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Edward Chaloupka; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

blood through arteries and veins, mass transfer in the lungs, pumping of the heart, andchemical reactions in cells. Biomedical topics in Chemical Engineering are explored in manycurricula through advanced level elective courses, and are sometimes worked into homeworkproblems in core courses. This paper describes a freshman level engineering experiment that is used to introducestudents to a wide range of chemical engineering principles through their application tophysiological processes. Students take measurements of physiologic variables both at rest andduring exercise, and then perform engineering calculations that involve basic principles of massand energy balances, fluid flow, chemical reactions, energy expenditure, mechanical work

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

theseexperiments is to assist the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in the understanding ofthe basic heat transfer processes and the methods and devices that can be implemented to enhancethe heat transfer.The experimental setup and apparatus required to carry out these experiments is relatively simple.It includes five tube-within-a-tube heat exchangers that are instrumented with three thermocouplesat each end, two rotameters, heating element, water pump, and Data Acquisition. Four of the fiveheat exchangers are modified by one type of the above-mentioned heat transfer enhancementtechniques. These equipments are relatively inexpensive and available in almost all undergraduateheat transfer laboratories.I. IntroductionHeat transfer

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Gregg Dixon

(EES)1, it is no longernecessary for students to master the skills of table look-ups in order to develop a goodunderstanding of property behavior in thermodynamic applications. EES has thermophysicalproperty functions built into a powerful equation solver program which allows students to considera wider variety of problems and applications than would be feasible with table look-ups alone.This paper discusses the pedagogical pros and cons of emphasizing the use of tables inintroductory thermodynamics courses and the possibilities for minimizing or eliminating thetedium of using tables. The experience of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in trying differentapproaches indicates that a “no tables” introductory course has the potential for increasing

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John Carpinelli

Session 1420 The Relatively Simple CPU Simulator John D. Carpinelli New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Relatively Simple CPU Simulator is an instructional aid for students studying computerarchitecture and CPU design, typically at the junior or senior level. It simulates the RelativelySimple CPU, a 16-instruction processor introduced in the textbook Computer SystemsOrganization and Architecture1. Students first enter an assembly language program, which isassembled by the simulator. After correcting any syntax errors, the user simulates the

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George Seaward

Session 2525 Converting Single Disciplinary Capstone Projects to Interdisciplinary Experiences George H. Seaward United States Military Academy West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper presents a plan for taking a single disciplinary mechanical engineeringcapstone project (designing and building a Mini Baja vehicle for operation over roughterrain and in deep water) and turning it into an interdisciplinary experience. An analysisis conducted on the potential benefits of including students with engineering managementskills to assist with

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Ryan Wicker; Connie Della-Piana; Bill Diong

Session 1526 Taking Dynamic Systems and Controls Laboratories One Step Further Bill Diong∗, Connie Kubo Della-Piana♣ and Ryan Wicker† The University of Texas at El PasoAbstract The past decade has been a time of significant changes for many fields of engineering,including control systems engineering. Firstly, a paradigm shift has been occurring with regard tothe kind of engineering graduates needed by today’s fast-paced global economy. Secondly, theprice to performance ratio of computing power has been rapidly decreasing. As a

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Carl White; Myra Curtis; Clifton Martin

Session 1653 Pre-Freshman Accelerated Curriculum in Engineering (PACE) Summer Bridge Program Carl White, Myra W. Curtis, Clifton S. Martin Morgan State UniversityAbstractFaculty and administrators at universities across the country are concerned with the retentionrates of freshmen. Studies have indicated that the freshman year is the most difficult year forcollege students. This is a transitional period from high school to college, where students mustadapt to a new learning and social environment.To address this transitional period for engineering freshmen

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John Weese

Session 2547 Access to the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination by Engineering Technology BS Graduates John A. Weese, Ph.D., P.E., Texas A&M UniversityAbstractGraduates of baccalaureate engineering technology (ET) programs accredited by the TechnologyAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(TAC/ABET) are well qualified to sit for the Fundamentals of Engineering examination (FEexamination) as graduating seniors. In some states this practice is allowed. However, the pathregistration as a Professional Engineer (PE) usually involves somewhat

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April Brown; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Session 2592 Institutional Self-Assessments as Change Agents: Georgia Tech’s Two Year Experience April Brown, Donna Llewellyn, Marion Usselman Georgia Institute of TechnologyIn January 1999, the results of two institutional self-assessments were reported at the GeorgiaTech President’s Cabinet meeting. This marked the culmination of a five-year effort to evaluatethe status of women at Georgia Tech and to help warm up a climate perceived to be inhospitableby many female students and faculty. These self-assessments, the InGEAR Report on the Statusof

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Rosalyn Hobson; Esther Hughes

Session 1432 Utilization of Active Collaborative Learning in Three Electrical Engineering Courses Rosalyn S. Hobson, Esther A. Hughes Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractEducational research has shown that students learn and retain information better when theeducational process includes active cooperative learning. As a result the face of the engineeringclassroom is changing to include more in-class and team activities allowing the students to take amore active role in their educational process. The use of teams not only enhances the

