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(continued) Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.53.4 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationTable I. Conversion algorithms for MSU Engineering workload model (continued).Laboratory Coordination Lab Coordinator/Supervisor 0.5 credits/yearAdvising UG Advisees 1 credit/16.25 students per year Plan A (thesis) graduate Students 0.6 credit per student per year Plan B (non-thesis) grad. Students

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(similar algorithms can be found in [3]).Each course is being given a requirement cost. The requirement cost of a course is being definedas the longest possible chain of prerequisites that contains the respective course. For example, ifcourse D has as prerequisite course C, and course C has as prerequisite course B, and course Bhas as prerequisite course A, this would make a chain of prerequisites of requirement-cost 3 forcourse A. The longest chain that can be found for course A will be its associated requirement-cost. To reflect a worst case scenario, for this cost, the corequisites are being treated asprerequisites.Based on the requirement cost, the algorithm will try to schedule the courses with the highestcost first, thus minimizing the

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, Monograph Number 3, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.3. Arons, A. B. (1990). A Guide to Introductory Physics Teaching. New York: John Wiley & Sons.4. Halloun, I. A. & Hestenes, D. (1985). The initial knowledge state of college students. American Journal of Physics, 53(11), 1043 - 1055.5. McCloskey, M., Caramazza, A., & Green, B. (1980). Curvilinear motion in the absence of external forces: Naïve beliefs about the motion of objects. Science, 210, 1139 - 1141.6. McDermott, L. C. (1984). Research on conceptual understanding in mechanics. Physics Today, 37, 24 - 32.7. McDermott, L. C. (1991). A view from physics. In M. Gardner, J. Greeno, F. Reif, A. H. Schoenfeld, A. diSessa, and E. Stage (Eds.), Toward a Scientific Practice

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theparticipation grade). Although it was not our original intention, the course has become anA or B course with the difference between the grades determined by either the students’willingness to work or by their communication skills. A few international students havecomplained that basing a high percentage of their grade (or any percentage) oncommunication skills is unfair. Since communication is very important for goodteaching, we respectfully disagreed. Page 6.304.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Formal

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, special topics, team projects, or homework. Eachinstructor is developing a “sustainable module” for their course which will be subsequentlypublished on the project web-site.We plan to institute a Sustainable Engineering Certification Program in the College ofEngineering at UTEP. Two additional courses are tentatively identified as a)Environmental Regulations; and b) Life Cycle Analysis/Pollution Prevention. AllDepartments will add these two courses to their lists of acceptable elective courses. Page 6.359.6Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for

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Flow Driving Force I. Forced Convection II. Natural Convection III. Mixed Convection Fluid Domain A. External Flow B. Internal Flow Geometry 1. Flat surface 2. Sphere 3. Cylinder 4. Tube Bank 5. Packed Bed 6. Annulus 7. Parallel Plates 8. Parallelepiped 9. Duct 10. Round Impinging

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, andaccountability…”3 And finally, Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus et al in the text Engineering Ethics(25) claim that: “The ethical dilemmas engineers are faced with center on how personal,professional, and organizational VALUES affect moral decision making in engineeringpractice.”4 IIThe next question for a values-based approach is what values to focus on. There areseveral possible value systems proposed by those writing about engineering ethics. Asyou will see, they have a number of things in common although each scheme is slightlydifferent. I’ll consider a few here as examples.1. One scheme is that of Martin and Schinzinger who seem to concentrate on four values(63).3 They speak of: (1) a primary obligation to protect

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Robert Taylor; Robert Green; Lesia Crumpton-Young; A. Bennett; Teresa Sappington

Session 3453 Quest: A Program to Reach Academically Talented Students Robert A. Green, Robert P. Taylor, Teresa B. Sappington, Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, A. Wayne Bennett Mississippi State UniversityAbstractStudents who score high on standardized tests, have excellent high school grades, and haveexhibited qualities of leadership are recruited by some of the best programs in the nation and arepresented with many career options. Reaching out to these students and getting or keeping theminterested in engineering is critical for the long-term benefit of the engineering

