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Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.249.6 Figure 5. Discussion questionsProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education00]. Typically, each student is assigned to review three projects, one or two of which are on thesame topic (s)he has chosen. Assuming everyone does the assigned reviews, this assures thateach project is reviewed both by “experts” who have also researched the topic and “members ofthe

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Activities % of TotalImproved my resume 36.8 %Obtained interview(s) 10.5 %Have job opportunity(ies) 10.5 %Allowed me to look at job market 10.5 % Table 3: Highest scoring positive outcomes of career activities. The total number of responses was 19. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Fuller

Page 6.269.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationResulting Reference MaterialsThe combination of student site visits, sketching, digital photography and CAD naturally lead toan integrated presentation for lecture materials. The lecture topics for the Materials and Methodsof Construction and Documentation are being transformed from writing s on the wall tointegrated documentation. The documents, ultimately resulting in a course companion text,Materials and Methods Handbook, as well as a corresponding web site, combine traditional textwith student sketches, site photography and, in the case of

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Sameer Kumar; John Walker; Jeffrey A. Jalkio; James Rehg

abundance of many training networks utilizinginteractive telecommunications. In the future, training will be done more on desktop multi-mediaenvironment which will likely displace the distance learning classroom to remote sites training.The desktop multimedia training will be self paced with individualized modules which can bedelivered when and where a student needs it.Bibliography1. Bennett, Ronald J, Povolny, John E, Walker, John, Schilling, H and Zelinski, S. “ Case Study: A Successful Industry/Academia Distance Learning Partnership”, 1998 SME International Education Conference, Seattle, Washington.2. Besser, Howard and Maria Bonn. “Impact of Distance Independent Education,” Journal of the American Society of Information Science, Vol 47

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Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

team member interaction and better align the many Page 3.224.6disciplinary viewpoints on a given project team to deliver one product. References[1] American Heritage Dictionary, “Encourage,” p. 430, “Facilitate,” p.461, 1978.[2] E. S. Furguson, "How Engineers Lose Touch," Invention & Technology, Winter, 1993.[3] H. Petroski, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, New York: Barnes & Noble,1994.[4] C. E. Larson and F. M.J. LaFasto, Teamwork: What must go right/ What can go wrong, Sage Publications, 1989.[5] M. Frohman, "Nothing Kills Teams Like Ill-Prepared Leaders

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Steven H. VanderLeest; Edward G. Nielsen

veryimpressed by the sheer size of the project as well as by the careful planning and research thatwent into the engineering of the system. The design had to account for a variety of political,historic, and economic constraints as well as the more familiar technical constraints. Figure 1 Model of Storm Surge Barrier Practical Hints for Managing a Foreign-Travel Engineering CourseBefore the trip• Arrange site tours/meetings yourself , but let your travel agency arrange the airfare, hotel accommodations, etc.• Use a hired driver/tour guide who knows the language(s). This frees you to teach and plan rather than finding your way through traffic.• Incorporate variety to peak the interest of all the students. Work

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Robert Martinazzi

mostimportant features in building a team4. Also, role clarification needs to occur when a new teamis formed, when tasks are assigned, or when there are changes in responsibilities within theteam5.Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementation:Role clarification within teams occurs more as a process than an initial assignment. Strengthsand weaknesses, along with personal interest, are considered for the various tasks required ofteams. The team deliberately discerns which member(s) possess certain abilities necessary for anengineering analysis and they draw upon them when the team engages in problem solving.Specifically, some students comprehend reading and understanding a problem statement betterthan others. Some students articulate and guide the

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, J.O., Computers & Chemical Engineering, 5, 4, 225, (1981). 3. Kister, H.Z., Distillation Design, McGraw-Hill, New York, (1992). 4. Geankoplis, C.J., Mass Transport Phenomena, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., (1972). 5. Öner, M.., Bar• s, S., Öner, G., AIChE Educational Computer Software Demonstrations, LA, (1997). 6. Kister, H.Z., Chem. Engng., January 21, 97, (1985). 7. Kister, H.Z., Chem. Engng., May 13, 71, (1985). 8. Jenny, P.J., Trans. Am. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Vol. 35, No. 635, (1939). 9. Yaws, C.L., Li, K.Y., and Fang, C.S., Chem. Engng., June 1, 63, (1981). 10. King, C.J., Separation Processes, McGraw-Hill, New York, (1980

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Daniel P. Schrage

teachstudents how to conduct conceptual design which makes the greatest demands on thedesigner’s creativity. The concept(s) selected provide the Top-Down Design DecisionSupport Process step: Generate Feasible Alternatives illustrated in Figure 2. A baselinepreliminary design configuration and the identification of technology options forsubsystems/disciplines for the follow-on course are also an outcome of this course. It alsoinitiates the system design optimization iteration illustrated in Figure 2 by the arrowscoming out and going into the Systems Engineering Methods sub-element: SystemSynthesis through MDO. • AE 6352 - Aerospace Systems Design II This course completes the five course sequence illustrated in Figure 1

