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Solar Power, Wind Power, and Energy System Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narciso Macia, Arizona State University; John-Paul Ishioye, Arizona State University; Brigid Dotson, University of Washington; Maria Macia, Veritas Preparatory Academy

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-2674: IMPACT OF SHADING ON COOLING AND HEATING LOADNarciso Macia, Arizona State University Narciso F. Macia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems, at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus (formerly ASU East). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering in 1974 and 1976 from the University of Texas at Arlington. He also received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 1988. He is a Registered Engineer in the State of Arizona.John-Paul Ishioye, Arizona State University John-Paul Ishioye graduate research assistant at ASU-PTL, Arizona State University Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory. He has a

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Design in Engineering Education

work on their project and meet with their advisor weekly.The first quarter of Senior Design project is dedicated to design activities, including problemdefinition, conceptualization, decision making, detail design and analysis. The second quarterfocuses on construction and testing of the design. Topics covered in lecture or labs are listed inTable 1. For a survey of typical capstone content see Eggert.2 More detailed information on thiscourse structure and organization is provided by Widmann and Mello3.Table 1. Lecture and Laboratory ContentLecture Laboratory DeliverablesDesign Process and Methodology Requirements/Specifications Design LogbooksProject Management

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Careers and Professional Development in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Guilford, University of Virginia; Katherine Bishop, University of Virginia; William Walker, University of Virginia; J. Milton Adams, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

inphysiology, cell and molecular biology, and advanced laboratory techniques are moreacademically challenging than introductory biology courses and labs, yet provide similarbackground in basic science and techniques. However, medical schools might counter that theyare not equivalent. For example, two topics that are not taught in our curriculum that areordinarily taught in a standard two-semester biology and lab sequence are phylogeny and thebiology of specific non-mammalian eukaryotic genera. Neither do we teach ecology andevolutionary biology, though these are not universally covered in freshman biology courses.Bacterial and viral biology are covered in our cell and molecular biology course, though inspecific rather than broad terms.We sought to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; James Sawyer, Macomb Community College

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Mechanical Engineering

automotive technicians in HEVtechnology. The university developed a set of courses for community college instructors andautomotive engineers, and the community college is the first community college in the state –and one of the only in the nation – to train automotive technician students on servicing HEVs [3].However, no integrated HEV laboratory has yet been established for educational purposes. Thetremendous capital investment, tedious and time-consuming tasks required to establish a fullyfunction of HEV laboratory are convincing evidence that the community colleges and secondaryschools are in need of a low-cost, computer-based virtual HEV simulator.The motivation of this project is to develop an interactive, LabVIEW-based [4] simulation

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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell Pryor; Sheldon Landsberger

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Nuclear and Radiological

paper reviews interdisciplinary nuclear and automation program implemented as shown inFigure 1. One pilot student has completed the workforce development program as a Mastersstudent with two working semesters at LANL. Three PhD students are currently completing theirsecond semester of course work. Both lab and research projects have been organized for eachstudent and the feedback from the National Labs is preliminary but very positive, includingdemand for additional students.Most importantly, this program fulfills the higher level objectives of each participant. • Student Researcher – It provides year-round funding to perform relevant research while exploring the opportunities in both academia and the research laboratories. • National

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College

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Manufacturing

volume as well as calculate density."6 Another example of creative learningcan be seen in the Adaptive WATER Laboratory design built by five Rice University seniors.The laboratory was used to implement educational outreach. "The aim of this outreach was lessto demonstrate the Lab itself, and more to generate interest among these students because of theconcerning numbers of minorities entering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)fields."5The premise of the “How To” project was to utilize service learning in higher academia tosupport K-12 engineering education. The idea for service learning helps college studentsunderstand real word issues and utilize their specific skill set, which adds value to a broaderpicture. As is pointed out by

Conference Session

Innovations in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omer Farook, Purdue University, Calumet; Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University, Calumet; Essaid Bouktache, Purdue University, Calumet; Jai Agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet; Jared Goodall, South Lake Automation

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Engineering Technology

. Enrollment of the course is limited to 16students. The class is broken into 4 groups, of 4 students each.Pedagogy of the CourseThe pedagogy of the course is based on Outcome Based Education [1], and utilizes theinteractive model of learning. All students maintain an online portfolio of the workreflecting their individual learning. In addition to this each team has its own onlineportfolio which chronicles the work of the team collectively. All the online portfolios areavailable to all the students in the class so as to foster horizontal learning. The system Page 14.1356.3designed in the laboratory to perform a specific task is the core measurement of

