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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Wood; David Shallcross

Session 3460 Combined Degrees – A New Paradigm in Engineering Education David C. Shallcross and David G. Wood Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010 AustraliaAbstractSince the late 1980’s undergraduate students in Australia have been able to enrol simultaneouslyin two full undergraduate programs. Students are able to complete their engineering degreewhile at the same time completing degrees in arts, commerce, law or science. Currently nearly60 % of all undergraduate engineering students at the University of Melbourne are enrolled in

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Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jesse Condon; Chasity Williams; Benjamin Fratto; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

", Proceedings of the 1997 Zone I Fall Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware, October , 1997.3. R. P. Hesketh, K. Jahan, A. J. Marchese, R. P. Ramachandran, R. A. Dusseau, C. S. Slater, T. R. Chandrupatla, S. A. Mandayam and J. L. Schmalzel (1998), "Introducing Freshmen to Engineering through Measurements", Proceedings of the ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Spring 1998 Regional Conference, Trenton, NJ, April 25, 1998.4. K. Jahan, Marchese, A. J., Hesketh, R.P., C.S. Slater, J.L. Schmalzel, T.R.Chandrupatla and R.A. Dusseau (1998), “Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation for a Freshman Class ”, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, June, 1998.5. K. Jahan and R.A. Dusseau, “Teaching Civil Engineering Measurements

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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J. Joseph Hoey; Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Session 3530 Uncovering Obstacles to the Assessment Momentum E. W. Nault, Ph. D., M. S . Leonard, Ph. D., P.E., J. Joseph Hoey, Ed.D. Clemson University/Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractWhy is the practice of assessment inconsistently applied across engineering programs withinthe same university and among engineering disciplines across the country? EngineeringCriteria 2000 1 which mandates programmatic assessment was initially adopted for applicationin 1996. Yet, six years after the adoption of the new criteria, why do we still experience highlevels of faculty resistance to program assessment? This

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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A R Zaghloul

educational order.4. Integrate Lecture(s) and Lab by dividing the concepts/tools between the two in theproper order and fashion.V. ConclusionsThe educational analysis, discussion, and algorithm presented in this communicationpave the way for educators to properly design and integrate lab activities with lectures toachieve proper educational objectives. The presented material is equally applicable to alldisciplines that employ lab work as an educational experience in their educationalprocess. The material is presented in the context of applying it to electrical engineeringeducation.Bibliography 1. Ko, C. C., et al, A web-based virtual laboratory on a frequency modulation experiment, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

Perspective," AIAA paper 96-2241, 19th AIAA Advanced Measurements and Ground Testing Technology Conference, New Orleans, 1996. 2. Eberhardt, S., “Airplanes for Everyone”, 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan 2000 Page 7.821.5Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793 3. Eberhardt, S., “Airplanes for Everyone: A General Education Course for Non-Engineers,” Journal of Engineering Education, Jan

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ranjith Perera; Ali Akber

, | E g | sin d é | E g | cos d - Vt ù \ Ia = - jê ú Xs ë Xs ûWhere,Eg = alternator generated voltage, Vt= busbar voltage, X s= reactance, d= torque angle 3V t | E g | sin d Pout = 3V t | I a | cos q = Xs 3Vt | E g | cos d 3Vt 2 Qout = 3Vt | I a | sin q = - Xs Xs é Pout * X s ù d = sin -1 ê ú

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CE Projects: International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ravi Srinivasan; Dennis Fukai; Fazil Najafi

Paper ID: 2002-1262 Session number: 3615 Division: Civil Engineering Graduate Study in Public Works Engineering and Management at the University of Florida Ravi S. Srinivasan¹, Dr. Fazil T. Najafi², Dr. Dennis Y. Fukai³ ¹ Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida ² Professor, Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida ³ Asst. Professor, Dept. of Design, Construction & Planning, University of FloridaAbstractPublic Works and Infrastructure is a pervasive part of every aspect of urbanized life, andincreasingly impacts the human and nature. The scale of infrastructure systems in the UnitedStates continues to

