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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

, Engineering, and Technology Education", August 1997, National Research Council, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education, ;19. Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Library Workshop, July 1998, NSF 99-112, ;20. Digital Libraries and Education Working Meeting, January 1999, ;21. Agogino, A., et al., “Pathways to Progress: Vision and Plans for Developing the NSDL” Draft White Paper, February 6, 2001. http://admin.smete.org/view/nsdl-collections/0018.html22. NEEDS: A Digital Library for Engineering Education. http://www.needs.org/23. Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., et al, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Aerospace Digital Library”. http://www.adl.gatech.edu24. Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., Bodo, B

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bijan Sepahpour

Design of ExperimentsThis outstanding experiment was designed in collaboration with sophomore engineering students inMech. Lab. I. The main idea was to utilize springs in verification of the deformation of Non-Prismatic Bars. More importantly, the student designers, their classmates (and future peers) come torealize that "it is quite possible to utilize simple components in design of experiments that may verifyand visualize a relatively difficult theory." The laboratory handout for this highly affordableexperiment is placed in "Appendix B."3. Stresses in a Truss FrameThis experiment enables the undergraduate students to measure the stresses and forces in differentmembers of a truss frame / bridge. Linear strain gauges are installed at critical

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Morel

environments and feedback of actual robots, carefullyscoped assignments are important for effective teaching. Here is an example scenario the cadetsare given and the assignment that goes with it. a. Your Role The Army has developed an inexpensive autonomous robot that can performreconnaissance, surveillance, and minor manual tasks. You have been assigned as the missionengineer. You build the robots and write the programs that enable the robots to perform theirassigned missions. b. The Situation A militant organization claims to have successfully placed detonator-triggered devicesinside the air-conditioning ducts of the Fleet Center in Boston, with the intention of causing masscasualties during the upcoming Bruins and

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Brow; Carol Click

structure-property relations in glasses to design andformulate compositions to meet ever-changing industrial needs. The majority of commercialglasses are silicate-based due to good strength, excellent durability, and low cost. Borates andphosphates are the other two major glass forming systems. For borate formulations, B2O3 is themain glass network former. Alkali and alkaline earth oxides are modifiers that tend to lower themelting temperature and alter properties by de-polymerizing the glass network, i.e., modifieradditions reduce the number of network-forming B-O bonds. Intermediates such as Al2O3strengthen the network, but do not form glasses on their own. At UMR, students learn aboutglasses in a sophomore lecture class, Atomic Structure of the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Laura Grossenbacher

, they maycome to find that the initially unpopular perspective has some merits. They may evenchange their minds about the topic. In other cases, they find that they do not change 4their mind at all, but they do discover better ways of articulating why they believe whatthey believe. At this point, with Debate Team I, side A and B, and Debate Team II, side A andB, the classroom is divided up into little teams of about five persons each, and eachteam sets about researching different databases, sharing information and articles witheach other, discussing strategies, organizing, and anticipating arguments of theiropposition. Several class days must be

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Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfredo Soeiro

expertise in ICT and ODL and all of themcould gain experience in international projects. The project tries to address several needs:a) To exchange good national practices in Tele-working and in Construction Management;b) To overcome the costs of physical mobility and to ameliorate the busy schedules ofconstruction professionals;c) To respond to the internationalization of building projects within the European Union;d) To create a richer pool of CM Tele-courses with European level which are accredited byindustry and universities;e) To increase the level of ICT and ODL use in a conservative branch like construction industry.On the other hand and in general, technical staff is not aware of the capacity of the of the Internetor of the Web, does not

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Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell

Guilt-free Chocolate: Introducing Freshmen to Chemical Engineering Kathryn A. Hollar, Mariano J. Savelski, and Stephanie Farrell Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractFood processing is an excellent topic to introduce early in the engineering curriculum, asstudents are familiar with many food products but often do not realize that chemicalengineers are responsible for many of the processing and packaging steps in this industry.We have developed a hands-on experiment to introduce freshman engineering or highschool students to chemical engineering principles and measurements through chocolatecoating of cookies

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tina Barnes; Ian Pashby; Anne Gibbons

