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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Kenimer; Jim Morgan

is knowledge: it's memorized facts... I putup a slide, and it says, "How many of you will be successful if you attain this level of learning?"They don't know where I'm going with this, and ninety-nine percent of them will say, 'That willget me an "A" or "B," if I can do that in class.'" (P. K. Imbrie, Purdue University as quoted on Page 8.159.1http://clte.asu.edu/active/consistent.htm). Clearly, engineering faculty would not be satisfied withProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael P. Hennessey

Number: SWTV4ENG021501, SolidWorks Corporation, Concord, MA, 2001. [8] SolidWorks Corporation, SolidWorks 2001: Training Manual; Advanced Part Modeling, Document Number: SWTV3ENG021501, SolidWorks Corporation, Concord, MA, 2001. [9] King, J., MATLAB 6 for Engineers, R. T. Edwards Inc., 2001. [10] Dabney, J. B. and Harmon, T. L., Mastering SIMULINK 4, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001.[11] Murray, R. M., Li, Z., and Sastry, S. S., A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation, CRC Press, 1994.[12] Hennessey, M. P., Jaedike, A. C., and Rhode, P. S., “Galleries of CAD

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Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

, Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education,Washington, D.C., 1986.2. American Society for Engineering Education Task Force, A National Action Agenda forEngineering Education, Washington, D.C., 1987.3. Felder, R.M., R. Brice, and J. Stice, National Effective Teaching Institute, 1997.4. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms, Baltimore, MD, 2002.5. Olds, B. M., M. J. Pavelich, and F. R. Yearts, “Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen andSophomores,” Engineering Education, July/August 1990, pp. 554-559.6. King, R. H., T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

from Engineering Education2. Wood, Kristin L., Daniel Jensen, Joseph Bezdek, and Kevin N. Otto, “Reverse Engineering and Redesign: Courses to Incrementally and Systematically Teach Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 90, No. 3, 2001, pp. 363–374.3. Lamancusa, J. S., J. E. Jorgensen, an d J. L. Zayas–Castro, “The Learning Factory—A new approach to integrating design and manufacturing into engineering curricula,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 103–112.4. Ansell, H. G., “Professor-driven, student-driven, and client-driven design projects,” 1998 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 5–8, 1998, pp. 149–154.5. Tao, B. Y., “Senior/sophomore co-class

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

electricalengineering. It is becoming increasing important with the new smart products whichrequire close integration of both mechanical and electrical engineering concepts. Wenoticed two opportunities which can be addressed by introducing mechatronicscurriculum. The opportunities are: 1. ME students are unsure of handling electrical engineering portion of any project. The deficiencies range from their inability to: a. translate wiring diagrams into physical hardware, b. pick the right actuator or a control system, and c. design and implement a mechatronics system in the capstone design course. These observations are consistent with other members of mechatronics teaching community [2] 2. A current competency gap

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

challenging but I haven’t talked to anyone who regrets choosing it.” b. Faculty. We cannot underestimate the importance of dynamic professors and instructors in attracting cadets to our department. One cadet attributed the ability of the student to cope with the heavy workload was attainable due to the fact “…the instructors in the department are very helpful and excited to teach.” Another cadet wrote that our open house for recruitment influenced his decision because “…the department was really “fired up” and extremely motivated for their major. I was impressed because I expected a bunch of

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Massie

more than one steam turbineoperating at a time, the maximum potential power generation is not known. One way to determine the potential savings from operating multiple turbines is to correlatethe total plant steam flow rate to turbine power generation, see Fig. 5(a). To overcome this poorcorrelation, a neural network was used to correlate steam flow and power production. A time-of-day stamp was used as part of the NN. Neural network predicted versus actual power generationis shown in Fig. 5(b). With an obvious improved correlation, it is possible to estimate the energygeneration capacity if multiple steam turbines were operated simultaneously. 1400

