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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Monsanto; Elaine M. Cooney

for undergraduate students. The“lab bench” interface could be effectively used to simulate what would happen in the laboratory, Page 5.15.4 MicroSim EWB Orcad Protel Availability of documentation Overall ease of use Good Good OK Fair Ease of schematic entry Very Good Good Fair Fair Amount of devices available for Very Good Additional Excellent Excellent installation libraries

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh M. Sbenaty

February 1994 to participate in the Sunrayce 95 competition. The proposal discusseddesign specifications, project planning, fund raising, construction techniques, and testing. Afterreviewing all proposals at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado),MTSU was selected to be among 65 participants eligible to compete in the race.MTSU’S SOLAR CAR TEAM MTSU is located in the city of Murfreesboro, 30 miles south of Nashville in the state ofTennessee. With current enrollment of approximately 18,000 students, it is the largest and fastest Page 2.351.1growing in the Middle Tennessee area. The Department of Engineering Technology

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1997 Annual Conference

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James A. Reising

with the roomcontrol units over household wiring circuits.A microprocessor-based interface between a PC and a monochromator that used the PC tocontrol a scan over a desired range of wavelengths and display the resulting spectrum.Several team projects to develop patentable inventions.James A. Reising is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Evansville, Evansville,Indiana, where he has taught since 1980. Prior to that time he was employed by Eagle-Picher Industries at theMiami Research Laboratories and the Electro-Optics Materials Department. He has been senior project coordinatorfor electrical and computer engineering at the University of Evansville since 1982

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

SEGEE received a PhD in Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992. He has been anassistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine since that time. At theUniversity of Maine he heads the Instrumentation Research Laboratory, an organization dedicated to research andteaching involving instrumentation and automation. Work in the lab includes the use of PC’s, PLC’s, and embeddedcontrollers for instrumentation, automation, and networking. Work also includes the use of fuzzy logic and artificialneural networks.SCOTT C. DUNNING is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the University of Maine,Orono, Maine. He teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machinery and power

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Riedle; Jill M. Clough

knowing the composition of the dust, the group carefully packaged asmuch of it as possible and then made an appointment with their chemistry professor. That professorhelped the group run a series of simple experiments to determine the dust’s properties. The groupdiscovered that an Etch-A-Sketch is filled with aluminum dust. These students stated that they gainedmore from that chemistry experience than in their regularly scheduled laboratory projects because “it wasfun”.From the instructor’s view, the project reports were engineering-related and well organized. Studentswere less nervous while giving presentations because the topic (their object) was very familiar and theexpectations had been well defined. Every group had a unique object. Students

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa A. Wipplinger; Charles R. Bissey

systems by quickly manipulating large matrices.A review of the current content of textbooks and the typical content of undergraduate coursesindicates that the majority of the old - or what are now commonly referred to as the “classical”-analysis techniques continue to be included and taught as a major part of the undergraduatecurriculum.Codes and Design SpecificationsThe amount of information and related criteria about loading has significantly expanded duringthe past couple of decades. Governmental agencies, research from the universities and theprivate sector, code groups, and material and component qualification by laboratories have allcontributed to this body of knowledge. During past decades, the Uniform Building Code onlycontained a few

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Marshall R. Boggio

The computer system is a Pentium Pro based operating at 200 MHz. Hard Drive capacity is 2 Giga bytes. The system has been configured to operate in a multi- media environment including a video and network card. It is planned that the project when completed will serve multi-purposes. Besides being used as a multi-media demonstration system for a wide range of students it will be used as a laboratory for our civil engineering students studying hydraulics and open channel flow. In addition, the control and system characteristics will be useful topics for integration into updated multi-discipline programs in Mecomtronics.Partial support for this work was provided by the National ScienceFoundations's

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1997 Annual Conference

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M. E. Parten

, MAMicheal E. Parten is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Partenhas conducted research and published in the areas of education, instrumentation, control, modeling andsimulation of a variety of systems, including semiconductor processing. Since returning to Texas Tech in1984, Dr. Parten has served as the Director of the Undergraduate Laboratories in Electrical Engineering. Page 2.386.7

