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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

to others.VII. Lessons Learned in Developing Engineering and Engineering Technology LaboratoriesThe experience gained from teaching this software package to technicians and technologists inindustry, and then to practicing engineers, has provided valuable insight into developing thistype of laboratory for undergraduate students. The intent is to share our findings in the hope thatyour labs will gain from our experience. Two of the producers of test and measurement softwaredescribed in the paper issue regular newsletters and bulletins for the academic community1,5.These publications describe special offers to academics to use the software for development anduse in educational and industrial laboratories. They also publish experiences of and

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2001 Annual Conference

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Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

companies, with student activities, team projects and senior projects as the primary vehicle.The existing manufacturing facilities, including the metal removal, casting, rapid prototyping andelectronics manufacturing laboratories of Cal Poly, provide the "real" factory hardwareenvironment. A Production Planning and Control Center is being developed to provide thedecision making and communication functions required in the modern factory. These two systemswill function as an integrated whole by utilizing state of the art communication networks. TheTeaching Factory will not eliminate traditional lessons, but rather will supplement them byproviding an integrative framework to link courses throughout the curriculum. Furthermore, andwhenever necessary

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2001 Annual Conference

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Douglas Ludlow

’ Essays,” College Composition and Communication 37, 91-93 (1986).2) Elbow, P., Writing Without Teachers, Oxford University Press, New York, (1973).3) Herrington, A. and D. Cadman, “Peer Review and Revising in an Anthropology Course,” College Composition and Communication 42, 184-99 (1991).4) Holt, M., “The Value of Written Criticism,” College Composition and Communication 43, 384-92 (1992).5) Newell, J.A., “The Use of Peer-Review in the Undergraduate Laboratory,” ASEE National Meeting CDROM, Session 2513 (1996).6) Ludlow, D.K, and K.H. Schulz, “Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of North Dakota,” Journal of Engineering Education, 83(2), 161-68 (1994).7) Schulz, K.H., and D.K. Ludlow, “Incorporating Group Writing

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2001 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Reid

these explained by their peers in many cases.This paper will report on one study involving two sections of a freshman introductory course.The course is Digital Circuits I in an Electrical Engineering Technology program, consisting oftwo sections of approximately 35 students in each section. Both sections went through half ofthe semester (including two exams) with a classroom format that was about 90% traditional and10% active/collaborative, with 100% traditional laboratory experiments: student pairs workingthrough a weekly laboratory experiment. At the midpoint of the semester, the format of onesection continued (although a group design project was introduced), while the other lecture andlaboratory changed. The new lecture format was mini

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Loker

Session 2259 Remote Data Acquisition using LabVIEW David R. Loker, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote data acquisition laboratory project is presented for a senior technicalelective telecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology BaccalaureateProgram at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several unique characteristics ofthis project. First, the project is multidisciplinary in nature since it combines material from thetelecommunications course with material from a junior level instrumentation

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2000 Annual Conference

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Norm Pumphrey; William M. Jordan

semester hour lecture type course. There aretwo new (or newly revised) materials lab courses. The new civil engineering materials labcourse, CVEN 202 Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory, is a modification of the labcomponent of what used to be in a three semester hour lecture/lab course. We have taken acurrent mechanical engineering lab course, MEEN 215 Engineering Materials Laboratory, andmodified it to suit the needs of our new integrated program.The new lecture course is very different from the two lecture courses it replaced. In contrast toits predecessor civil engineering course, it vastly expands the coverage of metals and theirproperties. In the past, we covered iron and steel primarily from a “macro” perspective – welooked at how loads

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2001 Annual Conference

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

solving. They also discussed FreshmanDesign Texts. Hanesian and Perna [7] discussed their experiences in using the senior ChemicalEngineering Laboratory as the basis of a measurements laboratory to introduce freshman todesign concepts since measurements are a fundamental part of all engineering disciplines. Page 6.157.2Kielson [8] discussed a two-semester course, which introduced students to design and problemProceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Copyright @ 2001, American Society of Engineering Educationsolving, hands-on experience, critical

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1998 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

elements covered in the previous section include the minimum information requiredfor the delivery of a course. However, in most engineering and engineering technology coursesadditional learning activities are present, including:• Delivery of problem sets and example problems• Analysis of case studies• Development of problem solving skills through exercises• Development of team building skills• Performance of laboratory experimentsEach of these additional course elements will be addressed, along with suggestions and examplesillustrating how these various activities might be moved to a web-based course.Delivery of problem sets and example problems: Technical courses usually require solution ofdesign and analysis problems. The most direct

