Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Haque

eccentricity ey.Po = nominal axial load capacity of a column when the load is placed with a zero eccentricity.The input for model-2 was h, ρg, e/h, and γ. The value of γ was estimated using the equation:γ = 1 –(5/h), where the column size, h was in inches. Figure 2 shows the column dimensions. 2.5” (TPY) 2.5” (TPY) γh=h-5 γh=h-5 h” h” (a) (b) Figure 2. (a) Square tied column dimensions; (b) Circular spiral column dimensions.The number of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Torres

A, B, and C select pins. A0 – A2 will also beused to select one of the eight I/O addresses. The remaining 12-bits, A3 – A14 are all low levels,therfore, are all OR’ed together as seen in figure 5. This is then connected to G2A of figure 4.Finally, G2B is connected directly to ground. Figure 5: Address DecodingFigure 5 can be simulated in the Lattice software also. This will save valuable time in designand wiring. As seen in figure 4, A3 – A14 represent inputs to the PLD. These inputs can beassigned to specific pins of the PLD. The OR gates are internal to the PLD. TheispDesignEXPERT software also allows the user to view timing simulations. Test vectors areprovided by the user, and the software will

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Sun

Neutral Agree Agree Strongly Agree 39% Strongly Agree 47% a. Fall semester b. Winter semester Figure 1. Usefulness of Blackboard 5 Microphone has been useful? Microphone has been useful? 0% Stronlgy 0

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Anita Todd; Robert Pangborn

k. Use Skills/Tools d. Function in Teams j. Know Contemporary a. Apply Math, Science, Analyze Experiments e. Solve Problems Component, Process b. Design

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pavelich; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

concentrated our fitting on the sixteen Lickert statement inputs from each subject. The variations and results of Lickert statement fitting with the pool of data from 88subjects are given in Table 5. The first column numbers the fits, the second is our code name forthe fit and its resulting neural net algebra. The next four columns give the conditions of the fit."Statements Fitted" are the Cogito Lickert statements whose data was used. The A, B, C, D setsof statements were different combinations from the three scenarios as identified at the bottom ofthe Table. These statements were identified by three different people analyzing the raw Lickertstatement data for those that seemed to differentiate among subjects best. The "test set

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liz Oshaughnessy; Barbara Goldberg

females have a GPA of “B” or higher 80% of males have a GPA of “B” or higher Females as a group also did not receive lower grades in math or science classes B. Time Usage Time spent studying 29% of females confessed to studying less than 3 hours a week 43% of males reported studying less than 3 hours a week Females as a group spent less time partying, watching TV, playing video games, and working at paid employment during high school, than did their male counterparts. 11% of females partied over 10 hours a week

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Meyers; Donald Kirk

adequate capacity to meet theneed of students, faculty and staff?Secondary Questions: If I want to maximize my chances of getting a parking space in thecampus garage, at what hours of the day should I arrive?An Approach: A. Develop an input-output count of vehicles entering and leaving the garage. What needs to be counted? For how long? How many people will be needed to collect the data? Can we collect data for just one day, or do we need to do it for every day? Or should we narrow the problem/question to: Does the parking garage have adequate capacity on Mondays? B. Organize a team of students with appropriate equipment to conduct the input - output count. What needs to be counted? How are various situations

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

Apparatus6. Scaffolding Planks a. Solid Sawn Wood Plank i. Surface Finish - Rough and Dressed (surfaced 4 sides) ii. Types – Southern Yellow Pine and Douglas Fir b. Manufactured Wood Plank i. Veneer Type (a) Horizontal (b) Vertical ii. Suppliers (a) 3 ManufacturersTesting ApparatusStatic:A DynaMOE tm test apparatus (Figs. 2-6), a vibration analysis machine, was used to determineplank weight and Modulus of Elasticity (MOE). This method allows determination of MOEusing dynamic methods. A conventional three-point assembly (Fig. 7) was usually used to

