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Sumit Ghosh; Raymond Kuo

of the correlations reveal that (1)admission officer biases play a strong role in determining the admission decision outcomes, (2) applicantswith strong math ability, indicated through high math achievement test score, high physics achievement testscore, strong parental educational background, high grade point average, and outstanding teacher Page 2.44.1recommendations, are favored by the representative type of admissions officers who evaluate Sc.B.engineering applicants to Brown University, (3) reliance on a single criteria relative to the admissiondecision may be unwise, (4) universities and colleges are justified in requiring

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David J. Lilja

be especially acute in new faculty. This paper presents several techniques, organizedaround a set of guiding principles, for helping new faculty teach the engineering researchprocess.1. Introduction “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable.”George Bernard Shaw Given that the goal of research is to induce progress by advancing the state-of-the-art,Shaw’s comment would suggest that there is no straightforward way to teach someone how tobecome a good researcher. If Shaw is correct, it would seem that the job of a teacher of futureresearchers is to somehow teach a sort of “controlled unreasonableness.” While the

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B. S. Sridhara

1 Session 1547 Sunrayce 97 - A New Learning Experience for the Engineering Technology Students at Middle Tennessee State University B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Abstract The US Department of Energy (DOE) organizes a solar car race called Sunrayce,once in every two years. This race is open for all colleges and universities on the NorthAmerican continent. As faculty advisor for the undergraduate team at Middle TennesseeState University, I

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William H. Sprinsky

with this trend. Wepurchased the Modular Geographic Information System (GIS) Environment (MGE)system from the Intergraph Corporation, which we feel best suits our educational needs.This presents course designers with the requirement to balance education in the basicswith training in the most modern applications. As a project in the second semester, weconstruct a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and a map, produced at engineering scale(about 1 inch equals 35 feet with half foot contours) for an area of four acres controlledby traverse stations, also observed and reduced by students. The technique used is amodification of the old standby, stadia mapping. This paper discusses the application ofGIS technology to that exercise.IntroductionAt

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Saundra D. Johnson

increasing capability and will strengthen the education andresearch programs: 1. Attract and develop an outstanding and diverse faculty, student body and staff. Page 2.380.1 2. Reconfigure the undergraduate curriculum to focus on engineering fundamentals and incorporate design, communications, computation and the contextual understanding of engineering. 3. Strengthen the graduate program by intra- and inter-disciplinary cooperation. 4. Develop research thrusts in areas of critical national and state needs through partnerships in a time of federal

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Marshall R. Boggio

screen with zoom capability on photos and video. capability to insert live video on demand into overlay screen.1.1 Presentation Flow The primary sensory receptor in the presentation will be visual, supplemented by sound and narrative. A global presentation flow is outlined. Scene 1 - An opening panorama of video scenes showing 10-15 second clips of river flow (white water), waves, tidal bore, all depicting the power and energy of water as it occurs in nature. Accompanying music will reinforce the theme. Session ends with each phenomena displayed in collage fashion with a title overlay of each clip as an opening menu

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Todd Mosher

University, it was believed a slightmodification of this analogy would work well with The Aerospace Institute. The originalcomparison is shown in Table 1 and the modified version is shown in Table 2. Page 2.381.2 2 Table 1 Steps In Planning a Research Project and Planning a Course1 Planning a Research Project Planning a Course 1 Determine possible funding 1 Determine the backgrounds agencies and their interests. and interests of the possible

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Don M. Coleman; Arthur S. Paul

ofcurrent engineering education, and prepares students to meet the engineering and computerscience needs for the 21st Century. This paper discusses the values of the Department of Systemsand Computer Science (SCS), including the measures selected for judging the effectiveness ofthe curriculum. It identifies some pockets of success and areas of weakness based on preliminaryanalyses of a small sample of data.1. INTRODUCTIONThe objectives of this paper are: (1) to discuss the evolution and development of a unique degreeprogram—Bachelor of Science in Systems and Computer Science being offered by SCS; (2) todescribe the socio-political environment of SCS; (3) to present the values of SCS and themeasures being used to determine its effectiveness; and

