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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Chin; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

the 0 and as a resultneeds to be turned off. So when the compared bits are different, an output of 1 must be present Page 8.801.16 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”on the output of the input bits with the logic 1 signal and a 0 for all other input values. A truthtable follows: A B Output A Output B 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

appear).[6] Lopez-Real, Francis and Chan, Yin-Ping Rita, "Peer assessment of a group project in a primary mathematics education course," Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 24:1, March 1999, pp. 67-79.[7] MacAlpine, J. M. K., "Improving and encouraging peer assessment of student presentations, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 24:1, March 1999, pp. 15-25.[8] Persons, Obeua S., “Factors influencing students’ peer evaluations in cooperative learning,” Journal of Business for Education, Mar.–Apr. 1998.[9] Rada, R., Acquah, S., Baker, B., and Ramsey, P., "Collaborative learning and the MUCH System," Computers and Education 20, 1993, pp. 225-233.[10] Rafiq, Y., & Fullerton, H., "Peer assessment of group

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Morcechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

Session 2793 Integration of Numerical Problem Solving into the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Michael B. Cutlip and Mordechai Shacham Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connectcut, Unit 3222, Storrs, CT 06269-3222 / Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Beer Sheva, Israel 84105ABSTRACTThis paper provides a collection of representative problems with detailed solutions that can beused to introduce numerical problem solving into core chemical engineering courses. These prob-lems require application

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Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donald Merino

the traditional course Pre-test X1 – High Y1 - Low Post-test X2 – High Y2 - HighNote: No significant difference expected between X2 and Y2All students were randomly assigned to class sections by the Registrar’s office at Stevens.Regardless of section or year, all students took the same three computer tutorials (A, B and C)over a one semester time period. Prior to each tutorial, before any instruction began, everystudent took a pre-test. The purpose of each pre-test was to assess the student’s pre-existingaccounting knowledge in a particular area prior to performing the computer tutorial in that area(A, B, and C). The post-tests were administered after the completion of each

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Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

,Where x is a length, ω is an angular frequency in radian per x-length, θn, is a phase shift angle, and f p ( x) = sin 2πxA n B n C n & D n are amplitudes of the frequencies at ω n = nωx. Function shows asinusoidal waveform that can be simulated in Matlab 8. ∞f p ( x) = ∑ (C n cos( nωx − θ ) ) n =0The Fourier series of any periodic function may be represented in the spatial or time domain as afunction of f (x), or in the frequency domain as a function of F(ω

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

this project is provided by NSF (Grant: DUE-0126497). Page 8.669.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Fogler, H. S., and S. E. LeBlanc, “Strategies for Creative Problem Solving”, Prentice Hall PTR, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1995).2. Kepner, C. H., and B. B. Tregoe, “The New Rational Manager”, Princeton Research Press, Princeton, New Jersey (1981).3. Woods, D.R., “A Strategy for Problem Solving”, 3rd ed., Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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Joseph Shaeiwitz

flaws. However,it is also possible that there is no method for team formation that works for everyone all of thetime. Finally, some methods for assessing teamwork were discussed. It is unclear what islearned from these assessments.Bibliography1. Shaeiwitz, J. A., Whiting, W. B., and Velegol, D., “A Large-Group Senior Design Experience: Teaching Responsibility and Life-Long Learning,” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 30, no. 1, 1996, pp. 70-75.2. Walker, C., and T. Angelo, “A Collective Effort Classroom Assessment Technique: Promoting High Performance in Student Teams,” in Classroom Assessment and Research: An Update on Uses, Approaches, and Research Findings, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 75, Fall 1998, Jossey Bass

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Masoud Rais-Rohani

of the panels and evencontribute to their premature failure. Page 8.555.7 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education (a) (b) Fig. 3 Students marking an aluminum strip (a) prior to bending it into a stringer (b)Following the skin-stringer assembly, each panel is prepared for testing by potting the loadededges in a fiber-filled polyester resin mixture. Once ready for testing, each panel is carefullyplaced in the

