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Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

. Rover, C. Wey, and B. Cheng, “Visions for embedded systems laboratories.” Michigan State University, web. NSF Combined Research-Curriculum Development Program, URL:http://www.egr.msu.edu/VESL. [2] Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology, “Abet criteria 2000,” August 1995. Draft #4. [3] L. Geppert, “Educating the renaissance engineer,” IEEE Spectrum, September 1995. [4] A. Speicher, “Asee project report: Engineering education for a changing world,” in A S E E PRISM, December 1994. [5] Computer Engineering Task Force, “A proposal for the computer engineering program in the college of engineering,” July 1995. Michigan State University. [6] P. Fisher, “Employer stakeholder focus group meeting.” Minutes, June 28 1996. [7

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Walter Buchanan

, T. W. (1984). Registration of engineering technology graduates. Journal ofEngineering Technology, 1(2), 41-42.2. Buchanan, W. W., McNeill, P. R., & Petersen, O. G. (1998). Professional Registration for EngineeringTechnology Graduates. Manuscript submitted for publication.3. Galvin, M. (1995, December). Changes to licensure system proposed. Engineering Times,pp. 1-12.4. Taylor, K. D., Buchanan, W. W., Englund, R. B., O'Connor, T. P., & Yates, D. W. (1997). ProfessionalRegistration Issues for Engineering Technology Graduates: A Range of Perspectives. Proceedings 1997 Frontiersin Education Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1997, pp. 1006-1010.5. Staff. (1997, January

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Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

iseasy to conclude that this sort of comprehensive collaboration makes each new activity botheasier to do, and more successful when it is done, than trying to start cold with a new partner.References1. Devon, Richard, Wayne Hager, Jean-Francois Pauwels, and Jacques Lesenne, “Building an International Collaboration,” Journal of Global Engineering Education, forthcoming, 1998.2. Guehenno, Jean-Marie, The End of the Nation State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Page 3.13.103. Wriston, Walter B. The Twilight of Sovereignty. New York: MacMillan, 1992.4. Guehenno, op. cit.5. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

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Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

Session 1664 It’s a Material World An Engineering Experience for Non-Engineers Daniel Walsh, Ph.D., Alan Demmons, David Gibbs, College of Engineering Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo AbstractOur society becomes more technically complex each day. Key problems faced by society are rarely characterized asproblems of science and technology; they are grouped as social, economic or political problems. However, it is clearthat social

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

, Adsorption and capillary condensation of fluids in cylindrical pores by Monte Carlo simulation in the Gibbs ensemble. Molec. Phys., 62, 701.3. Panagiotopoulos, A. Z., 1987b, Direct determination of phase coexistence properties of fluids by Monte Carlo simulation in a new ensemble. Molec. Phys., 61, 813.4. Frenkel, D. and Smit, B., 1996, Understanding Molecular Simulations: From Algorithms to Applications , Academic Press.Biographical InformationPETER T. CUMMINGS holds a joint apporintment at Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of Tennessee and Distinguished Scientist in the Chemical Technology Division of Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory. He is at the forefront of the study of aqueous phases by molecular

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Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

, R. L., Haskins, R. D., Roach, L. W., & Fairbairn, S. W. (1995). Apractitioner-educator partnership for teaching engineering design. Journal of Engineering Education, 84(1), 5-11. Miller, R. L., & Olds, B. M. (1994). A model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinaryengineering design. Journal of Engineering Education, 83(4), 311-316. National Academy of Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems. (1995). Engineeringeducation: Designing an adaptive system. Washington, DC: National Research Council. Rhoads, R., Paulson, K., Campbell, S., & Fairweather, J. (1995). Final evaluation report: Engineeringcoalition of schools for excellence in education and leadership technology

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

is given $10,000 as a year-end bonus for a job well done, and eachgroup member is given the opportunity to distribute this bonus money as theydesire, based on how they view the contributions of each member to the overallperformance of the group and success of the project.Examples:1) Group ABCD member A feels that everyone in the group contributed equally tothe successful completion of the project within given deadlines, they would give$2500 to each member.2) Group ABCD member A feels that they did most of the work and that D did notcontribute, then the distribution might be $5000 for A , $2500 each to B and Cand $0 for D.Name (group member): _____________________________________ bonus $ ____________Name (group member

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Rebecca K. Toghiani

thermodynamics with these topics unique to chemicalengineering.Demonstration #1: Deviations from Ideal Gas Behavior One of the first topics students are exposed to in chemical engineering thermodynamics isdeviation from ideal gas behavior. An active learning exercise modeled after a scenario describedin a recent ‘Random Thoughts’ column by Felder [3] helps students to see why molecularinteractions are so important in a gas under pressure. In his column, Felder describes a reactordesign class in which the instructor is assisting students in performing an active learningexercise. Each student pretends to be one of two types of molecule in a chemical reactor. Theysimulate the chemical reaction when they (molecule A) bump into a molecule of type B

