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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heather E. Dillon, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #28288Students Taking Action on Engineering EthicsDr. Heather E Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. She recently served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland Jeff Welch is a doctoral student in

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Tariq Khraishi

,even whole degrees, on-line. A lot of them offer graduate courses and programs online. Some,even at the high-school level, are offering online degrees.LaMeres and Plumb (2014) found out that converting undergraduate digital circuits to onlinedelivery is as effective as in-classroom offerings. They even found the same result for anundergraduate digital systems laboratory using a remote lab approach. Reid (2006) in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at IUPUI studied the conversionof two courses (Digital Fundamentals and C++ programming) has gradually changed twocourses from a traditional lecture / laboratory format to an online format. They found that studentsuccess was comparable to success in a traditional format

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2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Kyle Trenshaw; Emily Weber; Rachel Monfredo

Skillset Shifts in First-year, First-semester Chemical Engineering Students Kyle F Trenshaw STEM Specialist at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning University of Rochester Emily A Weber Adjunct Lecturer in Biology Nazareth College and St. John Fisher College Rachel Monfredo Lecturer and Senior Technical Associate in Chemical Engineering University of RochesterStudents’ self-assessment of the

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2019 Best PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers Live Q&A

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, Ohio State University; Wolfgang Windl, Ohio State University

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2019 Best Zone & PIC Papers

diversity. As Assistant Professor, she is responsible for participating in teaching, scholarship and service for the department. Dr. Stiner-Jones received her Bachelor’s and PhD. degrees from Wright State University and her MBA from Capital University. After completing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, she completed postdocs, in neuroimmunology and psychoneuroimmunology at Ohio State. Her work has been published in numerous scientific journals and presented both nationally and internationally. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Stiner-Jones accepted a faculty position in Ohio State’s College of Dentistry and served as Director of Minority Student Recruitment and DENTPATH, a post baccalaureate program to

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The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

activities. Results from student surveys andparent surveys will be presented. The paper concludes with recommended changes andimprovements in the program, as well as a discussion of adaptations that would create programssuitable for implementation at other institutions as well as programs aimed at a different targetpopulation.The three phases previously enumerated each build upon currently accepted educationalpractices. The robotics summer camp in particular used problem-based learning approaches,similar to those described in The Power of Problem-Based Learning2. This study clearlydemonstrates the significant benefits of teaching students how to think by using a problem-basedapproach. We also developed a mobile laboratory so that the summer camp can

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University

sophomorestudents observed that the cases helped build engineering identity, and provided historicalunderstanding. The cases made the technical information relevant and linked theory to practice.Also, the students remembered a lot about the case studies, including names, dates, and technicaldetails. In addition, the faculty teaching these two courses were surveyed about the timecommitment required to implement the case studies, and whether the benefits justify theinvestment. Since teaching and revising a course is a time-consuming endeavor, faculty willonly incorporate failure case studies if that can be done fairly easily, and if the benefits can beshown to be substantial. Faculty at the home institution addressed the difficulty ofimplementation in

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Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

become more prominent in K-12 public education.This emphasis on design and problem solving through applied mathematics and inquiry basedscience are at the center of the National Science Foundation funded project entitled Invention,Innovation, and Inquiry (I3). This project is so named because invention and innovation are thehallmarks of technological thinking and action. This article will describe the background of theproject, how the units of instruction were developed, field testing procedures, findings, andfinally discuss how this curriculum has been implemented in various settings.The purpose of the I3 project was to write ten thematic units that focused on developingtechnological literacy in students, grades 5-6; creating teaching and

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Novel Applications of Computers/Software in Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert McMasters, Virginia Military Institute; Michael Sexton, Virginia Military Institute; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Andre Benard, Michigan State University; Norbert Mueller, Michigan State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