, Research Partnerships between Industry and Universities: A Guide to Better Practice, 1996.[7] Dryden, R.D. & Erzurumlu, H.C.M., Innovative University -Industry-Government Collaboration: Six Case Studies from the USA, Industry and Higher Education , 1996, December, pp365 -370.[8] Martin, B., University/Industry Interactions, EPSRC, 1996.[9] Gregory, E.H., University -Industry Strategic Partnerships: Benefits and Impediments, Industry and Higher Education, 1997, August, pp253 -254.[10] Shohet, S. & Prevezer, M., UK Biotechnology: Institutional Linkages, Technology Transfer and the Role of Intermediaries, R&D Management , 1996, 26 (3), pp283-297.[11] Guy, K., Georghiou, L., Quintas, P., Hobday, M., Cameron, H. & Ray, T

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Wood

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationneed for plant-specific instruction and academic requirements for content coverage. Studentshave responded well to the approach and have been successful in returning to the classroom. ThePBL approach, with the emphasis on collaborative learning, has helped them to make asuccessful transition from traditional continuing education courses to academic course work.Bibliography 1. Waintraub, J. L., Mecomtronics Engineering Technology – Educating Technicians for 21 st Century. ASEE Conference, 1996. 2. Brown, B. F., Sr. and Brown, B. Problem-based Education (PROBE) : Learning for a Lifetime of Change. ASEE Conference, 1997. 3. Let Problems Drive the Learning. ASEE Prism

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Kisaalita; Thomas Reeves

end result of an engineering effort - generally referred to as design - is a device,structure, system, process or service that satisfies a need. A successful design is achieved when alogical procedure is followed to meet a specific need. The procedure, called the design processencompasses the following activities, all of which must be completed: a) identification of theneed, b) problem definition, c) search, d) constraints, e) criteria, f) alternative solutions, g)analysis, h) decision, i) specification, j) communication (Eide et al., 1998). As the design teamproceeds through each step, new information or knowledge may be discovered and newobjectives may be specified for the design. If this is the case, the team must backtrack (feedbackloops

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Alim

inthe new School of Engineering and Technology Building in Fall 2003.ACKNOWLEDGMENTIt is author’s pleasure to thank Mrs. Sanjida Khanam for her interest and intellectual supportin this work, and Dr. A. A. Mobasher (Department of Mechanical Engineering, AAMU) forextending help in various ways during the preparation of the manuscript. Special thanks areextended to Drs. V. T. Montgomery, A. J. Bond, V. R. Goteti, K. B. Cook, and K. Heidary(all from the Department of Electrical Engineering, AAMU) for their constant suggestions toimprove the VLSI and Microelectronics option program. Page 7.424.7

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Shamamy

Engineering Education1. Altiero, Nicholas, “Grip and Win,” ASEE Prism, vol. 10, no. 7, 2001, p. 39-40.2. Callister, William D., “Materials Science and Engineering – An Introduction,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2000.3. Johnston, Stephen F. et al, “Engineering and Society,” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999.4. Popper, Stephen W. et al, “New Forces at Work, ” Rand, Santa Monica, California, 1998.5. Randolph, Gary B., “Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 2, 2000, pp. 199-125.Biographical InformationPATRICA M SHAMAMY, P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LawrenceTechnological University in Southfield, Michigan

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Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Welch; Stephen Ressler

. Initially the students must establish the global coordinatesystem and label all nodes and members (Steps 1 and 2). 1 10’ 2 A 5’ C D F E 30 o Y 250 kips B 4 3 X 5’ Figure 1. Truss Homework

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Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

understanding in a way traditional assessmentmeasures do not permit. Hence, the integration of research and writing components into a coursehas enormous potential within both science and engineering communities.References[1] Jones, T. H. & Paolucci, R. “The learning effectiveness of educational technology: A call for further research.”Educational Technology Review, vol. 9, 1998, pp.10 - 14. Page 7.1000.11[2] Arons, A. B. A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Traci Kelly

LaShundaPrescott for use on the EPICS IS homepage. Other sections paraphrase the team thinking and work ofthe EPICS instructors of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Dr. Frank Fronzak, JenniferKushner, Dr. Jay Martin, Dr. John Mitchell, Dr. Leah Newman, Dr. Willis Tompkins, and Dr. JohnWebster.Appendix A: Organizational Chart for EPICS Information Systems Chart created by Dr. Fred Bradley, Materials Sciences Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Appendix B: Draft EPICS Fall 2002 Schedule (This is provided in order to demonstrate the complex scheduling needed for such large teams with multiple focuses.) Traci Kelly (kelly@epd.engr.wisc.edu) Fred

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Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