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

create it. Handwrittendocuments, such as homework solutions, may be scanned directly into PDF format using popularsoftware, and computer-generated documents may be converted to PDF using Adobe Acrobat onWindows and Macintosh platforms, and Ghostscript on Unix platforms. PDF files avoid certainproblems: With a proprietary format, not all recipients can open files because they do not have theapplication used to create the document; documents don’t print correctly because of software orprinter driver limitations. PDF files always print correctly on any printing device. † Where PDFfiles are not appropriate, we use standard ASCII text files where possible, as these may be easilyread on any computing platform.I-B. Supplement DisseminationThe internet

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann

or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent,” or “(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country more than one year prior to the application for patent in the United States . . .6”If one wants to file a patent outside the United States, many sources recommend that nopublication or presentation should be done before filing. Faculty members are encouraged toconsult the university intellectual property office or patent attorney before publication orpresentation. In 1995, the U.S. introduced the new provisional patent application. This mayhelp with the publication quandary but it is not a cure

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

indicating that something was wrong with their teaching skills if more than 20percent of their students received a D, F, or W(withdraw) in a course. This alone implied that atleast 80 percent of the students should get an A, B or C grade. It has been reported in someuniversities, that over 90 percent of the grades awarded were A and B grades. The average GPAhas increased from less than 2.5 in the early sixties to over 3.0 today. The grading system atWVU and many other universities states that the grade of A is for “students of superior ability”and attainment and that the grade of B is for “students well above average.” Thus, how can themean student be well above average and yet no university administrator has indicated that facultyshould toughen up

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TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

, collect, use and prepare data that canbe used to evaluate achievement of program outcomes, educational objectives or programeffectiveness.Evaluation consists of one or more processes for interpretation of the data and evidenceaccumulated through assessment practices that a) determine the extent to which programoutcomes or educational objectives are being achieved; or b) result in decisions and actions takento improve the program (e.g. curriculum or methodology).In TC2K it is important to evaluate all relevant assessment data and provide the results of theevaluation to the visiting team. The philosophy behind the new criteria is that: • Institutions and Programs define mission and objectives to meet the needs of their constituents and

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Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Eskicioglu

Session 3420 THE IDEAL MULTIMEDIA-ENABLED CLASSROOM: PERSPECTIVES FROM PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION SCIENCE A. M. Eskicioglu, D. Kopec Department of Computer and Information Science CUNY Brooklyn College 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 {eskicioglu, kopec}@sci.brooklyn.cuny.eduABSTRACTWith the recent technological developments, an opportunity has emerged to introduce moreefficient instruction into the classroom. The traditional blackboard approach is gradually givingway

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Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Leonid Preiser

Session 2258 Efficiency and Dynamics of the Client-Server Interaction in the Information Systems: Conceptual Approach Leonid B. Preiser Department of Computer Science and Communications Technology School of Engineering and Technology National University 11255 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1011 (858) 642-8483, fax (858) 642-8489 lpreiser@nu.eduIntroductionProviding service to the user community in the IS environment is a two

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

, G, Chen, G., Johnson, S., Shillingford, M., Spence, K., Lu, W. 2002Environmental Impact and Economic Assessments of Brownfield Sites in Park Heights Baltimore. Proceedings ofthe 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Canada,June16-19, 2002.2. http://www.morgan.edu/admin/planning/data.asp March 7, 2003. Institutional Research Data3. http://www.asee.org/colleges/Engprofile01.pdf2003 Engineering Education By The Numbers 24pp4. George, A. 2000. 2000 Final Report of the MSU/EPA Summer Internship Program 10pp.5. George, A. 2002. 2002 Annual Report of the MSU/EPA Summer Internship Program 10pp .GBEKELOLUWA B. OGUNTIMEINGbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein is currently an Associate professor in the

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

students become interested in seeing if they guessed thecorrect behavior. This turns the laboratory from a laborious task of collecting a large number ofpressure drops at different flowrates. As the laboratory data is collected the students are asked tomake the above plots on the laboratory computer (excluding the roughness plot). They arerequired to turn in the following plots as part of a laboratory write-up: a) Graph 1: Pressure drop as a function of flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. b) Graph 2: Pressure drop as a function of the square of the flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. c) Graph 3: Pressure 120