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Russell Long, Purdue University; Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Mara Wasburn, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

of pedagogy and the application of community service learning, and inequalities in education, particularly persistence of women and people of color in engineering education.Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard A. Layton is the Associate Director of the Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His areas of scholarship include student team management, assessment, education, and remediation, laboratory reform focused on student learning, visualization of quantitative data, and engineering system dynamics. He is a guitarist and songwriter in the alternative rock band

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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA); Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

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Instrumentation

. USB_READ - Reads data from the VNC1L chip 4. USB_WRITE - Sends known length Command/Data to the VNC1L chip 5. USB_WRITECMD - Sends null terminated data to VNC1L chip 6. USB_PARSE - Processes the data received from VNC1L chip and determines the action to take 7. GET_DEVICE_TYPE - Determines which device is connected to the VNC1L USB port 8. RUNSPI - Sends the data through SPI interface by loading the data in register “REG A” 9. INIT_PRINTER - Selects and sets up the printer connected to VNC1L USB port 10. USB_PRINT - Sends the VNC1L “DSD” command with the data string to the printer for printing 7. Classroom/Laboratory ProjectIt is important that technical students learn about USB and perform USB based

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Faculty Development and Research in ET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Denton, Purdue University; Nancy Denton, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

that industry has employed to certifythe certification process6,7.Corporate-based certification consists of certifying competency in a specific company’s systemsor products. Cisco, Motorola, National Instruments, and Rockwell Automation are all examplesof the many companies that offer certification programs for individuals. For example, Cisco Page 14.605.2offers individuals a three-level general networking certification program, with the option foradditional evolving specialist certifications. The general program offers six parallel certificationtracks, requiring a laboratory practice exam and a written examination to attain certification

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Susan Fisher, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

, and what lessons have been learned.Tier 1: Graduate Student Organizations within DepartmentsThe College of Engineering at Purdue University has 12 graduate programs, and the extent towhich students have historically participated in a graduate student community has variedsignificantly among programs. Some programs have had strong and active graduate studentorganizations for many years. In other programs, some subdivisions or laboratories sponsoredstudent activities, but there was little or no coordination of those groups at the program level, andmost students were not involved in any formal graduate student community. Still other programshad virtually no graduate student organization. Furthermore, it is important to note that eachgraduate

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haluk Ozemek, San Jose State University; Preetpal Kang, San Jose State University; Albert Khanh Nguyen, San Jose State University; pradeep badhan, San Jose State University

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Electrical and Computer

languages. These discussions during the lecturekeep the students interest high and trigger their curiosity. In the laboratory, students first useVisual Studio to develop simple programs and learn program debugging methods.In the second phase of the course students not only continue to improve and acquire newprogramming skills, but they also learn how to use a microcontroller. Understanding basiccomputer organization makes the microcontroller operation easily understandable. Furthermore,students conduct research on how to interface different peripheral hardware, such as sensors andactuators. In the laboratory, students develop projects using microcontroller development kitdeveloped by SJValley Engineering (SJVE)2. The laboratory experiments for

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Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Electronics and Electrical ET Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

Systems”, 6th Ed., 2006, Pearson Prentice Hall.2. Bollag, Burton, “Making an Art Form of Assessment”, The Faculty, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington D.C., October 26, 2006, pg 8.3. O’Connell, Robert,”Using Projects to Develop Laboratory Experiments for the Power Electronics Course”, [CD-ROM]. 2008 Annual Conference Proceedings, ASEE, AC 2008-1323.4. Taraban, Roman, et al, “A Paradigm for Assessing Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in Engineering Students”, Journal of Engineering Education, October 2007, Vol.96 No.4, pp 335-345. Page 14.183.85. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET

Conference Session

Micromachining in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; John Graham, Western Carolina University

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Manufacturing

. He earned his BS in Electronics Engineering Technology and his MS in Technology at Western Carolina University. Page 14.41.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Laser Micro-Machining DOE to Investigate Material Removal VolumesAbstractThis paper presents the results and lessons learned from a design of experiments (DOE),developed to better understand the factors that affect volume of material removed (MRR) duringa laser micro-machining process. The Oxford Laser micro-machining center was brought intothe Engineering & Technology Department’s laboratory to be used for

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Outreach and Hands-on Materials

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Magda, Weber State University

