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Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 17-28, Jan., 1997.11. Evans, D. L., McNeill, B. W., Beakley, G. C., “Design in Engineering Education: Past Views of Future Directions,” Engineering Education, pp. 517-522, July/Aug., 1990.12. Harris, T. A., Jacobs, H. R., “On Effective Methods to Teach Mechanical Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 343-349, Oct., 1995.13. Incropera, F. P., Fox, R. W., “Revising a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: The Implementation Process,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 233-238, Jul., 1996.14. Jensen, D. D., “Using MSC-PATRAN for Pre and Post Processing for Specialized FEM Codes which are not in the

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+ 51.1k _ 221k C B A 9 10k (+) (+) (+) (-) 10k LM339 3.32k + 10k _ 1N 4148 90µH 160 160 NTE587 10k 221k 1W 1W ZVP2106A 3N 2200 µF

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advent of ABET 2000means that surveys will become more frequent and will be expanded to includeemployers.Responses to the 1994 survey indicated that 74% of the respondents took advantage ofone form of work-study such as coop or internships. Forty-three percent did an Page 5.374.4independent research project. The respondents were asked to 1) rank the importance(from a = very important to e = unimportant), 2) rank the opportunity to learn the skill asan undergraduate (from a = excellent to e = inadequate), and 3) list the sources forlearning the six non-technical skills. The key for question #3 in Table 1 is: a = ChEseminar, b = ChE lab or design course

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

Session 3253 Service-Learning as an Educational Tool in an Introduction to Engineering Course Rosalyn S. Hobson Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractService-learning is a form of instruction which uses community service activities as part of themedium for learning. There are two components: (a) service which actively engages thestudent in community service, and (b) focused-directed learning. Service learning enhances theengineering curriculum by linking engineering directly to improving society, which makes theprofession more appealing and more

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(b) Altera Figure 1: Field-Programmable Gate Array Structure Segmenting a digital design into islands of appropriate size and complexity for the chip androuting the connections between them within the connectivity constraints of the chip is certainly notsomething that a user can be expected to do. Manufacturers provide standalone tools or interfaces Page 5.511.2to popular CAD (computer aided drafting) packages to allow users to input the design, graphicallyor in a hardware description language. These tools then automatically segment the design, routethe connections between the

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subsystems, and to thesociety as a whole. Design factors that are related to context are called the external factors of a design. For examples, we have safety, environmental, legal, political, economics, availability of resources,other systems in the neighborhood, just to name a few; b) Also, one has to view the object to be designed as a system, and to identify thememberships of the system. The system memberships consist of subsystems, and a subsystem canhave many sub-subsystems, and so on. In short, the system to be designed is broken down Page 5.581.7into subsystems, and each subsystem is further broken down into sub-subsystems, and

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William E Maddox; Theodore D. Thiede; Stephen H. Cobb; Scott R Hickman; John Crofton

. THIEDEDr. Ted Thiede is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Murray StateUniversity. He received a B. S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.S.E. degreefrom Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University. He has industrialexperience as a U.S. Navy Engineering Duty Officer. His research interests are in the fields of fluidized bedhydrodynamics and combustion. Page 5.195.10

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T1 T2 T3 Water Disposal Fresh Disposal Water P3 P3 Wastewater Wastewater (a) (b) P1 Treatment P1 T1 T1 Fresh P2 T2

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Session 2570 Minority Education in Engineering, Mathematics and Science Joseph D. Torres and Tom Cummings School of Engineering University of New MexicoAbstractThe University of New Mexico (UNM) Minority Engineering, Mathematics and Science(MEMS) Program is a uniquely comprehensive program designed to increase the number ofminority students enrolling, graduating and pursuing careers in Engineering, Mathematics andScience (EMS) by: 1) improving retention rates of students in EMS disciplines, 2) fosteringrelations with industry and the technical community to

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Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

the engineering, business, and public policy schools at Carnegie Mellon University. The model represents a simple, rapid, and relatively noncontroversial way of estimating the supply chain implications for a change in demand for a particular product or service. The EIO- LCA approach has been used as a research tool to examine the environmental impacts of various industrial sectors (Cobas et al, 1995, Lave et al, 1995, Lave et al, 1998), automobile use (MacLean and Lave, 1998), automobile components (Joshi, 1997) and construction materials (Horvath and Hendrickson, 1998a, b; Hendrickson and Horvath, 1998). The software is also being used to assess the external or full costs associated with

