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Robert Ford; Denise Jackson

: ImplementationThe first phase began January 2002. It involved us finding solutions to the following questions: 1. What are key elements in concept that must be developed 2. Audience (type, numbers) 3. Platform(s): hardware, software 4. Content: text, still figures, graphics, animation, sound, video... 5. Interface: user interaction 6. Interaction architecture: software vs. hardware capabilitiesWe moved forward with our assigned ITCE graduate student without a definite concept for theoverall system and clear delineation of our roles. Thus, much time was lost in “rethinking” theoverall system. Without a clear system-wide picture, the picture for the individual modulesremained fuzzy.The next two phases involved the design of the major components

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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Radhika Kotha

water from the collector is supplied to the wall panels forwarming the house.I am a member of the undergraduate student team working on this project. Its tremendouseducational value may be summarized in the words of A.S. Neil, the founder of Summerhill, analternative school set up in England in the 1940’s: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I doand I understand”. Having studied thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, structuralmechanics etc. in my courses, this is a wonderful opportunity to put the knowledge immediatelyinto practice and thereby increase it many-fold. By actually doing “real-life” engineering I amfinally able to understand what I have learnt in my courses.My paper describes this exciting and completely novel

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Moujalli Hourani

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

a calcium chloride solution. The bead size is 0 .8 0 .7controlled by choice of needle gauge. 0 .6 0 .5 A b s o rb a n c eStarch conversion is measured using spectrophotometric 0 .4 0 .3determination at 620 nm with an iodine indicator. Figure 1 shows the 0 .2color

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Asad Yousuf

DAQ card):The NI 6040E (PCI-MIO-16E-4) device use E series technology to deliver high performance andreliable data acquisition capabilities to meet a wide range of applications requirements. You canget up to 500 kS/s single channel, 12-bit performance on 16 single-ended analog inputs. The Eseries DAQ device feature analog and digital triggering capability, as well as two 24-bit, 20MHz counter/timers; and 8 digital I/O lines. This E-series is directly interfaced to the BNC-2120connector.BNC-2120 Connector Accessory:BNC-2120 is a shielded connector block with signal-labeled BNC connector for easyconnectivity to analog input, analog output, digital I/O and counter/timer signals to the E-seriesdevice. The BNC-2120 also provides a function

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Tony Louca; Edward Gehringer

“local copy” link serves as a backup for the original source in case the original source is movedor removed after the end of the term when the course is taught.The “original source” link also provides a way to access the most recent version of a problem.For example, if an instructor assigns homework and then discovers an error, (s)he may updatethe handout on the Web. The “original source” link will access the current version. This givesour database some of the same ability a search engine has to access up-to-date material.6. Status of the databaseAt the time of writing, the database contains 883 entries for computer architecture material. Ofthese, 849 are homework and test problems, and 34 are lectures. The object technology database,which we

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

://www.hoosiers.iupui.edu/gened/gnedprin.htm[2] Rizkalla, M.E., Yokomoto, C.F., Pfile, R., Sinha, A.S.C., El-Sharkawy, M., Lyashevskiy, S., and Needler, M., “A New Approach for an Interdisciplinary Senior Elective for Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology in Electric Vehicle Applications,” International Journal of Engineering Education,” vol. 16, no. 4, pp 351-361.[3] Rizkalla, M.E., Phile, R., El-Antably, A., and Yokomoto, C.F., “Development of a Senior Elective for EE and EET Majors in the Design of Electronics Instrumentation for Electric Vehicles.” Proc. 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2502, June 1998

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Natalie Smith; Julie Greenberg

development of the interactive demonstration of spectral analysis.Bibliography1. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press (1999).2. Schwartz, D.L., Lin, X., Brophy, S., & Bransford, J.D. Toward the Development of Flexibly Adaptive Instructional Designs. In C. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional-Design Theories and Models: A New Paradigm of Instructional Theory. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum (1999).3. Brophy, S.P. Guidelines for modular design. VaNTH Engineering Research Center Technical Report No. VANTHLSSPB200001V1. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University (2000).NATALIE SMITHNatalie Smith is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute

