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2001 Annual Conference

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Joey Parker

of simultaneous linear equations.Many students find solving three or more simultaneous equations difficult, particularly whenthey are written in symbolic form. Three examples drawn from an undergraduate systemsdynamics class are shown to demonstrate the process of solving simultaneous linear equationswith Maple. These examples can be used as templates for solving similar problems. Manystudents initially resist using Maple, since not all of them have had previous exposure. However,most students quickly learn that this modern engineering tool frees them from tedious algebraicmanipulations and allows them to accurately solve much larger and more significant problems.References1. Kuo, B.C. and D.C. Hanselman. (1994) Matlab Tools for Control

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2001 Annual Conference

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Hugh Jack

speed (approx. 5 minutes) per part is a bottle neck. This flowchart also hides the fact thatthere are many programs running in the system. Start Simplified Operational Flowchart Initialize robot, CNC and turntable Wait for order and put into database Feed wood block onto cart transfer cart to robot station Robot feeds block

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2001 Annual Conference

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Isadore Davis; Gregory Lush; Connie Della-Piana; Andrew Swift

for corporate placement of student graduates,research funding or collaboration, design project opportunities, financial support and curricularadvice. These goals form a solid foundation for the industry-academic partnership. However, tomove to the level of a “strategic partnership,” a deeper commitment on both sides and longer-term thinking are required. If both the University and the corporate partner are committed,ABET related issues naturally arise. After all, the new EC 2000 criteria are based on outcomes,require dialogue with constituents, and call for data reporting on student performance in theworkplace. Although ultimately the burden of responsibility for accreditation falls to the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Joan A. Burtner

Page 6.1046.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWith the increasing availability of the Internet, mentoring through the use of e-mail is becomingmore prevalent.11,12 Another recognized way to enhance and reinforce math and science skills isthrough outreach programs or summer camps. Programs that have been implemented may berelatively short, perhaps one2 or two days; other programs are one or two weeks long. 13,14 Someprograms, especially those that involve undergraduate research, last for six weeks or more. Manyof these programs report anecdotal success stories, but few have reported the use

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Michael Warren; Jay Porter

(July 1999), pg. 54-60.2. Burns, M. and Roberts, G. An Introduction to Mixed-Signal IC Test and Measurement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).3. Fink, R. and Porter, J. “Mixed-Signal Test Initiative in Engineering Technology,” Proc. of the 1999 Gulf Southwest ASEE Conference, Dallas, TX (March, 1999).4. Warren, M., Kemp, J., Fletcher, B., Zoghi, B., Porter, J. “A Low-cost Embedded Control Tester for Teaching Mixed Signal Test Concepts,” Proc. of the 2000 Gulf Southwest ASEE Conference, College Station, TX (March, 2000). Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Kemeny; Bryan Zeitler

beaccessible through the virtual lab interface (not shown since this in not finished yet). As in thevirtual classroom shown in Figure 1, the discussion forum will form the fourth element of thevirtual laboratory for the geomechanics course.7.0 Conclusions and future workThis paper described the development of an online geomechanics course with a virtual rock lab.Several innovative approaches have been adapted for both the lecture and laboratory portions ofthe course, and initial trials with the online course have been very positive. The course willdebut in 2001 and at that time a complete assessment using student feedback will be made.Readers are encouraged to view some of the lecture modules that are now available on theinternet2.The advantages of

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Gray; Christopher Timmons; Robert Hendricks

verify proper processing and to allow for a greaterunderstanding of those processes. To determine the sheet resistivity, the 2400 source meter isused to force a current through the outer two pins of the Signatone S-301 probe head, whilemeasuring the resulting voltage on the inner two pins (see Figure 4(a)). After the application of acorrection factor to allow for layer geometry, a measurement in ohms/ is attained. The sheetresistivity is measured 3 times during the process; before field oxidation, after field oxide etch,and after diffusion drive-in. Each measurement is made in a dedicated region of the wafer. Thesemeasurements show the initial sheet resistivity of the wafer, the effect of oxide growth on dopedsilicon, and the proper execution of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reardon

course fee) and are given the suggestion that they not exceed $50 forthe project. Nearly all teams spend less than $50, and some are able to construct their waterheaters for less than $25.Testing is done with a portable setup that features a pump, rotameter, hot and cold waterreservoirs, thermocouples on the inlet and outlet lines, and a radiometer. Each group mustcalibrate the rotameter before testing their heaters in the sun, and this provides the students withan opportunity to perform statistical analysis (linear regression, standard estimate of the error) ondata that are relevant to them. Following their initial water heater test, each team must modifytheir water heater and retest.An important element of the laboratory sessions is technical