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Timothy Benson; Paul Berke; Nathaniel Bair; Matthew Scholtens; Kristen Lantz; David Woessner; Daniel Lappenga; Dale Corlew; John Krupczak

. Page 5.325.87.) J. Krupczak, Jr. "Demystifying Technology," ASEE PRISM, October (1997) 30-34.8.) Science First Inc., Model 10-135, 95 Botsford Place, Buffalo, NY 14216 USA.9.) D., Rathjen, “Modulated Coil,” The Physics Teacher, Vol 36, October (1998) 416.10.) P. Heller, “Drinking-Cup Loudspeaker – A Surprise Demo,” The Physics Teacher, Vol. 35, September (1997) 334.11.) A. Keeney, and B. Hershey, “Making Your Own Dynamic Loudspeaker,” The Physics Teacher, Vol 35, May (1997) 297-299.12.) Mouser Electronics, 958 N. Main St., Mansfield, TX USA 76063. www.mouser.com, (1-800-346-6873).13.) R.F. Coughlin and F.F. Driscoll, Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1977).14

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Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

Session 1620 On the Use of Simulation and Parallelization Tools in Computer Architecture and Programming Courses Renato J. Figueiredoy, Jose A. B. Fortesy, Rudolf Eigenmanny, Nirav Kapadiay, Valerie Tayloryy, Alok Choudharyyy Luis Vidalz and Jan-Jo Chenz ySchool of ECE yyDepartment of EECS Purdue University Northwestern University zDept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Chicago State UniversityAbstractComputer architecture and programming are disciplines that require extensive experimen-tation with computer tools

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Purshotam K. Juriasingani; Chris D. Cox; R. Bruce Robinson

videos is given below:I. Sewer (a) Digging a trench 1. Track hoe digging the trench 2. Digging a trench (video) Page 5.363.2 Figure 2. Sewer menuFigure 3. Backfilling menu Page 5.363.3 Figure 4. Backfilling using a trench boxFigure 5. Video of making sewer pipe joints Page 5.363.4 Figure 6. Compacting backfill in water main installation(b) Preparing bed 1. Preparing bedding for the pipe 2. Bedding for the pipe - view 1 3. Bedding for the pipe - view 2 4. Bedding for the pipe (video)(c) Laying pipe 1. 24” Ductile iron pipe ready

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Leon L Van Dommelen; Yousef Haik; Namas Chandra

offer a classroom experience to remotestudents at a level of interaction far beyond what could previously be done with correspondencecourses.Recognizing this opportunity, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is converting theirM.S.M.E. degree so that it can be taken completely over the World Wide Web from anywhere inthe world. Our program has five main features: (a) Full integration of the online students asnormal students in our existing classes; (b) Emphasis on encouraging personal relationships; (c)Robustness; (d) Standard, generic software; and (e) Enhanced education for the local as well asonline students.Full integration of the online students in the program means, among others, that online studentsfollow the class as much as possible

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Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

cases (1) and (3) above result in the crank-rockermechanism, and for these cases, the shortest link is adjacent to the grounded link. After thesesimulations, students study this subject through a kinematics textbook such as [1], to learn usefultechnical tools such as math equations. Authors believe that the experience from computersimulations will greatly help students to master the contents of those technical tools. Afterstudying the textbook, students go back to the computer simulations again to verify the validity Page 5.427.4of those technical tools they learned. C B

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, in The Australian, 23-23, (1995).6. G. W. Scragg, “Most computer organisation courses are built upside down,” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 23,341-346, (1991).7. A. B. Arons, Phenomenological and Logical Reasoning in Introductory Physics Courses, American Journal of.Physics, vol. 60, 13 - 13, (1982).8. A. B. Arons, A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching. New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1990).9. R. Cohen, B. Eylon, & U. Ganiel, Potential Difference and Current in Simple Electric Circuits: A Study ofStudent Concepts, American. Journal Physics, vol. 51, 407 - 407, (1983).10.. M. H. Fredette & J. J. Clement, Student Misconceptions of an Electric Circuit: What do they mean?, Journalof College. Science. Teaching, vol. 10, 280 - 280, (1981