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Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hang Choi

Innovation of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering Curriculum at Seoul National University Hang S. Choi Professor, Department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering Seoul National UniversityAbstractIn this paper, it is described how the curriculum for naval architecture and ocean engineering(NAOE) of Seoul National University (SNU) will be changed in the era of modern ITtechnology. Since its foundation in 1946, the Department of NAOE at SNU has played theleading role in naval architectural education and research in Korea, which is currently rankedthe top position of the world in the area of production and order book of new ships

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

, ASME, ASCE, and Sigma Xi.GAUTAM S. WAGLE is a Research Assistant at Penn State. He received a B.E. degree inMechanical Engineering from the University of Bombay, India in 1997. He worked for a year asa Pre-planning engineer in the Switchgear manufacturing division of M/s Larsen and Toubro Ltd,Bombay, India. Gautam received his M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Penn State in 2000.N.J. SALAMON, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, USA) has been a professor at Penn Statesince 1985. Prior to that he was associate professor at West Virginia University and assistantprofessor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He has taught mechanics at theundergraduate and graduate level since 1975 and is a proponent of project work in engineeringclasses, in

Conference Session

Academic Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 1460 Are Current Engineering Graduates in the US Being Treated as Commodities by Employers? Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe employment scene for professionals of all sorts becomes more volatile with eachdecade. In engineering, graduates of past generations could reasonably look forward to alinear career trajectory characterized by upward mobility and advancement. A

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Steif

Session 2478 Courseware for Problem Solving in Mechanics of Materials Paul S. Steif Carnegie Mellon UniversityIntroductionBasic courses such as mechanics of materials focus on principles and methods which studentscan apply to a variety of new situations. This ability to transfer learning and knowledge isdependent on many factors, including the depth of the initial learning 1. Many factors affect thedepth of initial learning, such as, learning for understanding rather than memorizing facts 2, timeon task 3, and having deliberate practice with ample

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Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Grady

training, it can be a challenging and rewarding experience. Goodinstructional design results in clearer instruction and, hopefully, a better learning experience forthe student, which should be our ultimate goal.Bibliography1 Bloom, B. S., Englehart, M. D., Furst, E. J., Hill, W. H., and Krathwohl, D. R. 1956. Taxonomy of educationalobjectives: Handbook I, cognitive domain. NY: McKay.2 Bostock, S. J. 1997. Designing web-based instruction for active learning. In B. Khan (ed.), Web-BasedInstruction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 225-230.3 Fardouly, N. 1998. Instructional design of learning materials. [On line]. Available:http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/instructionaldesign/materials.htm.4Keller, J. M. 1978. Development

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

best practice in this area within the authors’ ownteaching can also not be understated.Bibliography:1. Khazanet, V.L. (1996), Women in Civil Engineering and Science: It’s time for Recognition and Promotion, ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 122, No 2, April 1996, pp. 65-68.2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (1999) Human Resources in Science and Technology, Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.3. Lewis, S., Harris, R., and Cox, B. (2000) Engineering a Better Workplace: A Diversity Guide for the Engineering Profession. National Centre for Gender and Cultural Diversity, Swinburne University of Technology.4. Roberts, P., and Ayre, M., (in press), ‘ Did she jump or was

Conference Session

New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gregory Coe; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3448 DEVELOPMENT OF A WHEEL STOP MECHANISM FOR A WHEEL ALIGNMENT MACHINE Vladimir Sheyman, Mulchand S. Rathod, Greg D. Coe Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University Detroit, MI. 48202 Tel: (313) 577-0800; Fax: (313) 577-1781 E-mail: rathod@et.eng.wayne.eduSUMMARY one. It does not stand in a deep pit of the assembly plant floor. This wheel alignment

