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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno; Ivy Chin, University of Nevada, Reno; Joseph Bozsik, University of Nevada, Reno; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Vollstedt, Ivy Chin, Joseph Bozsik, Julia Williams,Adam KirnIntroduction: The National Science Foundation S-STEM project entitled “Creating Retention andEngagement for Academically Talented Engineers (CREATE)” was designed to support low-income, high achieving engineering students achieve academic success, persist to graduation, buildself-efficacy, and develop engineering identity. The scholarship-based cohort program is locatedwithin the College of Engineering at a large western land-grant university and recruited twocohorts of 16 based on academic talent and demonstrated financial need [1 – 8]. The program hasretained 25 of the original 32 students (referred to as scholars) with six new scholars fillingvacancies, leading to a current total of 31

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janeth Martinez-Cortes, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Mark Appleford, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jose Francisco Herbert Acero, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Harry R. Millwater Jr., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Heather Shipley, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering faculty engagedwith the LR-LS framework. Our findings indicated moderate to high implementation of the LR-LS framework in lesson study meetings and classroom observations. Figure 1 illustrates themean composite scores per LR-LS component by engineering faculty engaged in lesson studymeetings across time. Average scores ranged from 1.28 to 2.90, showing moderate to highimplementation among engineering faculty. Faculty 1 demonstrated moderate levels ofimplementation with a mean score clustered at 1.60. Faculty 2 demonstrated higher levels ofimplementation across time, with a mean score of 2.38. Of note here is that each componentscore had at least a 2.5 average by the final implementation of the project, suggesting thatsustained engagement

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Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sweni Shah; Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto; Sanjana Dasadia; Samreen Khatib Syed; Doaa Muhammad, University of Toronto

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #41872Board 47: A Mentor-Mentee Matching Algorithm to Automate Process ofFinding an Ideal Mentor for StudentsMs. Sweni ShahDr. Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the applicatiSanjana DasadiaSamreen Khatib SyedDoaa Muhammad, University of Toronto ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: MentorMate: A Platform to

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; George D. Ricco, Miami University

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His research and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informatics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and Restoreskills.Dr. George D. Ricco, Miami University

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Application in Manufacturing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Israa Azzam, Purdue University; Farid Breidi, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Paper ID #41395Teaching Manufacturing Assembly Processes Using Immersive Mixed RealityMs. Israa Azzam, Purdue University Israa is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University, specializing in digital technologies and control systems. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Beirut Arab University (BAU) in 2019 and her M.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2021, specializing in Robust Control. Israa is a Research Assistant on the National Science Foundation-funded Project ”Research Initiation: Developing Spatial Visualization and Understanding of Complex

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2 - Engineering for One Planet (EOP)

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University; Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

materials. Finally, students are acquainted with the US Green BuildingCouncil’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system [15]. Asfollow up assignments, students are asked to research sustainable wood production andharvesting or to complete a brief case study of a project that received a high LEED certification.The third civil engineering module of the design topic introduces students to culture andcommunity needs assessments. This lesson plan aims to equip students with the ability toassemble an effective plan for collecting relevant cultural information from a community inorder to define design specifications for an international development project. Students areintroduced to human-centered design as an approach to make

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Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danilo Pozzo, University of Washington; Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington; Marvi A. Matos, University of Washington; William B. Baratuci, B-Cubed; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Arne S.A. Biermans, University of Washington

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Chemical Engineering

at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. Subsequently, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a Masters of Science in Polymers, Colloids and Surfaces. Her disserta- tion work presented a novel technique to allow for the control of mass transport in crosslinked hydrogels with applications in the fields of biosensors and microfluidics. Under a fellowship from the National Research Council, Marvi worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Tech- nology (NIST). Her project at NIST involved the study of encapsulated neural stem cell’s viability and differentiation under AC electric fields. More recently (2008-2010), she worked as a

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

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Aerospace

continues to be a faculty member at College of the Canyons. She has over twenty-five years of successful faculty leadership, administration of technical departments, and leadership of State and Federal curriculum projects, especially in the areas of technical education. Dr. Alfano has a B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Education, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education and Adult Development. Page 22.1108.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education NSF ATE

