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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozgur Eris; Tori Bailey; Helen L. Chen

all four campuses. The use of questionnaire-driven interviews was advantageous in gaining detailed information on specific issues. Page 10.476.5 Proceeding of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn order to create the structured interview protocol, each APS research question category wasconnected to its corresponding PIE variable(s). Then, the operationalization of each APSresearch question in the PIE Survey was specified, and used to examine potential gaps in thesurvey’s attempt to answer the research

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Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Shripad Revankar

– Miscellaneous Results Prototype Ideal Decay Heat 40 MWt 3.317 kW Core Height 3.83 m 0.302 m GDCS Mass Flow 429.3 kg / s 0.036 kg / s K-factor 13.2 15.1 MSL Area 0.397 m2 1.173 * 10-4 m23. Design and Development3.1 HardwareThe design and development stage of the project is discussed in this section. From the previousfacility two structures have been carried over to the new

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Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

giventhe software used to drive the monitor that displayed reactor power or count rates. Page 10.280.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. The AGN 201 Training Reactor.The AGN 201 reactors were made in the 50’s and 60’s as a training tool for universitiesto use in preparing the first crops of nuclear engineers. The reactor is unique in manyrespects. It is fueled with 20% enriched U235 in a polyethylene matrix. The coredimensions are roughly 10 inches in diameter and 10 inches high. The total fuel load

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yongjian Fu; Daniel Simon; Charles Alexander

solvingprocess with more details. Page 10.44.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Alexander, C. K. and Sadiku, M.N.O., Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, 2nd edition, pages 18-21, McGraw-Hill, 2004.2. Djordjevic, J., Milenkovic, A., and Grbanovic, N., “An integrated Environment for Teaching Computer Architecture,” Micro, IEEE, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, 66-74, May/Jun 2000.3. Fricks, R., Hirel, C., Wells, S., and Trivedi, K.S., “The Development of an Integrated Modeling

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Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

solver, supported by verification of the result. This approachallows the students to focus on the basic fundamental physics of the problem rather than on thealgebraic manipulation required to isolate the required solution variable(s). The paper will first discuss the paper subtitles, Theory, Analysis, Verification andDesign, to emphasize the focus of our approach to teaching mechanics of materials and toindicate how it differs from past and current textbooks. The paper then considers three simplemechanics of materials examples, one of which considers design, to demonstrate our approach.Theory The theory and topic coverage is typical of a traditional one semester introductorymechanics of materials course. Considerable attention is

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State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

93.8% 37.5% 12.5% 62.5% 6.3% 12.5% 12.5%facultyGraduate 56.3% 6.3% 12.5% 0.0% 6.3% 0.0% 0.0%AssistantsUndergraduate 12.5% 25.0% 50.0% 0.0% 6.3% 6.3% 12.5%AssistantsOther persons 12.5% 31.3% 18.8% 6.3% 6.3% 0.0% 0.0%III. Programs directed by a responsible faculty member(s) in addition to regular teaching orresearch dutiesFull-time 52.9% 35.3% 0.0% 58.8% 11.8% 5.9% 29.4%facultyGraduate 23.5% 0.0% 5.9% 0.0% 11.8% 0.0% 0.0%AssistantsUndergraduate 5.9

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

product design and manufacturing process planning. This up-frontdesign analyses by engineers in industry, such as using FEA, has also moved from engineerswith Ph.D.’s to engineers at the M.S. or B.S. degree level. However, most manufacturingengineering students are not exposed to FEA as part of their educational process. It is especiallytrue for manufacturing engineering technology curriculum at Wayne State University (WSU).FEA is now considered by many to be a standard tool for many categories of engineers. Thecommercial FEA code is now a very common numerical tool in stress analysis of mechanicalcomponents, and is widely used in other types of engineering analysis, such as vibrations andthermals. Furthermore, the FEA plays an important role in

