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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

remaking, of impulses and desires” 7.Dewey is concerned that individuals in society and in school often do things either impulsivelyor by force of authority. The external constraint imposed by society is useful in that it moderatesand controls impulse. But he believes the better source of constraint or “inhibition” is throughone’s own reflective or critical thinking 7. In a memorable passage, Dewey writes, thinking is stoppage of the immediate manifestation of impulse until that impulse has been brought into connection with other possible tendencies to action so that a more comprehensive and coherent plan of activity is formed. Some of the other tendencies to action lead to use of eye, ear

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Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdel Mazher

specific skills and knowledge gainedin the learning process will be sufficient to produce an engineer with the desired qualities.Curriculum is responsible to implement the above skills in an engineering program.Generally speaking a curriculum is a systematic plan to enhance leaning and to achieve certain Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.206.7 Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationgoals. Therefore, we will define curriculum, from systems viewpoint, as an interactive feedbackdynamic process to enhance learning and to

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Reynolds; Macy Reynolds

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”names, email subject line, greeting and closing were omitted to both save time and allow foranonymity; however, grammar and spelling errors were left in the samples.1. The instructor is alerted that several students did not grasp a concept from the previouslesson. Knowing the problems the students had before the next class helped the instructor plan areview or example as part of the next lesson. Emailed journals were especially helpful becausethe ease of mailing students several times on an issue was very close to having a conference. Atother times, sending a group email with more information on the issue helped all the studentsfind success with

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

good refresher of the point of the science classes taughtin middle school. It was also good to have a chance to plan the school year with a focus.For the students, they have opportunities to explore both engineering and some specifictechnology concepts that are not usually added to the curriculum at this level. The curriculumaddresses the state standards in a realistic fashion – having students achieve the benchmarks byapplying different aspects of science to the same project. The students follow the process frombeginning to end – designing, modeling, and researching their designs as well as defending theirwork and analyzing different approaches. Rather than waiting until they have reached advancedmaterial, the students begin to apply their

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The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Baratuci; Angela Linse

interaction and reduce thenumber of individual questions directed solely to the instructor.Beyond 2002, HTOL may be modified to facilitate asynchronous delivery. This may be betterfor the students and will provide greater flexibility for students and for the Department. TheChemical Engineering Department plans to develop two more distance courses in order tofacilitate the growth of a healthy co-op program. Mass Transfer and Reactor Design are the twokey Chemical Engineering courses that inhibit students from accepting Summer-Autumn co-opassignments. Consequently, these are the two candidates for distance-learning courses in theimmediate future.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the University of Washington for funding the development of this course

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Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

Plan: Phase IReport, Industry identifies competency gaps among newly hired engineering graduates.Dearborn, MI: Author.[4] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). (2000). Criteria foraccrediting engineering programs. Baltimore, MD: Author.[5] Webster. (1984). Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary. Boston, MA: Houghton MifflinCompany.[6] Tannen, D. (1994). Gender & Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press.[7] Natishan, M.E., Schmidt, L.C. and Mead, P. (2000). Student focus group results on studentteam performance issues. Journal of Engineering Education, 89, (3), pp. 269 – 272.[8] Haller, C.R, Gallagher, V. J., Weldon, T.L., and Felder, R. M. (2000) Dynamics of peereducation in cooperative learning workgroups. Journal

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Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

experience aredescribed first in this paper. The students also needed to understand how experiments on scaled-models of building systems are conducted to measure experimentally their dynamic performanceand to evaluate different asiesmic strategies for mitigating damage caused by earthquakes onbuildings. The experiments conducted to provide them this experience are described second inthis paper. With this knowledge gained the students developed three sets of hands-onexperiments for demonstrations for K-12 students, which are described third in this paper. Thepaper ends with some concluding remarks summarizing the whole experience. Hopefully theexperiences reported in this paper would assist others to plan similar experiments for bothundergraduate