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip R. Dail

, prepare laboratory reports, and complete papers from which to make presentations is an excellent technique for any size class. Teams should NOT be allowed to form randomly. The teacher should at least obtain some basic information such as the student’s time commitments and assign the teams based on availability of time. I use personality preference inventories as another means of grouping in teams. As much as possible, a team should not have one member of a certain group such as one female, one minority, etc. In large classes the roles of the team members and governance of the individuals must be clearly delineated. An effective way to improve performance is to offer incentives to teams when all their members reach a

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1997 Annual Conference

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Rick L. Homkes; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

Electronics, Inc. coding C ina prototype test laboratory. Page 2.441.5

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1997 Annual Conference

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Javed Alam, Youngstown State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

WWW in the teaching and learning processes. REFERENCES1. WC3 - The World Wide Web Consortium, Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, INRIA and Keio University, http://www.w3.org/2. Internet Society Home Page, http://www.isoc.org/3. The Java Language, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mtn. View, California, 1995, http://www.javasoft.com/ about.html4. Center for Active Learning Communities, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, http://jove1.eng.ysu.edu and http://grad6.eng.ysu.edu Page 2.464.75. FEMur - Finite Element

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1997 Annual Conference

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James E. Mitchell

learned.BackgroundAll Junior Architectural Engineering students take a pair of courses, Architectural EngineeringDesign I & II(ArchEng 390, 391) which are their introduction to the design of engineeringbuilding systems. As course prerequisites they have taken at least two Architectural designstudios. They have also had as pre- or co-requisites: introductions to structural engineering,HVAC fundamentals and electrical/lighting systems. Virtually all students are also experiencedEMail users and are accustomed to using personal computers for word processing and analysis intheir courses.Drexel has full ethernet/appletalk wiring of all buildings including most laboratories as well andall dormitories. In addition we have several multi-media rooms which are

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1997 Annual Conference

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W.M. Spurgeon

. Tarrant, "Drucker: The Man Who Invented the Corporate Society", p. 257, Cahners Books, Inc., Boston, 1976.4. W. Bennis, "An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change", p. 75, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA, 1993.5. T. S. Robertson, "You Need Rapid Market Penetration", CHEMTECH, August 1994, pp. 53-60.WILLIAM S. SPURGEON has a B.S. (Chemistry) from the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry)from the University of Michigan. He has worked for Texaco, University of Cincinnati, American FluresitCompany, G.E (jet engines), Bendix Research Laboratories, National Science Foundation, and The University ofMichigan-Dearborn. He is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has 40 years of managerial experience

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

Converters (DACs) are used to perform this operation. In thispaper we will examine important characteristics associated with ADC/ DAC converters. In addition,we will explain how to specify a converter to meet the requirements of a specific system. We will also state and describe different types of ADC / DAC converters. Binary-weighted,and R- 2R Ladder type DAC circuits will be displayed and analyzed. Parallel Comparator or Flash,Dual Slope, and Successive Approximation type ADC circuits will be displayed and analyzed. Wewill explain extensively the advantage / disadvantage criteria associated with each type of ADC orDAC converters. Finally, two computer interfacing laboratory assignments will demonstrate theconstructions of the R-2R Ladder

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia L. Morse

transfer the excitement of creative engineeringapplications, this approach was successful. Students were excited to learn how the math andscience concepts they already knew could be applied to real life. REFERENCES 1 Byrd, Joseph S. And Jerry L. Hudgins, “Teaming in the Design Laboratory,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 335-341. 2 Morse, Julia L., “Design of a Gage R&R Experiment for a Basic Manufacturing Processes Course,”Thesis, Auburn University, 1996, p. 99. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJULIA MORSE is an Assistant Professor within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering andTechnology

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1998 Annual Conference

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Arnold F. Johnson

ABET-acceptable capstone design experience that is implemented at the student’s work site.A Higher Education/Industry PartnershipIn response to a need from industry, UND started working with 3M of St. Paul, Minnesota, on a distanceeducation program1 in engineering in 1988. As a result of this effort, the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram (CEDP) evolved offering undergraduate distance education degrees in chemical, electrical, andmechanical engineering. The delivery method consists of taping lectures, duplicating the video tapes,and distributing them to the students. Students watch the same lectures, complete the same homework,and take the same exams as the on-campus students. Laboratories are offered in a compressed format(time but not