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Holling

: Searching for the First Principle in Software Engineering”, The Rational Edge, Dec 2000, http://www.therationaledge.com/content/dec_00/f_craftscience.html K. D. Taylor, W. W. Buchanan, R. B. Englund, T. P. O’Connor, D. W. Yates, “Professional Registration Issues for Engineering Technology Graduates: A Range of Perspectives”, Proc. 1997 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, IEEE Cat. 97CH36099, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie97/papers/1446.pdf “ Mechanical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering Technology: Which Path Will You Take”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), http://www.asme.org/students/whichpath.html W. L. Elden, P.E. (Ret) , PACE Chair IEEE Melbourne Section, “Engineering, Technology, Science and the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nghia Le

slot provides asmooth passage for the coins to roll down the slope. A 33mH inductor is mounted on theside of the slot via a through hole. The top of the inductor is flush with the inner wall ofthe slot. Figure 2 – The Coin SlotThe characteristics of the core of the inductor change when a coin passes in front of it.This change results in a decrease of the inductance value. The circuit will exploit thisbehavior of the inductor to detect the different coins passing through the slot. B. The Sine Wave OscillatorThe schematic diagram of the oscillator is in Figure 3 on the next page.If we let C1 = C 2 = C 3 = C and R3 = R 4 = R, the oscillating frequency of the circuit is: 1 1f

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

Session 1630 Contributions of Cognitive Engineering Methods to Engineering Education Alexander B. Quinn, George M. Nickles, and Amy R. Pritchett School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntroductionCognitive engineering is the inter-disciplinary study of the design and improvement of socio-technical systems through better training of personnel, through procedures and through theintroduction of technologies to support human performance. This field builds upon insights intohuman performance provided by

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

time and opportunitiesavailable and provides the highest value possible to the student.The intention of this paper a review of a collection of existing approaches to providing practicalexperiences and to provide information of how the Admiral Lewis B. Combs Memorial DesignRetreat was developed, its goals, as well as demonstrate the value of such a practical experience.In doing so the discussion will examine the structure of past retreats and the impacts they havehad on their participants.ReviewAt the undergraduate level practical experiences appear in a variety of activities. Students areexposed to practical experiences through courses, planned events, co-ops, internships, etc.Without question, these practical experiences add significant value

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationright, etc. However, in practice obstacle avoidance is quite difficult. The first problem to solveis how to avoid obstacles while avoiding an obstacle. A recursive algorithm was the obvioussolution. However, while avoiding object A, if object B is found and is avoided leading to objectC whose avoidance leads back to object A, the algorithm will infinitely recurse. One innovativesolution was to randomly traverse clockwise or counterclockwise when an object wasencountered. A second obstacle avoidance problem is that is very possible to encounter the pointG while traversing an obstacle. Also, traversing clockwise may more likely lead to the goal,while

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; John Reisel

Session 2003-2307 TWO SENIOR CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS ON THE POTENTIAL ENERGY SAVINGS AT THE PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER John R. Reisel, Kevin J. Renken, and B. Andrew Price University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAbstractThis paper presents the results of two real-world mechanical engineering senior capstone designprojects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. These projects focused on methods forobtaining potential energy savings at the Pettit National Ice Center (PNIC) in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. The authors were originally requested by the State of Wisconsin's Division of Energy toperform a feasibility

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

Session 1609 Designing an Outreach Project that Trains Both Future Faculty and Future Engineers Suzanne A. Olds1, David E. Kanter1,2, Amanda Knudson 3, Shruti B. Mehta 1 1 Biomedical Engineering Department/ 2School of Education and Social Policy/1Biology Department Northwestern University, Evanston, ILI. BackgroundRecognizing that there are more engineering jobs than there are future engineers in theeducational pipeline, many universities have developed programs to attack this problem at itsroots - in elementary and middle schools

