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Yan Zhu; Youlu Zheng

486PC 3 /1 1 0 C S u b n etw ork 1 S u b n etw ork 2 S u b n etw ork 3Figure 1: The hardware configuration of a heterogeneous network with three subnetworks. Subnetwork 1 is a client/server NetWare network with a 386PC as the server. Subnetwork 2 includesthree computers, and Subnetwork 3 includes only two computers. A gateway and router connect the threesubnetworks. The Sun workstation is a single node. The network card comes with the workstation which usesthe default I/O base address and the default interrupt. One 386PC installed with NetWare 3.12 works as theNetWare Server as well as a gateway between subnetwork 1 and subnetwork 2

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Fred M. Young

/T1 =1.30175. a) What is the Mach Number at section 2 and how much heat is added per unit mass? b) Additional heat is added between section 2 and section 3 such that M3 =1. What is the ratio of T3 /T2 ? c) If more heat is added than in part (b) such that T03 is increased by 20% over the former value, what happens? Page 1.485.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Since the star state is constant for simple heat addition, T1 /T* can be found from M 1 and then multiplied by T2 /T1 to get T2 /T

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Maurice Bluestein

errors canoccur anywhere along the chain of measuremen~ from the sensor through to the recording of the data. Thetotal uncertainty of a measurement combines both bias and precision errors in a root-mean-squm sense asl: u = (B + P)””s 2 (1) Page 1.421.1 {hxd~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,,,IZI13Jwhere U is the total uncertainty of the measurement B is the bias error, and P is the precision error, allexpressed in the unit of measurement

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Suzanne E. Prickett; Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

product. In general, a variable refers to the product if it is in a pruning-stint —, ( pr.nmg-.p expr ) test-stint —) ( kst-op expr expr expr’? ) statement that occurs after any manipulation command. tind-expr —, f,nd-item-cxpr I Iind-test-expr M1scelkmeous Exprcssion~ I (Label-site Carbonl (Find positive-carbon)) imthme[ic-cxpr ‘~ ( @hmet~c.op numhcr-expr. ) Iind-item-expr —> ( Imd-up Item-dcscmptor partid-prep.cqxt ) 2 (Label-site Carbon2 (Find neutral-carbon attached-to Carbon l)) tind-tcsc-expr —, ( iind-!cst-op n u m b e r - c x p r aem

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D.E., Lt. Col. Randall K. Liefer

payload on an expendable booster is another route to space for universityprojects. Utah State, Weber State and the University of Surrey in England have all put satellites intoorbit this way. A number of other schools, including the Air Force Academy, Stanford, and ArizonaState are actively pursuing this path5’b. Even with all the new commercial boosters on the horizon, thecost of buying a ride as a secondary payloads is daunting. It remains to be seen if any of these schoolscan be successful in buying, begging or borrowing a ride to orbit on an expendable. There is another way to flight test space vehicles. A number of schools, most recently theAcademy, have flown and operated real space hardware in a near-space environment using

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Vijay K. Madisetti; James H. Aylor; David P. Wilsey; Anthony J. Gadient

. R. Klenke), and the support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency Electronics TechnologyOffice (ARPA/ETO) and United States Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory under contract numberF33615-94-C-1457 without whose support this work would not have been possible.References 1. G.Castelli, “The Seemingly Unlimited Market for Microcontroller-based Embedded Systems”, IEEE Micro, pp. 6-9, October 1995. 2. A.B. Tucker and B. H. Barnes, "Flexible Design: A Summary of Computing Curricula 1991", IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, No. 11, Nov. 1991, pp.56-66. 3. S.W. Director and R. A. Rohrer, "Reengineering the Curriculum: Design and Analysis of a New Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Degree at Carnegie Mellon

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William Peterson

between theory and application. A major weakness with this approach is that nonotation of the subject being covered goes on the student's record for future uses such as meeting an MBAprerequisite requirement. In conclusion, the recommendation to include a marketing theory class in engineering management andindustrial engineering programs is supported by (1) the need for graduates of these programs to sell theinnovations they propose to their organization and (2) the increasing use of customer (both internal andexternal) driven production management philosophies.1. Chase, Richard B., and Aquilano, Nicholas J.; Production and Operations Management, A life Cycle Approach; Irwin, Burr Ridge, Illinois, 19922. Haas, Robert W.; Business

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Robert L. Drake; Ottis L. Barron; J. Douglas Sterrett

