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electromechanical folk art gadgets developed by the author in supportof the course, and a short survey completed by all students to assess the proposal’s feasibility.This paper also describes compilation and analysis of the surveys, the process by which supportfor the idea was secured from colleagues, the department chair, and the college dean, and otherpotential benefits of offering this course. IntroductionAfter many years of learning and teaching technical information, it became apparent to theauthor that creating gadgets using electromechanical components is not only fun but also aningenious and challenging way to apply basic engineering principles.As a student of engineering and technical content, the author

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Wei Guo; Manoj Santhinikethanam; Patrick F. Mensah; Amitava Jana; Chunling Huang

AbstractIn this work we are developing a low cost cyber glove for research and education.Nowadays Virtual Reality is used as a teaching tool for courses in Manufacturing,Industrial Engineering and Controls Systems etc. It is used for research in manyuniversities in areas such as MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems), physiotherapy,virtual surgery etc. Cyber glove is the most essential requirement for Virtual Realityexperiments. Gloves offer far superior data input potential than other input device likemouse or joystick, since they provide multiple DOFs (Degrees of freedom are a measureof the number of positions at which the device can be read as inputting a different datavalue) for each finger and the hand as a whole.In this cyber glove, the most

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Jerry K. Keska

Integration of Teaching-by-Inquiry Methods Into Undergraduate Classrooms Jerry K. Keska, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, P. O. Box-42972, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA 70506 E-mail: jkeska@louisiana.edu Abstract In the undergraduate teaching process, instructors and students alike often get bored solving simple, rather limited, classic textbook problems which require little if any imaginative thinking. To increase student interest and creative hands-on problem-solving skills, an innovative approach is needed that

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/lanzing/cm_home.htm8. URL: http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/map_ho.html9. URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/research/epp1/epp1.htm10. URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/conmap.htmH. DWAYNE JERRODr. H. Dwayne Jerro currently has a joint faculty appointment as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical EngineeringDepartments of Southern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR) and Louisiana State University (LSU). His researchinterests include the mechanics, design, and affordability of composite structures, smart composite pipingdevelopment, mechanical systems design and innovation, and utilization of alternative energy sources.CHUN-LING HUANGDr. Chun Ling Huang earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Chung Yuan

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David L. Cocke; John L. Gossage; Emrah Alicli; Beytullah Misirli; Kuyen Li

high technology classroom that isemerging with great potential to enhance the learning of engineering students and faculty. Thispaper results from a National Science Foundation funded Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program1 to adapt and implement computer aided problem-based learning (CA-PBL) in Chemical Engineering education at Lamar University, using computer technology. Thiswork was preceded by a funded project at Lamar University to examine the pedagogy and theclassroom design of computer and video aided teaching (CAVAT) in 1990. Computer generated Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington

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serves as UTSA’s Institutional Representative to the Texas Space GrantConsortium. He is the author of numerous published technical papers and has one patent and several patentapplications.AMIR KARIMIDr. Karimi is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs at TheUniversity of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universityof Kentucky in 1982. His teaching and research interests are in thermal sciences. He has been the chair ofmechanical engineering twice: the first time between 1987 and 1992 and again from September 1998 to 2003. Dr.Karimi has served on curriculum committees at all university levels and has been a member of the University

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Chu–Chen Chen; Chun Ling Huang

, and Pi Tau Sigma.CHUN LING HUANGDr. Chun Ling Huang earned B.S. and M.S.degrees in mechanical engineering from Chung Yuan ChristianUniversity (CYCU) in Taiwan, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama (UA)at Tuscaloosa. He was a graduate teaching and research assistants at CYCU and UA before joining the faculty ofSouthern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR), Louisiana, in 1990. Currently, he is an associate professor ofmechanical engineering in SUBR. He is a member of ASME and ASEE. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright @ 2003, American Society for

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Shantanu Bhattacharya; Jordan M. Berg; Darryl James

control and analysis of dynamic systems, MEMS and microfluidics. Prof. Berg is aregistered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.SHUBHRA GANGOPADHYAYDr. Gangopadhyay currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Physics at Texas Tech University and isCo-Director of the Nano Tech Center there. Her main research interests are microelectronics and microsensors.DARRYL L. JAMESDr. James currently serves as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Hisresearch interests are experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, combined mode heattransfer/fluid mechanics, turbulence enhanced heat transfer, and thermodynamic aspects of material synthesisunder shock loading

