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Table 2, the number of post-test scores in the “average” or “below average”categories has dropped to 20% with 60% of the scores falling in the “above average” rangecompared to only 30% previously. Figure 8. Lion Statue Figure 9. Clock Housing (a) Front View (b) Back View Figure 10. Programmable LCD Assembly (2 boards) Table 1. Pre- and Post-Test Results of SDLRS Scores Change in Score Pre-Test Post-Test Pre-test – as a % of Score Score post-test Pre-test

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Zhong Gu; Sheela Ramanna; James Peters; Hal Berghel; Daniel Berleant; Steve Russell

. B) Consultation. C) Recording to a repository of evaluation activities and measurements.End loop if satisfactory evaluation plan is in place for the course.D) Perform the evaluation.ConclusionThe work we have done up to this point has shown the feasibility of the approach, but moreremains to be done. One next step is to evaluate the results on student learning. Another nextstep is to facilitate use of the approach in other courses and universities. Eventually we hope tohave workshops to help others adapt the approach to their own situations. Ultimately, we hopethat the approach of integrating software engineering concepts into the curriculum as a tool toleverage learning in non-software engineering courses will become widely

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, R., "Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction", CollegeTeaching 1996, 44, 43-47. (9) Fiechtner, S. B.; Davis, E. A., Why Some Groups Fail: A Survey of Students' Experiences withLearning Groups., in Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education; Goodsell, A. S., Maher, M. R.,Tinto, V., Eds.; National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning & Assessment, Syracuse University: Syracuse,NY, 1992. (10) Felder, R. M.; Brent, R. National Effective Teaching Institute, Conference Notes St. Louis, MO,2000. (11) "Information about the National Effective Teaching Institute can be found on-line athttp:www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/NETI.html". (12

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Michael Ropp; Steven Hietpas

Session 1526 Incorporating Electric Drives into the Electrical Machines Course: A Systems Level Approach Steven M. Hietpas and Michael E. Ropp Department of Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University, SD 57007AbstractOver the last 35 years, the advent of power electronics has extensively impacted almost everyaspect of Electromechanical Energy Conversion (EMEC). The effective integration of powerelectronics, electric drives, and system issues into the EMEC curriculum demands a significantredesign of both the course and

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. 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan.[9] URL: http://www.handyboard.com[10] Martin, F. Robotic Explorations, a Hands-On Introduction to Engineering. Prentice Hall, 2001.[11] Verner, I., Waks, S., & Kolberg, E. Upgrading technology towards the status of high school matriculation subject: A case study. Journal of Technology Education, 9(1), 1997, pp. 64-75.[12] Verner, I., & Betzer, N. Machine Control - A Design and Technology Discipline in Israel’s Senior High Schools. International Journal of Technology and Design Education (in press).[13] Jones, J., Seiger, B., & Flynn, A. Mobile Robots, Inspiration to Implementation, 2nd ed. A. K. Peters, (1999).[14] Verner, I., Ahlgren, D., Mendelssohn, J. Fire-Fighting

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Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

Paper # 1939 • Session 3225 (Educational Research and Methods) Using 3D CAD as a tool to integrate topics across the curriculum W. K. Szaroletta, B. A. Harding, M. M. Tomovic Purdue UniversityAbstractToo often CAD is taught as a subject or addressed in isolated assignments among perhapsseveral courses in a degree program. However it appears to be rarely used as a trulyintegrated design and documentation tool crossing diverse specialty disciplines within adegree program. This paper discusses how various faculty are introducing CAD as aunifying tool applicable for a variety of

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, contact Dr. Tom Roberts, Director, Engineering and Science Summer Institute, Kansas State University, 142 Rathbone Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-5201.2. Anderson, John D., A History of Aerodynamics, Cambridge University Press (1998).B. TERRY BECKTerry Beck is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University. Heteaches courses in the fluid and thermal sciences, including Aerodynamics I, which is a senior level design/build/testelective course. He conducts research in the development and application of optical measurements, including laservelocimetry, and is the Director of the Non-Contact Precision Measurements (NCPM) Laboratory at Kansas StateUniversity. Dr. Beck received his B.S. (1971), M.S. (1974), and

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

% Engineering 181 40.0% 1998-1999 n=105 1999-2000 n=275 35.0% 2000-2001 n=483 30.0% 25.0% 20.0% 15.0% 10.0% 5.0% 0.0% A B C Grade D E W

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Analyst 1 (thermal)finding the most cost effective combination Analyst 1 (fouling)of: (a) coolant flow rate, (b) number of tubeshigh, (c) number of tubes deep in flowdirection, and (d) tube geometry (i.e.staggered or aligned).Table 1. Summary of Thermal/Fluids Projects. (H = Heat Transfer, FM = Fluid Mechanics, T =Thermodynamics) Page 6.17.9 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Mark Otter; Ken McLeod; Yi-Xian Qin; Partap Khalsa; Michael Hadjiargyrou; Danny Bluestein

of EngineerinngEducation 88(3), 1999.2. Reddeway, J1. and Britton, RA. A Survey of Engineering Design Education in North America, Europe and Japan,Cambridge University Press, 1980.3. Today’s Engineer l(l) p. 10, IEEE Press, 1998.4. NIH Bioengineering Consortium "Bioengineering: Building the Future of Biology and Medicine" February 27 - 28, 1998.5. Graedel, T and Allenby, B. Industrial Ecology. Prentice Hall. NY, 1995.6. Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Prentice Hall, NY, 1997.7. Otter, M., McLeod, K.J., Khalsa, P.S., Qin, Y.X., Hadjiargyrou, M. and Bluestein, D. Contextual LearningModules -A New Approach to Bioengineering Education. Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference June 18-21,2000, St. Louis, MOAuthor BiographiesPARTAP S