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we could enhance undergraduate education in engineering. The course has routinely filledto capacity and has received very positive evaluations. A committee of faculty from across the Institute hasembraced it as one of a handful of courses satisfying the ethics requirement in electrical engineering. Many of theideas developed for our course have recently been incorporated into a required senior course in electricalengineering entitled “Project Engineering and Professional Practice.” Most important of all, we have established amodel that might not only diffuse to other departments of electrical engineering, but which might also be adapted toother disciplines of engineering.References1. B. Sinclair, W.R. Callen, and D. Morton, "The Context of

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Engineering Education: A Comparison of EC-2000 and ISO- 9000," Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 495- 501.Wong, F. S., and Yao, J. T. P., (2001), "Health Monitoring and Structural Reliability as a Value Chain," to appear in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.Yao, J. T. P., (1983), "NAFIPS-1 Panel Discussion of Fuzzy Sets to Undergraduate Engineering and Science Curricula," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 19, pp. 5-7.Yao, J. T. P., Brown, C. B., and Wong, F. S., (1999), "The Role of Risk and Reliability in Engineering Education," Stochastic Structural Dynamics, Edited by B. F. Spencer, Jr., & E. A. Johnson, A. A. Balkema

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Disagree Strongly Disagree a) I already have some exposure to the hands-on digital metal forming at my co-op. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree N/A b) 1 am more interested in digital manufacturing as a result of hands-on experience with virtual CAE tools used in the laboratory exercises than the lecture classes. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree c) The use of computer laboratory experience in ME-510 has made me more interested in enrolling in undergraduate research than I would have been otherwise. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree

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/Newsletter.htm10. Lohmann, J., “EC 2000: The Georgia Tech Experience,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, July 1999, pp. 305-310.11. Besterfield-Sacre, M., L. Shuman, H. Wolfe, C. Atman, J. McGourty, R. Miller, B. Olds, and G. Rogers, “Defining Outcomes: A Framework for EC-2000,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 100-110.12. Royer, E., C. Wright, and D. Peterson, “Assessment for Electrical Engineering Programs – Processes Implemented at the United States Air Force Academy,” IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, no. 2, May 2000, pp. 159-163.13. Safoutin, M., C. Atman, R. Adams, T. Rutar, J. Kramlich, and J. Fridley, “A Design Attribute Framework for Course Planning and

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SystemConclusionsThe new Senior Mechanical Engineering Lab has met most of its objectives. Yet, the written andverbal communication outcomes of the lab need improvement. The faculty who teach the lab hasbecome adaptive to modern instrumentation and computer data acquisition, and the mechanicalengineering students who take the lab are demonstrating improved skills in other senior levelcourse work and related job experiences. The successes of the new lab should be used incurriculum renovation for other labs in the UTC Engineering Program.Bibliography1. LabVIEW User Manual for Windows, National Instruments, Austin, Texas2. Boyer, E., Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professorate, Carnegie Foundation, 1990.3. Onaral, B., A Road Less Traveled, ASEE

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Doria Hickman; Bala Ram; Sanjiv Sarin; Paul Stanfield

Session 3242 Engineering Faculty Teams: A Proposed Process Model Doria Hickman, Paul Stanfield, Sanjiv Sarin, Bala Ram North Carolina A&T State UniversityI. IntroductionThe engineering faculty member is placed in an environment where he/she is encouraged to workas an individual, as a single entrepreneur in competition with other faculty members. Rewardsare based on getting better teaching evaluations, or more research publications and money thanother faculty members. This individual model is justified as one that motivates faculties

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

Windows98 PC (Web server:http://149.164.36.204), Opto22 SNAP B-300 Ethernet I/O Brain (10/100 Mbps, Webserver), SNAP I/O Modules (digital-to-analog converters, digital-to-analog converters,and digital I/Os), Opto22 Controller (LCM4), Web Camera, a DC motor control system,a single phase AC motor, and sensors (current, voltage, temperature, humidity). Thecamera Web page, as shown in Figure 1, is designed to include a light ON/OFF controloption so that any user can view the lab setups even when the ceiling light of the lab Page 6.1152.3room is turned off. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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., Belytschko, T., Moran, B., & Black, T. “Design and Computational Methods in Basic MechanicsCourses”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1997.WILLIAM EDWARD HOWARDEd Howard is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Milwaukee School ofEngineering. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, andis currently a PhD candidate at Marquette University. He has 14 years of industrial experience in the design andanalysis of composite structures.JOSEPH C. MUSTOJoseph C. Musto is an Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Director at Milwaukee School ofEngineering. He holds a B.S. degree from Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY), and an M.Eng. and Ph.D

