Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Chasnov, Cedarville University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

assigned one of six alternative energy sources (wind,natural gas, fuel cell, solar, biodiesel, or nuclear) for which they developed a Partial Replacementof Campus Electricity plan. Student teams were required to identify Cedarville’s electricitysupplier’s energy source, its cost of purchasing the electricity, and the carbon output resultingfrom the electricity purchased by the university. Their task was to locate an existing commercialpower generating unit which could generate at least 15% of Cedarville’s current electricitydemands, compute the capital expenditure to purchase and install the unit, and perform a life-cycle analysis in order to compute total cost to the university over a 30-year period forimplementing their plan.Though Congress has

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Punit Deotale, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees

(6)cost analysis.This paper will describe the design of the PSE. Future plans include conducting evaluations withstudents and adding student modeling to provide adaptive support for students.IntroductionAutomation has a profound effect on the way we do work. A U.S. Census Bureau report notesthat yearly exports in the flexible manufacturing category (equivalent to industrial automation)were $19.44B in 2006, a 10% jump from $17.61B in 20051. Moreover, monthly exports in theflexible manufacturing category were $4.06B in March 2008, a 0.5% jump from $4.04B inMarch 20072. This trend is likely to continue to increase as the manufacturing sector continuesto transform to a high tech, less labor-intensive and value added industry using

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

both a formative and summative evaluation plan for their teaching.Obj. 5 - Students will have developed their own philosophy of teaching statement. Format of the courses is based on one three-hour session, one evening per week for 10weeks (academic quarter). Primary leadership has been by the study author, however selectedtopics are addressed by colleagues from a range of units across campus and from otherUniversities. The course is highly interactive, frequently using collaborative learning techniques.Formative and summative assessment is modeled throughout course and with end of term tools.Each segment (topic and presenter) is assessed independently at the end of the course. Thirtyminute individual exit interviews are used in

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

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Chemical Engineering

through a cylinder: Page 22.466.8Solute transport in the Mass and fluid transportglomeruli through poresFarheus effect in Segregated fluid flow in pipesblood flow (marginal zone theory)Generalized model Mass flow balancefor drug transport inan organ For vascular space: For interstitial space: For cellular space: Overall mass transport: Page 22.466.9Future plans:Future plans for this course include: (i) Adding guest lectures by medical school

Conference Session

Materials Experiments, Labs, Demos, and Hands-On Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Spencer Seung-hyun Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

engineering technology programs.Three undergraduate students conducted the research project under the guidance of Dr. S.Kim for approximately six months. Not only did this research project prove to bemotivational for the students, but also it provided them an opportunity to seek work in therelated industries. Student testimonials are presented as follows: “ I just wanted to send you a note as I said I would to update you on my fall plans. I haveaccepted a double block of Co-op with GE Global Research in the materials lab. I wantto thank you for sparking my interest in the field and giving the opportunity to be in thelab, which gave me the confidence to go after a position like this. I will be returning toRIT in the spring. Thanks again Prof. Kim!”“I

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Li, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Antonio J. Soares, Florida A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

up with a strategy for US to harness the power ofclean, renewable energy to lead 21st century. He has a comprehensive plan to chart a new energyfuture by embracing alternative and renewable energy, ending our addiction to foreign oil,addressing the global climate crisis and creating millions of new jobs that can’t be shippedoverseas. He sets an ambitious goal of generating 25 percent of our energy from renewablesources by 2025. [2]Renewable energyThen what is renewable energy? Renewable energy is any source of energy that can be usedwithout depleting its reserves. These sources include sun, wind, biomass and hydro energy. Eachof these energy sources can be harnessed to varying degrees and at varying costs. They can beused to produce

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lance W. Traub, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

presented on their findings.Fig. 1 AVL model representation Page 22.484.3 The following were covered during the formal lecture period: • Application of wall corrections • Drag extrapolation to higher Re numbers • Incorporation of profile drag into finite wing drag estimates • Wind tunnel test planning and procedures • Application of trip strips • Time series analysis • Hot wire anemometry • Non-intrusive lift and drag measurement The second lecture period was commonly used for student recitation. This required thestudents to conduct literature surveys on their selected research