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert L. Avanzato

-Hall, 1995[2] Avanzato, R.L., “Fire-Fighting Robots To The Rescue,” Proceedings of the 1997 Annual ASEE Conference, Milwaukee,WI, June 15-18, 1997.[3] Handy Board Web Site: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/handy-board/[4] Avanzato, R.L., “Mobile Robot Design, Integration, and Outreach,” Proceedings of ASEE Middle Atlantic DivisionConference, West Point, N.Y., April 1997. BOB AVANZATO is an associate professor of engineering at the Penn State Abington College. His interests include fuzzylogic, expert systems, mobile robotics, and curricular enhancement. Prior to his position at Penn State, Bob was a senior engineer atthe Advanced Technology Laboratories at Martin Marietta where he was involved in digital signal

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Haque, Texas A&M University

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Architectural

Teaching Steel Joints. Proc. of the 2006 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference, Section 21, Technical Writing and Virtual Laboratories, March 15-17, 2006, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.9. Haque, M.E. (2007). n-D Virtual Environment in Construction Education. Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on Virtual Learning (ICVL 2007), 81-88, Constanta, Romania.10. Haque, M.E (2008). VR, n-D and FPS Game Engine Driven Visualization for the Architectural/Construction Engineering Education. Proc. of the International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2008), organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), ISBN 978-0-88986-768-0, pp. 419-423, September 29 – October 1

Conference Session

IE Applications and Systems

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Guccione, Eastern Illinois University; Thomas McDonald, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) 7923120 Administration of public health programs 7622310 Specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) 6621512 Labs, Medical Radiological or X-Ray 5621991 Organ donor centers, body 5621493 Freestanding emergency or urgent medical care centers and clinics (except hospitals) 4236220 Hospital construction 3621511 Medical Laboratories

Conference Session

Innovation in ECET Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

. They alsoare able to take advantage of the university’s expanding wireless network, to access the Internetwithout having to go into a computer lab. All class-related documents (lecture notes,assignments, syllabi, and software packages) are available through the wireless network.Lab Environment CharacteristicsThe laboratory for this class counts with 20 workstations that can be used by the students towrite, test and implement their projects. The workstation setting is shown in Figure 1. Figure1. Microcontrollers WorkstationAs can be seen from this figure, each workstation counts with all the hardware and testingequipment that students need to implement their projects. The equipment available on eachstation includes

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Johnson, Central Washington University

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Materials

AC 2010-210: EFFECTIVENESS OF VIDEO IN CASTING EDUCATIONCraig Johnson, Central Washington University Page 15.444.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Effectiveness of Video in Casting Education Craig Johnson, Ph.D., P.E. Central Washington University (CWU)AbstractOur traditional casting course features both lecture and laboratory venues. However it is notedthat many students have never interacted with foundry equipment, and there is a significantlearning curve associated with the ability of a student to execute basic green sand foundryoperations. Education methods were sought to reduce

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; MIchael Knieser, ILSI; Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

offered for the first time inFall 2007. The three modules were ASIC design, PCB design, and MEMS. Thefollowing survey was taken for 21 students who attended both ASIC and PCB design.Highest score was 5.0 and lowest is 1. 1. I intend to pursue a career in electronic manufacturing or a closely related area 3.77 2. I enjoyed Catapult software used in this ASIC design course 3.77 3. I found computer laboratories with ASIC design easy to follow and helpful for the project 4.05 4. I feel like I’ m gaining confidence to do hardware design with ASIC or PCB

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Joshua Hewes, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Tribal Environmental Professionals, Water Research andEducation Program, and the Arizona Laboratory for Applied Transportation Research.The university is currently undergoing a review to transform NAU into a global campus and toprepare its students for global competency. Although recommendations have yet to be adoptedinto the university's curriculum requirements, eventually the CE curriculum will need to respondto these future demands. One recommendation - each undergraduate plan of study will bemodified in structure to accommodate one semester of education abroad - could require asignificant redesign to the CE curriculum.Motivated by the ABOR 2020 Vision and Strategic Plan6, the university is encouraging itsprograms to streamline curricula