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Emerson

-Briggs TypeIndicator , Palo Alto, CA, Consulting Psychologists Press, 1987[2] Herrmann, N. The Creative Brain, Lake Lure, NC, Brain Books, 1990 Page 7.512.10[3] Price, B; Dunn, R.; and Dunn, K., Productivity Environmental Preferences Survey: An Inventory for theIdentification of Individual Adult Preferences in a Working or Learning Environment. Lawrence, KS: Price, 1990 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education[4] Felder, R., “Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cliff Mirman; Radha Balamuralikrishna

- Engineering competition, Manufacturing Engineering, 127(4): 23(5) Jakubowski, G. (2002). Is there a role for ASEE in K-12 education? ASEE Prism, 11(5): 41.(6) Cummings, M. (2001). The media is the message. ASEE Prism, 11(3): 68(7) Mathias-Regel, B. (2001). Early to engineering. ASEE Prism, 11(2): 45(8) Schaaf, W.L. (1963). Mathematics for everyday use. Revised edition. Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc.(9) Bowie P.G. [Editor] (1969). The School Mathematics Project. Book 4 (Metric). London, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press.Biographical InformationDR. RADHA BALAMURALIKRISHNA joined the Department of Technology at NIU in August 1997. Hisundergraduate degree is in Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding from Cochin

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

process chemistry and reaction mechanisms. In traditional re-action engineering textbooks, reactions are represented using generic, symbolic notation such as: A + B ⇔ C + D . This is a good tool to introduce reaction engineering to students, but has beendeemed by the engineering profession to lack a relationship to reality. Many of the currentchemical reaction engineering texts have incorporated numerous examples and problems using 2 3realistic chemistry such as the texts by Fogler and Schmidt . In addition, the use of numericalmethods in easy to use packages such as POLYMATH and MATLAB has enabled chapters inmultiple reactions to use more complex reaction mechanisms beyond those of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

0.0 0.0 NA 0.0 0.0 0.0 TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0rose to 73.2%. In 1996-97, 24.0% of the teams received a “B;” in 1997-98 that percentage wasonly 6.3%. An explanation might be the bond formed between the team and their technicaladvisor. Advisors want their teams to be successful and tend to reward them with high grades.The almost one-on-one interaction between the technical advisor and the team members isperceived as one of the benefits of the freshman design program. Although not exactly amentoring program, it has many of the same benefits. One purpose of the assessment forms whichare the topic of this report was

Conference Session

Technology for Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Billy Crynes

Education Conference, Proceedings, Austin, TX, January 25-28, 2000. Page 7.1207.5“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering Education”6. Assessing Learner Differences in Distributed Learning Environments, “Book of Essays,” (with C. Dillon and B. Greene). First Research Workshop of EDEN, Prague, Czech Republic, March 16-17, 2000.7. “A New Way To Teach Chemical Engineering Fundamentals,” (with W.S. Chung and Y.K. Lai). Proceedings and CDROM, ASEE, Charlotte, NC, June 20-23, 1999.8. “Pixels, Papers and Possibilities,” (with L

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lockwood-Benet; Rosa Buxeda; Manuel Hormaza; Alejandro Ruiz Acevedo; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Lueny Morell

biotechnology areas as well as collaborative initiatives 3, has been at the lead inorchestrating the multi-sector alliance to strengthen biotechnology programs in response toeconomic development based on high tech in Puerto Rico. It has responded with importantinitiatives to support the multi-sector alliance: 1. An undergraduate program in Industrial Biotechnology (IB) 2. A Graduate Biotechnology Initiative (GBT) composed of: a. PhD program in Biotechnology b. The development of Biotechnology Research Centers (BRC)Undergraduate Industrial Biotechnology programThe IB Program was established in 1994 as a 5 years interdisciplinary bachelor degree program.The program has the higher IGS from the College of Arts and Sciences with a