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1998 Annual Conference

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

as departments. Eachresponsibility center either provides instruction called an academic center or is considered asupport unit called a support center. Under this management style, the PSET is an academiccenter. The IUPUI campus consists of twenty-seven responsibility centers. Of these, eighteenare academic centers and nine are support centers.In RCM, each center receives virtually all of the income it generates. An academic unit, like thePSET, receives all of its income from student fees, laboratory fees, indirect cost recovery (ICR)income from contract and grants, and a share of state appropriation determined by the centraladministration. PSET state appropriation income share changes annually depending on a numberof factors. Centers are

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1998 Annual Conference

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J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

was taught as a two semester-credit hour course, including one lecture hour and twolaboratory hours. A typical class was designed to meet for a one-hour lecture on Mondayfollowed by two one-hour laboratory sessions on Wednesday and Friday. Active learning Page 3.296.5techniques were used throughout the course, in both lecture and laboratory settings in an attemptto improve learning compared to a "typical" course, improve the grades of weaker students,increase retention of course material in the classroom, improve self-confidence of students,encourage supportive interaction among students in the academic environment, and increaseinteraction

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1998 Annual Conference

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Marjorie Davis; John Palmer; Helen Grady; Clayton Paul; Allen F. Grum

12 6 14• 3 2 4 indicates 3 hours of lecture, 2 hours of laboratory, and 4 total credit hours• GA/HSS denotes Global Awareness/ Humanities Social Science.• XXX 3XX denotes any specialization (BME, ECE, ISE, MAE, etc) at the 300 levellearn the basic processes of engineering design and project management, practice groupdynamics, and engage in oral and written communication. The two calculus courses (EGR 171and 172) cover the standard differential and integral calculus skills, while the associatedlaboratories (EGR 171L and EGR 172L) provide the student with engineering applications of Page 3.88.4those skills. These labs, taught by

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1998 Annual Conference

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Scott R. Short

included in the curriculum. In an effort to minimize the number of credithours required to graduate yet still cover these two important topics, the Department of Mechani-cal Engineering at Northern Illinois University is incorporating statistics in the laboratory sectionof their required materials science course. This match is a natural one because the laboratoryprojects require data acquisition, reduction, and statistical analysis. Probability paper plots andRockwell hardness tests are used to introduce the student to the fundamental building block ofstatistics, the frequency distribution. An often-overlooked graphical statistical technique, the useof probability paper plots, is a potent teaching tool.Introducing Statistics to StudentsStatistics

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1997 Annual Conference

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Yeu-Sheng Shiue; Bernard B. Beard

andflexibility. CAD/CAM and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools play importantroles in modern manufacturing engineering.Indoctrinating students in the modern production process is crucial. ME 435, the IntermediateManufacturing course offered by the mechanical engineering department at Christian BrothersUniversity (CBU), addresses this need. First offered in the fall of 1996, the class revolves aroundthe use of computers to integrate the design, analysis, and manufacturing phases of production.Students in ME 435 use the facilities of the Integrated Laboratory for Manufacturing Education(ILME) developed at CBU under a National Science Foundation grant.Students are first introduced to parametric design methodology, including part and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

providing sufficient and appropriate emphasis on design to meet the needs ofcompetitive business practice in an intensive global marketplace.The First Phase of Design Enhancement at StevensIn 1991 Stevens Institute took a significant step towards addressing the improvement ofcompetencies associated with design by the introduction of a Design Thread that included threenew core design laboratories. These courses were added in the second semesters of freshman,sophomore and junior years respectively to complement the traditional one-year capstone seniordesign project. The design thread also included an existing Engineering Graphics course in thefirst semester of the sophomore year. A two-course sequence (increased from one) inengineering management was

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1999 Annual Conference

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Tony N. Rogers; David R. Shonnard; Besty M. Aller; Kirk H. Schulz; Anton Pintar

: Page 4.177.4Tool #1 Department-designed skills test to be given to the seniors in the Spring Quarter. The grade will be included in the course grade in the Unit Operations Laboratory. The test will measure fundamental knowledge, design skills, and problem solving skills. ABET goals addressed: a, c, e Program criteria addressed: A-2 through A-8 Desired Achievement Level: 95% pass rate (>80 out of 100 score)Tool #2 Plant design reports and AIChE senior design project. Faculty not involved in teaching plant design will review these for fundamental knowledge, innovation, research, and problem-solving skills ABET goals addressed: a, c, e, k

