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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger; Renata Engel

allow students into ourheads to see how we think and approach new problems. We lecture so that we can stayconnected to our audience in real time. These aspects of the tradition al lecture cannot beeasily replaced and they provide the answer to the question of why most student stillprefer to “go to class” whenever that is a viable option.IntroductionThe lecture, taken here to be a more or less continuous exposition by the teacher, 1 haslong been considered the standard method of teaching at the university level. 2, 3 In recentyears, however, it has been the focus of much criticism. It is argued that the lecturemethod allows, if not forces, students to be passive and uninvolved rather thanencouraging them to interact with the material, the

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Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

school year. In another paper in these Proceedings 1, the WalnutHills and Ohio State University faculty present a detailed description the Introduction toEngineering course, outline their goals for the course, and provide an assessment of the firstyear. This paper describes the course and its impact from a student’s point of view.The Introduction to Engineering course helped to give fifty-nine high school juniors andseniors a better appreciation and understanding of various engineering disciplines. With thehelp of Ohio State and General Electric, students had the opportunity to gain a head start onother college freshmen with an engineering major. The goal of the Introduction to Engineering

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Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manssour Moeinzadeh; Jason Czapka; James Leake

graphics programs seem to place an emphasis on such aids. Whiteacre [1] statedthat he prefers to have physical models for each student, but found that the cost and manufactureof models made it impractical. Rapid prototyping technology alleviates these issues, since itallows for the mass manufacture of inexpensive models. The Department of GeneralEngineering at UIUC purchased a three-dimensional (3-D) printer in the summer of 2000 and hassince utilized the machine in a variety of courses. These courses include senior design, productdevelopment, and introductory robotics, as well as GE103. As this technology becomesincreasingly accessible, the argument for additional physical model usage becomes morereasonable.Use of Physical Models in Engineering

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

Session 3475 Lecturer – An Alternative to the Tenure Track John T. Bell1, Ann Ford2, Vladimir Goncharoff1, Susan Montgomery2, Dale Reed1, Cathleen Theys1, Patrick A. Troy1 1 – University of Illinois Chicago / 2 – University of Michigan Ann ArborIntroductionWhen most people think of an academic position, they think of the traditional tenure-trackprogression from assistant professor through associate professor to full professor. However thereis another alternative that is becoming increasingly common in many universities – The lecturer.The lecturer position is not right for everyone, but for

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean Chin Ngo; Feng Chyuan Lai

without the need of tables. This Thermodynamics TablesWizard can be used as a stand-alone studying aid or an add-on component for any onlineThermodynamics course. The implementation of this Web-based module can greatly enhancethe learning experience of students when they study Thermodynamics.I. IntroductionIn the study of thermal sciences, acquiring thermodynamics properties has been an essential partof problem solving. Thermodynamics properties are most often presented in a t abulated formand are included in a thermodynamics textbook 1-3. They are also available in several commercialpackages which sometimes are distributed through the sale of a textbook. For example, throughthe distribution of thermodynamics textbook by Moran and Shapiro 1 is a

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Bell; Scott Fogler

laboratory settings and also practicable to implementusing VR. For each rule, users have the option of either obeying the rule or not, and thenexperiencing first-hand the resulting consequences. A second goal of the project is toexperiment with different implementations of VR, to determine which is ( are ) the mosteffective for delivering the desired experience to the intended audience.This project was originally started at the VRiChEL ( Virtual Reality in Chemical EngineeringLaboratory ) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan[1], and isnow continuing at the VRUPL ( Virtual Reality Undergraduate Projects Laboratory ) at theUniversity of Illinois Chicago[2]. Project results and other information are freely available

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Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liezl Van Dyk

and concernsrelated to implementing an LMS at an educational institution (University of Pretoria) areinvestigated according to a case study in the Industrial Engineering department. It isconcluded that the Industrial Engineering educator is in the unique position of understandingand contributing towards the engineering of the education industry whilst educating theindustrial engineer.1. IntroductionCorporate and educational institutions alike recognize the potential of e-learning. Gartner1predicts that over 60% of US corporations will have implemented an LMS by the year 2003and International Data corporation estimates that the corporate spending on e-learning alonewill increase from 1$1bn in 1999 to over $11bn in 20032. It has become a