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Materials

ductility. To reintroduce ductility back into a material,students learn about the annealing processes. This process will reverse the effects of cold workby soaking the cold work material in a furnace at a recrystallization temperature for a specifiedtime. The cold work material will typically go through a three-part process of recovery,recrystallization and then grain growth. The final properties will exhibit lower strength withhigh ductility and a material with large grains in its microstructure.These two processes of cold work and annealing are discussed further in this paper and willfocus on the effect of cold work tough pitch copper 11000 and annealing yellow brass 26000.Students conduct a laboratory exercise to plot material behavioral curves

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phillip Sealy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; David Drury, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mesut Muslu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Electrical and Computer

we incorporate hands-on laboratory and design experiencesthroughout the curriculum that reiterate and extend what the students learn in the traditionallecture mode. Although instructional techniques can improve transfer in students it is not alwaysthe main problem. This was documented by Phillip J. Parker in a recent paper in which hecompared student performance on a first-day quiz to the type of learning environment in theprior class2. Half of the students took the prerequisite class from a professor that used an activelearning environment. The other half of the students took the prerequisite class from a professorusing a traditional lecture style. The students performed equally poorly on this quiz. In this casethe key problem was that the

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University

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Engineering Technology

Dr. Akujuobi is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the founding Director of the DSP Solutions, Mixed Signal Systems and Broadband Access Technologies Programs and Laboratories at Prairie View A&M University. He is also the founding Director of the Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research (CECSTR). His research interests include High-Speed (Broadband) Communication Systems, Mixed Signal Systems and DSP Solutions. He is also the Department Head for Engineering Technology at Prairie View A&M University. Page 14.610.1© American Society for Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tzu-Liang Tseng; Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, University of Texas, El Paso; Jianmei Zhang, University of Texas, El Paso

of rapid globalization across almost all types ofmanufacturing industries, it is foreseen that the network based manufacturing willbecome a significant activity in coming years. According to literatures 1-6, the NBM isone of the fast growing businesses in the manufacturing sector. A distinguishingcharacteristic on the delivery of the curriculum will be student involvement in “hands-on”laboratory activities and experiences. Furthermore, graduates from the program will bewell-prepared with high-tech skills in the areas of automation, production and micro-manufacturing technology. It is expected that nationally this curriculum reform willbecome a national model of teaching network based manufacturing technology andmanagement, while locally it

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Brakora, University of Michigan; Brian Gilchrist, University of Michigan; James Holloway, University of Michigan; Nilton Renno, University of Michigan; Steven Skerlos, University of Michigan; Toby Teory, University of Michigan; Peter Washabaugh, University of Michigan; Daryl Weinert, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

research, or competitions.7,8,9One example is shown in Figure 3, which shows a small satellite built by students for NASA andmentored by faculty and engineers from Michigan’s Space Physics Research Laboratory (SPRL).The Icarus spacecraft had a mass of 21.3 kg, was battery and solar-cell powered with an averagepower requirement of 12.5 W. It was equipped with a magnetometer and GPS receiver tomeasure the dynamics of the spacecraft system.Figure 3. Icarus Students in the Space Systems Fabrication Lab have created anextracurricular program to build spaceflight-qualified hardwareAnother recent example from S3FL is shown in Figure 4. One of our PhD students, Mr. TomLiu, defined a set of top-level goals and measurements and has mentored an undergraduate

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Automation and Robotics Subjects in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuqiu You, Morehead State University

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Manufacturing

technologyprogram for their future careers in modern manufacturing companies, a new curriculum inRobotics Application Engineering has been developed and applied in the semester of spring 2008.This paper describes the course and laboratory of Robotics Application Engineering for studentsof manufacturing technology program (ITMT) in the Department of Industrial and EngineeringTechnology (IET).There are four Robotics courses offered in the IET Department spanning from 100 level to 400level to teach concepts, operation, programming, maintenance, interfacing, and applicationdevelopments of industrial robots. Robotics Application Engineering is taught as a 400 levelcourse for senior undergraduate students in the ITMT program. This course teaches

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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International

exposed to both basic and applied courses as well as laboratory and industrial training to enablethem satisfy the manpower needs of the public and industrial sectors of the Nigerian economy. Thegraduates are expected to be able to design and supervise Engineering projects and construction,develop new products and techniques as well as maintain Engineering Units. The program also offerssufficient depth to enable the promising graduates to undertake postgraduate work in Electronic andElectrical Engineering or related disciplines in Science Engineering.The program is organized such that two years of basic training in Electronic and ElectricalEngineering Science is followed by more detailed professional training in the field of Electronic

