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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Avanzato

Session 1620 Handheld Computers to Enhance Active Learning in a Digital Systems Course Bob Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has integrated the student use of handheld computer technology tofoster active and collaborative learning experiences in the classroom and laboratory in asophomore-level introductory digital systems course in the fall of 2001 and 2002. Thehandheld computer provided each student with access to useful course material and tools,which enhanced the learning experience in and out of the classroom. Additionally

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Santhosh Thampuran

Session 2793 A New Course in Multimedia Systems for Non-technical Majors Wayne Burleson, Stephen Kelley, Santhosh Thampuran Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts, AmherstAbstractThis paper describes a project which has developed, piloted, evaluated, and is currentlydisseminating, a novel course in Multimedia Systems for non-majors. The course forms part ofthe new Information Technology minor program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.The primary objective of the course is to expose students from non-technical majors to

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Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Kirshen; John Durant; Chris Swan

Session 2561Environmental Engineering Education and Community Service: A Synergistic Partnership Christopher W. Swan, Paul Kirshen, John Durant Tufts UniversityAbstract Community-based service learning, the pedagogy of combining education withcommunity service, exists and has value in a number of academic fields. In the past few years,environmental engineering has become a field where community service learning has been foundto be synergistic, providing benefits to both the community and academia. This paper highlightsways in which community service learning can become

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Goldenberg; Carlos Morales

Session 3238 Development of a collaborative multi-user engineering design graphics collaboration tool Carlos R. Morales, Michael Goldenberg Purdue UniversityAbstractThe ability to collaboratively work on engineering graphics is of a great advantage. Thispaper details the development of a multi-user multimedia tool specifically designed toenhance collaboration in the engineering design graphics arena. The system providesusers with the capabilities to collaboratively explore 3D environments, video-teleconference, and share applications files.The system provides a centralized

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Leach

Session 1463 Manufacturing Organizations from the Inside Out: Classrooms with a View Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper examines the experience of teaching a single course, Industrial Organization, to threevery different groups of students. The first group was a mixture of traditional and non-traditionalstudents, taking the course at a satellite campus location. The second and third groups were eachmade up of employees of a single employer, all attending the course at their respective industriallocations. In

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

Session 1470 Components of a Year-Long Bridge Program for Minority Engineering Students Minnie M. McGee, Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityAbstractHistorical data gathered and assessed as part of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalitio nprogram at The Ohio State University indicated that only about 1 in 10 minority engineeringstudents with math placement below college algebra completed a degree in engineering. Asignificant fraction of incoming minority engineering students, some with excellent high schoolgrades, do not perform well

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Clay Barbee; Brian Lenahan; Michael Warren; Joseph Morgan

Session 3147 Implementing a Wireless Network Infrastructure to Enhance ET Curriculum Clay Barbee, Brian Lenahan, Michael Warren, Jay R. Porter, Joseph Morgan Texas A&M UniversityAbstractDuring the summer of 2001, a team of students was brought together to design, install, and test an802.11b wireless local area network (WLAN). The team was tasked with installing a WLAN in andbetween two buildings on the Texas A&M main campus that house the Engineering Technology andIndustrial Distribution Department (ETID). The primary goal of the WLAN installation was to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Lessard

Session 2620 A Lego-Based Soccer-Playing Robot Competition For Teaching Design Ronald A. Lessard Norwich UniversityAbstractCourse Objectives in the ME382 Instrumentation Laboratory at Norwich University include1.Design of systems involving both computer hardware and software. 2.Use of modern computertools for data acquisition and control. By having the students use a Lego Mindstorms robot kitand Robolab graphical programming software as a rapid prototyping tool combination abeginning at achieving both outcomes can be efficiently accomplished. The problem to

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Basil Baltzis; Dana Knox

Session 2213 Introduction to Chemical Engineering - A New Course for Freshman Students Dana E. Knox and Basil C. Baltzis Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractOftentimes entering freshman students know little about the major they have selected.Furthermore, the transition from high school to university is not straightforward and may createserious problems impacting retention. In order to address the foregoing issues we

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Walter

Session 1566 A Micro-Controller Based Robotics Course for ME Students Wayne Walter, PhD, P.E. Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623IntroductionFor many years the emphasis of our robotics course has been on projects where students design,build, and test tooling to accompany an industrial robot in a workcell. At the end of a ten-weekquarter, students were expected to demonstrate a working prototype that integrates sensors,actuators, and feeders together

