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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hani Tohme; Enno Koehn

.” International Roundtable at the ASCE National Conference, Washington, D.C.12. Kumar, A. (2001). “Deliverable Based Service Contracts – A Challenge for Bidders.” Cost Engineering 43 (5), 29-31.13. Madono, Satow. (2002). “Games in Conflict of Interest.” Presented at The ASCE National Meeting, Washington D.C.14. Reina, Peter. (2003). “Bad to the Bone on Bribery.” ENR (Engineering News-Record), 250 (25),41-44.15. Rosenbaum, David B. (2000). “New Companies Help Firms Assess Risk if Working Abroad.” ENR (Engineering News-Record), 244 (24), 29.16. Selingo, J. (2004). “The Cheating Culture.” Prism, ASEE, 14(1), 24-30.17. Sorting out the Sectors. (2003). Transparency International, Berlin, Germany.18. Stansbury, Neil (2003). “Danger Signs of

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

second team, Team B, recommended two solutions. The short-term solution was a field kit that would replace the failing part with a more robust component. The long-term solution entailed a redesign that incorporated a direct drive system with a much larger motor. The client was impressed with different elements of each of the designs. There were pros and cons to both.4. ConclusionsWe conducted surveys with the students, industry clients and the coordinator of theUniversity of Dayton Design and Manufacturing Clinic in order to assess the value of theprocess. The feedback was very similar. Each stated advantages and disadvantages tothe model.Advantages• Client Sponsor Industry sponsors receive input from several sources. In

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

THE GLOBAL AND SOCIETAL CHALLENGE – AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO ABET CRITERION 3.H AND BEYOND* Larry J. Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Katherine Thomes and Lawrence Feick School of Engineering/Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261AbstractThe new ABET criteria combined with an increasing concern about engineering jobs moving“off shore” are causing some engineering schools to seriously consider an internationalexperience as part of their educational program. These could involve a range of alternatives from“teaser” trips of two or three weeks, an international co-op or internship opportunity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

INNOVATIONS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS: FOCUS ON MULTILEVEL COMMUNICATION SKILLS Judith A. Todd, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Christine B. Masters Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6812AbstractMultidisciplinary engineering programs are uniquely positioned to integrate new educational andresearch initiatives into their curricula. In this paper, we describe an integrated series ofcontinuing innovations in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, College ofEngineering at The Pennsylvania State University. These

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Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

for Engineering Education” S t u d e n t fa m ilia r ity w ith fa c u lty 40 35 FY1999 N =34 FY2000 N =26 FY2001 N =28 percent of students 30 A v e ra g e 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 1 2 3 4 >4 n u m b e r o f fa c u ltyFigure 2. Student familiarity with faculty after one year in the AE LC.Increased retention. Retention

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

) c) a) d)Figure 5. Equipment used in the experiment setup of the remote laboratory; a) The shaker for the productionof exciting force to the boring bar. b) A stinger rod to ensure that the force from the shaker is only applied inthe intended direction on the experiment object structure . c) The impedance-head for measuring both the forceand the acceleration in the same point. d) The accelerometer for measuring the acceleration and there are twoof those. Figure 6. The boring bar used in the remote laboratory experiment setup. The holder of the boring bar, clamping-house, see figure 7 is the first point of attachmentfor the

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

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Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

Inspired by Nature, New York: Quill, Willaim Morrow5. Berry, T. 1988. The Dream of the Earth, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.6. Bugliarello, G. 2000. Biosoma: the synthesis of biology, machines and society, Bulletin of Science, Technologyand Society, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 454-464.7. Hawken, P., Lovins A. and Lovins L. H. 1999. Natural Capitalism, Boston: Little, Brown and Company8. Hazeltine, B. and Bull, C. 1999. Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices and Implications, San Diego: AcademicPress.9. Knight, D. and J. Sullivan. 2003. First-Year Projects Course Improves Student Retention.http://itll.colorado.edu/GEEN1400/index.cfm?fuseaction=RetentionStudy10. Piket-May, Melinda and James Avery. 2001. Service Learning First Year Design Retention