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Adams; Nick Safai

evaluation ofassociated pass/fail criteria for aircraft seat certification 1-3. One of those tests is a combinedvertical/longitudinal impact condition that measures among others the lumbar-column pelvicload in the Part 572 Subpart B Hybrid II anthropomorphic test dummy (ATD) 4. The maximummeasured lumbar-column pelvic compressive load in the ATD must not exceed the 1500 poundspass/fail criterion. This test,illustrated in Figure 2 and described in Table 1, is intended to evaluate the means by which thelumbar load produced by the combined vertical/longitudinal environment, typical of an aircraftcrash event, is reduced. V y gp

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

problems. (a)* 2. Ability to formulate and solve open-ended problems. (e) 3. Ability to design mechanical components, systems, and processes. (c) 4. Ability to set up and conduct experiments, and to present the results in a professional manner. (b) 5. Ability to use modern computer tools in mechanical engineering. (k) 6. Ability to communicate in written, oral and graphical forms. (g) 7. Ability to work in teams and apply interpersonal skills in engineering contexts. (d) 8. Ability and desire to lay a foundation for continued learning beyond the baccalaureate degree. (i) 9. Awareness of professional issues in engineering practice, including ethical responsibility, safety, the creative enterprise, and

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Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

help usunderstand whether our efforts helped the students learn. In our presentation at the ASEEConference, we will summarize our efforts and present the results of this assessment plan.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Professor Kevin Hodgson for permitting us to interact with students inhis section of the Introduction to Thermodynamics course in the Spring Quarter of 2003. Thedata gathered was most helpful in assessing the effectiveness of Thermo-CD.Thermo-CD is a product of B-Cubed. The program, workbook, homework problems andinstructors guide were developed by William Baratuci, Jennifer Kilwien, Kory Mills, SusanFisher and Michael Harrison. The price of the workbook and online access to Thermo-CD is$75. Students can purchase a copy of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh

m 3  0.445 m 3    cat  cat  R  gas  10 L gas mol  1kPa  1.01325 × 105 Pa = 200.5   (25) L gass kPa  1000Pa  atm mol = 20315 gcat s atm17. Leave β blank or place a zero in the cell. Notice that you don’t enter the negative sign with the pre-exponential.18. Now you must regress your equilibrium constant values, with units of atm, using the equation ln (K ) = A + B T + C ln (T ) + DT (26

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Schwesig

G1 ...... G2 Gn product mod. and sim Figure 3 First proposal of a modular structure of the curriculumThis number may be expanded. These modules should focus on aspects that are futureoriented for the manufacturing industry to promote a paradigm shift from traditionalmanufacturing to e-business.The part of the curriculum to be developed in Europe will be focusing the creation of themodules A, B and C. Thus, the GEM project has recognized the significance of digitalbusiness within the education of engineers. Since After having created a draft

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

material. Within this framework, we will examine two approaches.The first is a design-based approach in which first year students can be asked to:a. design a specific polymer with chemical and structural characteristics (strength, elasticity, self healing, biodegradable)b. design a “tunable” cell (stem cells)c. design an organ (kidney, heart)d. design a fertilizer plant (e.g., ammonia by chemical and biochemical processes) Page 8.1002.5e. design a production process for some material (Si, Al)Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003 American Society for

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

engineering disciplines • Use of the Internet to learn about engineering • “Hands on” projects to help introduce middle/high school students to engineering • Engineering research pursuits • Success strategies that students might use in their pursuit of an engineering career • Issues and answers for encouraging females and other underrepresented groups to consider a career in engineeringThe primary text for the course will be Studying Engineering A Road Map to a RewardingCareer by Raymond B. Landis. A typical day would involve an alumni panel, hands-on activity,review of after-school programs (such as Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA)and Hands-On Science), success strategies for students, tours of

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

environment is created. The classroom experience is more vibrant and exciting forboth the students and the instructor. Through immediate comparison of the experimental resultswith the theoretical predictions, the students gain a better appreciation of the applicability andlimitations of the theoretical and empirical information presented in the textbook.In conclusion, it is believed that use of the demonstration unit in lecture classes significantlyenhances the educational experience of the students and improves the students’ comprehensionof the lecture material.CHARLES H. FORSBERGCharles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he teaches courses in thethermal/fluids area. He received a B. S. in Mechanical