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provided by the corresponding 1-Dfilter applied to a speech signal. Once a systems concept has been made intuitively clear,understanding the mathematical definitions and explanations should become easier for thestudents. A set of laboratory exercises have been developed for a course in digital imageprocessing which will aid in teaching systems-related concepts such as spatial convolution,space-frequency duality, image compression, spatial and contrast enhancement, signaldegradation due to noise, and image restoration. All laboratory exercises were originallyimplemented using the C programming language on a UNIX computer system. Studentsin a digital image processing course taught by the author during the fall semester of 1996were provided with

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Roman Kuc

. Barnes. Engineering education under attack. IEEE Transactions on Education, 37:1-2, 1994.[2] J.R. Lohmann. Myths, facts and the future of U.S. engineering and science education. Engineering Education, pages 365-371, April 1991.[3] S.B. Sample. Engineering education and the liberal arts tradition. IEEE Transactions on Edu- cation, 31:54-57, 1988.[4] Morris A. Shamos. The Myth of Scientific Literacy. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984.ROMAN KUC received the BSEE in 1968 from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, andthe PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1977 from Columbia University, New York, NY. From1968 to 1975 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories engaged in the

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engineeringeducation. However before this new tool can be effectively applied, we must first learn itsstrengths, weaknesses, and optimal implementation. A series of VR based educational moduleshave therefore been developed, in order to explore the capabilities of this emerging technology. [ 1-7 ]The interested reader is directed to the listed references and to the laboratory web site athttp://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/vrichel to learn more details of the VR modules.The StudentsThere have been fourteen students involved in the project so far, including the current four whoare just beginning their involvement. Thirteen have been either Junior or Senior chemicalengineering students, and one is a

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, M. E., "Use of Knowledge-Based Expert Systems for Teaching About Building Codes: An Example." Proceedings of the 24th Annual Small College Computing Symposium, Morris, Minnesota, April 19-20, 1991, pp. 115-124.17. Sener, M. E., "Creating Problem Solving Laboratories for Undergraduate Courses Using Knowledge-Based Expert Systems." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, W. Lafayette, Indiana, Sept 22- 24, 1991, pp. 647-652.18. Sener, M. E., "Simulating Construction Field Experience in the Undergraduate Classroom Using Expert Systems: An Example." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Illinois-Indiana Section Meeting Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

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Seung H. Kim

principles in materials and processes to the lower level of undergraduatestudents, who are not well prepared in mathematics. Using such a software method simplifiescomplex equations so that students can minimize the difficulties in understanding mathematicalmodels in materials engineering technology. It also allows students to directly write laboratoryreports on the worksheet. The students say that the Mathcad™ solution method makes themclearly understand the lecture contents and laboratory exercise in the carburization of steels.CONCLUSION Diffusion in the heat treatment of steels is expressed in Fick's first and second laws. Theanalysis and simulation of carburizing processes are performed using the Mathcad solutionmethod. Thus, engineering

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V.J. Deleveaux; C.O. Ruud

facilities and administrativesupport that are at their disposal to conduct their projects. These include shop facilities,computer laboratories and software, and project administrators. In the seventh class meeting, thestudents must submit a written copy of their project proposal and present their proposal in theform of a talk to the class. Following this session, they are required to make a presentation to theindustrial sponsor's management at the sponsor's site. A copy of their proposal is also presentedto the sponsor.For the next three weeks, the students conduct their team project investigation interfacing mainlywith the industrial sponsor's liaison engineer and visiting the industrial plant site. Meetings withthe instructors are scheduled at

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Nicole Washington; Mohamad Parnianpour; Jared Walkenhorst

allows theuser to proceed throughout the tutorial in the order he/she chooses. This hypermedia option isavailable throughout the tutorial so that the user is also able to navigate within each section ashe/she chooses.The Biomechanics Tutorial contains a mechanics review, a mechanics quiz, an anatomy review,an anatomy quiz, quiz results, examples of simulations, a study guide, and practicalbiomechanical simulations that are presented as laboratory exercises for students to explore andanalyze. Page 2.144.1A. Review SectionsThis section is designed to review basic engineering mechanics principles. It containshypertexted concepts

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M. E. Parten; M. C. Baker

, November 1996, Salt Lake City, Utah Page 2.156.6Micheal E. Parten is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Partenhas conducted research and published in the areas of education, instrumentation, control, modeling andsimulation of a variety of systems, including semiconductor processing. Since returning to Texas Tech in1984, Dr. Parten has served as the Director of the Undergraduate Laboratories in Electrical Engineering.Mary C. Baker is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. She has 10years of teaching experience and has done extensive work in the semiconductor, plasma

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Brian S. Mitchell

, studentshave been introduced to linear regression, and graphical techniques and software in Design I.Design III and IV are unit operations laboratories, taught during the spring and summer semestersof the junior year, respectively. In addition to the tradition unit operations emphasis of these 3-credit lab courses, safety, ethics, report writing, presentation skills and career guidance areemphasized. Some of these topics have already been introduced in Design I. Ethics have beenintroduced during a lecture on quality control. Report writing is also emphasized in Design I.As in most chemical engineering curricula, the design sequence is finalized with the capstonedesign course, entitled “Process Design and Economics.” This first semester senior