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1999 Annual Conference

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A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

/laboratory materials. The web site(http://cfdlab.engr.utk.edu/551w) was specifically designed and developed to support Page 4.268.1functionality requirements for distance and off-campus local students, as well as "resident"students located in the Internet teaching laboratory at UTK.This paper details the pedagogical and technical innovations created to enable this functionality.The remote (and local) environment requires no more than a “respectable” PC with adequatesound card and some additional (inexpensive and free) software. Two way live communication isenabled via a chat room3, and networked email connects all students, support

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1999 Annual Conference

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Russel C. Jones

. Page 4.277.1Global Congress DiscussionsEffective Teaching Methods - Several papers presented at the Global Congress stressedthe need for ongoing innovation in teaching and learning methodologies in engineeringeducation. It was noted in discussion that there needs to be variety and balance inteaching methods, and that technologies appropriate to the subject matter should beutilized. Laboratory development was stressed as a very important component ofengineering education, and the integration of lectures with laboratory experiences andproject work was identified as an ideal scenario.It was noted that often the laboratory facilities available for engineering educationbecome obsolete, when compared with the current state-of-the-art in industry

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Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University

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Aerospace Division (AERO)

Paper ID #43722Aerospace Lunar Lander System Design - A High School Student’s IndependentDesign ProjectDr. Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D. Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Office: 470-578-7241 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Aerospace Lunar Lander System Design - A High School Student’s Independent Design ProjectAbstract:In this study, a high school student is involved in research in an engineering laboratory at a publicuniversity. The student started with limited research skills but was able to quickly learn some ofthe tools and

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MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kazi Md Masum Billah, University of Houston, Clear Lake

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

several academic and research institutions, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, the University of Texas at El Paso, and the World University of Bangladesh. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development of Hands-on Additive Manufacturing Course AbstractIn this paper, developmental effort toward an Additive Manufacturing (AM) senior elective coursefor undergraduate mechanical engineering students is presented. To develop the next generation ofengineers with digital manufacturing skill sets, the AM course offers unique opportunities forundergraduate engineering students. A senior elective in the AM

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University; Celestine Chukwuemeka Aguwa, Wayne State University; Darin Ellis, Wayne State University; Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Shlomo S. Sawilowsky, Wayne State University

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NSF Grantees

Intelligence and Design Informatics (CInDI) Laboratory and the Product Development and System Engineering Consortium (PDSEC). Dr. Kim’s research focuses on assembly design; collaborative product development; computational intelli- gence and informatics for product design and development; sustainable and renewable energy product design; and design and manufacturing of soft products. Dr. Kim has received over $5.9M by external funding from several U.S. federal agencies including NSF, NIDRR, and Department of Energy, the Ko- rean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, and industries including Ford and GM. Currently, Dr. Kim is a planning site director for the NSF Industry and University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for e

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Multidisciplinary Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

in the fieldof nanobiomedicine; and have been accepted into graduate medical physics programs. Based onthe new course Principles of Nanomedicine, a set of interdisciplinary laboratories has beendeveloped and offered for Rose-Hulman students by the Department of Physics and OpticalEngineering (PHOE) and Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, whichcover the basic principles and practice of photonics, laser physics and nanoscience to addressfundamental questions in health science.We have organized and managed research on biophotonics and nanomedicine at RHIT for sixyears (2004-2010), during which time 40 undergraduate students have participated in a widerange of cancer-related projects. Currently, we are developing a

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald H. Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

anddistance delivery2, but this paper will focus on using these systems strictly for face to faceclasses.One of these systems, Moodle, has been used for two years in three Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Of the three courses,one is a senior design capstone project course, one is a traditional lecture course, and one is acombination of lecture and laboratory. This paper will describe the attributes of this coursemanagement system, and how it can be effectively incorporated into a face to face course. Someof the attributes that will be described in this paper include: Students can upload assignments, and be able to see their grade, comments from the instructor, and have their

Conference Session

Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isaac W. Wait, Marshall University; Richard F. McCormick, Marshall University; Sydney M. Wait, Marshall University