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Page 6.1099.4“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”AE Learning Community Core Fall Learning Community Core • Engr 101 (R cr.)b Engineering Orientation for AE Students • Engr 170 (3 cr.) Engineering Graphics and Design (AE section) • Engl 104 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition I (AE/AST section) Spring Learning Community Core • A E 110 (1 cr.) Experiencing Agricultural & Bioystems Engineering • Engr 160 (3 cr.) Engineering Problem Solving with Visual Basic Programming (AE section) • Engl 105 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition II (AE section)The AE

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“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”afforded by a complex building project for which they are centrally responsible, as wellas a forum to observe experts at work solving a similar problem (Figure 1). E C A Student at the Student at the Periphery of the Activity - “Fishbowl” Center of the Activity “Legitimate peripheral participation” Scaffolding (b

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Ron Eglash; Larry Kagan; Gary Gabriele; Frances Bronet; David Hess

balance technical,social/cultural, and aesthetic expertise—all the basic ingredients of design education we listed atthe end of part b above—as well as to reach the end of the studios ready to design in all thesignificant areas calling out for new ideas? We like to think of this as nurturing a design culture.CONCLUSIONSOur experiences in teaching the first five semesters have taught us a lot about how to teach thesedesign studios. The students have produced some very innovative work and their assessment ofthe classes has been very positive. We are also gaining a clearer picture of what we want toaccomplish in each of the following design studios.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWork on the first and second design studios was supported by a grant from the NCIAA

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Tomoki Abe; Richard Thurlkill; Krishna Kurpad; Jay Porter; Anthony Vaughan; Joseph Morgan

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activities at the start of our year-long course.Leaving these issues to chance when undertaking any large-scale design project is probably aserious oversight. Repeated construction of Prerequisite Trees in the capstone course can providevaluable data on program outcomes. With strategic implementation, these can assess growth inhighly desired technical and non-technical competencies.References1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Engineering Criteria 2000, www.abet.org/eac/2000.htm.2. Odom, E., S. Beyerlein, B. Tew, R. Smelser, D. Blackketter, “Idaho Engineering Works: A Model for Leadership in Design Education.” Preceedings of 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference.3. Boeing Company, “Desired Attributes of an Engineer,” http

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Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Douglas Gabauer; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

(upstream and downstream) 2. Select downstream platoon vehicles using chronological selection from lane 1 a. Sum the lengths and maximum magnitudes of the vehicles b. Determine time window (time of 1st & last vehicles) c. Determine average speed of vehicles within platoon. Í d. Store attributes of the downstream platoon in an array. 3. Set upstream time interval based on downstream time window determine time cutoffs using average speed for time shift (considering min/max travel times) 4. Check lane 1 for vehicles within time frame. 5. Add lengths of all 5-vehicle combinations and compare to downstream value a

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Richard A. Kolk; Claudio Campana; Jun Kondo; Devdas Shetty

. P o w er S u p p ly; + 6 v C o il C S ig n a l fro m d a t a I/ O B b o a rd 3 .9 K R e s is to r D io d e E P o w e r T r a n s is to r 2 N 3 0 5 5 Fig 7: Actuator amplifier circuit Page 6.710.7 Proceedings of the 2001

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Marshall Coyle; Christal Keel

Session 2168 A Combined Stress Experiment Using A Hacksaw Marshall F. Coyle, Ph.D., P.E., Christal G. Keel Pennsylvania State University – YorkAbstract:An analytical and experimental study of the combined axial and bending stresses that occur in atypical hand-held hacksaw is described. A commercially available handsaw is loaded staticallyby tension in the saw blade. The tensile load on the hacksaw blade results in both bending andaxial compressive stresses in the backbone of the hacksaw. This study demonstrates theexperimental technique of using strain gages to validate an

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Jerry A. Caskey

Session 2551 A Supplemental Lab Project to Reinforce Physical/Chemical Processes in an Environmental Engineering Course Jerry A. Caskey Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractNo matter what their learning style students at Rose-Hulman appreciate hands-on experiences toreinforce principles taught in the classroom. Over the past several years a supplemental labproject has been developed to reinforce several topics covered in our “Unit Operations ofEnvironmental Engineering” course. This course is an elective course offered by the ChemicalEngineering

