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1997 Annual Conference

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M. Giger; K. M. Siddiqui; C. Loukides; F. Coowar

graphically in Figs. 7-14 painted thefollowing picture:i) The courses provided considerable knowledge but they were too theoretical and were notrelevant to the Lao environment.ii) The tutorials, laboratory sessions, practicals and home assignments were useful and helpfulin understanding the subjects.iii) The practical training and the final year project formed a useful background for the job.iv) The lecturers were well prepared and encouraged students to think for themselves.Furthermore their lectures were interesting and the lecturers made themselves available forconsultation after class.Although the above opinions were shared by the majority of the graduates, a substantialnumber disagreed, particularly on issues related to their lecturers. These

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1997 Annual Conference

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Walter Buchanan

a satisfactory level of competence in the areas of teaching, scholarship and servicein preparation for going up for promotion and tenure. TeachingSince teaching is the most important area for an engineering technology faculty member, anyschool that has engineering technology should establish a teaching culture. In this environment,excellence in teaching delivery in the classroom and laboratory should be expected as the sinequa non. In addition, a method to continually assess student learning, in addition to the normalgrading system, should be established. There should also be a method for ongoing curriculumand laboratory development in all courses, so as to maintain the state of the art in the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Patricia Olesak; Christine L. Corum

between the numbers) as quarters, andthe divisions on the thimble as pennies. When the total is added up, put a decimal sign in frontof the figures instead of a dollar sign.SoftwareA computer software program can be helpful in giving students an opportunity to work withphase diagrams. For a number of years, we have used a software program titled “The Use OfPhase Diagrams” in material laboratories as a supplement to phase diagram laboratories andlectures.3 The program contains a number of isomorphous and eutectic binary phase diagramexamples. Given a phase diagram to work with, students can practice calculations on their ownand then turn to the computer program to check their work. Each diagram labels phases andmarks the location of the alloy on

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1997 Annual Conference

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Gwan-Ywan Lai; Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

Manager Maestro QualityFigure 5: Role of RP & M in Concurrent Engineering Figure 6: RP & M ProcessApplication at GMI The current application at GMI involves three laboratories/functional areas/courses:polymer processing, computer integrated manufacturing, and metal casting. The application atGMI is as shown in Figure 6. Development of a new product will commence with conceptdevelopment and selection. At this early stage various groups of students from the threefunctional areas interface with each other and bring producibility issues to the table. A singlesolid model of the part to be built drives the entire process. The developed solid model is thenexamined and modified in order to meet the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Sandra L. Doty; Dr. Kathryn A. Svinarich; Cynthia Finelli

requirement to promotion, typically surpasses a full timecommitment. Moreover, the fiscal, facility, and expertise constraints of a small institute limitviable projects, particularly experimental endeavors. To meet the research requirements forpromotion, three junior, untenured faculty members (an electrical engineer and two physicists)took the initiative to form a cross-discipline, off-campus collaborative research effort with asenior, tenured physiologist at a mid-sized research university. The junior faculty memberscontribute their time and technical skills to the project. The physiologist provides mentoring,direction, laboratory space and supplies. The collaboration involves the waveform analysis of electroretinograms (ERG) in rats. Atthis

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ed Gohmann

the lab.The second lab does specific gravity by immersion in water and also includes an introduction tohardness testing stressing the use of manual hardness testers to improve hands-on skills.Students must take turns using some of the equipment, this helps develop teamwork skills. Bythe end of the second lab the students are ready for more involved work such as tensile testingand the effects of heat treating.Another topic that needs attention is the use of numbers. Most of the students have never given aphysical meaning to a number except for length. Presenting such concepts as stress and strainbefore actually doing the laboratory work causes the majority of the students considerableconsternation. Only after doing several tensile tests and

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1997 Annual Conference

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O. G. Petersen; Steven Barnicki; Cynthia Barnicki

members of thecommittee are elected each year by the faculty. Review criteria include teaching excellence,research activities, professional growth, and service to the university. Teaching excellence is themajor factor considered during the renewal process. The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is a private university that specializes intechnical based programs. The university offers undergraduate degrees in engineering,engineering technology, technical communications, business, and nursing and master’s degrees inengineering, engineering management, environmental engineering, and perfusion. The universitystresses undergraduate education, with an emphasis on design content, laboratories and smallclasses. The university does not use

