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MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Sterkenburg

museum. The authors will discuss in this paper the unique challenges ofdeveloping a curriculum that attracts young minority students and the teaching strategies toovercome the cultural differences between minority students and faculty.I. Overview of the Upward Bound programSince 1966, Purdue University Calumet has hosted an Upward Bound program developed toimprove the educational opportunities of first generation participants from low-income familiesin an area east of Chicago in northern Indiana referred to as “the Region”. First generationparticipants are defined as those students whose parents do not have a four-year college degree.The demographics of the target area indicate a relatively high concentration of ethnic minoritiesand urban

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Schreiner

particular section, fitting their own teaching style and allowing greater buy-in and usage byboth instructor and students.The course evaluation included an opinion survey of the students’ reaction to the onlinecomponents and an investigation of server statistics. These data show that Manhattan: aidedstudent learning; increased professor to student communication, facilitated grading and returningof computer-based student work, aided freshmen academic advising, and improved coordinationof the course between professors. Somewhat surprisingly, the students did not utilize the peer-to-peer communication tools (available to individuals and teams) to the level expected. Overall, wehave successfully balanced the integration of on-line communication into a

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Charles Miller; Carlos Morales

learners.outcomes. The homework component would contain any activity in which the learner is expected toDevelopment of the host UMDS System retrieve the instructional materialsTo gain a better grasp of how the wireless PDA himself/herself, complete an assignment, andmodule integrates into the UMDS, it would be turn-in his or her work. The test areabeneficial to examine the construction and the encompasses activities that asked the student tocapabilities of the UMDS as a whole. The demonstrate his or her mastery of the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joe Wakeman-Linn; Alex Perry

showsengineering students the applications of the theory would help maintain a high level of interest.This paper introduces a robotics unit to give students that hands-on experience. Designed to beincluded in an introductory engineering class at the University of Wyoming, this unit utilizes theversatile components included in the LEGO® Mindstorms™ system. The unit addresses variousconcepts related to engineering principles and real life applications, such as remote sensing,artificial intelligence, and the integration of different components. Students working through thisunit would design and build a series of robots beginning with one that uses a touch sensor tomaneuver around obstacles and ending with a robot that mimics an animal's behavior, such

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Carpick

, consists ofquizzing a student “on the spot” while allowing a “life-line” of polling the audience for help. Thegame is enjoyable for students and professor alike, but also allows review, clarification, andreinforcement of concepts. The technique is effective while only requiring minimal preparationand lecture time to be implemented.I. IntroductionConsider a typical lecture course in engineering. For fifty to seventy minutes, a group of studentswill sit in one place listening, taking notes, occasionally asking questions. Some students will bepaying attention, others’ attention will be wandering, and some may be sound asleep.Many engineering instructors have developed and implemented a range of active learningtechniques that are integrated into their

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

field, from basic research, to appliedresearch and product design and development. From the first implementation of electroniccalculating machines, the engineering discipline has been one of the most heavy users anddevelopers of computing technology. The ability to use this technology will determine theeffectiveness of the engineering student as they go to industry, perhaps only second inimportance to understanding the basic fundamentals of the chosen field of study. Thus, one ofthe goals of any successful curriculum will be to include training and experience in the use ofcomputing hardware and software. The engineering laboratory is an excellent opportunit y forthis purpose. One of the important aspects of using laboratory experiments

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Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Petry

disparate information and find ways to order it and apply it to particular settings."Boyer and Mitgang concluded in Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Educationand Practice, "that architectural education is really about fostering the learning habits needed forthe discovery, integration, application, and sharing knowledge over a lifetime."These are only some of the many challenges facing the academy. Continual assessment of thesuccesses and challenges of any program are essential to its thriving.The University of Hartford’s Architecture Program is based on the blending of academic-basedtheoretical studies with industry-based problem solving. Our practice oriented architectureprogram has developed and implemented an innovative