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James C. Wood

Material Fluid Optics C o m p u t e r s concepts and laboratory skills needed in the Wo r k p l a c e area of study. Then the team determined the R e a d i n e ss ET Concepts ET Concepts supporting science concept and math skills

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Edward Pines

. As part of its manufacturingengineering education program, NMSU has developed partnerships with a variety of industrialfirms and two national laboratories. A telephone survey was made of human factors specialistsat the industrial partners. Respondents indicated a need for actual facility use. It was suggestedthat as much actual equipment and workplace experience as possible be built into the class.Additionally, a telephone survey was made of colleagues working in the ergonomics area. Thissurvey was undertaken to further develop the academic content of the course.A set of course objectives and topics were finally developed and discussed with the curriculumcoordinator. This agreed-on set of topics became the basis for the course syllabus

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Charles N. Eastlake; Alfred L. Stanley

?Students in the design sequence began using Computer Aided Design (CAD) in 1983 andby 1993 the CAD system had evolved to the point of having the capability of doing 3-dimensional solid modeling. At that time Dr. Jim Ladesic acquired a National ScienceFoundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant to acquire astereolithography rapid prototyping system which could create actual parts from the CADsolid models. Students learned many lessons about the realities of making three-dimensional shapes from this system and took great pride in showing off their designs.But the STL machine is limited to relatively small parts, about 9 inches in the longestdimension. And the polymer material made by this system is both expensive andsufficiently

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.VINCENT M. ALLEN has recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Maine. Currently he is working in the Instrumentation Lab at the University of Maine toward a Masterof Science degree in Computer Engineering

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Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.VINCENT M. ALLEN has recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Maine. Currently he is working in the Instrumentation Lab at the University of Maine toward a Masterof Science degree in Computer Engineering. Page 2.194.4

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Robert F. Kubichek; Eskild T. Arntzen; Donald S. Warder

,however, many of these issues never arose. For example, the issue of sexual harassment did notcome up in this class. Furthermore, I never felt any peer pressure from the students, nor did I feelthat I was not taken seriously by the students. I believe this might have been caused by the factthat I was older than the students in my class and that I had been a graduate student much longerthan the graduate students in the class. However, I found it useful to discuss these and otherethics questions with the mentor as well as with other faculty members.I had previously taught laboratory sections for various electrical engineering courses and wascomfortable with managing a group of students. However, I still found that the switch from thelaboratory to

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Kevin S. LeBlanc; Bruce E. Segee

, Inc., Foster City, CA.6. BiographyDr. BRUCE SEGEE received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. Hehas been an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine since that time.At the University of Maine, he heads the Instrumentation Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, and networking. Work also includes the used of fuzzy logic and artificial networks.KEVIN S. LEBLANC received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at theUniversity of Maine in 1996. He is currently pursuing a

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Wessel Koning

list of project task suggestions.This approach for selecting the team and project task contributes to the student’s andteacher’s motivation.During project hours students work in a surrounding which is intended to be a reflec-tion ofthe professional practice. The available laboratory has a number of necessary machines andfacilities to realize the electrical or electronic device.When the EE project period finishes in June a exposition market is organized on the finalday of the year where all groups can demonstrate their projects. First year students arespecially invited to get an impression of the results of EE project course where they have towork on the next year.4 The points of reference of the NHL teaching concept.The ten points of reference

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S. Gokhale; J. Aldrich

PhaseOne of the first tasks accomplished was the determination of structural sufficiency of the existingfloor beams, roof rafters, and stud walls. Inspection revealed that the existing members were Page 2.243.3rough sawn and not of standard dressed dimensions. The origin of the lumber was questionableas it did not have any grade stamp. Students were able to extract some samples to conductstandardized testing in the laboratory. A forestry expert was also contacted to help determine thespecies origin.Most of the structural members appeared to be in very good shape. The studs were 2” x 3.75”,the floor beams and roof rafters were 2” x 7.5” in dimension

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John E. Mayer

whole class and a brief (one-two paragraph) written report issubmitted to the professor. No lectures are given by the professor. The mode of operation is asan advisor to the project, during the class period and outside of class. The class meets 1-2 hoursonce a week for the progress report sessions. The students also receive laboratory credit for thiscourse; however, the teams meet independently to work on their projects. The teams visit theirindustrial sponsor and work on problem solutions, designs, analyses, reports, and on preparationof their presentations. Two major reports are required. Each team submits a written Mid-TermReport and makes an oral presentation of this report to the class. There is no final exam;however, a written Final

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Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

Engineering students and faculty take Several FC faculty have volunteered time and design activities to the 5th and 6th materials grade campuses at local schools TAMU Tours of campus and laboratory One FC faculty arranged with MEP and WEP activities for local community the tours and raised funds for the buses. centers serving 2nd through 4th graders. ASU Collaboration with girl scouts to WISE offer 1 week camps for 1&2, 3&4, and 5&6 graders.Middle School TAMU SWE one week residential camp FC

