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Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Miller; Carlos Morales

anylearner, under any condition through the integration of intelligent modules that dynamically determine themost appropriate mode of presentation for any particular learner.This paper details the development of a module for Purdue’s Unified Multimedia Delivery System capableof intelligently identifying and delivering asynchronous video content to users on traditional PC’s or PDA’sover a wireless environment. This provides the system with the capability to deliver traditional video-based instructional and supportive documentation such as schematics, illustration, and animation tostudents outside of the confines of their traditional classroom or laboratory.While many commercial solutions address the delivery of training materials using Internet

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Mayhew; Richard Layton

Session 2559 Killing Two Birds with One Data Acquisition System James E. Mayhew, Richard A. Layton Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractAn open-circuit wind tunnel is upgraded by adding a commercially-available data acquisitionsystem used to teach students some basic concepts of data acquisition, instrumentation,calibration, and assessment of results. Student teams were given 30-60 minutes of hands-oninstruction on how to acquire data using the system. Eight student teams participated over twoquarters, performing calibrations of the load cells and angle-of-attack

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

Session 2793 The Penn State Sailplane Course Götz Bramesfeld and Mark D. Maughmer The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802AbstractSince 1989, the Department of Aerospace Engineering of The Pennsylvania State University hasoffered a special undergraduate project course that has a strong emphasis on “hands on” designand fabrication. Specifically, a group of approximately twenty-five students, freshmen throughseniors, is involved in the design and construction of high-performance sailplanes. Students canand are expected to enroll in this course for every

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2793 Communication and Civil Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Senior Projects Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyFor the past year, Oregon Institute of Technology’s Civil Engineering and CommunicationsDepartments have been developing a creative curriculum venture: a unique senior designexperience that would combine the content of what had previously been three distinct classes:engineering design, technical writing, and group dynamics. Students would work in teams on areal design project, and the nine faculty

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Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

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Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Session 3475Choosing The Road Less Traveled: Alternatives to the Tenure Track Lisa Bullard, Penny Knoll, Ann Saterbak North Carolina State University / Montana State University / Rice UniversityAbstractTenure has been traditionally held up as the “Holy Grail” for those in academia -- however, somenew faculty make a conscious choice to pursue non-traditional academic roles. In this paper,three new engineering educators relate how their interests, priorities, and family situations ledthem to seek out non-tenure track faculty positions and candidly discuss the benefits as well asthe drawbacks of the paths they have taken

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Grasman

Session 1639 Teaching Engineering Economics via Distance Education Scott E. Grasman University of Missouri at RollaAbstractDriven by demand for distance education, the instructor lecturing to a room of students isreplaced by a “virtual classroom”. This new method of delivery, coupled with the necessity forunique course administration procedures, requires a teaching approach that differs significantlyfrom that of a traditional classroom. This paper outlines demonstrated challenges with learningand teaching via streaming video over the internet as they relate to

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

, campus visits, and printed materials. In addition, however, we conduct programsthat focus on recruiting women from high schools known to provide them with the skillsnecessary to study engineering and on integrating those programs with others designed toretain women who have chosen to study engineering. This paper documents the suite ofrecruitment and retention programs at Ohio State; several of which were supported, in part, bythe Gateway Engineering Education Coalition.IntroductionOur society is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, and as a result, there is an increasingdemand for people with training in technical fields, particularly engineering. Young womenform a substantial and largely untapped pool of potential engineers that could

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

Session 2002-648 An Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Curriculum – First Principles First Michael Nowak, Donald Leone, Ronald Adrezin University of Hartfordabstract:The University of Hartford established an undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering inthe early 1990s. The program is based on the philosophy that a student should first have a solidfoundation in traditional engineering disciplines, followed by in-depth courses in biomedicalengineering, significant off-campus experience in a biomedical facility, and design opportunities.This provides the

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Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

hour requirements, program coursecontent, and availability of degree program to off-campus students. In addition to thebenchmarking study of Engineering Management programs at other universities, a market surveyis in development to determine the potential student population size and student diversity.IntroductionThe Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas is currently striving toredesign its Master of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM) program. This degreeprogram will be integrated into the existing MSOM (Operations Management) program and willbe offered both on campus and as part of the College of Engineering’s Distance Educationprogram. It will target those individuals who hold a Bachelor of Science degree in

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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

and national market needs. After two years in development, a newly created IndustrialControl Systems Laboratory supported in this manner, was implemented at NortheasternUniversity’s School of Engineering Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. This paper presents abrief history of the development and implementation of this laboratory course. More importantly,it provides interesting evaluation feedback from the industrial partners who supported thisproject since its inception through both state-of-the-art equipment donations valued at greaterthan $500,000 as well as valuable feedback. Guidance from these important industrial resourcesis invaluable in making any midcourse corrections to the program and ensuring the material isrelevant. This paper

