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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

). Turning passive lectures into interactive learning environments with a classroom communication system. AAPT Announcer, 24(4): p. 63.27. Patterson, E. and R. Fuller, (1993). Creating multimedia/MBL labs for introductory general physics courses. AAPT Announcer, 23(4): p. 69.28. Redish, E.F., (1994). Implications of cognitive studies for teaching physics. American Journal of Physics, 62: p. 796-803.29. Redish, E.F., J.M. Saul, & R.N. Steinberg, (1997). On the effectiveness of active- engagement microcomputer-based laboratories. American Journal of Physics, 65(1): p. 45-54.30. Redish, E.F., J.M. Saul, & R.N. Steinberg, (1998). Student expectations in introductory physics. American Journal of Physics

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Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

desirable, ifnot essential that the teaching of core science, mathematics, and engineering science courses beconducted within a context of understanding. Within this context, students should understandthat engineering is a creative process whereby basic scientific principles are applied in a judiciousand effective manner to develop engineered products.Such coordination can take the form of parallel teaching of applied science and engineeringscience courses with a focus on the content of these courses. In particular, it is important thatengineering science and fundamental concepts of engineering such as engineering mechanics,electrical circuits, physical chemistry, or engineering thermodynamics be taught in a manner that ismindful of the application

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Kenneth Reid

maingoals as “teaching K-12 students the importance of engineering” 1. Involving potentialstudents on campus with fun and educational activities should stimulate an interest incollege 2, hopefully in your discipline, and if all goes well, may encourage them towardyour department!The Young Scholar Program - General Overview:The Young Scholar program at IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue UniversityIndianapolis) was started more than ten years ago, and has been administered throughthe Department of Education for the prior two years. Until three years ago, all of thecourses offered were in the liberal arts. In the past three years, two classes have been Page

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Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

exception of the director, will be filled in a special-title series. These positions are primarily upper division nine-month teaching appointments. However, due to thenature of the Paducah program, these appointments involve additional assignments, including studentrecruitment from local high schools and the business community, undergraduate laboratory and Page 5.222.3computer software development, assistance with summer job placement for students, and professionaldevelopment. The traditional responsibilities involving instruction, academic advisement, anduniversity service also apply. Because of these unique responsibilities and the

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Michael J Batchelder; Iyer L. Srinivasa; Daniel F. Dolan

also part ofCAMP. Projects appropriate to the academic calendar and student abilities provide experience forCAMP students and an aid to industry. The three faculty co-directors work with six graduate studentsand a dozen undergraduates who are managers and mentors for 33 CAMP student leaders who in turnlead multidisciplinary projects which involve approximately 100 students. Since many of these projectsare connected with courses, approximately 400 students are indirectly affected.IntroductionThe role of engineers has changed in recent years from solitary designers in the laboratory tomembers of teams that have to sell their ideas and work with customers. Engineering educationis changing to meet these changed needs; however, teaching effective

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S. S. Venkata; Doug Jacobson

of the active learning complex.DOUG JACOBSONDoug Jacobson is currently an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.Dr. Jacobson received a B.S. in Computer Engineering (1980), M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1982), and Ph.D. inComputer Engineering (1985) from Iowa State University. Dr Jacobson is the faculty coordinator of the ActiveLearning Complex and the learning community efforts in computer engineering. Dr Jacobson also teaches courses ininformation assurance and computer security and is co-coordinator of the Information Systems Security Laboratory atISU.S.S.VENKATAS.S.Venkata received his B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E from India. He received his Ph.D from the University of SouthCarolina, Columbia in

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Cecil Beeson; William Gay

developed.The four-course certificate program curriculum was designed by the advisory committee. Itconsists of the following four courses: PC Operating Systems PC Hardware Basic Network Techniques PC Systems TroubleshootingEach course consists of a four-credit hour lecture/laboratory combination, for a total of six-contact hours per week. The design of these courses was in response to what the advisorycommittee anticipated the needed skills were.The PC Operating Systems course was designed to cover DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95,Windows 98, Windows NT 4 Workstation, and Linux operating systems. Over time one wouldexpect coverage of older

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Albert B. Grubbs; Michael R. Kozak

