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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

be incorporated amidst the formulas and free body diagrams taught inan engineering course. Technical faculty do not need to be able to recite comma rules by heartor feel responsible for teaching the fundamentals of paragraph development. Instead, facultyshould be good role models, emphasizing the importance of students being able to communicatetheir technical knowledge through writing.Step 3: Specify document typeOne of our tasks as designers of writing assignments is to clearly indicate the document typestudents are expected to produce, and to give them guidelines for producing such a document.Common document types include memos, lab reports, project proposals, essay exams, andtechnical reports. Instructors who specify a particular document

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

services. Other core topics to be covered inmarketing are an understanding of promotional strategies, the notion of distribution channels,and the recognizing the impact of competitive forces on pricing and creation of market share.Management: In management, the fundamental notions of organizational behavior andoperations will be presentedIntellectual Property: This module includes introductions to patents, copyrights, trademarks,trade secrets, employment contracts and other concepts related to intellectual property. Thematerial will focus on developing a students understanding of intellectual property as "property",that is, how to develop and protect manifestations of intellectual concepts (inventions, writings,machines, devices, etc.). From the

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

Session 2364 Applied Materials Science - A Fundamental Course for Engineers Mark A. Palmer1, Robert E. Pearson, Kenneth J. Wynne2 1 Kettering University 2 Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractMaterials selection is a required part of design, and thus if design is to be incorporatedthroughout a curriculum it is necessary that the students be exposed to the fundamentals ofmaterials science early in their careers. This has been done in a freshman-level materialsengineering course designed to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Ward; Jonathon Smalley

Session 1453 Introduction of Design into a Freshmen Fundamentals of Engineering Course Dr. Jonathan Smalley, P.E., Dr. Robert Ward, P.E. Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractA Fundamentals of Engineering course for all freshmen in the College of Engineering wasdeveloped in 1995. This course has evolved over its 6-year life into a 3 credit hour course taughtduring the fall quarter of an engineering student’s initial year. The course combines lectureformat and computer laboratory work using MS Word and Excel. The focus is on engineeringanalysis during the

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

Session 1613 Fundamentals of Fixed Bed Adsorption Processes: Analysis of Adsorption Breakthrough and Desorption Elution Curves. James M. Becnel, Charles E. Holland, James McIntyre, Michael A. Matthews, and James A. Ritter Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29205IntroductionFixed bed adsorption processes are ubiquitous throughout the chemical process and otherindustries. This laboratory is an extension of a lab proposed by Cruz et. al. (2000), which isdesigned to allow students to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Rabbitt; Douglas Christensen

Session 2793 Using the Cardiovascular System to Illustrate Fundamental Laws and Principles in a Freshman Course Douglas Christensen, Richard Rabbitt Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UtahAbstract Ð Our Fundamentals of Bioengineering I course is organized around key physical andengineering laws and principles. A semester-long Major Project is assigned which integratesmany of these principles by modeling the human systemic cardiovascular system, using bothMatlab computer analysis and assembly of an analogous electrical circuit.Background Ð The new

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Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

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Lonnie Welch

thestudents were struggling with contextual issues. In response, email messages were sent to theentire class, providing guidance about how to use the textbook and explaining the overallsoftware engineering process.5. Summary and Conclusions When one observes Professor Welch’s software engineering course it is apparent that thecourse is fundamentally different from the traditional lecture course. At first glance theclassroom looks chaotic. Chairs are not in straight rows. Professor Welch is not at the front of theclassroom delivering the day’s course material. Students are not quiet. Instead, students arehuddled in groups, talking, pointing out passages in the text to each other, and writing. ProfessorWelch moves around the room, stopping to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jasper L Steyn; Tobia Steyn