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Ahmed Elsawy; Ismail Fidan

proved that having such a KBT in aproduction environment saves both time and money. In the future more process leveloutputs and constraints will be added into the current KBT and the results will bebenchmarked with the industrial tests.AcknowledgementsThe authors greatly appreciate the technical supports obtained from Alan Lamborn (TheUniversity of Northern Iowa), Ahmet Guner (University of Iowa), and Serdar Tumkor(Stevens Institute of Technology).Bibliography1. Singh, N., Systems Approach to Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing, 1st Edition, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.2. Degarmo, P. E., Black, J. T., Kohser, R. A., Materials and Processes in Manufacturing, 8th Edition,Prentice Hall, 1997.3. Kalpakjian, S., Manufacturing

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William Davis; Steve Stafford; Elsa Villa

Session 1554 Discover Engineering Day: Collaborations in Pre-College Recruitment William C. Davis, Elsa Q. Villa, S. W. Stafford The University of Texas at El PasoAbstractAs engineering enrollments across the United States are on the decline, the College ofEngineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has shown a 7% increase each year forthe past four years. To address this enrollment gap, retention and recruitment programs mustexist symbiotically at an institution to attract students and retain them through graduation. TheDiscover

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Steve Schreiner; John Burns

, MA.VII. References[1] Stevens, Karl K. and Sharon M. Schlossberg, “Technology connection – a program for precollege orientation and recruiting.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 28- July 1, 1998.[2] Zachary, Loren W., Janet M. Sharp, and Barbara M. Adams, “Engineering connections: Teaching engineering mechanics to K-12 teachers.”Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO. June 18- 21, 2000.[3] Sharp, Janet M., Tracy L. Chandler, and John A. Petersen, “Teaching teachers to apply engineering: a tale of two high school classrooms.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO. June 18- 21, 2000.[4] Muller, Carol B. and William S. Carlsen. “Fostering

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Jerry Samples

, 19986. Lowman, J, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1995.7. Wankat, P. C., F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993.Jerry SamplesJerry Samples is Professor and Director of Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.He holds a BS ChE. from Clarkson College, and MS and Ph.D. in ME from Oklahoma State University. He taughtat the United States Military Academy for 12 years before assuming his current position in 1996. His recent workhas been in the area of foundations of good teaching and development of advanced teaching methods. Page 6.390.4

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Ifte Choudhury

. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 23, 307-322 (1990).9. Griffin, B. W. & Griffin, M. M. An investigation of the effects of peer tutoring on achievement, self-efficacy, andtest anxiety. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 23, 298-311 (1998).10. Choudhury, I. Correlates of Student Performance in Environmental Control Systems Courses at anUndergraduate Level. San Luis Obispo, CA: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Associated Schoolsof Construction, 21-28 (1999).11. Freund, R. J. & Wilson, W. J. Statistical methods. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University (1991).12. Johnson, R. T. & Johnson, D. W. An overview of cooperative learning. In Thousand, J. S., Villa, R. A. & Nevin,A. I. (Eds.), Creativity and

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Rosemary L. Parker; Arthur Johnson

Session 2470 The Effects of Technology on Diversity or When is Diversity Not Diversity? Arthur T. Johnson, Rosemary L. Parker University of MarylandThe University of Maryland campus community is proud of its diverse student body. It is acampus where diversity is celebrated and nurtured, even defended before the U. S. SupremeCourt. The University has invested heavily in building and maintaining a student bodyconsisting of 12% African Americans, 13% Asian Americans, 5% Hispanic, and 4% ofinternational origin.The mission of the University

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Michael Holcombe

has come to set aside the past and consider the future of the programs and students. In other words, how can we teach the future while living in the past?Bibliography[1] Fox, P.L. & Hundley, S..P. Trends and developments in engineering technology: Who are we and where are wegoing? [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education. June2000[2] Davis, D. Collaborative teaching and learning. [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education. June 2000[3] Townsend, S.L. & Canistraro, H. Recruiting and retaining faculty and managing diverse majors in four-yearschools of engineering technology. [CD-ROM]. 2000 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society

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Joanne Lax

office, s/he has an appointment to return to do anotherwriting sample. However, when students have problems which cannot be dealt with in onesession, I often ask them to write a practice paper for me to review in a second help sessionbefore having them return again to write an “official” writing sample.I see these on-going tutorials as an unique opportunity to help some of ECE’s neediest writers—most of whom happen to be non-native speakers of English—at an early stage in theirengineering program. Also, I hope that these students are beginning to develop a workingrelationship with me so that they can return to my office with writing-related concernsthroughout their undergraduate years. In addition to their diagnostic function, the scored