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Page 5.519.3separate coefficient file fn.COF (Figure 5) and are “included” in the NOISE1.ASM through Line 5of Figure 4. The sampling frequency is configured to be 10 KHz in the statement labeled AICSEC.%NOISE1.M—Main MATLAB program for noise reduction%fs = 10000;T = 1/fs;%N = 54;%f=[0 0.4 0.5 1];%m=[1 1 0 0];%[b] = remez(N,f,m);%b=[1.0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2];a=1;[H, wT]=freqz(b,a,100);herts=wT/(2*pi*T);plot(herts, abs(H)), gridtitle(‘Frequency Response of the Comb Filter (D=10)’)xlabel(‘Hz’), ylabel(‘Amplitude’)dos(‘dsk3a noise1’);dos(‘dsk3load noise1 BOOT’); Fig. 3. Main MATLAB Program NOISE1.M;NOISE1.ASM – GENERIC FIR FILTER. INCLUDE COEFFICIENTS FILE .start “.text”,0x809900 ;starting address of text

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for students.The findings of this study suggest that students have accepted the concept of collaborativeteaching and learning. As an example, the evaluation of student-teaching presentations wasfound to be above average with effectiveness scores greater than “B” for all categories. Inaddition, comments indicate that a course utilizing the concepts of collaborative learning andteamwork was interesting and informative and could be of assistance to respondents in futureendeavors.I. IntroductionIn the past, engineering faculty have often utilized the lecture method for classroom instruction9.However, this approach is generally not the best method to be used if the development of criticalthinking, communications, and leadership skills is to be

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

™ software for supporting web-basedcourses is being used in an experimental manner.After about nine weeks in the semester, surveys were conducted to collect student feedback onthe various activities reflecting the NG Principles and student perceptions of the activities'impact on learning. These results are shown in Tables 1 through 3. Page 5.469.6 TABLE 1 Mid-semester Feedback from a Smaller Section of Statics at NDSUPlease rate the usefulness of the following activities in your learning.Scale: A)Very useful B)Useful C) Neutral D) Not useful E)Not useful at allPercentage responses are given below. Total

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by the authors12. Carefully designed modules withvisual animation and sound can be effectively used by students as a supplemental learning tool.To this end, four computer-based modules were developed and used by the authors as an aid inteaching a sophomore-level required engineering course, Rigid Body Mechanics. The followingtopics were covered: (a) Vector Notation and Forces; (b) Truss Analysis; (c) Centroid; and (d)Moment of Inertia. A detailed discussion on the first module is presented in this paper alongwith an assessment of its impact on the students’ learning experience.II. Rigid Body MechanicsThe Rigid Body Mechanics (ENGR 2113) course taught at the University of Oklahoma (OU)consists of two major parts. The first part, Rigid Body

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Musharraf Zaman; Anant Kukreti

by the authors12. Carefully designed modules withvisual animation and sound can be effectively used by students as a supplemental learning tool.To this end, four computer-based modules were developed and used by the authors as an aid inteaching a sophomore-level required engineering course, Rigid Body Mechanics. The followingtopics were covered: (a) Vector Notation and Forces; (b) Truss Analysis; (c) Centroid; and (d)Moment of Inertia. A detailed discussion on the first module is presented in this paper alongwith an assessment of its impact on the students’ learning experience.II. Rigid Body MechanicsThe Rigid Body Mechanics (ENGR 2113) course taught at the University of Oklahoma (OU)consists of two major parts. The first part, Rigid Body

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thedifference that the length of each arm is arbitrary and the forces acting at junctions areindependent of one another. This is as shown in Figure1. f1 f2 d1 d2 A B θ1 θ2 C d6 θ5 θ3 θ4 D E d3 d4 d5 Figure 1 A general truss considered for illustration

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Douglas G. Schmucker

. Cognitive Learning ObjectivesThe essence of a learning objective in the cognitive domain is that it is a statement of what thelearner (student) should be able to do at the end of a specified lesson, exercise, block ofmaterial, or course. The cognitive learning objective focuses on knowledge, intellectualabilities, and intellectual skills4. In some ways, they are similar to goals that an instructor ordepartment might set for a course. However, cognitive learning objectives are much morespecific and are inherently measurable. Examples from a basic mechanics course in statics are: A. Define what a free-body diagram means. B. Describe the role of the free-body diagram in the calculation of reactions. C. Determine the bar forces in the given

