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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Edward Gehringer

the end of the review process,Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe reviewer assigns a grade to each author whose work (s)he has reviewed. A student’s grade isthe average of the grades given by the reviewers, plus an incentive described below to encouragecareful reviews. Figure 1. PG’s welcome page Page 8.480.3 Figure 2. PG’s login pageProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Learning and Teaching Issues

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Gul Okudan Kremer

lifting system (back in the late 1960’s) was a career engineerwho did not have a formal engineering background. He went to the school of “hard knocks” andworked for Coleman his entire career. He was a very gifted designer and was self-taught inproduct development, having worked in manufacturing. The current FFT EngineeringDepartment staff has the following training: 1) Director of Engineering and ProductDevelopment. Male. No college education, 33 years with Fleetwood. 2) Chief Design Engineer.Male. BS Civil Engineering, PE license (Civil), 25 years of engineering experience. 3) DesignEngineer. Male. BS Aerospace Engineering, PE license (Mechanical), 17 years of engineeringexperience. 4) Engineer. Male. BS Mechanical Engineering, new hire. 5

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Mathematics in the Transition

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Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

citizens. You have been chosen by the governor of your state to be part of an engineering team responsible for designing underground living quarters to house all the people in your State. There are numerous rock formations well suited for the construction of underground living areas. Your engineering team’s responsibility is to determine the best location or locations. To accomplish this, your team will have to explore geological maps of your state, test rocks and identify important rock properties. Your main goal is to determine the best candidate location(s) for your caverns. Good Luck. Your state is counting on you!Asteroid Impact also uses the five-step Engineering design process

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Frank Oreovicz; Phillip Wankat

Session 3630 Cooperative Learning in a Course on Teaching Engineering Phillip C. Wankat, Frank S. Oreovicz Purdue UniversityAbstractGraduate classes can be improved by reducing lecture and increasing active learningapproaches. Group work, in particular, in class and on projects should be encouraged. Itis especially important that professors and other presenters use a number of cooperativegroup exercises and other active learning approaches in courses and workshops on“Improving the Teaching of Engineering.” New professors are much more likely to usecooperative group and other active learning

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Louis Theodore; Joseph Reynolds; Ann Marie Flynn

and environmental safety in the design ofchemical processes. This concern also served as a driving force for thedevelopment of this course.This course is divided into five parts: the problem(s), accidents, health risk,hazard risk, and hazard risk analysis. Part I, an introduction to HS&AM, presentslegal considerations, emergency planning, and emergency response. This Partbasically serves as an overview to the more technical topics covered in theremainder of the course. Part II treats the broad subject of accidents—discussingfires, explosions and other accidents. Parts III and IV provide introductorymaterial to health and hazard risk assessment, respectively. Part V examineshazard risk analysis in significant detail. This final Part

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Jianping Yue; Daniel M. Chen

, and comparison of differentinstitutions and student populations.Bibliography1. Baartmans, B. G. & Sorby, S. A. (1996). Introduction to 3-D Spatial Visualization. Prentice Hall2. Battista, M. T. (1980). Interrelationships between Problem Solving Ability, Right Hemisphere Processing Facility, and Mathematics Learning. Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 2, 53–60 Page 6.394.6 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Battista, M. T., Wheatley, G. H., & Talsma, G. (1982). The

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Ramachandran Radharamanan; Angela Ansuj

6.405.4combination of factor levels. The sample mean is calculated from the response values: _ n Y = Σ Yi /n (1) i=1where Yi is the sample value and n is the number of replications. The standard deviation iscalculated using the relation: n _ S= Σ(Yi - Y)2/(n-1) (2) i=1According to statistical theory, the sample means are approximately normally distributed, but thesample standard deviations are not. To solve this problem, often sample standard deviations aretransformed by taking their logarithms. The logarithms of the standard

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Neal Armstrong; Steven Nichols

and educational experiences in science, engineeringscience, engineering analysis and engineering design. Prior to the Grinter report engineeringeducation in the United States emphasized design with an insufficient mixture of science,engineering science, and engineering analysis.3 Engineering programs significantlyincreased the content of science and analysis courses over the last 50 years to provide astronger analytical base for engineering practice.Literature in the 1980's and 1990's includes articles recommending increased exposure forundergraduate engineering students in the area of design and creativity.4 Peterson arguedthat engineering sciences and engineering analysis had been segregated from engineeringdesign to the extent that