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 2430 Skills Assessment in Hands-On Learning and Implications for Gender Differences in Engineering Education Daniel W. Knight, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Susan J. Poole and Lawrence E. Carlson Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractA comprehensive course evaluation plan is a helpful tool for the development and revision ofnew curricula. One component of an evaluation plan is the assessment o

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

various jobs, to this end. The goal is the integration of workplacecommunication instruction into Senior Design and other undergraduate courses. Personalinterviews with practicing engineers, supervisors, and CEOs have been conducted to obtainexamples of written or presented materials. A set of criteria of communication excellence hasbeen identified from the interview data and is being used in teaching workplace communication.This article includes highlights from a literature review of writing and presenting in engineering,the results from the job interviews, and an overview of the strategies used in teaching workplacecommunication in Senior Design. Concrete examples will be given in the presentation alongwith specific steps for replicating the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2793 Incorporating MatLab in the Mechanical Engineering Courses at Alabama A&M University Amir A. Mobasher, A.R. Jalloh, R. Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762 Amobasher@aamu.eduAbstractNowadays, entry-level engineers may find themselves in an environment thatprogramming, simulation and modeling may become an integral part of their career. Ininstances that they are involved with enhancement and

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Cecere

-qualifications, financial statements,RFP for CM services, project planning, bid packages and bidding, scheduling (bid and construction), valueengineering, safety policy, and other CM services. Industry presentations and involvement provide the coursewith real world experiences. The course also integrates written and oral communications throughout to stress theimportance of these skills for a successful manager.INTRODUCTIONThe goal of a construction related curriculum is to prepare graduates to be as marketable and useful to futureemployers as practical. To meet this goal, students are required to take courses in business, English, oral andwritten communications, computers, math and science, as well as core courses in structural design andconstruction

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1898 ROBOTS! – Freshman Clinic in Mechanical Engineering Hong Zhang Jennifer Kadlowec College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 zhang, kadlowec@rowan.edu 1. Introduction The integration of both hands-on experience and minds-on thinking in engineeringeducation is the hallmark of Rowan Engineering. The Engineering Clinic 1,2 sequence wasdeveloped to promote project-based learning. As a unique component of the Rowanengineering curriculum, engineering clinic is a framework that includes the topics fromintroduction of

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

), EcoleNationale de l’Aviation (ENAC), and Fachhochschule Munchen (FH Munich) Embry-Riddlehas multiple degree agreements. Through these special programs, students from both sides ofthe Atlantic Ocean can earn parallel diplomas and graduate degrees through a compoundedcredit formula. Within five years an ERAU double diploma student who spends his junioryear in France or Germany, returns to his home campus for one year, interns during thatfollowing summer in either Europe or America, completes a final fall term in Europe, canthen graduate in April, having earned aerospace engineering bachelors degrees from bothinstitutions. Nine credit hours of the five-year EPF, ENAC, or FH Munich degree can beapplied toward an ERAU masters degree in aerospace engineering

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International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

Session 1498 Engineering Education in The Netherlands Maarten Uijt de Haag*, Otto Rompelman**, Jos Uyt de Haag***, Brian Manhire* *Ohio University, USA / **Delft University of Technology, NL / ***St. Jans Lyceum, NLAbstractThis paper presents an overview of higher engineering education in the Netherlands. The intentis to give the information necessary for a comparison of the Dutch engineering education systemto engineering education systems in other countries, especially the United States of America.The discussion includes the following topics: the historical development of engineeringeducation in the Netherlands; secondary

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wheatland

fall semester classes. Both programs introduced the students to the realitiesand expectations of college as compared to high school. Armed with this academicreinforcement and advance orientation to the physical campus and procedures, it was expectedthat these students would benefit from the experience and have higher levels of social andacademic integration, allowing them to perform better academically than if they had not attendedthese programs. The AMP Math Bridge was a four-week program where SEM students took academicclasses in math, English composition, chemistry, and an introduction to computers. Chemistrywas added to this curriculum in 1996. Other time periods were devoted to exploring SEMcareers, group study and discussions

