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Raymond W. Flumerfelt; William Sherrill; Hamid Parsaei

;related academic support material (business and engineering) is integrated to meet themilestone needs. Every effort is made throughout the program to make the experience asrealistic possible (e.g., Boards of Directors are formed for each of the enterprises andfictitious funding is obtained from real investors). The thrust of the enterprise involves aspectrum of business organizational and operating issues that arise in a business withimportant engineering requirements. Other important issues that confront engineers whenoperating within the business environment are integrated into the cirricula. These issuesinclude such areas as, legal, ethical, environmental, safety and human resources. Beforethe conclusion of the second course, each team must

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, Ventilating, and AirConditioning (HVAC) courses required for engineers. The Mechanical EngineeringDepartments assessed in the survey were in the state of Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Dueto the small number of graduate seniors, most Mechanical Engineering Departments are unableto offer the HVAC related courses. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNationally, building energy training is currently only extended at universities experiencing alarge number of students enrolled in the mechanical engineering program. Besides the limitednumber

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

Figure 3 is constructed using a 6x3 array of rectangles,whereas the torque sensor model in Figure 4 used a circular array of eight holes. Figure 3: A Computer Model Created Figure 4: A Computer Model Created Using a Rectangular Array Feature. Using a Circular Array Feature. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationModule 3: Solid Modeling of Parts IThe third module focuses on creating basic 3-Dsolid models. The unit starts with an exercise onadding geometric relations to a sketch. Figure 5shows some relations that

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Akanni Lawal; James M. Gregory; Lloyd Heinze

the second edition of the book, Designing Communications with Confidence andReliablility4. In the early to mid 1990’s, the Agricultural Engineering Department waseliminated and the environmental components of the program were merged into CivilEngineering. After the elimination of the Agricultural Engineering Department, the course wasnot taught for a few semesters. This change put the course on hold but did not eliminate it fromthe Texas Tech University list of courses.More changes occurred, which ultimately affected the future of the course. With the hiring of anew Dean of Engineering, James Gregory was appointed Associate Dean for UndergraduateStudies. The new Dean eliminated the Engineering Communications Center to save money;however, the

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

by the coursearrangement. An engineering student could conceivably graduate having little or no appreciationof engineering disciplines other than their graduating discipline. In the professional worldengineers are required to work in multi-disciplinary teams using a variety of skills.2 ABETacknowledges the importance of this concept by including “an ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams” as one of the required Program Outcomes and Assessments for programaccreditation.3 The COE feels that fostering this engineering community is important not onlyduring the students’ time at the University but also in preparing them for successful post-academia careers. Interdisciplinary Freshman CoursesThe other approach to

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Chun-Ling Huang

framework presented in thispaper is designed to extend the findings of Lent et al (1986) and the applicability ofBandura’s self-efficacy theory to the process of students’ ability to complete theeducational requirements of various science and engineering fields.In particular, results of this framework can be used to provide a useable means forpredicting student performance in engineering programs based on measurable parameters.The resulting model, based on the possible importance of career-related self-efficacybeliefs and other career-related variables, is expected to provide an explanation of Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington

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Amir Karimi

Using Learning Objective Assessment Tools to Enhance Undergraduate Engineering Education Amir Karimi Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)provides an undergraduate program that gives students an opportunity to prepare for professionalengineering practice or for entry into a graduate program of study. The undergraduate program isbased on a foundation of mathematics, basic and applied science, engineering science, andmechanical engineering

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Richard Bannerot

It May Be Engineering Design, but Is It Design? Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractCreative design is not taught in most engineering academic programs. The engineeringdesign textbooks (and presumably engineering design classes) do a good job presentinganalytical schemes for the systematic evaluation of design and linear design processes --both of which are necessary and appropriate for much of engineering design -- but theyreally have little to say about the creative, parallel processing necessary for design. It issuggested that engineering students

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William Jordan

will have to livewith the choices you make. It is our belief that you should think out what you believe so that thechoices you make will be ones that you can live with (and still feel good about yourself).Everyone already has such a system. However, it may not be very well developed. This cancause problems when facing a new situation. The purpose of this section of the paper is toencourage each engineer to develop her own system in more detail. This may involve thinkingthrough some potential issues before she actually has to make a decision relating to them. Thiswill increase her chances of making a decision she will be satisfied with after the event or issueis finished.In dealing with issues that have moral implications, a person who has firm

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H. Dwayne Jerro; Chun-Ling Huang; Patrick Mensah

Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Model Name Equation(s) or Relation Pressure Equations: • Pressure, force, and area P=F A • Gage and vacuum pressure Pgage = Pabs − Patm and Pvac = Patm − Pabs • Pressure differential ∆P = P2 − P1 = ρg∆z Temperature Relations: • Celsius to Kelvin conversion T ( K ) = T (°C ) + 273.15 • Fahrenheit to Rankine conversion

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Ali Abolmaali

Web-Enabled Interactive Modules to Display Finite Element Models in Structural Engineering Courses Ali Abolmaali Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Arlington Naveen Naveen Pendergraf Engineering Oklahoma City, Oklahoma AbstractThe need for cultivating learning environments for simulating student’s learning inundergraduate engineering programs is well established. One of the obvious reasons for lack ofstudents’ interest in selecting

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Richard Bannerot

) _________________________ 1 Age (in years) __________ 2 Ethnicity: Hispanic, Caucasian, African-Am, East Asian, Asian, other ___________ 3 Sex M or F 4 Work experience (effective years) __________ 5 Engineering related work experience (years) __________ 6 Equivalent full time college experience (years or approximate hours completed) __________ 7 High school gpa _____/4.0

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Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon

be the culminating event in the educational career of the students, providingan opportunity to put into practice many of their newly-acquired engineering skills in thecontext of a single major team design project. Various researchers have identifieddifferent factors that contribute to a project’s success1,2,3, but the factor we will deal withhere is the choice of project type. We will first discuss the pros and cons of designcompetition vs. industry-sponsored projects. Then we will relate our experiences as wehave transitioned our senior design course from a competition-oriented course to a courseoriented more toward solving industry-sponsored projects. Although many researchershave discussed the potential difficulties associated with

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Sumit R. Pal

Application of Signal Processing Tools in the Interpretation of Geophysical Seismic Data Kuldeep S. Rawat Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette Sumit R. Pal Superior Energy Services LLC, Broussard, LA Energy Institute, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA AbstractExpensive to acquire and almost impossible to re-acquire, seismic reflection andrefraction data sets are no doubt the most important assets of any hydrocarbonexploration and prospecting program. During exploration, seismic

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Ifte Choudhury; Ricardo E. Rocha; Richard Burt

to their studies 4. It appears to benonproductive to teach writing without concurrently teaching the subject matter 6.According to Wright 6, if educators expect writing skills to be developed only in English Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationspecific-type courses, it is imperative that such courses be provided relevant content andset the context in the students’ limited experience in language usage 6.Employers demand that entry-level employees effectively write as it relates to specificconditions of a particular project 4. Professionals spend

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W. Conway Link; Carlos G. Spaht; Rogers Martin

The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Arithmetic Means and Standard Deviations for Number of Blackboard Hits for Students With 90% or More Final Percentage Correct Instructor #1 Instuctor #2 Instructor #3Mean 41.81 69.68 46.33Standard deviation 32.00 52.90 30.79On another Blackboard-related topic, there is no reason to doubt that Blackboard's data gatheringprocedure and statistics are faulty, however, the reports for eight students were eyed with

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor

training programs), Ross Kastor was hired as a lecturer to teach the class.While he has added and subtracted lecture topics, the project aspect of the course hadremained relatively unchanged since 1981. Fours years ago the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering (ECE) added the course as a degree requirement for all Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents entering in the fall, 1998 and thereafter. Since then some ECE students havetaken the course as an elective. That number has grown over the past three years to about30 in the fall, 2002. Fifty-five

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Bill Elmore; Stan Napper

will have to livewith the choices you make. It is our belief that you should think out what you believe so that thechoices you make will be ones that you can live with (and still feel good about yourself).Everyone already has such a system. However, it may not be very well developed. This cancause problems when facing a new situation. The purpose of this section of the paper is toencourage each engineer to develop her own system in more detail. This may involve thinkingthrough some potential issues before she actually has to make a decision relating to them. Thiswill increase her chances of making a decision she will be satisfied with after the event or issueis finished.In dealing with issues that have moral implications, a person who has firm

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

asked to “describe their improvement in each outcome as a resultof learning activities provided in this course.” The ranking scale was from 1 (no improvement)to 5 (very significant improvement). Table 6 lists the ten program outcomes for the MechanicalEngineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin and shows the students’ averagescore for each. Included in the table is the mapping to the ABET prescribed a through koutcomes.12 The same results are presented in a comparative bar chart in Figure 16. Table 6: Results of Student Outcomes Improvement Survey Desired Student Outcomes Average Score 1. Knowledge of and ability to apply engineering and 3.46

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Jerry K. Keska; Heechan Shin