-dimensional steady state conduction solutions for cases where temperatureboundary conditions were prescribed. The present research expands the features of the programto include prescribed heat flux boundary conditions as well as convective boundary conditions.Moreover, the expanded program also handles transient cases so that students can watchtemperature changes in a material on a real-time basis. The addition of these boundaryconditions also now allows one dimensional problems to be solved by specifying a zero heat fluxcondition on opposing sides of the body.The solutions for the original version of the program were generated using a code developed forSandia National Laboratory which was DOS based. The revised program has replaced thiscomputational

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Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

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Engineering Technology

directly measure the competencies (program objectives) of EET/CET graduatingstudents. Two Rubrics, a national and a local, are used to evaluate each student onachieving program objectives (competencies) based on direct observation. The nationalassessment rubric is designed to gauge the student performance in achieving the programobjectives, and the assessment data is used to take corrective action in terms ofcurriculum design and implementation. The local assessment tool is designed to identifystudent strengths and weaknesses at course sequence level; the assessment data obtainedis used to take corrective action at local level (campus) by revising the course contentsand teaching methodologies at the lecture and laboratory levels.(see Rubric E and

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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Industrial Engineering

2006-2384: FIRST-TIME ACCREDITATION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THEABET ACCREDITATION PROCESSAndrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce ANDREW E. JACKSON, Ph.D., P.E., CSIT, Professor of Industrial Engineering Dr. Jackson teaches a variety of IE courses, including: Engineering Economics, Human Factors Engineering, Production Systems Engineering, Systems Simulation, and Risk Assessment. His career spans 37 years in the fields of aviation, aerospace, defense contract support engineering, systems acquisition, academics, and systems engineering. His research interests include Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics in Large-Scale Systems.Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University-Commerce E

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MIND - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Shaykhian, NASA; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-456: IMPROVING PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS THROUGHADAPTING PROGRAMMING TOOLSLinda Shaykhian, NASA Linda H. Shaykhian Linda Shaykhian is a computer engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center (KSC). She is currently co-lead of the Information Architecture team for the Constellation Program’s Launch Site Command and Control System Proof of Concept project. She was lead of the Core Technical Capability Laboratory Management System project, which is currently used for resource management and funding of KSC Core Technical Capability laboratories. She was the Software Design Lead and Software Integrated Product Team Lead for the Hazardous Warning

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

approaches that a student-centered environmentcan develop. Teamwork, though, is not easy to teach, is time consuming to implement andvery difficult to evaluate and, yet, crucial for the completion of a well-rounded engineer.Training students in teamwork requires a completely new type of class (and beyond)environment with totally different activities and instructor teaching practices: one that ismore closely positioned to a “sport coach” with the ability to change the learning pace,promote students’ activities, and with a strong command of the psychology of learning.Teamwork also requires the development of new student training methods and newassessment methodologies.In this contribution, the authors will discuss several aspects related to teamwork

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ETD Design II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John L. Irwin, Michigan Technological University; David Wanless, Michigan Technological University; Paul Sanders, Michigan Technological University; Scott W. Wagner, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

from 2002-2006. He is experienced in industry as well as the teaching profession with a career spanning five years in engineering design, several years part time consulting in industry, and 24 total years of teach- ing first high school, then community college and presently university-level courses in the engineering technology subject area. Irwin has a research focus on evaluation of teaching and learning in the area of computer aided design, analysis, and manufacturing subjects introduced in the STEM related courses in K-16 educational levels. From 2009-2010, Irwin served as PI for a Michigan Department of Educa- tion Title II Improving Teacher Quality grant targeting grade 5-12 physics and chemistry teachers’ use of

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Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Diane Folz, Virginia Tech

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Materials

Instructor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She also is the faculty advisor for the Material Advantage Student Professional Organization and of the Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR). In addition to teaching the materials processing laboratories, she mentors at least one team each year in their senior capstone project. Her research is primarily in the area of microwave processing of materials. Page 15.99.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Summer Transitional Program for an Undergraduate Interdisciplinary

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Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Soner Tarim

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, university laboratory? Where did the equipment come from? Did you build it? Did you loan it from somewhere? Did you work in a professional laboratory? Did you do the project yourself or did you receive help? If you received help the judges are looking for you to give credit to those individuals. Did you have clarity with the details of your science project? How well your project fits in with the theme of being beneficial to society will be taken into account?Table 5

