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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Matsson

Session 2166 Laboratory Experience with a Model Jet Turbine John E. Matsson Oral Roberts UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the experience gained from the operation of a JetCat model turbojetengine as part of an undergraduate mechanical engineering program. The engine wasremotely controlled from a laptop using Jettronic for Windows software for the serialinterface. Engine speed, fuel consumption, and exhaust gas temperature were measuredusing the software and the thrust was determined from a digital force gauge andcompared with calculations based on different readings

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Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman

Session 2177 Supporting Graduate Students: A Catalog of Opportunities Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionFinding support for graduate students in Nuclear Engineering can be a challenge. Many studentsare supported as Graduate Research Associates (GRA) on faculty projects, and some serve asGraduate Teaching Associates (GTA) helping to teach undergraduate nuclear engineeringcourses. As enrollments in Nuclear Engineering programs grow, the number of promisingstudents can exceed the number of traditional GRA and GTA positions available. There are,however, a

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Educational Resear ch & Methods - Session 2630 Development of a Multidisciplinar y Engineer ing Foundation Spir al Michael A. Collur a, Bouzid Aliane, Samuel Daniels, J ean Nocito-Gobel School of Engineer ing & Applied Science, Univer sity of New HavenAbstr actTo operate effectively in today’s workforce engineers need to have a muti-disciplinaryperspective along with substantial disciplinary depth. This broad perspective cannot be achievedby merely taking 2 or 3 engineering courses outside of the major, but rather will require a radicalchange in the way we educate engineers. The faculty of the School of

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ying Tang

Session 157 Simulation of a disassembly-to-order system Ying Tang*, Ludivig J. Ungewitter, Tobi Mann, and Tosh Kakar * Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Email: tang@rowan.edu Dept. of Computer Science & Computer Engineering Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98445

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Vaz

Session 1725 A Sophomore-Level ECE Product Design Experience Richard Vaz Worcester Polytechnic InstituteI. IntroductionDriven in part by ABET Engineering Criteria 2000, engineering educators are increasinglyintegrating design concepts and experiences into their curricula. The most common form of thisintegration is the senior capstone design experience, although many universities also introducebasic notions of engineering design in the first year. Traditional coursework alone may notadequately prepare students for rigorous senior design experiences, however

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

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Can Saygin

Session 3263 Paper #1669 A Manufacturing Laboratory for Integrated Hands-on Applications Dr. Can (John) Saygin Engineering Management Department University of Missouri – Rolla Rolla, Missouri 65409 - 0370 E-mail: saygin@umr.edu Phone: + 1 – 573 – 341 – 6358 Fax: + 1 – 573 – 341 – 6567 URL: http

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

Session 1793 A Demographic Characterization of First-Year Engineering Students Catherine Pieronek, John J. Uhran, Leo H. McWilliams, Stephen E. Silliman University of Notre DameAbstractThe observation of substantially different retention rates of men versus women from initialenrollment as first-year engineering intents to enrollment as engineering majors at the beginningof the sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame has motivated an examination ofdemographic data to assess retention patterns. Based on the numbers of students enrolling in arequired first-year engineering course, which has an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Hallacher

Session Number 1526 PLANNING A NSF ATE NATIONAL CENTER IN NANOMANUFACTURING EDUCATION Paul M. Hallacher, Douglas E. Fenwick, and Stephen J. Fonash The Penn State Nanofabrication Facility Over the past decade, microfabrication has been subsumed by nanofabrication,and it is estimated that the United States will need between 800,000 and 1 million newnanofabrication workers in the next 10 years (Breslau, 2002; Roco, 2002). Severalindustry sectors are driving this workforce need. First are the established industries thattraditionally use micro- and nanotechnology, such as microelectronics, informationstorage

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jon Plummer; Barry Lunt

Session 1793 A Flexible Automated Solder-Paste Dispensing System Jon R. Plummer, Barry M. Lunt Brigham Young UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a flexible automated solder-paste dispensing system which does away withthe need for a dispensing screen, thus avoiding its cost and changeover time. The systemdescribed is composed of a 4-axis robot, a solder-paste dispensing tool and controller, a conveyorsystem, and a processing computer. The processing computer inputs the Gerber file describingthe PCB and creates the program to drive the robot with the solder-paste

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Troy Harding

Experiences in Developing a Web-based Assessment System Troy Harding Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractLike many departments around the country, the Engineering Technology Department at KansasState University – Salina is trying to find ways to effectively manage assessment of its programs.Students in the Web Development Project course were assigned the task of developing aprototype assessment system to manage and track student learning outcomes. In addition, thespecifications called for a way to track suggestions for program and

