Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

reliable and has both internal and external validity. Thesecond, and more important reason, is that the model lends itself to a more holisticapproach to open ended problem solving, which, in turn should help to promote morecomplex thinking skills.A second objective of the program is increase creative and complex problem solvingskills as measured through gains in cognitive development. The department has had over70 hours of training on the steps for better thinking model. Student work is scored usingthe Steps for Better Thinking Rubric12 and preliminary data suggests that students aregradually making cognitive gains. Baseline data utilizing the Reflections on CurrentIssues16 (RCI) instrument was collected in 2006 as a means of supporting these

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunnar Tamm, United States Military Academy; Ozer Arnas, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Seth Norberg, United States Military Academy

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

engineering programs, West Point offers a course on Energy Conversion Systems whichcovers conventional topics of fossil fuel utilization, combustion, advanced power andrefrigeration cycles, direct energy conversion, chemical equilibrium, and so on. However, thecourse has evolved to reflect current energy issues, by including lessons on national and globalenergy usage, climate change, nuclear power, hydrogen, and renewable and alternative energy.In addition to this course, there are senior capstone projects and cadet independent studies thatare connected to alternative energy research and development. The goals are to provide a broadoverview to the cadets, such that the cadets are excited to continue the pursuit of energyalternatives as graduates and

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangram Redkar, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

system integration. Thisapproach was suggested by Ted Robertson, then President of the Society of AutomotiveEngineers (SAE), in late 2005. In this approach, the courses reflect the different divisions withina large automobile manufacturing company, such as General Motors. In the early stages ofdevelopment of the automotive concentration, a team composed of program faculty, practicingengineers from the automobile industry and automotive-related industrial advisory boardmembers had an afternoon curriculum design meeting. After discussion, the six industryrepresentatives validated the idea suggested by Mr. Robertson. In addition, as a part of anengineering design process, they voted on various structures, content areas, and creditarrangements of

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Joseph Rencis; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Chuan-Chiang Chen, Tuskegee University; Essam Ibrahim, Tuskegee University; Vladimir Labay, Gonzaga University; Paul Schimpf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

and optimized thepotential learning that the FE learning modules provide.The Kolb model shown in Figure 1 describes an entire cycle around which learning experiencesprogress Abstract Hypothesis and Conceptualization, Active Experimentation, ConcreteExperience, and Reflective Observation. Figure 1. Kolb learning cycle.The FE learning modules developed in this work are designed to span a spectrum of differentmanners in which students learn. Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles50 are composed offour dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global).Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman formulated the index to assess the learning style of anindividual. ALPs are designed

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

standard (omitting detailedpenetration analyses, as noted below). The course also covers roughly 80% of the core andelective learning outcomes of the Information Technology computing curriculum proposed in2005 by the Association for Computing Machinery2.2. Boundaries and FlowsThese two concepts were chosen as the organizing concepts or “themes” of the course.A boundary separates two elements of a system and may thereby provide a degree of protection.As stated in the US government’s Information Assurance Technical Framework (the IATF),“Information assets exist in physical and logical locations, and boundaries exist between theselocations”8. This statement reflects the fact that students must consider a system’s physical aswell as logical elements

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Curtin University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

equally difficult, or equallyvaluable. Some require significant understanding and reflection; others are straightforwardsimple tasks. By providing an indication to the students as to which milestones are which,the students have more information with which to plan their work.For instance, a ±10% error margin may be acceptable in the project specification, but a ±1%is preferable. If the accuracy milestones are rated for difficulty, students who find themselveswithin the 10% margin can then decide whether they wish to invest the time and effort toachieve the smaller tolerance, and thus the additional mark, or whether to focus their energieselsewhere.Four difficulty categories were chosen for the milestones: Easy, Standard, Hard andChallenging. The

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

B.M. Wright; C.W. Swan; D.M. Matson

under construction.With two other principal water systems without filtration, each serving nearly thirty families, the studentsfocused the water testing on the sources, holding tanks and house taps of these systems with the hope ofproviding enough data for the community to apply for more funds from the municipal government.Student reflectionsThe following is a reflection from Daniel McGee (Civil engineering, Tufts ’07) “I think that we successfully taught a community to fish instead of just feeding them a meal. By showing them the problems with their water and by offering solutions, we allowed them to take ownership of the project and therefore take ownership of a solution. In that sense, I think that the project is