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DEED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Besser, University of Saint Thomas; AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Education. Her teaching and research focus on Engineering Design and K-12 Engineering Education. Prior to her appointment at UST, she was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design. Page 22.1265.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Roles in the Design Process: A Survey of Engineering and Industrial Design EducatorsIntroductionIn many industrial projects engineers and industrial designers work together. In suchcollaborative settings, individuals’ perceptions of what skills are possessed by their colleaguescan have an effect on how they

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Van Arsdale, Michigan Technological University; Leonard J. Bohmann, Michigan Technological University

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Electrical and Computer

in differentscenarios, or what may be wrong with a circuit if it is not working.This study is part of a larger project to determine hands on ability. Previousstudies have concentrated only on final lab grade and a lab practical score2 .While the data on the electrical aptitude test was collected, the test itself has notbeen validated. In this project, each of the questions on the electrical aptitude testwere themselves analyzed to determine if any one of them had a particularrelationship to a particular prior experience, grades in the lab or on a lab practical,or an attitude. If the electrical aptitude test score was highly correlated with aknown hands on ability measure, this could help validate the test constructed bythe researchers

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ETD Design I: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

projects are restricted by thesignificant cost of the equipment. Furthermore, students enrolled in distance learning programs,due to their remote location, struggle even more to find the opportunity to gain the requiredhands-on experience. This paper is a case study to analyze the feasibility of handling labs forcircuit related classes through an alternative approach based on a simplified lab environment,which can be located virtually anywhere. The lab environment we analyzed is the Digilent’sElectronics Explorer Board powered by the WaveForms software. The single board includesvarious devices used in traditional analog/digital classes such as power supplies, functiongenerators, oscilloscopes, logic analyzer, multi-meters, etc. As a case study

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Nicholas Saucedo, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jeffrey Richard Pribyl, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Stewart L. Ross, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Learning at Minnesota State University Mankato. He has been a professor at this institution for 34 years and deals with numerous programs that aid teaching and leaning. He is also the senior associate with Dee Fink & Associates, a small company that delivers course design and other workshops across the country and internationally at colleges and universities. Page 22.569.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engaged in Thermodynamics – Addressing the Student to Learning Material InterfaceI. Introduction and Project BackgroundThis paper will

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

require that they write and speak in such a way that they can be understoodby all of the others; the Mechanical Engineers must be able to talk to classmates who arestudying Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, EngineeringMechanics, Nuclear Engineering, or any other of the eleven undergraduate majors within ourcollege – not including the students from other programs who venture into our class. Allstudents, regardless of their major, must be able to describe their chosen technical projects using Page 22.579.3the jargon of their field but explaining those concepts well enough that all of those otherengineers

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Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Marcia R. Laugerman, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

. Another goal of the NSF Student Enrollment andEngagement through Connections (SEEC) grant is to increase the diversity ofengineering graduates at ISU. The specific goals of SEEC are to increase thenumber of engineering graduates by 100 per year to obtain a total of about 900per year with approximately 10% from minorities and 20% females12. The key tomeeting these goals is the creation of meaningful connections between ISU andthe state community colleges to support transfer students. This project has focusedon five such connections: 1) a new admission partnership program, 2) coordinatedadvising and activities planning, 3) expansion of learning communities at ISU andstate community colleges, 4) creation of an engineering orientation class at

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Design Communications & Cognition I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

products arebeing developed through such principles. Examples include open-source 3D printers [15],electronics prototyping platforms [16], cell phones [17], cars [18], prosthetics [19], machinetools, robots, and other socially relevant design projects [20].As alluded to before, in the era of Globalization 3, new organizational structures based on self-organizing communities are emerging to complement traditional hierarchies. According toTapscott and Williams [8], the new principles for success in Globalization 3 are a) openness toexternal ideas, b) individuals as peers, c) sharing of intellectual property, and d) global action. Insuch emerging organizations, individual success is defined by the recognition gained throughcontributions towards a