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1997 Annual Conference

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

engineering technology curriculum because of the stronghands-on emphasis. The department of electrical engineering technology has been offeringnumber of high level courses in the areas of fiber optics, data communications & computernetworking, digital image processing & vision and data compression & multimedia technologyand optical communications. Because of hands-on nature of the program each course has anassigned laboratory. Considering the rapid rate at which electrical engineering technology andequipment are changing, the existing equipment needs to be updated and improved to adequatelyprepare the students.The purpose of this paper is to present the results of NSF-sponsored Instrumentation andLaboratory (ILI) program for equipment to

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gerard N. Foster

processing of voice and musicsignals can add interest and understanding to the basic concepts that are taught in electricalengineering technology. The applications presented below are some of the ways that the soundsof voice and music can be included in technical laboratories and demonstrations.Transduction and display of soundThe function generator is the standard device for the creation of waveforms in the laboratory.Such waveforms can be displayed and measured with an oscilloscope. However, waveforms canalso be gathered from physical media and transduced with a microphone and amplifier circuit.The author has successfully used this method on a number of occasions to demonstrate to highschool students and teachers the nature of sound, electronics

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1999 Annual Conference

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Nadia A. Basaly

development experiences; (3) increasing the retention rate of program participants as theyprogress in their pre-college and college courses; and (4) increasing the number of competentlyprepared minority and female students to pursue careers in SMET.2. Objectives Within this program a new course “Foundations of Engineering” was developed to attractstudents to the engineering program. The new course addressed three fundamental needs for thestudents: (1) awareness of future engineering careers and guidance through educational video tapes;(2) strong academic foundation in engineering and technology through developed laboratory-basedcourses; and (3) skills building targeting students’ creativity and learning abilities to help themunderstand

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1999 Annual Conference

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James N. Peterson; Herbert Hess

, for example, electrical wiring. The design team specified these to meet building codes andin a technical format appropriate for university physical plant technicians. Adding the waterwheel and a needed fire hydrant produces the expanded plumbing system shown in Figure 2. What will it cost? Parts and components total about $6000, not including installation,transportation, and constructing the powerhouse. This is considerably less than a comparablesolar installation.Summary of Technical Issues A discussion of the technical issues of this project appears in reference [1]. A brief summaryof the issues and design is given as follows. Operating voltage. The load consists of computers and laboratory equipment, lights, a radiofor

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1999 Annual Conference

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Jess Everett; Kauser Jahan

for enhancingtheir problem solving skills and encourages them to pursue graduate studies.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at Rowan University was created through a $100 million gift fromHenry and Betty Rowan in 1992. The College of Engineering’s key features includecollaborative teamwork in inter- and multi- disciplinary laboratory and coursework and theincorporation of state of the art technologies and innovative teaching methodologies. Activitiesof the freshman and sophomore engineering clinic classes at Rowan have already receivednational recognition (1-8). The freshman clinic focuses on primary principles, measurements,and competitive assessment. The sophomore clinic focuses on formalized engineering designtechniques. The junior and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; James Solomon; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

cannot be focused on just the physicsteacher. Second, it has to include a healthy dose of engineering science concepts and must includeinstructors across engineering disciplines. Third, it has to have a hands-on element that can be easilytransported to all high school laboratories and translated into all science courses taught. Finally, such anoutreach program cannot be a parochial effort, but must be national in scope. This paper will describe a very successful engineering outreach program that meets these criteria.The Science Educator Workshop sponsored by the American Vacuum Society (AVS) has been workingwith high school science teachers throughout the country for eight years. This workshop provides afocused educational experience

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thuyoanh Truong, California State Universtiy, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering; William Ferguson, Department of Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach; Roger C. Lo, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

using soft lithographic techniques11 and the AnalyticalInstrumentation Laboratory capable of fluorescence microscopy and image processing formicrofluidics applications through the collaboration with another ChE faculty, Professor SergioMendez. The cleanroom and laboratory are fully functional since Summer 2010, and we havepresented some preliminary results from these facilities at the 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting12.In the first course, the fundamentals of microfabrication techniques, chip design andmicrofluidics will be introduced in both class lectures and related readings. In the lab sessions,students will actually go to our research laboratory to design and fabricate microfluidic chipsusing soft lithography and perform simple experiments on

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Session D: Panel Discussion on Fostering the Implementation of Best Practices

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Anna Dollar, Miami University; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Sunil Saigal, P.E., New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Continuing Professional Development

bachelors and masters degrees in civil engineering in India, earning a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Punjab Engineering College in 1978 and an M.S. in Structures from the Indian Institute of Sci- ence in 1980. Saigal’s recent research interests include computational orthopedic biomechanics for the spine and shoul- der; computational cardiomechanics; computational nanomechanics for nanocomposite structures; and computational mechanics. Saigal has also held several prestigious research appointments, including at NASA, Ford Motors, and Sandia and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and Mercedes Benz. He has been the principal investigator on grants and contracts including research on computational models for the