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineeringfundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating (CDIO)real-world systems and products Page 7.732.1The project strategy to implement CDIO has four themes: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 1. curriculum reform to ensure that students have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to conceive and design complex systems and products 2. improved teaching and learning

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Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

Session 1606 A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Daniel Davis University of HartfordAbstractAt the University of Hartford, we have developed a “Capstone Design Experience” in an effort toimprove our Architectural Engineering Technology curriculum. By increasing the awareness ofthe interrelationships between different areas of study, we are attempting to strike a new balance.We have integrated the following into a single yearlong design project: research, programming,planning, history and theory

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

appropriate for integration with classroom teaching. Such integration not only makes the course more interesting, but also increases student’s awareness on some important health issues.Bibliography 1. “A Couple of Fluid Mechanics Brainteasers”, Alan Mironer, Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE Annual Conference, 1999. 2. “Improving Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics Across the Curriculum”, Marc Perlin et al., Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, 2001. 3. “Towards an Integrated Thermal/Fluid Engineering”, M.K. Jensen et al., Heat Transfer Division, ASME, Vol.361-3, 1998, p. 9-16. 4. “The Use of Mathcad in Viscous Flow Courses”, B.K. Hodge, Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edward Wheeler; Cliff Grigg; Zachariah Chambers; Richard Layton

preliminary creative stage—often termed brainstorming in design and prewriting in writing. A recursive procedure, based on feedback from observations, is then used for gradual improvement until some acceptable solution is reached. Implicit in both processes is the crucial idea that there is often more than one acceptable solution and that often a unique “correct” solution does not exist.III. Curriculum DesignStudents must see this course as an integral part of their education and not as a course added asalmost an afterthought, a course added only to provide "breadth" and one that contains nothingreally necessary to the mechanical engineer. The use and understanding of electrical systemsmust be demonstrated to be part of what every

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eoin O Herlihy; William Gaughran

of both the able-bodied and the paraplegic user. There are a numberof reasons why the wheelchair user is currently excluded from these environments. Theseinclude parental fears for students, student’s fear of inadequacy, promotion of the subject andthe fact that managers, trainers and teachers feel that the environment is unsuitable for thewheelchair user. Extra effort in the area of the integration of the paraplegic user into theengineering environment is both timely and necessary. With new and current legislation inIreland, the need to integrate people with disabilities in engineering environments will grow.The Equal Status Act 2000 makes it illegal in Ireland to discriminate on the grounds ofdisability. The legislation states that an

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Livingston; James Squire

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”desire to share their interest with non-engineering peers and parents, and find that unlike othermore abstract classes it is straightforward to communicate what they are learning in a robotics-centric curriculum. We frequently have students request to show their visiting parents therobotics lab; I have never had a similar request to open the controls lab! Instructors like usingrobots in introductory courses because with one device they can discuss many major electricalengineering subdisciplines (analog, digital, controls, programming, computer architecture),provide an introduction to the most important test instruments (DMM

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kim Blair; David W. Miller; David Darmofal; Col. Peter W. Young; Doris Brodeur

Session 2202 Problem-Based Learning in Aerospace Engineering Education Doris R. Brodeur, Peter W. Young, Kim B. Blair Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractProblem-based learning is now a widespread teaching method in disciplines where studentsmust learn to apply knowledge, not just acquire it. In the undergraduate curriculum inAeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, problem-based learning and design-buildexperiences are integrated throughout the program. In an early freshman-year experience,Introduction to Aerospace and Design, students design, build, and fly radio-controlledlighter-than-air (LTA

