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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

Session 2208 Tele-Experimentation for Machine Vision Course Using NetMeeting Software Chi N. Thai and Bruce L. Upchurch University of Georgia, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department Athens, GA 30602-4435Motivation For ProjectOne of the thrusts in the UGA/Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department curriculum isto enhance the experiential learning aspects for our engineering students, by improving andincreasing access to a few of our laboratories with more test equipment and stations. Whenexpanding laboratories, it

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jessica Mitchell; James Sweeney; Kristine Csavina

Session 2793 Arizona State University’s Bioengineering First-Year Student Workshop Jessica Mitchell, M.Ed., Kristine R. Csavina, B.M.E.E., James D. Sweeney, Ph.D. Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-9709AbstractThe foundation of Arizona State University’s Bioengineering First-Year Student WorkshopSeries is to enhance the first-year experience by 1) fostering a community of peers and aconnection with faculty; and 2) providing an overview of and initial connection to thebioengineering field. The workshop series aims to provide students with early involvement

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Professional Practice in CE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Enno Koehn

Session 3215 Assessment of Practitioner Interaction in the Classroom Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted a revised set ofcriteria for accrediting engineering programs. Nevertheless, as in the past, civil (construction)engineering departments will be required to demonstrate proficiency in specific subject areaswhich are included in the ABET program criteria.This paper investigates, according to civil engineering and construction related students, the levelat which their

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Willie Ofosu

Session 1675 Faculty Internship In The Telecommunications Industry Willie K. Ofosu Telecommunications Dept. Penn State Wilkes-BarreAbstractExcelling in the categories of research, teaching and service in one’s area ofspecialization ultimately results in a new faculty gaining tenure. There are manyapproaches one can take to satisfy the requirements in any one of these categories. Oneapproach is placement in industry. Industrial placement is a component of life-longlearning plan that helps to

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Arun Arunachalan; Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

Aircraft Maintenance Instruction. This learning system incorporatesweb-based technology including the ability to track and monitor the user. Statistical data on theuser’s progress such as the actual time spent, and number of times visited on any assigned topicis collected for administrative purposes of the sponsoring organization. A significant advantageof using the web is the availability of a wide range of media that can be implemented effectivelyfor presentation. Information delivery is done by integrating a variety of multimedia componentssuch as videos, animations, sounds and simulations with the standard text and graphics. TheOpportunity for the user to explore and learn effectively through an investigative process isprovided using these

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

the many circuit simulation packages in common usetoday, and for good reason–it has a free demo version capable of handling fairly complexcircuitry, it provides good connection with circuit level software, and it offers a fast learningcurve. Even so, there are many competitors: Matlab/Simulab, ViSsim, and Elanix among them.None of these offer substantive demonstration models, and an additional problem is that one mustoften know more about the inner workings of the simulation than about the processes beinginvestigated. PSpice offers flexibility in Fourier analysis through automatic scaling, along with thepossibility of easy customization. As a consequence, PSpice provides unbeatable advantages inmodeling communication-related circuitry and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Thomas; Vinod Lohani; Bevlee Watford

Session 2793 Object Oriented Analysis of Weather Data in Virginia Steven Thomas, Vinod Lohani, Bevlee Watford Senior, Computer Engineering/Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals/Director, Minority Engineering Program, Virginia TechAbstract An object-oriented approach is presented to analyze drought patterns in Virginiausing probabilistic analysis of long - term weather data (i.e. Palmer Drought SeverityIndex (PDSI)). The study is a part of an undergraduate research project, funded by theoffice of the Minority Engineering program under a VT-GE program, at Virginia Tech.The purpose of the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Neil Opfer; Jaeho Son; Thomas Korman

the future.Key Words: Design-Build coordination, Building systems, Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC), Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP) coordination IntroductionDesign-Build is a form of construction contracting where a single entity provides the ownerwith both the design and construction services needed to meet the owner’s needs. Thus, theowner is provided with both design and construction services under a single contract [Quatman01]. Most are familiar with the traditional method of construction contracting, Design-Bid-Build, which consists of an owner hiring a design professional, usually an architect or engineer,under one contract, and hiring a general contractor under a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Fragomeni

Session 2793 Integrating Material Science and Processing into the Undergraduate Engineering & Science Curriculum Using the Web James M. Fragomeni and Anwar Hossain The University of Detroit Mercy, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Detroit, Michigan 48237, USAAbstractThe proper understanding of engineering materials is very foundational and important withrespect to all the various branches of engineering and technology for a complete undergraduateengineering program. The purpose of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Duggins

Session 2793 Process Teaching and Learning in Engineering Education Sheryl Duggins, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Computing and Software Engineering Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060 sduggins@spsu.eduAbstractThis paper explores the process-oriented constructivist theory of teaching and learning which hasits roots in cognitive psychology, philosophy, learning theory, and education theory. A processmodel