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Ali Abolmaali

21st century.” New York: Basic Books.5 Sarasin, L., (1998), “Learning style perspectives: impact in the classroom.” Madison, WI: Atwood.6 Bursi, O. S., and Jaspart, J. P., (1997), “Benchmarks For Finite Element Modeling of Bolted steel Connections.” Journal of Construction Steel Research, Vol. 43, No. 1-3, PP 17-42.7 Griggs, N.S., Criswell, M.E., and Siller, T.J., (1996), “Integrated civil engineering curriculum: implementation and management.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 122(4):1-5.8 Joyce, B., and Weil, M., (2000), “Models of teaching.” Boston: Allyn and Bacon.9 Lowman, J., (1995), “Mastering the techniques of teaching.” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.10

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Mohammed E. Haque

representative value (one value, whichrepresents the response of 138 residents) was very close to the average value of all the responses.Hence, in this research, we had taken the average value into consideration (Figure 3). Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2: QuestionnaireQ1. Easy access to entry and exit gates Q24.Ready phone and cable connection with an extensionQ2. Layout plan and proper building numbers at the

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., 1995, “Something Old, Something New: Integrating Engineering Practice into the Teaching of Engineering Mechanics,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 105-115. 10. Thompson, B. E., 2002, “Pedagogy of an Aircraft Studio,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 197-201.TARIQ A. KHRAISHIDr. Khraishi currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico.His general research interests are in theoretical, computational and experimental solid mechanics and materialsscience. He has taught classes in Dynamics, Materials Science, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, Elasticity andNumerical Methods. For the last two-three years he has engaged himself in the

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Students, 4th ed., Addison Wesley Longman Company, Maryland. p. 193.W. CONWAY LINKMr. Link serves as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.Since 1985, he has developed and coordinated programs for academically talented students and has taughtthe probability/statistics and discrete math components of LaPREP. His research interests include statisticsand education.CARLOS G. SPAHT, IIDr. Spaht serves as Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. For several yearshe has raised funds for and directed LaPREP, a nationally acclaimed intervention program in engineering,math and science for high-ability middle and early high school students. His research interests

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Richard Bannerot

significant engineering projectsof the 20th century, employed few, if any, engineers. [Of course, this is not true. Forexample, General Leslie R. Groves, who headed the project was an engineer. Afterattending the University of Washington for a year and MIT for two years, he graduatedfrom West Point in 1918. He took courses for three years at the Army’s EngineersSchool, Camp Humpherys (now Fort Belvoir), Virginia. In fact, among the many Armyconstruction projects that he supervised was the building of the Pentagon. Also, duringWorld War II, the Office of Scientific Research and Development under the DefenseResearch Council was active in supporting the engineering of the war effort. ] Thesuccessful Russian launch of an earth orbiting satellite in 1957

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Ronald E. Barr; Thomas J. Krueger; Ted A Aanstoos

1969and 1975, respectively. His research interests are in Biosignal Analysis, Biomechanics, and EngineeringComputer Graphics. Barr is the 1999 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award (DSA) of theEngineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE. Barr is a Fellow of ASEE and a registered ProfessionalEngineer (PE) in the state of Texas.Thomas J. Krueger is a Teaching Specialist in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Universityof Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1994. He received his B. S. from Concordia TeachersCollege in 1966 and his M. Ed and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1971 and 1975 respectively.Before coming to the University of Texas at Austin, Krueger taught at Texas A&M University,Brazosport College, and

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-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 3-b ME 3293 course survey – responses to specific questions. 1= definitely false, 2= more false than true, 3= in between, 4= more true than false, 5= definitely true, O = omit No. Question 1 2 3 4 5 O Avg s.d. 1 Calculus I (differential calculus) has prepared me for this class 0 2 5 4 7 1 3.9 1.1 2 Calculus II (integral calculus) has prepared me for this class 0 1 5 5 7 1 4.0 1.0 3 Technical Physics I (Mechanics and Heat