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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Terry Walker; Chang Kim; Caye Drapcho

Session: 2208 Application of Finite Element Method (FEM) Instruction to Graduate Courses in Biological and Agricultural Engineering Chang S. Kim, Terry H. Walker, Caye M. Drapcho Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803Abstract The application of Finite Element Methods (FEM) to a graduate level course inBiological Engineering, Advanced Transport Phenomena in Biological Engineering, is presented.First, the Galerkin Weak Statement (GWS) was introduced to the class to show the fundamentaltheory of FEM by

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Wade Kenny; Kevin Myers; Heather Cornell

it out,” and “I don’t think I’m asking this question very well,”signaled to students that mistakes were okay, and helped to contribute to students’ reports thatthey were comfortable asking and answering questions in class. Instructor responses to studentswho asked or answered questions were almost always supportive. If a student didn’t give thecorrect answer, the instructor would usually ask a series of questions that would lead him or herto the correct answer, or at least would allow the students to find the mistake s/he had made inthe original answer.The instructor was also extremely careful to use plural pronouns, rather than singular ones, thatis, to make statements such as “we are going to solve this problem,” rather than “I’m going

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

. Students have been enthusiastic about this hands-on, experiential approach forlearning about the engineering profession.Bibliography1. Canfield, D. T. 1960. What makes the disk go around. Duncan Electric Company, Lafayette, IN.2. Greenfeder, J. J. (ed.) 1981. Handbook for electricity metering. Eighth ed. Edison Electric Institute, Washington, D. C.3. Mickelson, S. K., R. D. Jenison, and N. Swanson. 1995. Teaching engineering design through product dissection. 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, vol. 1, pp. 399-403.4. NSF Synthesis Coalition. Strategic Plan of the Synthesis Coalition. Version 5.0, April 1, 1993.5. Regan, M. and S. Sheppard. 1996. Interactive multimedia courseware and the hands-on learning experience: An

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Matt C. Smith; David K. Gattie

provided by nature as well1.Recognizing the need to associate nature with human value, others have developed courseworkthat links the science of ecology with engineering through the liberal arts2. Moreover, we havelearned through decades of scientific research that the most serious threats from society are notpoint source discharges but rather the more complex non-point sources.At the USDA CSREES Southern Region Research Project S-273 annual meeting held inKnoxville, Tennessee in October 19993, the consent was that the current geographic informationsystem (GIS) approach to watershed modeling lacked the necessary biological and ecologicalinput necessary to appropriately model watershed health and integrity. The incorporation ofecological criteria

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

a topic related to automotive systems. Non-thesis option students are required to take two core sequences. • In addition to the core sequence(s), students fill out the coursework portion of their degree requirements with expertise area courses, some of which should be drawn from the core focus area courses. • All students are required to regularly attend seminars on topics in automotive systems. The requirements on the number of core course/sequences and expertise areas serve to increase thebreadth of skills that the graduate engineers can apply to complex automotive problems. At the sametime, the student gains an understanding of the perspectives, capabilities, and approaches of otherengineering disciplines as well as

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David M. Beams

). Initialize GPIB instruments Turn on power supplies 1 s delay Iteration = 0 Read VOI from network input Set generator frequency; 250 ms delay select quadrature network Switch HP33401A input Switch phase detector input from VOI to VOQ to output of network; Switch HP34401A input from VOQ to VOI 250 ms delay Read VOQ from

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Ricardo Castillo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

School of Engineering and Technology provides the futureprofessional a wide formation involving the several areas of technological knowledge. Thisachievement is due to a new process of learning where the student is absolutely involved andcommitted with the conception, manufacturing and appliance of projects along the program.At the end of the program S/He becomes a highly specialized professional, who is used toleadership situations, with administration and management skills besides the reasonableexperience in the development of projects achieved during the course.The success of this project was so good that it has inspired the coordinating team to developanother special kind of education following the same philosophy for a new program that will