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Robert Parden

. Now we hover around 90,000. Withthe U. S. Population at 281 million, we should be enrolling 142,000, had we sustained the samepopulation-enrollment ratio of 1982. To cloud our local picture even more, half of the engineeringfreshmen at Santa Clara are choosing computer engineering, leaving the traditional engineeringfields in peril of long term survival. To attract 50,000 additional freshmen to engineering hasbecome a very real goal. But to do this, something has to change.New Engineer PerceptionsWe asked fifty of our young engineering graduates why they thought freshmen engineeringenrollments were flat. Their evaluation: 1. The engineering curricula are viewed as too difficult. 2. There is more money in alternate business

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Nohemi Rubio; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras; Connie Della-Piana

evaluators and researchers use students’ representations of the research experience as a way to discover critical or essential elements of the research experience? • What is learned from an examination of students’ representations of the research experience? • Are these elements represented in Best Practice? • Is this strategy useful in leading to culturally sensitive evaluations of undergraduate research experiences?II. EvaluationThe field of evaluation distinguishes two major types of evaluation: formative evaluation andsummative evaluation. Each type or function is conducted for specific and intended uses. Eachcan contribute to the knowledge base about the issue(s) being addressed by the program. Onethe one hand

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

authors would like to thank Ms Maria Ho and Ms. Jacqueline Rettig of Texas Instrument’s DSP UniversityProgram for the donation of DSP starter and teaching kits, which was used to introduce DSP based experiments inthe electrical engineering technology curriculum at the State University of New York Institute of Technology, Utica,New York.Bibliography1. Stevens J, “ DSPs in Communications”, IEEE Spectrum, September 1998.2. Qazi S, “Implementation of low Data Rate Modem Using Digital Signal Processing Starter Kit”, Final Report for Summer Faculty Research Program sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome Site, New York, September 1999.3. Texas Instrument, Inc., TMS320C3x DSP Starter Kit User’s Guide, 1996.4. MATHLAB: The language of

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Peter Wild; Brian Surgenor; Aaron Dellah

Large Numbers of Students”, 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 3266, Charlotte, NC, June 20 to 23, 1999.7. Edwards, S., “Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp Computer”, McGraw Hill, 1998.AARON DELLAHAaron Dellah received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in 1998. Prior to that, hereceived his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1996. His research interestscurrently lie in the field of biomechanical engineering. He worked on the development of the ping pong apparatuswhile employed as a Research Engineer in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston.PETER WILDPeter Wild is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s

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Robert D. Knecht

., "New Goals for Engineering Education," Mechanical Engineering, vol. 113, March pp. 56-62,(1991).2. Maul, G.P., "Reforming Engineering Education," Industrial Engineering, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 53-55, 67, (1994).3. Masi, C.G., “Re-engineering Engineering Education,” IEEE Spectrum, vol. 32, no. 9, p. 44, (1995).4. Sheppard, S. & Jeninson, R., "Freshman Engineering Design Experiences and Organizational Framework,”International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 190-197, (1997). Page 5.632.55. Al-Holou, Bilgutay, N. M, Corletor, C., Demel, J.T., Fleder, R., Frair, K., Froyd, J.E., Hoit, M., Morgan, J. &Wells

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Richard Turton; Roger A. Schmitz; Mark J. McCready; Mark A. Stadtherr; Joan F. Brennecke; Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

. Projects on environmentallyconscious process design and companion problems for the curriculum have also been developed,and these materials are available for the public on the project web sitehttp://www.nd.edu/~enviro.Bibliography1. Allen, D. T., and K. S. Rosselot, Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1997.2. Lynch, H., A Chemical Engineer’s Guide to Environmental Law and Regulation, available from the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (nppc@umich.edu).JOAN F. BRENNECKE received her B.S.Ch.E. from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.S. and Ph.D.degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in the application ofsupercritical fluid

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Sohail Anwar

researchexperiences promote interaction among students and faculty members. Professor-studentinteraction increases the persistence of students as described by Tinto, Love, and Russo4, andTinto, Love, and Russo5.This paper describes an innovative research grant program for undergraduate minority students atPenn State Altoona. The program allows teams of faculty members and qualified minoritystudents to develop proposals for research projects in various academic disciplines includingengineering. These proposals are reviewed by a committee of faculty members and based ontheir recommendations, research grants are awarded by the program coordinator to selectedteams. The minority student(s) and the faculty member work closely on the research project

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Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