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mahmood Nahvi

synthesis (6).7. Discussion and ConclusionsMathematics and the physical world may be linked together through an undergraduate course indigital signal processing, producing expertise that is currently much in demand by the industry.The course needs to keep up with the rapid developments in hardware and software tools. Thisrequires frequent maintenance and upgrading of the lab and the course. It also requires thefaculty to keep up with the new tools and techniques, not just in DSP hardware and software, butalso in computers and interfacing with them. Students’ familiarity with high-tech tools andcomputers makes it possible for them to explore and implement challenging DSP projects. In planning and developing the DSP Laboratory at Cal Poly, we have

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1999 Annual Conference

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John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

participating in an international designproject. In 1997, Union was planning an exchange program with ESIGELEC, a Frenchengineering school. As a prelude to sending Union students on the exchange, we decidedto encourage participation by a group of students in the 1998 E=M6 RoboticsCompetition in France. Engineering students from ESIGELEC had been participating inthis competition for several years, and they were willing to cooperate with a group ofstudents from Union. Several Union students were members of the college’s robot club Page 4.339.1and had participated in the American Nuclear Society student robotics competition inAugusta, GA in 1997. The E=M6

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1999 Annual Conference

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S. Andrew Hale; Roger Rohrbach; Larry Stikeleather; John Parsons; James Young; Susan M. Blanchard

concentrations in Agricultural,Biomedical, Bioprocess, and Environmental Engineering. Enrollment in the BE degree programhas grown markedly since it was introduced in Fall 1994 with students in the BiomedicalEngineering Concentration now making up nearly 70% of the students. This broad range ofconcentrations and shift in student interests has resulted in several changes in course content.Many required courses now routinely include biomedical as well as agricultural examples.Future plans include the development of an ABET-accredited B. S. in Biomedical Engineeringin addition to the B. S. in Biological Engineering so that the needs of the two studentpopulations can be better served.IntroductionIn 1994, the Department of Biological and Agricultural

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1999 Annual Conference

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K. A. Korzeniowski; J. L. Rice

Brown University in 1993. Dr. Korzeniowski iscurrently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. Currentresearch work focuses on developing control, sensor fusion and motion planning algorithms for robotic systems.J.L. RICE received her M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis. Commander Riceis currently a Master Instructor at the United States Naval Academy. Research interests include college level learningexcellence development, biomedical signal processing, and rehabilitation engineering. Page 4.529.6

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1999 Annual Conference

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Michio Tsutsui

advertisements. Though not common, some read patents. Those wholive in Japan regularly read memos and mail in Japanese.For what: Subjects read Japanese to perform such duties as technical support, marketingsupport, designing, development, testing, and information gathering for strategy planning.(3) Other foreign language skillsThough not as crucial as the two skills mentioned above, other skills are important in somesituations. For example, listening skills are necessary at meetings if engineers work in Japan,and so are presentation skills when they are involved in marketing there. Translation andinterpretation skills are also important in certain situations. Writing skills are necessary for e-mail, although e-mail usually does not require high-level

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1999 Annual Conference

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Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. After learningabout this system, the students will come to know the importance of measuring the parameters inreal time. They will also come to know about the issues involved in measuring, interfacing and Page 4.360.5reading the parameters in real time. The following exercises are planned for inclusion in thecourse delivery.1. In order to measure the torque in either lbf. or N-m, what settings are required? How to keep the corresponding setting by configuring the Labview block diagram and front panel?2. In order to measure the instantaneous or average power, what adjustments are to be made?3. How will you

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

while stillachieving each milestone in the design process requires substantial planning and facultyinvolvement. A suitable solution for the junior level is limitation of the components to some setthat is both universally available and sufficiently understood by the students. The use of rigidmilestones can also be implemented, but can be left somewhat open. As an example, a sensingmodule might have a milestone of generating a sensing system that outputs a voltage between ±5volts with a range of at least one foot for a given test light. The details regarding theimplementation that we have chosen, as well as selected results of the procedures, are discussedin Sections 3 and 4.3. A Sample Laboratory SetupIn the past, servo-motor labs at the United

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mahlon Heller

been written and the driver code can be examined by the students.Infrared proximity sensors, even though available, were not used because of other activitiesplanned for the lab time. In addition, the incremental shaft encoder scheme provided with theBrain board was not continued because reliable operation could not be achieved. Plans are touse a more robust wheel position encoder scheme in the future. The following is a briefdescription of the sensors mounted on each MOBOT and the tests that the students perform:Photocells: Light-detecting phototransistors are mounted on the left and right side of the Brainboard. IC programs are written to characterize the response of the left and right photocells to abright light under room lighting