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

energy lessons to their ownclassrooms, sustain student interest with inquiry-based problem solving experiences, and assessthe effectiveness of their efforts using valid research methods. The Emerging Technology Institute (ETI) is a collaborative project of Northern IllinoisUniversity, Rockford Public School District, West Aurora Unit School District, Rich TownshipHigh School District, and Harlem Consolidated School District supported by the Illinois StateBoard of Education. The main focus of the project is to provide middle school and high schoolscience, math and technology teachers with hands-on interdisciplinary experience with faculty instate-of-the-art laboratories of alternative energy, nanotechnology, fuel cell, and

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Learning Outside the Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program” as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled ”EXCEL:UCF- STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence.” Dr. Georgiopoulos’ research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, neural networks, pattern recognition and applications in signal/image pro- cessing, communications, medical field, manufacturing, transportation engineering, amongst others. Dr. Georgiopoulos is a Director of the Machine Learning Laboratory at UCF.Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida Dr. Cynthia Y. Young is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida where she holds a secondary joint appointment in

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1999 Annual Conference

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Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

price (~$70 per copy), this fall, must meet the instrumentation requirements ofmost academic laboratories [www.natinst.com].Properly sensed and conditioned signals determine the quality of display, analysis, and control ofdata from real time systems. Study of a lathe instrumentation system, whose discussion is thesubject of this paper, provides students with hands-on experience and an environment to comparedata from laboratory experiments. Here the NI Labview instrumentation and analysis softwarealong with its DAQ board, has been utilized to interface signals from an actual lathe system setup to a PC. Required initial preparation and the details of NIDAQ and Labview in an electric dcM-G set implementation are discussed in a previous paper. The

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

returning the students to the step-by-stepprocedure following framework of traditional laboratories. The goal of our design projectdevelopment is to generate a lightly-structured problem and set of investigations that allowindependent though and effort, but incorporate enough guidance that the relativelyinexperienced experimentalist can succeed and learn.The test bed that we have chosen to investigate is the design and implementation of a one-axislight tracking system. The light tracker system is an electro-mechanical device intended to Page 4.531.1perform fixation on a mobile light source. Students perform component and systemidentification

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1999 Annual Conference

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Mahlon Heller

using different strategies or variations to a common approach and thathas a team component. This paper discusses the construction of Mobile Robots (MOBOTs) inthe Electronic and Electrical Engineering undergraduate robotics laboratory of California StateUniversity, Sacramento that contains interdisciplinary engineering design. The course is opento all engineering and computer science students with a sufficient background. The MOBOT iscomposed of a based mobile platform (Brawn) driven by two motors on which is mounted anembedded microprocessor board with various sensors (Brain). Interactive C (IC), developed atthe MIT Media Lab, is used to program the MOBOT for autonomous operation and non-autonomous tests. During the lab periods, MOBOT teams are

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1999 Annual Conference

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Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

component in developing public science literacy is teaching scientists to communicatewith and educate the public. NSF Director Rita Colwell recently said, "...we cannot expect thetask of science and math education to be the sole responsibility of K through 12 teachers whilescientists and graduate students live only in their universities and laboratories. There is no groupof people who should feel more responsible for science and math education in this nation thanour scientists and scientists-to-be." 2 "….We need to…reach out with clarity, explain what we Page 4.456.1do to the public, talk to the media, try new approaches to achieve a more inclusive

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ron Day; Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

Division of Litton Industries, a Senior Engineer withGeneral Electric and NASA/JSC, and an engineer with HD Electronics and Texaco Research Laboratory. He servedin the USAF. Mr. Douglas has won several awards for his work in industry. He is a member of the ASEE and TauAlpha Pi, and a registered engineer in Mississippi and Tennessee.RON DAYRon Day received a B.S. in 1967 and an M.A. in 1970 in Industrial Education and Technology from WesternKentucky University. He graduated from the U.S. Army Engineer Officer Candidate School in 1968. Mr. Day isChair of the Department of Engineering Technology and an Associate Professor of Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology at The University of Memphis. He has worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and

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2000 Annual Conference

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John D. Enderle

,documenting deficiencies, weaknesses, concerns, and strengths. Suggestions for improvementare usually provided in this report. Also described are the evaluator’s findings concerningevaluation and assessment processes in place for the unit, and the use of processes to improve theeffectiveness of the program.On Tuesday (Day 2) the team provides copies of the first draft of the Exit Interview ProgramStatement to the Team Chair at the beginning of the day. The evaluator inspects classrooms,laboratories and offices to assess the adequacy of allocated space, furnishings, and equipmentavailable to students, faculty and support staff. The evaluator completes meetings withremaining institutional representatives. The evaluator then revises the draft exit