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2001 Annual Conference

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Julia Morse

: student conferences.II. Walvoord and Anderson’s Assignment Centered CourseWalvoord and Anderson5 have noted that aside from the burden of grading written assignments,an even bigger problem is the inadequacy of instructor feedback on written work. Figure 1depicts a course in which students must wait for written work or exams to be returned beforethey gain access to instructor comments that might help them better hone their critical thinkingskills. By then, the student has likely lost interest; the “teachable moment” has been lost.6Walvoord and Anderson’s approach attempts to move the feedback stage earlier, into theclassroom, by placing on students the responsibility of gaining initial exposure to the coursematerial prior to the class meeting time

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2001 Annual Conference

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Cheng Lin

functionality and .reliability. Operation procedures of the new design are as follows: (1) Initially, the top valve (Part 9) is closed and there is no water flow inside the stand-up tube. Figure 6 shows the situation. 9 8 7 1 6 2 3 4

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Wayne Wolf

Page 6.861.4basic computer architecture and microprocessor-based system design. A research-oriented com- Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001 American Society for Engineering Educationputer architecture course was open to both graduate students and undergraduates. The fact thatPrinceton semesters are only 12 weeks long further compressed the presentation of this material.I tried to update the the architecture/microprocessor course by adding material on embedded com-puting applications. However, the course was too short for students to become truly comfortablewith any aspect of the material. As a result, I split the course into

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nicholas A. Scambilis

extensive research on how chemicals are used and how they can be eliminated, reduced, or recycled. Industry is thus faced with hiring environmental engineering technologists and/or training its workforce. The Sinclair Environmental Engineering Technology program is designed to provide the necessary training. Courses such as SRM 151-OSHA 40 hour Hazardous Waste Operations, EVT 260 Treatment, Storage, and Disposal of Hazardous Wastes, and EVT 200 Environmental Waste Management (Pollution Prevention) are just a few of the subjects sought by industrial firms. Students, who enroll to take one or two work-related courses, often return to complete a degree program. Thus the Environmental Engineering

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

).Biographical DataBESTEAMS PARTNERSHIPThe BESTEAMS (Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness and Management Systems)Partnership was initiated in 1997 to research engineering project team performance and effectiveness. TheBESTEAMS Partnership builds engineering team-centered programs that support effective project teamexperiences throughout a student’s engineering education and across the engineering curriculum. Partnersare engineering and education faculty and professionals. Page 5.269.10

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James C. Sherman

mid-July. This also permits our new freshmen and transfer students the time needed toreceive their final grade in college transfer courses and have their transcripts sent to ourOffice of Admissions for initial evaluation, before being forwarded to the appropriateacademic departments for evaluation concerning degree requirements.Prior to the student receipt of these registration packets, faculty and staff advisorsreceived numerous telephone calls from new freshmen and transfer students, inquiringabout the registration process and with specific questions about the transferability ofAdvanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and college credits. Many ofthese calls were motivated because our new students had friends who were

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jagdish T. Gajjar

very stable and showed some hysteresis. This led to overall frustration with theexperimental part of the laboratory.The instrumentation module required a considerable amount of planning effort. The lowcost data acquisition modules were limited in scope and required a considerable amountof experimentation. The software supplied was limited to slow computers and would notwork at first with higher speed processors. The manufacturers developed a softwarepatch that helped somewhat. Automatic triggering of the data acquisition would notwork and we had to implement hardware triggers to initiate data acquisition. All in althe effort was very useful and while not all students grasped most of the material, manylearned the methodology of making

