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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Reuber; Mark Archibald; Blair Allison

calledEngineering Criteria 2000 or EC 2000) requires students to be familiar with experimentalstatistics. This requirement is implied in four places: program outcomes a, b, and k, listed undergeneral criteria, and a specific curriculum requirement listed under the program criteria formechanical engineering programs: General Criteria: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering. Program Criteria specific to mechanical engineering: “The program

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

: Program Outcomes and Course Matrix Program Outcome: ChE will produce I T T P P P P P graduates who n C M h r M U R M r r C r r o t h E e a a n e a o o h o o l r E B r n s it a t c c E c c y o C m s s O c e e e L e

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chow Michael; Barry Farbrother

their particular schedules. Mr. Chow’s normal workweek runs from Tuesday through Saturday,thereby enabling him to be present outside of regularly scheduled academic (M-F) time. These arrangements guaranteestudents’ access to the EiR on a weekly basis. The computer workstations are equipped with MAP standard software and Page 8.913.11 Dr. Barry J. Farbrother, Ph. D., C.Eng., Dean, T. J. Smull College of Engineering, Ada, Ohio 45810, USA. b-farbrother@onu.edu2 Mr. Michael Chow, PE, Engineer in Residence, Biggs Engineering building, 525 South Main St, Ada, OH 45810, USA MHChow@MAPLLC.com

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Candice Stefanou; Karen Marosi; Margot Vigeant

-FFF was a summer research program designed to pair studentswith professor-mentors with whom they would conduct research and learn about academiccareers. While there was success in filling the program with interested students, it did not appearsuccessful at encouraging women and minority students to go on to academic professions. In thiswork, we present the results of two surveys on why people do (or do not) go on to academiccareers and the work currently ongoing at Bucknell to address the findings.The first survey queried graduates who may or may not have participated in GE-FFF, to discoverif the training they had received was important to their decision about which career to pursue.The conclusion of this survey was that there seemed to be

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anil Khatri

effortdeveloped [7]. b) decrease time-to-market the product c) reuse domain model (for new product) The reference model provides important d) customize product (product line)relationship between the technical andorganizational activities of software reuse within RESEARCH APPROACH: USE CASEsoftware engineering process. Utilization of an MODELINGappropriate software reuse reference model in a We used the Unified Modeling Language (UML)software development organization allows tool to build our reference model as use casesoftware engineering management to identify diagrams [see

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

itsultrasound, infrared, and proximity sensors. The full size of the robot is 8 cm in diameter and 10cm in height. Figure 3 (a) shows all the levels and auxiliary parts for the robots. (a) (b) Figure 3. Control, Communication, Sensors, and Locomotion ModulesIn addition to communication module in the robots, we have developed a communication modulefor the host computer, right bottom corner image in Figure 3 (a). The host computer receivesdata from the scouts and sends common tasks.As stated earlier, the most important part of the modularity is the ability to swap the bases whilekeeping the rest of the robot the same. In addition to the wheel-based locomotion, a leg

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Deisenroth

for the course states: Basic skills of public speaking; speech organization and delivery; emphasis on in- class delivery of speeches.The course learning objectives for COMM 2004 are: Students should be able to: • learn the basic theory/concepts of oral communication in a public setting. • become more effective communicators…to do this, they should develop or refine their skills in: a) analyzing and adapting to the audience, b) selecting, researching, and supporting topics, c) organizing, outlining, wording, and delivering extemporaneous presentations, and d) speaking individually, and in group contexts, in informative, persuasive, constructive feedback and question and

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

Session 3449 Critical-Thinking Approach to Teaching Mechanical Engineering Jan T. Lugowski Purdue University1. IntroductionCritical thinking, in the context of teaching, means a careful consideration of the material learnedby students in class and outside of it. It is very natural to accept without questioning materialpresented by the teacher, textbook, journals, internet, etc. Several examples are presented thatshow how detrimental this approach is to student’s learning. Questioning, or carefullyconsidering, requires courage, also to admit incompetence

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cassel

business management. For the latter, interested students arereferred to excellent management courses at Penn’s Wharton School of Business.The two courses are each cross-listed at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The first courseis offered every semester and provides an introduction to the early phases of a high-tech venture.It investigates the knowledge and skills needed to recognize and seize an entrepreneurialopportunity, and then successfully launch a startup or spin-off company. This course focuses onthe key areas of: (a) intellectual property, its protection and related strategies; (b) evaluating themarket viability of new high-tech ideas; (c) shaping technology-driven inventions into market-driven products; (d) developing defensible

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

Session 2793 The ASEE Chemical Engineering Summer School for New Faculty - A Model for Other Disciplines to Consider Michael B. Cutlip, H. Scott Fogler, and C. Stewart Slater Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut/ Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan / Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe Chemical Engineering Division (CHED) of the American Society for Engineering Educationheld the 13th in a series of Chemical Engineering Summer Schools during the summer of 2002 atthe University of Colorado