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William R. Smith; Ronald W. Missen; Ishuwa Sikaneta

result is a matrix A∗ , called the unit matrix form of A. 3. At the end of these steps, the following are established: • The rank of the matrix A is the number of 1’s on the principal diagonal of A∗ ; this is equal to C, the number of component species. • A set of component species is given by the C species above the columns of A∗ . • The maximum number of linearly independent chemical equations is given by R = N − C. • The coefficients of a proper set of chemical equations are obtained from the columns of the part of the matrix A∗ to the right of the unit matrix; each column relates to the formation from the component species of one mole of the noncompo- nent species

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Sema E. Alptekin

. Page 2.146.8"Smart Products - A Tool for Mechatronics Education", Sema E. Alptekin, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics - ICRAM'95, Volume I, pp: 288-292.Auslander, D.M. , Hanidu, G., Jana, A., Landesberger, S., Seif, S., Young, Y., "Mechatronics Curriculum in the Synthesis Coalition", Proceedings of 1992 IEEE/CHMT International Electronic Manufacturing Technology Symposium, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 1992, pp: 165-168.Carryer, E., "Proceedings of the Workshop on Mechatronics Education", Stanford University, July 21-22, 1994. This document is also available on WWW at: http://www.synthesis.org/Mechatronics-Workshop/ (Carryer 1994-1).Carryer, E., "The Design of Laboratory Experiments and Projects for

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Peter Martin; Bill Bitler; Rulph Chassaing

. Higher samplingrates such as 44.1 kHz for audio applications can be achieved, although not to TI's specifications.It has two inputs and connects to the serial port on the C31. It includes a switched capacitorinput filter for antialiasing (by-passable) and output reconstruction filter. All the C31 pins, theAIC I/O pins, and power are available through expansion connectors on the DSK board, whichprovides four 32-pin DIL footprints. This allows for additional circuitry such as external SRAMand flash memory, and alternative ADC converters which been connected to the C31's serial port.The assembler provided with the DSK does not create a common object file format (COFF). Aprogram in C (or assembly) can be compiled/assembled and linked to create an

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Michael Aldaco

Served1 Estimated rates of eligibility are also calculated for each group to the California State University system which is mandatedto calibrate its admissions criteria such that only the top 1/3 of public high school graduates achieve eligibility. The MESApre-college programs promote among students the attainment of full eligibility to the UC system, not because students areexpected to enroll at UC, but because this requires a higher level of academic preparation for study, thereby increasing thatstudent’s chances for success at whatever institution the student selects.2 Until the late 1980’s it was common practice to describe enrollment goals in terms of increasing the percent of studentsfrom group x to some higher percent. One outcome of

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Barbara Mirel; Atul Prakash; Leslie A. Olsen; Elliot Soloway

DFrolich (eds.) Computers and Conversations, New York: Academic Press, pg. 175.4 Patricia Sachs (1995), “Transforming Work,” Communications of the ACM 38 (September), pg. 36.5 Tom Dayton et al.(1993), “Skills Needed by User-Centered Design Practitioners in Real Software DevelopmentEnvironments,” SIGCHI Bulletin, pg. 18.6 Andrew Dillon (1996), “TIMS: A Framework for the Design of Usable Electronic Text.” In H. van Oostendorpand S. de Mul (eds.) Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 99-119.6 Andrew Dillon (1996), “TIMS: A Framework for the Design of Usable Electronic Text.” In H. van Oostendorpand S. de Mul (eds.) Cognitive Aspects of Electronic Text Processing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 99-119

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Daniel Davis

presented here was done bythe small office team approach and will demonstrate a full range of design opportunities that canoccur during the process.The design team approach has another benefit. The idea of the designer as an artist has been anaccepted one for many years, as aesthetic fixations have focused mainly on style and form giving.With the design team approach the designer cannot work in a vacuum, isolated from social,technical, economical and mundane responsibilities. The design can then evolve from anexclusive process to an inclusive process involving people, discussions, events, problems, ideasand solutions.41 Chinowsky, P. S. and Robinson, J., “Enhancing Civil Engineering Education Through Case Studies,” ASEEJournal of Engineering