. However, they are academically still at risk because of deficiencies in their educational background. Thesupport course is designed to redress and enhance students' concept of the fundament als underpinning a study incalculus, to aid the development of personal, academic and communication skills and to give the students basicskills in information technology. The main pedagogical approach is aimed at developing the full academicpotential of the students. The study focused on determining students' learning preferences, their study orientationin mathematics and the development of writing skills relevant for engineering. The Herrmann Brain DominanceInstrument was used to determine the student s' thinking style preferences. This information was used

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Loker

). A logic 0 read on any one of the three input terminals (M,H, or E) will indicate the column ofthe keypad for the depressed pushbutton. The row of the depressed pushbutton is determined byidentifying to which of the four output terminals (A,B,F, and G) a logic 0 was written.As a result, the algorithm for the pushbutton encoder consists of successively writing a logic 0 toone output pin of the keypad at a time with a logic 1 written to the other three output pins, andreading all three input pins of the keypad after each successive write. If one of the pushbuttons hasbeen depressed, a logic 0 will be read from one input pin, identifying the column of the depressedpushbutton. The row of the pushbutton is identified by determining to which

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

Session 2793 Paper 910 TEACHING PROBLEM SOLVING IN AN INTEGRATED MATHEMATICS-WRITING CURRICULUM Natalie D. Segal, Sallie S. Townsend S.I. Ward College of Technology at the University of HartfordABSTRACT: It is crucial that students realize that solving equations and writing papersare not exercises done to please teachers, that equations represent real-world events, thatthe process of writing a paper reflects the process of reporting information, that problem-solving is what adults do on the job. Consequently

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

groups and activelearning techniques. The course is required of all engineering students and is nominallyscheduled for the second semester of the freshman year.I. IntroductionRecently, many statisticians have become involved in a movement to reform generalintroductory statistics courses2. This reform has focused on changes in content(more data analysis, less probability), pedagogy (fewer lectures, more active learning),and technology (for data analysis and simulations) 3. A principal objective of the reformmovement is to help students learn and apply statistical thinking. Statistical thinking has beendefined as thought processes that recognize that variation is all around us and present ineverything we do 4.A fundamental challenge is to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian; Andrew Blauch

portion of the course, students design, build, andtest various types of digital systems. A unique feature of the course is its integration of digitalsystem fundamentals, C programming, and microcontroller interfacing. Logically andsequentially thinking in both hardware and software are enforced throughout this course. For theMechanical and Manufacturing disciplines, this provides a strong foundation for the types ofdigital system applications that will be encountered in the upper level courses and seniorprojects. For the Electrical and Computer disciplines, the depth of content is developed insubsequent courses. The rest of this paper expounds upon the motivation behind the course,course topics, lab activities, and integration of the course into

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Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Wilk

aformal semester long course (or courses) on communication (see for example Friauf andMcGeen4). These types of courses are taught primarily by faculty in communications Page 7.423.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2238departments who work closely with engineering faculty. Another model is to integratecommunication skills into the existing courses into the curriculum, such as writing

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Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Arthur Kney; David Brandes; Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

presentation. To introduce students to engineering Students will be familiar with a few of the major case studies/issues where significant engineering case studies and/or issues where lessons were learned (e.g., the Bhopal significant lessons were learned. They will have disaster, the Challenger explosion, three short writing assignments on these global warming). cases/issues. To introduce students to Students will understand the fundamentals of fundamentals of engineering engineering economics with respect to the time- economics involving the time-value value of money and be able to apply these concepts of money and to give students

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

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Masakazu Obata; Leon Sanders; Keiichi Sato; Yuko Hoshino

. Benefit of having native professor is to learn correctpronunciation, stress, and variation of expressions.) One of the most surprising results of the writing course was the use the students made oftheir former English teachers. KIT students are not known to visit professor's offices often.But they did use this resource to help in writing their reports. This pleased the authors aswell as the English teaching faculty. Another positive result of the courses were statements made on the course evaluationsindicating that these courses had opened their eyes as to why they should study English. Ifthey had known earlier of the use they could make of their English skills, they would haveworked harder in their English courses.KIT should continue offering