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nancy L. Baskin; M. Sohail Ahmed; Gregory L. Tonkay; Andrea Wittchen; E. Zimmers

learn faster and will become more effective problem solvers ifengineering education and practice are integrated, and students actively participate in theirlearning2. To implement these concepts, the Coalition developed a unique approach to thedefinition of a curriculum. The following figure describes the components (see Figure 1). Page 7.1301.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Conference FIGURE 1. Greenfield Coalition Learning Hierarchy3The learning

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

Session 3530 Using Portfolios for Exit Assessment in Engineering Programs Doris R. Brodeur Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology is designing a portfolio assessment system to assess students' achievement ofprogram outcomes. In the past three years, the undergraduate aerospace engineeringprogram has embarked upon major curriculum reform initiatives centered on 16 programoutcomes detailed in its CDIO Syllabus. Portfolios will be organized into categoriesreflecting these outcomes. (The 16 CDIO

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Duggins

written for the software engineering educationcommunity to address the specifics of how we should teach. We spend so much of our timefocusing on what to teach, that we never seem to address how to teach it. Most of us still followthe traditional model of teaching in which the teacher, being the knowledge holder, lectures tothe students, who are passively trying to receive and absorb as much knowledge from the teacheras they can. What is being suggested here is that we as a community, might benefit fromexposure to research into how people learn, so that we might improve how we teach.The basic ideas behind constructivism 3 focus on the students taking an active role in their ownlearning as they “construct” their own knowledge by integrating the new

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TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Grace; Scott Klingenstein; Ron Ulseth; Nick Nicholson; Don Moen; Amy Hendrickson; Aaron Wenger; Kenneth Gentili; Paul Gordy; Jim Richardson

little or no history ofcommitting to a two year sequence of engineering curriculum. Many, in fact, have trouble committing to acomplete calculus sequence or to calculus-based physics. In addition, there is the difficulty of goodarticulation agreements that ensure seamless transfer of two year’s worth of engineering classes betweenTYC’s and universities. A few states, in fact, by law make such transfer impossible.However, the opportunities for increased recruitment of both traditional and under-represented groups tothe educational track leading to an engineering career that are afforded by the community colleges of thisnation may be too large to continue to ignore. The possible increased opportunities for retaining a largerpercentage of beginning

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

considered in terms of its value to engineers with a Bachelor’sor Master’s degree, and while recalling that some topics will be covered in more detail later inthe curriculum. This assignment of topics is important not so much to prepare for elimination oftopics, but to assign how much time will be spent on each, and in guiding selection ofappropriate projects. Category a) topics should be given more emphasis in the course thancategory c). In the course described here, introduction to the open-ended design process andsynthesis of a variety of Mechanics of Materials topics into design of a machine or structure wasassigned category a) status. A significant open-ended design of an authentic machine orstructure was thus deemed suitable as a concluding

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

Page 7.103.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”covered in our PLC course. Understanding these other features served as an additional learningcomponent for the students. Factory Floor consists of four tightly integrated components (asfollows): 1. OptoControl combines a graphical flowchart programming language with an integratedreal-time debugger. The combination of simple flowcharting programming, a multitaskingoperating system and an English-based instruction set results in a language that makes controlcode easy to develop, easy to diagnose and maintain, and virtually self

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elhag Shaban

Session 2793 Capstone Design Projects in Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Education E. H. Shaban Electrical Engineering Department Southern University Email: eshaban@clsuter.engr.subr.eduIntegrating design in an undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum and theapplication of creative design ideas in senior capstone design projects have receivedample comments from repetitive ABET visitor’s teams. To address such a seriousdeficiency that is critical to the program survival, a radical change must be

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Subha Kumpaty

Page 7.803.1Shapiro text 2 is employed for mechanical engineering sequence and Cengel and Boles text 3 is Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationutilized for mechanical engineering technology program. The presenter introduced the TEST™software to Spring 1999 class as a means of support for calculations for a design project, whichopened the door for its further utilization in the curriculum thereafter. The student feedback hasbeen very affirming and this paper intends to present the sweet story of successful integration ofa software tool