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1999 Annual Conference

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T. Roppel; A. Scottedward Hodel

electrical engineering, build uponprevious laboratories, and are supplemented from outside sources including guest lectures.Students encounter a significant number of concepts for the first time in the laboratory courses.The first course consists of experiments that are largely prescriptive, but as the laboratorysequence progresses through the sophomore and junior years, students are increasinglychallenged to think creatively in design projects and to write technical reports in a variety offormats. Page 4.98.1II. Assessment Based On Student FeedbackStudents in the Electrical Engineering Department are asked to fill out evaluation forms at theend of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Donald Zinger

the laboratory are somewhat more expensive. Relatively cheap currentsensors can be substituted, however, with the loss of some convenience.Additional costs would come from the circuit components used. These would include the powerMOSFET, the controller circuit, the inductor core and a few miscellaneous components. Thetotal cost of these components is less than $20 per group and should not be a major burden onthe laboratory budget.Student FeedbackStudents have responded well to the laboratory experience. As illustrated in fig. 2, a studentsurvey has shown that the students believed that the laboratory projects helped in theirunderstanding of the course material. None of the students said they did not learn anything fromthe laboratory while 90

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sandra D. Yeigh

until the final three or four semesters do undergraduate studentsexperience the "fun" in engineering through team and individual projects where they create andengineer solutions to engineering problems. Would it not serve these students well if we canintroduce such creative processes earlier? The answer is an emphatic "yes." However, in thefirst half of students’ academic careers, they do not have the theory and engineering maturity totackle many problems. This is truly a catch-22 problem.Energy policy issues are all around us. From clean coal technology to electric utilityrestructuring, energy policy problems make the headlines everyday. Most students can readand understand the issues at hand. This is the channel the authors explored. Several

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1999 Annual Conference

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Sallie (Lee) Townsend; Howard A. Canistraro

full-time faculty listed above,those with past industrial experience can use their acquired skills in a variety of ways. A primaryduty is to constantly refine and revise the program to meet the latest needs in industry. They alsouse their expertise by acquiring research grants since they know what types of research pursuitsare possible and the how to acquire means to perform that research. They also know how tomanage programs using existing campus courses and resources and they have the experience torun programs and produce results. In the academic environment, these faculty have control overtheir own research projects, which is not a typical scenario in industry. This managerialfreedom, coupled with a strong sense of academic freedom, will

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1999 Annual Conference

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David Whitman; Sally Steadman

by theincreased retention and satisfaction of the residents.University-wide Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs) ProjectSomewhat as an outgrowth of the successful Engineering College’s Power Groups andEngineering Floor, the University of Wyoming has developed a Freshman Interest Groups(FIGs) project that is campus-wide. Based on a model from the University of Missouri, FIGsinvolves a group of no more than 20 students with similar educational goals who take selectedclasses together and share a common living arrangement. This project was initiated for the Fall1998 semester and initial assessment will begin during the Spring 1999 semester. TheUniversity administration has committed to a minimum 3-year trial period for FIGs.ResultsEngineering Floor

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1999 Annual Conference

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Halvard E. Nystrom

Page 4.41.1computer projection so that the interim and final results can be displayed for all to see as thesimulation progresses.ObjectivesThis simulation program was developed for the Introduction to Engineering ’98 hands-onprogram for high school juniors. This is a week program in which the students get anopportunity to explore various engineering disciplines and experiences to help them make careerdecisions and college selection decisions. The University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR), offers it asan educational and recruiting tool. The department hopes to educate the students on thediscipline and also recruit these students to come to the campus and also to the department.It is the objective of the simulation to make the students visualize how

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1999 Annual Conference

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Ingrid H. Soudek

firstyear, it is most heavily emphasized in their senior year when they take a two semester course,TCC 401, $Western Technology and Culture,# and TCC 402, $The Engineer in Society.# Thissenior course sequence includes the writing and presenting of a senior thesis which communicatesa technical project to a diverse audience with a focus on the impacts a particular project mighthave on society, the area of expertise, industry, individuals, etc. This is a good starting point to getseniors to think about the ethical consequences of their work, as well as focus on the importance ofethical behavior in private and professional life. By the time students are seniors, they have certainly developed a work ethic and their ownmoral codes. So the aim of