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Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

with the seeking for society well fare in which s/heis inserted.II. Lusiada University CenterIn 1967 the Lusiada Foundation was created and it started its activities with the Medical ScienceCollege.In 1969 Management College began and after having consolidated the two Colleges, otherColleges has come. Finally in 1993 the Education Ministry of Brazil recognized the Lusiada as aUniversity Center.The main characteristic of University Center of Lusiada is the preoccupation with the excellenceof education that it offers. This characteristic is expressed in its modern and well-equippedlaboratories, libraries and research centers.Besides a high level of Faculty with 400 members, the University Center of Lusiada alsomaintains services to the community

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Instructional Technology--What Works

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T. Michael Baseheart; Richard Miller; Mark Bowers; James Swanson; Anastasios Ioannides; Roy Eckart

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationACTION ON DIFFERENTIAL AREA OF CROSS -SECTION STRESS DIFFERENTIAL FORCE Figure 3.8 s dF When a circular shaft is subjected to torsion, every cross section remains plane and undistorted

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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Sylvie Doré

negotiate the transactions of everyday life. These four functions are: • sensation (S) and intuition (N) as means of collecting information resulting from direct experience, i.e. of perceiving the world; • thinking (T) and feeling (F) as ways of organizing experience rationally, of making decisions, i.e. of judging.Starting in the 1950’s, a mother-daughter team, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myersrefined Jung’s model. Contrarily to Jung who viewed the four functions as independent, Myers-Briggs grouped them two by two, realizing that some of the functions cannot be active at thesame time. To distinguish which function is active at a given moment, they added the concept ofattitude.Attitudes depict ways of negotiating the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Joe Wakeman-Linn; Alex Perry

aseating and sleeping. The construction requires a basic grasp of mechanical engineering concepts,and some programming ability, but use of the kits requires no previous skills. The LEGO®s kitencourages problem solving and teamwork. The unit was piloted with a pair of volunteer interns,both rising high school seniors. The volunteers worked with the unit in seven one-hour sessions.The interns chose to put in extra time to work on their projects, demonstrating the enthusiasminspired by both the materials and the projects.Introduction Hands-on experiences are vital to stimulating the interest of college students. Nowhere isthis more true than in engineering and robotics. Students want to know what awaits them whenthey have completed their math

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Computer Based Measurements

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Jerry Murphree; Brent Brzezinski; Joey Parker

student and sent to the DSP through this interface. The DSPsystem also returns measured output information for plotting and offline analysis. A ball-screwdriven by a small DC motor provides a prototype mechanical system. Some details of the linearactuator system, the PID control algorithm, and its implementation on the DSP are provided.IntroductionSingle chip digital signal processors (DSPs) have been available since the mid 1980’s. DSPs arehighly specialized microprocessors dedicated to fast, real-time computations. One commoncharacteristic of the DSP is the “multiply and accumulate” instruction, or MAC. This instructionmultiplies two values and stores the results in the accumulator in a single clock cycle. Thisoperation is particularly

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Global Engineering Education

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Reza Ziarati; Osman Nuri Ucan; Martin Ziarati

.. .. o u S U M M A T IO N TRA N SFER t F U N C T IO N n e .. .. net y = f(n e t) x P t a t l t a x m -1 W k m -1

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Edmund Tsang

decentralization of government that began in the1980’s, in which local communities, which often lack expertise and resources, are calledupon to address societal needs in health care, safety, education, and the environment. Aspart of the civic awakening of America’s higher education, Boyer proposes the idea of“scholarship of engagement” where academic institutions become “more vigorouspartner[s] in the search for answers to our most pressing social, civic, economic, andmoral problems.” “In addition to research, the work of the academy must relate to theworld beyond the campus,” he wrote. In Boyer’s view, because scholarship, andconsequently the faculty reward system, has been narrowly defined in most universities,“the rich diversity and potential of

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller

. The MediaDesign and Assessment Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla provided the programmingresources. Supplementary support from the Instructional Software Development Center at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla and the Missouri Department of Economic Development are alsoacknowledged.Bibliography1. D. W. Brooks, Web-teaching: A guide to designing interactive teaching for the world wide web, (PlenumPress, New York, NY, 1997).2. S. G. Smith and L. L. Jones, “Images, Imagination, and Chemical Reality,” Journal of ChemicalEducation, 66, pp. 8 - 11, (1989). Page 6.1168.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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William Szaroletta

