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Lara Relyea; Joan A. Burtner

program now serves over 100 middle and high school students. 1 Holland 2 reports that, in the summer of 1994, Texas A &M first offered GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math and Science). GEMS is a program for eleven year old girls designed to increase the chance that the participants will eventually follow careers in science engineering and math. As part of the TIDEE (Transferable Integrated Design in Engineering Education) program, Tacoma Community College and the University of Washington teamed together in 1995 to offer a two week long summer camp for 20-25 freshman and sophomore high school students. The first week of this program is a day camp; the second week is residential. 3

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Chong Chen

popular computer data acquisition application packages is Laboratory VirtualInstrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) developed by National Instruments. LabVlEWis a graphical software system for developing high performance scientific and engineeringapplications. LabVIEW can acquire data and control devices via a data acquisition board, such asthe PCI-1200 data acquisition board. LabVIEW, much like the Visual Basic and C++programming packages, includes programming capability and a user friendly interface. LabVIEWhas been used by many industries and scientific researchers. One application was developingmethods to cool and trap atoms with laser light completed by Dr. William Phillips [1], who is a

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John D. Cremin

performedon a bright sunny fall day and was one of the most popular experiments in the course.CHARACTERIZING THE GPS ENVIRONMENTThe purpose of this experiment was to become familiar with the orbital characteristics, thecoverage and signal strength and geometry of the satellite constellations.3,4 Figure 1 is aplot of the difference between the predicted Azimuth and Elevation and Azimuths andElevations obtained from the Magellan units connected to the Parks College roof antennae.The predicted values were obtained from the web site http://sirius.chinalake.navy.mil/cgi-bin/satpred-query. The predictions are based on user inputs of site Lat and Lon andaltitude together with the desired date and time.CHARACTERIZING THE NMEA INTERFACESThe Department

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session 3230 Using Small Groups to Promote Active Learning and Student Satisfaction in a Required Engineering Ethics Course Charles F. Yokomoto, Roger Ware Electrical Engineering/Psychology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Introduction A learning experience in professional ethics has become increasingly important forengineering majors for several reasons. Chief among them are (1) ABET EC-2000's learningoutcome which states that engineering programs “must demonstrate that their

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Gerard N. Foster

note, call it FFF, somewhatless than two octaves lower than C for which C is the third harmonic. In this case fC = 3 fFFF and fFFF = (1/3) fC.By going up two octaves from FFF we have another note F as follows fF = 4 fFFF = (4/3) fC.This combination of C F G and C' formed the strings on early Greek lyres.With this play, Pythagoras derived the notes of the scale that had a ratio of frequency from thefundamental as shown below. C D E F G A B C' 1 9/8 81/64 4/3 3/2 27/16 243/128 2In the key of C, G is known as the fifth because it is the fifth harmonic note in the progression. Fis known as the fourth

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Cathie Scott; Carolyn Plumb

. Page 3.620.1The procedure used in this evaluation can be used as an ongoing assessment tool to monitor theeffects of any changes we make in response to what we learn from the baseline evaluation. Why Are We Undertaking the Project?Despite our efforts to prepare students for writing in their profession, feedback from industryindicates that we are not keeping up with demands in the workplace. Now, with the adoption ofABET's Engineering Criteria 2000, we will be required to demonstrate that we can.Industry Wants Better WritersFor decades, industry has been saying that engineering students are not learning thecommunication skills they need on the job.1-6 Writing has been at the center of these complaints.Engineering

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Henry W. Kraebber

" serving several courses with information about the companies that support the CIMT program and laboratories.• Linking to files containing weekly editions of course handouts, assignments and lecture notes.• Posting of the current grade spreadsheet.• Posting of additional information, papers and pictures that supplement the content of the lectures and labs.The procedures used to create "no frills" web pages and links to other files are not difficult tocopy. My first pages were in fact copies of another instructor's source code in hypertext markuplanguage (.html) for a page with titles, pictures, text and links to other sites. A sample of the.html code and the simple page it produces can be found in figures 1 and 2 at the end of thispaper. New