, Lawrence E., and Carlson, Denise W., "Developing Sapiring Engineersinto Budding Entrepreneurs: An Invention and Innovation Course", Journal of Engineering Education, V.90, No. 4, October 2001, p. 571.v Marchese, Anthony J., Schmalzel, John L., Maydayam, Shreekanth A. Mandayam, and Chen, John, "AVenture Capital Fund for Undergraduate Engineering Students at Rowan University", Journal ofEngineering Education, V. 90, No. 4, October 2001, p. 589.vi Ochs, John B., Watkins, Todd, A., Boothe, Berrisford W., "Creating a Truly MultidisciplinaryEntrepreneurial Education Environment", Journal of Engineering Education, V. 90, No. 4, October 2001,p. 577.vii Miller, Sandra J., Doshi, Rajiv, Milroy, J. Craig, and Yock, Paul G, " Early Experiences inn

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

the beginnings of integrating design across engineeringcurriculums [1]. This has resulted in a wealth of information on how to effectively develop and Page 7.265.11 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, under grant number NSF DUE0088158.implement such courses. Based on these successes, we are offering an introductory engineeringcourse to our ECE freshmen at Western Michigan University. This course is supported by a NSFDivision of Undergraduate Education grant [2]. The centerpiece of this course is construction ofa walking Stiquito robot (see Figure 1) [3]. The goals of this course include

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marek Balazinski; Aleksander Przybylo

. Page 7.205.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe main challenges lie in coming up with the appropriate representations for each phenomenon.With future improvement of software libraries and tools, animations and simulations shouldbecome easier to develop.AcknowledgementThe work presented in this paper was conducted under the support of Center of Teaching andLearning of École Polytechnique de Montréal, which the authors greatly appreciate.Bibliographic information[1] Kadiyala, M., Crynes, B. L., "A Review of Literature on Effectiveness of Use of Information Technology in Education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Iken; Mahima Ashok; J.C. Lu; Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

Session 1526 Internet Based Curriculum Innovation in Information Engineering and E-Business: The Integrated Curriculum Delivery System Amy R. Pritchett, Alexander B. Quinn, George Nickles, Mahima Ashok, Mark Iken, J. C. Lu School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntroductionThe current compartmentalization of educational material into courses limits a student’s abilityto quickly and easily access information from a variety of topics, explore new

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

, butall have advantages and disadvantages that affect their use. One field trip and one seminarspeaker, in cooperation with the Pittsburgh District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, provided thisopportunity for Civil Engineering Technology students at the University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown. In another case a video was used. Student response on the effectiveness of thesedifferent learning experiences was also obtained.IntroductionNew technologies are continuously being developed and implemented in civil and constructionengineering practice. Incorporating these new technologies into Civil Engineering Technology(CET) curriculum is difficult due to limited time available in class and the wealth of basicconcepts that must be covered. Although it is

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Information Guidance/Navigation/Control

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sandra H. Kajiwara; Lisa Taber; Cecilia Mullen

few major places where the studentcould reasonably expect to find information, rather than trying to list any and all possiblesources. For example, under the category “Process”, we listed the Encyclopedia of ChemicalTechnology, Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, and Ullmann’s Encyclopedia ofIndustrial Chemistry as places to look for their topics. We used hypertext links to connectstudents immediately with either the database or the online entry in our catalog for a papersource. Most of our hypertext links have little or no accompanying description. (The“Process” page is shown in Appendix B.) Page 7.491.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sallie 'Lee' Townsend; Natalie Segal

ft/sec/sec. This can be written 4 ft/sec/sec (and read four feet per secondper second). Then again, in algebraic manipulations a/b divided by b is equal to a/b multiplied by 1/b, and the finalresult is a/b2. Treating unit-fractions in the same manner, 4 ft/sec/sec can be written 4 ft/sec2 (and read four feet persecond squared. You can see that in the case just given, for whatever time interval you work out the acceleration, the answeris always the same: 4 ft/sec2. For inclined planes tipped to a greater or lesser extent, the acceleration would bedifferent, but it would remain constant for any one given inclined plane through all time intervals. This makes it possible for us to express Galileo’s discovery about falling

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

] “Identifying and Measuring Quality in a Software Requirements Specification”, Alan Davis, Scott Overmayer et. al., Software Requirements Engineering, Second Edition, IEEE Computer Society, pp 194 – 205.[4] Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, Hans Van Vliet, Second Edition, John Wiley 2000.[5] Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald Gause and Gerald Weinberg, Dorset House Publishing 1989.[6] Software Requirements, Karl E. Weigers, Microsoft Press 1999.[7] Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, Sixth Edition, Addison Wesley 1984.[8] Requirements Engineering: A Roadmap, B. A. Nuseibeh and S. M. Easterbrook, In A. C. W. Finkelstein (ed) "The Future of Software Engineering". (Companion volume to the proceedings of the

