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

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Lloyd Heinze; James Gregory; John Rivera

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Damien Johnson; Pradeep Bhattacharya

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Jerry K. Keska; Russel R. Life

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Jerry K. Keska; Madhusudhan Kolar

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Justin Hussey; Tyler Summers; Tyler Smith; Andre P. Mazzoleni

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Raymond W. Flumerfelt; William Sherrill; Hamid Parsaei

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Gholam H. Massiha

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Sumit R. Pal

practices. With the latest trends in research turninginterdisciplinary, MATLAB acts as a perfect example to bridge between the domains ofelectrical engineering and geosciences. References 1. Mallat, S., 1989, “ A Theory of Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: The Wavelet Representation,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 11, pp. 674-693. 2. Richards, J. A., “Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1993. 3. Egan, S., Kane, S., Buddin, T. S., 1999, “Computer Modelling and Visualization of the Structural Deformation Caused by Movement along Geological Faults,” Computers & Geosciences, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 283-297

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Ali Abolmaali

visual and animation tools. These tools will be accessed through The University ofTexas at Arlington (UTA)’s Web site for use in classrooms globally. The three major steps inachieving this research goal were: (1) accepting data from the user; (2) running a pre-definedexecutable on the input data, which produces “Web-friendly” output file(s); and (3) redirectingthe browser to the output file. This study was successfully completed by using ActiveX controlsthat accept data from the user, transfer and run the FORTRAN executable files, redirect thebrowser to the result files and perform checks before displaying resulting diagrams or tables. Theuniqueness of these tools is that the executables are transferred to the client machine and run onit

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Farrokh Attarzadeh

recognition to the course department A unique course Life fulfillment & Hobby development enrichment Industry support Lifelong activities Additional incomeThe prospect of addressing environmental issues, in particular electronic waste and recycling, isquite appealing. There are numerous concerns about electronic waste, and warnings are echoedby leaders in the field. “Electronic waste is the most rapidly growing waste problem in theworld," according to Leslie Byster, communications director for the Silicon Valley ToxicsCoalition.1Figure 1 shows E-waste in San Jose

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Ray Bachnak; Carl Steidley; Korinne Resendez

networking technologies and development of measurement hardware andsoftware have turned PCs into platforms capable of continuous remote monitoring andcontrol of devices using the Internet. This capability makes proper and timely analysis ofdata possible. One of the projects that use the equipment and software in the ControlSystems Laboratory involves developing a virtual laboratory environment that allowsstudents to perform experiments from anywhere the Internet is available. This isespecially useful for offering courses online and giving students access to the equipmentoutside of class time. A software program that facilitates the developments of this typeof environment is LabVIEW [1-6]. LabVIEW provides an easy and efficient way topublish

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Daniel Bankston; Allen Battles; David Gurney; Edgar N. Reyes

geometry allow a user totraverse the branches, nodes, leaves of a tree, and even provide a user different visualperspectives of the data structure. 1. IntroductionIn the 19th century Felix Klein developed a framework for studying geometry. The subject ofhyperbolic geometry has similarities with Euclidean geometry. Many of us are familiar withEuclidean geometry that is the geometry of the Cartesian plane. Most students have studiedlines, angles, triangles, distances, and rigid transformations such as rotations and reflectionsin Euclidean geometry. In a similar fashion, to discuss hyperbolic geometry, we will replacethe Euclidean plane, lines, distance, angles, triangles, and transformations by the Poincaredisk

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. This paper describes thechanges in the course content and philosophy as a result of this review. These changeshave resulted from a decision to remove most of the course “content” and focus on a very“hands-on” approach (on the instructors’ part) to managing and encouraginginterdisciplinary teams working on interdisciplinary projects. Previously the courseintroduced a variety of design related topics: the design process, oral and writtencommunications, risk analysis, ISO 9000, engineering ethics, statistics, optimization,present value analysis, and neural networks. Capstone ExperiencesAn excellent overview of engineering capstone courses in the United States is found inReference 1. Capstone design courses in