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Session 2793 Batch Grading of Excel Homework Assignments Dennis R. Stevenson, P.E. Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-ParksideThis is a report of a design project to incorporate automated grading of Excel homeworkassignments in an engineering economy course. The instructional faculty wished to (1) reducethe amount of time spent on grading and at the same time (2) improve the quality of grading and(3) reduce the lag time in providing feedback of results to students.A grading system, somewhat unimaginatively named Grader4, has been used for

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ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Fisher; David Roth; Fredrick Nitterright

Session Number: 3149 Implementing and Managing Summer Internships at The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College, for Seniors in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program. Fredrick A. Nitterright, David E. Roth, Kenneth Fisher The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend CollegeAbstractThis past summer completes the second year of summer internships conducted by students in theMechanical Engineering Technology program at The Pennsylvania State University, TheBehrend College located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The summer internships are open to studentswho have completed required core

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Craddock; Chandrasekhar Vallath; Alison Arndt; Lizette Chevalier

Session Number 2793 Technology Enhanced Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Environmental Engineering L.R. Chevalier, J.N. Craddock, C. Vallath and A. Arndt Dept. of Civil Engineering/Interractive Multimedia Program Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901-6603 PH: 618-453-6648 FAX: 618-453-3044 cheval@engr.siu.edu, craddock@ce.siu.edu cvallath@yahoo.com, arndtae@yahoo.comAbstractThe main objective of the lab manual is to provide an

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Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Virendra Varma

Session 1421 Professional Credentialing of Construction Students: The Changing Face of Construction Engineering Education Virendra K. Varma, Ph.D., P.E. Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractEngineering Students in their senior year, especially those in the field of civil engineering, sit forthe EIT/FE examination. Though, it may not be their program requirement, majority of seniorsdo generally opt to take the examination. Construction students, however, seldom have had thesame opportunity to take a national examination to qualify as a certified professional

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ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pin-Hui Tan; Roman Stemprok

Session 3147 VOICE CANCELLATION Roman Stemprok, Pin-Hui Tan University of North TexasAbstractDeveloped societies experience an increased level of noise pollution which can be associatedwith industrial activities or higher human concentration. There are several noise categories, suchas transport noise or social noise. A transportation system is a necessity and few places in urbandevelopment exist where transport noise cannot be heard. Social noise, however, is the greatestsource of nuisance noise and complaints. Surveys from various geographical

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

Session ____ EXPLORING INTERESTS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MAYAGÜEZ Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez, Silvana Tarazaga, Dalmaris González Industrial Engineering Department University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Box 9043 Mayagüez, PR 00681-9043Abstract - EXITE! (Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering) was a summer campsponsored by IBM Corporation, the Chancellor’s Office and the College of Engineering of theUniversity of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM), designed to introduce girls

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2793 INCENTIVES FOR INNOVATIVE COOPERATION BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA. Dr.Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Dr. V. T. Montgomery Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762 And David Pett Consultant Huntsville, AL E-Mail: rojaso@asnaam.aamu.edu; trent@aamu.edu; dpett@aamu.eduAbstract.New partnerships are developing between industry and Alabama A&M University as two

Conference Session

ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 3550 Using the SAE Aero-Design Competition to Expose Students to Multidisciplinary Design Teams Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractStudents at Saint Louis University have an opportunity to participate in the SAE (Society ofAutomotive Engineering) Aero-Design student competition. The competition challenges studentsto design, fabricate and fly an aircraft carrying a desired weight in a pre-determined flight pattern.Participation in the project draws

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Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

Session 2559K-12 Programs Plug into Technology with Project Lead The Way Curriculum Gerard N. Foster Purdue University, School of Technology, Kokomo, Indiana Abstract Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a national program that offers a pre-engineering curriculum for high schools and middle schools. The high school curriculum consists of five courses covering solid modeling with a CAD package, digital electronics, principles of engineering, computer integrated manufacturing, and implementation of a design project. Teachers learn the technical, project-based course material in an intensive, two- week

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

Session 1327 Embedding Engineering Management into Product Design Education Gül E. Okudan and Richard Devon Department of Engineering Design and Graphics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802Abstract __ This paper first discusses the evolution of the Introduction to Engineering Designand Graphics course (ED&G 100) at the Pennsylvania State University from a skill developmentcourse to a product design oriented course. Then, it focuses on embedding engineeringmanagement subjects to the course due to new

