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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

arrangement, an indicator ofthe success of this living arrangement.A survey, conducted to ascertain student attitudes about the living environment and theperceived benefits of the program, is discussed in this paper. Students are very positive aboutthe innovative living environment. Improved retention and academic performance statisticsare reported, thereby demonstrating that the Engineering Floor is an effective method ofimproving student success in engineering programs.IntroductionStudent retention can be improved through a variety of strategies. One such strategy, thecommunity building model,1 has produced impressive results for minority student success. Thismodel promotes a high level of collaborative learning through various mechanisms

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Recayi Pecen

Session 1333 Restructuring and Innovating of Power System Analysis and Power Electronics Courses at the University of Northern Iowa Recayi Pecen The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IowaAbstractThis paper presents; (1) innovating changes to a course, power system analysis (PSA), and (2)development of a new course, industrial applications of power electronics (IAPE) aided withadvanced power system simulation studies at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), Electro-Mechanical Systems (EMS) – Engineering Technology division of Industrial TechnologyDepartment. Basic energy and

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Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

engineering clinic class. This class is a major hallmark ofthe Rowan engineering program. The theme of the Freshman Clinic class in the spring semester is reverseengineering of commercial products. Students in teams of four or five spend an entire semester learning aboutengineering fundamentals such as fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and engineering materials.They are also exposed to intellectual property rights, safety and ethics, ergonomics and environmentalconsiderations in engineering design.IntroductionThe college of engineering at the Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift from Henry andBetty Rowan in 1992 to the then former Glassboro State College (1). This newly constructed state-of-the-art$28M Henry M

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Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

exerciseswere revised to accommodate the new text. Laboratory exercises are the focus of the course.Grades assigned to the laboratory exercises count one-third of the course grade. The exercisesemphasize programming and the reuse of existing code. Lectures are used to go over readingassignments and discuss some short problem and question assignments. Often, the students writeshort assembly language programs in class that help them do the laboratory exercises. Thesolutions to the in-class programming exercises are critiqued in class.II. GradingTable 1 shows the grading criteria used for the laboratory exercises. Up to 100 points can beearned for each assignment. Assignments turned in late receive no credit. The more a studentaccomplishes and the higher

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Howard I. Epstein

andPractice in 1991 1: There’s an old Bob Newhart routine about baseball. In it, an adult game manufacturer is talking on the phone to Abner Doubleday who is explaining the rules of his new game, baseball. Doubleday explains, "Three strikes and you’re out, four balls `." "Why four balls?" asks the manufacturer. Why, indeed? The engineering curriculum, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, has been a four-year program at most institutions for as long as they have offered degrees. Programs that required longer eventually found it difficult to compete for students. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s, most five year programs in existence were being phased out as the engineering programs, in

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Nancy White

Session 2606 TS/1 River of Law III – Duty of Engineers to Third Parties Prof. Nancy J. White, J.D. Assistant Professor Department of Construction Science Texas A & M University1. IntroductionNo doubt law and the American legal system are mysterious to those not routinely associated with it.The law and the American legal system is a living process. A process whereby the law is debatedand tested by different courts, eventually being hammered out after much trial and error, no punintended. Perhaps therein lies

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Raffaello D'Andrea

(including the opposition) and ballposition determination. Functionally the robots can be broken down into essentially three parts:electro-mechanical (the chassis, the drive unit, the passing unit, and the local sensors),communication (the wireless transceiver), and control (a microcontroller). The coordination ofthe robots is typically handled by a workstation, which has access to the global visual feed andwhich can communicate to each robot. The overall system is depicted in Figure 1. System COMPUTER VISION - frame acquisition - image processing ROBOTS