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thatactually evaluate team performance of “real” groups. Brickell, et al.2 looked at the issueof the student’s GPA and interest. They formed five sets of groups: Four sets with thecommutations of homogenous and heterogeneous GPA and interest and one control set.They concluded that groups with heterogeneous GPA and homogeneous interestperformed best. Although this result is intuitively acceptable, the opposite grouping(homogeneous GPA and heterogeneous interest) was second best with essentially thesame group rating (87.7 to 87.5 with variances of 0.09 and 0.17, respectively). Hunkeleret al.3 provide a more convincing study of the effects of individual characteristics ongroup performance. They concluded that:1) four person groups outperformed

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engineering students. The major component of the coursegrade (50%) was a two month long, team design project: design, build and test. Theproblem statement for the fall 2002 class is given in Fig. 1. Twenty per cent of the gradewas based on my evaluation of the final artifact. (The rest of the grade was determinedfrom written progress reports, final written and oral reports and the results from twotesting sessions). Last fall the students were asked to evaluate all the designsthemselves. They were given the instructions found in Fig. 2. The designs were all ondisplay in the workshop, and students in groups of eight were given about fifteen minutesto view and record their evaluations of the designs including their own. The students hadalso viewed all

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

concurrent engineering design paradigm based on 3-D solid modeling principles.1-3 Thispast decade has also unveiled the important applications of the 3-D model to engineeringanalysis, manufacturing, and downstream documentation. Low-cost analysis, simulation, andrapid prototyping software and hardware systems are now becoming available for educationalpurposes, and the power of this latest design paradigm is now being realized by the engineeringdesign and graphics education community. 4-8 Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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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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Ronald E. Barr; Justin Cone; Robert J. Roselli; Sean P. Brophy

Initial Experiences Using an Interactive Classroom Participation System (CPS) for Presenting the Iron Cross Biomechanics Module Ronald E. Barr1 , Justin Cone 2 , Robert J. Roselli3 , and Sean P. Brophy3 Mechanical Engineering Department 1 and Faculty Innovation Center2 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 Biomedical Engineering Department3 Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee 37235 AbstractThe Classroom Participation System (CPS) is an interactive, computer-based instructional

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Khosrow Behbehani; Kevin D. Nelson; Robert C. Eberhart

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Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

bulk micromachining though people are trying to hybridize thesecomponents.1 So a compromise is used to marry standard CMOS process to fabricate electricaland mechanical parts with wet etches such as potassium hydroxide (KOH) or ethylene-diamine-pyrocatechol (EDP), to remove materials, anisotropically, at different rates along different crystalplanes. Since KOH is incompatible with CMOS processing and metal ion and hydroxyl iondiffusion contaminates dielectric oxides, this etch is only used for non-active electronic devices.One must not forget that focus is shifting towards the fabrication of new nano-devices based onthese thin electronic oxide materials and there are many new integration challenges in oxidebased nano-electronics. For example

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Shantanu Bhattacharya; Jordan M. Berg; Darryl James

, familiar phenomena such as fluidmixing behave counter to the intuition developed by students in a standard engineeringcurriculum. We present a laboratory project designed to stress this point to students taking a first-year graduate introduction to microsystems. The pilot group found the results surprising andcounter-intuitive. It appears that the project was instrumental in clarifying key concepts inmicrofluidics. IntroductionAfter several decades in which microsystems research mainly addressed electromechanicalsystems [1], the focus has begun to shift to fluidic systems. This shift is driven primarily bypotential application of microsystems to chemistry, biology and medicine [2]. An introductorycourse in

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Robert R. Bittle; R. Stephen Weis; Becky B. Bittle; David Yale

the enthusiasm for learning that the individuals attending our summer course have,the classroom sessions are always interactive and filled with lively discussions. The time goesby very quickly. Figure 1. Energy conversion in the laboratory. Water wheel in the background.The afternoon sessions are held in the Thermal Systems Laboratory. The week-long objectivefor the afternoon sessions is to build a complete energy conversion system. The system we haveused for the past two summers has converted the potential energy of the lab water supply intoelectrical power through a water wheel. The teachers have been in charge of building the waterwheel, its installation, and characterizing the