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlie Hall, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

acommon problem. A team of four to six students working on common problems provides Page 13.208.4 3opportunities for more learning7; the grouping of students facilitates communication, creatingopportunities for the students to learn from each other.8In contrast to Lean, conventional manufacturing layout patterns are designed to focus onspecialization in functional layouts. This is reflected, for example, by placing all the grindermachines grouped together in a common department, all the broach machines grouped togetherin a common department, and so

Conference Session

Use of Summer Research Programs in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamim Younos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

meetings conducted by VT expertsand attended a national conference that was held on Virginia Tech campus. Fellows madeperiodic presentations of their research, prepared a final research report, and alsosubmitted a reflection essay about their experiences. Four fellows returned to VirginiaTech late fall and presented their research papers at a regional water research conference.Assessment of NSF/REU site outcomes was conducted with the help of two externalexperts in education research and academic assessment. Assessment tools included online/in-class surveys, pre- and post test questions, and a focus group interview. This articleincludes a brief description of program assessment tools, a summary of assessmentresults and recommendations, and some

Conference Session

Service Courses for Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Timothy Simpson, Pennsylvania State University; Vince Bertsch, Santa Rosa Junior College; Kate Disney, Mission College; Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College; Barbara Oakley, Oakland University; Mary Rose, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

for a course on technologicalliteracy; instead, four standard course models were proposed and slated for development as partof the follow-on NSF/NAE Technological Literacy for Undergraduates Workshop, which washeld in March 2007 [1,2]. The four standard course models were: (1) Technology SurveyCourse, (2) Technology Focus Course, (3) Technology Design Course, and (4) TechnologyCritique, Assess, Reflect, or Connect Course. The proposed framework was created to serve notonly as a guide for developing these standard course models but also as a method for evaluatingand benchmarking existing technological literacy courses.Description of the Proposed FrameworkThe proposed framework was developed by a team at the 2007 NSF/NAE Workshop

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Amy Craig, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. What are student approaches to modeling and problem solving and how do they change over time as students move into upper division courses and use programming and computational tools to model and solve discipline specific problems? Instrumentation: (a) Student surveys assessing attitudes and confidence in specific course outcomes, (b) survey questions about modeling and problem solving, (c) specially developed, common problem solving tasks, (d) student reflections about how they go about solving tasks, and (e) course-related samples of student work. The survey data is being compared to students completing these same or similar surveys in subsequent semesters, to establish trends in self-confidence

Conference Session

The New Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK2)

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

second ASCE strategic initiative was the development of an enhanced and updated versionof the BOK. This second edition of the BOK, formally titled Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century, Second Edition, (abbreviated BOK2) was developed in responseto broad stakeholder feedback about the first edition (abbreviated BOK1), as well as the ideasexpressed in ASCE’s Vision 2025.7 BOK2 is currently available in draft form, and the finalproduct will be publicly released in February 2008.The BOK2 includes two particularly substantive changes from the BOK1: • The number of outcomes was increased from 15 to 24. For the most part, this increase reflects the BOK2 authors’ attempt to enhance clarity and specificity, rather than to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Kevin Kloesel, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Kent Johnson, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; Phil Chilson, University of Oklahoma; Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma

to OU’s north campus to see a WSR-88D radar. Thesetrips help students to understand how the data is collected and subsequently processed in adigital format. Computing algorithms are studied and implemented that convert radar datafrom the phased array radar into environmental measurements known as spectral moments– very similar to previous researchers associated with conventional rotating weather radars[36, 37, 38]. Spectral moments (reflectivity, radial velocity, and spectrum width) are theessential, required radar meteorological measurements that are used to make decisionsabout cloud locations, storms, rain fall, tornadoes, downbursts, hail and other interestingweather phenomena. Microbursts are strong downbursts of air from evolving rain

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Carl Hauser, Washington State University; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

stilldisagreement of more than one point, continued discussion and rating ensued until consensus hadbeen reached. At times, this discussion resulted in further refinement of the rubric’s criteria.These revisions reflect a continuous process to ensure reliability and increase content validityinformed by the rubric’s use in practice. Faculty and assessment specialist teams then rated teamperformance on the scenario corresponding with their program using the same process, andresults were used to inform program improvements in a collaborative effort.Assessment specialists analyzed ratings for each program, averaging the scores of all reliableraters for each dimension and reported results confidentially to each department in graphical andwritten form. An