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

A Gallery of CAD Generated Imagery: Pedagogical Reflections Michael P. Hennessey, Peter S. Rhode, and Allen C. Jaedike School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas 101 O’Shaughnessy Science Hall, 2115 Summit Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105-1079 Email: mphennessey@stthomas.edu Abstract A gallery of imagery generated from many of the recent CAD (computer-aided-design, or graphics) projectsundertaken by St. Thomas undergraduates in mechanical engineering courses (Engineering Graphics in particular)are

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

1 Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing Countries S. Fernando, S. Bhushan and M. Naveen AbstractAgricultural Engineering or Biological (Systems) Engineering is still considered a fairly newprofession not only in developing countries but also in many of the developed countries. Althoughcivil, mechanical, chemical, electrical and industrial engineering are well established asengineering subdivisions, Agricultural and Biological Engineering is still not considered as adirect engineering discipline in many of the 162 developing countries in Asia

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

). Technology and design. Bangor,Northern Ireland, DoENI.11. Stein, S.J., McRobbie, C. J., & Ginns, I. S. (2002). Implications of missed opportunities forlearning and assessment in design and technology education. Teaching and Teacher Education,18, 35-49.12. Baker, D., Krause, S., Robinson-Kurpius, S., Roberts, C. & Yasar, S. (2004). BridgingEducation and Engineering: The role of design engineering technology in science education.Paper set presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Research in ScienceTeaching, Vancouver, Canada.13. Bussey, J., Dormondy, T. & Van Leewen, D. (2000). Some factors predicting the adoption oftechnology education in New Mexico Schools. Journal of Technology Education, 12, 4-17.14. Wright, T

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Session 1150 Teaching Engineering Fundamentals with a Project-Based Learning Approach B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstract Recruiting and retaining students in the Engineering Technology area has been a majorchallenge to many of us in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies (ETIS)Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). In the Fall of 2004 the authoroffered ET 1840 – Engineering Fundamentals and teaching this class was a lot of fun. Topicssuch as total quality, engineering design

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

Girls In Science, Engineering, and Technology (GISET) Rasha Morsi, Ph.D. Norfolk State UniversityAbstractWhile the proportion of women earning bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering (S&E) hasincreased, the proportion remains significantly lower than that of women earning bachelor’sdegrees in non-scientific areas, indicating a critical need for additional retention and recruitingtechniques specifically for minority females. In the last few decades, recruiting of minorityfemales has been a challenge to say the least. At Norfolk State University, the student populationis 88% African American, 64% of this population is female, yet there

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Lefebvre; Stephanie Farrell

anion exchange chromatography using a set ofcolorful proteins have been described. These educational materials will allow instructors tointroduce important biochemical engineering and physical biochemistry principles into thechemical engineering curriculum. The visual appeal and low cost of supplies will make thedemonstrations an effective teaching tool in core courses focused on separation processes. Thevariety of possible behavior will make the full-scale experiments a robust addition to unitoperations laboratories or biochemical engineering electives. Further developments will makethe modules available for dissemination to other universities.AcknowledgementThe authors thank Elizabeth N. DiPaolo, Richard S. Dominiak, and Amanda E. Rohs

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New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

company)Week two: Read entire book.Week three: Summarize the book in a single page (three paragraphs), which explain 1. What were the social and technical settings of the time ? 2. What was the particular technical challenge addressed, and why was it important ? 3. What was discovered/found, and how was it received by competitors, professionals (corporate management, etc), family, friends and society ?Week four: In nine-ten pages, respond to the following questions: 1. What technical challenge did s/he address? 2. Why did the investigator(s) undertake the task(s) of

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE – BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS, IT AND UNIVERSITIES A. Sutharshan, S P Maj, D Veal Department of Computer Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia Email: anu.sutharshan@dli.wa.gov.au, s.maj@ecu.edu.auIntroductionAdvancing technologies, emergent software development approaches, and economicconditions influencing corporate budgets are creating new challenges for theApplication Services manager [4]. In one of the studies [10], Enterprise Architecture(EA) was ranked near the top of the list of issues considered important by the chiefinformation officers. Enterprise Architecture is a distinct and developing discipline inthe Information