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ASEE 2001 : International Division Paper (submitted) A Summer Immersion in French Engineering and Language April Wilson and David Ollis, Chemical Engineering Department,NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905 A major French engineering school, the Ecole Superieure de Chimie PhysiqueElectronique de Lyon, or CPE-Lyon, decided to fund a seed initiative aimed at increasingthe number of American engineering students who are ready, willing, and able to spend asubstantial academic experience abroad. In June 2000, CPE created and carried out athree-week immersion program in France involving American engineering students, titled"Summer School for Science and Engineering Students". Their

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one course and courses have more than one student.Figure 3 shows one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many relationships. Relationship Entity Entity Figure 3. Entity relationship b. Identifying the Attributes and Data TypeEach entity has many attributes. Each attribute is defined with a related data type, valid Page 6.1085.4values, and keys (primary key, foreign key, alternate key, etc.). We defined the data Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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6.778.5small (11 women and 5 minorities). We hypothesize, however, that since the grades received by Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationwomen and men and those received by racial majority/minority students are so similar, that thistrend will persist in further study. While comparison of student grades at different institutions(especially in different courses) is always problematic, it should be noted that in this case, it isparticularly inappropriate—Kettering has a grading policy in which a numeric grade of 93 is re-quired to make a letter grade of “A,” 85-92 receives a “B,” 78-84 receives a “C

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goals and objectives toward continuous improvement of both delivery methods of the course. The course is again being taught in CD-ROM format in the spring of 2001, alongside a traditionally delivered course. Both classes will be given the same final exam (not usually done in a laboratory course) addressing the experiments performed and not merely knowledge obtained from the lecture course. Also, an additional student course evaluation form addressing the format of the course is being developed for required student input at the completion of the course.(b) It is still desirable to be able to post the course experiments on the internet for easy downloading by students to replace the CD-ROM distribution, but formatting of

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are alsoincluded after completion of each PART. This allows students to begin the thought process ofanalyzing the results before moving to the next PART. The analysis questions are of sufficientdepth to be incorporated into a laboratory report. Some sample questions are listed below. • Briefly explain the purpose of each element: a). Reference voltage. b). Control element. c). Error Detector. d). Sample circuit. Page 6.42.14 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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during the experimental work. The CISC specificationswere as follows:CISC System OneCPU: Intel Pentium-II (Stock 350Mhz, 3.5x 100Mhz FSB)Front Side Bus Speed for Test Series A: 100Mhz (CPU @ 350 - Stock)Front Side Bus Speed for Test Series B: 133Mhz (CPU @ 466 -Over clocked)RAM: 256mbHard Disk Drive: Western Digital WDC WD205BA (20gb ATA33)IDE Chipset: Intel PIIX-4 BXSCSI Chipset: NoneVideo Card: nVidia RivaTNT-1 v3400, 16mb Video Ram, Memory Clock: 120Mhz,3d Engine Clock: 105MhzSound Card: Creative Labs PCI64CISC System TwoCPU: Intel 80486DX (Stock 40Mhz)Bus Speed for Test Series A: (CPU @ 40Mhz - Stock)Bus Speed for Test Series B: (CPU @ 50Mhz - Over clocked)RAM: 24mbHard Disk Drive: SCSI Seagate Hawk ST32151N (2.1gb SCSI-2 Fast @10mbit/sec

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Learning Community Effectiveness: A Multi-Campus ApproachPresented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) AIR Forum, Cincinnati, Ohio,May 22. (2000)13. French, B. F. & Oakes, W. Measuring academic intrinsic motivation: Evidence of reliability and validity of a newinstrument. Paper accepted to be presented at the National Conference of the American Educational Research Association,April 2001. (2001).14. Pascarella, E. T. Terenzini & Patrick T. Freshman persistence and voluntary dropout decisions from a theoreticalmodel. Journal of Higher Education. 51: 60-75. (1980).15. Tinto, V. Dropout from higher education: A theoretical synthesis of recent research. In Review of EducationalResearch. 45, 89-125. (1975