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Evans

for their help regardless of any benefit.Appeal gently to their philanthropic side. Also, if Contractor A agrees to donate a backhoe for afew days, tell Contractor B; he will be more highly motivated to help if he knows his competitorsare involved. Finally, spread the load. Do not expect any one group to donate everything. Lookfor lots of limited participation from lots of different sources. Figure 5. New England Home resident tries out the new playground in his backyard. Page 8.306.10 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

when a certain height was reached.Car Parking Distance System and Forklift Obstruction SystemThe students used a radio controlled car to demonstrate a system that sensed how closethe car was to an object and displayed the results in the form of a series of coloredLED’s. Previously a similar project detected when an obstruction to a forklift’s path wasdetected and sounded an alarm.Relevance to ABET EAC 2003-20004While the course objectives and curriculum were developed for pedagogical reasons withinput from industry, there are several areas of student development that are stronglyemphasized in the Mechatronics class in the ABET program outcomes a-k3.b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

Session 1320 Using PDAs on Autonomous Robots to Promote Engineering to Middle School Students Abraham L. Howell, Roy T.R. McGrann Mechanical Engineering Department Binghamton University (SUNY)Abstract The utilization of robots and handheld PDAs (Portable Digital Assistant) to promote theteaching of science and engineering along with a specific experiment and a future experiment willbe discussed in this paper. Students are introduced to how valuable science and engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

, VA.[8] Burkart, R., B. Schulz and B. Soehngen, (1998) “Computer Imaging for Transportation Projects,” ITE Journal, Vol. 68, Issue 2, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, DC.[9] Nelson, E. James, Norman L. Jones and Russell J. Berrett (1999) “Adaptive Tessellation Method for Creating TINs from GIS Data,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.[10] Jones, Norman L. and Stephen G. Wright (1991) “Algorithm for Smoothing Trian gulated Surfaces,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.WAYNE SARASUAWayne Sarasua has a B.S.C.E. from the University of California at Berkeley

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Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

surveys are coupled with instructor self-evaluationsin order to identify problems in the curriculum. Table 2 gives the Chemical Engineering coursesurvey questions. The metrics that are used for the survey are as follows: • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criteria a, b, c, e, and k in one course per semester for sophomores and higher; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion d in senior level laboratory and design courses; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion g in the sophomore-level technical communications course and in the senior level unit operations laboratory

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

followingpage.Where A-H stands for: A. Parents wanted me to attend B. Wanted to lean about careers in engineering C. Wanted to lean about careers in science D. Wanted to be away from home for summer E. Could not find a summer job F. Wanted to meet new and interesting people G. Wanted to prepare myself for college H. Wanted to enhance my awareness of professional career opportunity available in engineering and science Page 8.1211.5 Factors → A B C D E F G H Max 75.0% 73.0% 69.0% 18.0

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Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kenneth French

about 80[kRPM] . The JET-A fuel averaged an angularacceleration of 4.50+/- 0.20 [kRPM/s] and the biodiesel from unused oil averaged 3.50+/- 0.44 [kRPM/s]. The engine acceleration using biodiesel from used oil was about 15%less than that of biodiesel made from unused oil, but unfortunately the fuel was depletedbefore the formal tests were run.ConclusionsTTL includes in their operations manual [4] a variety of acceptable fuels; JET-A, A-1, B,4,5,8, heating fuel oil, diesel kerosene and ‘gaseous fuel system’. The JBU tests haveextended the fuel menu to biodiesel made from unused or lightly used vegetable basedcooking oils. The extension to themenu of fuels for the SR-30 engine is to develop abroader educational experience. Beyond the testing

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chih-Ping Yeh

. The feasibility of implementing themore modern lock-in analyzer in the LabVIEW environment was also investigated. The mainfunctional difference between the lock-in analyzer and the lock-in amplifier is that the analyzerdoes not require the phase of the reference signal to be set manually. This makes usage of theAnalyzer much simpler than that of the Amplifier. The concept of the lock-in amplifier for phase-signal detection is based on the cross-correlation of two sinusoidal signals. Given the local reference signal, f R (t ) = a ⋅ sin(ϖ R t ) , andthe input signal, f S (t ) = b ⋅ sin(ϖ S t + φ ) , the cross-correlation is given by nT 1

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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George List; Stacy Eisenman

must beexperienced before B) or an advisory sense (it is helpful / useful if A is experienced before B). For Page 8.620.6example, the more basic experiences should precede the intermediate experiences, which should “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2793precede the advanced experiences. The integrative experiences should take place after all otherexperiences have taken place. There will also be

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Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Meyer

Environment, (b) Bioprocessing, and (c) Bioengineering. Bioengineering is a logical extension of engineering principles to the analysis of abiological mechanics and information processing, including the area of biomedical engineering 5.Bioengineering lies at the interface of biological sciences, engineering sciences, mathematics andcomputational sciences. It focuses on biological systems for enhancing the quality and diversity of life.Bioengineering originally emerged at the University of Nebraska with an emphasis on plant and animalsystems applied to agricultural problems. This included using mathematical models of plant and animalprocesses to define design requirements for physical systems to enhance biological quality andproductivity. Health and

