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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Handy; Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

graduate student in environmental science, as well as two mechanical engineering facultymembers and an environmental science faculty member. The students participated in all phasesof the project from initial site visit to report completion and follow-up.The facility of concern manufactured a fluff pulp and super absorbent polymer product. Toassure product quality, a relative humidity range between 30 and 50 percent was required.Relative humidity conditions well above the 50% maximum value were experienced during thesummer months due to a significant negative pressure differential induced by process equipmentinside the facility. A quantification of the problem and potential solutions were sought toprovide better overall control of the facility

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Ochs

such grant, from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,focuses on the development of an entrepreneurship minor open to all undergraduates,including all engineering students. The sixteen-credit minor has been developed and willbe implemented by a cross-disciplinary faculty committee with faculty representativesfrom engineering, business, arts and sciences, the Integrated Product DevelopmentProgram (IPD) [Refs 1-4], the Integrated Business and Engineering Program (IBE) andthe graduate MBA vSeries seminars on new venture creation. The undergraduate minorprogram consists of four new courses and one existing prerequisite. The pedagogicalapproach is project based experiential learning, with support from the University’s SmallBusiness Development Center

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

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D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

engineering faculty, who typicallyresist the kind of course content associated with liberal arts. Grose also notes a complementary“hurdle” of humanities and social science professors’ reluctance to form interdisciplinary teamswith engineers.At the University of Texas at Austin, however, humanities-trained faculty in the College ofEngineering are joining forces to create teaching modules that could be used not only in theirown communications courses, but also in technical classes by their engineer colleagues. Funded by the Chair of Free Enterprise, the Professional Responsibility Modules forEngineering (PRiME) project aims to facilitate the integration of such topics as Ownership ofInformation, Credibility of Sources, Teamwork, and Leadership into

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

experimental approach. A significant challenge in providingthese activities to approximately 1,200 students per year is paying for the materials. Over theyears the Department of Engineering Education (formerly the Division of EngineeringFundamentals) has relied upon the generosity of the Student Engineers’ Council to provide alarge percentage of the money needed to buy supplies for these projects.This paper discusses and details the significant contribution that the Student Engineers’ Councilhas made to the first year engineering program at Virginia Tech over the years, including howthey have raised tens of thousands of dollars each year and what freshman projects the moneyhas supported.Background of the SECThe Student Engineers' Council (SEC) was

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Johnson; Mary Anderson-Rowland

students who were either a minority or female or both.The CIRC program students meet five times a semester. CIRC informative sessions includeguest speakers on how to get involved in an engineering research project, writing a resume toobtain an internship, how to select and apply for graduate school, and getting funding forgraduate school, which will be described in detail. Assessment of the program is done at eachmeeting and feedback is provided to the students at the next meeting. Students in the CIRCprogram are obtaining research positions and are considering graduate school as part of theircareer goals.The Fulton School of Engineering graduate recruitment activities include booths at nationalmeetings, participation in GEM (National Consortium

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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

heattransfer principles and the concept of thermo-siphon heat recovery system. This paper presents anexperimental setup that will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students inunderstanding the basic heat transfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as usingwaste heat from a window type air conditioner to heat water for residential and commercial use.Heat recovery from an air conditioner by thermo-siphon is attractive because it eliminates theneed for a circulating pump. This project was completed with the assistance of an UndergraduateSenior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air ConditioningEngineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a basic and very important topic that

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Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

‘Nintendo’ and fuel-injection has created a ‘black box’ syndromeamong incoming students. Although there are a few particularly gifted students who roseto the occasion and learned to ‘hack’ their way into the hermetically sealed objects oftheir youth, and can now function well in both the design school and the engineering lab,most educators find this a difficult gap to bridge. Within the Design College, thissituation has tended to result in student projects that fall short of achieving maximumresults in terms of products technical aspect. There are also instances where the technicalconcept of a student’s project may be possible, or even innovative, but it is difficult toconfirm this with certainty. The present NSF-sponsored development allows