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Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 4. Starks, S., Beruvides, M., et.al., 1994, “Restructuring the freshman year in engineering at UTEP”, Proceedings - Frontiers in Engineering Conference, San Jose, CA, Nov 2-6, pp 331-335. 5. Hoit, M., Ohland, M., 1995, “Implementing curriculum reform: A case history”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28. 6. Van Treuen, K.W., Havener, A.G., 1998, “Teaching introductory engineering: A problem based learning experience”, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Vol. 34, pp 1-6.BONNIE BOARDMANDr. Boardman is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at The University ofTexas at Arlington. Her primary research interests are in the

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Geoffrey Orsak; Betsy Willis

. Developed by a team ofuniversity professors, high school teachers, working engineers, and leading researchers, theInfinity Project puts engineering in the hands of high school students in a fun, cost-effective,hands-on curriculum. The Infinity Project provides a complete turnkey solution including world-class curriculum, state-of-the-art technology, and best-in-class professional development formath and science teachers. A business model was adopted that requires schools to make timeand monetary investments, thereby helping to insure rigorous assessment. The curriculum iscurrently taught in high schools across the nation and is making a big impact – nearly 100% ofparticipating students would recommend the course to a friend, over 50% of

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bydeveloping and implementing nationwide programs that enhance engineering education andpreparedness in K-16. Programs teach engineering in fun, creative, compelling ways with themessage that engineering touches every facet of the modern world. Upon successfulimplementation and comprehensive evaluation, programs are disseminated nationally to serve asmodels for other institutions. (The Institute for Engineering Education at SMU website6) VisioneeringWhat is Visioneering?Visioneering is a signature National Engineers Week event that brings together middle schoolstudents, working engineers, innovators, and noted national figures from a variety of industriesand businesses to celebrate the ways that engineering

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H.W. Corley

chairman finally told him to stop being so serious. Forget the pressure.Have fun at research. Play. If hiring Feynman had been a mistake, it was the department’s fault,not Feynman’s. So Feynman vowed to make physics a game. It certainly could not hurt hisproductivity. Two days later he observed a plate being sailed across a Cornell cafeteria by somestudent. Watching its wobbly spin, Feynman had an epiphany that led to his winning the NobelPrize in 1965 for the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). While it is doubtful that theDirty Dozen Puzzle Contest will stimulate such profundity, having fun at one’s profession willsurely produce a better engineer. References1. URL: http://ie.uta.edu

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P. S. Shiakolas; R. VanSchneck; D. Piyabongkarn; I. Frangeskou

acquisitionboard from National Instruments, and a Visual C++ compiler from Microsoft. The selectedHIL is a custom-built magnetic levitation (maglev) system. The maglev system is chosenbecause it is nonlinear, open-loop unstable, and time varying. In this research work we usedMATLAB since as mentioned above it is widely useds in engineering for dynamic systemmodeling, simulation and control analysis and it provides the capabilities to easily transfercontrollers designed in a simulated environment to controlling the HIL device as shown in thepaper.A short literature survey on the use of experimental digital controllers focused on magneticlevitation devices will be presented. Then, the required tools will be introduced along with adiscussion on the

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Akanni Lawal; James M. Gregory; Lloyd Heinze

/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa. 5. Cantore, J.A., Gregory, J.M., 1996, Designing Communications with Confidence and Reliability, 2nd ed, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa.AKANNI S. LAWALDr. Lawal is an Associate Professor in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He teaches EngineeringCommunications (PETR 3308) for the past four years. He is the department’s graduate advisor and advises thecollege’s minority student engineer chapters, SHPE and NSBE.JAMES M. GREGORYDr. Gregory has served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering at Texas TechUniversity for eight years. He has spent over a decade in the research and development of tools to improveengineering education and

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William Jordan

B.S.and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has an M.A. degree fromDenver Seminary. His Ph.D. was in mechanics and materials engineering from Texas A & M University. Heteaches materials oriented courses and his main research area deals with the mechanical behavior of compositematerials. He is a registered metallurgical engineer in the state of Louisiana.BILL ELMORE, Ph.D., P.EDr. Elmore is Associate Professor and Academic Director for Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering andGeosciences, Louisiana Tech University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering, chemicalengineering unit operations, reactor design, and the senior capstone design sequence. Engineering