/NAMEPA 1997 Joint Conference Annual Conference.3 Steadman, S., and D.L. Whitman, “Residential Innovations for Engineering Students”, Proceedings ASEEConference, 1999. Page 5.497.5SALLY STEADMANDr. Steadman received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1969, an M.A. inMathematics from the University of Denver in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University ofWyoming in 1994. She joined the faculty at UW in 1984 and serves as a Senior Lecturer, where she makes use ofher interest in engineering computer applications. She is active in the Computers in Education Division (CoED), is afaculty advisor

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Christopher T. Field; Brian Jenkins

explore the boundaries. This is can be true even incourses that traditionally have a theoretical emphasis if the design process is encouraged in waysthat are relevant yet challenging.Bibliography1. Alexander C. & Sadiku M., Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, McGraw-Hill (2000).2. Nilsson J. & Riedel, S., Electric Circuits, 5th Ed., Addison-Wesley (1996).BRIAN JENKINSBrian Jenkins received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Ohio State University in 1983 and 1991 and the Ph.D.degree from the University of Colorado in 1995. From 1983-1989 he worked as a development engineer for IBMCorporation in Endicott, New York. Since 1996 he has been an assistant professor in the Department of ElectricalEngineering at the U.S. Naval Academy where he

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Steven M. Miner; Richard E. Link

a project-based introduction to the finite element method using acommercial software package, SDRC I-DEAS, provides a basic introduction to the theory, as wellas, a meaningful experience using the technology.It is important for the student to have a basic understanding of the finite element method, other-wise it can be difficult to evaluate the results that the commercial packages produce. By under-standing the basic approach of the modeling, the student can make a more informed interpretationof the results to decide if they make sense. All too often, students and professionals alike, readilyaccept the results generated by the computer without casting a critical eye at them.At the U. S. Naval Academy the Computer-Aided Design course is

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Robert McCulley; Joseph Arumala; Emin Yilmaz

Fundamentals of Threaded Fastener Design and Analysis, Ralph S. Shoberg, RS Technologies, Farmington Hills, MI, 1997, pp. 1-6Biographical InformationJoseph O. Arumala is an Associate Professor in the Construction ManagementTechnology at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He is an experiencedCivil/Structural Engineer with a MS. and a Ph.D. degrees from Clemson University. Dr.Arumala teaches civil engineering oriented courses including Statics; Strength ofMaterials and Structural Design courses.Robert McCulley is a Quality Engineer with Filtronic Comtek Inc. He has a BS inInformation System Management, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology andis currently finishing a BS degree in Electrical Engineering Technology at UMES. Hiswork

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Hakan Gurocak

. Page 5.534.3Each machine is given three chances. Just before the first run, each team gives a shortpresentation about the design. At the end of each run, the overall score is calculated using thefollowing formula: 200 SCORE = 5 L2 + 30S + 10 N + 10W + T T: Time it took the machine to complete its climb (in seconds) S: Whether it stopped at the top or not (1=stopped, 0=did not stop) L: Distance traveled on the rope by the machine (in feet) N: Novelty of the design (Average of the scores (on a 1 to 3 scale) given by the judges) W: Quality of the

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Harry L. Hess

Page 5.589.1finished commercial product(s). The Manufacturing Processes course is the perfect union of thehands-on approach and reverse engineering.The hands-on approach uses laboratory activities and is ideally suited for teaching the conceptsof design and analysis of metallic and plastics welded fabrications and castings, CNC millingand lathe turning, as well as the set-up and analysis of plastics molding (injection, compression,thermoforming and extrusion blow) investigations. The laboratory environment, a customfacility containing laboratory size equipment, encourages students to develop and presentsolutions to manufacturing processes, organizational and production systems problems throughthe use of Pro/Engineer, CNC plus metallic and

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Paul J. Coyne

listener would sense a natural change.Simulation results were presented for a /u/ - /i/ vowel transition. Page 5.167.6Bibliography1. Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB, by C. S. Burrus, J. H. McClellan,A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks, R. W. Scafer, and H. W. Schuessler, Prentice-Hall, 1994, p. 336.2. Discrete-Time Processing of Speech Signals, J. R. Deller, Jr., J. G. Proakis, and John H. L. Hansen,Prentice-Hall, 1987, p. 193.3. Ibid., p. 195.4. Ibid., p. 121.PAUL COYNEPaul J. Coyne, Jr. is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Science and Associate Director of theMaster of Engineering