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

correlated to various learning preferences using the results of survey questions and anevaluation of their effectiveness at writing-to-learn exercises. Although this research isexploratory and still in its early stages, the results suggest some interesting conclusions for Page 7.298.1engineering educators. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn Section 2.0, an overview of the course under study is given, as well as some general issuesthat led us to pursue this research. Section 3.0 presents a

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

willbe crucial to turning our knowledge into effective treatment strategies at the tissue, organ andwhole individual levels. Because of its tradition of applying the fundamentals of physics andmathematics to the understanding and control of biological systems, biomedical engineering isespecially well positioned to advance cellular and molecular-based medicine and technology. Toaccomplish this, the Bioengineering Department at Rice University is developing a curriculumthat educates students in cellular and molecular processes and their control.In this talk, we will describe the structure of a bioengineering undergraduate program at RiceUniversity begun in 1998. We will present the development of a series of new courses for thecell and molecular

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

thesucceeding six years. Three of the tools, the department skills test and the senior exit surveys andinterviews, were implemented for the first time in 1999. This paper will discuss the results of ourassessments, focusing on 1999-2001, and how the department is using those results to improveinstruction.The eight tools of the MTU Chemical Engineering Assessment Program are the following: skills test,analysis of design reports, senior exit interview, alumni survey, writing portfolio, oral presentationskills, safety program, and performance on fundamentals of engineering exam.Tool #1–Skills TestTool #1 in the department’s assessment plan is “department designed skills test to be given to thestudents in the Spring Quarter in the Unit Operations

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat

project and to show how such tool helps students in the learning of undergraduateelectromagnetics course.IntroductionWith the rapid change of technology and its attendant introduction of new material into thecurriculum, most colleges and universities face an ever-increasing demand to optimize theircurriculum and increase the content of courses. This places large demands on educators todetermine more efficient ways of presenting material in order to ensure that students continue tohave the same basic understanding of fundamental concepts and skills as in the past. Theprimary goal of this paper is to address that concern. The development of a computer -aidedlearning tool, with the use of MatLab, will create a significant software to aid the

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

requirements serve as a foundation for such competence, the development and enhancement of writing skills must be demonstrated through student work in engineering work and other courses. Oral communication skills in the English language must also be demonstrated within the curriculum by each engineering student” - The ethical considerations (I.C.3.j.): “An understanding of the ethical, social, economic, and safety considerations in engineering practice is essential for a successful engineering career. Course work may be provided for this purpose, but as a minimum it should be the responsibility of the engineering faculty to infuse professional concepts into all

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

important part of this project.An important component of the instructional method included a problem solving andprogram development process to assist beginning computer science students fulfill thecomplex, multiple tasks of programming. After working through the process, studentswill have produced a carefully designed and fully documented solution to a problem. Inthe composition component, the writing process was the basic procedure through whichstudents gain skills in and an understanding of what is necessary to produce effectiveexpository prose written to respond to specific problems. Measurements of success andproblem areas in the implementation of this program will be presented and methods forovercoming obstacles in such programs suggested.I

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Riley

Session # 2408 New designs on teaching biological engineering Mark R. Riley Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, The University of Arizona Tucson AZ, 85721, riley@ag.Arizona.eduAbstractThe field of biological engineering has evolved tremendously in recent years due to advances inboth fundamental understanding of biological systems and in application of engineering methodsto utilize this information. To be competitive in the field, graduates of biological engineeringprograms must have a diverse background which not only is grounded in