. Page 5.272.1According to Gerhardt4, university research is both a process and a product that serves to createan environment that enhances classroom teaching in terms of relevance so students can gainimportant insight into research as applied to real life problems. Some universities are starting toestablish Internet connections to instruments in laboratories so that students can access realresearch data that relates to their courses5.As the need for graduate education increases, the need for qualified faculty also increases. Agood teacher is often the most active researcher and an increasing number of educators areintegrating research into teaching. Research is traditionally conducted by graduate faculty whobring research grants to the

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Timothy C. Scott; John P. O'Connell

students lack essential connections between scientific/technologicaldescriptions and physical behavior of real systems. We believe that a successful first course inengineering thermodynamics must address these issues by careful and comprehensive pedagogyand assessment. This paper describes our approach that involves laboratory workshops.In our course is taken principally by mechanical and chemical engineering majors. For it, wehave developed nearly a dozen 1-hour laboratory sessions to augment classroom activities and tofacilitate student growth in connecting descriptions to behavior. These include 1) simple customdevices such as piston/cylinder systems and instrumented spray bottles of refrigerant, 2)"familiar" household devices such as bicycle

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Hamid Khan

design and manufacturing professionals.• Cost of entry to the CAD environment is much lower, and the payoff much higher.• That the students will understand the enormous impact that a true 3D design process can have on a modern product design and manufacturing process.• That they will understand the potential of rapid prototyping, computer generated animationWith the above principle in mind, it has been decided to effect the following integration inthe design manaufacturing curriculum.• A common integrated computer-aided engineering software package that covers drafting, analysis, manufacturing and other application of design courses• The materials that are most relevant to concurrent teaching in a parallel fashion include

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William N. Smyer

the World Wide Web into anundergraduate engineering economy course. A continuous improvement approach is taken, withchanges implemented based on student feedback each semester.II. The Fall 1998 CourseAt Mississippi State, the three-hour undergraduate course in engineering economy is conductedduring the academic year by delivering a 50-minute lecture two days per week with an averageenrollment of 180 in the fall and 120 in the spring, plus several 50-minute laboratory/recitationsections one day per week with an average enrollment of 30 students per section. Each studentenrolls in the single, large lecture section plus one of the laboratory sections, the latter conductedby graduate assistants. The laboratory sessions consist of homework

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Stanley J. Pisarski

Session 3547 The UPJ EET MicroMouse: This New Addition Impacts Learning In Embedded Microcontrollers Stanley J. Pisarski University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil,Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering Technology. Many of the courses offered in UPJ’sEngineering Technology Program rely on laboratory experiments to supplement the lectures. TheEmbedded Microcontroller course offered by the Electrical Engineering

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Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

assignments[Oakes, 1999], engineering economic case studies, and studio exercises that cover designmethodology and that prepare students for the culminating design project and competition.Course Organization and AdministrationThe First-Year Design course is taken by all majors in engineering (civil, computer systems,electrical, mechanical, and undecided), and majors in computer science. The course schedule isa two-hour classroom meeting and a three-hour studio/laboratory meeting each week. Thesetime periods are used for lecture, discussion, studio/laboratory time as appropriate for the coursemodulesEach offering of the First-Year Design course has involved a multidisciplinary team of faculty[acknowledged at the end of the paper] who administer, teach

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Sohail Anwar

and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills.A major problem that currently exists in the schools in the United States is the lack ofappropriate methods and tools which should be used to motivate students to explore careers inscience and engineering (Anwar, 1998). In most of the schools, excellence in mathematics isregarded as a key to success in science and engineering. Students are taught numerousmathematical concepts without teaching them how these concepts are put into application in thereal world. Many math teachers are unfortunately unaware of how engineers and scientists usemathematics to solve real-world problems (Mowzoon, White, Blaisdell, and Rowland, 1999). Byinfusing science and

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

laboratoryenvironment can be designed around a somewhat limited budget. Our proposal is as follows. Ameaningful lab environment must give practical experience with a full range of HDTV related Page 5.228.3issues. Major concerns for laboratory equipment are video acquisition, MPEG encoding,broadcast capabilities, reception and decoding. Signal broadcast, reception and decoding are theeasiest issues to resolve if we think creatively. Existing computers and network wiring will serveas our broadcast and reception hardware. HDTV is, after all, digital. An upgrade of a few routersto 100 Mbps equipment along with network performance monitoring software will allow a