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Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

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Surendra K. Gupta

software tools, students aresubmitting improved home assignments and lab reports in their subsequent science andengineering courses.Many 2-year and 4-year colleges have not updated their introductory computer courses to includesuch software tools. To accommodate students transferring into the third year from such colleges,the department developed a 1-credit 441-Computer Tools course. In the last two years, the coursewas offered in a five-week hands-on lab tutorial format. Two-hour tutorials were held twice aweek in the department’s PC lab to acclimatize students to PC-based software tools. Studentevaluations indicated that this format was not providing timely support to 440-NumericalMethods and 413-Thermodynamics students took concurrently.This

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Luis M. Bocanegra; Jose L. Rivera

the microphone.Interference between the sound waves reflected from the sample and those traveling toward it setup a standing wave field whose amplitude varies with the position in the tube. With the aid of anoscilloscope, the amplitude of the maximum and minimum signals received by the travelingmicrophone may be measured. From these values the sound absorption coefficient, D , iscalculated as follows 4B α = (1) ( B + 1 )2where B is the ratio between the maximum and minimum voltage displayed by the oscilloscope, Vmax B

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Byron S. Gottfried

of each day’s programming activity,primarily for accountability rather than grading purposes. A more comprehensive programmingassignment, to be completed outside of class, was also given each week. Page 2.385.2The Transparency SetOver the past two years we have refined the transparency set, which now includes 96 separatetransparencies. These transparencies serve as the backbone of the course. The nature of thetransparencies can be seen from the representative examples shown in Figs. 1 through 3. Figure1, for example, shows a very simple but complete C program. It is introduced during the secondclass session to illustrate several points

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M. E. Parten

number of digital books are also available on reserve in the library listed under the EE labs. Programs: Pspice, PLsyn Week Topic Book 1 Number Systems (C) Ch 1 2 Boolean Algebra (C) Ch 2 3-5 Combinational Logic (C) Ch 3 with Intro. To HDL Plsyn & Pspice 6,7 Sequential Machines (C) Ch. 5 Plsyn 8-10 Programmable logic devices (C) Ch 6

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Ratan Kumar

multimedia application, providing simulation, performing mathematicalmanipulations and spreadsheet analysis. Previously created models were often used for softwarethat needed an extra learning time. The multimedia tool as a learning aid holds a lot of promisein providing a good learning mechanism. This helps the students to learn by acting and reflectingand not by watching and listening. Currently most of the multimedia tools are on CD ROM’s.However in the area of dynamics, not many are available. The author used the work byGrammoll’ extensively. Figure 1 shows a sample screen availble in the software for 4.1 F-16 Scramble Prkicipte of Impufse ati Momenw 4.2 The Porsche Barge Jump

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Mark A. Shields; Bryan Pfaffenberger

uniformly as the single most valuableexperience of TCC 101. In a course evaluation questionnaire, students ranked the ECOPproject highly (see Table 1); in fact, they ranked it higher than all other course experiences(see Table 2). Table 1. Selected Responses to Student Course EvaluationQuestion Section 1 Section 2 Section 3Please indicate the relative contribution of 1.50 1.64 1.62ECOP to what you’ve learned in the course sofar (1 = Very Important, 2= Important, 3 =Somewhat Important, 4= Not Important)Do you feel that you’ve had something 1.60 1.57 1.42valuable, useful, and important to contributeto your ECOP team project

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Ingrid H. Soudek

issues because both start out Page 2.389.1with the same basic ideas, but Gilligan shows how gender affects course of actions taken inresponse to a "dilemma" and how the interpretation of women's choices of action consistently areinterpreted as falling short of moral autonomy. (Gilligan, 1982, 17-23)Kohlberg believes that the goal of moral development is to reach moral autonomy, which,according to him, few people are able to achieve. On the way to moral autonomy, an individualgoes through three stages of moral development: 1. The Preconventional Level is the mostprimitive and is seen mostly in young children and a few adults. The individual is