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

. Students would be sectioned in classrooms with other capstone projectteam members. The capstone advisor or a faculty member from any applicable program wouldserve as the instructor. The second course might offer students the option to request instructionon specific or specialty topics pertinent to the particular capstone project, thus placing more ofthe onus of planning and learning on the student. Formal instruction would be limited to the firsthalf or less of a semester, giving way to at least one and one-half semesters of independentcapstone teamworkCHALLENGES TO INTEGRATION One of the biggest challenges that an institution encounters when trying to implement thisintegrated curriculum is satisfying an ABET requirement that states, “The

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

demonstrate the feasibility ofsolar energy and energy efficiency in the residential sector. The first Solar Decathlon washeld in fall 2002 with 14 schools competing; the second is being planned for 2005. The formal organization of the UVA team began in fall 2000 when threeengineering seniors enrolled in a special topics course in solar house design. They exploredvarious options for fulfilling the criteria that were being developed simultaneously by theSolar Decathlon sponsors. This was a realistic experience where the design criteria werenot given as aspects of the “assignment” but rather represented a moving target. The pacepicked up in spring 2001 when the three engineering students were functionally integratedinto an architecture fourth

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Summers

shouldcarefully plan how to best use text, pictures and illustrations to present the material. Next, havingcompleted this part of the information development, the author should use the "Mimio" ® laboratoryequipment and explain the concept in the form of a short 10 to 15 minute "streaming lecture". In the CDtext, a hyperlink will then give students the option of viewing this short concept lecture for a betterunderstanding from the perspective of the author.Trained editors can then take the author's contribution and package it into the finished CD text productusing Authorware ® and the other support programs required to create an electronic text book. Thesubsequent editing allows a second party to carefully scrutinize the material, correcting grammar

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

education beyond the BS degree. The call for additionaleducation has in many ways shifted the focus away from what the policy is intended toaccomplish: building a new curriculum from the ground up. The committee in charge ofimplementing Policy Statement 465 is approaching the plan by addressing the body ofknowledge necessary for practice for the next generation of professional civil engineers. Thisincludes an undergraduate base and advanced graduate-level courses, not necessarily leading toan advanced degree. The focus is on acquiring a body of knowledge, whether through a practice-oriented MS or an approved set of advanced courses that do not lead to an advanced degree. For

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donna Riley

an add-on or enrichment element, but part of the reading,problem sets, and test questions in the course. This work is planned for the summer of 2003,funded by a grant from Smith College.Problematizing science as objectivity and normalizing mistakes A logical outcome of a multicultural classroom is a tendency to affirm multiple truths.5Although this has the potential to be a major stumbling block for the implementation of liberativepedagogies in a field with strong expectations of objectivity such as engineering, thermodynamicsprovides wonderful examples that counter the notion of science as objectivity. The multiplenineteenth century statements of the First and Second Laws highlight the differing perspectives ofthe historical

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

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Juan Lucena

a new contract, like I worked on the Netherlands, that one was one of my big projects, the Dutch helicopter. We have another group in the U.K.; the British have their version. We are doing Singapore, United Arab Emirates; Israel just signed a new contract to upgrade to the [helicopter]. So, we have the main U.S. Army software suite, which we call, we go in lots. Lots one, two, three, we are up to four and they are planning five, six, seven, eight, down the, you know, that always adds new capabilities and new software and new hardware. But breaking off from that we will often have other countries that want differences from the U.S. Army or are not allowed to have certain things that the U.S

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

) and an M.S.degree (1999) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She plans to complete her dissertation,titled ‘Development And Validation Of Metrics To Evaluate Robotics Operator Performance’, in May 2003.TERI REED RHOADSTeri Reed Rhoads is the Director of Engineering Education of the College of Engineering, the University ofOklahoma and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Rhoads is actively involved in research withindustry as well as with the National Science Foundation, the U. S. Department of Education, and the local schooldistrict Foundation. Her areas of interest are engineering education and assessment and K-20 integration, as well asquality engineering. She teaches Engineering Statistics, Quality