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James Devault

, decoybeacons, and air cannons. Late night sessions in the laboratory, unique contest strategies,exotic robot features, and satisfying student outcomes provide an ample source of stories to beshared.BeginningsThe first Kansas State University mobile robot contest (1993) was an offshoot of an informalexperiment in undergraduate research, the MARS Lab (Mobile Autonomous Robotic SystemsLaboratory) [1]. The following year, a mobile robotics course was developed to support andenhance these activities. The contest is now in its seventh year and continues to serve as ashowcase of our students’ work and as a vehicle for interdisciplinary engineering education.This paper briefly describes the mobile robotics course and the mobile robot contest [2] andthen

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F. Andrew Wolfe; Christine M. LaPlante

, compaction and holding ability. Lab 3 looked at connectionsand connectors. Screws, bolts, and nails were tested in specimens using a universal testingmachine. There were four one and one-half hour lab sections for the class. This allowed all thestudents to have an active role in each experiment. As with the rest of the course, the hands onaspect of the labs was used to get the students used to handling the materials which would beused to build the bridge.1. Lab 1In this lab students used the setups shown in Figure 1 to determine the deflection of woodenbeams loaded with concrete blocks. The blocks were weighed and then placed on the beam.Each beam was tested three times, at the midpoint and at each of the third points. Deflectionwas recorded by

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Nancy Wilson Head; Julie A. Phillips

authors of this paper would like to thank Jamie Funk, Cynthia Heck, Natasha Smith, andVanaja Sudhakar. As students majoring in Purdue University’s Organizational Leadership andSupervision Bachelor Degree Program, these women aided the authors in the design of thesurvey instrument used to collect research data, and in the actual interviews of the respondents.The help of these four women was invaluable to the authors in completing this research project.The Survey and the RespondentsThe women surveyed represented a variety of professions within the engineering andtechnology fields. Refer to Figure 1 below for the breakdown. The women surveyed had spentanywhere from 1 to 15-plus years in their fields. A majority of the women represented the 15-plus

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Daryl Boden

unique because it uses the UHF Follow-On (UFO) Flight #1 spacecraft as an on-orbit test article, providing the means to qualify artificial intelligence (AI) applications for use inspace. The laboratory is also used to support USNA classes and associated laboratories, as wellas midshipmen and faculty research projects. This paper describes the SAIL project and how theAerospace Engineering Department uses the project to support midshipmen education.I. IntroductionHistorically, operating space missions has been a labor-intensive endeavor. Spacecraft weredesigned as unique objects, and because of their operating environment, complexity on thespacecraft was minimized. This required the operators to be experts in both the operationalprocedures

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

laboratories at the University of Nebraska. Students get to see working laboratories and talk with professors and researchers. Parents of Figure 1. At Science Day at the Mall, a girl learns about angular momentumour Bright Lights students have commented that these Figure 2. During ourtours excited the students and started them thinking participation in Bright Lights,seriously about careers in science. Informal polling of students learn the best design forthe students has shown an improved positive clay boats so that they hold asimpression of scientific professions and scientists in many marbles as possible

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Peter J. Graybash

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

the class (using the same response scale asbefore).ResultsThe results of the four “in-semester” self-assessments are given in Table 1. The differencesbetween the pre-discussion and post-discussion self-assessment values were all statisticallysignificant (α<0.001). The table’s third column shows the percentage achieved of the maximumpossible shift in familiarity. For example, for the instrument calibration topic, a shift of 2.2 (4.1- 1.9) was achieved out of a maximum possible shift of 3.1 (pre-discussion average of 1.9subtracted from the maximum possible score of 5) for a percentage gain of 71%. The students’individual self-assessment ratings of post-discussion familiarity were correlated with theirindividual quiz performance on that topic

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David R. Haws

Page 4.459.1in engineering education, entering largely through Engineering Criteria 2000. Reactionevaluations (Level 1) have been around in the form of Student Perception of Teaching (SPT)surveys since the “Berkeley Slate” used in the 1960’s. While the post-tests associated withLearning evaluation (Level 2) are much more common in engineering education than pre-tests(sometimes called diagnostic exams), these also are fairly familiar devices. The approach toevaluation that I want to discuss in this paper relates more to the third or Behavior level ofevaluation—what attitudes relative to the future use of learning have been instilled byinstruction, possibly as unintentional outcomes?You might note here that attitudes are also learned, in the