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey A. Jalkio

. This is a system that is described in nearly everyintroductory text and used in many introductory courses4,5. This exercise providesvaluable learning opportunities, and reinforces key modeling and control concepts butdoes not address any of our additional objectives. In particular, we wished to modify thisexercise to incorporate the following: • Teamwork beyond a typical laboratory exercise, preferably including brainstorming, team directed division of labor, and individual initiative in support of team goals. • Communication skills, including not only written and oral presentations, but critical listening and reading skills. • Experimental design skills, not necessarily in the sense of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Rita L. Endt; Eyler Robert Coates

investment over 10 years.Each entity, in the simulation run, will represent a replication (scenario) of the future worthcalculation. After an entity is created, the annual growth rates (interest rates) are selected viasampling from a selected distribution. Page 5.372.6 Initialize: Future Worth = 0 Year = 1 Growth = Normal (1.131, 0.169) Future Worth = Future Worth * Growth + 10000 Year = Year + 1 Is No

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Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Chemical Engineering and Associate Director of the ChemicalReaction Engineering Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Master’s degree fromOregon State University (1988), and his Doctoral degree from Washington University (1993), all in chemicalengineering. His research interests are in chemical reaction engineering, multiphase reactor systems, mass transferand biochemical process engineering. Page 5.378.3 LABORATORY SESSIONS EXPERIMENTS: ♦ MASS, HEAT & MOMENTUM TRANSPORT

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Shravia D. Jackson; Christine L. Corum

adequate access to theWorld Wide Web, and that they actually went to the web site to review the material. Also, sincethe students were observed in two groups, it was assumed that both groups were academicallyequal.IV. LimitationsGoing into this study, it was known that time would be a constraining factor. The research wasto be conducted over a period of between one and two semesters. Another constraint was thataccess to the web could not be completely restricted to just the test group. There may have beena sharing of information among students. Another constraining factor was the possible difficultyof accessing the web site from an off-campus location. Students may have gotten a busy signal,or they may have had routing problems. The problem of

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Julia Williams

electricalengineers or giving a presentation to design clients.Consider the following comparison. Analyze three different articles from three differentengineering journals and magazines, for instance, an article on materials failure from Page 6.978.2Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis published by ASM International, aProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationconference paper on the subject of DVD from the IEEE Transactions on ConsumerElectronics, and an Student Research Award article in the Doctoral Degree CandidateCategory from

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2001 Annual Conference

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Arthur Gerstenfeld

, legal and transport sectors.The new privatization now presents important opportunities for students interested inSouth Africa. Initially South Africa’s economy was based on gold and diamond mining.Now the economy is broadly based and largely privatized. Manufacturing and softwaredevelopment at present represents the largest sector of the South Africa economy. Page 6.146.2Prodeedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering 191 Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright O 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure One: Map of Africa (The focus of our project is on the southern

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1998 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

3.289.5student. If students find that little they will encounter little technical responsibility in their workexperience, they must then take the initiative to research topics that encompass work that is beingdone at the companies for which they work, even though they themselves may not be connectedwith that work.The student must become involved in the work experience as more than just a job but a completespectrum on what it means to be part of the company and the workforce. It is strongly suggestedthat the students utilize the materials that are provided to them before they begin work to preparetheir own outlines, checklists, collection sheets to make sure that all pertinent information iscollected. If students work in situations that do require

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1998 Annual Conference

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Suzanne Keilson

. References/Notes1. Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), “Boundaries and Borderlands: The Search forRecognition and Community in America”, faculty development project connected to the Curriculum and FacultyDevelopment Network of AAC&U’s Initiative: American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy, and LiberalLearning. Caryn McTighe Musil, Director, Gwendolyn Dungy, Associate Director.2. Nelson, Craig E., “Student Diversity Requires Different Approaches to College Teaching, Even in Math andScience”, In special issue: Multiculturalism and Diversity in Higher Education, Jack Meacham, editor. AmericanBehavioral Scientist, Vol. 40, No.2, Nov./Dec. 1996, pp. 165-175.3. J.N. Harb et al., Teaching Through the Cycle: Application of

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Michael Safoutin; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim; Dale E. Calkins