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. Kumar, V., Kinzel, G., Wei, S., Bengu, G., Zhou, J., “Multi-University Design Projects", Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 353-360, July, 2000.2. Wei, C. S., Kumar, V., and Kinzel, G. "An Educational Experiment in Teaching Mechanism Design and Manufacturing Using Multi-University Teams," Proceedings of the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Cincinnati, Dec 10-13, (1995.3. Biswas, A., Bozzo, T., Forry, B., Kinzel, L., Phua, I., Kumar, V., and Wei, C.-S. “Basic Design Optimization of Mechanisms,” Proceedings of the 4th National Applied Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Dec 10-13, 1995.4. Verburg et al., Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Education for the Next

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., & Shelnutt, J.W. Creative Problem Solving and Engineering Design. McGraw-Hill Primis (1999), ISBN 0-07-236058-5.2. Pugh, Stuart. Total Design: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering. New York: Addison- Wesley (1991).3. Crandall, R. (editor), Break-Out Creativity. Corte Madera: Select Press (1998).4. Herrmann, Ned. The Whole Brain Business Book. New York: McGraw-Hill (1996), ISBN 0-07-028462-8.5. Binks, M., Gibbs, B., and Lumsdaine, E. Interdisciplinary Courses to Enhance Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Sixth European Conference on Creativity & Innovation, Lattrop, Netherlands (12/1999).6. Fussell, David A. The Secret to Making Your Invention a Reality: The Workbook. Ventur-Training L.P., Duluth

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1968.KATHLEEN A. HALLKathleen Hall is a Professor of Mathematics at Southern Polytechnic State University. She received the B. S. degreein Mathematics from Loyola University, New Orleans in 1970 and the M. S. degree in Mathematics from ClemsonUniversity in 1972. She spent several years working in finite element analysis with the Lockheed AeronauticalSystems Company. Page 6.653.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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) “Past Imperfect: A Success Story Amid Decades of Disappointment.” Science, Vol. 258, pp. 1177-79.8. Zuckerman, H. (1987) “Persistence and Change in the Careers of Men and Women Scientists and Engineers.” In L.S. Dix (Ed.), Women: Their Underrepresentation and Career Differentials in Science and Engineering. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 123-56.9. Clewell, B.C. and B. Anderson (1991) Women of Color in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Report submitted to EUREKA!, Women’s Center of Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.10. Gibbons A. (1992) “Future Conditional: Minority programs that get High Marks.” Science, Vol. 258. pp.1190-96.11. Oakes, J., T. Ormseth, R. Bell, and P. Camp (1990) Multiplying

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the uncertainty error in an experimentally determined parameter. Thismethodology is accepted for determining the maximum error in a calculated parameter1. Theauthors utilize this method to enhance the students understanding of error estimation and draw ona strong background in calculus. Consider that an experimental determination will be made forthe parameter B. Say this parameter is calculated from measurements x1, x2, ..., xN. Amathematical statement of this could be B = fn(x1, x2, ..., xN)The uncertainty in B, denoted by dB, can then be related to the uncertainty in the measuredvalues, dx, by applying the chain rule

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achieving course objectives, andrecommendations for future improvement [15] Page 6.362.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe end of the course survey is tailored to capture correspondence of what was done in class totargets set by the instructor on the various outcomes. Appendix B presents the “Outcomes-BasedAssessment Survey” covering ABET’s (a-k) and additional outcomes addressing programspecified criteria and other outcomes considered to be fundamental attributes of the program.This course survey

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names for the gates are derived from the positive logic interpretation; it can beshown that a negative logic interpretation results in the dual functions. To understand the mixedlogic approach, it is important to learn the transfer characteristic or voltage table for each gate.The voltage tables for the five basic gates are shown in Table 1 – L is used to represent lowvoltage and H high voltage and the functional symbols are used for the positive logicinterpretation. Note that an inverter is not necessarily a NOT gate; it simply changes assertionlevels. A B AB A+B A*B A8B A’ L L L L H H H L H