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siobhan Gibbons; Ronald Rockland; Joel Bloom; Howard Kimmel

andskills” scale will be further explored by looking at how scale scores and subscale scorescorrelate with i) students’ confidence (or lack of confidence) in engineering related skills andother unrelated skill areas, ii) other measures of students attitudes and abilities, iii) theirexposure to people in the engineering field and other measures identified as relevant.Bibliography1. Hecker, D.E., “Occupational Employment Projects to 2010.” Monthly Labor Review, (November), 57-84.2. National Science Board, Science & Engineering Indicators 2000. Washington, D.C. U. S. GovernmentPrinting Office (2000). Page 7.201.43. Global Strategy Group, Inc

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Patrick Devens

Figure 3. Fall '97 Overall "C" grade Freshman-Engineering Student Performance.A display of all Fall '97 students grades in EF1015 versus their respective mathematicspre-test scores is displayed in Figure 4 and provided from Figure 1. The figure is derivedby taking vertical slices of Figure 1 when the “EF1015 Grade”s are “0.0” (“F”), “1.0”(“D”), “1.7” (“C-“), “2.0” (“C”), “3.0” (“B”), and “4.0” (“A”). EF1015 Grade / Fall 97 / All 5 4 F Student

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

0 −0.5 −1 −1.5 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 time (s) Figure 5: An AM signal to be demodulated via DSP. 62nd Order Hilbert Transformer FIR Filter Coefficients 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 amplitude 0 −0.2 −0.4 −0.6 −0.8 0

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Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

to do some library research to determine the nature of thepower generating technology and its potential effects on the environment and society. Table 1shows a decision matrix from one of these projects. Table 1: Electric Power Decision Matrix Alternatives Hydroelectric Wind Solar Natural Gas etc. … Criteria Weights Score Weighted S WS S WS S WS Score Cost 10 10

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Technology Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Markham; Russell Thomas; Roger Debo; Angus Kingon

School, Northwestern University, 2002 url: http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/academic/majors/8) Private communication from David Ku, Georgia Institute of Technology.9) NCSU College of Engineering, 2002 ECE 292/492 Engineering Enterprise course sequence10) T K Miller III, NCSU, private communication, (October 2001).11) Pennsylvania State University, 200212) See for example, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Educators, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 200113) A I Kingon, R Thomas, S K Markham, L Aiman-Smith and R Debo, An Integrated Approach to Teaching High Technology Entrepreneurship at the Graduate Level, Proc. of the ASEE Albuquerque, NM (2001).14) S Shane and S Venkataraman, The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of

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Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Diana Dabby

upon by most LdV scholars. For “Invention Day” students prepared a“quasi-patent” write-up on an invention of their choosing, as described above.Arithmetic, Italian high finance, silverpoint pencils, and soldi came into play as students soughtto answer the question of whether a reference to a certain Caterina in Leonardo’s Notebooks doesindeed refer to his mother: Expenses of the Interment of Caterina [1494] For the 3 lbs of tapers 27 S For the bier 8S A pall over the bier 12 S For bearing and placing the cross 4S For bearing the body 8S For 4 priests and 4 clerks

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Masaaki Mizuno

course attendants. We refer to the former as “the instructor” and the later as “thesupervisor” in this paper. Page 7.1108.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWe think that the difficulties of VC++ result from the following two factors:1. The difficulty of the C++ language, particularly the object oriented aspects of the language, such as the notion of classes, inheritance, polymorphism, and class variables. The same claim is also found in [2].2. VC++'s black-box nature of both the

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ryan

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationlevel of that conclusion determined from statistical methods. If Am and Bm are the means oftheir respective data sets based on N points, then the difference in the means and its uncertaintycan be determined from: D = Am – Bm Del D = [(S A2 + S B2) / N] 1/2where S represents the sample standard deviation of each sample. The ratio of D to Del D can beused, along with a standard normal distribution probability table (or the NORMDIST function) todetermine the probability that D is larger than zero (i.e. Am is larger than Bm). A