. Page 3.564.13 ! Figure 14: Hand Vac Product Decomposition Figure 15: Hand Vac Parametric Geometry4) First Year “On-Line” The initial concept of the University of Washington ILF is described in Lamancusa, et al.1After the first school year of operation of the UW ILF, we now have achieved the following:• Full utilization of the Product Dissection lab for freshman through graduate design courses Page 3.564.14 including: " Engr 100, Introduction to Design

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1998 Annual Conference

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Aaron A. Jennings

Session 3251 Introduction to Educational Use of Environmental Engineering Software Aaron A. Jennings Department of Civil Engineering Case Western Reserve UniversityAbstract Between May, 1995 and August 1997 collaborators from seven Gateway consortiumuniversities worked to develop shared resource modules to help support EnvironmentalEngineering education. This paper discusses how module development priorities wereestablished based on initial prototype results. The paper also discusses the general criteriathat were used to identify

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1997 Annual Conference

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D. Raj Raman

class time. Thissecond revision was very rewarding, achieving a >95% attendance rate over the semester, andstrongly positive student evaluations. By making engineering design central to the class, studentmaturity and student interest were increased, and their educational needs better served, than inthe traditional lecture format. At the time of this writing, the third revision of the course isunderway. I am now distributing printed class notes to transmit technical information, and relyingon problem sets, quizzes, a semester long design project, and student initiated discussions toreinforce the material. Again, the non-lecturing, design focus of the course appears to beachieving high student attendance and interest. These experiences have

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1997 Annual Conference

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William J. Adams; Curtis A. Carver

, courseware links fromother courses remain accurate? Furthermore, as of yet, no large-scale hyperdisciplinary course-ware has been developed although the initial coordination between departments has been madewhich has lead to an NSF proposal. Coordination between the United States Military Academy,Virginia Tech, and the University of Wales is also underway to extend the idea of hyperdiscipli-nary courseware to apply to different institutions and measure the effectiveness of hypermedia-based courseware. As this courseware is developed, additional problems previously unseen willarise.In addition to the technical difficulties associated with developing hyperdisciplinary courseware,considerable political barriers remain. Hyperdisciplinary courseware

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1997 Annual Conference

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A. J. Marchese; Robert P. Hesketh; T. R. Chandrupatla; Ralph A. Dusseau; John L. Schmalzel; Kauser Jahan; C. Stewart Slater

dtwhere mw is the total mass of water brewed, Cv the specific heat of water, Tf,w the initial watertemperature, To,w the final water temperature, V the RMS voltage, and R the measured resistanceof the heating element. This short engineering calculation introduces the students to engineeringequations employing measured quantities of temperature, time, resistance, and flow. Thesesimple equations also give students practice handling—and converting between—typicalengineering units. A further benefit of using this real product, is that it is convenient for showingobvious connections to co-requisite courses such as calculus; for example, examining powerconsumption provides an integration example for the calculation of total energy. The concept

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1997 Annual Conference

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Jawaharlal Mariappan

under differentconditions by reprogramming. Initiatives are also underway to incorporate smart steering systemand fuzzy engine knock control into the mechatronics laboratory.MECHATRONIC PROJECTSCreativity Project: One of the first assignments is a creativity project that challenges thestudents to think, brainstorm and invent creative alternative solutions to existing mechatronicproducts. The objective of this project is to imagine and communicate the operating scheme foran existing mechatronic product being unbiased. A commercially available mechatronic productis used for this purpose. One typical example that was used in the past is an electronic bathroomscale that uses strain gauges and a digital display as opposed to a regular(mechanical

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1998 Annual Conference

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David R. Haws

offerings, and writing about my experiences in qualitativepapers such as this).Having developed independent PSI courses in Strength of Materials for both CM and ENstudents, I am now ready to recombine these students in a single classroom. Since our College ofEngineering is applying for initial EAC-ABET accreditation in the fall of 1998, there is areluctance with some of the other EN departments to have students from the two courses in thesame classroom. But I have presented this (and will continue to present it) as a viable option toreduce the number of courses that EN faculty are required to teach. While we are a youngCollege of Engineering, and our course sizes remain small, eventually this option will becomeattractive to the College