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Masaaki Mizuno

file. An application can havemore than one form, and a user can move from one form to another at run time. In such anapplication, each form has an associated file.The programmer then specifies handler functions for events to which the application programshould respond, such as handlers for mouse clicks and keystrokes. The skeletons of such handlerfunctions are created below the list of properties in the file associated with the form. The Page 7.1108.3programmer completes those handler functions by writing their bodies. It is also possible to Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shehu Farinwata

a lasting grasp of engineering fundamentals. This paper is acall to engineering educators to be aware of this trend and its potential for adverselyaffecting, particularly new engineering programs. It is assumed here that engineeringprograms at older more established institutions “had paid their dues” and therefore “hadknown better” not to let their guards down to be consumed by this trend. However,newer programs all of which undoubtedly subscribe to academic excellence and oftenlook towards the numerous successful model institutions as a tracking reference may stillnot be immuned to this pervasive trend, and for these, the stakes could be higher. Theaforementioned subsets of available engineering software packages if used effectively –in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

for determining how well a program is achieving its stated learning outcomes andgoals. An obvious assessment method is to simply ask the constituents of a program (who mustbe identified and targeted a priori!!) questions about the program (e.g., questionnaires, surveys,course evaluations). Another obvious assessment method is to use an existing scheme such asthe distribution of grades already assigned to various types of course work (e.g., homework, labreports, design presentations). Less obvious assessment methods might be interpreting results ofstandardized national exams (e.g., Fundamentals in Engineering), self-assessment of individualcourses by instructors, or even employing rubrics for students and instructors to categoricallyrank how

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Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jon Dixon

second part of theassignment is for the student to write his or her own paper on ethics in design, selectingfrom any number of potential areas of ethical focus.This assignment directly addresses course objective V.Course Outline: Beyond Course ObjectivesWhile the course is never precisely the same twice in a row, unique issues not directlyrelated to the five course objectives are always discussed.§ The fundamental concept of excellence is approached using quotations from historical figures. Understanding the true essence of excellence in all endeavors strikes at the heart of the course. It is essential the student understand that excellence stems from a critical, inspirational spark. That spark may or may not be sustained depending

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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mueller

manufacture of an item that fulfils the 3 fundamental components outlined above.The author in [3] does discuss some good ideas for establishing long-term commitments fromindustry for accepting students on a regular basis.To accomplish the administrative objectives of the course, the project team must providebiweekly written and oral progress reports on project design updates, schedule, and budget. Atthe end of the term, each project team is required to write a group project report detailing theproject’s design and budget. A formal demonstration of the project is also required. Page 7.103.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

new, their defining curricula continue to evolve. Traditional coursessuch as digital logic, and digital design, microcontrollers, computer interfacing and computerarchitecture are mainstays, but there continues to be many holes to fill. Part of the problem isthat Computer Engineering (CE) is still considered to be an interface between ElectricalEngineering (EE) and Computer Science (CS). Electrical Engineering, where it is usuallyhoused, embraces the notion that computer hardware is fundamental to the discipline whilecomputer science views computer software as the defining entity. The truth is that both arecorrect and computer engineering students need to understand both disciplines equally well. Atthe same time, this understanding needs to

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Beenfeldt; John Field; Eric Beenfeldt; Edward Williams

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 3. The hardware connected to a test vehicle with two DC motors.A detailed description of the custom software used in our laboratory exercises is presented next.V. The Ultimate Test Environment, (TUTE)Overview - TUTE is an integrated development environment used to expedite the writing andtesting of assembly language programs for the EVBU Board. It can also be used with any68HC11 board that has BUFFALO as a monitor. TUTE was originally written to develop videogame software using high level code in combination with assembly language and was altered foruse in ECE 171. As a result, there are a number of features that are not used, some that havebeen disabled, and some that are only

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

, Prentice- Hall, 19995. Alberto Leon-Garcia and Indra Widjaja, Communication Networks, McGraw-Hill, 20006. David J. Wright, Voice Over Packet Networks John Wiley & Sons, 2001.7. Jonathan Davidson, Jim Peters, Voice Over IP Fundamentals, Macmillan, 1999.8. Peter Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1996. Page 7.197.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education”BiographicalMAURICE F. ABURDENE is the T. Jefferson Miers Professor of Electrical Engineering and