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Dennis Stevenson

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J. C. Sener; R. R. Mirsky; David R. Haws; Stephen B. Affleck; J. L. Mason; L. C. Aburusa

implementation and expansion of the internship program with the use of Internet technology. INTRODUCTION BSU was founded as Boise Junior College (BJC) in the 1930s. Many four-year programswere added as BJC progressed through being Boise College, Boise State College and finallyBoise State University. Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are the latest four-yearbaccalaureate programs to be added. A separate College of Engineering was organized, effectiveJuly 1, 1997. The mission of the engineering programs is to offer an education that combinesfundamentals with technical electives allowing students to specialize in specific areas.Professionalism among the students is encouraged by participation in

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David M. Hata

faculty enhancement activities.IntroductionVacuum systems are used in virtually every functional area of a wafer fab to create theproper processing environments for semiconductor manufacturing processes. Because ofthe pervasive of vacuum technology in the wafer fab, most two-year, associate degreecurricula require at least one course in vacuum technology. Unfortunately, support fortechnology level courses in this area are lacking in terms of textbooks, vacuum trainingsystems, and laboratory manuals.In 1995, Portland Community College, with funding from the National Science Founda-tion, began development of a generic vacuum technology course and supporting labora-tory.1 A team of community college faculty and industry experts was formed and

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Mark Schulz; DeRome Dunn; Abhijit Duraphe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai; Richard Layton

functionality might be lost by using a general-purpose package, the students profit bygaining fluency and depth in that package. Through the vertically integrated learningexperience, students progressively grow more sophisticated in their computational skills.We are implementing uniform usage of the MATLAB package, augmented with the WORKINGMODEL package, in the Mechanical-Systems stem of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum atNorth Carolina A&T State University. The courses involved in this experiment are listed inTable 1, spanning the third through eighth semesters of the eight-semester (four-year)undergraduate program. Students from higher-level courses in this sequence present to studentsin lower-level courses specific examples of how the

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Richard J. Reid

reference using prefix notation. , Separator for function arguments. = Function for defining and/or redefining functions. Example: (=,A,25) (A) yields 25 +,-,*,/,% Functions for: Add,subtract,multiply,divide,remainder. Only in the arguments. Examples: (+,12,-13) yields -1; (*,3,(+,4,5)) yields 27 Page 3.59.3 >,>=,==,~=,<=,< Relational functions for comparisons. And, Or, Not Logical functions. Numeric 1 = True, 0 = False. Example: (And,(>,5,4

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Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

. Page 3.60.1With the addition of Internet access to the Purdue Anderson computer labs, a virtual libraryseemed like logical step. In addition, class surveys indicated that around half of the PurdueAnderson students had Internet access from work or home, making the Internet and the virtuallibrary moreaccessible than aphysical library. Figure 1 -- Virtual Library PageAs plans were madeto develop the virtuallibrary, the followingadvantages wereidentified:Cost – In comparisonto the expense ofstocking a librarywith books andperiodicals and hiringlibrary staff, a virtuallibrary costs virtuallynothing.Timeliness – Nophysical library canbe up-to-date,especially with regardto computertechnology. TheInternet is constantlybeing

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Michael Karlesk; Hugh Jack

) devices to explore the equipment. At present studentscan simulate programs on the virtual robot. When the student is satisfied that a program isfunctional, he/she can download it to the real robot, and monitor the robot with a video link.Students are also able to read and write to a data acquisition card to read/write analog datavalues. The hardware architecture of the laboratory uses a number of networked computersrunning Linux and Windows NT. Software has been written in C/C++ as well as Java to interfacewith equipment and web clients. VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) has been used fordisplaying the geometry of the devices.1. INTRODUCTION: As part of a newly created manufacturing emphasis, we have added a number of coursesand

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

Session 3513 Virtual Reality in The Chemical Engineering Classroom John T. Bell, H. Scott Fogler Department of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109-2136I. BackgroundVirtual RealityVirtual reality, VR, is an emerging computer interface that utilizes immersive interactive three-dimensional graphics as well as audio, psychology, special hardware, and numerous othermechanisms to produce simulations so realistic that users believe ( if only for a few moments )that what they are experiencing is “real” [1]. In addition to high-speed graphics