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Information TechnologyPrograms being developed through the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET.While higher education faculty have recognized the need for individuals with skills related toteaming by incorporating content about teaming into courses and by requiring students tocomplete team projects, it is a challenge to create for students an electronic collaborationenvironment resembling what they may encounter in a modern workplace.Modern workplaces incorporate technologies that enable high speed sharing of information andprovide workers with mobile information devices and wireless access to communicationnetworks. Because of these enabling technologies, virtual workplaces are more and morecommon. A virtual workplace is comprised of

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Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

as either ME-599 or ME-699. The difference inrequirements is that students taking it as ME-699 must select a research oriented courseproject which requires a seminar offered to the rest of the class. ME-599 students areassigned a less intensive project, and do not provide a seminar. In the first courseoffering in Spring, 2004, there were seven undergraduate students enrolled in Paducah,three undergraduates in Lexington, and six graduate students in Lexington.II. Course Description and GoalsThis course includes both theory and application for various computer-based methods foranalyzing mechanical systems. The primary software tools used are ANSYS andMATLAB. It is not necessary that a student have previous background in FEA, or inusing the

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

and development. Page 9.159.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3130In September 2003, a group of ENGE faculty, aided by a number of engineering and educationfaculty, received a planning grant (project title: Bridges for Engineering Education-Virginia Tech(BEEVT)) under the Bridges for Engineering Education program of the NSF to create acontemporary framework for undergraduate

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Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Strueber

1106 An Energy Efficient House for Under $3,000 J. Strueber, V. Harris, E. Meyer, E. Carter, E. Maweza, M. Matshaya Tuskegee University/Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/ Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/University of Fort HareIntroductionThis paper describes the design and materials development for building small energy efficienthousing for the rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which is experiencingan extreme shortage of suitable housing. This is a student exchange project between TuskegeeUniversity and the University of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa. With students and

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

Engineering Mechanical Electrical Computer Engineering Computer Science Technology Power Application Mass Properties Firmware supply design Project Thermodynamics W iring reviews Mobility Operating Operating Vision System system

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Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fred Brown; Mel Mendelson

designed around the constituents' needs and confers two degrees: M.S. insystems engineering and MBA. The systems engineering leadership emphasis resulted fromsuggestions by local industry and the Air Force. The constituents and their needs have beenestablished and translated into a set of educational objectives and program outcomes. Sincevery few universities offer dual-degrees in systems engineering and business, the SELP fillsan important need for an integrated engineering/business curriculum.I. IntroductionToday the United States has a major shortage of engineers and scientists capable of leadingand managing complex technical projects. One example is the U.S. Air Force whoseSecretary, Hon. James Roche, has testified before the U.S. Congress [1

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Trends in Construction Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Riley

” building technologies.These green or “sustainable” building technologies and materials are evolving at a rate thatexceeds the potential for significant documentation, testing, and practice, thus presenting achallenge to architectural and engineering educators. Characterized by an integrative designprocess, green building projects require professionals to work in new, non-sequential ways. Inaddition, many of the key issues surrounding sustainable design are contested and subject todebate and misconceptions. For educators, the question arises: How do we effectively exposestudents to these emerging technologies, while simultaneously engaging them in the integrativedesign processes specific to these technologies?This paper describes an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

is in wireless systems. To emphasize the startingpoint for this project, it was the author’s startup resources which purchased the department’s firstspectrum analyzer (a hand-held Anritsu MS2711B). In short, the opportunity and challengepresented to the author was to develop a comprehensive undergraduate experience in wirelessand digital communication systems from near-scratch given the limited resources of a smalldepartment. In doing so, the foremost goal was to provide students with both theoreticalbackground and practical experience using modern test equipment. Page 9.22.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth A. Stephan; Amy G. Yuhasz; Matthew Ohland