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

Session 2002-1817 Teaching the “How” of Engineering Innovation William R. Cockayne, John M. Feland III, Larry Leifer Center for Design Research, Stanford University Innovative capacity is a function of ‘knowledge how’, not ‘knowledge 1 what’.In order to create greater value for society, the engineer of the 21 st Century needs to buildon the traditional content-driven education by becoming fluent in multiple disciplines.Drawing on expertise from multiple fields will enable today’s engineer to becomesociety’s cultivator and harvester of innovations. This pandisciplinary approach is

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Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

knowledge learned in a variety of other courses. They demand personal accountabilityfor decisions and commitment to ideas and proposals that will be subject to public scrutiny.[1]Students are also required to prepare a portfolio of the work created in these two courses.Educational Reform Page 7.13.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conferen ce & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1606Many aspects of the educational

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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Harvey Abramowitz

workers. Thisincludes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Handbook, which only liststhe static load limits. Therefore, a standardized dynamic load procedure was developed. Basedon this procedure, an experiment is described, which can be used as a laboratory exercise for acourse in strength of materials.IntroductionIn recent years, attention has been directed to the effects of dynamic loading on solid-sawn andcomposite wood planks. Interest has multiplied because the scaffold platform material is theweakest link of any temporary structure. Because current platform design is based on staticloading,1 this procedure does not consider normal platform usage. Common usage alwaysincludes application of dynamic loading, such as

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hoffbeck

, which is used to transmit the time and date, the telephone number, and in somecases the name of the calling party, is sent between the first ring and second ring2,3. Since theCID signal is terminated if the user picks up the phone, telephone users never hear the CIDsignal. The signal consists of several sections as shown in Figure 1. First Channel Mark Signal Caller ID Data Checksum Second Ring Seizure Signal 180 Bits (SDMF or 1 Byte Ring 300 Bits (All 1's) MDMF) Alternating Variable 0 and 1 Length

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Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Gaughran

the attitudes we have and the language which weuse, we will quickly see that in an off-hand way, lateralisation or cerebral specialismshas been recognised for centuries. It is well recognised that the left hemisphere of thebrain controls the right hand and visa-versa for the left hand (Figure 1). The left hemisphere of The right hemisphere of the brain controls the the brain controls the right side of the body left side of the body L R Figure 1 - Right/Left crossover in control and processing'Left' and 'right' have their own

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

Session 1825 Engineering Technology Laboratory for Structural Control of Structures Alberto Gomez-Rivas, Weining Feng, and George Pincus Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston-DowntownAbstractStructural protection using active control systems is becoming common practice due to threefactors: 1) safety, in order to protect the lives of occupants; 2) the high cost of reconstruction orrepair of structures including the social cost incurred while the structure is out of service; and 3)the low cost of reliable electro-mechanical systems required for implementation

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Rothberg; Phil Barker; Aruna Palipana; Fiona Lamb

enabling anacademic tutor to make an informed choice from a range of evaluated software. This is beingachieved through: (1) establishing standardised evaluation criteria and hence an evaluationmethodology, (2) conducting evaluations, focusing primarily on producing case studies ofactual implementations of software and (3) providing web access to these evaluations througha dedicated, fully searchable database. The evaluation methodology described in this paperwas developed with the intention that the resource demanded by an evaluation would be: (1)manageable from the perspective of the evaluator, (2) acceptable from the perspective of theacademic tutor delivering the software and (3) sustainable in the sense that furtherevaluations could be