Changing World”, A Joint Project by the Deans Council and Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE, 1818 N Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC, October 1994.3. Keen, B. V., Definition of the Engineering Method, ASEE, 1985.4. Lovas, C. M., “Integrating Design into the Engineering Curriculum”, reference material from the SMU short course, March 1995.5. Howell, S. K.,~En ~ mineerin and Desi Problem Solving, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., Redwood City, CA, 1995.6. Sheryl, A. S., WordPerfect for Engineers, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., Redwood City. CA. 19957. King, J., MathCAD Essentials, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co

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Corneliu Berbente

cooperation on the managerial education in technical universities.The seven-years cooperation program between WSU and PUB hasalready important effects on the managerial education inPolitehnica of Bucharest, representing, at the same time, a modelfor any technical university of Romania.The main achievements in this direction are: a. the cooperation with the excellent team of WSU topspecialists from the highest developed country in the world USA,a real model for what business practices and free markedcompetition means; b. the training and up grading at WSU of a large number offaculty members (about 25 people); c. the material support to establish and endow a CBE, aseminar room and a computer - laboratory

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James V. Masi

. Three notable commonalities were seen on almost J Page 1.211.8all of the samples studied: (a). . The samples all showed,,,. some degree . . of. .micro-cracking; ..... (b) Migration of mercury through ..—.the

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Sarah Weaver; Mark Strauss; Jenna Caldwell

who have succeeded in SEM seem to have done so due to a widevariety of reasons: a) They have all had some very supportive teachers and family, b) they appear to have anintense sense of motivation and optimism, and c) they have had access to expensive technological alternativessuch as computer applications and powerful adaptive equipment. These are factors that do not appear asnecessary for able-bodied students to thrive. It has been determined that disability does not necessarily drive astudent away from SEM. To the contrary, the disability in many cases brings the student toward the sciencesin order to make a contribution to the disabled population or to offer an alternative to a previously chosenmajor that relies on blue-collar physical

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Norbert L. Ackermann; Anthony G. Collins

the discussion within the context of the proposed ABET 2000Criteria*. One of three objectives of the criteria is to “encourage new and innovative approaches toengineering education”. Specifically Criteria 2 (Program Educational Objectives) states; “Each engineering program for which an institution seeks accreditation or reaccreditation musthave in place: (a) detailed educational objectives that include the outcomes specified by these criteria; (b) a curriculum and process that ensures the achievement of these objectives; and (c) a system of continuous evaluation that demonstrates achievement of these objectives and uses the results to

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Arvind Ramanathan

. Toaccommodate this emerging area in the curriculum, a new course in BME was offered for the first time in spring1996.Course Design To take advantage of rest of the engineering curriculum, and because this is a nonspecializeddepartment, it was decided that the introductory BME course must a) Cover all major areas of BME, and b)Also provide a mechanism for pursuit of narrow topics of interest. We believe that one of the messages that needs to be conveyed in an introductory BME course is that aclear understanding of the appropriate physiology is essential prior to design of engineering systems capable ofinteracting with living systems in a desired fashion. Any tendency to keep the physiology at arm’s length in thismultidisciplinary field

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T. N. Jones; P. K. Allen; P. A. McCoog; J. P. Crosby

, links to other help files, and links to other sites thatprovide documentation and programming libraries that the student might need. Figure 2 shows the help viewerat one particular instance in the tutorial.2.2 C a l i b r a t i o n o f t h e C a m e r aThe student learns quickly that they cannot perform the pick and place task without calibrating the camera on therobot. Thus, the tutorial guides them to camera calibration first. A problem that other simulated environmentsfrequently encounter is one of realism. They provide the user with perfect images, which is something thatnever happens in a real lab setting. To avoid this, we used images taken in our own lab. These images havenoise, distortion, and other imperfections that the student would

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Tsung-chieh Tsay; Richard E. Larew; Fabian C. Hadipriono

UnitedKingdoms>b reveals that inadequate construction education is one of the important factors leading to the abovefailures and accidents. To achieve a well constructed project the institution recommends that constructioneducation include the following education enhancement factors: practicality and feel for engineeringconstruction, knowledge of overall structural behavior, creative thinking and problem solving, accuracy ofassumptions made in the design, and engineering j udgment. In turn, all these factors allow students tounderstand the underlying causes of failures. Therefore, it is imperative for civil engineering educators topromote these education enhancement factors to our undergraduate students in the classroom.7’8 In reality, many