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1999 Annual Conference

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William Whitaker

profile." A low success profile identifies not onlythose students with academic skill deficiencies, but poses a liability to their potential first yearsuccess. This information would then be used in planning and preparing instructional groupsdeveloped for the next phase, Phase 2.VI. Pre-School Advance Transition TrainingA critical time for most first year students is the first two weeks of class. New experiences andrelationships are happening in a very short time period. It is a time when a first year student canbegin to feel comfortable at MSU, or experience anxiety and begin to look for “excuses”.The Advance Transition Training (ATT) phase is a part of the on-going orientation programdesigned to provide students with the knowledge and skills to

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1999 Annual Conference

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Oscar D. Crisalle; Haniph A. Latchman; Denis Gillet; Christophe Salzmann

student access to experimental work over the Internetcan also be used by the instructor to perform live demonstrations in front of a class during alecture period. This permits the execution and observation of experiments without incurring Page 4.402.2delays associated with the relocation of students from the lecture room to the laboratoryfacilities. Furthermore, a small laboratory space that could not accommodate the simultaneouspresence of many students can be effectively made accessible to the entire class, saving onundesirable overhead costs associated with logistics planning and instructor time. We have madeuse of such live demonstrations

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1999 Annual Conference

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

types of activities in the community, particularly in rural and urbanareas.Further information on ScienceWorks, including module documentation, is available athttp://www.engr.unl.edu/~sciworks/. We are also planning to publish a book of age-orientedscience exploration activities in the near future.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation (grant # NSF OSR-9553350), UNL’sCenter for Materials Research and Analysis and the following departments at UNL: BiologicalSciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineeringand Physics.Bibliography1. Science and Engineering Indicators: 1998, National Science Board (NSB 98-1).2. NSF Director Rita Colwell remarks at DC Science Writers

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1999 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

self-assessment data before testing on the material and correlation done on those data. The responsescale could be changed to allow students a wider spread in the levels of understanding, forexample a scale of one to ten instead of one to five. End of class student rating of understandingcould be correlated to performance on specific topic areas on the final exam. These and otherchanges are being planned for implementation during the spring of 1999 and will be reported atthe 1999 ASEE annual conference. Also, a longitudinal study of student perception of theirunderstanding compared to job performance in those areas is another possibility.Asking students for their self-assessment of understanding of content topics or objectivesprovides useful

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1999 Annual Conference

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Wallace Fowler

work of earlier teams as an example of how things should be done is strongly encouraged. Provide information about effective teaming but do not force teams to follow particular procedures. Allow teams to make mistakes and to learn from them.6. Require that each student team develop a written proposal -- with both technical and management plans. LIMIT THE LENGTH OF THE PROPOSAL (20 pages or less) -- force teams to be brief. Again, suggest that they look at the work of earlier student groups. Teams like the idea of having a short proposal, but about half of the teams find the 20 page limit confining.6. Provide resource files of specialized information. For the first few years I taught design, each design class

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1999 Annual Conference

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Chris Cox; R. Bruce Robinson

enjoy working with the EPANETcomputer program, and appreciate the realism of the case study. To quote one student, "Ifinally felt like an engineer."V. Problems and Planned Improvements Page 4.116.5Although the case study has been successful and the students seem to learn much from it, Table 1. Portion of EPANET input file.[TITLE]Design Project[JUNCTIONS];ID ELEV DEMAND8 935 26.739 960 5.4410 950 10.89 C C C[TANKS];ID ELEV INIT MIN MAX DIAM202 1298 16.3 0 33 51201 1298 15.1 0 32 38208 950[PIPES];ID NODE1 NODE2 LENGTH DIAM ROUGH13 8 9

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1999 Annual Conference

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Valerie L. Young

Session 2213 Using Your Unit Operations Laboratory Valerie L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractThrough planned exposure to the unit operations laboratory, students in introductory coursesgain a deeper understanding of chemical engineering. In the "Energy Balances" course at OhioUniversity, students worked in groups to design a system to preheat the feed to the distillationcolumn in the unit operations laboratory, using waste heat from the column. In their anonymousend-of-course review, many students named this project as the one they learned the most