(S-N) diagram is encountered. Figure 2 depicts an S-N diagram that was developedexperimentally by students during a series of fatigue experiments in the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology department at Purdue University during Fall semester 2000 in MET 2113. Page 6.755.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education 5.4 5.2 Steel: y = 5.9566e-0.0409x Log10Stress 5

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Phillip Thompson

to one, 50-minute and one 2-3 hourperiod. By having the students read and write about civil engineering projects, they were able todevelop their technical writing skills and their knowledge of technical terms. This course wasalso successful at significantly developing spreadsheet, PowerPoint and web page productionskills.References1. Davis, D., Trevisan, M., McKenzie, L. and Beyerlein, S. (2001) “Enhancing Scoring Reliability in Mid-Program Assessment of Design” ASEE 2001 Annual Conference Proceedings.2. Wilson, S. (2000). “Introducing Freshman to Engineering at Western Kentucky University.” ASEE 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings.3. Perna, A. and D. Hanesian (2000). “Using Measurements to Introduce Undergraduate Students to Science and

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CAD Applications in MET Courses

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Mukasa Ssemakula

st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Journal of Engineering Education, January 1998, pp. 19-22.3. Ram, B., Sarin, S., Park, E. and Mintz, P.: "Providing Manufacturing Experiences to Industrial Engineering Students through an Extension Program." Proceedings, 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov. 10 -13, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico.4. Weller, J.E., Kumar, V., Grove, S. and Bordia, R.K.: "The Development of a Project -Based Introduction to Manufacturing Laboratory Involving a Stirling Engine." Proceedings, 1998 Annual Conference of the ASEE, June 28- July 1, 1998; Seattle, WA. http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/00131.PDF5. Lamancusa, John S. et al: "The Learning Factory - A New Approach to

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Salvatore Marsico

: • Recognize the various macrohardness systems and their applications and conduct Rockwell hardness tests; • Recognize the various microhardness systems and their applications and conduct Knoop or Vickers tests; • Understand and operate a typical benchtop universal materials testing machine; • Conduct a standard tensile test on a material and prepare a concise, coherent written report of the results, including strengths, modulus, strains, etc. • Conduct a torsion test to obtain the shear properties of a material and describe the necessary specimen design; • Understand beam normal and shear stresses and predict failure mode(s) for each type of

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session xxxx FOREIGN ADAPTATION OF U.S. ENGINEERING EDUCATION MODELS Russel C. Jones World Expertise LLC Bethany S. Oberst James Madison UniversityAbstractThe U.S. model of engineering education is rapidly being adopted in one form or anotherby countries around the world. Given the enduring strength of the U.S. economy and itsstrong base in technology, it is not surprising that countries wanting to emulate the U.S.economic success would see our model of engineering education as

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Roger Ferguson; Lisa Anneberg

skills quickly. Themodule combines gaming strategy with 3-D design instruction to make learning 3Dinteresting. Think3's website [1] has a set of services, all very accessible: instructors andstudents can find solutions to technical problems by using the online technical supportand accessing the open-to-the-public knowledge base and view items such as bugreports, workarounds, "how-to" technical articles, all in various multimedia formats(AVI, graphics, etc), utilize discussion boards which also provide a source for someanswers, post questions, suggest new features or discuss the latest design project.Students have a very positive interface with the website and the support functions. Additionally, freshmen engineering students are

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David Miller

-39. (3) Springer, L.; Stanne, M. E.; Donovan, S. "Effects of cooperative learning on undergraduates inscience, mathematics, engineering and technology: A meta-analysis," National Institute for Science Education,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997. (4) Cooper, J.; Robinson, P. "Annotated Bibliography," National Institute for Science Education,Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997. (5) Cooper, J.; Prescott, S.; Cook, L.; Smith, L.; Mueck, R.; Cuseo, J. Cooperative learning andcollege instruction: Effective use of student learning teams.; California State University Foundation: Long Beach,CA, 1998