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Ronald E. Barr; Marcus G. Marcus G.; Anthony Petrosino; Lawrence D. Abraham; Tejas Karande; Bijal Patel

as needed. There is no required textbook for the course and the primarylecture content has been prepared over the years by the first author. The major lecture topicscovered in the course include: 1. Musculoskeletal Physiology and Anthropometrics; 2. Analysis and Simulation of Human Movement; 3. Biomechanical Systems and Control; 4. Computer Graphics Modeling in Biomechanics; and 5. Experimental Techniques in Biomechanics.In the Fall 2002 semester, the course was involved in testing educational materials as part of amuch larger educational research consortium, the NSF-sponsored VaNTH Engineering ResearchCenter for Bioengineering Education. 1 The objective of the consortium is to develop a

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Daniel Waters; Armando Mora; Lizette Zounon; J. Carter Matheney Tiernan

may be able to achieve in the future. The InfinityProject is a nationally recognized partnership between leading research universities, industry,government, and educators that has created innovative educational approaches to modernengineering that are both fundamental and fun.1 The development of the Infinity Project materialwas spearheaded by the Electrical Engineering (EE) faculty at SMU along with engineers atTexas Instruments (TI), makers of the DSP components used in the Infinity VAB kit, andHyperception, Inc., the software developers for the VAB software to control the DSP. TheInfinity Project is designed around hands-on experiments that demonstrate the basic concepts ofelectrical engineering. Each experiment utilizes real-time DSP

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Jerry K. Keska; Raghavender Charupalli

The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationA novel research approach is being developed to characterize the random signal generated bytwo-phase air-water flow in a vertical pipe measuring 35 mm in diameter. In this paper emphasisis given to the analysis of a random signal obtained from two-phase flow as well as itscharacterization and computerized data acquisition using LabVIEW software. The dataacquisition and analysis are accomplished and integrated by using a computerized dataacquisition system and a comprehensive VI tool, developed using the LabVIEW applicationsoftware. This system, which consists of the software and hardware, allows the modification andenhancement

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor

University of Houston.His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past twelveyears he has taught the required “Introduction to Design” course at the sophomore level and has recentlybecome involved in teaching the capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in thestate of Texas.ROSS KASTORRoss Kastor is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. Hehas been teaching the capstone design course since 1991. He completed more than 40 years as a drillingengineer for Shell Oil Co., where he spent 16 years teaching drilling engineering in Shell's inside schools.He majored in machine design at The Ohio State University where he received the BSME

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Pauline Melgoza

Improving Access to Electronic Resources for Classroom Instruction Pauline Melgoza Texas A&M University Libraries Texas A&M University AbstractAs engineering faculty assign projects and homework, they can facilitate access for their studentsto electronic resources such as on-line books, journals, proceedings, etc. In many instancesinstructors can now include links in their on-line syllabi, web-based teaching tools, or coursereserves to current, critical, and creditable research resources. An academic library is a teachingsupport tool that is often overlooked by teaching

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Kevin M. Nickels; Mahbub Uddin

approach. Prentice-Hall: Reston, Virginia, 1978.5. Larkin-Hein, T. and Budny, D. D. “Research on Learning Style: Applications in the Physics and Engineering Classrooms,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 44, no. 3, August 2001, pp. 276-281.6. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., and Cocking, R. R. How People Learn. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C., 1999.KEVIN M. NICKELSDr. Kevin M. Nickels is an assistant professor in the Department Engineering Science at Trinity University. Hereceived the B.S. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (1993), and received theM.S. degree (1996) and the Ph. D. (1998) in Electrical Engineering from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently

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summer and the potential facultymembers qualified to teach them. This is a successful practical summer employment.The faculty can plan ahead how they would like to spend their summer. This mayimprove faculty summer employment and avoid the chairman decision to makeunreasonable, arbitrary, and prejudiced summer employment decisions. Such plans arehighly recommended to other undergraduate engineering institutions.Research oriented engineering schools faculty members do not seek summer teachingemployment. Research faculty has a paid summer employment from funded researchcontracts. Engineering undergraduate or graduate courses, in research-orienteduniversities, are rarely offered in the summer. The graduate students are involved inresearch and the

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Gholam H. Massiha

-time faculty teaching experience. His areas of expertise are in experimental andtheoretical microelectronics, VLSI, microprocessor and control systems, and solar energy research. He has designed,built and investigated VLSI, IC semiconductor devices, and electronic circuits for reliability measurements. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education