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

% compared toprevious design.Efficiency of hydraulic drive system: A key component of this design was to ensure optimalfunction of the hydraulic power transfer system. There are specific performance and safetycriteria of bikes that would be participating in the competition. Due to limitations in time, costand manufacturing methods available in a typical university laboratory, design of pump andhydraulic motor meeting the operating characteristics of the bicycle was deemed unrealistic.Instead, it would be prudent to identify available pump and motors which would perform mostefficiently at the operating rotational speed and torque of the bicycle. Most hydraulic motors andpumps are designed for industrial use at relatively high velocity and pressure

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Dayne Aldridge

. Rust, Jon P., Hamouda, Hechmi, Hewitt, Elizabeth R., Shelnutt, James W., and Johnson, Thomas, "Quality Improvement Partnerships with Industry Using Student Teams," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 41-44.16. Miller, Gregory R. and Cooper, Stephen C., "Something Old, Something New: Integrating Engineering Practice into the Teaching of Engineering Mechanics," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 105-115. Page 1.129.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings17. Beaudoin, Diane and Ollis, David F., "A Product and Process Engineering Laboratory

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

S.v. Babu; S.M. Ross; I.I. Suni; D.H. Rasmussen

how people use computer systems so that better systemscan be designed which more closely meet users' needs" (Preece, 1993). The importance of usability studies of newlearning technologies such as hypermedia has already been noted (Grice and Ridgway, 1993). Understanding emerges from studying user interaction with computer systems in particular workenvironments, in this case PC-equipped computer laboratories on the campus of a technological university. Usabilitystudies typically attend to four elements of HCI: o the user o the task or job o the context o the computer system (Preece, 1993).The exploratory usability testing reported here collected and synthesized information about the needs andcapabilities of

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph O. Buchal

Exploration The classroom lecture is usually a highly-structured forum for delivering information from theprofessor’s notes to the students’ notes. The course content is compiled and organized by the teacher. The newmodel places responsibility with the student to seek and explore information from many sources, and tosynthesize a deeper knowledge and understanding of the material.Passive Absorption vs. Apprenticeship Too often, traditional engineering education relies on the passive absorption of information. Engineeringproblem solving tends to be mechanistic, relying on highly repetitive solutions of simple, idealized, linearproblems. Laboratory experiments frequently have a cook-book approach, with little opportunity for

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer M. Jacobs; Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

engineering classroom. Participants develop skills for teaching in a diverse classroom. 2 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.171.2 Teaching Topics Participants choose two different sessions from the following sessions: Teaching and Assisting in the Laboratory, Leading a Recitation, Grading, Tutoring and Office Hours, Writing as Learning Engineering, and Presentation Skills. Microteaching Sessions A TF videotapes four TAs, while each TA teaches a short lesson and other TAs play the role of engineering students. The group reviews the video tape and the TF

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Merl Baker

patterns of employment for scientists and engineers. This pardcuku ASEE audience is especially interested in graduate education for scientists and engineers, but all Ph.D. programs must be assessed in the context of changing world conditions and job markets, and be altered accordingly. The traditional Page 1.372.2 programs have and will continue to be effective in producing Ph.D.s for academe, national laboratories, and ?$iiii’F 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..,pyyc

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ph.D., Joel L. Cuello

instruction and laboratory investigations forprospective engineers and technicians. It should not be forgotten that the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point, founded in 1802, placed its main emphasis on the training of engineersafter 1817. The American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, a civilian school foundedin 1819 in Vermont, also trained soldiers and engineers.27Thus, the demand for the democratization of American education, among others, eventually ledto the establishment of true universities in the United States, with the concomitant privileges ofexpanded, utilitarian curricula, availability of elective courses and the freedom of universitiesfrom sectarian control. Thus, the "horizontal expansion" of American higher education

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Willis

Session 2570AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE IMPACT ON MINORITY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS Robert H. Willis Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ABSTRACTMany educational institutions have developed special programs to deal with theunderrepresentation of minorities and females on their college campuses. This hasinvolved special admission policies, financial aide, additional support for students,recruitment of faculty, and special minority programs.As the political, social and economic climate has changed, there have been those whoseek to take advantage

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Roy Sheehan; Durel Hauser

. Designconsiderations are described and details of AK68 operation are discussed. INTRODUCTIONWhile teaching a sophomore level introductory course on microprocessors to the Penn State Altoona electricalengineering technology students, the authors of this paper observed that a significant amount of students’ laboratorytime was spent on an aspect of the exercises considered to be extraneous to the fulfillment of the laboratoryobjectives. The laboratory experience centered on elemental computer programming with a hardware emphasis. Toaccomplish this, exercises were devised involving a Motorola M68000 based small board computer and acorresponding commercially available cross-assembler.Although a major aspect of the