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Melody Ivory; Kathleen Luker; Kathleen Coppock; Erol Tutumluer; David Hill; Christine Masters; Amelia Regan; Alkim Akyurtlu; Eric Matsumoto; Sandra Shaw Courter; Sarah Pfatteicher

evaluation plan. 6. Facilitate networking by including enjoyable social events and adequate free time. The Evaluation ProcessThe evaluation process has become an important key to the successful development of EESP.Goals for the evaluation fall into three areas: a) assessment of learning, b) evaluation of theprogram, and c) dissemination of innovative and effective materials. Researchers from theLEAD Center are conducting an on-going evaluation of EESP and its long-term effects onparticipants. Based on LEAD's initial report3, a recent paper4 traced the first class of participantsthrough the program and drew on contacts in the five months after the program.Based on feedback from LEAD evaluations and discussions

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Daniel Davis

-136.9. Panitz, B., “The Student Portfolio: A Powerful Assessment Tool,” ASEE Prism, March 1996, pp.24-29.10. Ibid., pp.24.11. Baker, K., “Firms Expand Service Offerings,” AIA Architect, July 1997. pp.1&4.12. Ibid., pp.1.13. Dorris, V.K., “Surviving Value Engineering”, Architecture March 1994, pp.103-107.14. Hammer, C., “Green Building Assessment Programs,” AIA Architect, August 1997. pp.16.15. Coxe, W., “Will the Real Architect Stand Up?”, Architectural Record, July 1991, pp.74-75.16. Flynn-Heapes, E., “Strategic Planning”, Architecture, February 1994, pp.105-109.17. National Research Council, “Improving Engineering design,” Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1985.18. Fairweather, J. and Paulson, K, “Industrial

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K. Y. Maillacheruvu; D. Roy; Aaron A. Jennings

studies at basic andadvanced levels. Basic level case studies include examples on predicting, (a) the concentrationprofile of contaminants along the center line of the plume, (b) maximum ground level contaminantconcentration and establishing the location of critical impact zones, (c) iso-concentration profiles atthe ground level and at a plane orthogonal to the prevailing wind direction. At the advanced level,modules present complex problems of analyzing reactive contaminants and area emissions ofvolatile organic carbon from a municipal sewage treatment plant.The modules rely on commercial software such as AIRSCAPE, SURFER, MATHCAD and publicdomain software like SCREEN3, that may be downloaded from the USEPA website. The moduleswere tested in

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V. Waheed; V. Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

save the acquired data as XL filesare described. Current utilization of the project and future scope of the project are provided.REFERENCES1. "Instrumentation Newsletter", Winter 1996/1997, National Instruments,2. "Academic Version Instrumentation Reference and Catalogue", National Instruments 1997.3. "National Instruments in Education", National Instruments 1996, 1997.4. Valeed B. Waheed, "Virtual Instrumentation – A project involving data acquisition and display on a PC using LabVIEW and NIDAQ" Senior Project, Wayne State University, Apr’ 1997.5. Rajappa Papannareddy, "New laboratory experiments in Analog electronic courses using Microcomputer based instrumentation and LabVIEW", ASEE Annual Conf. Proceedings, 19976

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John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

Session 3615 Introducing Civil Engineering Measurements through Bridges Kauser Jahan, Ralph A. Dusseau and John S. Schmalzel Rowan UniversityABSTRACTFreshman engineering students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering measurementsthrough a series of hands-on laboratories emphasizing teamwork, computer utilization, oral andwritten communication skills and professional ethics. The major focus of the freshman clinicclass for a full semester is engineering measurements and design. Problems are drawn from thefour disciplines to introduce students to laboratory and field measurements

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

course evaluations are some of the objective and subjective measuresof learning, along with written homework and project reports. Currently, they compose theprinciple set of assessment tools. Mechanical engineers consider 3D features and shapes in manyof their decisions. The ability to “visualize,” “in the mind’s eye,” may not be easy to assess. Butyet, that ability is valuable. And lastly, surveys & “attitude” based course evaluations must bejudged and weighed appropriately. Recall the market research parable about the researcher whoasked a potential customer, “would you buy sample “A” or “B?” The customer said he’d buyneither, that he buys product “C” and is happy with it. Course development, therefore, should bebased on what the student

