electrical Engineering (Power Distribution) is from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Heis also a graduate of the Command and Staff program

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

ofweeks. Many engineering courses can include a module or two on neural networks depending onthe course taught. Teaching technological courses today requires updates every time a course istaught due to the vast amount of research and developments in these disciplines. Additions ofProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conferenceneural networks modules can be looked at in a similar manner and added to currentundergraduate courses.This paper presents a simple software tool developed in JAVA to teach the basic concepts ofneural networks and its training with backpropagation. This software is used in introducingneural networks concepts in an experimental course offered at the 300 level to bothundergraduate

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Jacobson

. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/isso/programs/coeiae/index.htm 3. http://www.kimsoft.com/polwar.htm 4. http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html 5. http://www.paliasadesys.com 6. http://www.snort.orgBiographyDOUG JACOBSONDoug Jacobson is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University anddirector the ISU Information Assurance Center. He has received two R&D 100 awards for security technology andhas two patents in the area of computer security. He has given over 40 presentations in the area of computer securityand has been teaching security and networks courses for over 15 years. Page

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

Session 1566 Teaching Finite Element Analysis as a Solution Method for Truss Problems in Statics Jiaxin Zhao Indiana University–Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractFinite Element Analysis (FEA) is a very powerful tool that is used in virtually every area in thefield of Mechanical Engineering and many other disciplines. It is beneficial for the mechanicalengineering students to have exposure to this tool as early as possible and as frequently aspossible in their engineering education. The earliest time comes when they are taught the trussproblems in Statics

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lance Calvert; Michael Shannon

officer with a solid understanding of the fundamentalprinciples of physics on the modern battlefield.Introduction On the banks of the Hudson River, approximately 50 miles northeast of New York City,sits the United States Military Academy. The oldest of the service academies, West Point was Page 9.987.1established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to serve as an institution dedicated to the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationteaching of the art and sciences of warfare. For over 200

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

Foundrymen's Society, Inc., Des Plains, IL 1989.BiographiesSAM N. RAMRATTANAssociate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Department at Western Michigan University, and KeyProfessor for the Foundry Education Foundation (FEF). He received his Post Doc. in Plastic/Composite Engineeringfrom Iowa State University/Ames Lab,and his P.h.D. in Industrial Technology from Iowa State University. His areasof interest are Metal Casting and Process Improvement.JORGE RODRIGUEZAssociate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Page 9.161.6Integrated Design, and Research Associate

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robin Gill; William Haering

differ. Second, the development of the general implementationstrategy for the creation of teaching and learning portfolios at the DuBois Campus of thePennsylvania State University is discussed. It is apparent from these two components of thepaper that the creation of teaching and learning portfolios is an emerging requirement at manyinstitutions of higher learning, the DuBois Campus of Penn State being one. Third, the first-handexperience of an engineering faculty member who has created two teaching and learningportfolios is presented. The portfolios discussed were created at two intervals, after the facultymember had completed one and then three years of full-time instruction at the institution,respectively. The two portfolios differ

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

with good understanding of theunderlying mechanism of a simulation engine. Each group of 2-3 students was assigned to oneproject. SimPlus is the result if one group. Over the course of the project, SimPlus gainednumerous advanced features such as a global static kernel implementing the Singleton designpattern, and callback-method automated event processing.1. IntroductionSimulation tools aims at facilitating the tasks of analysts or engineers. Without such tools,writing a simulation program often becomes difficult and requires reinvention of the wheel at thebeginning of each project. As a result, simulation tools have become very popular for industrial,defense, and educational applications.For educational purposes, the final class project of

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

. (Eds.). (2000). How peoplelearn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.Covey, S. (1989). Seven habits of highly effective people. New York: Simon & Schuster.Davis, D., Beyerlein, S., Leise, C., and Apple, D. (2003). Faculty Guidebook Series: CognitiveDomain Module. Lisle, IL: Pacific Crest.Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. New York: MacMillan.Engineering Accreditation Commission. (2004). Engineering Criteria, Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD.Hanson, D. and Wolskill, T. (2000). Process Workshops—a new model for instruction. Journalof Chemical Education, 77, 120-130.Krumsieg, K., and Baehr, M. (2000). Foundations of learning. Lisle, IL: Pacific Crest.Paul

