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W.N.P. Hung; M.M. Agnihotri; J. Wang

alloying materials like nickel, cobalt and chromium might cause allergies andcould prove to be carcinogenic8.To overcome these drawbacks, biodegradable polymers have been developed. The first use ofbiodegradable polymers was for a resorbable suture (Dexon) in 1962. Polydioxanon (PDS),Polyglycolic acid (PGA), Polylactic acid (PLA) and their copolymers are being used forproducing these polymers. In the initial stages of healing, these polymers maintain theirmechanical strength and fragment fixation. As the bone healing progresses, the implantgradually decomposes (Figure 1) and the loads are transferred to the healing bone9. Thesepolymers gradually undergo hydrolysis10, the byproducts of which are eliminated throughnatural metabolic means. The

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W. Roy Penney; Lauren N. Leach; Jeffrey R. Dorman; Edgar C. Clausen; Daniel E. Fluornoy; Alice K. Keogh

, Laboratory II,junior level chemical engineering students were required to (1) perform simple heattransfer experiments using inexpensive materials that are readily available in mostengineering departments and (2) compare the experimental results with literaturecorrelations. The design, implementation and analysis of two of these experiments aredescribed in this presentation.Laminar flow heat transfer coefficients were measured for the flow of ethylene glycolthrough 11 ft x 3/16 in i.d. coiled copper tubing by heating the coil in an agitated waterbath at about 150ºF. The temperature of the exiting ethylene glycol was recorded as afunction of flow rate and was used to determine the duty of the copper coil and theexperimental heat transfer coefficient

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W. Roy Penney; Nathaniel S. Weston; Megan V. Park; Edgar C. Clausen; Dave C. Marrs; Anthony M. Scalia

for CHEG 3143, HeatTransport, and CHEG 3232, Laboratory II, junior level chemical engineering studentswere required to perform simple heat transfer experiments using inexpensive materialsthat are readily available in most engineering departments. The design, implementationand analysis of two of these experiments are described in this presentation.The thermal conductivities of polycarbonate, polystyrene and plywood were individuallydetermined by sandwiching the test material between three 1 ½ in x 12 in x 18 inaluminum plates. After the center plate was heated to 70-80°C, the “sandwich” wasassembled and insulated on all sides. The temperatures of the center plate and one of theouter plates were measured with time and used to calculate the rate

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

is no required textbook for the course and the primarylecture content has been prepared over the years by the first author. The major lecture topicscovered in the course have included: 1. Musculoskeletal Physiology and Anthropometrics; 2. Analysis and Simulation of Human Movement; 3. Biomechanical Systems and Control; 4. Computer Graphics Modeling and Simulation in Biomechanics; and 5. Experimental Techniques in Biomechanics. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Tomás Quintero; Hector Estrada

is rare, are to be thought of as life-threatening incidents. Also, because of their highunpredictability, these events incite severe anxiety to those threatened. In fact, each year, overthree billion person-hours are spent under severe weather watches4. Though one may live inOklahoma or Kansas and not be affected by a tornado one year, he or she may very well becomea victim in any year to come, and in some cases you may become a victim more than once in alifetime as depicted in Figure 1. Regardless of circumstances, a safe room has the potential foreasing people’s restlessness and saving their lives when they find themselves in the path of astorm. Genesis of Shelter Development Post-storm documentation studies

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Todd E. Raborn

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Titilope Z. Alagun; Shahryar Darayan

the solar power and tracker unit.A simple connection block diagram is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1. Simple Connection Diagram of Fully Automated Chicken Farm Unit Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Part 1 – Software Program in C LanguageThe software program for the chicken farm unit is divided into three codes. The operatorof the chicken house sets the required conditions for each program. 1. Relay.Exe: This program uses ‘int main (int argc, char *argv[])’ command to read the argument in the DOS prompt. This program converts a two

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Timothy I. Matis; Linda Ann Riley; James H. Matis

. focusthe curriculum on teaching students to think about contextual problems from a statisticalviewpoint (Wild and Pfannkuch 1, Pfannkuch and Wild 2, Moore 3). In response, there are anumber of new textbooks and enrichment materials targeted for the Advanced PlacementStatistics curriculum, which develop the role of statistical thinking in addressing problems ofpractical interest. Other recent publications, such as the NCTM Navigation through DataAnalysis series 4, provide materials and activities for students to learn statistical thinking by‘interrogating’ data. The educational modules presented in this paper supplement these othermaterials by introducing the field of probability modeling and simulation for students’ statisticalthinking. In order

