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. We have investigated the possibility of a separate lab at theoff-campus site. Because of its additional funding requirement, this option has not beenpursued.Table 1 Grade comparison between VAFB and on-campus graduate students A B C DOn-campus 77% 23% 0% 0%VAFB 83% 9.5% 7.1% 0%V. Administrative support “A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students” John CiardiV.1 Class schedulingWith our limited manpower in the department, it

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muddiest point paper at provides me insight to actually used what we the end of class (first whether I have covered provided during the lesson in 5 lesson the material properly. one-minute paper and block). I know it was • The students are very changed the next hard to adjust the next perceptive and catch lesson. lesson, but I can see idiosyncrasies that I do that the students not know exist. benefited from it.III. B. Hints – PreparationThere are only a set number of lessons during each semester for professors to properly cultivatelearning within

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this first semester, namely, measuringbiochemical oxygen demand, determining solids content, measuring the temperature and dissolvedoxygen profiles in a lake, evaluating solid waste characteristics and conducting coliform bacteriatests. At this stage, all material was accessed via a web site.The assessment is based on a questionnaire presented on a six-point scale, where scores of 1, 2 and3 were used to indicate that the students strongly agreed, agreed, and slightly agreed with thestatement. Scores of 4, 5, and 6, indicated that the respondent slightly disagreed, disagreed andstrongly disagreed with the statement.The following questions were used on the survey. The results are shown in Table 1a-b. 1. The information presented on the web

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in Managed- Care Organizations, October 29,1999.[17] Fieschi, M., Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Chapman and Hall, London, 1990.[18] Joslin Diabetes Center publications, Goals for Blood Sugar Control - http://www.joslin.harvard.edu/eduaction/[19] Jackson, P. Introduction to Expert Systems. Third Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1998[20] NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, CLIPS Basic Programming Guide, 1991.,Houston, TX.[21] Martin, Linda and Taylor, Wendy. A booklet of CLIPS Applications, NASA, Johnson Space Center,Houston, TX, 1992.[22] CLIPS, A Tool for Building Expert Systems, http://www.ghg.net/clips/.MARIO A GARCIAMario A Garcia is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Dr. Garcia received a B.S.degree in

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.) b. Dependability and personality are the most important factors when picking a TA. Of course the student must know the basic material, but I find that dedication to the course and the teaching approach is the most important factor. c. Weekly meetings are essential to success. We discuss the coming weeks lectures, assignments and quizzes. d. TAs are paid for 8 hours work per week which includes hours in lecture and lab, an office hour, an hour for meetings and two hours for grading and preparation. e. We tend to develop a close association and I frequently bring donuts or pizza to meetings. We usually have an end of the semester party and I often help TAs find positions when they graduate. f. I

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electronics. The PSpice macromodules presented in this paper represent onemethod we have found to make high quality software Table 1: PSpice Macromodules Developedmodules available to our students using (for the most For High Frequency Electronicspart) the free student demonstration version of PSpice. a. Y-parameter extraction circuitsThe macromodules chosen for this article are listed in b. S-parameter extraction circuits c. Wilkinson power divider/adderTable 1. The high frequency electronics course is d. Directional couplerstructured so as to include the topics shown in Table 2. e. Hybrid ringThe

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Thomas Walker; Patrick E. Devens

Page 6.512.4 Figure 3. Fall '97 Overall "C" grade Freshman-Engineering Student Performance.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright O 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationA display of all Fall '97 students grades in EF1015 versus their respective SAT scores isdisplayed in Figure 4 and provided from Figure 1. The figure is derived by takingvertical slices of Figure 1 when the “EF1015 Grade”s are “0.0” (“F”), “1.0” (“D”), “1.7”(“C-“), “2.0” (“C”), “3.0” (“B”), and “4.0” (“A”). EF1015 Grade 7 6 5

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. The left half is sequential andtime-bound (masculine), the right is holistic and time-less (feminine). In Asian philosophy, thesetwo aspects form the yin-yang (feminine-masculine) combination. Most of us are trained to bequadrant A thinkers who think in terms of numbers and words. Quadrant B thinkers are task-oriented and result-driven. Quadrant C and D thinkers think in terms of systems or images,relying heavily on holistic model of a situation. A number of activities can be designed to movea Quadrant A thinker (knowledge worker) to a Quadrant D designer (entrepreneur). Logical Visual Entrepreneurs Number Crunchers