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Environmental Engineering

undertaken when conducting a “Microbial Kinetics andReactor Design” project during the Spring 2010 offering of Advanced Water and WastewaterTreatment (CE 434) at Marshall University is summarized in the sections below. CE 434 is asenior-level, elective undergraduate course without a lab component, and it is taken by studentsas a follow-on to an earlier required undergraduate water and wastewater treatment course thatdoes include a laboratory component. During the Spring 2010 semester, eight students wereenrolled in CE 434, and they were assigned into two groups by the instructor for purposes ofconducting this project.Project problem statementMidway through the semester, after having already covered concepts related to kinetics, reactortheory, and

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

collection was transferred to the new facility.The FDLP print reports have been moved to an off-site remote storage with retrieval capabilitiesfor on campus use; the FDLP microform reports have been partly incorporated with theGovernment Documents collection and partly moved to an on-campus storage facility. The onlyunit of the reports collection retained at the library was the departmental technical reports.The library has collected departmental reports issued by departments, laboratories and centersaffiliated with the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) from the late 1940s to thelate 1990s. Today, SEAS at Princeton University consists of 6 departments and 6interdisciplinary centers but the school evolved over the years and that

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

microcontroller is the most important component of this project. It monitors the inputs, performs computations,makes decisions, and drives the outputs in the manner desired by the designer. After evaluating some of the mostpopular microcontrollers such as the Motorola 68HC11, the Intel 8051, Microchip PICs, and the Parallax BasicStamps, the design team decided to use Handy Board from the Media Laboratory at MIT [5]. The Handy Board usesthe Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller with 2 MHZ system clock. It has the means of driving up to four separate DCmotors. It contains power header inputs for 9 digital sensors and 7 analog sensors, 32k of battery-backed CMOSstatic RAM, 16x2 character LCD screen, internal 9.6 Volt Nicad battery with recharging circuitry, an IR

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1999 Annual Conference

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Said Shakerin; Daniel Jensen

at the end of the paper for clarity.Instrumentation and Experimental Methods (MECH110) - This is a required course forall mechanical engineering students and an elective for other engineering majors. Aformal laboratory with six well-defined experiments in different areas accompanies thiscourse. There is also a term project that requires students to design, construct, and test adevice, and write an engineering report. Two experiments have been designed for thelaboratory to illustrate applications of photoelasticity in stress analysis (selected fromthose listed in the Appendix), and students are encouraged to incorporate photoelastictesting in their term projects. One example is study of a C-clamp with strain gages and a2-D photoelastic model

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

to organize engineering, and technology,. The task forceenrichment activities of middle school teachers and established under the auspices of the legislationcounselors, known as Summer Academy for reported the following: America faces a shortfall ofTeachers. scientists and engineers by the year 2000; and these shortfalls can only be met by utilizing all of our Curriculum is designed for teaching middle nations’s talent, i.e., women and under representedschool teachers and counselors. In a laboratory ethnic/racial groups [7,15,16,17].based setting, CAD/CAM, computers

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1999 Annual Conference

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Tom Mase

(formerlyGMI Engineering & Management Institute), various software and data files are also availablefrom the author (tmase@kettering.edu). It is hoped that this information will allow the project tobe used at other institutions promoting engineering design using advanced CAE tools such asLS-DYNA.Several engineering topics are used in this virtual golf ball laboratory, or golf ball V-lab, whichis delivered from the course web site2 (Fig. 1). These topics range from freshman to senior levelsubjects. In spite of this span over the curriculum, the V-lab is meant to be able to work well Page 4.45.1with freshman in an introductory engineering course or

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

, laboratories, and the design project were also evaluated by the students. Thefindings revealed a highly significant increase in mathematics scores, significantly greaterknowledge of the field of engineering, and greater family support to study engineering over theseven-week program. There was also a less dramatic, but positive increase in commitment tostudy engineering. The engineering activities were well received by the students.BackgroundOverall, undergraduate engineering enrollments have been declining, while at the same time thedemand for engineers has been increasing. Many are concerned that America will not have a Page 4.53.1sufficient supply of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence P. O'Connor

joint project wasdesigned which involved students from a laboratory physics class (P309: ModernPhysics Laboratory) at Indiana University Southeast (IUS) and students in thePurdue Electrical Engineering Technology program (located on the IUS campus)enrolled in an electronics course (EET 257: RF and Power Electronics ). The IUSphysics students constructed three antennas designed to be sensitive in theULF/ELF frequency ranges. The Purdue students designed and constructedamplifying and filtering circuitry for the antennas as a part of their work in EET.The physics students were also responsible for recording and analyzing the data.To date the project has involved over 30 students and continues to be veryeffective in presenting meaningful research