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos; Andrew Hable, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

(e.g., the purchase of paint)defense-related goods and services. However, these estimates do not include defense-related purchases by agencies other that DOD, such as DOE or NASA; whether or not thedata reflects effort related to defense sales to foreign governments is unclear. Furthermuddying the data is the fact that some of the engineering effort reflected in the DODdata is provided by engineers in foreign countries under contract with US companies.With these caveats in mind, our complied data indicates that about 8.8% of professionalengineering effort is devoted to defense-related activities – about 3 times higher than forthe overall workforce defense effort (2.8%). Some specializations, such as aerospaceengineering and electrical

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

because so many of our human activities are related to and dependent uponproducts and processes engineers design and develop. As we have no doubt learned, andas is reflected increasingly in academia and industry, the answers to many humanproblems are not to be found in specific and discrete disciplines. We need to determinewhich disciplines need to be integrated into engineering practice as we continue toaddress critical problems facing our planet and people. This is a profound obligation andan exciting challenge, especially for higher education. Page 13.1131.3 Sustainability is a controversial topic because it appears to be an

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Marra, University of Missouri; Demei Shen, University of Missouri; David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

natural product of the learning process, and one of themost commonly used cognitive strategies to promote students’ thinking21, 22. A question reflectsthe level of thought entailed to answer it and therefore they can be ranked23. Questioning iseffective in facilitating thinking21. Various studies showed that questions were effective foreliciting metacognition in terms of planning and reflection in web-based learningenvironments24, and that questions were effective in fostering ill-structured problem solving Page 13.622.4processes20, 25. Additionally, problem solving is influenced by various factors including cognitive andmetacognitive

Conference Session

STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

received the Australasian Association for Engineering Education award for excellence in Engineering Education in the Teaching and Learning category. Dr Rowe is a member of the IET, the IEEE, the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand (IPENZ), ASEE, STLHE and AaeE. Page 13.1273.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The transition from high-school Physics to first-year Electrical Engineering: How well prepared are our students?AbstractThe demand from industry for an increasing number of engineering graduates in NewZealand reflects international concerns and is compounded by a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

their work.In response to student end of course feedback, the capstone project options increasedfrom two to three. The competition still existed and students continued to mention in theircomments that they would prefer that projects were unique to each group.During the EOCR at the conclusion of the Spring 2000 semester, a recommendation wasmade to change the courses name from “Planning and Design of Construction Projects”to “Civil Engineering Design”. The new course name more accurately reflected theevolving nature of the projects chosen which spanned an increasingly diverse set of sub-fields within civil engineering. Based on student feedback and instructor observation,more guest speakers and more field trips were added to the course.As CED

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

their work.In response to student end of course feedback, the capstone project options increasedfrom two to three. The competition still existed and students continued to mention in theircomments that they would prefer that projects were unique to each group.During the EOCR at the conclusion of the Spring 2000 semester, a recommendation wasmade to change the courses name from “Planning and Design of Construction Projects”to “Civil Engineering Design”. The new course name more accurately reflected theevolving nature of the projects chosen which spanned an increasingly diverse set of sub-fields within civil engineering. Based on student feedback and instructor observation,more guest speakers and more field trips were added to the course.As CED

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

their work.In response to student end of course feedback, the capstone project options increasedfrom two to three. The competition still existed and students continued to mention in theircomments that they would prefer that projects were unique to each group.During the EOCR at the conclusion of the Spring 2000 semester, a recommendation wasmade to change the courses name from “Planning and Design of Construction Projects”to “Civil Engineering Design”. The new course name more accurately reflected theevolving nature of the projects chosen which spanned an increasingly diverse set of sub-fields within civil engineering. Based on student feedback and instructor observation,more guest speakers and more field trips were added to the course.As CED

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

these mentoring relationships can be extraordinarily productive, they also can behighly variable in quality because of the individualized nature of the experience.A different approach is to incorporate senior graduate students as a resource for mentoring lessexperienced graduate students, especially in relation to teaching practices. Some peer-mentoringprograms arrange graduate students into pairs, where the pair can establish a long-term, one-on-one mentor-mentee relationship. Bollis-Pecci and Walker point out that this kind of pairingbenefits not only the mentee, but also the mentor in the form of opportunities for reflection, aswell as original perspectives and ideas coming from the less experienced GSI.8Centralized mentoring programs