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

orientation of the two cameras are known2, then thecoordinates (X,Y,Z) of a point P in the stereo images can be reconstructed from the perspectiveprojection of P on the cameras’ image planes. In this geometric model, let b be the distancebetween the two lens centers, XZ be the plane where the optical axes lie, and XY plane beparallel to the image plane of both cameras. The baseline is on the X axis, and the origin O of the(X,Y,Z) world reference system is the lens center of the left camera. Using this setting theequations of the stereo triangulation are: Z = ( b × f ) / ( x1 - x 2 ) X = x1 × Z / f Y = y1 × Z / f

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Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean

for the development of a virtual lab that accomplishes the same goals andoutcomes of the traditional lab. An existing lab used in a PLC Programming course will illustratethe use of the some of the methods in development of an Analytic Strategy. Lab #12 Name: __________________ 2. Cylinder B starts to move ID:_____________________ forward slowly when cylinder A is [Objective] fully extended and is sensed by Implement a PLC program for the proximity sensor Pr1

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Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

containment device). Sessions were conducted atthe participant’s workplace or in our laboratory. The “one model” task was given after theplayground task and before the flood task. In addition to being asked to think aloud as they readthe “one model” description, participants were prompted to comment on it in relation to howthey had just solved the playground problem. We also present results from three other tasks administered during the last part of thedesign session. These were given in the form of a written questionnaire (see Appendix B). Thefirst task, labeled “Your Illustration of Design,” asked participants to: “Use this paper to create apicture or representation of what you think the process of design is.” The second task (adaptedfrom

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Community. IEEE Security &Privacy, pp. 61-63, September/October, 2004.[4] HANSCHE, SUSAN. Preparing the Next Generation of SE Students for a Brave New World: Making the Casefor an Early Introduction of ISSE. Proceedings of the 8th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education,pp. 21-30.[5] SCHNEIER, BRUCE. Secrets and Lies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., August 2000.[6] TUCKER, ALLEN B., BRUCE H. BARNES, ROBERT M. AIKEN, KEITH BARKER, KIM B. BRUCE, J.THOMAS CAIN, SUSAN E. CONRY, GERALD L. ENGEL, RICHARD G. EPSTEIN, DORIS K. LIDTKE,MICHAEL C. MULDER, JEAN B. ROGERS, EUGENE H. SPAFFORD, AND A. JOE TURNER. ComputingCurricula ’91. Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical andElectronics

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Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen McClain

fluid has a pressure ratio of 12. The minimum and maximum temperatures are 300 K and 1200 K. Assuming an isentropic efficiency of 85% for the compressor and 92% for the turbine, determine (a) the air temperature at the turbine exit, (b) the net work output, and (c) the thermal efficiency. Figure 1 presents a schematic for the cycle and the cycle T-s diagram. Figure 1. Brayton Cycle Schematic and T-s DiagramThe Brayton cycle analysis is an excellent example to demonstrate the use ideal gas functions forair. For an ideal gas analysis, the actual properties of the air exiting the compressor, indicated at

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

Practicing Real World Design, Teamwork, and Communications through Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Projects Richard R. Schultz and Arnold F. Johnson University of North Dakota Department of Electrical EngineeringAbstractStudents enrolled in the B.S.E.E. with an Aerospace Focus program at the University of NorthDakota (UND) receive a traditional electrical engineering degree, along with aviationcoursework and a private pilot’s license. Cross-campus collaborations with UND’s world-renowned aerospace program provide the students with many experiential learning opportunitiesthat satisfy EAC/ABET EC2000 design, multidisciplinary

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

An Innovative Rapid Processor Platform Design for Early Engineering Education Yong-Kyu Jung Texas A&M University-College StationAbstractA new course for the early stage of digital design education is demonstrated. An innovativeusage of technologies and an effective organization of numerous subjects to leverage the currentclassroom practices are presented. In particular, the new course objectives and organization areexplained to provide an overall view and details of our rapid design process, as well as to achieveengineering educational goals for reducing a gap between the technologies used in industry andin academia. Expected