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

incorporating entrepreneurial skills will beexplored including:· Classroom based teaching, learning and assessment;· Support for students in industrial placement through the use of a Virtual Learning Environment (WebCT);· Development of a portfolio of professional competencies;highlighting the merits and problems associated with each.1. BackgroundThe EU Enterprise Commissioner Erkki Liikanen has stated that, “Innovation is thekey to competitiveness”. Moreover “substantial gains from information technologywill be possible in the future” 1. According to the European Innovation Scoreboard2001 2, the United Kingdom generates a higher percentage of science and engineeringgraduates than any other European state. This is particularly significant as

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

approach when it ispresented to them within their own discipline. In addition, it is felt that manyuniversity centrally based educational centres have not been as effective as predicted.This may in part be due to their generic nature and their inability to enter into subjectlevel discussions with academics.In 2000, the higher education funding councils established the Learning and TeachingSupport Network (LTSN), a new national initiative for the implementation of 24Subject Centres, with the aim of stimulating the sharing and dissemination of goodpractice and innovation in learning and teaching through the provision of subjectbased support. 1 A Centre was funded for the materials community, entitled the UKCentre for Materials Education, in order to

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James McCowan; James Mason

engineering schools have addressed these problemsto some degree and most have some successes from which we could learn. However four or fivehave been particularly valuable to us. For the benefit of those of you interested in introducingchanges of this nature, we include a few words on each. Aalborg University in Denmark was formed in 1974 and from the beginning has usedteam-based, project-based learning in all years of all programs, including programs in thehumanities and the social sciences.1 The campus is designed explicitly to support this approach.Every student in every year is part of a team with a permanent team office. The consistentemphasis on the development of team skills, and the utilization of project-based learning, areexemplary

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Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker

Overview and Problem IdentificationWe assessed the cognitive style and learning preferences of students enrolled in Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering (CE334) at UW-Platteville. This course is required of all Civil andEnvironmental Engineering students, and contains three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hourlaboratory period per week. Dr. Parker taught the two laboratory sections during the period ofthis study. The course contained 44 juniors and seniors, and included students who enrolled attheir first opportunity and students who put it off until their final semester.Engineering students at UW-P who have made it through the challenging calculus, physics, andchemistry requirements (such as those enrolled in CE334) appear in general to be more

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

general audience.For many groups, this structure and deadlines resulted in the following design progression: Presentation 1 (early fall): project description, Presentation 2 (late fall): rough design (proposed), Presentation 3 (early spring): beginnings of a physical prototype, Presentation 4 (late spring): pretty much complete, but “still has one or two bugs”Latino and Hagan5 of Oklahoma State refer to this situation in describing their 50/90 rule, “When Page 7.609.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ

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Program Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Rennels

Page 7.904.1established in 1992 and has the mission “To develop, integrate and continuously improve Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationinstitutional planning, implementation strategies, evaluation and improvement activities atIUPUI”.1. Not only does PAII coordinate all campus planning and assessment activities, theoffice is very active in research and publishing in the area of student learning assessment throughits professional staff. PAII also includes the Office of Information Management and InstitutionalResearch (IMIR). IMIR’s mission is to “…provide and coordinate information support

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Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kirankumar Gundrai

produces the most electricity in relation to itsminimal environmental impact.The above statements are in good agreement with the following statistics.1. Between 1973 and 2000, nuclear generation avoided the emission of 66.1 million tons of sulfur dioxide and 33.6 million tons of nitrogen oxides.2. Each year, U.S. nuclear power plants prevent 5.1 million tons of sulfur dioxide, 2.4 million tons of nitrogen oxide, and 164 million metric tons of carbon from entering the earth’s atmosphere.3. Nuclear power plants were responsible for nearly half of the total voluntary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions reported by U.S. companies in 1998, the Energy Information Administration reported on January 4, 2000. "Emission reductions from