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Raymond Laoulache; Nixon Pendergrass; Emily Fowler

Session 2453 Can An Integrated First-Year Program Continue To Work As Well After The Novelty Has Worn Off? N. A. Pendergrass, Raymond N. Laoulache, Emily Fowler University of Massachusetts DartmouthAbstractThe University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD) began a successful, integrated, firstyear engineering curriculum in September 1998. This new program dramatically changedthe freshman year and was initially very successful. Data from the first year pilotprogram was very positive. Assessment showed that it• more than halved the attrition rate of first-year engineering students• nearly doubled the

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Abraham Michelen

Session 1520 Designing Interactive GUI with MATLAB® Abraham Michelen Hudson Valley Community College Troy, New York 12180 micheabr@hvcc.eduAbstractIn this paper we introduce a tutorial on the use of the Guide facility of MATLAB.Guide is a development platform composed of several interrelated tools withinMATLAB that allows the user to build complex graphical user interfaces that can beused as teaching tools or as automated programs. Several examples related toengineering disciplines are presented.I. IntroductionMATLAB is a

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Mark Hickman; Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

. Thisthree-unit course depth may not be necessary, but a basic comprehension of the material is vital.To better prepare graduates, a series of one-unit modules are being developed at the Universityof Arizona. Students will have the opportunity to take several of these modules in place of thecurrently required three unit engineering courses. Module topics include statics, engineeringeconomics, electric circuits, mechanics of materials, hydraulics, material science, dynamics, andthermodynamics. These courses will be taught in a web-based format with opportunity tointeract with faculty and teaching assistants during live and electronic office hours. The web-based materials will provide the basis for asynchronous learning and will be similar to

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Mark Schumack; Leo Hanifin

Session 3453 The Ford/University of Detroit Mercy Engineering Opportunity Program Leo Hanifin, Mark Schumack University of Detroit MercyAbstractThis paper describes a unique high school/industry/university initiative to promote engineering to andrecruit high school students. Participants in the program include Ford Motor Company, the Universityof Detroit Mercy, and 13 high schools. The program is unique for several reasons. The scale ofparticipation is large: approximately one hundred people are directly involved in interactions

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Maliaca Strom

Session 1441 Taking off the Training Wheels: the migration from print journals to ejournals at the University of Arizona. Maliaca Strom-Oxnam Science-Engineering Library, University of ArizonaWhen we were children, we all learned how to ride a bike and eventually most of us learned thatyou have to take off the training wheels. That’s exactly what happened at the University ofArizona Library, hereafter referred to as the UA Library, when it implemented its "noduplication" policy on the purchase of print and electronic resources. The UA Library took off itstraining

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Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

Session 3220 Tele-experimentation: The Emerging Approach to Science and Engineering Lab Education Bill Diong*, Miguel Perez** and Ryan Wicker** *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering **Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Texas at El PasoAbstract A project has been initiated to enable students and researchers to conduct Science andEngineering (S&E) experiments via the Internet as an answer to the dual needs for improveddistance education in those fields as well

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Raymond Thompson

Session 2147 Assessment – Evolutionary not Revolutionary Raymond E. Thompson Purdue UniversityAbstract The Aviation Technology (AT) department at Purdue University began theassessment process in 1996 in response to an upcoming visit by the Council for AviationAccreditation (CAA), the accrediting body for aviation programs in North America. Theinformation gathered satisfied the CAA but only presented the requested information In anticipation of the North Central Accreditation (NCA) regional accreditation forPurdue University as a

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Michael J Batchelder; Daniel F. Dolan

Session 1359 Teaching Instrumentation through Solar Car Racing Michael J. Batchelder, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Daniel F. Dolan, Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractSolar car racing has been a means of motivating hands-on engineering education throughcompetition among North American higher education institutions. Sunrayce, and nowFormula Sun and American Solar Challenge, have tested the abilities of engineeringstudents over the past decade. Proper instrumentation of the vehicle is critical for testingduring the vehicle design and for successful

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George Piskov; Alexei Nesterov

Session 1254 Remote Labor - the New Source of Increased Productivity Alexei Nesterov, George Piskov Russian Association for Engineering EducationAbstractProductivity is one of the most important driving forces behind the economic growth andprosperity. Clearly, the labor shortages of the overheating US economy are makingacceleration in productivity even more crucial for keeping the growth pace intact. As hightechnology industries are taking the lead among the economy overall, the productivity insoftware development, for example, is becoming a critically important factor of survival inthis highly competitive world. In this

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Robert Parden

Session 2642 Engineering Management, an Umbrella Degree Robert J. Parden Santa Clara UniversityThe Fifth Year History Many years ago, a “fifth year” was proposed that would accommodate all of the newdevelopments that were taking place. These topics were then, as now, competing for a place in theundergraduate curricula. Some major engineering schools developed five year programs toaccommodate knowledge expansion, but they awarded only the bachelor’s degree. Since amaster’s degree could be earned at other schools in the same five years, the five