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Haws

lottery.The best of the worst outcomes would be to loose the natural lottery in an open society thatwould maximize access to primary goods (the worst of the worst would be to loose the naturallottery of talents and be born as an outcaste). Rawls derives the two principles of justice byimagining deliberations from the original position, concerning the conditions under whichinequalities in primary goods would be considered just.The two principles of justice are hierarchical in that the first principle takes precedence over thesecond principle, and part a) of the second principle takes precedence over part b). 1. Each person has an equal right to the most extensive scheme of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar scheme of liberties for

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

Y1 - Low Post-test X2 – High Y2 - HighNote: No significant difference expected between X2 and Y2The 147 Stevens’ students participating in the study were separated into five sections by theregistrar. Each section took the same three computer tutorials (A, B, and C) over the semestertime period. Prior to each tutorial, before any teaching on that tutorial began, every student tooka pre-test. The purpose of each pre-test was to judge the students pre-existing accountingknowledge in the particular area covered by each proceeding tutorial (A, B and C). The post-tests, administered after the completion of a tutorial, were used to determine how much thestudents had learned from each tutorial (A, B, and C) beyond the

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

Session 1353 Enriching Freshman Design Through Collaboration With Professional Designers P. Hirsch, J. Anderson, J.E. Colgate, J. Lake, B. Shwom, and C. Yarnoff Northwestern UniversityEngineering educators over the last fifteen years have increasingly emphasized the teaching ofdesign.1 As a result, design courses are not only being offered as a capstone experience inengineering majors; they are increasingly found at the freshman and sophomore level. This latterdevelopment has sparked a controversy about whether it is desirable, or even possible, to teachdesign to

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

from each into a cohesive report is saved, not only by reducing latency butalso making it feasible for instructors to conduct an evaluation within their time constraints.Feedback is provided quickly to the instructor so changes can be made during the term, ratherthan waiting until the end of the term to identify and correct problems. Also, the resolution ofthe evaluation can be adjusted to focus on a large or small section of the system.AcknowledgementsThis research is sponsored by grant #EEC-0080315 from the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. B. S. Bloom, J. T. Hastings, and G. F. Madaus, Handbook on formative and summative evaluation ofstudent learning. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1971).2. N. Walker, “A Primer on Evaluating

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal; Sheryl Duggins

, The Twelfth Annual Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.4. Curran, B. (October 22, 2001), "What is Software Engineering?" Ubiquity. Views, Volume 2, Issue 33. http://www.acm/ubiquity/views/b_curran_1.html5. Duggins, S. L. (March 2001) "Curriculum Impact of the Maturing Software Engineering Profession" in Proceedings in the 2001 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference.6. Duggins, S. L. & Thomas, B. B. (February 2002) “An Historical Investigation of Graduate Software Engineering Curriculum” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, pp. 78-87, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California.7. Dupuis, R., Bourque, P., Abran, A., Moore, J

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

Session 2793 Innovative Approaches to first year engineering education. Monique Osborn, Dilip Nag Faculty of Education Monash University Australia/Faculty of Engineering Monash University Australia.ABSTRACTThe moment students have enrolled into an undergraduate engineering study program a numberof expectations have already been placed upon them. It is often assumed that these students entertertiary education with a wide variety of study skills and abilities. The majority of engineeringeducators also assume that each student has a similar learning style that is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

capital budget issues; however, others, likeincluding other program language standards, would only require a change in the course orlaboratory syllabus.References1. Reference Manual, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.2. Modicon FactoryLink ECS, Square D Company, Chicago, IL, 1996.3. Step-by-step Guide to Project Development, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 1996.4. Bateson, R.N., Introduction to Control System Technology, Prentice Hall,1999 BIOGRAPHYJAMES A. REHG – James Rehg received a B. S. and an M. S. in Electrical Engineering from St. LouisUniversity and has completed additional graduate work at the University of South Carolina and ClemsonUniversity. Since