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Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abul Azad

and faculty can perform experiments through a web-assisted physical laboratory from aremote location. The equipment is housed within a laboratory, while the only requirement forthe remote site is a PC with Internet access and a browser. In order to develop this system, asuitable experiment needs to be identified. Once the experiment has been selected, the requiredtasks can be divided into three major steps. The first step involves identifying the accuracy ofthe experiments, number of inputs and outputs and the system’s speed along with the selection ofa suitable interfacing card and software. The second step deals with the development of softwarefor experiment control and data acquisition along with a user-friendly graphical user

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

small company, or start theirown business.Biographical InformationGreg Feierfeil, P.E. is a college professor at Lawrence Technological University and is thecoordinator for the Lear Entrepreneur Center for the Mechanical Engineering Department. Hereceived a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit and an M.S. inMechanical Engineering from Wayne State University, in Detroit. He retired from Ford MotorCompany after nearly 36 years in Engineering and Information Technology.Dr. Rizk holds three degrees in Engineering, including the Doctor of Science in EngineeringManagement and Systems Engineering from the George Washington University. He representsthe Civil Engineering perspective for Lawrence Tech’s Entrepreneurial Program

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Bill Elmore

Session 1475 Balancing Professional and Personal Life to Achieve Significance in an Academic Career William Jordan and Bill Elmore College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272AbstractWe encourage new engineering faculty members to seek significance, not just success. Successis often defined by numbers (numbers of publications, dollars of research funding, performanceon student evaluations). Significance is harder to define. We suggest that a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

, hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic and computer technology. Thesecourses are primarily aimed at junior and senior level mechanical engineering students (it isexpected that the students have taken the necessary pre-requisite courses). While the details ofcoverage of these courses are being worked out, the course material is expected to cover design,applications of differential equations, electrical machines, analog and digital electronics,transducers, modeling, analysis techniques, actuators, hydraulics and pneumatics, microprocessorsand programming.The courses: Dynamic Systems I and IIA list of subjects that are going to be covered by the courses follows (see Appendix A and B).Fundamental concepts in modeling; Lumped element modeling; Unified

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

negative determinant, the color sequence in the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2. Screen shot of a section of a Mathematica notebook discussing the action of atensor B onto the various sets of vectors defined in terms of closed lines.output is reversed with respect to that of the input, as it can be seen in Fig. 8. The conceptthat the above observations are meant to get across is that strain is a tensor because the ac-tion of a tensor deforms the input domain into the output domain. Furthermore, the graphicsdepiction of the deformation caused by a tensor seems to be instinctively

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Models for Integrating Writing II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rebecca Pinkus

Journal 15, no.2 (1995): 103 2. Winsor, D.A., Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education, 1986. Charles Bazerman (ed.) Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society. 3. Winsor, D.A., “Ordering Work: Blue Collar Literacy and the Political Nature of the Genre,” Written Communication, 17, 2000, 155-184. 4. Bizzell P. and Herzberg B. “Stephen Toulmin” in: The Rhetorical Tradition: Page 8.1319.11 Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 1990. Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, Boston.R. Pinkus 2003-1978 Page 8.1319.12

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

. We excluded a negligible number of Ds and Fs, whichamounted to fifteen students overall. Table 2 provides the specific numbers of students for eachgrade, and Table 3 summarizes the data for three overall grade categories of "A," "B," and "C." Table 2. CS211 grades of students from CS100J, CS100M, and no CS100 A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- 100J 10 61 46 36 62 33 20 36 8 100M 5 22 17 24 33 14 9 16 8 No 100 16 61 27 24 44 29 21 24 12

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

a calcium chloride solution. The bead size is 0 .8 0 .7controlled by choice of needle gauge. 0 .6 0 .5 A b s o rb a n c eStarch conversion is measured using spectrophotometric 0 .4 0 .3determination at 620 nm with an iodine indicator. Figure 1 shows the 0 .2color

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Baker; David Silverstein

civil engineers, are often concerned with the way beams bend when aforce is applied. The illustration below depicts a beam, of length, L, being used to support a weight, F, at its freeend. The beam is supported at two points as indicated. Support 1 is at the end opposite the weight, F, andSupport 2 is at a distance, D, from Support 1. Point A is the location of the maximum vertical deflection (+ydirection) of the beam, which we are interested in describing. Point A is a distance, C, from Support 1. Youmight think of this as a diving board, with a diver standing at Point B. Using beam theory, which is studied by mechanical and civil engineers in solid mechanics courses, itcan be shown for this case that the vertical deflection, y, at any

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

PersonalSoftware Process and the Strengths/Improvements/Insights (SII) assessment method articulatedby Apple [3]. The assignment log required the students to record the following information forany given assignment: Page 8.968.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Software development activities. Each individual activity required the following: a. A sequential identifier b. Date c. Start time d. End time e. Time lost to unexpected interruptions f