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

impact in the Program Factors: • Content: The extent to which the program(s) successfully transferred information and skills to students. Variables include: teacher abilities, facilities conducive to learning, difficulty of the curriculum, etc. • Comfort: The extent to which the program provided students with a sense of awareness of, familiarity with, and comfort with college life (e.g., course material, peers, instructors, residential hall life, campus facilities). • Career: The extent to which respondents perceived the program(s) as having an impact on their career choice. • College: The effect of the program(s) on respondents’ decisions to attend college in general and, more

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Kephart; Robert Weissbach

Session 2433 Hybrid Renewable Energy System Analysis for Off-Grid Great Lakes Residential Housing Robert S. Weissbach, Larry A. Kephart Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractRenewable energy has become an important area of research and development for bothenvironmental as well as economic reasons. At the academic level, it is possible to introducestudents to issues related to renewable energy. This paper discusses the effort two students putin, as part of a thesis, and an independent study, to develop an economically feasible, self-sufficient, renewable energy

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Stier

Engineers Education Foundation,Dearborn, MI. 3 McClenahen, J. S. (2003, June). Manufacturing’s global future: Waking up to a new world, IndustryWeek. 252(6), 22-26. 4 McClenahen, J. S. & Panchak, P. (2003, July). Manufacturing’s global future: Unruly trade, IndustryWeek. 252(7), 48-52, 61. 5 McClenahen, J. S. (2003). 6 Weinstein, B., Lewis, J. & Bergeron, L. K. (2003, August 27). Impacts of international trade with China onIllinois manufacturers, Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center, Peoria, IL, 1-15. 7 Campbell, R. M. & Campbell, H. (2002, November). Supply chain management at Motorola Corporation,National Association of Industrial Technology

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

selling numerical methods textbooks are catalogs of techniques presentedgenerically (independent of any computational platform), followed by a bare-minimumseries of commands or computer code snippets that will implement the recipe justdescribed in a variety of different software packages or programming languages.Whether consciously or unconsciously, the text authors and course instructors aregrooming the students to be able to solve the types of problems one finds at the end of thechapter: small in scope, narrow in focus, again.The approach might be well suited for the 1960's and 1970's, when computing andprogramming became a core component of the undergraduate engineering curriculum,and when computing technology severely limited the size and

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Mark Gunty; Carrie Graf; Catherine Pieronek

population as a whole. As noted in McWilliams et al. [4], such analysescan lead to changes in course structure which dramatically impact both student learning andretention.References1. Brockman, J.B., Fuja, T.E, Batill, S.M., “A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2. Pieronek, C. , McWilliams, L. H., Silliman, S. E., “Initial Observations on Student Retention and CourseSatisfaction Based on First-Year Engineering Student Survey and Interviews,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003.3. Silliman, S. E., McWilliams, L. H., “Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System,”2004 ASEE

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Miguel A. Padilla; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Cross-institutional Study,” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education in the Southeast, Gainesville, FL, April 2002, Session 2793.[4] Zhang, G., Thorndyke, B., Carter, R., Ohland, M., and Anderson, T. (2003) “A Comparison of Demographic Factors and Academic Performances Between Students Graduated in Engineering and Other Disciplines.” Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003.[5] Besterfield, M., Mareno, M., Shuman, L. J., & Atman, C. J. (1999). “Comparing Entering Freshman Engineers: Institutional Differences in Student Attitudes,” American Society of Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.[6] Donaldson, T. S. (1968