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James Lombardi; O. G. Petersen

works as an Electrical Engineerat Krones Inc. in Franklin, WI with responsibilities for integration of machine vision systems into high speedmanufacturing lines.DR. O. G. PETERSEN is an Assoc. Prof. in the Dept. of Elect. Eng. and Comp. Science at the Milwaukee School ofEngineering and Assoc. Director of the Applied Technology Center. He is a former Member of the Technical Staffat AT&T Bell Laboratories. His areas of interest are integrated circuit technology, high speed integrated circuitdesign, and quality in manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Page 2.320.4 RESEARCH AND

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Roger A. Messenger

). Page 2.321.43. Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems, A Handbook of Recommended Design Practices, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (1991).4. Yang, Edward S., Microelectronic Devices, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY (1988).5. Streetman, Ben, Solid State Electronic Devices, IV Ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995).6. Nilsson, James W., and Reidel, Susan A., Electric Circuits, V Ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1996).7. Sedra, Adel S., and Smith, Kenneth C., Microeletronic Circuits, 3rd Ed.,Saunders College Publishing (1991).ROGER A. MESSENGER received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and has been atFlorida Atlantic University since then. He is currently Professor of Electrical

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

February 1994 to participate in the Sunrayce 95 competition. The proposal discusseddesign specifications, project planning, fund raising, construction techniques, and testing. Afterreviewing all proposals at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado),MTSU was selected to be among 65 participants eligible to compete in the race.MTSU’S SOLAR CAR TEAM MTSU is located in the city of Murfreesboro, 30 miles south of Nashville in the state ofTennessee. With current enrollment of approximately 18,000 students, it is the largest and fastest Page 2.351.1growing in the Middle Tennessee area. The Department of Engineering Technology

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James A. Reising

with the roomcontrol units over household wiring circuits.A microprocessor-based interface between a PC and a monochromator that used the PC tocontrol a scan over a desired range of wavelengths and display the resulting spectrum.Several team projects to develop patentable inventions.James A. Reising is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Evansville, Evansville,Indiana, where he has taught since 1980. Prior to that time he was employed by Eagle-Picher Industries at theMiami Research Laboratories and the Electro-Optics Materials Department. He has been senior project coordinatorfor electrical and computer engineering at the University of Evansville since 1982

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Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

SEGEE received a PhD in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He has been anassistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.SCOTT C. DUNNING is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of Maine,Orono, Maine. He teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machinery and power

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Lisa A. Riedle; Jill M. Clough

knowing the composition of the dust, the group carefully packaged asmuch of it as possible and then made an appointment with their chemistry professor. That professorhelped the group run a series of simple experiments to determine the dust’s properties. The groupdiscovered that an Etch-A-Sketch is filled with aluminum dust. These students stated that they gainedmore from that chemistry experience than in their regularly scheduled laboratory projects because “it wasfun”.From the instructor’s view, the project reports were engineering-related and well organized. Studentswere less nervous while giving presentations because the topic (their object) was very familiar and theexpectations had been well defined. Every group had a unique object. Students

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Lisa A. Wipplinger; Charles R. Bissey

systems by quickly manipulating large matrices.A review of the current content of textbooks and the typical content of undergraduate coursesindicates that the majority of the old - or what are now commonly referred to as the “classical”-analysis techniques continue to be included and taught as a major part of the undergraduatecurriculum.Codes and Design SpecificationsThe amount of information and related criteria about loading has significantly expanded duringthe past couple of decades. Governmental agencies, research from the universities and theprivate sector, code groups, and material and component qualification by laboratories have allcontributed to this body of knowledge. During past decades, the Uniform Building Code onlycontained a few

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Marshall R. Boggio

The computer system is a Pentium Pro based operating at 200 MHz. Hard Drive capacity is 2 Giga bytes. The system has been configured to operate in a multi- media environment including a video and network card. It is planned that the project when completed will serve multi-purposes. Besides being used as a multi-media demonstration system for a wide range of students it will be used as a laboratory for our civil engineering students studying hydraulics and open channel flow. In addition, the control and system characteristics will be useful topics for integration into updated multi-discipline programs in Mecomtronics.Partial support for this work was provided by the National ScienceFoundations's

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M. E. Parten

, MAMicheal E. Parten is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Partenhas conducted research and published in the areas of education, instrumentation, control, modeling andsimulation of a variety of systems, including semiconductor processing. Since returning to Texas Tech in1984, Dr. Parten has served as the Director of the Undergraduate Laboratories in Electrical Engineering. Page 2.386.7

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Philip R. Dail

, prepare laboratory reports, and complete papers from which to make presentations is an excellent technique for any size class. Teams should NOT be allowed to form randomly. The teacher should at least obtain some basic information such as the student’s time commitments and assign the teams based on availability of time. I use personality preference inventories as another means of grouping in teams. As much as possible, a team should not have one member of a certain group such as one female, one minority, etc. In large classes the roles of the team members and governance of the individuals must be clearly delineated. An effective way to improve performance is to offer incentives to teams when all their members reach a