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, the IR emitter is “blinking” at the frequency of 4 kHz whenswitch SW2 opens.The waveforms of the 555 Timer output voltage V1 and the transistor driver voltage V2 underthree conditions are in Figure 3.The oscillator and driver circuits are in a box shown in Figure 4 on the next page. This is theremote control to turn on and off the ac load. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.586.5 Figure 4 – Layout of the Oscillator and Driver B. The Detector, the

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dissertation, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.3. Evans, J. & Lindsay, W. (1999). The Management and Control of Quality (4th ed.). South-Western CollegePublishing.4. Eiff, G. M. (1989). The Impact of an Experimental Aviation Career Orientation Workshop on the CareerInterests and Aspirations of High School Girls. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.5. Eiff, G. M., Eisman, T. K., Stahura, J. & Stitt, B. A. (1993). Recruitment Selection, Training and Placement ofNon-Traditional Workers in Aviation Maintenance. Available from Aviation Education Consultants, 761N 400W,West Lafayette, IN 47906)6. Thom, J. M. (2000). [Survey analysis findings and empirical data summary]. Unpublished raw data.J. MARK

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Multicoalition Perspective." 2000 Annual ASEEConference Proceedings Session 2630, ASEE, June 2000 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education2 L. L. Bucciarelli, H. H. Einstein, P. T. Terenzini, A. D. Walser, ECSEL/MIT Engineering EducationWorkshop '99: A Report with Recommendations, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. , no. ,2000,pp.141- 149.3 Bogue B., R.M. Marra, T.L. Litzinger, and S. Johnson, “The Penn State ECSEL Learning EnvironmentWorkshop: A Progress Report.” Creating a Global Engineering Community Through Partnerships, 1998WEPAN National Conference, pp. 113-116.ARDIE D. WALSERArdie D. Walser is an

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st ≤ (2) SF ⋅ K Rwhere sat = allowable bending stress (psi) YN = stress cycle factor for bending strength SF = safety factor for bending strength KR = reliability factorRearranging the equation and solving for the allowable bending stress gives the followingequation: Wt ⋅ Pd ⋅ SF sat = ⋅ K o ⋅ K s ⋅ K m ⋅ K B ⋅ Kv ⋅ K R (3) F ⋅ J ⋅ YNSolving for the allowable bending stress, the gear designer can select a material based on thisnumber. As can be seen from the equation, there are many variables that

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Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

Criteria,because their lack destroys a report’s quality but their presence should not atone for poor content.For each trait, she described five grade levels (A, B, C, D, F). She reviewed and revised thedescriptions to be specific to each trait, but not specific to the experiment. Her goal was that anyinstructor be able to use the same sheets for any experiment in the course, thus highlighting thecharacteristics common to all good reports and allowing comparisons of student performanceamong experiments. She tested the sheets by grading a report from a previous year and revisedagain. Finally, she offered use of the grading sheets to the other three faculty teaching UO Labin Winter 2000. One, D.J. Goetz accepted. Goetz wrote and graded a report on

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Susan Sharfstein; Patricia Relue

. SusanSharfstein received a summer faculty fellowship from the Center for Teaching Excellence at theUniversity of Toledo to develop experiments and laboratory manuals for this course. We wouldlike to thank Karthikeyan Jayavelu and Tammy Phares for technical assistance in course andlaboratory development and Jonathan Schisler, John Fisher, Rui Zhou, and Jackie Chu forserving as teaching assistants for this course.Bibliography1. Panitz, B., Bioengineering: a growing new discipline. ASEE Prism, 1996. 6: p. 22-8.2. Lee, W.E., A Course in Immobilized Enzyme and Cell Technology. Chemical Engineering Education, 1991. 25: p. 82-86.3. Hooker, B.S., A Project-Oriented Approach to an Undergraduate Biochemical Engineering Laboratory