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John A. Orr; David Cyganski; Richard Vaz

engineering orcomputer science. Currently, only students in these disciplines are apt to become familiar withstate of the art capabilities and applications of computer and communications networks.However, professionals in virtually all fields, including engineering, science, management andfinance, the health professions, law, education, social and political science and journalism, willencounter opportunities to be more effective practitioners and leaders in their disciplines if theycan make good use of information technologies. Hence, there is a need for students in alldisciplines to become acquainted with the underlying principles of modern informationtechnologies [1].A new course titled “Information Engineering Across the Professions” addresses

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew M. Hoff

manufacturingpersonnel. These people will not have degrees in material science and may not have anyinitial material science or processing training. The icon sequence approach is a particularlyvaluable vehicle for training this group. Figure 1 represents a general process behavioral model that illustrates a particularsequence of material process icons which produce a resistor function when implemented insilicon. Upon examination of this figure it is clear that there are many similar iconsrepresented, but the label at the bottom of similar icons may be different. Hence, in evensuch a simple sequence, classes of material processes may be separated. For example scrub,clean, strip, and etch are representative elements of a chemical process functional

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Richard R. Schultz

1 Session 3532 Teaching Signals and Systems through Visualization with Image Processing Richard R. Schultz University of North DakotaAbstract: Most signals and systems courses teach abstract concepts such as convolutionand Fourier transform theory using only one-dimensional (1-D) signals. However, real-life1-D signals such as speech and music do not possess easily recognizable visual forms, andthus the effect of applying a particular signal processing

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Scot Douglass

quizzes or exams. We attempt toclarify from the beginning that good participation is not a function of the quantity ofcomments made in class, but is based on a number of fairly well-defined criteria. Inrespect to participation, each student is evaluated according to the following sixcategories. 1) Quality of listening as demonstrated in the coherency of his comments with those of others. 2) Commitment to group learning as seen in her respect for the ideas of others, a certain civility in the treatment of others, an active commitment to including the Page 2.393.4 entire class, etc. 3) Pre-class preparation as evidenced

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Duane L. Marcy; James C. Sturm

function. The fabricationsteps that were used to create discrete transistors are exactly the same as those required to make anintegrated circuit. At Princeton, the process used is a four level, 252m, PMOS process, which isoutlined in the left-hand column of Table 1. Once the new mask set is designed, the fabricationportion of the lab is taught exactly as it was for upper-level course. Note, the new mask only has tobe designed once and can be re-used for each new lab session. The measurements portion of the lab also has to be modified to correspond to the circuitscreated by the new mask set. This will be done by combining the three measurements sessions of theold lab to the three sessions at the end of the semester, as shown in Table 1

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Jerry W. Samples

faculty. The short course addresses topics in preparation, presentation, self-critique,learning models, course and lesson goals and objectives, advanced technology, student-teacherrelations, testing/grading, advising, legal aspects of teaching, and time management. Perhapsthe most unique feature of the course is that participants and instructors prepare, present, andcritique practice classes. This work details the development, execution, and assessment of thisinnovative engineering teacher training program.1. IntroductionThe vast majority of engineering professors have had no training on how to educate students, andyet they are expected to be capable and efficient engineering teachers because of their technicalschooling and engineering experience

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Roman Kuc

Web page on the Yale computer system. The enrollment was equally distributed over the Freshman to Senior classes. Two grad-uate students and two high school students were also enrolled. Students came from variousbackgrounds, but predominantly from the liberal arts. A few computer science and physicsmajors who were interested in learning about applications also enrolled.LecturesThe following topics are covered in the lectures, with each topic corresponding to a chapterin the manuscript: 1. Digital information sources. Information% defined as a quantity that is needed by a system to complete a task. The mechanical switch, familiar to all students, is treated as a source of binary information. An open pair of contacts represents a