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ramani Narayan

world with consideration of issues such as the nature of entrepreneurship, opportunity identification, intellectual property creation and strategy, market research, operations, financing, valuation of technology, and cash flow analysis in a technical environment. These are necessary ingredients of all successful technical business ventures, regardless of size. Student teams of 2-3 will apply their engineering skills and abilities in a business environment to identify innovative product/process opportunity/opportunities, investigate the potential for an entrepreneurial business opportunity, keeping in mind the differences between an "idea" and

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

Session 2613 Chemical Engineering and Society—A Response to Constituency Concerns Ronald E. Terry, W. Vincent Wilding Chemical Engineering Brigham Young UniversityAbstract — As members of the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at BrighamYoung University (BYU), we have used feedback from constituency groups to assist in the designof a new course called Chemical Engineering and Society. These constituency groups consistedof students, alumni, our own faculty, members of faculty of other

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

Session 1566 Improving the Relevance of Manufacturing in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Michele H. Miller, Klaus J. Weinmann Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractIn the 2000-01 academic year, Michigan Tech University implemented a new mechanicalengineering curriculum (coincident with a change from quarters to semesters). To improve therelevance of manufacturing in that curriculum, faculty and staff developed a new sophomorelevel course Integrated Design and Manufacturing. The course is part of a

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Case; Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Session 2559 Microprocessor Networking with a Minimum Number of External Connections Dr Bruce E. Segee (email: segee@eece.maine.edu), Binaya Acharya (email: bacharya@eece.maine.edu), Isaac Horn (email: isaac.horn@umit.maine.edu), Michael Case (email: michael.case@umit.maine.edu) Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine, OronoAbstract Networking refers to the connection of multiple systems together to allow

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Hudson

Session 1620 Laptop Computer Integration in a Lower Level Mechanical Engineering Course Susan T. Hudson Department of Mechanical Engineering Mississippi State UniversityAbstractMississippi State University’s (MSU) College of Engineering (COE) began requiringincoming freshmen to either purchase or lease a personal computer in the 1999 fallsemester. Following the COE’s computer initiative, the Mechanical Engineering (ME)Department implemented a laptop computer requirement for all of its courses. This paperwill begin with a

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Mehalik

Session 3561 Teaching Strategic Security Using A Case Study of Environmentally Sustainable Design Matthew M. Mehalik University of VirginiaI. AbstractI present a case of a practitioner network that invented a secure environmentally sustainabletextile product and production system. Once the practitioners created such a network, theystruggled with how it would be possible to ensure that others external to the network, such ascustomers, were not able to dilute the very specific and documented accomplishments of theirenvironmental

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno

Session number: 3548 Machine Vision Applications within a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program. Andrew W. Otieno and Clifford R. Mirman Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115, USA Email: otieno@ceet.niu.edu or mirman@ceet.niu.eduAbstract The implementation and usage of industrial automation is undergoing major and rapidchanges. This change is driven by the need for industry both remain competitive in their coststructure and to increase the levels

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Session 2137 Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology By Joel Weinstein, Andrew Gilchrist IV, Kyle Hebsch, Jefferey Stevens Northeastern UniversityAbstractOne of the greatest challenges facing engineering technology educators is preparation forwhat graduates will face in the real world. Unlike the classroom, problems are notpredefined, solutions do not come from answer books and personnel are not nearly asexpert as the instructors that have prepared the students. This paper describes a courseand its methodology that helps to better prepare students for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Eberhardt

Session 2793 Developing WEB-based tools for a General-Education course in Aerospace Scott Eberhardt Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of WashingtonAbstractWEB-based tools have been introduced into a general education engineering class. Thispaper outlines some of the tools used and shows how they impact student learning.Students were surveyed about specific tools and over 92% made use of the tools and 70%claimed that the tools helped them learn. Comments are included from both student andfaculty perspectives, and include a discussion of barriers in using WEB

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

Session 2793 A Qualitative Measurement Method for an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program Debra M. Ricci, Ph.D.; Eugene J. Audette, Ph.D.; and Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. The University of St. ThomasAbstract The faculty of a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) program in theCollege of Arts and Sciences at a private university wished to know how two groups ofstakeholders, current students and the parents of current students, perceived the program.Program administrators and staff could use these sources of information to gain qualitative dataas it

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yonael Teklu; Saifur Rahman; Peter Wiesner

Session# DLNET: Creating a Digital Library for Learning Objects in Engineering Saifur Rahman, Yonael Teklu Peter Wiesner Alexandria Research Institute Institute for Electrical and Virginia Tech Electronics Engineers, Inc.AbstractFunded by the National Science Foundation, the DLNET project is developing a specialized collection ofengineering and technology-related “learning objects” targeted at the practicing engineer and technologist so as