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Larry Hoffman; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

successful program and institution.ConclusionAcademic institutions provide such a diverse set of circumstances for entering educators, that a“one size fits all” solution is not realistic. However, numerous articles in the literature indicatethat institutions that have a mentoring program in place experience a higher rate of facultyperformance and satisfaction. The underlying benefit to the teaching faculty of having anofficial mentoring program is that it presents to the new faculty the image that the system has agenuine interest in supporting and nurturing them. The attitude of “sink or swim” is notacceptable if the goal is to recruit and retain the best teaching faculty for engineering andengineering technology.References1. Bova, B

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Robert A. Hall; Mark W. McK. Bannatyne

under the age of 21) were convicted of committing serious crimes; 180,000 youths (14-17 years old) were sent to penal colonies (reformatories); 67,000 children were placed in foster homes; and 64,000 orphans were placed in boarding schools (Sutherland, 1992, p. 21).b. 2,500 minors were arrested on average each day in 1993 by local police. (Of that number approximately 300 were convicted and sentenced by the courts).In a parallel article published by Pravda (Nov. 23, 1994), a report stated that during 1993 thedrop-out rate from Russian public schools topped 60,000 which was forty times greater than thatreported in 1986. In addition, (up to the date of the article) more than 80,000 dropouts hadalready been reported

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom (1675)

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Deborah M. Mechtel, United States Naval Academy

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New Engineering Educators (NEE)

percentage of students that considered cooperative learning a positive experience declinedbetween the mid-semester and end-of-semester evaluation. Their mutual assessment results alsodeclined as shown in Table 2. Some students noted that their experience was not positive largelybecause of interpersonal conflicts in the group. Optimizing the membership of all groups isn’tpossible. Still, mixing students with different levels of experience and GPA appeared to beeffective. “B” students with prior experience worked well with “A” students that has noprevious experience. It is interesting to note that some “A” students with and without experiencehad difficulty working together. “A” students with or without experience and “C –D” studentswith or with out

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P. Gharghouri

particles, of mass m l, m2, m3, m4, m5 placed atpositions 2l, 3l, 6l, 8l, 11l, from the fixed end A, respectively, along an elasticstring of length 12 l, shown in Fig. 1. Assume that the system rests on a frictionlesshorizontal plane. Note that end B is also fixed.Fixed End Fixed End m m m B 1 F ig.Let T be the tension everywhere along the string. Following the example described Page 3.346.2by Noble , suppose that the system is disturbed and that

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David E. Hailey; Christine E. Hailey

possible -- we used the same graphics, voice,content, and page count. The only important difference in these media is an outline of the audiowe were able to add to the digital module, not possible in the traditional module.We randomly divided a class of 38 students into two groups, Group A studying machine shopsafety using a traditional module, Group B studying the identical topic using a CBT module.Students examined the topics while completing identical worksheets. Immediately after studyingtheir topics, students took a quiz. Due to the small sample size, we employed a student’s tdistribution.13 After grading the quizzes from the two groups, we found no significant differencebetween the average test scores between the two groups at an .01 level

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Ravi G. Mukkilmarudhur; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

investigate the time dependent, three-dimensional mixing process of propane and air. A cylinder with an inlet and outlet port wasinitially filled with air. Propane was injected into the cylinder through the inlet port and theevolving flow was investigated over a period of time. The objectives of this laboratory were togenerate an appropriate computational volume grid (see Fig. 3), to configure chemistry inputfiles containing species information, to access thermodynamics data files containing speciesproperty information, to produce time dependent numerical results, and to obtain a betterunderstanding of the mixing process between two gasses. The students were once again requiredto interpret the numerical results. As shown in Figs. 4(a) and 4(b), the

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Stephen M. Williams; Byron P. Newberry

13.3 B 15.2 C 14.3 D 15.0 F 16.3 Table 1. Average Number of Exams per Student by Grade A bigger difference between students at different grade levels was found by looking atwhat type of exams were being taken, rather than at how many. Figure 1 illustrates the average Page 3.287.5number of accelerated, main, and post unit exams taken as a function of grade received. Studentsearning A’s tended to be ahead of the lecture material, taking advantage of accelerated unit

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Bruno Osorno

oscilloscope ready, we storage the signals in the digital storageoscilloscope and we send them to the personal computer via Anywave. The output for this part isshown in figure 5.Figure 5 shows no distortion in the signals, therefore the spectrum of the hysterisis loop for an aircore coupling has no harmonics. This is due to the fact that: B = P4+Where:B = the magnetic flux density [T]P4 = permeability of free air [H/m]H = magnetic field intensity [At/m]The hysterisis loop is thought of a B-H curve. Since P4 is constant then we expect a straight line.In order to have a straight line we must have two perfect sinusoidal curves in phase. Since this isthe case as seen in figure 5, the spectrum of the signals