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Robert E. Magowan; Azmi Bin Ahmad; Deborah Hochstein

gatheringinformation from a variety of engineering texts and interviewing both engineering faculty andconstruction firms, the students selected four controllable variables and three interactions, eachwith two levels, (Table 1), which resulted in a total of seven degrees of freedom. Hence an L8orthogonal array was selected for the inner array. The four controllable factors were, regular tapwater, (A), Portland cement (type I), (B), pea-gravel, (C), and sand, (D). The three interactionswere between: water and cement, (AxB); water and coarse aggregate, (AxC); and cement andcoarse aggregate, (BxC). The two uncontrollable (noise) factors were humidity, factor X, andtemperature, factor Y. Studying the interaction between these noise factors required threedegrees of

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Thad Welch

Systems is a required course for all ElectricalEngineering, Civil Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science majors. Of the 42 studentsstarting the course only 2 were Electrical Engineering majors. A majority of the ElectricalEngineering majors take this course during the Spring semester. The questions, a partial listingof the possible responses and the average numerical response to the questions are providedbelow.1. How comfortable would you be working on an energized three-phase 240 VAC circuit? 1. Very Comfortable Page 2.398.1 2. Moderately Comfortable 3. Not Very Comfortable Average - 2.452. How comfortable would you be

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Valerie L. Young; Peter L. Silsbee; Joseph W. Newkirk; Bradford L. Snowden; Anu Maria; Jerry W. Samples

recently been through a similartraining program was a good thing, too. Sort of a bridge between the newbies and thementor. Most of the ground rules of the critiquing itself were unspoken, and I don’t thinkneed to be laid out explicitly for a self-selected group. Honesty and the criticism of whatthe person did, not of the person, were both followed by all participants as I remember.Three things about me that made me go to the short course:1. Wanted to get a head start on the teaching part of my tenure package. I have muchmore experience with research than with teaching.2. Had some rotten teachers myself as an undergraduate and decided that teaching is animportant part of the university mission and I wanted to do better.3. My one semester of

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Philip J. Regalbuto; Page Ransom; Mary Morton-Gibson; Lise V. P. Esch

Technology core curriculum to meet future needs. One of the ways to improvethe Engineering Technology curriculum is to integrate key skills. In the Summer of 1996, fivemembers of the SCATE team from Trident Technical College were granted release time to reviseEGR 103 course content to reflect the new emphasis on team building, co-operative learning andcommunication skills that are in demand from industry and education.1 The remaining two teammembers were granted release time to study and develop assessment methods.Course revisionIn the revised version of this course some of the topics were retained: Units and measurements;graphing; calculator skills and treatment of significant digits are topics that elude theunderprepared student. Four additional

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Philip R. Dail

one class, I have discovered a variety of instructionalstrategies for making large classes work reasonably well. Many of the ideas I will share arecommon practices to experienced educators. My intention is that these ideas will prove helpfulto those with less experience.Pre-First Day(1) Plan a first-day activity. Nothing is more frustrating to a student than to feel “left out” or at least “in the dark” at the first class meeting. In a class where intimidation due to size is already a factor, spending the first class pouring over a syllabus is probably not an effective means of engaging the class. Having them scan the syllabus in groups of 2 or 3 and prepare questions about what they did not understand is one means of involving

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Herbert Hess

value ofhuman interaction is a reason that distance education by Internet is more complex and difficult aproblem than some of its proponents would lead educators to believe.1 To mitigate their own occasional absence, instructors have employed several low-techmethods. Among the more popular are canceling the class, postponing the class, or hiring asubstitute instructor. With the recent advances in communication technology, a wider range ofoptions opens. A creative instructor may now take advantage of a greater range of professionalopportunities outside the classroom while disrupting the classroom schedule less than was thecase in the past. This paper presents field-tested options to combine technologies to maintain thepersonal touch, not

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John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

Session 3213 Ten Steps to Developing Virtual Reality Applications for Engineering Education John T. Bell, H. Scott Fogler Department of Chemical Engineering University of MichiganIntroductionWork has been conducted in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University ofMichigan for several years to develop a series of virtual reality ( VR ) based computer modulesfor use in undergraduate engineering education. The goals of this work have been threefold: 1. To produce modules with as much practical use to as many