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Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

project gradingsystem at WPI consists of A, B, C, NR and NA. Everyone in the academic community isfamiliar with A, B, and C, however, the non-conventional grades of NR and NA stand for NoRecord and Not Acceptable, respectively. The NR is used for courses and projects, while theNA is only applicable to project activities. The NR means that the activity will not show up onthe student’s transcript. The main reason for this type of grade at WPI is that it allows studentsto experiment without being penalized, i.e., it provides life-long learning skills. However, thefaculty advisors do not give out a grade of NR since it allows the student to walk away withoutany type of penalty. On a project like FSAE it is very important for everyone on the team

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-196, (1992).11. R. A. Pilgrim, Design and construction of the very simple computer (VSC): a laboratory project forundergraduate computer architecture courses, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 25, 151-154, (1993).12. B. C. Parker and P. G. Drexel, A System-Based Sequence of Closed Labs for Computer SystemsOrganization, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 28, 53-57, (1996).13. P. S. Coe, L. M. Williams, and R. N. Ibbett, An Interactive Environment for the Teaching of ComputerArchitecture,” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 28, 33-35, (1996).14. B. L. Barnett III, A Visual Simulator for a Simple Machine and Assembly Language, ACM SIGCSEBulletin, vol. 27, 233-237, (1995).15. D. Finkel and S. Chandra, NetCp - A Project Environment for an Undergraduate Computer Networks

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Christopher T. Field; Brian Jenkins

Session 2532 Practical Circuit Design in an Elementary Circuit Theory Lab Brian Jenkins, Christopher T. Field Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy 105 Maryland Ave. Annapolis, MD 21402A course in elementary circuit analysis is a common requirement in an electrical engineeringcurriculum. The course traditionally emphasizes fundamental DC and AC circuit theoryconcepts for resistive and reactive components and may introduce operational amplifiers (op-amps). Students

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given to their entire classduring the final examination period.At the completion of the course, the student is to be able to:a) feel a part of the university community by knowing at least one engineering faculty member, by knowing their classmates, and by attending a professional society meeting on campus,b) describe the various fields of engineering, the engineering design process, professional registration, and the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Code of Ethics,c) effectively utilize university resources, such as academic advising, tutoring, the registrar, computing facilities, the library, career services, and the fitness and wellness center,d) discuss what they want from their education and how they are in control of

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Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

technology areas, along with the proper role of academe, government, andindustry in that educational process, is being examined in widely divergent industrial segments.Academic areas such as manufacturing engineering, aerospace engineering, and electricalengineering have all reported results from such studies [1-5]. These reports reveal several broadthemes of educational need developing across these industrial segments: a) Integrating technical and non-technical broad knowledge areas. b) Integrating multidisciplinary technical skills into a comprehensive knowledge base. c) Integrating global perspectives into local decision making. d) Integrating soft skill set development with traditional technical education.It is our

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the majority of the workshop exercises. Furtherwork is currently being undertaken including a detailed analysis of employerexpectations.Bibliography Page 5.463.81. Mcfedries, P. Windows 95. Sams Publishing. (1998).2. B.L.Lim, B. Teaching Web Development technologies in CS/IS Curricula. SIGCSE TechnicalSymposuim on Computer Science Education, February. (1998).3. Reeves, D.S, A course on Multimedia Technology for Computer Science and ComputerEngineering Students .SIGSCE Technical Symposium on Computer Science education, (1997).4. URL: http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/ug0317.htm;UniversityHandbook. (1999).5. URL: http://www.courses.rmit.edu.au

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Vincent M. Allen; Garrett Harris; Bruce Segee

Session 2793 Creating Artificial Neural Network Modules For Use In Rapid Application Development Garrett S. Harris a, Bruce E. Segee a, Vincent M. Allen b a University of Maine at Orono / b Modicon CorporationAbstractN eural networks and fuzzy logic have emerged as useful tools for the calibration of arrays of thin film gas sensors. Properly choosing network parameters is essential to achieve acceptable network performance. Often, choosing said parameters involves a timeconsuming search of many possible candidate networks. When the neural network