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William R. McShane; Joanne Ingham

management techniques, and stress management. Basedon students’ learning style preferences five main questions were posed: (a) Where should youstudy?, (b) With whom do you study?, (c) When do you study?, (d) How should you prepare forclass and tests? and (e) How can you interact with your faculty to improve academicachievement? Activities were also included to increase student knowledge of careers inengineering and motivational strategies to shape short-term and long-term goals. In addition to assigned readings and small group experiences, weekly journal entries wererequired to enhance and develop their self-awareness as learners. Students who had been onprobation and succeeded in graduating and who were working as engineers were invited as

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A.O. Richardson

(FFT), entail the repeated multiplication oftwo entities, namely, a filter coefficient and an input signal sample. Powerful processors, such asthe Motorola DSP56002, accomplish a multiply-accumulate('MAC') in one parallel step. Equations(1) and (2) below represent the Finite Impulse Response Filter(FIR) and the Discrete FourierTransform(DFT) showing the 'MAC' nature of the operations.The relationship between a FIR filter's digital input sequence x(n) and digital output sequence y(n)can be written as: N −1 y(n) = ∑ b(i ) x( n − i ) (1) i=0where b(i) are filter coefficients and N is the number of those

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Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

conferences to help give the students a vision of engineering and to strengthen ties toengineering and ASU.THE FIRST MATHEMATICS CLASSAn additional concern was the welfare of the freshmen engineering students in their firstmathematics class. It was well known that many of the engineering freshmen do not do well intheir initial mathematics class. In a survey of freshman students enrolled in ECE 100, it wasshown that the grades in the first mathematics class were very significantly different for thestudents who were retained to their sophomore year versus those who were not retained.9 SeeTable 1. Math Class Grade Earned Fall 95 Still CEAS (n=99) Left CEAS (n=31) p A, B, or C 81.8

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Gary H. McDonald; Charles V. Knight

based upon the material presented in ourkinematics and dynamics of machinery and machine design class. This experiment uses a 3.5horsepower Briggs and Stratton (B & S) lawnmower engine to study the piston, connecting rod,and crankshaft mechanism and the cam-follower mechanism.The B & S engine was modified by removing the cylinder head, carburetor, and ignition system.A pulley was put onto the output of the crankshaft of the B & S engine with a belt connecting thepulley to an electric motor. An LVDT (linear variable displacement transformer) was used tomeasure the displacement of the piston, and another LVDT was used to measure thedisplacement of the intake valve. Two LabVIEW virtual instruments (VI’s) were written: one forthe piston

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Rosemarie M. Evans; Madison Daily; Susan L. Murray

. To assist in evaluating learning effectiveness, thefollowing four areas were investigated: a) the time required for the course, b) overall learningexperience, c) the effectiveness for aiding course material comprehension using specificinstructional tools including video lectures, Email, and ChatRoom, and d) level of satisfactionrelated to a specific tool utilized by the instructor including video lectures, Email, andChatRoom. Preliminary ResultsThis paper will only discuss the preliminary results regarding the expectations and experiencesof the first class of Advanced Production Management students taught via Internet-basedtechnologies. This first Internet-based class contained 22 students

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Jeffery McDowell; Sandra Yost

academic year to determine its efficacy. Assessment will come in the form ofmeasuring student persistence in chosen majors compared to a) persistence rates prior to theimplementation of the program and b) to students not living on the floor. Further assessment willbe provided by interviews that will be conducted at the end of each academic year with studentswho lived on the floor and both continued in science, engineering and mathematics majors andthose who left. The information gathered from these assessment efforts will be provided tointerested parties within the University and without starting in July of 1999.Next StepsClustering women students in science and engineering majors on the same floor in a residencehall is one way to reduce the

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Jule Dee Scarborough

process serves to help studentsprocess how to make their own plans better through the development of the team plan. In somecases, individual students and teams redo assignments not accomplished at an acceptable level(that is, an A or B grade) based upon specific grading rubrics. Interdisciplinary Approach to Project ManagementAs mentioned above, an interdisciplinary team (IT) from four departments met to conceptualizean interdisciplinary project management and team prerequisite course sequence, and seniordesign capstone course. The IT determined that there would be an interdisciplinary teachingfaculty team, and the goal would be to have at least one student from each department make up

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Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Council.The general organization of the system of study at the Faculty is illustrated in Figure 1.The first-stage studies are divided into 3 phases: A (semesters 1-4), B (semesters 5-6), and C(semesters 7-8). At the end of phase A, after 2 years of basic studies in mathematics, science,electronics and computer engineering, the student selects his/her specialization (area ofconcentration). Twelve areas of concentration are available, including Biomedical Engineering,Computer Engineering, Optoelectronics, Software Engineering and Information Systems,Telecommunication Systems and Networks. Phase B is designed as an introduction to theselected area of concentration. At the end of the third year, the student decides whether tocontinue with the first-stage