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Richard A. Young

. Page 2.272.3The mastery of the LabVIEW paradigm does, however, require a significant learning curve, andit is unrealistic to have students develop LabVIEW programs from low-level elements whilesimultaneously trying to understand the implications of F=Ma. Consequently we developed anumber of VI's (LabVIEW elements, and programs are commonly referred to as VirtualInstruments, or VI's) that students could use and that required a limited amount of "wiring" tocreate a complete data acquisition program. The modules developed were: i) A VI to acquire data from a photo gate detector. The VI computes the time(s) between theon/off (and off/on) transitions of a photo gate as it is interrupted. If the interruption is due toequally spaced pickets (on a

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Venkatramana N. Reddy; Michael L. Mavrovouniotis

(Raich and Cinar, 1994).Singular value decomposition (SVD) provides a computationally efficient method for PCA. Anym x n matrix A of rank r can be decomposed into the following form (Strang, 1988): A = u1s1vT1 + u2s2 v T2 +... +ur sr vTr ( s1 ≥ s 2 ≥...≥ sr > 0)where si (i = 1, 2, ..., r) are positive scalars in descending order, ui (i = 1, 2, ..., r) are m x 1orthonormal vectors and vi (i = 1, 2, ..., r) are n x 1 orthonormal vectors. The first f terms of theabove decomposition provide the best approximation to A with f principal components.PCA is a linear technique in the sense that it uses linear functions to model relationships between

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Deborah Hochstein

began in the 1940’s when many of theseresearch universities volunteered to join forces with the government to fight the war. The Officeof Scientific Research and Development was formed in 1940 and monetary support began to flowfrom the government to universities.6 Higher education and government had, through scientificcollaboration, changed the course of history and the marriage has matured with time. In 1947Harry S. Truman appointed a President’s Commission on Higher Education and almost overnightthe mission of higher education in the nation was dramatically redefined. The commissionstated, “America’s colleges and universities should no longer be merely the instrument forproducing an intellectual elite. Higher education must become the means

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James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

industrial participants in differentengineering disciplines. Success in the multidisciplinary environment is achieved by establishingfamiliarity with the engineering design process through an individual project. AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to acknowledge the numerous contributions made by the engineeringdesign students and the other faculty and staff of the Hope College Physics Department andEngineering Program. Bibliography1.) Dutson, A. J., Todd, R. H., S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on TeachingEngineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 1,1997, pp

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Tamie Veith; John E. Kobza; Mario G. Beruvides; C. Patrick Koelling

. Page 2.299.8 Table 3: Actual Time (in Secs.) to Load Shockwaved SectionsComputer Model: Quadra 950 Quadra 950 Power Mac Power Mac Pentium Pentium (server) 7100/800 7500/100 90 166O/S; Software: Mac7.5.3; Mac 7.5.5; Mac7.5.5; Mac7.5.5; Win95; Win95; Nav. 3.0 Nav. 3.0.1 Nav. 3.0 Nav. 3.0 Expl3.0 Nav. 3.0.1RAM (Mb): 24 20 16 (+17 vir.) 32 (+1 vir.) 16 16NOT CACHEDTiming Sections: I 10.2 10.8

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Shamil F. Daghestani; William G. Sullivan

participate in the course through (1) mandatory class attendance, (2) requiredinstead of voluntary recitation attendance, (3) required “extra credit” homework assignments, (4)peer-related help groups and (5) a mid-term report card of performance in the course. Finally,hypothesis testing showed that there was no significant difference between final weighted scores Page 2.302.8in morning versus afternoon sections (1993-1996) that were taught by different instructors. Reference1. Callen, W. R., S. M. Jeter, A. Koblasz, J. T. Luxhoj, C. S. Park, H. R. Parsaei, W. G. Sullivan and G. J. Thuesen

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William E. Cole

Page 2.305.1element. The processing elements first sums the values of the inputs applied to it and then takesthe resulting Figure 1: Neural Network Topologyvalue and transforms it with the sigmoid function. The sigmoid function is given by 1/(1+e-s)where s is the sum input to the element. The resulting value is the output of the processingelement. The connections between processing elements each have independent coefficientscalled weights. This weight amplifies, attenuates, and can change the sign of the signal sent overthe connection.To calculate an output value, input values are placed in the input processing elements. Newvalues are calculated by these processing elements and then multiplied by the appropriate

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J. M. Mendel; H. H. Kuehl

; Circuits Electronic Dircuits(take 3 of 4) EE 447L Mixed signal electronic circuits EE 448 Electronic circuits II EE 478L Digital electronic circuit design EE 479L Introduction to integrated circuit design Integrated Circuits EE/MS 438L Processing for microelectronics EE 448Electronic circuits II EE 477L MOS VLSI circuit designHANS H. KUEHLHans H. Kuehl received his B. S. from Princeton University and his M. S. and Ph. D. from the California Institute ofTechnology, all in Electrical Engineering. He has received the USC Associates Award for Teaching Excellence, thehighest teaching award at the University of Southern California. His research interests include