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Grabber and StackerFigure 2. CAD Model of Entire RobotBibliographic Information1. Suh, N., Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990.2. Hazelrigg, G., Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information Based Design, Prentice-Hall, 1996.3. Creed, C. J., Suuberg, E. M., Crawford, G. P., “Engineering Entrepreneurship: An Example of a Paradigm Shift in Engineering Education,” J. Engineering Education, pp. 185-195, 2002.4. Wright, A. B., Wright, A. M., “FIRST in Engineering, A Service Learning Approach to Mechanical Design,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, 6/2002.5. D’Andrea, R., “Robot Soccer: A Platform for Systems Engineering,” Proceedings of 1999 ASEE Annual Conference, session 2220, cdrom, 1999

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski

) volumeWhen this mass is heated the collision between molecules increase and more space isnecessary to contain the same initial mass. Therefore, the density is usually inverselyproportional to the temperature.Viscosity can be thought as the internal stickiness of a fluid. It is directly linked to therate of deformation of a fluid1. Viscosity is highly dependent on temperature and itsrelation is often found to approximate: Page 8.878.71 Mechanics of fluids. 3rd edition. Merle C. Potter, David C. Wiggert. 7 v = A ⋅ e ( B

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

questions were as follows: 1. Heat Travels from a. Cold to cold b. Hot to cold c. Hot to hot d. Cold to hot 2. Which of the following is NOT a mode of heat transfer? a. Conduction b. Convection c. Connection Page 8.399.8 d. RadiationProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Which of the following is NOT a response that your body would perform on a hot August afternoon? a. Sweat b

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

; Exposition. Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 3. The GUIDE.ß (a) (b) (c) Figure 4. Regular Polygons. Regular PolygonsCreation of a regular polygon from scratch in a profile provides an opportunity to exploresymmetry, similar length, and similar angle constraints. Exercises can be designed that explorethe differing solutions (e.g., that vary the number of dimensional constraints versus the numberof geometric relations) to fully constrain the polygon. Also, the types and number of constraintsneeded to fully constrain can vary based on the number of sides and can also vary

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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John Bell; Scott Fogler

. Page 8.665.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1: WTK Simulation - (A) Bottles on the bench to be cleaned up. (B) Carrying abottle of acid to the fume hood. (C) Weak and dying after the explosion.Half-Life is a new development platform for the VRUPL group, and the first simulation usingthis new platform is still under development. Half-Life is a commercially available computergame that normally involves wandering through underground dungeons and shooting bad guyswith machine guns and similar weapons. However it is also possible to develop newenvironments and simulations

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Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

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S. Yarmolenko; J. Sankar; D. Pai; Juri Filatovs

fiber density (number/area) in tow and unitcell, fiber radial distribution and average fiber diameter etc. are examined, comparing voids andcracks’ change after different manufacturing steps.Figure 1. Carbon/carbon composite tow analysis11: a) unit cell with 2 tows (combined from 6images at magnification 100X); b) tows (200X): fiber volume fraction in unit cell = 22.38%; fiberdensity in unit cell = 0.00923 µm-2; fiber density in upper tow = 0.0179 µm-2; fiber density inlower tow = 0.0178 µm-2; ratio for fiber density in tows/unit cell = 1.93; average number of fibersin one tow = (2991+3010)/2 =3001 (3K expected).Summary Observations and Strategies The ever increasing link of materials science with computers is raising expectations in

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Physics and Math Division Luncheon

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

the gray levels,then the traditional method would be to apply the two-dimensional Fourier transform, 1 ∞ ∞ − 2πj ( ux + vy ) fˆ (u , v) = ∫ ∫ f ( x, y ) e dxdy , (2.1) 2π −∞ −∞and then plot the frequency content, fˆ (u , v) .Since a two dimensional image is contained on a bounded region, [a, b]× [c, d ] ⊂ R 2 , the improperintegral, (2.1), gives way to a finite bounded integral. As an example we consider the unit boxillustrated in Figure 1 and plot its frequency content in Figure 2. We also illustrate the phase of theunit box in Figure 3