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

Session 2121 Presentation of Construction Management Topics in a Competitive Bid Module Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier, PE, PS Ohio Northern University, Ada, OhioAbstractEngineering Project Management is a senior level class taught once a year in the Ohio NorthernUniversity (ONU) Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) degree. Topics includeorganizational structures, project delivery systems, engineering economics, critical path methodanalysis, team dynamics within project management, and responsibilities of the engineeringmanager within various

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Miller

Session #2213 A New Course in Green Chemistry and Benign Processing G.D. Yadav 1, J.E. Jackson2, and D.J. Miller3 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824IntroductionThe material and energy demands of modern society hinge critically on the viability and progressof the chemical and allied industries, which both provide consumer products and support otherindustrial sectors. The burgeoning world population over the past one hundred years, augmentedby enhanced life expectancy and improved quality of life, can be tied to a

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michele Summers

Session 3149 Developing A College–Industry Relationship: The Use Of Industrial Advisory Boards Michele L. Summers Purdue UniversityAbstractIndustrial advisory boards provide a vehicle to help educational institutions execute their missionand attain their goals. This relationship provides a way to monitor the effectiveness ofcurriculum by providing real-world assessment of coursework as well as scrutinizing the on-the-job performance of past graduates. Meetings and subsequent reports lay the foundation forunderstanding what’s

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siobhan Gibbons; Ronald Rockland; Joel Bloom; Howard Kimmel

Session 1660 Analysis of Stakeholder Attitudes For a Pre-College Outreach Program Ronald Rockland, Siobhán Gibbons, Joel Bloom, and Howard Kimmel New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe 21 st century economy demands an educated workforce, particularly in science,mathematics, engineering and technology. However, New Jersey, like many other states, isincreasingly unable to adequately prepare sufficient numbers and quality needed for aadvanced technical workforce. The Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach Program (PrE-IOP) has been initiated toenlarge the future pool of

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Srinivas Vanapalli; Wajiha Shireen

Laboratory setup for variable speed control of a three phase AC Induction Motor using a DSP Controller Wajiha Shireen, Robert Escalante University of HoustonAbstract: This paper presents the hardware and software aspects of a Digital Signal Processor(DSP) based controller for AC Induction motors. The hardware part of the setup consists of aDSP module, a three-phase inverter module and an interface module. The system implementationinvolves the use of different software modules to achieve the desired variable speed operation inopen loop or closed loop. This setup can be effectively utilized to demonstrate to students thevarious motor control

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences for Env. Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Roberts; David Pines

Session 3451 Incorporating a Research Project and a Water Chemistry Laboratory into the Water Quality Engineering Course at the University of Hartford David Pines / Jean Roberts College of Engineering / College of Arts and Sciences University of HartfordAbstractThe Civil Engineering program at the University of Hartford requires students to take a four-credit Water Quality Engineering course that includes an environmental research project and aone credit Water Chemistry Laboratory taught by the Chemistry

Conference Session

Using Animation and Simulation in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Smith; Adam Siurek; Jamie Workman

Session 3449 Development of a Multimedia Laboratory Supplement for an Introduction to Materials Course: A Computer Graphics Technology Senior Design Project Jamie Workman, Adam Siurek, and Gregory Smith Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisAbstractThe Introduction to Materials course at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis(IUPUI), is notorious for its laboratory experiments and report procedures. The course is in theMechanical Engineering Technology department of the Purdue School of Engineering andTechnology and identified as MET 141

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

SESSION 2109 INTERPRETATION OF ENGINEERING AND NON-ENGINEERING SKILLS DURING TRANSITION FROM BEING A FRESHMAN TO A GRADUATING ENGINEER Devdas Shetty* and Susan Coleman** University of Hartford, West Hartford CT 06117, Tel : (860) 768 – 4615 * College of Engineering ** Barney School of BusinessAbstractThis paper provides an overview of the results of student skill assessment as students graduallyprogress from freshman to senior year. The curriculum chosen was a revised engineeringcurriculum involving all the four years

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland

Session 1375 Effective Teaching Training for New Faculty through Analysis of a Student Evaluation Form Dr. Ronald H. Rockland New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractLast year, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) instituted a one-day workshop for its newfaculty. The workshop tried to acquaint the new faculty with many different areas of theuniversity, and part of the workshop dealt with teaching effectiveness and methodology. Toprovide a framework to understand the necessary steps in effective teaching, a presentation wasdeveloped