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Svoboda

expansion. The feedback provided by the ElectricCircuits Workout indicates only whether an answer is correct or not. This feedback is adequatefor problems solved by writing and solving a single equation. If the answer is wrong, the studentknows where to look for the error. Longer problems, those requiring a series of calculations,require more feedback. To provide additional feedback, the Electric Circuits Workout presentslonger problems as a series of steps, with feedback provided at each step. Figure 2 provides anexample. In this example, students are led through a series of three steps, shown in parts a, b andc of Figure 2. In each step the Electric Circuits Workout poses a problem, checks the answer andprovides feedback. Further, the correct

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

Session 2087 Real Time Mechatronic Design Process for Research and Education Devdas Shetty 1, Jun Kondo 2, Claudio Campana3, Richard A. Kolk 4 1,2,3 - University of Hartford, College of Engineering West Hartford, CT, USA 4 - Carrier Electronics Div., United Technologies Corp., Farmington, CT, USAAbstractThis paper presents the design methodology used in various real time mechatronics projects thatinvolve data acquisition, real time control and embedded processing. As a design philosophy,mechatronics serves as an integrating approach to engineering design. A mechatronicallydesigned product relies heavily on system

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

the project, or piece the projecttogether from design documentation, or ask the design participant to document how the projectprogressed, or use some combination. 5 Waldron and Waldron6 offer a “depositional method” thatcombines protocol analysis and interviews—the researcher takes “depositions” from the designparticipants at specific junctures in the design process.Each of these approaches has its difficulties. Direct observation is time intensive, so one’s sampleis necessarily limited. Additionally, direct observation seems difficult to conduct a) when designparticipants can meet just about anywhere and at all hours, and b) without influencing the studentinteraction, especially if the observer is a professor. Protocol analysis is equally

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

V.M.S. Sathya Dev; Raghu Echempati

relationship between theresponse and the independent variables is unknown. Thus the first step in RSM is to finda suitable approximation for the true functional relationship between p and the set ofindependent variables. Usually, a low-order polynomial using linear function of theindependent variables is employed. This is given byp = bo + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x3 + … + bnxn + e ... 3If there is curvature in the system, then a polynomial of higher degree must be used, suchas the second-order model given by: k kp = b 0 + å b i xi + å b ii xi2 + åå b ij xi x j + e …4 i =1 i =1 i< j

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

10 5 0 0 Some Regularly Never > 40 hours 20 - 40 hours just for classes (a) (b) Figure 2. Survey Results. Fall 2001These survey results have been

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

design for the given experiment. Each student must provide a written report 2-3 pages in length and present the information to the lab instructor at the beginning of the laboratory session. The instructor will provide feedback for revision and approval. 2. LAB Each student must demonstrate his/her design to the lab instructor. If the logic circuit does not function properly, the design and/or wiring errors must be corrected prior to leaving the laboratory. 3. POSTLAB Complete laboratory report to contain: 1. Introduction 2. Procedure a. Truth Table and K-map b. Logic Equations c

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

portions in successive weeks. A. Power as a function of speed: Analysis of available engine power (as measured by hydraulic horsepower) versus speed is performed in a manner similar to the laboratory exercise described above. B. Specific fuel consumption: Measurement of actual versus published values for fuel consumption versus horsepower produced provides an indication of conversion efficiency from gasoline into hydraulic power. Knowing this is the Page 7.922.7 inverse of thermodynamic efficiency, students compare the measured efficiency of the

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

identify common misconceptions and the student to gauge his or her understandingof the material. A tool has also been built that allows the instructor to ask a question “on-the-fly.”This tool enables the instructor to pose a general type of question (true/false, yes/no, A/B/C/D)and to electronically receive responses from the students. Fig. 6 In-class quiz results (correct answer shown in green, incorrect answers in red).The at-home quiz randomly draws from a set of approximately 100 questions. The questions aresubdivided into 20 textbook-style problems, and 80 short, analytical and conceptual questions.The textbook-style questions are similar to those found in traditional mechanics texts: students areprovided with a drawing of a