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Session 3550 A Bridge to High-School Girls: A Versatile Recruiting Tool Edward R. Evans, Jr., Richard Englund The Pennsylvania State University at ErieAbstract:High school girls are bombarded by counselors and others, encouraging them to consider careersin science and engineering. We feel that encouragement is of greatest value with a sampling ofthe career; therefore we designed and built a 16-foot long wood and steel bridge to enhance arecent recruitment session. The girls in the session were introduced to structural topics, thenthey assembled the bridge and were able to cross it at

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Thomas Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

Session 1520 A Survey Course on VEE Pro Software for Engineers and Technologists Thomas E. Hulbert, Robert B. Angus Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115-5096AbstractData acquisition requirements for manufacturing, development, and research applications havegrown significantly. A continued need is predicted for standards and software to efficientlyprocess and store that data.The authors, who created Just-in-Time (JIT) Education™, were invited to meet with a multi-national, high-technology company. Their corporate team identified a critical

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introductory courses.2. Application Software RequirementsMany numeric electromagnetic application packages offer sophisticated and accurate solutions.Quite obviously, the overall goal is to enhance students’ learning experiences. But whichpackage is most appropriate for student use? Our deliberations lead to seven basic requirements. A) Easy to Learn: The software should not take significant time to learn. The more intuitive the better since time taken to learn the software is time taken from the course. Page 6.1135.1 B) Simple to Use: Problem setup should take only a few minutes. This process consists of

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Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

Session 2793 Hands-On Experiences in the First Year Engineering Classroom Richard M. Goff, Jeffrey B. Connor Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractTo paraphrase Piaget, “In order for a child to understand something she must construct it herself,she must re-invent it”. Engineering students today tend to arrive with very good math andscience skills, but limited practical experience. A questionnaire given to all 1200 incomingengineering students this past summer strongly supports this assertion. Chalk and talk instructionis not as effective as it once was when students

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Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

Session 2793 Assessment of Providing In-Class, Hands-On, Activities to Virginia Tech’s First Year Engineering Students Jeffrey B. Connor, Richard M. Goff Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityAbstractHistorically, engineering has been a practical outgrowth of the need to solve physicalproblems. Engineering education was initially based in practical laboratory and shopexperiences, as well as traditional instruction in science and mathematics. FollowingWorld War II, engineering education in the United States began emphasizing theoreticalsciences and mathematics. Though a justified

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William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

Session 2326 Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers William Jordan, Debbie Silver, and Bill Elmore Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractDuring the 1999-2000 academic year, the authors created and offered to elementary and middleschool pre-service teachers a course on engineering problem solving. This course was designedto build the knowledge base and strengthen the confidence of future teachers when working withscience, engineering, and mathematics principles using laboratory-based activities as thefoundation for learning.Using the theme “Our Material World

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Education Conference, Session T4F.14. Holland, N. (1995). GEMS: Girls in engineering, math, and science: An intervention model for pre-college girls. Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2392.15. NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resource Development (1993). User-friendly handbook for project evaluation in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education. Washington, DC: Author.16. Frechtling, J. & Sharp, L. (1997). User-friendly handbook for mixed method evaluations. Washington, DC: NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resource Development.17. Van Aken, E. M., Watford, B., & Medina-Borja, A. (1999). The use of focus groups for minority engineering

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Jeffrey A. Donnell

. Page 6.968.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Issue 1. Problem or objective. Point 2. Claim or result, offering terms a, b, and c, for future discussion. Discussion 3a. Discussion of a

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experience(s) by use of the TDM model, taking into account the IPM model. b. Determine the involved lab skills. The ones discussed above serve as a starting point. c. Write down the educational behavior objectives for the lab experience(s) and relate them to the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. d. Design the assessment plan in detail. e. Implement the designed assessment plan. f. Perform an evaluation of the course. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.217.6

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. References1. Wilson, M. C. (2000). Obstacles to a liberal engineering education. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings. Session 2793.2. Jolly, L. & Radcliffe, D. (2000). Strategies for developing reflexive habits in students. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings. Session 1630.3. Lucena, J. L. & Downey, G. L. (1999). Engineering cultures: Better problem solving through human and global perspectives? American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings. Session 1461.4. Miller, R. L. & Olds, B. M. (1994). A model curriculum for a capstone course in multidisciplinary engineering design

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William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

Session 2793 Electronic Mentoring: Supporting Women Engineering and Science Students in the Crucial Early Years of College Peg Boyle Single, Carol B. Muller, William S. Carlsen, Christine M. Cunningham MentorNet/MentorNet/Pennsylvania State University/Cornell UniversityMentorNet is using electronic communications to address a persistent problem in engineeringeducation: the underrepresentation of women. This paper in particular will focus onMentorNet’s efforts to support women engineering, science, math, and technology studentsduring the crucial first year of undergraduate education.In this paper, we review the