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

PC.References 1. Web page www.compaq.com/showroom/handhelds.html for information on the iPAQ.BiographyCHRISTOPHER R. CARROLLChristopher R. Carroll received a Bachelor of Engineering Science from Georgia Tech, and M.S. and Ph.D.degrees from Caltech. After teaching in Electrical Engineering at Duke University, he is now AssociateProfessor and Assistant Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of MinnesotaDuluth. His interests include special-purpose digital systems, VLSI, and microprocessor applications. Page 7.600.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

activitiesdesigned to respond to surface criteria (bean-counting efforts), ABET obliges engineeringschools to develop procedures to assess success in meeting these locally generated objectives andrequires that they show that they have implemented a continuous process of self-improvement.ABET has also made it clear that engineering programs must take engineering ethics seriously.The argument that engineers only make technical decisions, that they can (or should) delegateethical responsibility to others (management, directors, government) no longer holds weight. Ithas been shown, for example, that the decisions an engineer makes when designing (such astrade off decisions) have strong ethical implications. 1 Hence, an essential component of asuccessful program

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Brow; Carol Click

Session 2464 Laboratory Experiences in Glasses and Traditional Ceramics William G. Fahrenholtz, Carol A. Click, and Richard K. Brow Department of Ceramic Engineering University of Missouri-RollaAbstractIn the Ceramic Engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, students developstrong experimental skills through a series of laboratory classes. At the sophomore level,students explore a variety of processing and characterization methods. Two specific examples oflaboratory exercises are discussed in this paper: 1) the formulation and fabrication of

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kampe

assess the implication of material selection on thelifetime energy consumption for materials utilized as structural components in transportationsystems. 1 Both case studies represent subjects of projects recently assigned in a senior levelcourse entitled “Materials Selection and Design,” which is required of Materials Science andEngineering (MSE) majors and offered as a technical elective to students of other engineeringdisciplines at Virginia Tech. These case studies represent modest extensions of thegeneralized approach advanced by Ashby, 2,3 where selection charts are created to illustrateregions of material residency and performance trade-offs in two-dimensional relevant-property space.Lifetime Energy CostsThe health detriments of asbestos

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hartono Sumali

one of its periodic curriculum reviews. In that review, its alumni in engineering andmanagement professions expressed that ABE graduates needed better skills in measurementinstrumentation and data acquisition. As a response to the alumni feedback, and to the emergingfield of precision agriculture, the Department started a course entitled Instrumentation and DataAcquisition in the fall semester of 1998. The course contents were selected from topicsrecommended by engineers practicing in industry, taking into consideration the materialsoffered in similar courses at other universities 1. In 2000, the Department further refined thecourse contents to ensure compliance with the ABET 2000 criteria, which stressed an assessmentof the course based on

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Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alain Desrochers

. Finite element 1. Part design analysis analysis (.CatPart) (.CatAnalysis) Manual mesh Automatic mesh edition

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Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amyl Ghanem

members: three junior faculty members, one senior faculty member, one researchstaff member, one undergraduate student, and one graduate student. At the first meeting thefocus of the group was discussed, definitions of mentoring were established, topics fordiscussion were identified and a timetable for meetings was established. The plan developed atthe first meeting is outlined in Figure 1. Page 7.883.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Learning Circle ProcessFigure 1: Learning Circle

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Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kamal Rojiani

Session 3515 Java Applet for Teaching Influence Line Analysis Kamal B. Rojiani 1 and Robert Schottler2 1 Charles E. Via Dept. of Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2 Mountain Enterprises, Shepherdstown, WVIntroduction Educational institutions have come to realize the importance of interactive learning and amultitude of interactive educational software is now available, The Internet has become an integralpart of education, providing an excellent environment for hosting interactive learning

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Miers; Carl Anderson; Paula Zenner

”performance levels and cost1. Teams are awarded points for design and performance categories.The CSC was selected to become an Engineering Enterprise to provide students with credit fortheir design work. In the past, students volunteered their time to be involved with specificcollegiate competitions.Enterprise ImplementationThe sixteen credit elective path is detailed in Figure 1. Sophomore Year Junior Year Senior Year Fall Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring ENG 2950 ENG 2960 ENG 3950 ENG 3960 ENG 4950 ENG 4960 1 Credit 1 Credit 1 Credit 1 Credit 2