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Richard D. Christie; Peter M. Trinidad

current are used to convey behavioral aspects of circuit operation. The result is aninteractive computer program—CktViz—intended to lower the cognitive barrier tocomprehension of circuit operation by graphically representing voltage and currentrelationships. A small scale educational assessment has been performed using students taking anintroductory circuits course as subjects. The results show that CktViz has a positive andsignificant effect on students' qualitative understanding of circuit behavior.1. Motivation A major challenge in teaching circuit theory is that many of the students have no intuitiveunderstanding of the behavior of electrical circuits. While they have actual, hands-on experiencewith, for example, the mechanical properties

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Marc A. Mesmer; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

evaluation.Results from a survey of students using the peer evaluation process and a summary of how bothstudents and instructor benefit from the peer evaluation process are described. This paper differsfrom the work reported in 1997 in two ways. 1) This year is the first year that web based formswere used in the peer evaluation process and this paper reports implementation of the peerreview web pages. 2) The results of peer evaluation surveys were not reported in the previouspaper. About 50 % of the students say that they are uncomfortable writing the evaluations, butover 90 % said that the course should continue to have peer evaluations. Some students said thatthey wished their other team based courses used peer evaluations. For those interested in

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Joe King

call Web surfing.Netscape Navigator, like the browsers that followed it, decodes text files that are written in amarkup language called HyperText Markup Language, or HTML. The term hypertext refers tothe ability to create links between files, allowing a user to use a mouse button to click on a word,phrase, or image and cause the browser to jump to and display another Web page. The termmarkup refers to using tags to “mark up” the contents of an HTML file. The tags tell the browserhow to format text, display images, and form links to other HTML files.Some Definitions HTML. Hypertext Markup Language, the programming used to create Web pages. HTML tags tell browsers how to display the text, images, and links referenced by HTML code (see Table 1

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Lloyd Feldmann

toexpand on the presented material, on their own time, which expands their knowledge base. Italso preserves the class time for new or additional material rather than extensive reviews.Review of the student’s homework also provides information to the instructor that would allowhim to modify his performance. The result would for more effective use of the instructor’s andthe student’s available time in the achievement of the course objectives.What is homework Cooper [2,3], Doyle and Barber [4] and Lee and Pruitt [6] identified four commoninstructional goals for homework. In order of increasing complexity, the goals are 1) practice, 2)preparation, 3) extension and 4) integration. The most common goal by far is practice or review. This is

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Nikhil K. Kundu

catalog search required partswere selected. In the selection process students contacted vendors and discussed partsspecification and costs. The project ends with instructions and operational procedure of thetesting device.DesignThe wheel bearing tester (fig. 1) involve the design of a fixture shaft for mounting test specimensand a hydraulic system for simulating radial and axial loads. The system instrumentation includefeedback and control of temperature and pressure, monitoring of the generated heat and a Page 3.631.1vibration analyzer. The design is based on the defined test parameters identical to roadconditions. The heaviest axle to be tested

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Greg Hilker; Fred Jenkins; David Westine

Session 1633 WIND ENERGY ROTOR SPEED CONTROL David Westine, Greg Hilker, Fred Jenkins Montana Tech / Ball Aerospace / ASiMIA grant involving the Department of Energy, the Montana Science and Technology Alliance, theMontana University System, and industry support from the Montana Power Corporation hasfunded construction of a wind energy test bed at the Rice Ridge Renewable Energy Park. Twosmall wind machines were planned for the initial phase of the Rice Ridge site shown in Figure 1.Located near Norris, MT which is approximately half way between Butte (Montana Tech) andBozeman

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Elaine Seat

. Inachievement settings, gender differences have been reported with men having higher perceptionsof internal competence than women. Women attribute success to ambiguous, unstable factorssuch as luck, while men attribute success to controllable factors such as skill or natural ability6.Women also tend to have lower expectations of success than men. Deaux suggests that women'sself-confidence depends on three situational factors: 1) the nature of the task, 2) the nature of thefeedback about performance, and the 3) nature of social comparisons. Application of theseconcepts both to the educational system and the workplace suggests that women's self-confidence is increased as the task becomes more female-oriented, as feedback becomes moreclear and performance