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

Session #734 Building Industrial Partnerships and Business Relationships: Early Career Interventions for Professional Growth and Learning-Centered Classrooms Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractAt Purdue University, a new president has redirected an entire university and this transformation will alterthe way most non-tenured faculty progress through the tenure process. The new triad of Learning,Engagement, and Discovery has replaced the historical Teaching, Service, and Research pyramid that somany of us have come to recognize as the all in all

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

Session 1520 FlowLab: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Framework for Undergraduate Education Richard D. LaRoche, Barbara J. Hutchings, and R. Muralikrishnan Fluent Inc., Lebanon, NH 03766 USAToday, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software in academia occurs primarilyin the context of student projects or research. The potential of CFD as a tool to enhance teachingis largely untapped, despite growing interest in computer tools to assist learning. FlowLab(http://flowlab.fluent.com) is a CFD-based educational software package that will allow studentsto solve fluid dynamics

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

Session_____ Effective Internet Based International Projects to Enhance Students’ Multidisciplinary Skills Roxanne Jacoby, Jean Le Mee The Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Cooper UnionAbstract The substantial advances in Internet technology of the past decade have tremendouslyfacilitated rapid, relatively inexpensive communications around the globe. In education, a greatvariety of creative, easy to implement, budget oriented collaborative projects between domesticand overseas colleges and universities have become a reality. The Globetech International Joint

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

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Craig Gunn

Following Instructions Craig James Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MIIntroductionFrom the earliest records of humanity, the following of instructions has been at the apex ofman’s existence. Cave paintings show the correct ways to bring down a woolly mammoth. Claytablets explain the intricacies of constructing tombs, important buildings, and cities. Biblicaldocumentation presents detailed instructions in how to live one’s life and the consequences ofstraying from the path. We are part of, and embedded in, a

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

Session 2625 Introducing Community Service-Learning Pedagogy into two Engineering Curriculums at California State University, Northridge Ahmad R. Sarfaraz, Tarek Shraibati California State University, NorthridgeAbstractAcademic service learning is a pedagogical model through which students learn, develop, andapply academic knowledge to address the real life needs of their local communities. It isbecoming increasingly important in higher education. More recently, it has been used as aneffective pedagogy for engineering education

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Dessert; Subramaniam Ganesan

DSP in Embedded System Subra Ganesan and Pat Dessert Product Development and Manufacturing Center, Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309 Email: Ganesan@oakland.eduAbstractThis paper describes a course on Digital Signal Processing microcontrollers, DSPmicroprocessors, DSP specific Field Programmable Gate Arrays, software development toolsin embedded system design. This paper also describes a few embedded system applicationswhere DSP plays a significant role.IntroductionDigital Signal Processing theory, algorithm and applications have experienced a enormousgrowth in

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Jacobs

Session 2002-784 Engineering and Technology Laboratory Experiments James A. Jacobs School of Science & Technology Norfolk State UniversityAbstractNEW: Update 2001 builds on 15 years of annual workshops aimed at improvingengineering, science, and technology. This Year’s workshop was a part of the NationalInstitute of Standards & Technology’s (NIST) 100th anniversary celebration. Thissession provides demonstrations of a sample of experiments presented at the workshop.The NEW:Update series has provided over 2560 materials educators with the latestdevelopments in

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Alejandro Scalise; Dan Budny; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

taught in most curriculums, and skillssuch as team work and data analysis are staples of modern IE curricula. However, suchcomplementary skills should not limit the expertise that industrial engineers use to improveengineering programs. Mathematical models can be effective tools for both enhancing learningand assessment. This paper presents a number of modeling approaches that a team, consistingprimarily of industrial engineers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed in conjunctionwith colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines over the course of several years to demonstratethe efficacy of this approach to ABET’s requirement of continuous improvement. Using bothlogistic regression analysis and various neural network algorithms, we have

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker

Session 1566 Better Preparing Students for Basic Measurements Courses Mark Barker Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper will examine the difference in performance between two groups of students enrolledin the junior- level Mechanical Engineering course Basic Measurements (MEEN 382). Thiscourse covers measurement theory and application in a lecture and laboratory format. Theprimary difference between these two student groups is their curriculum background, due to achange in the Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

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R. Radharamanan

Session 2163 Virtual Manufacturing: An Emerging Technology R. Radharamanan School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractIn this paper, Virtual Manufacturing (VM), an emerging technology, that provides the capabilityto “Manufacture in the Computer”, and the modeling approaches necessary to realize VM arepresented and discussed. VM has the ability to interchange models between their use insimulation and control environments. The use of VM concepts improves decision-making andquickly achieves products with high performance and quality at a low cost. VM can

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

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Tom Noack; Harry Tyrer; Eric Epperson

Session 2420 Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation Comparing Traditional with Web-based Learning Harry W. Tyrer, Johnissia Stevenson, Eric Epperson, Tom Noack*, Jose L. Zayas-Castro University of Missouri-Columbia, *University of Puerto Rico MayaguezAbstractWe taught a graduate level distance-learning course in the winter 2001 semester. Thisasynchronous course had several synchronous online interactions between instructor andstudents. On-line, the topics are divided into slide