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brant Miller, University Of Minnesota; Tamara Moore, University Of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

graduate course work ancillary to the research experience, participants were askedto make predictions. Many of the efforts outside of the core charge of research revolved aroundthe transferability piece, which took on the form of an instructional unit. This instructional unitwas to capture the essence of the participants experience within a research facility. To gaugeparticipant sentiment, reflection was requested according to two writing prompts. The first,"make an in-depth prediction of success for the proposed instructional unit,” gets participantsthinking about some of the unplanned difficulties that may arise during the course of theinstructional unit. The second had participants "complete a 1-2 page paper reflecting on thetransferability of

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Althea Smith, North Carolina State University; Kate Caldwell, North Carolina State University; Jessica McCoy, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

categories. The first categoryreflects the impact of the OST Clubs on the students’ and teachers’ knowledge andgrowth in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields (Figure 5). Thesecond category reflects the impact of the OST Clubs on the students’ and teachers’relationships in the academic environment (Figure 6). Does Participation in an OST Club Positively Affect the Students or Teachers... (1=Not at all, 2=not much, 3=some, 4=a little, 5=a lot) 5.00

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

framework is the alignment of the elements of development model, observation tasksin the assessment instrument, and interpretation of assessment responses. Diagrams of thisframework and the development model are given in Appendix A and B, respectively.The model represents the first leg of the assessment triangle and has been broadly defined basedon typical capstone course outcomes44. Outcomes are divided into two distinguishable areas ofstudent learning objectives: Learner Development and Solution Development. LearnerDevelopment includes outcomes relating to the professional attributes important to students in adesign project, such as ethics, reflection, personal growth, professional development, andteaming skill. These are broadly classified into

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

intellectual skills and traits of mind Page 13.486.2such as intellectual acuity, intellectual honesty, intellectual humility, intellectualperseverance, intellectual autonomy, intellectual empathy, intellectual integrity andintellectual responsibility. These skills and traits plant the seeds to help prepare studentsto: (a) become practicing professionals who are fair-minded, who have confidence inreason and who are undaunted when faced with the need to master new technologies; (b)become scholars undertaking advanced study; (c) take ownership of new ideas andmodes of reflective thinking and reasoning; and (d) be prepared and motivated to developinto life-long

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

the ASCE Body of KnowledgeIn 2008, ASCE released the second edition of the Body of Knowledge (BOK2) for CivilEngineersvii. Reflecting the Visions of ASCE and NAE, BOK2 requires that all Civil Engineersmaster sustainability: Page 13.1129.3 The 21st century civil engineer must demonstrate an ability to evaluate the sustainability of engineered systems and services, and of the natural resource base on which they depend; and to design accordingly.There are specific requirements for both academic undergraduate preparation, and for early-career development; these are summarized in Table 1.Clearly, the notion of Natural Resources pervades these

Conference Session

Successful K-12 Programs for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

understanding in a consumer societycreates a need to educate general public about manufacturing - the backbone of a strongeconomy. This paper describes development of a museum exhibit: a visitor-centered informaleducation experience highlighting the principles of modern manufacturing. The exhibitarchitecture reflects three principal engineering activities involved in creating consumerproducts: product design, manufacturing, and marketing/business. It explains how these fieldsinterrelate on an example of a well understood product – customizable pen. Each activity isimplemented via two components: an interactive computer game and a physical displayenvironment, which complement each other. The results of an observational study and analysisof the data

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Changes Reflections Priorities Multiple perspectives Figure 4. Course planning process.The standard process of the Department has been adapted to provide more scope for reflectionsbased on the advantages reported by other educators 2. Soliciting multiple perspectives leddirectly to the combination of authors for this paper.The planning process led to the following course objectives: 1. Introduce freshmen to each other and the subject 2. Initiate a positive educational experience at the

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

capability of a technology is usuallyeasier to define in terms of the products it can deliver so many parameters have product-related metrics.Most development work on the assessment tool has been applied to nano-electronicfunctions. The consumer market gives a good demonstration of how products movethrough their life cycle in a year or less showing the familiar bell-shaped revenue curve.However, the underlying components and technologies can last for many productgenerations. They show the classical S-curve but there is an additional feature that makesprediction difficult. As one technology matures, it is replaced by a more advancedversion. Thus there are many generations of maturity for the same basic technology.This is reflected in different