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Scott R. Short

Session 2526 Development of an Undergraduate Materials Laboratory in a Mechanical Engineering Department Scott R. Short Northern Illinois UniversityAbstract In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University (NIU), in DeKalb, IL,undergraduate mechanical engineering students are required to take two courses focusing specifically onmaterials: MEE 330- Materials Science and MEE 331 - Manufacturing Processes. Previously, these coursesconsisted only of lectures. However, with the

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Russell A. Aubrey; Dennis O. Owen; Jack Beasley

students during career days had been less than effective, and the university staff had decided that part of the problem resulted from lack of involvement of the teachers of the high school students. In one of the career day presentations the high school teachers were heavily involved and the results were very good. b. Teamwork is demonstrated to the students when both faculties are involved, and cooperation regarding discipline, student attentiveness, etc., is expected.3. Introduce students, early in their education, to a positive university classroom experience. 34. Address issues of inadequate student development of

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Sylvia D. Pifion; Elsa Q. Villa; Connie Kubo Della-Piana

Undergraduate Education Grant DUE-9354379, October1994.5. Johnson, David W., R. T. Johnson and Karl Smith, Cooperative Learning: Increasing College FacultyInstructional Productivity, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 4, Washington, DC: The George WashingtonUniversity, 1991.6. Johnson, David W., R. T. Johnson., and E. J. Holubec, Cooperation in the Classroom. Interaction BookCompany, Edina, Minnesota, 1993.7. Landis, Raymond B., Improving Student Success through a Model “Introduction to Engineering” Course, Adissemination document for a National Science Foundation project, 1995.8. Tinto, Vincent, Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 1987.AUTHORSCONNIE KUBO DELLA-PIANA An

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Mario G. Beruvides; C. Patrick Koelling

andinstead give a small weekly 10-15 minute quiz on the material. The opposition to such a technique usually lies inthat a) professors see it as extra work and b) students will oppose this continual evaluation. FirsL the argument ofexcessive work has little basis because grading homework problems is far more work than a few quiz problems.The second point is debatable. Thus, we attempted to test this point with a group of students to see if the studentswho have weekly quizzes would perceive the valence of the chunking of information in this format to theirediilcation in the subject matter.Methodology Engineering economics students in two universities (Texas Tech and Virginia Tech) were surveyed oneffectiveness of weekly quizzes. The Texas Tech

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S.v. Babu; S.M. Ross; I.I. Suni; D.H. Rasmussen

). While some prototypes are "throw away," others evolve into the final package after formative evaluationand modifications. The multimedia courseware prototype that was recently assessed by some of the Clarksonstudents is of the latter (evolving) variety. The assessment team asked the students to explore the multimedia ES260 courseware prototype availableon a campus LAN and to: (a) describe their impressions of the software's ease of use and effectiveness, and (b)make specific suggestions for improvement. This paper summarizes students' initial reactions to the software in thecontext of "usability." Usability is a construct developed in the context of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)studies. "HCI studies are concerned with understanding

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William P. Darby; Nancy Shields; H. Richard Grodsky

50% 3 2% 194 100% Selection criteria were developed and used to determine which of the nominees would be invited to takethe UM-St. Louis mathematics placement examination with the intent that the test scores would be used todetermine full acceptance into the program. The selection criteria were: (a) minorities and women, especiallyAfrican-Americans; (b) interest in an engineering career; (c) grades in high school mathematics courses; (d)standardized test scores; and (e) potential interest in the Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program. A less Page 1.52.3

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L. F. Borjón; L. M. Martínez; K. A. Córdova; J. L. Hernández; A. Lozano

) shows an arrangement with a Micrologix and the microterminal forprogramming, (B) shows a PC computer with a SLC interfaced through RS-485 (PIC). Practicals are to be implemented by teams of two students on one or two four hour lab. sessions. Theproposed practicals were implemented by keeping in mind simplicity and progressive learning by the student.The basic equipment used for each practical is an SLC-500 fixed controller or SLC 5-02 or 5-03, one PIC a PCand I/O modules as requested for the practical needs. The practicals are briefly commented below: Page 1.514.2 1) Ladder Language Programming . Introduction to the

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Joan A. Burtner; Benjamin S. Kelley; Allen F. Grum

in the first term of regular chemistrywas covered in the AIMS course. This was due to the slower pace, extra time devoted to understanding andproblem solving, and the inclusion of other classroom activities. During the first year of the AIMS experimentthis course was graded on a pass/fail basis, and thereafter on an& B, C, D, F basis. The chemistry concepts that were emphasized did not include the most basic concepts such asmemorization of chemical symbols or an introduction to atomic structure, but rather on using andunderstanding chemical concepts to solve problems. The major topical areas that were emphasized included