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; James Ledlie Klosky

material type and geometry in a realisticway. One essential method of convincing students of the importance and truth of what you areteaching is to actually show them that truth up close. Student feedback gathered during and afterthe semester consistently reinforces the effectiveness of hands-on demonstrations in drivinghome key points in mechanics.This paper presents several simple, low-cost and rapid classroom demonstrations that enhancestudent understanding by allowing for the direct observation of physical phenomenon. Includedhere are demonstrations of shear, stress transformation, pressure vessels, and staticallyindeterminate systems. Each of these demonstrations has been thoroughly classroom-tested, andcomments on the use of each

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger

Session 1923 Teaching Nano-Fabrication Materials Processing to Non-materials Majors Andrew M. Hoff(1), Marilyn Barger(2), and Richard Gilbert(1) (1) University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620 / (2) Hillsborough Community College, Brandon, Florida 33619AbstractA new course under development that is designed to provide a broad understanding of theopportunities and limitations imposed by the processing of materials and structures in themicrometer to the nanometer regime is introduced. The historic focal point of micro-fabricationcourses in

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

Paper 2002-763 Why Settle for an MBA? Ann Marie Flynn, Joseph Reynolds, Louis Theodore Department of Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NYIntroductionWe engineers in education face a double challenge. First, many engineers move intomanagement type positions within 5 years after graduation and utilize little to none of thetechnical material provided during their academic experience. They become what some havedescribed as “paper shufflers”. The second problem is an outgrowth of the first. The intelligentengineer, realizing the first problem, scuttles any plans for an advanced

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

Session #2002 Learning Assessment in Problem-based Learning for BME Students Wendy C. Newstetter, Paul J. Benkeser Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the fall of 2001, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech inaugurated itsundergraduate degree program. The two anchor courses in the curriculum, BMED1300/2300have adopted an innovative educational approach called Problem-based Learning or PBL that hasbeen used in medical schools for more than a decade. In this approach, teams of eight studentstackle real

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

of an activecontrol system.Structural Analysis and Design (SAD) and Control and Instrumentation Electronics (CIE) aretwo University of Houston-Downtown Engineering Technology B.S. degree programs that areideally related in the field of active control of civil structures. SAD deals with the analysis anddesign of structures, their loads, and failure modes. CIE deals with the design of systems forcontrol of processes. The study of how to design active controls for structures that respondfavorably to imposed loads and deformations is a problem that naturally connects the twodisciplines.The Engineering Technology Department at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has astructural laboratory that was developed with funds provided by the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

, an engineering outreachprogram in which students design, build, and program small autonomous mobile robots.Examples of how Botball may help to draw a diverse population into engineering andcomputer programming will be discussed.IntroductionRecently, over 180 teams of students came together in regional tournaments across thecountry to match their two autonomous, but cooperative, robots against other teams’robotic duos in a game of programming, design, strategy, and engineering skill. Most ofthese regional tournaments took place on college campuses. But the participants weremiddle and high school students who had designed, programmed and built these robots aspart of an engineering outreach program called Botball.These middle and high school

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bollick; Ajit Kelkar

Session 2002-1993 Introduction to Fatigue in Riveted Joints and Adhesively Bonded Joints Ajit D. Kelkar and Ronnie L. Bolick Department of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, North Carolina 27411IntroductionA new hands on approach in laboratory experimentation at the undergraduate level in themechanical engineering curriculum presents comparison of the mechanical properties: includingTensile Strengths, Ultimate Strengths, Elongation and Fatigue Life at ambient temperature,between specimens

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

Session____ STIMULATING STUDENT INTEREST USING AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Olakunle Harrison Mechanical Engineering Department Tuskegee University, AlabamaAbstractThe subject of automotive systems remains an enduring area of great interest to manymechanical engineering students. This paper presents a pilot mechanical engineering course thatstimulates student interest to a high degree. Significant advances in engineering methods, tools,and practices over the years have resulted in tremendous quality improvements in

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

discrete andbatch manufacturing, they have been ignored traditionally in the academic circles of automaticprocess control, the latter focusing primarily on large-scale, continuous processing.Only a minority of today’s ChE students are finding employment in the traditional chemical andpetroleum industries. Many more are entering the job market in pharmaceuticals, specialtychemicals, biotechnology, and microelectronics. The programmed-logic controller predominatesin these sectors. Yet the typical process control course today still reflects continuous processingand PLC’s are largely ignored. This situation calls for change.At the University of Colorado, we have introduced a module in our control course(Instrumentation & Process Control, CHEN 4570