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, the dissimilarities between a truss and the bicycle frame arediscerned: lack of pinned joints and nonuniform, non axially-stressed members.After making this comparison/contrast of a truss and a bicycle frame, students are asked tohypothesize that a bicycle frame is not a truss and, therefore, probably cannot be analyzed assuch. Three methods are then employed to prove or disprove this hypothesis: analytical,experimental, and numerical. Truss Members Tube Joints 45 mm SG B (top) SG A (top) 570 mm Head SG C (top) SG J (bottom

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laboratory set-up. The STEP 7-Micro/WIN allows the userto create programs with either the Ladder Logic editor or the Statement List Editor.Students perform five laboratory exercises in preparation for the group project. Thefollowing paragraphs briefly describe these exercises. Page 6.68.3Exercise 1: In this exercise, students get familiar with the PLC by performing thefollowing tasks: (a) Set-up the PLC on a board they previously prepared. (b) Connect the PLC to the PC using the PC/PPI cable. (c) Configure the software so that the transmission rate is 9.6 kbps, COM port used is 0, timeout is 3 s, and local station address is 0. (d) Set the PLC

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Jerome Lavelle; Peter Shull; Heather Nachtmann; Joseph Hartman; Robert Martinazzi; Kim Needy

∑ cj xj (1) jsubject to: ∑x j ≤b (2) j x j = {0,1,2,3,...} (3)where xj represents the number of contact hours of topic j, cj is the worth or value of topic j and bis the total number of contact hours available. The decision variable xj takes on a value greaterthan zero if the topic is selected to be in the syllabus.The goal of the objective function, (1), in this model is to maximize the value of the selectedtopics. The topics are subject to constraints (2) and (3). The second constraint is the "knapsack"constraint which states that the total number of contact hours of topics cannot exceed the allottednumber of

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Facility B 100 Facility A 80 Elevation, ft 60 X Y (ft) (ft) 40 0 87 150 55 210 25

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Session 1064 A Remedy for the "Statics" Condition Geraldine B. Milano, PE, Eugene Golub, PhD, PE New Jersey Institute of Technology Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept.AbstractHistorically, Engineering Mechanics/Statics has always been a difficult course for engineeringstudents. The course is central to the entire curriculum in both Civil and MechanicalEngineering. Many courses in the curriculum build on the concepts of Statics. It requires anunderstanding of the basic principles of Mechanics as well as the ability to visualize objects intwo and

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, 4th ed.,Prentice Hall, 2001.6. Muramatsu, B. and Agogino, A.M., “The National Engineering Education Delivery System ADigital Library for Engineering Education,” D-Lib Magazine, Volume 5 Issue 4, April 1999,URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april99/muramatsu/04muramatsu.html7. Agogino, A. M. and Muramatsu, B., "The National Engineering Education Delivery System(NEEDS): A Multimedia Digital Library of Courseware," International Journal of EngineeringEducation, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 333-340, 1997,URL:http://www.needs.org/engineering/premier/2000/index.html.8. Eibeck, P., "Criteria for Peer-Review of Engineering Courseware on the NEEDS Database,"IEEE Transactions on Education, Special Issue on the Application of Information Technologiesto Engineering

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various calculations, or that provide a plug-in that can be added to other programs.Therefore, the resources for the use of graphical analysis of thermodynamic systems have beenbarely exploited. Nevertheless, the understanding of various thermodynamic concepts can bestimulated or enhanced with the use of these graphical representations, and even more so if aninteractive and creative analysis of these graphics is allowed.Historically, the representation and study of processes in thermodynamic diagrams have been apart of didactic strategies widely used in the classroom, and in textbooks. A few examples couldbe: a) the comparison of different types of compression or expansion processes with the graphicalanalysis of work, of shaft work and heat, b

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Stephen Dyer; Robert Krchnavek; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam

electronic elements that getcombined into seemingly unrelated circuit topologies. If the course is long enough,students may finally see enough elements combined to create an op amp.A good starting point is to take an instrumentation approach7,8 and describe what needs tobe accomplished from a signal-flow standpoint. Input/output (I/O) relationshipscompactly summarize the behavior of the system. Figure 1 shows some typical examples. a) b) c)Figure 1. Useful I/O relationships including, a) y=mx+b, b) deadzone, and c) limiter (comparator).Objective 2: Project-based LearningDefining a companion project is the next major element in the approach. Projects providemotivational examples that reinforce

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., Engineering Design Methods, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 19898. Suh, N., The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, New York, 19909. Pahl, G. and W. Beitz, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 198810. Ertas, A. and J. Jones, The Engineering Design Process, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 199611. Dixon, J., “New Goals for Engineering Education”, Mechanical Engineering, March, 1991, 56-6212. Bloom, B., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook I, The Cognitive Domain, David McKay Co., New York, 195613. Felder, R., “On Creating Creative Engineers”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 77, 1987, pp 222-22714. Sousa, D.A., How the

