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Péter Szendrõ; László Kátai

fantasyParallel with the development of mediums we observe a reduction of the "cultural” needs of thehuman brain. This process has a negative effect on achieving abstraction in constructive thinking.When reading books, we are forced to translate the information on paper into an image in ourbrain. Rereading brightens the image as a result of the added details. The same informationappearing in cartoons, on TV or in movies provides a clear visual experience and, therefore,reduces the abstraction in the human brain.2. Passive reception, bad rate of memorizationIf information is received in combination with manual activity (touching, sketching, writing,etc.), the information is better retained in the brain, and creative skills are enhanced and have astronger

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Richard Parker; Walter Buchanan

Session 1547 Math, Electronics, Tutorials, Testing, Distance Learning and the Web Richard Parker, Walter W. Buchanan Interactive Image Technologies/Oregon Institute of Technology IntroductionMany instructors are designing courses of study based on the exciting software simulators forelectronics and math that have migrated to the PC in the last decade. In a flurry of development,electronics instructors have designed materials suitable for their classes and math instructorshave made a similar effort. The time is ripe for an integration of overall methodology thatsmoothly

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K.A. Korzeniowski

Session 2438 Integrating Graphics and the Concurrent Engineering Design Process into Electrical Engineering Education K.A. Korzeniowski United States Naval Academy ABSTRACT This paper describes a laboratory exercise performed by Electrical Engineering majors takinga first course in electrical circuit theory. The goal of this exercise was to familiarize students withengineering drawings, concurrent product engineering and manufacturing considerations within thecontext of design applications for an

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Dr. Martin Pike

eliminating the routine and repetitive calculations.This paper will explain the design projects given in four mechanics courses where spread sheetswere used for the calculations. These courses were Statics, Dynamics, Applied MechanismsKinematics and Dynamics, and a combined Statics/Strengths/Dynamics course. For some of thedesign projects, the students created their own spread sheets to do the calculations; in other casesthe instructor gave the spread sheet preprogrammed to the students. The author will relate hissuccess in using spread sheets in design projects and the impact they had on the design projectand the learning process. In addition, student opinion as to the benefits of using spread sheetswill be discussed

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Arthur T. Johnson

Session 2308 Using the Analogical Systems Approach to Teaching Biological Engineering Arthur T. Johnson Biological Resources Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 What is it that distinguishes biological engineering from other branches of engineering?When asking this question about any engineering field, a number of types of responses can bereturned. Some engineering fields are distinguished by particular applications, such as agricultureor

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David J. Lilja

Session 0575 Suggestions for Teaching the Engineering Research Process David J. Lilja University of MinnesotaAbstract: In the process of becoming engineering educators, most professors have successfullydeveloped some fundamental skills that are necessary (although not sufficient) to become asuccessful researcher. However, they often have no clear idea of how to pass this knowledgealong to their students beyond the general approach of carefully guiding their students’individual research efforts. A sense of not knowing where to begin this type of mentoringprocess can

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Todd Mosher

compares planning a course with planning a research project. For TheAerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design andsystems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walksthrough this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in avariety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate theconcepts. INTRODUCTIONThe Aerospace Institute was established in July 1994 to integrate key corporate educationalresources toward The Aerospace Corporation vision to be the world’s leader in space technology,planning and system engineering. Since then as a part of their charter, The

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Craig Gunn

Session 2553 Design in the Freshman Engineering Curriculum Craig James Gunn Michigan State UniversityDesign is an important element in the education of the impressionable freshman. If requiredcourses in mathematics, chemistry, and physics do not take into consideration the vitalconnections between theory and the world of engineering; there is a good chance that a sizeablenumber of prospective engineers may never graduate in their originally chosen major. It is criticalthat classes begin immediately in the freshman year to acquaint students with all the facets

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Ravi Jain

Session 2260 Implementing International Engineering Programs Ravi Jain University of CincinnatiMany engineering colleges are augmenting traditional rigorous technical training with educationrelated to: foreign languages, study of other cultures and internship or living experiences abroad.These programs are often referred to as International Engineering Programs. A research studyconducted indicates that at least 23 universities in the U.S. and Canada have significantinternational engineering

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Ronald W. Smith; Robert Bowman; Carole M. Mablekos

Education (PRIDE) established over its first three years a highly productive mode for sharing resources and expertise. Instituted to provide assistance to workers affected by a military base conversion, this collaboration has had a wider impact on technology education, particularly in the development of a new cross-institutional curriculum that advances engineering and technical education by aligning it with real-life manufacturing activities and workplace skills. A clear indicator of PRIDE's success has been to strong desire of the partners, area economic development agencies, and city work force agencies for the consortium to continue. Work on future developments is underway, with a central

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Edward Pines

Session 3263 Ergonomics in Manufacturing: Cost as an Issue Edward Pines New Mexico State University Abstract Ergonomics for Manufacturing Systems is a course that was developed to address theneeds of a joint engineering and business curriculum at New Mexico State University. Bothmanufacturing design and production are studied in light of human performance and humanvariability. This leads to a unique focus on productivity, quality, and cost issues when addressingfitting the task to the human. Students are drawn

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Walter Buchanan

Session 2347 Expectations for Faculty Development in Engineering Technology Walter W. Buchanan Oregon Institute of Technology AbstractThere is probably nothing more important to a new faculty member than to find out what isexpected to achieve promotion and tenure. In many institutions, however, what is expected toachieve these goals is vague and unclear. This article lays out ways an institution can make itclear to a new faculty member what needs to be done to have a good chance to achievepromotion and tenure through a realistic plan of

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Kenneth Belanus; John Hartin

of data pointsacquired strongly influence the resolution of frequencies and their amplitudes in the spectracalculated for a signal. The use of simple laboratory structures for which experimental andanalytical frequencies are readily obtained enhances the understanding of vibrations, datasampling, and interpretation of Fourier analysis results. Since structural vibrations may produceclosely spaced harmonics, an understanding of the presented method is critical for a prioridetermination of frequency resolution.Introduction Much can be learned about the characteristics of a vibrating structure by experimentaldetermination of dynamic strains or kinematics. Often, extremely high loads can exist due toimpact loading or excitation of a

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John T. Bell

Session 2313 Session 2313 Undergraduate Research Experiences Developing Virtual Reality Based Educational Modules John T. Bell Department of Chemical Engineering University of MichiganIntroductionOver the past several years a number of virtual reality ( VR ) based educational modules havebeen developed, using undergraduate chemical engineering students as the primary day-to-dayprogram developers. These students had minimal computer

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Robert L. Avanzato

Session 2520 Fire-Fighting Robots To The Rescue Robert L. Avanzato Penn State Abington Abington, PA 19001AbstractA project-based mobile robotics course has been designed for freshman and sophomore honorsengineering students at the Penn State Abington campus. The unique feature of the course is thefocus on designing an autonomous mobile robot to be entered in a national fire-fighting robotcompetition at the conclusion of the course. Teams of engineering students have each designed,tested, and debugged a mobile

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Mustafa Guvench

Session 2659 Automated Measurement of MOS Capacitance and Determination of MOS Process Parameters in The MicroFabrication Laboratory Mustafa G. Guvench University of Southern Maine AbstractThis paper describes, (1) how to inexpensively automate measurement of MOS diode C-Vcharacteristics by employing standard test equipment available in a computer integratedelectronics instructional laboratory, and (2) a technique that facilitates accurate extractionof MOS and structural parameters such as the threshold and flatband voltages, the

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Cynthia Atman; Harvey Wolfe

Session 2230 Three Approaches To Outcomes Assessment: Questionnaires, Protocols, and Empirical Modelinga Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry J. Shuman, Cynthia J. Atman, and Harvey Wolfe University of Texas - El Paso/University of PittsburghbEngineering is a multi-dimensional discipline. Practicing engineers must possess a variety ofknowledge and skills to be successful in the workplace. Now, ABET, through “EAC 2000” hasclassified these into eleven categories1. ABET’s new performance-based criteria require eachengineering program’s faculty to clearly enunciate educational objectives in terms

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

Session 2613 An Interdisciplinary Program and Laboratory for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design and Manufacturing Milo D. Koretsky, Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort, William F. Reiter Chemical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State UniversityABSTRACTOregon State University and Merix Corp. (Forest Grove, OR) have initiated a cooperativeUniversity-Industry program for hands-on education of engineering students. Thisinterdisciplinary program spans the Departments of Chemical Engineering (ChE), Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) and MechanicalEngineering (ME

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Mark J. Sebern

Session 2632 Object-Oriented Programming for Freshmen Computer Engineers (and Their Professors) Mark J. Sebern Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractFor practicing computer engineers, the object model has become increasingly important. Recognizingthis fact, elective courses in object-oriented programming (OOP) have been offered a number ofyears. At some point, however, it becomes desirable to integrate this technology throughout thecomputer engineering curriculum. Such an effort raises many questions, such as language selectionand topic sequence. Some

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Tom L. Powers; Roger Wright; O'Neill Burchett; Michael R. Manning; Bruce W. Farmer; Brad Gilbreath

thosestudents will encounter on the job after they graduate--into the course. We recently team taught amanufacturing projects course to master's-level engineering and business students. This graduatecourse included five participant groups: instructors, students, graduate assistants, sponsors, andboard members who acted as senior managers. Although including multiple participant groupsenriched our students' experience in the course, it also complicated our job as instructors. Thispaper includes a description of our course, challenges we encountered while teaching it, and ourthoughts about how to cope with those challenges. I. INTRODUCTIONThere we were, only one month into the semester, and one of our student project

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Jeffrey G. Sczechowski

Session 2313 Building an Active Environmental-Chemical Engineering Research Program with Undergraduate Students Jeffrey G. Sczechowski Civil and Environmental Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ABSTRACTWith a University-wide theme of “learn by doing”, all Cal Poly undergraduates are required tocomplete a Senior Project. Environmental Engineering students are encouraged to conduct anexperimental or an applied design project

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Leslie Bondaryk

Session 3264 Implementing New Media in Materials Science Education Leslie Bondaryk PWS Publishing Company -897,.9 New media offers a chance for the Materials Science instructor to rethink course structure and content. New media is just an addition to the variety of tools available to the Materials educator. I will give some examples of hypertext, video and animation, and simulations that are successfully being used to address educational goals. Through wise

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John W. Prados

Session 2577 ABET Engineering Criteria 2000: How We Got There and Why John W. Prados National Science FoundationAccreditation of educational programs in the United States is a voluntary, non-governmental,peer review process, which reflects a professional judgment that certain standards of educationalquality are met. It signifies to prospective students and the public that graduates have achievedan expected level of competence in their fields of study and, thus, acts as a form of consumerprotection. Two forms of accreditation exist: institutional accreditation, which seeks to

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Jerry W. Samples

Session 3233 The One-Page Thermodynamics Course Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownABSTRACT: While the title may be a little misleading, for those who have experienced it, this onepage may have saved their academic careers. This paper illustrates how to take a complexsubject and make it less overwhelming. Some years ago, several students who were overwhelmed with thermodynamics came insearch of help in understanding this often difficult course. Understand that this was a one-semester course that covered the lion’s share of a standard

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John K. Brown

in response the combined challenges of unalterable staffing and funding levels andanticipated enrollment growth. This paper outlines how the Division of Technology, Culture andCommunication at SEAS plans to refashion its introductory writing and speaking class (TCC 101)to meet these challenges. Our goals are simply put:--accomplish more teaching with fewer resources--improve the quality of our instruction in writing and public speaking--promote students’ awareness of modern social, economic, and political issues relating to engineering practice--increase students’ ethical awareness--decrease the attrition rate of first-year students (chiefly a problem of transfers into UVA’s liberal arts college)At present, TCC 101 is a labor

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Tracy Vogler; Nelson Jaramillo; Lia F. Arthur; Jeff Gray; Irem Y. Tumer; Frank Serpas; Eric Matsumoto; Ronald Barr

the UT student chapter were: 1) initiating a student chapterand establishing the student core, 2) developing the chapter framework, 3) electing officers andratifying the constitution, 4) garnering faculty support, and 5) starting up events. These stepshave been accomplished in the seven month period between August 1996 and February 1997.IntroductionWhy establish an ASEE student chapter? The significant benefits for students interested inacademia, as well as for academic institutions and National ASEE, make it rather easy tounderstand why a student chapter is desirable. Benefits already enjoyed by students at existingASEE chapters include: preparation for successfully entering the competitive academic jobmarket, mentoring by genuinely

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John E. Mayer

Session 1663 Manufacturing Engineering Technology Senior Projects Course John E. Mayer, Jr. Texas A&M UniversityAbstract The primary emphasis of the manufacturing engineering technology projects course is toprepare senior students to face the challenge of solving real manufacturing problems in industry.Students work together in teams of three or four students. The team leader is responsible forarranging and conducting meetings of the group outside of the classroom time, and for meetingdeadlines and completion of the project

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Duane L. Marcy; James C. Sturm

Session 1526 Teaching Systems Performance Limitations Through an Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory Duane L. Marcy, James C. Sturm Princeton UniversityABSTRACT Because the physical implementation and hence performance limitation of many aspects ofElectrical Engineering rely on the integrated circuit, all Princeton EE majors take a course tounderstand the fabrication and operation of ICs. In the lab portion of the course all students fabricatetheir own IC chip. The goal of the course is not to understand in depth the detail of the

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Glenn S. Kohne

Session 2520 Graphing Laboratory Data in Microsoft Windows Glenn S. Kohne Loyola College in MarylandAbstractAs the volume of Windows applications multiplies and their sophistication increases, eachapplication tends to do more functions thereby making its installation, configuration, and usemore complex. There is a population of laboratory instructors who would like to make availableto their students some very specific data handling programs that would be simple to install,configure, and use. This paper introduces and makes available two such data capture andgraphing

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

education at a community college. The department of electricalengineering technology is a part of the School of Information Systems and EngineeringTechnology and offers Bachelor s degree programs in electrical engineering technology,computer engineering technology, and photonics. A Master of Science in Advanced Technologyis jointly offered by the departments of electrical, mechanical and industrial engineeringtechnologies.The SUNY Institute s electrical engineering technology curriculum includes theoretical issues,but our objective is to teach students to use current, state of the art equipment and emergingtechnologies to solve practical design and application problems. State of the art equipment andlaboratories are critical for the electrical