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Evangelyn C. Alocilja

. Wolfram, S. 1991. Mathematica, A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer. Addison- Page 2.326.6 Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts. 961 pp. 6EVANGELYN C. ALOCILJADr. Evangelyn C. Alocilja is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Biosystems EngineeringProgram, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University (MSU). She holdsa B.S. in Chemistry (cum laude) and an M.S. in Soil Science from the Philippines, and bothM.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering atMSU. She has

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P.J. Fisher; N.J. Quick; S.J. Steiner

United Kingdom reached its nadir in the early 1980’s. Acombination of high domestic inflation, economic recession through fiscal policies, andindustrial unrest by organised labour, resulted in business closures across the wholemanufacturing spectrum. As a consequence, market share was lost both at home andoverseas, which was quickly filled by external suppliers.A combination of new industries and new manufacturing philosophies, plus theunderstanding that change was inevitable, became the catalyst for new attitudes and workpractices in the United Kingdom. Kaizen1 (pronounced Ky’zen) is a term which is wellunderstood in the UK, both by the manufacturing population and by manufacturingmanagement alike. This modern workforce, which builds change on

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Lara Relyea; Joan A. Burtner

classroom, lesson plans for each K’NEX exercise are included at the end of thispaper.REFERENCES1. Stevens, K. and S. Schlossberg. “ Connection Technology” , Frontiers in Education ConferenceProceedings, Session T3H, Paper 3, Nov. 1997.2. Holland, N. “ GEMS: Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science An Intervention Model for Pre-CollegeGirls” , ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 1995.3. Hannan, J., D. Calkins, R. Crain, D. Davis, K. Gentili, C. Grimes and M. Trevisan. “ An EngineeringDesign Summer Camp for A Diverse Group of High School Students” , Frontiers in Education ConferenceProceedings, Session F3G, Paper 3, Nov. 1997.4. Mills, G.. “ Introducing Middle School Students to Civil Engineering Technology during Summer Camp

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Roger Ware; Charles F. Yokomoto

Session 3230 Using Small Groups to Promote Active Learning and Student Satisfaction in a Required Engineering Ethics Course Charles F. Yokomoto, Roger Ware Electrical Engineering/Psychology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Introduction A learning experience in professional ethics has become increasingly important forengineering majors for several reasons. Chief among them are (1) ABET EC-2000's learningoutcome which states that engineering programs “must demonstrate that their

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John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

for the 10-minute exams in the three courses:Dynamics: An automobile weighing 3220 pounds is moving at a speed of 60 mph when thebrakes are applied, causing all four wheels to skid. Assume the coefficient of friction betweenthe tires and the pavement is 0.80. Using the Principle of Impulse and Momentum, determine thetime required for the automobile to stop.Thermodynamics: A three-pound mixture of water and steam is contained in a rigid tank at 70o F and has a quality of 10%. The mixture is heated to 150 oF. Sketch the process on a p-vdiagram showing the saturation dome, and determine the final quality of the mixture.Fluid Mechanics: A liquid chemical (S=1.2) is drained from a holding tank at a rate of 0.6 ft3/sat the same time it is being

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J. Hardwick Butler; Burton Courtney

travel time to classes (and home after classes) to one hour or less.Frequently students are aware of the GSAMS site(s) in their vicinity and will suggest apreference. Since initiation of the program in 1994 classes have been transmitted to seventeenseparate locations throughout Georgia.Another non-traditional feature of the MGC distance learning program has been itsadministration. Although the program is a certificate program, students at the remote sites mustconform to university system admissions and registration requirements to be given collegecredits for their coursework. Applications to become MGC students must be submitted alongwith high school and college transcripts as appropriate. Applications can typically be handledby mail, but

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Hamid Y. Eydgahi; Saeid Y. Eidgahy

. Nicolova, R. (1998, July). Global Understanding [30 Paragraphs]. Global Understanding: Kansas CityBusiness Journal. [Online]. Available:http://www.amcity.com:80/kansascity/stories/071398/smallb1.html .3. Eidgahy, S. Y. (1997). Reengineering Technical Education: An Evolutionary View. ATEA Journal, December1996/January 1997, pp. 12-13.4. Webster’s new collegiate dictionary (1981). A Merriam-Webster, G. & C. Merriam Co.5. Schein, E. H. (1992). Organizational culture and leadership (2 nd edition). Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.6. Jiang, T. (1998). The culture of education science and technology has no borders. Tech Knowledge, Vol. 7 (2),Summer 1998. A University of St. Thomas Press.7. Johnson, D. W., Johnson R. T. and Smith K. A. (1998). Maximizing