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Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Ben Bocher, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Austin Polebitski, University of Wisconsin Platteville

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Environmental Engineering

- mance, and co-digestion of solid wastes. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Marquette University (2012) and his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis (2006). The desire join the faculty at Platteville can best be summed up in the word accompany—Ben feels quite blessed to be able to accompany students as they become engineers. His work with the Milwaukee Water Council oversaw the founding of student chapters, and he has been in- volved with Engineers Without Borders. He began teaching in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville in the fall of 2012. When he is not working on engineering

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Engi- neering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research focuses on idea gen- eration, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.Prof. Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan Kathleen H. Sienko is a Miller Faculty Scholar and Associate

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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

junior level for all civil engineering technology students. The course credit hourswere increased to 4 semester credit hours to allow for developing a laboratory component for thecourse.The use of lab assignments in the transportation course allowed students to get hands-onexperience and training in conducting transportation studies utilizing the latest standardsemployed in the industry. The lab also enabled the instructor to use open-ended problems suchthat members of each team can search for feasible solutions that meet specific guidelines.Different teams may end up with different analysis results or design solutions. Feedback fromstudents indicated their appreciation for integrating the lab assignments into the course.This paper describes the

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Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

Engineering EducationCurrent Course Structure of Freshman Engineering.ENGR 1550 Basic Engineering Concepts (3 SH)The first course in the current sequence at Youngstown State University is ENGR 1550 BasicEngineering Concepts, offered only in the Fall Semester. The three semester hour course iscomprised of two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite/concurrentrequirement for this course is a math course of pre-calculus or higher level.There are several distinct sub-goals of this first course; however they are all intertwined whenfocusing on the main goal of successfully transitioning the first year student to becoming part ofthe YSU engineering community. While presenting and teaching several engineering/technicalskills, the

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

professionals. Kelton3 presented the pros and cons of teaching the “classics,” i.e.,“any general-purpose procedural programming language that is not a simulation language at all”versus “high-level, icon-based simulation software.” Nance and Sargent4 noted that an“unsettling consequence” of modern simulation languages is that “users may have littleunderstanding of how the model results are being produced” and “developers sometimes lack asufficient understanding of the internal logic [of simulation programming languages] to enablethe recognition of erroneous results produced by incorrect models.” However, experience hasshown that it is relatively easy to learn details of a simulation language for students whounderstand discrete event simulation and

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

develop and implementprocesses for the evaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, itseducational objectives and outcomes. The overall competence of the faculty is judged by suchfactors as education, diversity of backgrounds, engineering experience, teaching experience,ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developing more effective programs, level of scholarship,participation in professional societies, and registration as Professional Engineers [1, 3].FacilitiesClassrooms, laboratories, and associated equipment must be adequate to accomplish the programobjectives and provide an atmosphere conducive to learning. Appropriate facilities must beavailable to foster faculty-student interaction and to create a climate that

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

21st century. One ofthe hallmarks of the program is the truly multidisciplinary curriculum in which laboratory/designcourses are offered simultaneously to engineering students in all four disciplines. Indeed, thehallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University is the multidisciplinary, project-oriented, Engineering Clinic sequence. Every engineering student at Rowan University takes theEngineering Clinics each semester. In the Engineering Clinic, which is based on the medicalschool model, students and faculty from all four engineering departments work side-by-side onlaboratory experiments, real world design projects and research. The solutions of these problemsrequire not only proficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

variety of disciplinary contexts. A solid background is developed by touching keyconcepts at several points along the spiral in different courses, adding depth and sophistication ateach pass. Each foundation course also stresses the development of several essential skills, suchas problem-solving, oral and written communication, the design process, teamwork, projectmanagement, computer analysis methods, laboratory investigation, data analysis and modeldevelopment. In addition to providing a broad engineering background, this sequence ofmultidisciplinary courses develops the foundation for building substantial depth in key areas ofimportance for engineering students.The first semester freshman course that includes feedback control is EAS 109