Session 1526 The Benefit of Using Real-Time Sensors in the Engineering Classroom: Design of an Educational Experiment Amy G. Yuhasz, Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isinvestigating the effect of using real-time sensors on student learning of graphical representationsof various physical concepts and auxiliary benefit in understanding the concept itself. Thedevelopment of parallel laboratory activities (designed with and without the use of real

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel J. Stokes; Nagi El Naga; Halima El Naga

and two motors, most students can complete theconstruction in less than 20 minutes, or the robot could bebuilt ahead of time. A simpler project would be to use thetouch sensor with the brick, and not use the motors, and thetime involved in building the simpler robot is very short. Page 9.1302.3 Figure 2: Simple Lego RobotProgramming the Robot:A partial screen shot of the Legos Mindstorm™ 2.0 programming environment is shownin Figure 3. In this case, the simple robot beeps when the touch sensor is

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Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

plans and exposes both engineering and businessstudents to the challenge faced by many actual companies. The objective of this paperis aimed to give an overview of the project which intends to design a cross disciplinecurriculum to enhance the knowledge innovation capability of our student under theimpact of knowledge economics. The design of this new curriculum is based on thereview of the educational goal of Yuan Ze University and the characteristics of thestudents we like to cultivate are as belowゑゴ1サcreative problem solvingゴ2サability to practice engineeringゴ3サapply advanced technologyゴ4サfunction multidisciplinary teamsゴ5サcommunicate effectivelyゴ6サunderstand global impact and societal contextゴ7サentrepreneurship This new curriculum

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. A cadet is shown giving a presentation about handheld computingHTML and XML-Based ToolsHTML (hypertext markup language) and XML (extensible markup language) pages can beformatted so that they can be saved and read on personal digital assistants.There are numerous ways this capability can be used to support teaching. For example,instructors at West Point have formatted all of the following into HTML and/or XML pages to beread on PDAs: • Instructor and student contact information • Course syllabus and guidelines • Course schedules • Reading assignments • Projects and other course assignments • Supplemental reading assignments

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Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Julia Williams

Session 2213 Incorporating Peer Review in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory David C. Miller, Department of Chemical Engineering Julia M. Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Unit Operations laboratory represents an important site for the development oftechnical and non-technical skills in chemical engineering students. Coming in the finalyear of students’ course work, the projects of UO lab give students the opportunity tocombine experimental experiences with team work and communication, a combinationthat chemical engineering educators would agree is

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Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

design, and produce the content in a mannerconsistent with television production at a relatively a low cost.The total budget for the project was fifteen thousand dollars and was assigned to a groupof six people. The project manager had a background in instructional design and videoproduction. While the instructors that worked with us were experts in their field, manydid not have formal instructional design experience. The project manager assisted theinstructors to create an instructional map that served as a basis for the television stylescript that was used during the production phase of the project. Three members of theteam were assigned to video compositing. Their primary responsibility was to usecompositing tools such as Adobe After Effects

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; Vincent Capece; John Baker

, in January 2002. The two-dayprogram involved lectures, short research projects, and laboratory work at theengineering campus. Initial lecture material covered the broad mechanical engineeringprofession. Additional presentations included gas turbine engines, alternative energysources (solar and wind), and applications of solid modeling and finite element analysissoftware. Based on the lecture material, students selected a topic, and used web-basedresources to complete a short research paper. One laboratory exercise involvedmeasurement of flow around a golf ball in a wind tunnel, with supervised calculations ofthe aerodynamic drag coefficient using Microsoft Excel software. Another exerciseinvolved each student creating a solid model of a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Keyser; Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

Session 1526 Design – Build – Test: Flexible Process Control Kits for the Classroom S. Scott Moor, Polly Piergiovanni and David Keyser Lafayette CollegeAbstract Traditional undergraduate instruction in process control focuses on abstract analysis andoften does not prepare students for the industrially important task of synthesizing process controlstrategies and designs. This project bridges the chasm between academics and industry bydeveloping inexpensive and flexible process control lab kits that will allow students to design,implement and