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1999 Annual Conference

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Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

select aroute for a highway between two termini on a 7 ½ minute quadrangle map. All the teams havethe same design criteria with respect to maximum grade, maximum cut or fill, and maximumdegree of curve. Each team must submit a plan and profile of its route. The documents are notaccepted until the instructors ensure that all the design criteria have been met.V. Accuracy & PrecisionOne of the more subtle objectives of Measurements is to instill in the students an appreciationfor accuracy and precision in the acquisition and processing of engineering data. In particular,the course emphasizes the appropriate use of significant figures. In many of the exercises, thestudents use data from a variety of sources to evaluate the parameters in an

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1999 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

Session 1647requirements. The first two issues, PLC language standards and the scarcity of good PLCinstructional materials, are addressed in this paper.Teaching PLC Programming LanguagesThe absence of a standard for PLC languages creates a number of problems when instruction inPLC concepts is planned. Two options are available to overcome this issue: teach PLCprogramming using a generic set of PLC commands or select an industrial PLC and teach PLCprogramming using the command set from the selected vendor. The first option is often used inPLC textbooks so that the text appeals to a wide range of schools using different PLC systems inthe laboratory. A major disadvantage to option one is that a simulator or virtual generic PLC isnot available to

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1999 Annual Conference

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T. T. Maxwell; J. C. Jones; D. L. Vines; M. E. Parten

each student identifying their progressfor the past week as well as problems encountered, and outlining plans for the upcomingweek. Although individual students prepare these progress reports they are submitted as aproject group report with the individual reports stapled together. These written progressreports are due each week at the beginning of Oral Presentation time. Student groups arerequired to meet with their project advisor to discuss these weekly progress reports and theadvisor signs the report indicating that the group has briefed him/her.Each team member keeps a project notebook. This notebook is turned in at the completionof the project. The notebook should be a looseÀleaf, threeÀring binder type. All projectrelated work should be

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jim Henry

learning. The challenge is to develop software systems that will assist in this.A database of usage of the Web-laboratories will be built. An expert observer systemwill be developed to give feedback and guidance to users of the system. This feedbackwill be timely. The "coaching" function of the software ("expert observer") mediatesstudent functions by providing assistance during the planning, implementation, analysis,and application phases of the laboratory experimentation. There is a change in thecourseware in emphasis from "What are the directions?" to "What does the studentlearn?" The latter is assessed through measures of student responses. We areincorporating problem-based learning in the educational material.The expert performance monitor

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2000 Annual Conference

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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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2000 Annual Conference

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Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

items in the survey.• The students agreed (4.0 or better) that they enjoyed ten of the eleven items (items 1-11) that asked how they enjoyed various aspects of the course. The single item that was rated slightly below the “agree” level was item 4 on the section on motors. We will address this item in our planning for the next offering of the course.• Students said that they understood the working of the basic components and their simulations (item 12) and that they learned a lot from their projects (item 14).• They agreed that combining EE and EET students in one class is a positive feature (item 15) and that it was a good experience (item 26).• Neither the EE or EET majors expressed an agreement with wanting to take a

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2000 Annual Conference

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Steven E. O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

architectural planning, aesthetics and other systemsin buildings. This requires architectural engineers to have a general knowledge of all theaspects of architecture and technology, in addition to an expertise in their individual field.Housed within the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, the School ofArchitecture at Oklahoma State University offers five-year professional degree programs inboth Architecture and Architectural Engineering1. The integration of these programs throughshared faculty, facilities and course work is unique in architectural engineering education and isa strength of the School. The primary thrust of both programs is the preparation of graduates toenter private practice as consulting engineers or architects. It is

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bill T. Ray

writes a cookie containing all the data on the usersmachine. The cookie allows the user to return to the site at a later time (up to 90 days in thiscase) and go directly to the design section without reentering the data. After data submission, theinput data is presented back to the user for confirmation or correction. The user may then selectfrom several pages which provide preliminary sizing for different plant processes. The returneddesign data includes tank sizes (length, width, and depth or diameter and depth); the number ofunits required; channel widths, horsepower or air flow requirements, typical design standards,etc. The actual design is compared to the typical design standards for that particular process.Finally, a plan view of the