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Qiuli Sun; Michael A. Mooney; Kurt C. Gramoll

institutions are leading the push in adopting the web as a newtool for education because of the ease of use, quick access, and the low cost of access.Some universities, such as University of Oklahoma require freshman engineering Page 4.460.1students to own an individual laptop for use in the classroom. To help with the network,they are supplied with a wireless network card so that they can be connected without thedistraction of a network wire. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, about 300 of the 1,163incoming students were issued new IBM ThinkPad 600s with essential software [1]. Inaddition to the hardware advances, the campus-based networks have seen both

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Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

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Anthony J. A. Oxtoby; Gerard N. Foster

coefficients.III. Indirect Linear and Modulo AddressingThe indirect mode of memory addressing has two forms, linear and modulo addressing, definedbelow. Addresses are generated automatically in dedicated data address generators or DAGs. Linear form of indirect addressing: Ix[n+1] = Ix[n] + Mx Modulo form of indirect addressing: Ix [n+1] = (Ix[n] + Mx – B)modLx + BWhere: Ix = address pointer register, unsigned 14 bit Lx = buffer length register, unsigned 14 bit Mx = modifier register, signed 14 bit B = buffer base address X = 0,1…..7The modulo form of addressing involves the incremental movement of any of the 8 addresspointers (Ix) around a memory segment such that the

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Halvard E. Nystrom

whether their level of understanding was “very high” = 1,“high” = 2, “medium” = 3, “low” = 4, and “not at all” = 5. In average the student understandingimproved from 3.45 (between medium and low) to 1.75 (between very high and high). Thisreflects a very large improvement of 1.7 on our 5-point scale.As a comparison, we asked these students to similarly assess two sessions from otherdepartments. These improved from an average of 3.12 to 2.29 for an average improvement of0.83, which is about a half of the improvement measured in the simulation session. In generalthe students began the Engineering Management session will less understanding about thediscipline than other departments, but ended with a better understanding

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Michael A. Kriss

. Developing an undergraduate curriculum in electronic imaging that serves severaldepartments The authors used the possibility of “winning” a NSF CRCD grant as the stimulus toundertake the challenging task of developing a new, unified undergraduate curriculum inElectronic Imaging Systems. The following faculty members, in addition to the author, acceptedthe challenge: 1. Chris Brown, Computer Science Department 2. Nicholas George, Institute of Optics 3. Kiriakos Kutulakos, Computer Science Department and Dermatology Page 4.110.4 4. Kevin Parker, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Electrical

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Zbigniew Prusak

institution. Examples of types of exercises and projects for solving problems infields of production control and planning of manufacturing operations, and GeometricDimensioning and Tolerancing. Project requirements for students to fulfill learning objectives offorming important professional abilities of engineers and technologists. Learning advantages ofworking with spreadsheets and influence on teaching environment and difficulties encounteredon different stages of simulation exercises are described.1. IntroductionIn science and engineering, the relationship between previously acquired knowledge, reasoning 1, 2, 3, 4ability and structured problem solving

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

andprogramming, manufacturing, andelectrical/electronics are taught by a team of facultymembers from school system, community college,and WSU. In our first phase, a group of 12 teachersparticipated in pilot setting of a two week summersession at WSU. This paper shares the curriculumcomponents, teachers’ learning, laboratory setting,teacher perceptions of technical curricula, andlessons learned. Additionally, this brief reportidentifies and compares outcomes of this enrichment Page 4.537.1activity for middle school teachers and counselors. 1 The Southeast Michigan Alliance for