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Ron Chin; Kamran Qamar; Gary Krikorian; Joel Weinstein

can be combined with corporate literacy to achieveprofessional success. Integrating corporate literacy into the engineering curriculum has becomeincreasingly important. Classrooms, now centers of technical learning, need to educate and teachfundamentals of corporate culture and its importance.Simulating industry in the classroom is an excellent means of learning corporate culture. Thispaper describes a model for bringing togethe r the educational, technological and corporatecommunities to support students in their quest to learn how to deal with the real problems ofindustry. It uses the implementation of software engineering and computer engineeringtechnology as the foundation on which good corporate literacy skills can be learned

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Session 1554 Discover Engineering Day: Collaborations in Pre-College Recruitment William C. Davis, Elsa Q. Villa, S. W. Stafford The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractAs engineering enrollments across the United States are on the decline, the College ofEngineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has shown a 7% increase each year forthe past four years. To address this enrollment gap, retention and recruitment programs mustexist symbiotically at an institution to attract students and retain them through graduation. TheDiscover

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

a desirable one. Butseen from the inside, U.S. engineering education appears to have significant problems –such as declining enrollments, and the utilization of its graduates as a ‘commodity’ byemployers. It also appears that new quasi-engineering academic programs have opened orare being developed to allow students to take more palatable paths to entry to lucrativetechnology careers. What are foreign countries getting when they adapt our engineeringcurricula, and is that approach appropriate to their needs?IntroductionThere was nothing unusual about the circumstances: two American university professorseach received an invitation to share their knowledge of U.S. higher education with fellowacademics and some government and industry types in

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David W. Elizandro; Jessica Matson

Session 2457 Industrial Engineering Program Management in the ABET 2000 Environment David W. Elizandro, Jessica O. Matson Tennessee Technological UniversityAbstractThe ABET 2000 Criteria have had a major effect on the approach to Industrial EngineeringProgram Management. Integral components of programs that are necessary to satisfy ABET2000 Criteria include formulating goals and objectives; developing and working a strategic planto accomplish stated goals and objectives; and assessing the effectiveness of the plan and relatedactivities to accomplish

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Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

,even when the tools they use cut out such considerations. This foundation allows us to thenexplore ethical considerations vertically throughout their careers as engineering students.Therefore, we urge educators to consider the possibility of developing integrated courses thatallow students to connect the intellectual rhetorics of inquiry developed in freshman Englishclasses with their engineering classes so that students can truly appreciate and comprehend theimportance of ethics in their future professional lives.IntroductionIn the past several years, ethical concerns have become a central focus of the public and newsmedia, creating a new awareness of the ethical implications of decisions we make in ourprofessional and private lives. This

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Terry Derossett; Steven Nesbit; Scott Hummel

Multi-course design project creates ties between various mechanical engineering topics Scott R. Hummel Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 hummels@lafayette.edu (610) 330-5587 Terry A. DeRossett Director of Mechanical Engineering Laboratories Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042

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Winston F. Erevelles

Engineering. These activities arecentered on the Computer Integrated Engineering Enterprise (CIEE) - the Learning Factory atRobert Morris College. This new facility will be used for teaching, research, lifelong learning,and recruiting activities by creating a new paradigm in engineering education featuring theintegration of all experiential learning activities.II. The Engineering Initiative at Robert Morris CollegeRobert Morris College is an independent, coeducational institution founded in 1921, and offersundergraduate and graduate degree programs that integrate the liberal arts with professionalprograms in business, applied sciences, teacher education, and communications. Totalenrollment at the main campus in Moon Township (in Pittsburgh’s western

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

BankAbstract A self-contained module introduces the engineering student to dynamic Web based computer architectureand programming. Active Server Pages (ASP) technology allows the designer to harness the interactive and dynamicnature of the Internet, and take advantage of its information and data. ASP combines HTML, Scripting Languages,and Components, which are familiar to students, and relatively easy to master. VBScript, in fact, has a 'basic'language derivative, and therefore is relatively quick for students to understand and pick up. This ASP module hasbeen utilized for electrical engineering sophomore students, but could be readily adapted to other students for web-based applications as well. A big advantage of this Active Server pages

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Shahriar Emami; Fazil Najafi

Session 2793 Internet Protocols for Delivery of Real Time E-learning Shahriar Emami, Ph.D. Motorola Inc. Motorola Labs Boynton Beach, Fl 33426 Fazil Najafi, Ph.D. University of Florida Dept. of Civil and Coastal Eng. P.O. Box 116580 Gainesville, Fl 32611Abstract- A number of distance learning approaches have been proposed and practicedover the past few decades

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Jerry Hatfield

Session 3430 Student Feedback Using Adaptive Web Based Surveys Jerry M. Hatfield Northern Arizona UniversityAbstractABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 has caused us to look much more seriously at what we teach,how we teach it, and particularly at how we assess the process and its results. This paperaddresses the gathering, processing, and response to student feedback, a very important part ofthe quality control process.Most colleges of engineering have traditionally conducted end of course evaluations by studentsas a means of assessing the quality of teaching and