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

) 17.1) Graduates are prepared with an understanding of fundamental technical sciences that are integrated with the applied technical specialty, such as engineering materials and mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and electrical circuits, developing analytical techniques and problem solving skills necessary to adapt to technological changes, and for a career in mechanical engineering technology. (a, b, f)2) Graduates acquire industry relevant experience within the academic environment through laboratory projects, experimentation, classroom lecture and demonstrations, and acquire in- depth technical knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, computer-aided engineering graphics, design, and manufacturing processes. (a, c

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Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

used to gauge student’s learningprogress along with other techniques.AQM involves a) Active listening, b) Maintaining a Portfolio that reflect student work in total,c) Interactive learning, d) Intro to concepts through project implementation, d) Cooperativecollaborative learning 4 through team approach, and e) Assessing students at the micro levelusing what we call a “ten minute” quiz that is given at beginning of every lecture hour to keepthe students in a continuous study and inquiry mode.The AQM was initiated in our department back in fall 1994 with stream lining of theprerequisites to our circuit courses. College Algebra was changed to a prerequisite rather than apre/co requisite. This change helped the students in applying algebra to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

experiences for students in all engineeringprograms at UMD. The course also provides a setting in lecture format for describing to studentsthe engineering topics identified as the “Professional Component” of engineering by ABET, andembeds topics in advanced composition relevant to engineering professions. Through a series oflectures and lab assignments, this course specifically addresses the “Professional Component”ABET topics and provides multidisciplinary design experiences that students enjoy.References 1. Carroll, C. R., “Engr 4001: Engineering Professionalism – Teaching the “Soft Side” of Engineering,” Proceedings of ASEE North Midwest Section Conference, Milwaukee, WI , 2004. 2. Fleddermann, C. B., Engineering Ethics

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

to: a) address the quality and quantity of theteaching of engineering topics (possibly as a subset of technology education topics) in publicschool through college, and b) develop first-rate, cross-disciplinary, rigorous and quantitativeeducational research programs that will produce graduates prepared to teach or to assumeleadership positions that will shape engineering, science, and math education curricula andpolicies at the college, local, state, and federal levels.The engineering education degree programs currently being developed are:• A Certificate in Engineering Education to supplement graduate work in a traditional engineering discipline or provide advanced study to licensed K-12 teachers and postsecondary teachers. Required and

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

-share and also support of tworesearch projects: (a) Tannery Waste Treatment, and (b) Medical Waste Treatment. These twoprojects are fully funded by BUET from its own resources.Through this program, BUET Chemical Engineering Department gained experience andexpertise in developing short courses and workshops on various topics in the area of pollutionprevention and environment management. The faculty members of BUET ChE Department arenow committed to continue the work through their Directorate to Continue Education (DCE).They plan to offer short courses and workshops as part of outreach and capacity building to theprivate and public sector on a regular basis. There is a huge demand for these courses inBangladesh and BUET ChE Department is well

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR,June 2005.[4] G. Suckarieh, A. Prabhakar, and T. Wal ke r ,“ Impleme nti ngaWe b-Based Knowledge Base for a ConstructionComp;any: Industry-Ac ademiaCol laborat ion,”Pr oceedin gsoftheAme r icanSociet yf orEng i n eeringEdu c at

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Rehg; Bruce Muller

layout of the network for two of the student stations is illustrated in Figure 3.The network layout shows station A and station B, which are back to back student stations thatshare a common assembly system, Figure 1, used for programming problems. The PLCs andcomputers are linked by a local Ethernet LAN that is connected to a server that supports theautomation laboratory. A second DeviceNet network links the I/O from the assembly system tothe Control Logix system. Note that a switch is used to direct which student station has theDeviceNet network attached to the assembly system. The DeviceNet includes a valve controlblock and Block I/O with discrete and analog inputs and outputs.The operator switch and pilot lamp panel has a cable and plug (see