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Tim Coppinger; Hesham Shaalan

robot3. The open structure of therobot arm allows students to observe and learn about its internal mechanisms. The robot is avertical articulated robot, with five revolute joints. With gripper attached, the robot has sixdegrees of freedom. Figure 1 illustrates the robot arm. This design permits the end effector to bepositioned and oriented arbitrarily within a large workspace. The length of the links and thedegree of rotation of the joints determine the robot’s work envelope. Figure 1. Robot Arm. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Thomas J. Krueger; Ronald E. Barr

Finite Element 1, 4Analysis to lower division engineering students and whether it can be done effectively. Asearly as 1992, Steven Howell 3 pointed out that the Finite Element Method (FEM) is typicallyintroduced in the upper level engineering courses. With the ‘integrated design software’available for the PC, it is now possible to expose freshman level students to the finite elementmethod without overwhelming them in the detailed math required to set up a model.” In the 2Spring 1999 issue of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal, William Cole stated, “Solidmodeling

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Terry Creasy; Richard B. Griffin

students.Procedure Early in the semester, the students receive the Casting Design Challenge. Figure 1 showsa portion of the Casting Design Challenge handout. Each Laboratory Group of four students maymake one design or each student may make their own design for a total of four. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for engineering EducationCasting lab design challenge: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS DUE:_______________; REPORT DUE 1WEEK AFTER TENSILE TEST OF THE LINK.1/24/05 7:37 PM“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”Samuel Butler“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty

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Terry Kohutek; Arun Srinivasa; Andrew P. Conkey

, motivate them to stay in engineering. The seven issues arerelated to two key areas, projects and relationships between engineering and mathematics andscience classes.Issues related to projects are: 1). Students and faculty members perceive projects currently being used in first-year engineering courses as “build and see” where students proceed through trial and error with little connectivity with the sciences or mathematics [3,4]. Some programs have provided simulation tools to enable students to predict the performance of their design proposal [5,6]. 2). Engineering faculty members thought that success of a project relied more on the fabrication skill as opposed to application of the engineering design

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Tariq A. Khraishi

they have learned in the two years before taking this designclass. While working on the project students also naturally developed communication skills andlearned how to work in teams. Description of Class ProjectsA list of the projects assigned to students is provided here below, as is from the class, forinterested teachers to utilize or adapt to their teaching:Project 1:Assuming the upper deck of a football stadium looks like a race track when viewed from top (seefigure in gray color). If the deck is made of reinforced concrete, and is anchored to massivevertical columns at the black boxes shown, determine its minimum thickness such that the deckcan hold up to 39,200 persons

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Suketu Shah; Mohammed E. Haque; Gaurav Agarwal

MethodologyThe main thrust of the research was the development of a 3D computer generated animationmodel showing and describing in detail the various elements of an energy conscious architecturaldesign. The following steps outlines the methods used to achieve the above stated purpose.Figure 1 shows the work flow diagram1. Design and Development: The first step was to design and develop a typical single-familythree-bedroom house. Energy consciousness was the prime-governing factor for the design anddevelopment of the house. . Roofing Products Motion Sensors Wall Insulations Daylighting Solar Water Heating Passive Solar

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Steven L. Bryant; Christopher A. Irle

-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstorage. Kumar et. al. (2004)1 illustrated the advantage of injecting CO2 in the bottom part of anaquifer. The injected CO2 will rise toward the top, leaving behind a residual saturation. In aproperly designed process, all the CO2 will become trapped or dissolved in the brine before itreaches the top.Buoyancy is the driving force behind CO2 rising in these aquifers due to the density differencebetween CO2 at aquifer conditions and water. The density of CO2 at aquifer conditions isapproximately 700 kg/m3 and water is about 1000 kg/m3. The velocity at which CO2 rises

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Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Barbara Austin

framework presents thelearning material as a series of challenges that are posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” SevenVANTH challenges were tested in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course in Fall2003. These challenges were: 1. Iron Cross Muscle Strength 2. Virtual Biomechanics Lab I: Center of Gravity During Gait 3. Virtual Biomechanics Lab II: Ground Reaction Force During Gait 4. Virtual Biomechanics Lab III: Muscle Contraction During Gait 5. Jumping Jack I: How High Can You Jump? 6. Jumping Jack II: What Determines Jump Height? 7. Jumping Jack III: Why Can an NBA Player Jump Higher Than a Student?This paper discusses the classroom implementation of the seven challenges and presents

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Heinrich D. Foltz; Hamid Zarnani; Edwin LeMaster

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

, while at the same time exposingthem to applications from science and engineering. The objective of such exposure throughoutthe curriculum is to catch the interest of students at an early stage, and thus encourage them topursue those career paths.The project uses web-based modules to meet three goals. One is to increase interest in computerscience and engineering at the lower level courses for majors and non-majors. A second goal isto improve retention by offering support for upper level courses. The third goal is to providesupport to the partnership project with TTU and TI. While some modules are course specific,1 Supported in part by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF DUE #9972494) and Technology Workforce Development GrantProgram