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

Integration of Engineering Ethics Into The Curriculum: Student Performance and Feedback Richard B. Mindek, Jr., Thomas K. Keyser, Ronald E. Musiak, Steven Schreiner, Mary B. Vollaro Western New England College, Springfield MassachusettsAbstractSeveral ethics lectures were developed and integrated into two diverse courses taught in the School ofEngineering at Western New England College during the Fall 2001 semester. This included a single one-hourlecture given to 39 seniors from mechanical, electrical and industrial engineering disciplines preparing for theircapstone senior design projects and two one-hour lectures given

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

features are evidence that corollary types of mentaloperations have occurred.27 More recently, Tamor and Bond have developed a text-analysissystem that links “. . . task, cognitive system, and performance” (p. 113). 28Using this approach, a CPR™ session can be built around four features extracted from anexamination of the differences between expert and novice performance in a writing task. TableB elaborates on the four “markers” used to track growth. Designing a rubric (set of performancestandards) that asks students to identify facets of these “markers” (a) within the benchmark texts,(b) in their peer review samples, and (c) within their own submitted text generates data fromwhich a measure of development can be inferred. Table

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Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Ross

Engineering Strategies and Operations” (Schramm,2002).B. “Communicating Technical Information” (CTI)The author was part of the MEPP team which designed and delivered “CommunicatingTechnical Information” (EPD 617). The course has undergone a steady evolution and, for2003, is being extensively revised.C. Exterior Motivation: What Research Suggests about Communication Skills in theEngineering CurriculumA few years ago (1994), the Office of the Dean of Engineering at the University ofWisconsin - Madison reported on a questionnaire sent to alumni asking about theirexperiences, professional careers, and education. A key question on the survey askedalumni to identify the most important subjects they had studied in their undergraduateengineering programs

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

-s). ME 360 Fluid Mechanics: ABET Criteria 3(a-k) and ME Program Criteria (l-s) Course # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Outcome Assessment Tools 1 X X X X 1,2,3,4,10,11 2 X X X

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Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

Session 1121 Using Virtual Reality to Improve Construction Engineering Education John I. Messner, Sai C. M. Yerrapathruni, Anthony J. Baratta, and Vaughn E. Whisker The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents ongoing research to improve construction education through the use ofvirtual reality and 4D CAD modeling (3D design plus time) of construction processes andprojects. We have implemented 4D CAD modeling into our undergraduate ArchitecturalEngineering program. We are also experimenting with the use of immersive virtual reality andhave developed a

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Duane Dunlap

” Appendix B Guiding Principles for Reform_____________________________________________________________________________________________The National Collaborative Task Force believes that the framework for reinventing professional graduateeducation for the nation’s engineering workforce should be grounded in a set of eight guiding principles thatare fundamental in strengthening U.S. innovative capacity and in sustaining top-quality graduate programsfor the practicing profession. These eight principles are:1. Align Postgraduate Professional Education with the Critical Skill-Sets and Knowledge Required Beyond Entry Level for Responsible Leadership of Creative Technology Development and Innovation in Engineering

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Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

groups, group A and group B, which used different graphicrepresentations for illustrating the construction schedule. The students were then asked to detectlogical errors in the sequence of building wooden toy block towers with the assumptions that 1)no adhesive is used to put two blocks together and 2) the wooden blocks should be placed one-by-one using only one hand. The constructed wooden towers used in the experiment are illustrated inFigure 1. The logical errors were created by making some blocks unsupported in the buildingprocess. Page 8.652.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Thiede; James Hereford

experiments toanswer their questions. Figure 1 shows some of the labs that the students developed. Initially,the department had no wind tunnel or flow chambers to test fluid flow, so the students learnedabout u-tube manometers and Pitot-static tubes by creating a window cover and testing the speed (a) (b) (c)Figure 1. Low-cost mechanical labs: (a) air velocity lab, (b) strain gage golf club lab, (c) straingage truss loading laband velocity profile outside of a car. In the lab for studying strain gages, students were asked to Page 8.322.5bring in their own object to test. Students