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Christopher Carroll

Page 9.1401.7MC68HC11 microcontroller. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences 1. Carroll, C. R., R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, “New Life for the MC68HC11 Evaluation Board,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada (2002). 2. Spasov, Peter, Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002. 3. Internet web page defining composite video signal, www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/pic/howto.php.BiographyCHRISTOPHER R. CARROLLChristopher R. Carroll received a Bachelor of Engineering Science from Georgia Tech

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Khaled Mansy

.html5. BiographyThe author is an Assistant Professor in the Architectural Engineering Program, School of Architecture, OklahomaState University. He earned his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2001, and has 15 years ofexperience in undergraduate teaching in professional programs in the USA and Egypt. Page 9.1232.7 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Briller; John Carpinelli

sciences (CIS) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and considers factorsrelating to the students preparedness for the distance learning course; level of communicationwith the instructor; teaching and course materials; technology issues; student courseexpectations; student participation in the class; and the learning environment. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The research questions and research designare presented next, followed by a description of the data collection and analysis procedures. Page 9.1046.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

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Martha Glassinger; John Ristroph

2003, Surgentand Associates, LLC, www.surgent.com, 2003AuthorsJOHN H. RISTROPH is jointly appointed as professor of Engineering and Technology Management and as a pro-fessor of Economics and Finance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His doctorate is in industrial engineer-ing, and his non-academic experience includes service to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources first asHead of Economics and Statistics and then as Director of Policy and Planning.MARTHA F. GLASSINGER is a CPA in the firm of Harry V. Barton, CPA, LLC in Lafayette, Louisiana, whereshe has extensive experience in the practice of taxation of small businesses and individuals. She enjoys workingwith engineers, and finds that her having taught mathematics at

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

group back tothe main subject if the discussion is heading off on a tangent. These programs have a well-documented rate of improvement of educational outcomes 4.Queensland University of Technology in Australia has effectively incorporated the SI programinto a freshman engineering statics class. Student performance has dramatically improved sincethe introduction of the program. At the same time program costs have dropped due to largerlecture class size 5. Murray 6 describes the important roles the SI leaders embody: “SI leaders aretrained to run their sessions … as opportunities for participants to work cooperatively and tolearn from each other, with only guidance from the leader,” “They are trained to redirectstudents’ question back to the

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Dean

and the New Science. Berret-Koehler. San Francisco.BiographiesMARK DEANDr. Mark L. Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ Fellow and Page 9.1285.6Certified Quality Engineer. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Dean enjoyed a 23 year career in industry. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Joan Walker

process andprofessional development. The method we used to answer these questions was conceptmapping. A concept map is a spatial representation of ideas and their relationships. Toidentify key concepts and processes associated with biodesign, we asked 15 experts toconstruct a map reflecting their definition of the biomedical engineering design process.Findings from this work were used to establish a biodesign taxonomy and benchmarks ofexpertise. Our taxonomy contained six broad categories: the design process, motivationfor the design, interpersonal skills, technical skills, societal concerns, and marketing. Wethen applied our benchmarks to the maps of 32 undergraduates enrolled in a two-semestersenior biodesign course. Students constructed maps

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

for reliablecommunication are also covered in the course. We also spend time on data compression Page 9.241.1techniques. Other topics covered include multiplexing techniques and switching technologies. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWe spend about three weeks on TCP/IP networking and client-server communication techniques.There are many textbooks available for teaching data communication courses3, 5, 6, 7. We haveused several different textbooks in our course.In order to reinforce

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

complex as well as simple problems in mechanics without a need to solvecoupled simultaneous equations. This powerful feature of the virtual work method may initiallyappear as a magic black box to students, but it kindles great interest and excitement in them. Thispaper reviews the fundamentals of the virtual work method, compares it with the conventionalmethod, and points out the inherent advantages and challenges. Seemingly challenging examplesin addition to simple examples are included.I. Fundamental ConceptsEngineering and technology students learn the definition of work when they take the course inphysics usually in their freshman year. In mechanics, a body receives work from a force or amoment that acts on it if it undergoes a displacement