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphne Chang

of the 1998 Annual ASEE Conference, Jun 28-Jul 1, 1998, Seattle, WA, USA.[6] Tilbury, D., Messner, W., “Controls education on the WWW: Using MATLAB for controldesign, simulation and visualization,” Proceedings of the 1998 ASME International MechanicalEngineering Congress and Exposition, Nov 15-20 1998, Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 65-70.[7] Villareal, S., Wynn, C., Eastwood, D., Zoghi, B., “Design, development and evolution of Web-based materials featuring computer-animated simulations,”Proceedings of the 1998 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE. Part 2 (of 3), Nov 4-7 1998, Tempe, AZ, USA, pp. 588-593.[8] Lim, C. I, Metzger, R.P. Jr., Rodriguez, A. A., “Interactive Modeling, Simulation, Animationand Real-Time Control (MoSART) twin

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Lacey Prouty; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

Session 2530 Infusing Engineering into Public Schools By: E. Rushton, M. Cyr, B. Gravel, L. Prouty Tufts University, Center for Engineering Education OutreachAbstractIn 1998, the Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) was therecipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide fellowships placinggraduate engineering and computer science students with teachers in Massachusetts’ primary andsecondary public schools. The primary intent of Tufts’ outreach program centered onintroducing graduate-level engineering students as resources to

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

from these guidelines are provided in Appendix B. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper has presented arguments for the need to develop inclusive curriculum in engineeringprograms as well as some practical strategies and resources to assist in this process. Whilst thereis sometimes resistance to implementing these changes (as with all change), the authors havefound that the use of workshops, informal discussions and particularly the provision of practicaland easily understood suggestions in a tangible form can be successful in overcoming thisresistance. The importance of modelling

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING 21 (1984): 55-61.18. O'Donnell, H. "Instructional time as related to reading achievement." THE READING TEACHER 32 (1978): 246-251.19. Quartarola, B. A RESEARCH PAPER ON TIME ON TASK AND THE EXTENDED SCHOOL DAY/YEAR AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. Sacramento, CA: Research, Evaluation, and Accreditation Committee, Association of California School Administrators, 1984. (ED 016 890).20. Rosenshine, B.V. "Content, Time, and Direct Instruction." In RESEARCH ON TEACHING: CONCEPTS, FINDINGS, AND IMPLICATIONS, edited by P.L. Peterson and H.J. Walberg. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Corp., 1979.21. Sanford, J.P., and Evertson, C.M. "Time Use

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Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

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Keith Adolphson; Rujin Cheng; Kurt Gramoll

they need. Finally, EMET’s Page 7.1300.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationasynchronous learning is ideally suited to meet the needs of nontraditional students as it caneasily accommodate those students who are working full-time (e.g., teachers).During the design phase of the EMET multimedia site, it was decided that there would be threedistinct teaching strategies employed. They are: (a) the concept pages, (b) tutorial simulationsand, (3) case studies. Each strategy differs in the

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Balasubramanian Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

Session 2463 The Competency Gap Approach to Course-Level Continuous Improvement D. M. Pai and B. Kailasshankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractThe SME Study on Competency Gaps in Manufacturing Education has catalyzed the genesis andpropagation of many outstanding programs to reform and revamp manufacturing education.However, the report’s impact extends beyond manufacturing education - the techniques

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Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Specimen 1 Specimen 2 Specimen 3Figure 4. Changes in crack system during carbon-carbon composite manufacturing procedure(magnification 100X).Figure 5. Carbon/Carbon composite tow analysis: a) unit cell with 2 tows (combined from 6images at magnification 100X); b) tows (200X): fiber volume fraction in unit cell = 22.38%; fiberdensity in unit cell = 0.00923 mm-2; fiber density in upper tow = 0.0179 mm-2; fiber density inlower tow = 0.0178 mm-2; ratio for fiber density in Tow/Unit cell = 1.93; average number of fibersin one tow = (2991+3010)/2 =3001 (3K expected).Fiber diameter distribution, packing number and the radial distribution have been obtained atmagnification 1000X (Figure 6). It shows