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

training go hand inhand because students are required to manage “projects” that they must complete during thequarter. They are introduced to the concept of team roles, agendas, minutes, listening, decisionmaking, peer evaluation, and scheduling. In their sophomore year, students are given training inpeer evaluation that is reinforced in the junior year. In the junior year student laboratory groupsare required to complete open ended laboratory projects. These groups are responsible forscheduling their work and performing peer evaluations. During the senior Systems Designcourse, students are given more in depth training on team motivation and interaction. They areintroduced to scheduling concepts and are required to use Microsoft Project to complete

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Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Patterson; C. Richard Helps

Session 2249 Evaluation of Cooperative Competition as an Educational Strategy in Project-Oriented Technology Education Richard Helps, Mark Patterson Brigham Young University/University of DaytonAbstractCompetitions can create an effective learning environment by engaging students in active andcooperative learning. And while competition and cooperation are usually considered byeducational researchers to be opposites, they can be used in conjunction to support learning. Thisstudy discusses the results of teaching upper-division and graduate-level technology courses

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Rennels; Stephen Hundley; Patricia Fox

laboratories, etc. In this section, the survey did not change considerably from the 1999survey. In 2003 of the 37 four-year schools that responded, 79% reported that they are known asa university. Interestingly, 79% of the respondents in 1999 also said they were called auniversity. The next most used name is college at 13%. Table 1. Type of Institution for Four-Year Schools 1999 and 2003. 60 79% 50 40 79% 30 20 10

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

collaboration styles have also to beconsidered regarding curricula, courseware and teaching methods.Computers are now used in the classroom as multimedia tools to provide alternative sources oflearning material, to provide interactive learning situations and to provide simulation of systemsthat cannot for reasons of cost, size or safety be used in reality. The use of the Internet is rapidlyincreasing and is being seen by some people as the greatest source of knowledge available forlearning. The use of simulation tools has a number of benefits to education. The learner is notexposed to the hazards of the real world. The learner is able to explore a range of possiblesolutions easily and quickly. The learner is able to use the tools that will be available

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Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Department at UMR. He is thedirector of the NSF and Halliburton Foundation funded Sustainable Design Laboratory at UMR, and serveson the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Engineering. His teaching and researchinterests include Rapid Product Realization, and green design and manufacturing. He has published over 50technical articles and has received over $2M in research grants.MING. C. LEUMing C. Leu is the Keith and Pat Bailey Professor in Integrated Product Development and Manufacturing,in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMR. His research is in the areas of automated motionverification and planning, dynamics and control of robots, automated assembly planning, and layeredmanufacturing. He is the ASME Vice President

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Construction Engineering Advances I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaughn Whisker; Sai Yerrapathruni; John Messner; Anthony Baratta

. A user’s head and hand can be tracked withelectromagnetic sensors to provide interaction with the display system.3. Virtual Reality Display Facility at Penn StateThe Applied Research Laboratory atPenn State University has an immersiveprojection display system similar to theCAVETM in the Synthetic EnvironmentApplications Laboratory (SEA Lab)[15].The SEA Lab’s equipment includes adisplay system that permits thegeneration of a 360 degree, 10' x 10' x 9'immersive environment where users cancollaboratively interact with simulationsand data in real-time (see Figure 2). Thesystem uses four back-projectiondisplay screens; stereoscopic and Figure 2: SEA Lab Immersive Projection Display atsynchronized image rendering

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Isha H. Jain

on a stick,which act as seeds for the growth of larger crystals. The important points to note from thisexperiment are: (i) the sugar solution is about as fluid as water, and (ii) the growth of crystals,even a few mm in size, takes several days. For the remaining three experiments, we need the following readily available Equipmentand Supplies: 1 one-quart stainless steel pan 1 hotplate 12 metal tablespoon 1 laboratory balance (or fluid measuring cup at home) 1 metal tray to hold hot candies (up to ~175 °C/ 350 °F) 1 laboratory or good quality candy thermometer that reads up to ~ 205 °C or 400 °F