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

descriptions of the lecture course, Experiences in Engineering, and the lab course,Introduction to X Engineering are given in Figure 1 below. The X in the lab title represents theoffering department. For example, there will be an Introduction to Mechanical Engineeringcourse, an Introduction to Computer Science Engineering course, etc. The lecture courses willbe co-listed in each department. XE 1104 (1-0) 1 hour credit. Experiences in Engineering: Introduction to basic engineering concepts. Students will become familiar with engineering and its many sub-fields, ethical responsibilities, creativity and design. XE1105 is required co

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Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon

controller of an entire assembly line, controlling three other machines in additionto our own. Finally, through the mediation of the MEPoL field agent, all parties agreedupon the scope of the project.A further difficulty is simply that the projects turned out to be deceptively difficult tosolve. As a result, the students ended up putting in far too many man-hours on eachproject. Figure 1 shows the students working on one of the projects. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1. Students Working on Industrial Project Lessons

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Chu–Chen Chen; Chun Ling Huang

Energy Conservation and Energy Management,Building System Performance Simulation Techniques, Building System Contracting ProjectManagement, and Internships. IntroductionAs the energy educators and energy consultant in Building Energy Systems Design, the authorscontinue to hear concerns that energy education is still neglected at institutions of higher learning[1, 2]. During the Tri-State Engineering Society meeting in the summer of 2002, one of ourauthors [3] presented a survey about the educational system in three Southern states. Thefindings from this survey indicated that only two of the seventeen Mechanical EngineeringDepartments offer only one technical elective course related to the Heating

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Ifte Choudhury; Ricardo E. Rocha; Richard Burt

The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGiven this importance, industries report that students graduating from technical programsare generally not well prepared for the writing requirements of the contemporaryworkplace 1. Industries naturally have their own set of terminology committed to thespecific requirements and situations exclusive to their form of business. Communicatingeffectively within an industry is a direct result of an individual’s ability to understand anduse the industry’s vocabulary and communication practices. Effective writtencommunication skills can assist in the acquisition of sought-after contracts and clients aswell as assist in maintaining

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C. J. Chuong; K. Nelson; K. Behbehani; R. C. Eberhart

/MSdual degree program. This new program is significant in: 1) being responsive to the everchanging environment of biomedical engineering, placing particularly strong emphasis on thelife sciences; 2) emphasizing the application of engineering principles to problems whichincrease understanding in the field of cell and molecular biology; 3) providing focused trainingto meet the demands of a rapidly growing segment of a high-tech industry. This program bringsintellectual diversity to our graduate students, intermingling students with strong life sciencebackground with the more traditionally trained students with engineering backgrounds. Thisprogram is set up for problem-based learning, and may provide a platform to develop a newproblem-based

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

available and best practice pedagogy (BPP), that Classroom is very complementary with the technology, can be a powerful guide to technology based classroom innovation. Best practice pedagogy, Pedagogical Assessment/ Evaluation defined as the best of the art and science of Processes teaching, utilizes research, theory, the study of learning, and the history and philosophy of Figure 1. Four main classroom processes education. Chemical

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H.W. Corley

. Contest AdministrationThe money for the scholarship is raised by the author during the fall semester preceding theFebruary contest. Funds come from both industry and individuals. In previous years The BeckGroup, UPS, and TD Industries have provided support. Two weeks before the contest, a two-page poster similar to the 2002 edition shown in Appendix 1 on pages 4-5 is posted around theengineering buildings to announce the contest. The colorful chimpanzee version of the famousRodin sculpture The Thinker attracts students to the posters. It has become the unofficial DirtyDozen logo. Finally, a week before the contest the UTA student newspaper The Shorthornpublishes a short front-page article about the contest as part of its Engineering Week