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

learn towork well in teams to design and develop products to meet specified needs. University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) offers an ABET accredited engineeringprogram in collaboration with University of Maryland College Park(UMCP). In responseto the new criteria UMCP developed a team based design course for the freshmanengineering majors. The course has been adopted with suitable modifications at UMES.The course is designed to introduce field of engineering and engineering design processto freshman engineering majors so as to enable them to realize how individual courses inan engineering curricula are integrated together under a common objective.In this paper we describe the highlights of design efforts by the students in developinghuman

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

evaluating theperformance of a faculty member. Even disciplines and institutions that have not traditionallyplaced a strong emphasis on faculty publications, are increasingly requiring their faculty to publishscholarly work. This paper explores alternative ways of producing and publishing scholarly work intoday’s academia, especially for faculty members in non-research institutions of appointments.IntroductionWe can consider the publishing of scholarly work as a critical requirement for the tenure andpromotion of tenure-track faculty members. Even for faculty members in non tenure-track positions,or those for which publications are not required, scholarly publications enhance the possibilities foradvance and promotion within their institutions1

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena

experienceglobalization, and how globalization impacts their education, hiring, daily practices, and designs.In this paper, I outline a theoretical and methodological framework to analyze the impact ofglobalization on the education, hiring, practices, and designs of engineers in aerospace industriesin the US, Europe, and Latin America. Next, I present preliminary ethnographic data that showshow engineers in different US corporate locations view and experience organizational change asone of the features of globalization. Illustrating the differences among engineers’ experiencescould help upcoming generations of engineering students and professionals understand ways inwhich they might experience globalization in the workplace. I conclude the paper by

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

to know and are able to do by the time of graduation,the achievement of which indicates that the student is equipped to achieve the programeducational objectives1. The objectives guide the program in a broad sense, and outcomes relatemore directly to specifics about student learning in the program. These definitions will be used inthis paper.Observations on Institutions and ProgramsAs the typical visit cycle begins, the first major piece of evidence for accreditation offered by aprogram is its self-study. Over the past three years it has been observed that the preparation ofprogram self-studies has been spotty and inconsistent2. Some self-studies provide useful

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kip Nygren

revolutionary ways. Correspondingly, these technologies will alsoprofoundly change the nature of engineering education with the advent of computers that exceedthe processing capability of the human brain, high quality virtual reality, and molecularmanufacturing, among other possibilities. Equally unsettling for many is the notion thattechnological progress is advancing exponentially and, therefore, the pace of change isincreasing. Education is the best possible solution for successfully responding to acceleratingtechnological change and engineering education programs are particularly well suited to inspirethis response. Engineering programs must set the example for students and society by becoming“learning organizations” and by embracing a process of

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad; Andrew Rose

Session 3149 Summer Internships for Engineering Technology Students: Sharing the Experiences Andrew T. Rose, Maher M. Murad University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractStudents in engineering technology programs seek summer employment opportunit ies to expandtheir education, provide work experience, and assist in financing their education. Consultingfirms, public agencies and contractors provide the majority of summer employment opportunitiesfor students. The variety of students and summer employment opportunities results in a range ofstudent experiences

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

Session 1351 RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN POLLUTION PREVENTION Kauser Jahan, Jess W. Everett, Joseph Orlins, Robert P. Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, Linda M. Head, Kathryn Hollar, Mariano Savelski, Raúl Ordóñez and Marianne CinagliaABSTRACTA three-year site for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Program at Rowan University has been established throughfunding from the National Science Foundation and Rowan University. A common themeunifies the Rowan REU Site activities-Pollution Prevention. Site activities focus

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Jackson; Ashraf Saad; Thomas Barnwell; Monson Hayes

Session 3120 Framework for Cooperative Synchronous and Asynchronous Distributed Engineering Education Joel R. Jackson, Monson H. Hayes III, Ashraf Saad, Thomas P. BarnwellAbstractThe Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program (GTREP) was originally created to provide theopportunity for students in southeastern Georgia to earn a Georgia Tech undergraduateengineering degree without leaving the region. Students complete two years of general educationand engineering prerequisites at their home institutions before beginning the Georgia Techcurriculum as juniors. Georgia Tech courses are taught both by local

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naphysah O. Duncan; Gerardo Del Cerro

Session 2592 Assessing Success: Female Engineers at The Cooper Union Gerardo del Cerro, Naphysah O. Duncan The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art At the Cooper Union School of Engineering, female students account for about thirty fivepercent of the student population. This figure has held constant for the past ten years. Rather thantrailing male students, female engineers at Cooper show a remarkable success in various areas, asmeasured by positive perception of the school's curriculum and programs and academic results. Thispaper presents and analyzes