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H. Dwayne Jerro; Chun-Ling Huang; Nikhil Gupta; Patrick Mensah; Ajay Aripirala

. Application of Concept Mapping in ThermodynamicsThermodynamics is taught at sophomore and junior level in mechanical engineering.Principles of thermodynamics are used in several other courses as heat and mass transfer,internal combustion engines and fluid dynamics. Few governing equations form thefoundation of this subject. However, there are large number of variations of theseequations that are used to solve different problems.Interactive Scheme for Problem SolvingConcept mapping based problem solving scheme can be made interactive by the use ofvarious software tools. In most cases the solution steps in thermodynamic problems aresimilar to any other engineering problem. Figure 1(a) shows a generalized solutionscheme of any engineering problem

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Jenna Terry; Paul Ruchhoeft

15% of the individual’s course grade. Five, group-prepared,written Planning Reports (See Figure 1 for a description of the Planning Reports.) arerequired and reviewed in the cohort meetings. The group is also responsible for a short,initial “bidding” proposal, a final technical report, a final oral presentation, a poster andan extended abstract. To this point, all grading has been the responsibility of the threecourse instructors. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTo support the students’ communications activities in the capstone course, the UHWriting Center has developed a series of workshops. Students with

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Jennifer Spurrier; Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

area of teaching field preference. ObjectiveAs stated earlier, previous research has been conducted involving engineering students and theuse of E-COACH. Fortunately, the tool is not limited for use to only engineering students. It isa Web-based electronic tool with free access. This paper presents information found in a studyregarding post baccalaureate students seeking teacher certification with relation to careerassessment, learning style assessment, and interest assessment. As the data were evaluated,questions arose, which will be discussed in a later section. This paper has four objectives: 1. Report the mean values for the career map coordinate for education majors and options within the

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E. H. Shaban

curriculum. The electrical engineering design curriculum is enhanced byoffering the integrated circuit design course elective that provides real, practical, handson experience in circuit design for the graduating seniors. Such projects can either beused as a stand alone cap-stone design or to assist the student to accomplish amultidisciplinary design projects in collaboration with other engineering disciplines. IntroductionABET program criteria for electrical engineering curriculum require that the curriculummust provide the depth and breadth across the range of engineering topics implied by thetitle of the program [1]. The acquired knowledge in the program should allow the studentto analyze and design complex

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Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

tool designed for assisting in careerguidance. The career-mapping tool aids students by offering career and learning styleassessments. The advising tool was designed by the College of Engineering at TexasTech University to provide assistance in career decision-making for students in theCollege. However, this guidance inventory can be effectively used by students in othercolleges and by high school and junior high school students. ObjectiveThis paper does not reflect research as is common in most journals but gives an accountof and evaluates the usefulness of E-COACH for high school students and high schoolcounselors. This paper has three objectives: 1. To report the results of the use of E-COACH

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Puneet Bhatia; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

, machiningparameters, set-up instructions, and quality assurance checkpoints. Manual process planningis usually based on the manufacturing engineer's experience and knowledge of productionfacilities equipment, their capabilities, processes and tooling.The automation of process planning is described through five stages, which were developedover the years as an evolutionary path to improve and computerize process planning. Thefive stages of process planning are described in Fig. 1. Different Companies may haveimplemented CAPP at different levels. PROCESS PLANNING STAGE I STAGE II STAGE III STAGE IV STAGE IV MANUAL COMPUTER VARIANT

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John R. Chandler; John Rivera; A. Dean Fontenot

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

Engineering are given in Figure 1 below. The X in the lab title represents theoffering department. For example, there is an Introduction to Mechanical & AerospaceEngineering course, an Introduction to Computer Science & Engineering course, etc. The lecturecourses are co-listed in each department. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education XE 1104 (1-0) 1 hour credit. Introduction to Engineering: Introduction to basic engineering concepts. Students will become familiar with engineering and its

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

offeringpredominantly undergraduate engineering programs of limited size. Robotics and Mechatronics Projects at UM-FlintThe Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory was started at UMF in fall 2001. The labprovided the resources for a lab course to accompany an introductory senior-level courseon robotics and mechatronics. The resources additionally came to be used to supportsenior capstone engineering design projects, senior/junior Independent Study courses,junior/sophomore Supervised Study courses, as well as faculty research in the areas ofcontrol, robotics, and mechatronics. Most of the projects involved teams of three or morestudents. A summary of the projects and their outcomes is given in Table 1.Computer hardware and software issues are