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Engineering Programs,http://www.abet.org/eac/eac.htm, ABET, 1999.4. McGinnes, S., Communication and Collaboration: Skills for the New IT Professional,http://www.ulst.ac.uk/misc/cticomp/papers/mcgin.html, University of London, 1995.5. Smith, K. A., Strategies for Developing Engineering Student’s Teamwork and Project Management Skills,Proceedings, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1630, ASEE, 2000.6. Swan, B. R., et al. A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting Engineering Design Team Performance,Proceedings, 1994 ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 2572-2589, ASEE, 1994.7. Lingard, R. and Berry, E., Improving Team Performance in Software Engineering, Selected Papers from the 11thInternational Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Chambers, C. (ed

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objectives associated with each set of questions were: A. To investigate and assess the range of our students’ conceptions of sustainability (i.e. their actual prior knowledge of sustainability) B. To assess our students’ perception of a. their own understanding of sustainability (i.e. their perceived sustainability competence) b. their level of interest in learning more about sustainability (i.e. their intrinsic motivation to learn about sustainability) c. the career relevance of sustainability (i.e. their extrinsic motivation to learn about sustainability) C. To examine the interaction between students’ sustainability conceptions and their perception

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James Dally; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

] Tsang, E., Johnson, B., Litchfield, B., Newman, J., Ramage, C., and Dubose, L., "IntegratingService Learning into Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, Proceedings of 1995 ASEEAnnual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 26-29, 1996, CD-ROM.[9] Tsang, E., Martin, C.D., and Decker, R., "Service-Learning as a Strategy for EngineeringEducation for the 21st. Century, " Proceedings of 1997 ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee,WI, 1997.[10] Coyle, E.J., Jamieson, L.H., and Sommers, L.S., "EPICS: A Model for Integrating Service-Learning in to Engineering Curriculum", Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning,Vol. 4, 1997. Page 6.449.6Proceedings of the

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Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.9. Bejan,A., Heat Transfer, Fourth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993.10. Munson, B., Young, D. & Okiishi, T., Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Third Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1998.11. Thomson, W. & Dahleh, M., Theory of Vibration with Applications, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998.JOHN BAKERJohn Baker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky ExtendedCampus Program in Paducah, KY. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromthe University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. After obtaining his B.S., he spent three years working inthe Plastics Division of Eastman Chemical Products, Inc. He entered his current position in

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Rose Marra; Andrew Lau; John Wise; Robert Pangborn

advisor, and visiting acampus Learning Center. Interestingly, 22% never used the library, and 19% only used thelibrary once. This is an area for improvement since library use is important for later classes. It ispossible, however, that when a student states that they used the world-wide web for research thatthey were actually using the library databases. Percent 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 a. visit faculty b. used library c. met advisor None d. used CAC lab

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/practice.preach/index.html [22, 2000]. 2. Feldman, Michael B. (Professor of Computer Science). (Inspiring our Undergraduate Student’s Aspirations [Web Page]. http://tangle.seas.gwu.edu/~feldman/papers/aspirations.html [November 22, 1999]. 3. European Software Institute, 1997. European Software Institute. Bilbao (ESP). 4. IEAust Working Group on Software Engineering, Software Engineering as a Professional Engineering Discipline: Discussion paper Mar, 1999. (unpublished). 5. University of Western Australia. (Structure of Courses (Bachelor of Engineering) [Web Page]. http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/handbooks/Ems/StructureOfCourses.html [November 24, 1999]. 6. P.J. Denning, Educating a New Engineer Communications of the ACM, 35, (12)pp. pp

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Larry Richards

Multi Media Session: Paper 2171Strategies for Teaching Computer Skills to First-Year Engineering Students Larry G. Richards University of VirginiaAbstract What computer skills should freshman Engineering students master? How should theylearn these skills? At the University of Virginia, a first year Introduction to Engineeringcourse emphasizes spreadsheets (Excel), Computer Aided Design (SilverScreen), and amathematics problem solving and symbolic manipulation program (MathCAD), as wellas Internet and World Wide Web skills. A series of scripts (lab lessons) leads the studentsthrough selected capabilities of each

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Paul Flikkema

studentswho volunteer as liaisons to the professor and provide a conduit for feedback from the students.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition  Copyright c 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.676.7In previous use of E-Teams [16, 17], we found that the E-Team members provide a natural, trustedconduit for anonymous feedback from the rest of the students. The instructor meets informallywith the E-Team members at mid-semester and at the semester’s end. The E-Team members arealso asked to prepare a short final report describing their findings.References [1] B. Bloom