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Zenaida O. Keil; Harriet Hartman; Kauser Jahan

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Mary Aleta White; Stephanie L. Blaisdell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. The Community Building component is based primarily on the vicariouslearning source of self-efficacy. Encouragement and support, lowering of anxiety related tograduate school (i.e. physiological arousal) are sources of self-efficacy included in bothcomponents.Program Results Participants were recruited by letters, announcements, and flyers. Women, classified asjuniors with a GPA of 2.8 or better, or who were nominated by a faculty member, were eligible toapply to the program. For the Fall, 1997 cohort, the average GPA is 3.4. The program, limited to20 students, includes 7 underrepresented minority students (1 Native American, 3 Hispanics, and3 African American). Three additional students were invited to participate in the program

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Thomas R. Williams; Judith Ramey

clearly what you are trying to do, no one can judge whether or how wellyou did it). And given the current climate, without a well-designed assessment component aproposal is unlikely to be successful.A Solution: An Assessment WorksheetTo support the efforts of participants in a curriculum design project both to coordinate theiractivities with other members of the team and to ensure that their efforts result in observable andmeasurable results, we have devised a simple assessment worksheet. (Olds and Miller, 1997,also propose a project evaluation matrix, but theirs attacks the problem of assessment from asomewhat different perspective.) The strength of our worksheet, we believe, lies in the fact thatit encourages each member of the team (1) to

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

Session 3513 A World Wide Web Based Textbook on Molecular Simulation Peter T. Cummings1,2, Hank D. Cochran2,1, Juan J. dePablo3, Denis J. Evans4, David A. Kofke5, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos6, Richard L. Rowley7 1 University of Tennessee / 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory / 3 University of Wisconsin / 4Australian National University/ 5 State University of New York at Buffalo / 6University of Maryland/ 7

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Teresa L. Hein

preferablyunfamiliar with physics, read their responses and comment on them BEFORE they hand them into me. The folder activities are not intended to be long assignments. I do not specify a lengthrequirement; rather, I tell the students to use their judgment. Typical student responses range inlength from 1/2 - 3 pages. I do encourage students to use a word processor and run the spellingand grammar checks before submitting their folders. I also tell the students that the folder activity is not about their putting down “what theythink the professor wants to hear.” I encourage students to share with me their understanding ofthe particular topic or concept in their own words. Thus, students are not pressured to bog theirwriting down with scientific

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Jeff Griffin; Peter J. Biegel; Ronald Goodnight

Session 1648and three www address for researching companies. The Riley Guide,http://www.dbm.com/jobguide.html asks the question “What are you interested in?” and givesnine choices to help you traverse through cyberspace in search for that ‘right’ job either in theUnited States or abroad. Another location, Career Americahttp://www.careeramerica.com/engines.html is like a summary location and identifies six SearchEngines through which you can find most, if not all, job opening addresses. These engines andother multiple job opening addresses will be found in Tables 1 - 4.If the above three locations are not sufficient, you might use the Safetynet athttp://www.safetynet.doleta.gov/text/search.html which identifies sixteen places to find jobopenings

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Milo D. Koretsky

Experiments as important elementsmissing in OSU’s undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum. Even though many studentshad, in fact, taken introductory statistics, they were unable to apply it in an industrial setting. Inresponse to this input, a 1 credit elective course, Chemical Process Statistics, was introduced inFall 1996. It was offered again in Fall 1997. The initial course offerings were well received(3.77/4.00 and 3.91/4.00 on student evaluations). The intent is to integrate this course into the ChEcore as a 3 credit course.This course provides a brief introduction to the use of applied statistics in the chemical processindustry. Whenever possible, concepts are introduced through examples. Industrial data has beenprovided by Merix and

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James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

fundamental engineeringprinciples for a future semester (only about 10% of the cadets taking EM 200 willactually major in engineering). Rather, course objectives are focused on the developmentof “higher-order cognitive skills” such as problem solving and critical thinking.Additional objectives are aimed at improving the student’s ability to visualize andunderstand the world around them. Figure 1 illustrates the four cornerstones of EM 200. Problem Critical Solving Thinking EM200 Visualization Understanding Figure 1. EM 200 and