The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationpicture seen by the operator. The user controls are 4, 5 implemented to increase the dynamicalperformance of the equipment used for the experiment. The basic principle of such interaction is totake into account actual measurements in order to compute appropriate actuations that adjust theoperational conditions to meet the given requirements.Acquisition of measurements and modification of actuations is carried out by LabVIEW software.The use of LabVIEW provides numerous user controls, analysis tools, and built-in web serveralong with LabVIEW’s graphical programming environment, which dramatically enhancesdevelopment time and

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James M. Gregory; Xuepeng Xie; Susan Mengel

, National Sleep Foundation, Washington, DC. 3. Gregory, J. M., Heinze, L. R., Bagert, D. J., Mengel, S. A., 2002, E—COACH: A Paradigm Shift for Efficient Advising, Frontiers in Education, Boston, Massachusetts. 4. Gregory, J. M., 1992, A Learning Simulation Model. ASAE Paper No. 927030 presented at the Summer ASAE Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education 5. Gregory, J. M., 1993, GREG: A Computer Program to Learn How to Learn, Paper written for the annual meeting of American Society for Engineering

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Mohammed Shahbazuddin; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThose databases provide the information needed to analyze and evaluate orders and what it willtake to fill them at the highest level. ERP can project costs to fill an order, determine sourcingoptions, and figure order profitability. When these and related factors for one order are evaluatedagainst the same parameters for other orders, the ERP system ultimately forecasts the impact onthe bottom line. Planning Execution MES ERP WMS SCP OMS

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Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

again cost goes up due to its obsolescence, whencefurther miniaturization has to set in. Financing is very different in the field of nano-engineeringand difficult for an entrepreneur, as the financier or the funding agency wants to see what is theend product, after seeing what is going on. The lack of nano-engineering education-so calleddesign fundamentals; knowledge of design tools and manufacturing processes is one of the majordrawbacks. To add to it there is a lack of depository knowledge and infrastructure for selectionof microfabrication processes and assembly. These deficiencies can be met, if during graduationfrom an undergraduate or a masters program, a broad based knowledge of nano-electronicfabrication technique is provided. This

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Melanie Hagewood; Ken Van Treuren

combinedspectrum. The power spectrum increases in accuracy as the number of data points per FFT Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf Southwestern Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright©2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1. Example of a Power Spectral Distribution Plotincreases. The software used to process the data, provided with the TSI IFA 300 Anemometer,had a maximum block size of 256K.The PSD was also used to determine the correct choice of a low-pass filter. From looking at theplot, choosing a filter between 10 kHz and 50 kHz would satisfactorily capture the requiredsignal information for a velocity of 15 m/s. The software program

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Jerry K. Keska; Raghavender Charupalli

of the implemented procedures by application of the software program due to itsoverall versatility as an engineering tool.The designed computerized measurement and data acquisition system will accomplish thefollowing objectives7: •= Acquire measured analog signals with high speed and accuracy. •= Interactively process and analyze measured data for immediate use and for future post- processing. •= Generate necessary parameters for characterization of random signal. •= Interactively display the measured and analyzed data in graphical and/or numerical forms.This paper reports the results of the development and application of VI for experimental analysisand documentation of results on the two-phase flow

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Jerry K. Keska

-policing10 .The teaching-by-inquiry method involves defining the subject and scope of an open-endedproject, in conformance with the following objectives: 1. An introduction to the creative thinking process by finding a solution to a challenging problem which involves a full cycle of activities beginning with brainstorming to create alternative solutions, through design and construction of the first prototype, including a feasibility study, prototype evaluation and redesign, and finally an engineering report documenting the design, development, test and evaluation of the end product; 2. Background search for the closest related solutions (from web sources, refereed journals, patents, and library materials

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William E. Odom; Edward S. Kolesar

 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdeflection measurements of both actuator designs as a function of arm length and appliedelectrical power are presented. The electrothermal actuator designs were accomplished with theMEMSPro® software program, and they were fabricated using the MEMSCAP IntegratedMicrosystems Multi-User Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Process® (MUMPs)foundry at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC). IntroductionNumerous electrically-driven microactuators have been investigated for positioning individualelements in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The most common modes of actuationare electrostatic, magnetostatic, piezoelectric and thermal expansion

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

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSuch hardware devices find applications in courses related to dynamic system modeling andcontrol found in engineering disciplines in undergraduate and graduate levels.The use of a single environment for data acquisition, dynamic system analysis, control lawdevelopment, and simulation evaluation has many advantages as compared to multi-environments settings, especially in an educational setting where students are not required tolearn or familiarize themselves with a number of software and hardware tools, thus freeing uptime for activities that reinforce the learning of the fundamental concepts presented. Inaddition, the use of hardware in the loop (HIL) devices where one could observe in