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Hay; Recayi Pecen

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthis paper will explore the efforts of the 2004 UNI solar boat team and give a glimpse of whatthe future holds for the 2005 team.The team approached the project as a problem solving exercise. As in previous years, theproblem could be defined as: “Finding effective and efficient alternatives to internal combustionpowered aquatic recreational transportation”. There are several reasons beyond the educationalexperience for undertaking this project: • Finding an alternative method of getting from point A to point B without emitting roughly 8.6 kg of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

networks, whose primary utility is in solvingclassification problems. These properties are: (a) they can solve complex classification problems,(b) they converge fast to a solution, after a few iterations through the collection of the data usedfor their training, (c) they possess on-line learning capabilities, thus not requiring re-training withold information as they are being exposed (learn) new information, (d) they offer easy tounderstand explanations for the answers that they provide, (e) they have been proven to be verycompetitive (compared to other techniques) classifiers on a variety of classification problems.We then continued the lectures by emphasizing on one of the most celebrated ART neural

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

Tech PrEP: Seeding Technology Careers via Michigan Tech University’s Enterprise Program John B. Lehman, Mary B. Raber, David H. Stone Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractSince the fall of 2000, Michigan Technology University’s undergraduate Enterprise Program(www.enterprise.mtu.edu) concept of cross-disciplinary problem solving and product generationhas created active learning environments for undergraduate students across campus. Within theprogram, teams of students from a broad base of disciplines are provided an opportunity to workfor several years in a business-like setting to solve real-world engineering problems supplied byindustry. Through

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gillian Saunders-Smits

: Additional competencies Specialist Manager A. Ability to change (x2) 4.5 5.0 B. Ability to work in teams (x6) 3.7 4.3 C. Social skills (x5) 3.3 4.6 D. Planning and Organizing/Systematic Planning (x2) 4.0 4.0 E. Continuous education (x2) 5.0 4.5 Table 3: Most suggested additional competencies by the expert panel and their importance to engineering managers and engineering specialists (1

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

Technology (IDPT-Vol. 3), Society for Design and Process Science, pp 97-104.4. Todd, R., Magleby, S., Sorensen, C., Swan, B., and Anthony, D. 1995. A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America. Engineering Education: 165-174.5. McKenzie, L., Trevisan, M., Davis, D., and Beyerlein, S. 2004. Capstone Design Courses and Assessment: A National Study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Salt Lake City, June 2004.6. Ulmann, D. 1992. The Mechanical Design Process. McGraw-Hill, New York.7. Pahl, G. and Beitz, W. 1996. Engineering Design, 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, New York.8. Dym, C. and Little, P. 2000. Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction. John Wiley

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Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Duy; Scott Dunning

ofMaine, working with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Maine Department ofEconomic and Community Development, has created a web-based implementation ofRutgers University’s Self-Assessment Workbook for Small Manufacturers. The initialapplication was completed using Java applets, but further consideration of the issues ofscalability, ease of maintenance, and system compatibility resulted in implementing thefinal application in PHP (which recursively stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). Page 10.1459.1Keywords: web site management/development tools, knowledge management applications, client/server systems, middleware1.0

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Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy Henk

August 3,2000. Copyright 1993-1999.3. D. Kashy, G. Albertelli, G. Ashkenazi, E. Kashy, H.-K. Ng, and M. Thoennessen, IndividualizedInteractive Exercises: A Promising Role for Network Technology, IEEE Frontiers in EducationConference Proceedings, ISBN: 0-7803-6669-7, vol. 31, p. 1073, 2001.4. G. Albertelli, B. Minaei-Bidgoli, W.F. Punch, G. Kortemeyer, and E. Kashy, Concept Feedback inComputer-Graded assignments, Frontiers in Education, 2002.5. G. Kortemeyer, G. Albertelli, W.Bauer, F.Berryman, J.Bowers, M.Hall, E. Kashy, D. Kashy, H. Keefe,B. Minaei-Bidgoli, W. Punch, A. Sakharuk, and C. Speier, The LearningOnline Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach, Computer Based Learning in Science Conference, Cyprus, 2003.6. Guy Albertelli

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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

Manufacturing Module,” Amy J. Moll, William B. Knowlton, Michelle B. Sabick, Patricia A. Pyke, and John F. Gardner, Proceedings ASEE 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 12-15, 2005.[3] National Research Council, National Science Education Standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998.[4] National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for Mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., 1999.Biographical InformationELISA H. BARNEY SMITHElisa Barney Smith is an associate professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Boise StateUniv.. She received a B.S. in Comp. Sci. and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical