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A Load 1 9v B Load 2 CThe voltage VAC = 3 v, and VBC = 1.5 vDraw your design below. Each of the loads can be thought of as a single resistor. As you work on your design,write down the equations that you need to solve this problem. (Make sure you have enough equations – the numberof unknowns should equal the number of equations).Measure the voltages to ensure you are within the specifications. Show your derivations and results. Have your labTA

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important feature of working at a distance. Sincethere is no timeworn body of experience to draw from, e-team members and the professor haveto be open to experimentation, often discovering what makes an e-team successful in hindsight.Bibliography1. Betz, Frederick and Keys, Kenneth. Management Paradigms and the Technology Factor. Technology Management, v1, pp. 242-246.2. Duarte, Deborah L. and Snyder, Nancy. Mastering Virtual Teams: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques That Succeed. Jossey-Bass Inc., 1999.3. Hagen, Mark R. Teams Expand into Cyberspace. Quality Progress v32 no6 (June 1999) p.90-93.4. Lipnack, Jessica and Stamps, Jeffrey. Virtual Teams. (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997)5. Martin, B., Moskal, P., Foshee, N., and

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thehumanities and social sciences component of the engineering curriculum, others, including us,have regarded this change as an opportunity for curricular innovation and new pedagogicalfocus.Among other requirements, criterion 3 dictates that engineering students demonstrate (a) anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility; (b) an understanding of the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context; (c) knowledge of contemporary issues; (d)the ability to communicate effectively; and (e) recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in, life-long learning. Criterion 3 thus mandates the inclusion of professional ethics inthe engineering program. No less important is the focus on the understanding of the

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Mike Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ken McNichols

, instead of discussing how astronomers determined thecircumference of the earth, students can act it out with a role-playing activity in which they aremembers of the great University of Alexandria. They can role play inquiry with Eratosthenes(born around 274 B. C.), who can be played by the teacher or a student, to determine how he Page 5.585.3measured the angle of the shadow of the sun cast in two different cities in North Africa tocalculate the circumference of the earth. In this activity, students can learn the content as well asimmerse themselves in the social context of how ancient scientists lived and worked15.IV. Engineering Examples of

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

settings and findingways to economically accommodate classes of up to 100 students. Relative to studentstaught in traditional classes, SCALE-UP students are better problem solvers, achievenearly four times the gain on some conceptual tests, have better attitudes toward science,and report greater satisfaction with their instruction. Failure rates for females are halfthose in regular classes. For minorities, the failure rate drops by a factor of four.Technology is used to provide a phenomenological focus for students, allowing datacollection, analysis, mathematical modeling, and advanced simulations. As studentattention is drawn into analyzing different physical situations, teachers circulate aroundthe room and engage students in Socratic dialogs

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Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

Foundation’s CREST Program and of severalother governmental, academic and industrial partners.Bibliography1. National Research Council, “Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990s: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Age of Materials,” National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1989.2. Schaffer, J. P., Saxena, A., Antolovich, S. D., Sanders, T. H., and Warner, S. B., “The Science and Design of Engineering Materials,” WCB McGraw-Hill, 1999.3. Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Student Handbook 1998-99, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC.4. CAMSS Web site: http://www.ncat.edu/~camssBiographical informationDEVDAS M. PAIDevdas Pai is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NC A&T State University. He received his M.S.and

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

withprogram objectives and stakeholder requirements. To start with, a list of skill, knowledge,attitude, and ability requirements was developed using the following sources:1. The IME Department adopted ABET outcomes known as “a – k” paraphrased below: a. Ability to apply knowledge b. Ability to design and conduct experiments and interpret data c. Ability to design a system d. Ability to function on an interdisciplinary team e. Ability to solve engineering problems f. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g. Ability to communicate effectively h. Understand global and societal impact of engineering solutions i. Lifelong learning

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“difficult” subjects. Physics Today, 38, 61-68.8. Tobias, S. (1990). They’re not dumb, they’re different: Stalking the second tier. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.9. Tobias, S. (1992). Revitalizing undergraduate science: Why some things work and others don’t. Tucson, AZ: Research Corporation.10. Dickinson, V. L. & Flick, L. B. (1998). Beating the system: Course structure and student strategies in a traditional introductory undergraduate physics course for nonmajors. School Science and Mathematics, 98, 238-246.11. Bogdan R. C., & Biklen, S. K. (1992). Qualitative research for education: An introduction to theory and methods. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.12. Taylor, R. J., & Bogdan, R. (1984) Introduction to qualitative

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Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

Submitted to the International Division of ASEE for presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Session 2660 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN MECHANICAL COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN EDUCATION Abir Z. Qamhiyah, Bruno Ramond Iowa State University / The Universite de Technologie de CompiegneAbstractMechanical engineering design and manufacturing is increasingly becoming a global enterprise.The success of our ME students in their future careers will therefore depend on their ability towork effectively with engineers from both the local and international business climates. Thispaper describes a collaborative mechanical

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

strategy of the Learning Factory model implemented by the ManufacturingEngineering Education Partnership. The NASA PaSCoR program is outcomes-based and studentcentered, focused on hands-on learning activities provided throughout the student’s academiccareer. The program’s outcomes will be a graduate that is knowledgeable of the technology andapplications of remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS), and, possessesthe necessary skills either to enter graduate school or becomes a professional in these areas withsuccess.The program also aims at developing values such as diversity, teamwork, global awareness andcommunication. PaSCoR goals will be achieved through five tasks, namely: 1) curriculumdevelopment, 2) undergraduate

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Andrew N. Hrymak; Donald R. Woods; Heather Wright

each 13-week course the tutorless studentgroups handle two to three cases or problems. Concurrently they are taking five to Page 5.110.7seven required courses in their major area that are presented in the conventionallecture style (except for the nursing program that is uses PBL). Before enteringthe Theme School program, the students have received no formal training in theprocessing skills (change management, problem solving, team work, selfassessment and self-directed learning). In the Theme School we provided fiveexplicit, 1½ h workshops on a) understanding PBL and its expectations, b)managing change, c) problem solving, d) group skills and e) self

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Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

use scientific knowledge, technicalknowledge, their intrinsic creative potential, and their engineering judgment, ethics, values, and professionalleadership skills to bring about effective creative solutions to meet previously unmet real-world needs.Today, continual needs-driven technological innovation is a systematic practice of creative engineering that is theresult of two primary pursuits: a) the deliberate exploitation of the results of curiosity-driven basic research anddiscovery, and; b) the deliberate use of the needs-driven creative engineering method to purposefully create, invent,develop, and innovate new and improved technology.8 Today, continual technological innovation in industry isprimarily the result of, and the deliberate

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Lawrence Technological University (LTU)], to better prepare students for the high-tech, global environment in which they will be working in the next millenium.2) to share what was learned from an NSF-ILI grant awarded to WSU with the two partner universities through (a) the set-up of the WSU’s digital laboratory and (b) making the laboratory materials and the Altera User Manual developed by the WSU available at these schools.3) to diffuse what was learned in the WSU setting into K-12 educational settings, in an effort to infuse “the joys of technical education” into youngsters, particularly young women.4) to facilitate the exchange of ideas, practices, and application about digital design courses through service as a national

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, J.C. & Turbini, L.J. Operations Research 47(2), 221-234 (1999).26. Meacham, A., Uzsoy, R. & Venkatadri, U. Journal of Manufacturing Systems 18(5) 311-322 (1999).27. Department of the Navy. (Best Manufacturing Practices Program, Philadelphia, 1997).28. Navy, Dept. of the (Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence, Office of Naval Research (ONR),http://www.bmpcoe.org/guideline/books/egd/index.html).29. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. P2/Finance. EPA-742-B-96-008. (Tellus Institute, 1996).30. James, R.W. & Alcorn, P.A. A Guide to Facilities Planning (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1991).31. Sule, D.R. Manufacturing Facilities: Location, Planning, and Design (PWS Publishing Co., Boston, 1994).32. Tompkins, J.A., et al

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environment, no hardwarelaboratory equipment was available.Bibliography Page 5.701.111. Kastens, Kim. 1995. “Is [sic] Real Data Useful? (in pre-graduate education).” [On-line]. Available:http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/conf/kk/KKgraphs.html2. Clark, Richard E. 1983. Reconsidering research on learning from media. Review of Educational Research 53(4): 445-459.3. Clark, Richard E. 1994. Media and method. Educationa Technology Research and Development 42 (3): 7-10.4. Kosma, Robert B. 1994. A reply: Media and methods. Educationa Technology Research and Development 42(3): 11-14.5. Gokhale, Anuradha A. 1989. “To investigate the effectiveness of

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Edward H. McMahon

Session 3425 Engineering Design and Common Household Devices Edward McMahon The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractMost design is redesign. Some might suggest this is an overstatement, while others may say alldesign is redesign. An engineering manager at a large appliance manufacturer told me, "Someengineers, fresh out of school, think they are going to be working on innovative, far out, projectsand are disappointed when asked to work on a redesign of one our standard products". Onecomponent of our junior level methodology course is and individual project is aimed at

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support of testing andintegration, coordination with DoD/NASA laboratories or universities for collaborative projects,and guides USNA Midshipmen through the DoD Space Experiment Review Board (SERB) flightselection process. The satellite development process is a multi-semester effort requiring the contributions ofMidshipmen from several consecutive graduating classes. Senior students in our AerospaceDesign course initiate the process in the spring semester with identification of the mission anddetermination of requirements, followed by development of the conceptual design. Students insubsequent classes will take the satellite through feasibility study, final design, construction,testing, and launch platform integration. Each spring

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Eric Bell

Session 3668 Using Web-based Instruction to Aid in Term Identification or “Where did that term come from?” Eric Bell Triton CollegeAbstractOne of the applications of web and browser-based instruction is the presentation ofsample problems and their solutions. A concern with any presentation is that theinformation which can be presented is limited. Part of the learning process involves theidentification of terms appearing in an equation. Some students have little difficultyidentifying the source for a term, while others require more

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John W. Nicklow

Session 2525 Technical Writing in an Undergraduate Design Course John W. Nicklow Southern Illinois University CarbondaleAbstractThis paper provides an overview and assessment of a technical writing assignment for a course inHydraulic Engineering Design. The writing exercise was dually intended to promote furtherinterest in the field of hydraulic engineering and improve students’ abilities to create a technicalcommentary for a broader, but not necessarily technical, audience. Students selected topics earlyin the semester and were asked to prepare a preliminary draft of their

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Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

Session 2557Using Active and Cooperative Learning in Industrial Engineering Education Manuel D. Rossetti1 , Harriet Black Nembhard2 University of Arkansas 1 /University of Wisconsin-Madison2AbstractActive and cooperative learning methods recognize that the passive model of the typical collegelecture does not work for many students. Instead, active and cooperative learning focuses on thepremise that the students can learn best by doing and working with each other. In traditionallystructured class periods, students listen to a professor lecture for about an hour. Cooperativelearning can replace some of that lecture time

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Patrick Kalgren; Aldo W. Morales

Session 1347 Development of an Introductory Course in HDTV Aldo Morales and Patrick Kalgren College of Engineering Penn State University, DuBois DuBois, PA 15801AbstractHigh definition television is an emerging technology1-9. Its presence marks a major change in theway the medium of television will be presented in the near future. A possible indicator ofHDTV’s impending success in the marketplace would be the emergence of DVD (digital versatiledisk) as the fastest growing new video medium to date. DVD

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Mike Papadakis

SESSION------ TWENTY TWENTY HINDSIGHT Myron P. “Pappy” Papadakis. BSME, J.D. Consulting Attorney/Aviation –Engineering/Austin, TexasAn engineer works within constraints and protocols that he does not control when hedesigns a product. He is forced to compromise between choices not necessarily his ownnor to his liking. He calls his choices engineering tradeoffs, but make no mistake forevery such trade off something is left off. Given up, while something else is gained.When safety is compromised for marketing the price tag may be underestimated…someone will have to eventually pay the Piper.Engineers have the

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Ryan S. Magargle; Rami W. Zarrouk; Maurice F Aburdene

Session 2793 Interactive Tutorial for an Introductory Electrical Engineering Course Maurice F. Aburdene, Rami W. Zarrouk, Ryan S. Magargle Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a tutorial and diagnostic tool called, "What You Already Know." The objective of this tutorial isto prepare students for their first electrical engineering course, and it is designed to diagnose what the studentsalready know and aid them in understanding some basic concepts through hands-on experience. The tutorial iscomputer-based

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

describes a simple experiment that exposes students to basic principles of drugdelivery and chemical engineering. First, students are introduced to different types of dosageformulations using as examples over-the-counter-medications that are already familiar to thestudents. The mechanism of drug release is different for each type of formulation, and studentslearn how each different dosage form works. The students then perform an experiment thatinvolves the release a drug from a lozenge formulation, which is an example of a matrix-typedrug delivery system.Students study the dissolution of a lozenge into water. As the lozenge dissolves, the drug isreleased, along with a coloring agent, into the surrounding water. Students observe theincreasing color

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Andre Clavet; Mario Lucas; Gerard Lachiver; Francois Michaud

Session 2220Designing Toy Robots to Help Autistic Children - An Open Design Project for Electrical and Computer Engineering Education Francois Michaud, André Clavet, Gérard Lachiver, Mario Lucas Université de Sherbrooke (Québec Canada)AbstractIn our curricula, freshmen use an autonomous robotic platform to get introduced to fundamentalconcepts in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Using this platform, teams of studentsinterested by the challenge are invited to apply knowledge acquired during their first year ofstudies by participating in a toy robot design contest. Initiated in 1999, the challenge is to

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Edward M. Vavrek

3225 Timing Belt Selection Using Visual Basic Edward M. Vavrek Purdue University North CentralAbstractTiming belts are used in many different machine applications. The sizing and selection of anappropriate timing belt and its components is usually done with a belt manufactures catalog. Thecatalog gives the necessary equations, figures, charts, and tables in order to select a completetiming belt system.This program replaces the manufactures catalog and allows the user to properly size a belt drivesystem and select all the relevant components using the computer. The

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instruction, and a better opportunity for assessment.Many educators, however, feel that the current so-called “interactive” computer learningsoftware for teaching material with “strong qualitative content” has not achieved trueinteractivity and adaptability. A necessary pedagogical ingredient for an effective learningenvironment is informative feedback. The inherent properties of qualitative material includeabstract ideas and large variability, which are difficult to cater to with multimedia, particularlywhen providing the desired feedback.Endeavoring to overcome these problems, this paper proposes a different approach for educatingengineers interactively with qualitative content. The approach employs a well-structured andguided environment, and

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Kambiz Farahmand

Session 93 Development of an ISO 9000 Implementation Quality Decision Support System Kambiz Farahmand Texas A&M University-KingsvilleAbstractAn expert system was developed to assist engineers, managers, and educators with ISO (International StandardOrganization) 9000 series implementation. The decision support system is a viable learning tool for first timeengineers and students involved with ISO 9000. ISO 9000 is an international quality system standard, which wasreleased in 1987. Companies, which need

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Shahriar Emami; Fazil Najafi

An Internet and Windows based Approach to Distance Learning Shahriar Emami, Ph.D. Senior Staff Engineer, Motorola Inc., Plantation, Fl 33322 Fazil Najafi, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Florida, Dept. of Civil Eng., Gainesville, Fl 32611Abstract- A number of distance learning approaches have been proposed and practiced over the

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F. Andrew Wolfe

Session #2315 Integrating Service Projects into CER-021 Elementary Surveying F. Andrew Wolfe Union CollegeAbstractThis paper discusses the use of service projects in the Elementary Surveying course at UnionCollege. The use of service projects gives the students a chance to give back to the communitywhile learning surveying, organizational, and time management skills. This year’s success andease of finding projects has opened the way for the service project to become a permanent partof the surveying experience at Union.IntroductionCommunity service has become a major part of