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

Board for Engineering an d Technology. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. November 3, 2001. 3. McCuen, R. H. “A Course on Engineering Leadership.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 125(3), 79-82. 1999. 4. Tribus, M. “The Engineer and Public Policy-Making.” IEEE Spectrum. 14(4), 48-51. 1978. 5. Schott, R. L. “The Professions and Government: Engineering as a Case in Point.” Public Administration Review. 38(2), 126-132. 1978. 6. Cleary, D. B. and Sun, C. C. “Course in Professional Practice Issues.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 129(1), 52-57. 2003.biographical informationChris Gwaltney, P. E., is an associate

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 2268 Games as Teaching Tools in Engineering Mechanics Courses Timothy A. Philpot, Nancy Hubing, Richard H. Hall, Ralph E. Flori, David B. Oglesby, Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe computer as a teaching medium affords new opportunities for creative instructional activities that are notpossible in the traditional lecture and textbook format. One such type of activity is the use of interactive games.Several games have been developed and implemented in the Statics and Mechanics of Materials courses at theUniversity

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

thatopportunity. At least some assignments must be open-ended. Students must learn to think aboutthe problem, to ask questions, and to design an experiment to test their hypothesis. This alsodirectly addresses a number of ABET EC 2000 Criterion 3 Outcomes, with special emphasis on(b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data and (i) arecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.18Lord Kelvin once said, “I am never content until I have constructed a mechanical model of thesubject I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand; otherwise I do not. The ancientChinese proverb, “I forget what I hear; I remember what I see; I know what I do.” suggests thatthe importance of

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Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sallie Townsend; Natalie Segal

Page 8.1184.6problem would be the following problem:Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSerway1 2-50 A young woman named Kathy Kool buys a sports car that can accelerate at the rate of 4.90 m/s2. She decides to test the car by dragging with another speedster, Stan Speedy. Both start from rest, but experienced Stan leaves the starting line 1.00 s before Kathy. If Stan moves with a constant acceleration of 3.50m/s2 and Kathy maintains an acceleration of 4.90 m/s2, find (a) the time it takes Kathy to overtake Stan, (b) the distance she travels before catching him, and (c) the speeds of

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Nicholas; Ted Stilgenbauer; Anthony Brizendine

“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Chapters 15 through 18 and Appendix B, present the use of MicroStation as it pertains tohighway design. Appendix A houses the bridge project plans which are used for Module 2,likewise, Appendix B houses the highway project plans used for Module 3.Exercises Utilized in the ModulesIn order to facilitate an understanding of the material e.g. “learn-by-doing”, each chapter hasclass exercises and chapter review questions. The exercise’s intent is to reinforce practicallywhat was discussed during the chapter. Exercises are constructed to provide a building blockapproach

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Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Meade

Session 3515 Experience-Based Instruction in Engineering Education Ronald B. Meade, PhD, PE, Associate Professor Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, USAF AcademyStudents mature during their engineering education moving from being a student of science andtechnology to becoming an apprentice engineer. This process will occur regardless of thepractical experience held by the engineering faculty. However, maturation may be deepened bythe apt use of experienced-based instruction (EBI). This paper examines the usefulness ofengineering experience as a teaching tool.Assessment of student readiness

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Georg Mauer

” grade, while those of previous years averaged a “B”. A second indicator of motivation was time spent on the project: On average the student teams spent three afternoons weekly in the laboratory and learned a wide range of skills: solid modeling