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert H. Mayer

” course has been carried over andsupplemented by an additional requirement that students develop a web page (for posting on theInternet) that summarizes their findings. Although the majority of class sessions are lectureoriented, ample time is set aside for student presentations, guest speakers, field trips to localwater and wastewater treatment facilities, occasional participation in locally-held professionalconferences, and several laboratory exercises dealing with pollution measurement anddispersion. At least one class section (of approximately 20 students) has been offered everysemester since course inception in academic year 1996. Student evaluations have beenconsistently favorable and score appreciably above the norm

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Bob Lahidji

curriculum is composed of 33% mathematics and sciences, 25% liberal studies, and40 to 45% in the major field of study. Approximately 67% of the course work in the major fieldof study are Engineering Technology subjects that involve some type of laboratory activities3.Manufacturing Engineering Technology is a field of study that has the responsibility oftranslating the designs and specifications of a product into manufacturing processes to produce aproduct that meets customer needs.Careers in Engineering TechnologyGraduates of Engineering Technology hold many different industrial positions with many ofthem being related to their undergraduate area of specialization. Some of the EngineeringTechnology graduates hold engineering jobs, which have been

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2000 Annual Conference

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John W. Pierre; Badrul H. Chowdhury; Jerry Hamann; Raymond Jacquot

are the required sophomore linear systems course, the required juniorelectric networks course, and a senior elective digital signal processing course.2. Linear SystemsThe topics in the linear systems course are Laplace transforms, electrical and mechanical systemmodeling, transfer functions, poles and zeros, frequency response, convolution, Fourier series,and filtering of periodic signals. When Fourier analysis is discussed a laboratory exercise hasbeen developed that addresses the topic of power quality, particularly harmonics present on theelectric power grid and how they might be eliminated to protect appliances, computers andcommunication equipment. Of course this can be accomplished by lowpass filtering of the linevoltage but if current

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Phil Fabiano

retention, mastery of coursesubject matter, computer skills, laboratory skills, development skills, PE licensing, professionalsociety involvement, pursuing advanced degrees, and employment.2. Curriculum: Insure that the curriculum and labs in each ET discipline meet applicable NJIT,ABET, industry, professional licensing, and student requirements.3. New Program Opportunities: Increased enrollment through the development of newacademic programs.4. Support To Students: Enhance student success by providing the necessary support withregard to academic advisement, day and evening advisement, flexible laboratory schedules,assess to PCs and Workstations.5. Faculty and Staff Development: Provide faculty with the opportunity to remain current withregard to

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1997 Annual Conference

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William H. Sprinsky

degrees are ABET accredited.We recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Curriculum (ILI) grant. Themajor thrust of implementation reflects the revolution caused by technology in civilengineering and survey. We give each student not only the theory but also actualexperience with the projects and equipment that are the "bread and butter" of civilengineering practice. Laboratories in cartography, photogrammetry, surveying and civilengineering are designed to integrate experiences in this new technology.In the area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the merger of information fromdifferent sources, often in different formats, is the norm in civil engineering technologypractice, using GIS-based systems. We must recognize and keep up

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert W. Nowlin; Rajeswari Sundararajan

ASSIGNMENTS To complement the lecture and enhance the student’s learning experience, a lab (orassignment) manual has been developed. The students are also required to select a morecomplicated system than required by the labs to model as a final project (There is not a labassociated with the course. These “labs” are really just assignments, but are being referred to aslabs.). The labs that have been developed are listed in Table 2 and some of the projects that thestudents have modeled are given in Table 3. Table 2: Laboratory (Course) AssignmentsLab 1: Registers and Combinatorial Logic Code for an entity and architecture pair using the structural style of coding is developedfor an 8-bit register with read, write

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1998 Annual Conference

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Ryan B. Wicker; Rolando Quintana; Michael Camet

amandatory problem-solving laboratory once a week. The department that the course was taughtout of as well as the status of the instructor (full or part time and length of time teaching thecourse) was collected. The instructor was contacted for textbook and syllabus information. Thedata collected is shown in Table 1. Note that the number one denotes "Yes", the number twodenotes "No", "R" denotes required, and "TE" indicates technical elective. Timing describes theapproximate time the course engineering economy is taken, with one being the first semester ofthe freshman year and eight being the second semester of the senior year. It should be noted that the semester during which engineering economy was taken is notnecessarily the same as when