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

.? Page 7.1118.5 DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE OTHER INPUT DATA?Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationutilizing the appropriate time value of money factor to convert the annual fuel and electricitycosts into present value costs.Thermal Design ProjectsOver the years, three different thermal design project statements have been developed andutilized: thermal design of a house, thermal design of a building, thermal design of a refrigeratedwarehouse. Summary statements for these projects are given in Table 1. Normally studentteams of two are assigned, and it proves very convenient to ask for two separate design

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2001 Annual Conference

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

Session 1526 Configuration Management Instructional Material for Engineering and Management Students Michael Leonard, Nagraj Balakrishnan, Judith McKnew Clemson UniversityAbstractThis paper documents interim results of a NSF–CCLI funded project to develop innovativeeducational materials in Configuration Management (CM) for use as a module in regularlyscheduled courses in engineering and management. CM is a methodology for identifying thecomponents of a continuously evolving product and its associated production system, to controlchanges to these components and to maintain

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2001 Annual Conference

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

number of sections and section sizes to beaccommodated, separate spaces for the two programs was desired.2.2 LaboratoryAlthough different laboratory exercises are used in the two course sequences, both havethe goal of hands-on experimentation, reverse engineering projects in small groups, anddoing small-team design projects. Since some instruction is presented in the laboratoryroom, presentation capability is needed.3. Facility DevelopedThe first experimental course, which eventually led to the Freshman Engineering Honors(FEH) program, was offered in the 1993-94 academic year. The entire course was taughtin a regular classroom equipped with fixed tables and movable chairs rather thanindividual desks. Laboratory experiments and design/build

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Waalen; Malgorzata Zywno

Session 1330 The Effect of Hypermedia Instruction on Achievement and Attitudes of Students with Different Learning Styles Malgorzata S. Zywno, Judith K. Waalen Ryerson UniversityAbstractThe goal of this ongoing action research project has been to increase student learning andsatisfaction using an innovative approach to instruction, evaluation and interaction with students.A process control course in electrical engineering was redesigned, introducing collaborative, activelearning using real-life applications. The course utilizes interactive hypermedia

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Asif M. Shakur; Ali Eydgahi; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

(Salisbury State University) and theUniversity of Maryland College Park(UMCP). The agreement provides a means of bringing anABET accredited engineering degree program from the prestigious Clark School of Engineeringat College Park to the residents of Eastern Shore region of the State of Maryland. Since itsinception in the fall of 1998, the SLOPE program has helped identify and serve specific needs inthe Eastern Shore Community by way of faculty supervised student projects. These studentprojects have been chosen either by the student/student group or assigned by the faculty. In allcases the faculty members involved with the program have ensured compatibility with coursematerial and desired learning objectives. Specific attention has been paid to the

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Doré

always results in more innovative and creative solutions oroutcomes 12,13. It may take more time to complete a project, but the quality is better. On the otherhand, it increases the risk of unresolved conflicts, arising from difficulties to communicate andleading to a decrease of cohesion.This breakdown in communication has at least two sources: specialization and differences inpersonality.Specialization Multidisciplinary teams are composed of professionals originating from Page 7.1236.3 different disciplines, each coming to the drawing table with his/her own Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Torres

be sent immediately to your email address. 6. Save this file as “license.dat” in C:\ispTOOLS\ispcomp\license Starting ispdesignEXPERT 1. Go to Start/Lattice Semiconductor/ispdesignEXPERT 2. Go to File/ New Project. Save it in the student directory 3. screen is divided into two columns. (Sources in project, and Processes for current source) 4. We need to select the proper device. Under the Sources in Project, double click on ispLS15384VA-125LB388. 5. A window will pop open. Under family, scroll down until it says “Mach 4”. The device number and part name are written on the PLD itself. You will see either M4-32/32 or M4-64/32 which indicates the device. Under that is the part number