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

Session 3155 Guidelines for the Industry-Academic Transition Sigurd L. Lillevik Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Portland Portland, OR 97223AbstractRecently, practicing professionals with several years of industry experience have joined theacademic ranks. This experienced, but new faculty member faces many of the same challenges asthe recent Ph.D. hire plus one additional issue: his colleagues assume that he knows what he isdoing and how to teach. This may or may not be

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

hours7 Entrepreneurial skills Training on writing a business plan8 Creation of a Business plan Developing, proposing and defending a business plan for a technology-based companyThis work describes each activity of the EM and discusses the motivation for each of its sessions. Page 9.1259.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe reasons behind the Entrepreneurship MarathonThe first efforts toward creating a class for extra-curricular study

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Javad Hashemi

under grant DUE-0231406. Thanks are also due to A. Deshpande,for assisting with the video content and experiment design.ReferencesAvouris, N. M., Tselios, N., and Tatakis, E. C. (2001). Development and Evaluation of a Computer-Based Laboratory Teaching Tool, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 9(1).Bhandari, A. and Shor, M. (1998). Access to an Instructional Control Laboratory Experiment through the World Wide web. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA.Budhu M., (2001). Enhancing Instructions Using Interactive Multimedia Simulations. Simulation, 76:4, 222-231.Elsherbeni, A., Tew, M., and Mokaddam, A. (1995) Applying Multimedia Technology to Undergraduate Engineering

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Arron Pabst; Stephen Williams

design ofthe control system is presented in detail with particular emphasis on the event-driven programstructure.IntroductionThis paper describes a capstone electrical engineering technology (EET) senior projectaccomplished as a joint effort between the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and theMilwaukee School of Engineering. The project was funded by grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health. The two-quarter project consists of an independent study to form abackground into the methods and hardware involved in EPR systems, with a second quarterdevoted to software development of the actual control system.The goal of the project is to provide control capability by way of a LabVIEW virtual instrumentutilizing GPIB connectivity. The

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Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Srinivas Chakravarthy

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Finally, based on twenty plus years of experience in education and by constant interactionwith fellow educators in other universities, we feel that Motivation and pride both seem to be not at the level that they used to be about 10 years ago. Technology has helped the education in a number of ways, but also has decreased the “appetite” for motivation in some areas including the “feel for urgency”. For example, when I started my teaching career students frequently visited my office to express their concerns about not performing well and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Armando Pellerano

recent decades in which terms like “carpal tunnel syndrome”and “repetitive motion stress” have become part of the cultural lexicon. But how does theengineer assure that the solution he has reached will not only be effective, but safe for theend user? Analysis of the design parameters can establish if the solution falls withinknown ergonomic parametric standards, but often the analysis falls short of optimal anddesign changes are required to accommodate unforeseen issues encountered in theimplementation of the design. A solution to this problem is to conduct 3D simulationsthat allow engineers to clearly visualize the implementation of the design in its intendedenvironment, complete with simulated users. Technology has finally advanced to thepoint

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher C. Ibeh; Marjorie Donovan; Oliver Hensley; James Otter

programand course participants, the “clients and products.” Responses from participants are validbecause CUES-AM makes use of the average values of the responses. The good to excellent true satisfaction ratings of the thermoplastic resins families’segment of the Thermoplastics Resins course, despite the accompanying relatively highdifficulty ratings, indicate that the students and faculty are in agreement that this is thefocus of the course. The introductory and prelude segments have been designed foreffective instructional delivery and ease of learning. The “apparent instabilities” of the laboratory section depicted on Graph IIvalidates the capacity of CUES-AM for system monitoring and trouble shooting. Theplastics engineering

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Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

instruments commercially available to measure the impedance of acapacitor. LCR meters are general impedance-measuring instruments that have limited Page 9.1115.1* Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.Contribution of the U.S. Government. Not subject to copyright in the U.S.accuracy, while automatic capacitance bridges are commercially available with very highaccuracies but with more limited measurement ranges.An automatic capacitance bridge is very convenient for measuring standard capacitorswith precision, reliability, and uncertainty at metrological levels. Measurement