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1999 Annual Conference

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Shirley Pomeranz

Mathematica is not restricted to numerically solving and graphically representing the finite Page 4.580.1difference and finite element solutions of problems. The symbolic capabilities of Mathematicaare used in order to perform theoretical analyses: consistency and stability (i.e.,convergence) analyses of the various time-marching finite difference schemes,dispersion and dissipation analyses, etc.The course was conducted by first allowing several weeks of Mathematica lessons (witha computer projection system in the classroom to demonstrate the Mathematica lessons).Mathematica tutorials (consisting of 17 Mathematica notebooks) were written and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Donald V. Richardson

students are trained to do original work; as are two year associ-ates, who work as lab technicians and four year technologists. They are not needed strictly forrepetitive work. Their job description includes developing job-related tools.I will illustrate this process with a few projects from my own experience in the aerospace indus-try. Each is broken down into the seven steps to show that these basic steps are always thereeven though I didn’t recognize them myself, at the time.My experiences are typical: Aerospace engineers compete by developing proposals for new work.When a contract is awarded we went to work on challenges which frequently had never beendone before. Many engineers have had similar careers.The experiments ranged from miniaturized

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1999 Annual Conference

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Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

, computer applications, and financial and business aspects of manufacturingConclusions and Implications Based on our preliminary evaluation of the survey results, the following conclusionscan be drawn: 1. Career positions for industrial technologists in the 21st century will include:Quality Control, Materials Management, Production Supervision/Management, ProcessControl, Project Management, Systems Management, Project Design, ApplicationsEngineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Industrial Sales/Purchasing. 2. Programs required for preparation of Industrial Technologists in the 21stcentury will include: Electrical/Electronics Technology, Graphic CommunicationsTechnology, Manufacturing/Robotics Technology, Packaging Technology

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2000 Annual Conference

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Serpil Guvench; Mike Denton; Mark Rollins; Mustafa Guvench

forcing terminal voltage and an ammeter that measures thecurrent drawn by a device connected as a load at the SMU’s terminals, or (2) as a current source forcing theterminal current and a voltmeter combined with it that measures the voltage developed across the deviceconnected at its terminals. If the SMU’s source is stepped by a controller computer a single SMU will besufficient to get a full I-V curve of a two terminal device, such as a PN junction diode. Multiple SMU’s can beemployed to get I-V characteristics of multi-terminal devices such as BJT’s and FET’s, and even logic gates andoperational amplifiers. The purpose of this project was, while synchronizing multiple SMU’s to measure multi-terminal devices, also to be able to vary the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

Services Unit. Furthermore a realisation that simply passing oncontent knowledge to satisfy surface learning had become an inadequate teaching practice.This commonly held teacher centred approach of imparting information as a one way processindicated an ignorance of students’ individual learning styles. In this way lectures andtutorials did not address the learning needs of most students as the humanistic approach usedin most Australian secondary and primary schools. However once the belief that studentspossess individual learning styles and that learning occurs through the connection ofinformation rather than simply storing facts for regurgitation for projects and exams had beenestablished, a volition to seek assistance and consequently the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Carlos Monsanto; Elaine M. Cooney

all, of the versionsdiscussed will be superseded.) This comparison uses the student or demonstration versionswhich are available for each of these packages.Although many criteria may be used to evaluate software, the focus of this project is finding theright software package for undergraduate use. Criteria include: availability of documentation;overall ease of use; ease of schematic entry, including ability to customize display; amount andrelevancy of devices available; ability to edit and create devices; total size of circuitry allowed;simulation capabilities; and ability to simulate a variety of circuits accurately.To perform this comparison, the same circuit schematics were entered into each of the packagesand simulated. A variety of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bob Lahidji

. Mathematics 1 2 3 4 52. Applied & Engineering Sciences 1 2 3 4 53. Product/Process Design & Development 1 2 3 4 54. Production Systems and Equipment Design 1 2 3 4 55. Automated Systems & Control 1 2 3 4 56. Quality 1 2 3 4 57. Project Management/Concurrent Engineering 1 2 3 4 5 Page 5.155.5

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2000 Annual Conference

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John W. Pierre; Badrul H. Chowdhury; Jerry Hamann; Raymond Jacquot

Session 2520 Computer Exercises to Incorporate Energy Concepts into the Electrical Engineering Curriculum R. G. Jacquot, J. W. Pierre, and J. C. Hamann/B. H. Chowdhury University of Wyoming/ University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe authors report on a sponsored project to incorporate power concepts into non-power courses.Reported here are efforts to build computer exercises to accomplish a portion of this task.1. IntroductionIn 1997 the National Science Foundation funded university programs to enhance electric powereducation in the United States in light of a perceived shortage of competent