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Serpil Guvench; Mike Denton; Mark Rollins; Mustafa Guvench

in the characterization of CMOS devices and home made CMOS operationalamplifiers will be shown. .....The project was partially funded by National Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor Corporations.REFERENCES:[1] Guvench, M.G., "SPICE Parameter Extraction from Automated Measurement of JFET and MOSFET Characteristics in The Computer-Integrated-Electronics Laboratory", Proc. of ASEE’94, vol.1, pp.879-884. Page 5.119.7[2] Marcy, D. and Sturm, J., “Teaching Systems Through Integrated Circuit Fabrication,” s1526, ASEE’97, Milwaukee,1997.[3] Guvench, M.G., “Automated Measurement

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Elaine L. Craft; James C. Wood

. Page 5.345.4JAMES C. WOODJames C. Wood has BS and MS degrees in physics from Clemson University and Ph. D. from the University ofVirginia in physics. He has seven year of research experience in laboratories for American Cynamid and TRW. Hehas 25 year teaching experience in physics and engineering technology at Tri-County Technical College. He iscurrent Division Chair of the Industrial and Engineering Technology Division and Co-PI for a statewide curriculumdevelopment grant for engineering technology.ELAINE L. CRAFTElaine L. Craft is Director and Principal Investigator for the SC ATE Center of Excellence as well as Co-PrincipalInvestigator for the SC ATE Exemplary Faculty Project, both National Science Foundation grants awarded to theSouth

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Craig Johnson

MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) Program at Central Washington University (CWU) has anumber of course requirements addressing technical writing, presentations and speaking.However, unlike Seat and Lord2, we have no course requirement dedicated to group skills andfurther integration at a program level. In CWU’s MET program almost all of the courses havesome in-situ laboratory work, and therefore an opportunity to build teamwork skills on anactivity level.Class ActivitiesFor a number of years we have known of different teaching and learning styles, in many waysbest defined by personal traits (e.g. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator3). Felder incorporateddifferent educational methods into his chemistry courses at North Carolina State University, andeventually took

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

plot of the release profileof drug from their lozenge is created. Finally they determine the parameter necessary to apply amodel to their system, and they compare their experimental release profile to that described bythe model.IntroductionRowan University is pioneering a progressive and innovative Engineering program that usesinnovative methods of teaching and learning to prepare students better for a rapidly changing andhighly competitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE[1]. Key features of the programinclude: (i) multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (ii) Page 5.405.1teamwork as the necessary

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Nickolas S. Jovanovic

to "close" students taking courses that meet in traditionalclassroom settings. A third viewpoint is that "close" students are actually distance students mostof the time, since even they should do most of their learning outside of the classroom; this modelhas the advantage of encouraging lifelong learning. This paper describes some of ourexperiences over the last three years while offering web-based course supplements, designed anddelivered with World Wide Web Course Tools (WebCT) software, at the University of Arkansasat Little Rock. One benefit of web-based course supplements for engineering (as well as other)programs is that they can permit more class time to be devoted to interactive classroom activitiessuch as laboratory experiments and

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

participate in the exploration of advanced materials.Materials Content of the Mechanical Engineering CurriculumThe curriculum aims to cover all 1four corners of the materialstetrahedron shown in Figure 1. Itis supported by a sophomore levelbasic materials science course, a 2junior level manufacturing 3 4processes course, two laboratory Figure 1classes and is capped with a senior Materials Tetrahedron1level course in materialsengineering. In addition, there are 1. Advanced Processingsome technical elective courses in 2

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Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

laboratory,interwoven using J.I.T. methodology. More than 45 participants have taken the courseand provided feedback via a questionnaire. A Supervisors’ Course is being developed.Labs are provided; the supervisors will analyze and evaluate the lab material from theicons backwards.IntroductionFor several years, Northeastern University’s Continuing Education Center for CorporateOn-Site Training has been working to devise new courses that apply the Just-In-TimeEducation™ technique. This technique examines the technical topics desired to betaught to potential participants. It then sequences these topics so the knowledge andskills are gradually applied in the course. Potential participants are given a mathematicsDiagnostic Tool developed by the authors