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indicate no grade inflation for any of the four disciplines.A slight reduction in grade point average was observed for all departments from 1993 to 1999.The grade distribution among the four departments was very dissimilar. Engineering andmathematics maintained a similar trend in the distribution of grades. In engineering,approximately twenty-seven percent of the grades given were A s, while 20 percent of thestudents failed. A-, B+, B, B-, C+, and C grades represented the remaining 53 percent.Mathematics department awarded approximately 20 percent A grades and had a 24 percentfailing grades. This research indicates that the academic standards for engineering andmathematics departments were not compromised over the period from 1993 to 1999.In

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Robert Avanzato

Session 2620 Controlling a Mobile Robot with a Personal Digital Assistant Robert L. Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has been exploring the application of personal digital assistant(PDA) technology to the control of autonomous mobile robots. The PDA is aninexpensive, handheld computer that supports a wide range of mobile softwareapplications, and features serial and infrared communication capabilities. Undergraduatestudents have participated in an applied research effort to develop PDA-controlledautonomous robots for several robot design competitions. One of the innovative

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

Session 2793 Development of a Crawfish Processing Machine in a Capstone Design Course Michael Larson, Donal Collins, Melanie Landry Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University, LA 70118AbstractThis paper describes how an entrepreneurial focus can be brought to a capstone designcourse in mechanical engineering. During the 2000-2001 academic year, seniorundergraduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University weredivided into teams to prototype, test, refine and manufacture a new product under thedirection of faculty and graduate students who created the

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Lynn Nored; David Compton

Asession1454@ From Senior Design to Starting a Company-A Model for Entrepreneurship Lynn S. Nored, P.E., David Compton Oklahoma Christian University / Commack LLCAbstractEntrepreneurship and education have gotten engaged in the last few years, and will either enjoy ablissful marriage or require some counseling to prevent a breakup. Some universities might rejectthe idea of creating new companies or products based on faculty or student research. There couldbe nostalgia for pure research, where scientific research funds do not depend on businessmarketing

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

Session 2793 A Speech and Music Detector Project for a DSP Class Christopher J. Vondrachek, Joseph P. Hoffbeck University of PortlandAbstractA project is described in this paper which is designed to monitor a radio station and detectcommercials and talking, which would allow the radio to be muted so the listener would not bedistracted by obnoxious radio ads and D.J.’s. The project is designed to be an interestingapplication of a very simple pattern recognition system and requires little more than a low passfilter, high-pass filter, and a threshold scheme. The approach was to

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 2149 Using a PLC Trainer To Control a Utility Cart Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853AbstractThis paper describes the details of an undergraduate project in electrical engineeringtechnology program at UMES and experience gained by the student. The objective ofthis project was to incorporate the Allen Bradley commercial SLC 503 programmablelogic controller (PLC) trainer to control and steer a utility cart. The utility cart wasrequired to perform the maneuvering motions of going forward, going in

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Rafael Rodríguez-Solís; Lynn Carpenter; José Colom-Ustáriz; Russell Barton

Session 2632 A Novel Graphical Technique for Selection of a Robust Design Point José G. Colom*, R.R. Barton**, Lynn Carpenter**, Rafael Rodríguez Solís* *University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez/ **Penn State UniversityI. INTRODUCTIONThe concept of robust design was introduced by Genichi Taguchi, and popularized in the U.S.following his visit to Bell Laboratories in the mid-1980’s. Since this technique has becomeimportant in industry, the topic has been included in many undergraduate engineering statisticscurricula. Unfortunately, the experiment design and data analysis issues are complex

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Priya Olden; Nikunja Swain; Maurice Robinson; James A. Anderson; James Parker; Cristal Caroll; Alan Seedarsan

, and Division of two numbers. 2. Modify the calculator VI to incorporate a menu with Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division as menu items. Also, the VI must address the "Division by Zero" scenario. 3. Design a VI to display and plot Y for the following equation: Y = 3X2 + 2X + 5, as X changes from 0 to 20 in increments of 2. Use a waveform graph to plot X Vs Y. 4. Modify the above VI so that the user provides the initial value, final value, and increment for X. Also use a X-Y graph to plot X Vs Y. 5. Design a VI to solve the following quadratic equation: AX2 + BX + C = 0. The user provides the values of A, B, and C

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multipath In the same manner.By working cooperatively, they could triangulate on suspected signal paths while ruling outreflected signals. Page 6.35.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 40" 90 deg + 20.2" 16.2" 16.2" (a) 4-element Yagi-Uda (b) 2-element

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thenumber of elements grows exponentially as N increases3. The segmented current steering DACbeing studied in this research project is divided into three segments, which are MSB, mid-bit(MID), and LSB. Each segment is made of identical current source elements. Current sourceelements for MSB and MID segments are selected by thermometer code while the LSB currentsource element, the basic current source, remains a binary weighted bit. These segments reducethe number of components required to produce a 10-bit segmented current steering DAC and stillmaintain monotonicity4. Binary Thermometer A B C T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 0 0 0 0 0 0

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. From thisdata three things can be obtained: a) the type of transfer function, which in this case is alow-pass, first order, b) the open-loop gain Go, and c) the bandwidth (or corner frequency wo.This information can be used to represent the Op-amp, operated in open-loop mode as: G0 s +1 ωo Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.49.2 Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering Education