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for K-12 and for Community College Students: Concepts, Assessment, and Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moshe Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

starts with a short introduction to robotics, for example, what is arobot and how a robot differs from other automatic systems. The learning takes place in arobotics laboratory in which the students construct and program small portable robotsusing the Lego NXT robotics environment. The robot comprises a digital controller,motors and sensors, as illustrated in Figure 4. Page 15.1003.5 Figure 4: Lego NXT robot.The students use an icon-based programming language that enables full control of eachmotor. Figure 5 presents a simple command in which robot motors A and B perform 2.31rotations at 75% full power. Figure 5: An

Conference Session

Fulfilling the CE BOK2 - Case Studies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McManis, University of Louisiana

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Civil Engineering

203), GeotechnicalEngineering (CIVE 328), Steel Design Lab (CIVE 426L), Concrete Design Lab (CIVE427L), Highway Engineering (CIVE 450) materials testing laboratory, ConstructionEngineering (CIVE 480), and others. It is believed that the material science knowledgerequired to solve problems appropriate for civil engineering (Level 3) can be achieved inexisting material courses.Outcome 10 – Sustainability: While the importance of sustainability in design andconstruction is understood, the faculty still wrestles with questions of presentation and themeasurement of the individual student’s ability to apply these principles. The program andsystem for reviewing sustainable options in each area of civil engineering covered by the[University A

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

preparingstudents to become engineers in the 21st century and the importance of integrating all elements ofsuccessful engineering practice in engineering education. In addition, they wrote a shortdescription of an idea or plan for implementing innovative techniques in their classroom. On thebasis of these ideas, they were preliminarily placed in one of four affinity groups that stemmedfrom Educating Engineers: design education, engineering fundamentals and analysis, laboratory/project/ experience-based learning, or ethics/society/broader engineering skills. Attendees wereable to attend more than one affinity group session at the symposium.The organizers strove for a mix of formal and informal networking opportunities, small groupdiscussions, and panel

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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New Engineering Educators

practice, with an emphasis on applications.A Fluid Power course is a good example: students learn fluid flow science (Bernoulli’s equation,pipe size selection methods, etc.) as well as hydraulic and pneumatic circuit symbols andcircuits, ladder diagrams for electrical control, and the operation characteristics of pumps, piping,valves, gauges, filters, cylinders, and motors. In a typical course, students learn these conceptsthrough readings, lectures, and laboratory experiments using hydraulic and pneumatic test stands.The first semester I taught Fluid Power to sophomore and junior Mechanical EngineeringTechnology students, I used a chalkboard to explain equations, graphs, and the construction andoperation of fluid power components. While this 19th

Conference Session

International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Talley, Datum Engineers, Inc.; Catherine Hovell, University of Texas, Austin; Jason Stith, University of Texas, Austin

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International

. Another author had a non-traditional, non-credit trip with a group of engineeringstudents to see the famous bridges of Switzerland and tour both a national and privateengineering laboratory. The final author also had two opportunities to study abroad: one summerprogram taking liberal arts classes in Oxford, England and taking two graduate level courses inearthquake engineering in Pavia, Italy.ConclusionThe authors feel that in this globally connected world that an understanding of other cultures andpeople is critical to our success as a nation and people. The experience gained during one ofthese life altering study abroad programs cannot be duplicated in a classroom or lecture, but mustbe experienced by the individuals fortunate enough to have

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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First-Year Programs

improvement based on several modifications. Its creation has been guided bybest practices in the research, most notably the experience of Hoit and Ohland (1998). Hoit and Page 15.392.3Ohland developed a new freshman engineering course at the University of Florida that wasextremely successful in terms of retention and student attitudes. Their course, which was theinspiration for the revised GE1030 at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, was a laboratory-basedcourse which gave students hands-on experiences. Each section of the new course at University of Wisconsin-Platteville is team taught byseven faculty members, one from each engineering program

Conference Session

Design Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Salina; Raju S. Dandu, Kansas State University, Salina

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2011-2270: ACCLIMATING MECHANICAL DESIGNERS TO MANU-FACTURING TOLERANCES IN THE FRESHMAN YEARJulia L Morse, Kansas State University, Salina Julia Morse is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for Mechanical Engineering Technology at Kansas State University, K-State Salina. She teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the areas of computer-aided design, manufacturing and automation. Ms. Morse earned a B.S.I.E. from the Univer- sity of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Auburn University, where she also worked with Auburn Industrial Extension Service. Her work in industry includes engi- neering experience in quality control, industrial engineering, and design and