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Howard A. Smolleck; Nadipuram Prasad; Barbara Powell; Bhargava Jayanti; Shakir Manshad; Sashadry Divakaria; Paul Arellanes

resources that studentscan use as they progress through succeeding courses. The complete project seeks to address thefollowing areas, through the creation of several software modules:1) basic vector analysis2) steady-state ac circuit analysis fundamentals3) vector analysis of steady-state ac circuits4) steady-state electromagnetic device behavior (including coupled-coil operation) Page 4.42.25) introductory power-systems and utility-related conceptsAs mentioned earlier, the present paper is concerned with the first module of the series. A briefsummary of the purpose and capability of this module are as follows.The purpose of Vector Vision is to

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W. Brian Hyslop; Susan L. Burkett; Susan Vrbsky; Laura Ruhala; Richard Ruhala; John Lusth

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Frederick Orthlieb

and proposals for further support,student entrepreneurial teams gather, evaluate and interpret both technical and marketinformation using processes that surprisingly resemble those that engineering faculty must nowlearn to assess the state of existing engineering programs and plan for continuous improvementunder ABET EC2000. Both sets of tasks involve conceptual integration at a higher level thanis usual in undergraduate engineering education, but is more commonly practiced in the liberalarts.1. Product Development as Design InstructionProviding authentic instruction and experience in design-based engineering entrepreneurship isalways a challenge. Set-piece design innovation problems may be new to individual students,but they cannot

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Jawa Mariappan; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran

, design projects and research. The solution of these real-world problems require notonly a proficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly, require a mastery of writtenand oral communication skills and the ability to work as part of an multidisciplinary team1,2Table 1 contains an overview of course content in the 8-semester engineering clinic sequence.As shown in the table, while each clinic course has a specific theme, the underlying concept ofengineering design permeates throughout 3. Table 1. Overview of course content in the 8-semester Engineering Clinic sequence. Year Clinic Theme Clinic Theme (Fall ) (Spring) Freshman

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Michael Ruane

rockets (Fig. 1). SLP provides practical experience in every aspect of planning, building, and launching a space science experiment. Four SLP sounding rockets have been launched from Wallops Island, VA, since 1993, by several different university consortia, involving nearly two hundred students. Four more flights are upcoming, including Boston University’s, now scheduled for a late spring 1999 launch. Each experiment has typically involved interdisciplinary student teams to provide project management, design and fabrication, testing, and flight support

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Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

consideration of graduate construction coursework, faculty course loads andcapabilities, student and local industry needs and limitations, and departmental resources.Setbacks to commencing the graduate program occurred due to limited initial course enrollmentand the need for additional marketing of the program. Based on the local constructionindustry’s interest in the program and level of construction activity, it is expected that theprogram will eventually provide graduate education meeting the demand for a higher level ofconstruction knowledge.I. IntroductionGraduate construction programs are certainly not new, having been started at some institutionssuch as Stanford University in the mid-1950’s.1 Since that time more than 40 similar programsin

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Robin Lovgren; M. Racer

' understanding of thevalue of statistics, to acquire hands-on experience in statistical analysis, and to develop thecapacity to learn new concepts on their own. Before presenting the three projects, we identifythe primary goals of each. Project Progressive Expectations #1 - Food Court Visit - Data Collection - Data Analysis #2 - Work Experience - Recognition of Opportunities at Work #3 - Markov Chains - Self-LearningProject #1 – Food Court VisitTask:Visit a mall food court. Your task is to collect data such that the following questions can beanswered: How many people enter the food court but do not eat? What sizes of groups

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Kenneth Bryden

excellence in teaching.However, even in these cases tenure is a demanding process, and it is easy to give in to timepressure and lose track of our teaching goals. This paper discusses the importance of stayingclose to the students during the tenure process and provides a series of suggestions on how thiscan be done within the limited time available.1. IntroductionThe call for change in engineering education has become so widespread that it is nearly a cliché.Studies, conferences, papers, and institutes all call for changes in engineering education. TheAmerican Society for Engineering Education1, the National Research Council2, the NationalScience Foundation3, and the Engineering Deans Council4 have all issued reports on engineeringeducation. New