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

Session 1615 If She Weighs the Same as a Duck, Then She’s a Witch: Using a Classic Monty Python Movie to Stimulate Transfer of Learning in Engineering Mechanics Stephen Ressler, Joseph P. Hanus United States Military AcademyTransfer of LearningMuch of the literature on teaching and learning emphasizes the importance of transfer oflearning. This concept is based on a simple premise—that the information, concepts, andproblem-solving strategies students learn in the classroom do not become fully operative untilthe learning can be

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

ACI Certification Available to Civil Engineering Students Stephan A. Durham, W. Micah Hale Department of Civil Engineering at the University of ArkansasAbstractAt the University of Arkansas, Structural Materials is a required course for all civil engineeringstudents. The course is normally taken by students in the second semester of their sophomoreyear or by students who are in the first semester of their junior year. As the course is presentlytaught, concrete materials and mixture designs makes up approximately 60 percent of the classwith the remaining portion split amongst steel, timber, and fiber reinforced polymers (FRP). Inan effort to create interest in the class and enthusiasm about

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

The Concrete Contest Stephan A. Durham, W. Micah Hale Department of Civil Engineering at the University of ArkansasAbstractAt the University of Arkansas, Structural Materials is a required course for all civil engineeringstudents. The course is normally taken by students in the second semester of their sophomoreyear or by students who are in the first semester of their junior year. As the course is presentlytaught, concrete materials and mixture designs makes up approximately 60 percent of the classwith the remaining portion split amongst steel, timber, and fiber reinforced polymers (FRP). Inan effort to create interest in the class and enthusiasm about concrete

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Walter E. Thain Jr.

Session 2548 A Milestone-Driven RF Electronics Course for Engineering Technology Walter E. Thain, Jr. Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA unique radio-frequency (RF) electronics course was introduced in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology (ECET) Department at Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU).The course was adapted from a two-quarter version currently taught at the California Institute ofTechnology. Significant modifications were necessary to tailor the course to a single-semesterformat. Based on the construction and extensive testing of a

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Myat Hla; Samuel Lakeou

Session: 1532 Remote Monitoring and Control of GPIB-based Electronic Experiment Myat Hla, BSEE, Samuel Lakeou Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of the District of Columbia slakeou@udc.edu, (202) 274-5834 I. Introduction This work presents a novel approach in the implementation of a remote laboratory foran electronic experiment using LabVIEW’s remote panel technology. In the past, a numberof remote labs have been tried and tested 1,2,3,4

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jason Keith

Session 1475Teaching vs. Research: Perspectives from a 4th Year Assistant Professor Jason M. Keith Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThis paper describes the experiences of a chemical engineering assistant professor overthe first four years of his academic career, particularly the balance of teaching, research,service, and outside life. The paper will describe the following topics: ‚" tips for success in the classroom, in the lab, and at home ‚" things that went wrong

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weissbach

Session 1793 Hardware Experiments in Feedback Control Systems Using a Geared Dc Motor Robert S. Weissbach Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractOne of the difficulties in teaching control systems to engineering and technology students is torelate classroom theory and computer simulation to experimental results. Students tend to focuson analyzing feedback control systems without understanding where the transfer functions of reallife systems come from. This effect is exacerbated by textbooks in control systems, whereauthors often assume that variables

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Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Orling; Lisa Christensen; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

Session number 3664 Travelogue from the Materials World: A first week laboratory activity Katherine C. Chen, Blair London, Linda Vanasupa, Timothy T. Orling, and Lisa Christensen Materials Engineering Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CAAbstractA fun, yet educational, laboratory activity was developed for the first week of an introductoryMaterials Engineering laboratory in order to set the stage for the rest of the quarter. The class isbroken up into 8 teams, and each team performs a different experiment during each lab period.The teams then rotate

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elaine Craft

Session 1150 A Mouse Click Away: Information to Help Engineering and ET Educators Elaine L. Craft Florence-Darlington Technical CollegeAbstractThe SC ATE center of Excellence, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), isserving as a National Resource Center for Engineering Technology (ET) education. SC ATEfocuses on success of students in ET programs using "tried and true" strategies, products, andservices that have originated with SC ATE. SC ATE resources are now just a mouse-click awayat www.SCATE.org for review, downloading

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dick Blandford

Session 3232 Softwar e Design of a Digital Filter Using Evolutionar y Methods Dr . Dick Blandfor d Univer sity of EvansvilleIntr oductionEvolutionary computation was conceived and articulated in the 1960's as a method of solvingotherwise intractable problems. Computer programs based on evolutionary techniques typicallyconsume lots of computer resources and until the 1990's the technique was implemented only bythe few who had access to those resources. Over the last ten years, computers have become fastenough and enough memory has become cheaply available that

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Welch

Session 2615 Implementing a Student Design-Build Project in One Semester COL Ronald W. Welch 2LT Brian J. Meister United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed, completed an environmental assessment, gained approval,and built a 28-foot timber pedestrian bridge. The course was taken as part of the ABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy. The team

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2653 An Engineering Laboratory Experience for a Freshman Engineering Class Craig W. Somerton, Craig J. Gunn Michigan State UniversityIntroductionEngineering laboratory experiences are different from science laboratory experiences in that theyare more focused on problem solving rather than discovery. Hence, it would seem important tointroduce freshmen engineering majors to this difference by giving them an exposure to anengineering laboratory. The mechanical engineering section of the Residential Option forEngineering

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko

2004-730 Optimizing Student Learning in a BME Capstone Design Course Sequence Richard J. Jendrucko Jack F. Wasserman Biomedical Engineering Program The University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleIntroductionThe undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) program at the University ofTennessee, Knoxville (UTK) was initiated in the fall of 2000. The 136 semester-hourcurriculum was designed to prepare students for a variety of careers and to meet ABETaccreditation requirements. Among the most prominent of the ABET requirements is thatthe curriculum include a capstone

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL IMAGING CURRICULUM BY A MULTI-STAGE TEACHING MODEL Weizhao Zhao, Dawei Wu, Chunyan Wu, Aditya Dikshit Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USAAbstract Medical imaging technologies widely applicable to both clinical and basic scienceresearch are crucially important to the biomedical engineering field. Teaching medical imagingbecomes a key component in biomedical engineering education. For undergraduate studentswho learn medical imaging technologies, however, the “classroom-only” teaching style suffersfrom many limitations that make it difficult for students to gain a complete

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eldon Larsen

Session Teaching a Project Management Fundamentals Course to Working Professionals Eldon R. Larsen, Ph.D. Marshall University, College of Information Technology and EngineeringAbstract Project management has become very important in today’s business world. Yet, mostworking professionals have had to learn project management skills almost entirely byexperience, with little formal college training in this field. At Marshall University, the Master ofScience in Engineering degree program includes an emphasis in Engineering Management, ofwhich Project Management is

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

Session 1763 Teaming "Design of Small Earth Dams" – A Practitioner/Professor Collaboration Thomas V. Edgar, P.E., Ph.D. and Joel Farber, P.E., P.G. Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071/ TriHydro Corporation Laramie, WY 82070Abstract The course “Design of Small Earth Dams” is sufficiently broad and involved that theUniversity of Wyoming has taught it for almost 20 years using both a practicing professionalengineer

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Chawla; Ali Pourhashemi

2425 A Mass Transfer Experiment Using Deoxygenation and Aeration of Water Ramesh C. Chawla1 and Ali Pourhashemi2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 2 Dept. of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN 38104AbstractTo demonstrate the phenomenon of mass transfer, an experiment was developed to measure theoverall and individual mass transfer coefficients in the opposite processes of deoxygenation andaeration. Both these processes have practical applications in chemical, environmental andmechanical systems.Streams of N2 (deaeration

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Curtis Carver

Techniques for Supporting Diversity in a Core Information Technology Course1 Curtis A. Carver Jr. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military AcademyAbstract: This paper examines techniques for supporting diversity in an information technology(IT) course taken by all cadets at the United States Military Academy. The Department ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has historically had difficulty recruitingwomen and minorities into the computer science, electrical engineering, and information systemsengineering. Part of

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Filsinger

Session 2420Writing Simulation Programs as a Tool for Understanding Internal Computer Processes Michael D. Filsinger University of CincinnatiAbstractThe usual approach to a hands-on understanding of process scheduling in a computer operatingsystem is to either modify an existing operating system or use a pre-written simulation program.In an Engineering Technology program, the first approach can be too difficult for the level ofprogramming expertise possessed by the students, while the second approach does not giveenough of a hands-on feel

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Warren Koontz

Session 2650 A Master of Science Program in Telecommunications Engineering Technology Warren L G Koontz Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntroductionAbout 35 years ago, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research and development arm of the BellSystem, provided a program to train newly hired Members of Technical Staff. A new MTS, whousually joined Bell Labs just after receiving a BS degree in either electrical or mechanicalengineering, was first sent off to get a Master of Science in EE or ME. But even this was notenough. Upon completing the MS, the still