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Laura L. Lisiecki

. These case studies came from the candidates’everyday experiences, as well as from their experiences in the C.A.T. Introductory materials sciencetextbooks l-3 were used to divide the subject of corrosion into the following nine areas. Case studies are shownin parentheses. I. Galvanic corrosion (galvanized steel parts) A. Oxidation-reduction reactions B. Standard electrode half-cell potentials for metals C. Galvanic cells II. Uniform corrosion (automobile body panels) A. Coatings i. Paint (painted steel automobile body panels) ii. Tin (tin cans) iii. Plastic (polyethylene coated underground gas lines) B

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Michael E. German; Matthew M. Mehalik

by McDonough, in which thereis no compromise: a design must follow the highest possible environmental standards. (We have piloted thiscase in the course described in Ingrid Soudek’s paper; the results from this pilot will be discussed in the paperby Edmund Russell). We intend to develop a B or follow-up case which describes in detail the design process that led to thefabric and the kinds of social negotiations that had to be done to make ethics a top priority at Ciba Geigy, whichproduced the dyes. One of the lessons students learn from this case is that successful designers not only builddevices, they also create networks. This kind of network-building is essential--one has to show companies thatenvironmental ethics can benefit the

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Richard E. Pfile

transmit data ; Read A/D left channel into A register move x: RX_BUFF_BASE,a ; Read A/D right channel into B register move x: RX_BUFF_BASE+ l,b ; Codec setup data for transmit move #ToNE_ouTPuT,yo move yo,Xm_BuFF_BAsE+2 ; Codec setup data for receive move #TONE_INPUT,yO move yo,x:Tx_BuFF_BAsE+3.**** *****************************************7; Insertion point (B) for later code additions.****9 ***************************************** ;WritedatatoD/A converter ;Leftchannel, data right back out from a move a

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Sencer Yeralan

solving a given problem, the future IE may be charged with designingsubsystems that solve their own problems when they arise. This indeed would be a boldconceptual step.Bibliography(1) Yeralan, S. and A. Ahluwalia, "Programming and Interfacing 8031 Microcontrollers," Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.(2) Yeralan, S. and B. Tan, "Embedded Fuzzy Logic Control," Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, forthcoming in 1996.(3) Yeralan, S., "Computer Networks in Manufacturing," Handbook of Manufacturing and Automation, pp 727-736, Editors R. Dorf and A. Kusiak, John Wiley, 1994.(4) Yeralan, S. and B. Tan, "Fuzzy Logic Control as an Industrial Control Language for Embedded Controllers," Design and Implementation of

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Richard J. Kozick

Page 1.495.2to the dSPACE hardware. This connection is represented by a plug in Figure lb. Similarly, the output in @g~j 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘m.JH## IFigure 1: (a) Simulink block diagram for simulation of a low-pass digital filter. (b) Simulink blockdiagram for real-time implementation of same digital filter on dSPACE hardware. IFigure la is a simulated oscilloscope, while the output in Figure lb is a plug that signifies the

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Silvia G. Middleton; Monika Lumsdaine; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt

thinking, and limbic or cerebral thinking1. The left-brain cerebral quadrant, A, shows apreference for mathematical, technical, logical, factual, and analytical thinking styles. The left-brain limbicquadrant, B, shows a preference for organizational, planned, conservative, controlled, and administrativethinking. The right-brain limbic quadrant, C, shows a preference for interpersonal, musical, talking, emotional,and spiritual thinking. The right-brain cerebral quadrant, D, shows a preference for imaginative, holistic,conceptual, artistic and synthesizing thinking. As might be expected, engineering faculty and students tend tohave higher scores in quadrant A (and often B), and lower scores in quadrant C. Table 1 gives the averagedistributions for

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Michael V. Doran; Herbert E. Longenecker; David L. Feinstein; David D. Langan

-based learning objectives, and (b) strategic sequencing and blending to the domain of introductoryprogramming courses.Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom characterized the educational process in terms of knowledge levels. The following table brieflydescribes Bloom’s six levels of learning.Level 1: Knowledge: Students can recite, recognize and differentiate facts on a given subject.Level 2: Comprehension: Given cues, students can paraphrase, translate, interpret, extrapolate, and otherwise use facts.Level 3: Application: Without cues, students can appropriately apply facts to solve problems in new situations.Level 4: Analysis: Students can define the relevant components of new abstractions.Level 5