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John D. Enderle

should result in change such as adoption of newtextbooks, teaching techniques and laboratory procedures/experiments. It is not theresponsibility of the program evaluator to discover the fruits of assessment; it is theresponsibility of the faculty to demonstrate how assessment has caused changes in the program.Assessment and continuous improvement require a plan of action. To demonstrate that graduateshave achieved desired outcomes, some programs use student portfolios, collecting student workfrom the freshman year to the senior year using a WWW based approach. This tool is useful indemonstrating that outcomes have been achieved. Others use an exit interview for all graduatingstudents that provide important program feedback. This interview is in

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

project, especially its disassembly.Before the cart-tipper project was assigned, the issue of how to communicate necessary projectinformation to the students without providing the orthographic drawings that the students wereexpected to generate had to be resolved. Our solution was to have a graduate teaching assistantmeasure the cart-tipper, then draw and dimension two-dimensional isometric drawings of itscomponents. These drawings were placed on the course server as well as shown on thedistributed paper copy of assignment directions. Digital photographs of the cart-tipper wereloaded onto the course server to provide overnight and remote access to visual aids. Finally, the

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

the agenda include: proposal goals, projectactivities, size of the college and area high school student body; location; course offerings;instructional needs including teaching staff, materials, equipment and laboratories; possibleprocess/procedures; how to determine priorities; and how the proposed resources would beallocated.The meeting leaders plan an agenda including the following activities: 1. Discussion of the three primary goals; 2. Identify the three most critical activities for each of their colleges, discuss them, and prioritize them; 3. List and discuss the information necessary for each activity; 4. Describe what the activity would need to look like at each site; 5. Identify Summer Programs and develop the concept; 6. Describe

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Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap; Dennis R. Depew

instruction with faculty, they learn about theprescribed course content through lecture, supplemented by computer laboratory, library, video, andgroup case study interaction. By breaking up instruction through different teaching methodologiesand physical location throughout the West Lafayette campus, students better learn and retain coursecontent while having an intense instructional period during a given weekend. For any given coursetaught in this format, students have appropriately 32 hours of contact time with their instructor whileon campus. Students continue their studies in their home area and are in contact with the WestLafayette faculty on a weekly basis using distance education technology. Distance education mediainclude the completion of

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Herbert Hess

of circuit topologies, prototypeboards, and software are presented. When completed, the converters go to work asdemonstrations in a senior-level course in power electronics. Converters show fundamentalcircuit behavior on ordinary portable laboratory instruments. Common nonideal behavior ofconverters appears and can be used to gain better insight into circuit operation than that oftengained by traditional simulation methods. These converters also were used as a recruiting tool.Methods of teaching with these converters are presented, including some that worked and somethat failed.Introduction Power electronics draws from a host of topics, making it an appropriate vehicle for teachingdesign to senior undergraduate students. One of the

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Anant Kukreti

Session 1368 Computer-Based Learning Modules For Rigid Body Mechanics Musharraf Zaman, Anant R. Kukreti University of OklahomaAbstractThe use of computer-based modules in teaching and learning some of the difficult to comprehendconcepts in mechanics can be very beneficial for both students and instructors. The Vectormodule discussed in this paper was developed and used by the authors to introduce the conceptsassociated with the mathematical operations and use of vectors to solve engineering problemsincluding evaluation of vector components, addition, dot and cross products, projection, and

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Musharraf Zaman; Anant Kukreti

Session 1368 Computer-Based Learning Modules For Rigid Body Mechanics Musharraf Zaman, Anant R. Kukreti University of OklahomaAbstractThe use of computer-based modules in teaching and learning some of the difficult to comprehendconcepts in mechanics can be very beneficial for both students and instructors. The Vectormodule discussed in this paper was developed and used by the authors to introduce the conceptsassociated with the mathematical operations and use of vectors to solve engineering problemsincluding evaluation of vector components, addition, dot and cross products, projection, and

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James N. Peterson

design projects ♦ Meet with instructor to select project ♦ Provide for project expenses: Parts, direct costs, lab fees ♦ Give technical assessment feedbackThe university instructor is responsible for accomplishing the teaching objectives for the designcourse, and these objectives include producing students who can: ♦ Create & implement feasible solutions to engineering problems ♦ Understand the iterative design process ♦ Use resources effectively: time, money, parts, lab equipment, information ♦ Learn “team” skillsV. Additional ResponsibilitiesExisting laboratory equipment can support some projects that require the use of softwaredevelopment systems. However