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consists of a shell, Gestor (the manager), and an additional set of auxiliaryelements working together that define what it is called a teaching and/or learning environmentdepending on their function as shown in fig.1.b) Elements of the teaching and learning environment. 1) Learning environment. Gestor includes the following elements available to the user. Hypertext: the central element, presented through the hypertext main screen. It is formed by the subject lessons as an electronic book, but with a much higher potential because of the connection system that is capable of connecting any text zone with the available elements, materials and tools relevant to the concepts under study

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course introduces any new fundamental principlesbut are instead geared to the design process. Lectures are given, but mainly as a review, or, theapplication of fundamental principles such as the formulation of theoretical models for thepurpose of obtaining design insight. The focus of both courses is design. The present paperdetails the final design project in the Group B required course entitled Fluid and Thermal SystemDesign. Page 6.767.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe objective of

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scientific articles, and has completed courseworkfor a teaching degree in secondary science education (at Elmira College.) He is the leader of the UpstateNew York Operation Chemistry ACS Outreach team and holds a B. Sc (with honors) from the College ofChemistry, University of California at Berkeley, and both an M.Sc. and Ph. D from the University ofMichigan at Ann Arbor, in Physical Chemistry.Arnold PeskinArnold Peskin is a Senior Scientist and past Head of the Information Technology Division at BrookhavenNational Laboratory. He is also the Deputy Head of Brookhaven’s Center for Data Intensive Computing.His primary research interests are scientific data visualization and collaborative computing environments.Mr. Peskin is a Senior Member of the IEEE

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of 39.9 % is academically disengaged, i.e. report feeling bored in class, and spendless than six hours a week doing homework. Another record breaking 62.6% of students werefrequently late to class and 36.2% frequently missed class. An interesting point is that, whenasked to rate themselves on intellectual self-esteem and academic and leadership ability, over54% of students rated themselves as above average or in the top 10%. Fifty percent of themexpect to make at least a B average. Grade inflation at the high school level rather than actualperformance has been suggested as the reason for this high level of confidence. [14]These statistics for freshmen provide us with some insight into the pressure students at all levelsface and in particular

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. J. Flink, “The Path of Least Resistance,” American Heritage Invention and Technology, pp. 34-44(1989).D. B. Kraybill and M. A. Olsham, eds. The Amish Struggle with Modernity. Hanover, NH: UniversityPress of New England (1994).A. H. Teich, ed. Technology and the Future. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins (2000).K. Vonnegut, Player Piano, Dell Publishing, New York (1952).JAMES W. BAISHJames Baish is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University. Dr. Baish received aB.S.M.E. from Bucknell University in 1979 and a M.S. and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering and AppliedMechanics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He has worked forGeneral Electric Space Division and has research interests in biomedical

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Corinne Darvennes; Sally Pardue

Session 2793 A Modular Approach to Vibrations Sally J. Pardue, Corinne M. Darvennes Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TennesseeAbstractAn undergraduate vibration course has been presented in a modular form to improve studentparticipation and understanding. The new modular format highlights the key concepts and toolsrequired to perform vibration analysis on both single (SDOF) and multiple degree-of-freedom(MDOF) systems. The traditional approach, placing MDOF late in the semester, emphasizes theSDOF model and leaves the students with an oversimplified view of

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engineeringdisciplines to be involved b) required international experience c) global engineering coursecontent d) required cross-cultural course for engineers on global understanding e) evaluationmechanisms for the Global Concentration. The program will focus on interactions with China,UK and Mexico due to their competitive importance and existing programs in those regions.The Global Concentration in Engineering will provide future engineering students a solidfoundation in international education, and will develop a group of US engineers with globalengineering and communication skills.1. IntroductionGlobalization of technology, international operation of industries, global research ventures,global mergers, international communication networks facilitating

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Page 6.94.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationCurrent ABET EC2000 general program criteria1 prescribe that programs must demonstrate thatgraduates of the program have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering, (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data, (c) an ability to design of a system, component, or process to meet desired needs, (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams, (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, (f) an understanding

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., Condoor, S. S. & Brock, H. R. Cognition in design: Viewing the hidden side of the design process. Environment & Planning B, Planning & Design. (1993) Vol. 19, pp.257-271.SRINAND S. KARUPPOORSrinand S. Karuppoor is currently a doctoral student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&MUniversity. He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, BangaloreUniversity, India. Subsequently, he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University,Texas. His research interests lie in the area of engineering design and, design theory and methodology.CHRISTIAN P. BURGERChristian P. Burger is the Leland T. Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the

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Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

AC 2001-244: The Development of a Combined Materials/Manufacturing ProcessesCourse at Texas A&M UniversityRichard Griffin, Texas A&M University at QatarTerry Creasy, Texas A&M University Page 6.990.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2001 Session 2464 The Development of a Combined Materials/Manufacturing Processes Course at Texas A&M University Richard B. Griffin, Terry S. Creasy Mechanical Engineering Texas A&