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

(American National Standards Institute). 1996. ANSI/ISO14000 Series Standards: Environmental Management Systems – Specification with Guidance for Use. Milwaukee, WI: American Society for Quality Control.[4] Armstrong, R. J. et al.1970. The Development and Evaluation of Behavioral Objectives. Worthington, Ohio: Charles A. Jones Publishers.[5] Barrow, D., and Fulling, S. “Using an Integrated Engineering Curriculum to Improve Freshman Calculus,” Proceedings of 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, 1998.[6] Beets, S. D. and Souther, C. C. “Corporate Environmental Reports: The Need for Standards and an Environmental Assurance Service.” Accounting Horizons, 13 (June 1999): 129-45.[7] Bloom, B. S. 1956. Taxonomy of Educational

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Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

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Durward Sobek

additional designations describe non-design-related activity (project management and project delivery). Concept System-Level Detailed Design Design Design Problem Definition C/PD S/PD D/PD Idea Generation C/IG S/IG D/IG Engineering Analysis C/EA S/EA D/EA Design Refinement C/DR S/DR D/DR Project Management PM Delivery RW, PP

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susannah Spodek; Marianne Machotka; D. Joseph Mook

the student’s GPA. If youruniversity does not have a policy, we recommend that courses taken overseas be counted aspass/fail, but not incorporated into the GPA. (If a student fails, but believes s/he should havepassed, for example, in the case of a student not having enough time to complete an exam due tolanguage difficulties or a misunderstanding of the course expectations, we recommend offeringthat the student take an exam at home that would allow him/her to demonstrate knowledgelearned.)III. Logistics(This section, which addresses logistics, and the next section, which addresses culturalpreparation, are important to all study abroad students, not only those in engineering. However,it is the experience of the authors that quite a few

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

Best Practices in Design Team Readiness Assessment Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session # 3425BIBLIOGRAPHY1. M. Valenti, Teaching Tomorrow’s Engineers, ASME Magazine, July 1996.2. Engineering Accreditation Commission, Engineering Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2001.3. W. Duncan-Hewitt, D. Mount, S. Beyerlein, D. Elger, and J. Steciak, ‘Creating DesignExperiences for Beginning Engineering Students According to Developmental Principles

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New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhongming Liang

shown that constant n in Taylor equation is aninverse indicator of the cutting speed sensitivity of tool life. It is hope that the study in this paper would be of some use to instructors, students as wellas practicing engineers who use Taylor equation.References 1. S. Kalpakjian and S. R. Schmid, “Manufacturing Engineering and Technology,” 4th edition, Prentice-Hall, 2001. 2. E. P. DeGarmo, J.T. Black and R.A. Kohser, “Materials and Processes in Manufacturing,” 8th edition, Prentice-Hall, 1997. 3. M. P. Groover, “Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing,” Prentice-Hall, 1996. 4. “Fundamentals of Tool Design,” 4th edition, SME, 1998.Zhongming (Wilson) Liang ZHONGMING (WILSON) LIANG is an

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Jeruzal; Brenda Henderson; Ahmad Pourmovahed

workexperiences during the cooperative component of their education and after graduation. The course learning objectives are shown in Table 1. The table also includes coursestrategies, student learning outcomes, assessment tools, criteria for success, feedback methods,targeted ABET Engineering Criteria (ABET a-s), and Mechanical Engineering ProgramEducational Outcomes (ME PEO’s). A detailed description of each element in the assessmentprocess is contained in the following sections. Page 7.245.3Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Rabbitt; Douglas Christensen

. 160 140 CO=5.4893 L/min 120 pressure (mm Hg) 100 aorta 80 60 40 veins 20 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 time (s) Fig. 2. Blood pressure waveforms in the aorta and veins for one heartbeat After obtaining results for the normal CV system, each student does research to determinewhich values in the