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setting) B. By figuring out how you are to achieve your goal (the process(es) C. By developing measures of progress (metrics)III. Metrics: how you are doing A. Grading, four key elements: 1. Class determined project(s) 2. Professional portfolio. 3. Attendance 4. Peer evaluation.IV. Responsibilities of the Class A. Formulate the course outline, context, and content. B. Facilitate class activities and discussions. C. Determine evaluation (grading) criteria

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Andre Clavet; Francois Michaud

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentsThe authors want to thank M.-J. Gagnon, J. Rioux and the École Du Touret of Rock-Forest(Québec), B. Côté and S.P.E.C. Tintamarre inc. of Sherbrooke (Québec) for their collaboration.The authors also want to thank all the participants to the RoboToy Contest, and jury members fortheir time and interest. Finally, special thanks to the members of organizing committees of the1999, 2000 and 2001 editions of the RoboToy Contest, especially to A. Nicolas who contributeda lot in making this event possible, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineeringfor its support.Bibliography1. Ahlgren, D.J., Mendelssohn, J.E., “The Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest: A

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Narayanan Komerath

combination of these factors is a primarycause of frustration and poor performance in the first two years of engineering school.Related WorkSeveral applications of design in freshman experiences have been reported prior to 19984-14.Burton and White14 report on a survey of models for teaching engineering design at the freshmanlevel. Such courses were classified into: a.Reverse Engineering, b. Creating Something Useful,c. Full Scale Project, d. Small Scale Project, e. Case Studies, f. Competitions, g. Non-ProfitProject, h. Redesign of a Local Project. Of these, they selected Reverse Engineering as mostappropriate for their needs, using a Weighted Factor Scoring Model. Based on the experience ofserving as academic advisor to over 1000 aerospace

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., Komerath, N.M., "Fluid Dynamics of Twisted Cables. PHASE I: Shedding Frequencyand Spanwise Correlation". GITAER 92-1, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of AE, January 1992.5. Komerath, N.M., Liou, S-G., deBry, B., Caplin, J., Lenakos, J., "Measurements of the Unsteady Vortex FlowOver a Wing-Body at Angle of Attack". AIAA Paper 92-2729, 10th Applied Aerodynamics Conference, PaloAlto, CA, June 1992.6. Komerath, N.M., Funk, R.B., Kim, J.M., Griffis, J., Hubner, P.A., "Experiments on Flow behind Seven CableDesigns". Final Report to Southwire Company. GITAER 92-5, October '92.7. Roth, B., Reddy, U., Funk, R., Komerath, N.M., "Pulsed Air Jet Flow Definition". Final Report, Project E16-X39, SAIC Subcontract No. 42-950055-59, GITAER-EAG-94-8

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: (a) Supplemental readings for particular topics; (b) Discussion questions based on the text and supplemental readings; (c) Gathering of special materials for use in the case study activities; (d) Short writing assignments.The supplemental readings include materials from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office onintellectual property, feedback materials for the KAI inventory6, and occasional articles thathighlight the case studies1,8,9 or particular inventors10. The discussion questions require someserious reflection (but are typically not collected), and students are encouraged to participate byassigning a portion of their final grade as “class participation”. Students are asked to bringsamples of case study objects when

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Fazil Najafi

ASession0143@ Funding Sources for Research and Scholarship Fazil T. Najafi University of FloridaAbstractA direct lead between existing research funding needs and research funding sources is lacking.This problem creates a burden on the part of science and engineering college professors whomust spend excessive time and effort to search and identify a funding source(s) in order toobtain the information necessary for preparing a research proposal. Since writing a researchproposal is time and energy intensive itself, it would be very desirable to develop a simple

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Shahnam Navaee

Plastics Steel Cst Iron Other Materials Material (a) Two-dimensional column chart. (b) Column chart with

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

Engineering Honors Program. Dr. Freuler received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronauticaland Astronautical Engineering and the B.S. in Computer and Information Science in 1974 and a Ph.D. inAeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in 1991 from The Ohio State University.ROBERT J. GUSTAFSONRobert J. Gustafson is a Professor of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs and Student Services for the College of Engineering of The Ohio State University. Dr. Gustafsonis a registered professional engineer and is actively engaged in development of first-year engineering programs andteaching improvement. Dr. Gustafson received B. S. and M. S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from theUniversity of Illinois in 1971