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

theeducation process with a variety of interesting projects to motivate students to continue the studyof engineering towards a Bachelor’s degree have begun to produce the expected results. Thedegree of satisfaction expressed by students enrolled in this course is at an all time high and theattrition rates among freshman engineering students are at an all time low.References1. Karimi, A., Eftekhar, J., and Manteufel, “A Model for Integration of Math, Science, and Engineering Application at the Lower Division," Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gulf-Southwest Section of ASEE, March 7-9, 1999, Dallas, Texas.2. Karimi, A., Bench, S., and Hodges, Suzan, “Improving Engineering Student Retention in an Urban University,” Presented at

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malur Srinivasan

bicycle frame was chosen as the principal designed product for several reasons.The primary reason is that the frame is a highly evolved mechanical structure [3] for whichnumerous materials are used depending on the service requirements. The other reasons includeeasy access to bicycles, familiarity with the features and the enormous public interest in the fieldas evident from the internet search engines [e.g. 4]. Investigation of the reasons for the choice ofthe material(s) in each case and the processes suitable for making the frame out of them wouldprovide an exciting opportunity for mechanical engineering students to learn how to link productfunctional requirements with materials and processes in a rational manner.The CES 4.5 (Cambridge

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Gender Equitable Curricula in High School Science and Engineering Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2University School, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractAs part of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement to the VaNTH EngineeringResearch Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (www.vanth.org), aninterdisciplinary group of secondary teachers and college faculty have

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Lax; Amy Van Epps

record is considered a measure of success of REUsis external validation for the importance of communication skills for engineers. Nearly 50 yearsago, the founder of the IEEE Professional Communication Society called clear speech andwriting “…prime and necessary characteristics of the successful engineer.”7 More recently,ABET 2000’s Criterion 3 (g) stated that “Engineering programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates have:…an ability to communicate effectively.”8Unlike the wide-angle view of many of the papers on REUs, in which communications andlibrary activities often are mentioned in passing, this paper focuses in on how one relatively new

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

with a substantial technology advance, person, or company)Week two: Read entire book.Week three: Summarize the book in a single page (three paragraphs), which explain 1. What were the social and technical settings of the time ? 2. What was the particular technical challenge addressed, and why was it important ? 3. What was discovered/found, and how was it received by competitors, professionals (corporate management, etc), family, friends and society ?Week four: In nine-ten pages, respond to the following questions: 1. What technical challenge did s/he address

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

-year Associate Degree Electronic EngineeringTechnology (EET) or closely associated BMET programs. Some applicants have a militaryelectronics background. Only a handful of applicants come from the very few Bachelors Degreeprograms such as the program at East Tennessee State University. Why would someone enterthe Bachelors program in BMET when he or she could enter the BMET profession in half thetime and for significantly less costs? The answer is expanded professional and financialopportunities during his or her professional career.The Biomedical Engineering Occupation SpectrumThe success and future of academic programs in engineering technology are often related to theemployability of its graduates.1 The U. S. Department of Labor expects

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Taban; Ayhan Zora

engine.The fuel energy is calculated as mass flow rate (kg/s) times the lower heating value of diesel fuel(J/kg). The lower heating value for the No. 2 diesel fuel used in the tests is 42,550,560 [J/kg].The fuel mass flow rate is obtained by running the WAVE Engine model. The WAVE enginemodel also provides a good estimate for the heat for Gas-to-Metal that represents the heatrejected through the radiator.Brake power is defined as the power obtained from the engine after all the losses and can be Page 10.24.6calculated as the torque delivered to drive train (Nm) times the angular velocity of the flywheel Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

architecture tracts. There are several important benefits of using a Hardware Description Languagefor design. The most obvious is the exploration of the design space. With a HDL,alternative design approaches can be explored. Another benefit is documentation of thedesign. A well written HDL model documents how the design was implemented. This isespecially important when the design is later synthesized. Synthesis of the IC circuit forthe design is yet another benefit, significantly reducing the time needed for the layout ofthe design. Another not so obvious benefit is that the design can be simulated in theenvironment in which it will later run. In the 1980’s getting first run silicon that workedwas considered success. In an article

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at