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2001 Annual Conference

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Narayanan Komerath

, approximately?Aerodynamics Wing size, speed, altitude, dragPropulsion and How much thrust or power is needed? How many engines? Howengine selection heavy? How much fuel will they consume?Performance Fuel weight, take off distance, speed/altitude boundariesConfiguration How should it look? Designer’s decisions needed!Stability & Control Locate & size the tail, flaps, elevators, ailerons etc. Fuel distribution.Structure Strength of each part, material, weight reduction, life prediction.Manufacturing: Design each part, see how everything fits, and plan how to build and maintain the vehicle. Break down into manufacturing steps.Life-cycle cost Minimize cost of owning

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2001 Annual Conference

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Matthew Morley; Jody Redepenning; Bruce Dvorak

material is covered. “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Chemistry 113 is the introductory chemistry course for students majoring in the physicalsciences or in chemical engineering. Topics include atomic and molecular structure, chemicalbonding, states of matter, solutions, and acid-base reactions. This course is recommend forstudents who plan to take upper-level courses in chemistry, such as physical chemistry,instrumental analysis, and advanced organic chemistry. The prerequisites for Chemistry 113 arethe same as those for Chemistry 111. Chemistry 114 is the second semester of the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jose'-Job Flores-Godoy; Frank C. Hoppensteadt; Donald W. Collins; Kostas Tsakalis

design team has preset the process flow of each product through itsproduction life. This process flow plan establishes the number of steps and the machine ormachine groups the product will visit through its production cycle. This sequence (routing) mustbe followed precisely for the production yield to be achieved. In a simulation model attributes Page 5.453.3assigned to the product such as the process step can be used to determine where the product is tobe sent next, i.e., to which machine group.The following diagram (Figure 3) shows the routing and the reentry for each product and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nathan Stott; Gregory B. Markus; Diann Brei; Deanna M. Winton Hoffman; William W. Schultz

long range planning for ProCEED. The board consists of two primaryfaculty members, the Pi Tau Sigma President (or the president’s designate), a representative fromthe College of Engineering, and a representative from the Center for Learning throughCommunity Service. This advisory board assists Pi Tau Sigma in contacting and describingME450 opportunities to the community partners and in helping screen and select final candidatesfor ME450 projects that will be presented to the ME450 course leadership. Project selection is Page 5.502.7based on the likelihood of success in ME450, the impact on the community, and the supportstructure (finances

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

accompany the problem.Organize your approachOnce you have a really good idea of what the problem is about, you need to think about what to do next.Have you seen this type of question before? Being able to classify a problem can make it much easier to layout a plan to solve it. You should almost always make a quick drawing of the situation. Label importantevents with circled letters. Indicate any known values, perhaps in a table or directly on your sketch.Analyze the problemBecause you have already categorized the problem, it should not be too difficult to select relevant equationsthat apply to this type of situation. Use algebra (and calculus, if necessary) to solve for the unknownvariable in terms of what is given. Substitute in the appropriate

Conference Session

Nuclear Power and the Environment

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

of enrichment is primarily electrical. Diffusion plants typically use 2.5 MWhre perSWU. This can account for as much as 98% of the electricity consumed in the fuel cycle. Page 7.410.6The centrifuge enrichment processes uses 10% as much energy as diffusion . The U.S.Enrichment Corp. does not presently employ centrifuge enrichment. The UnitedKingdom, Germany, and Netherlands, on the other hand, have several centrifugeenrichment plants operating at an energy cost of between 0.10 and 0.25 MWhre perSWU. The new plants planned for this country are expected to consume as little as 0.05MWhre per SWU. This study assumes centrifuge enrichment at an energy

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

examples of project proposals, and by explaining that such proposals should Page 7.707.4include elements such as intended plan of action and time frame. These elements may be Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationcontrasted to a project progress report that emphasizes different, albeit accurate, information butdoes not fulfill the needs of the client in the project’s initial phases.A beneficial brainstorming exercise for faculty is to generate a list of document types that mightconceivably be

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee; Nirmal Das

course in the fall semester of 2002, the authors have decided todivide the class into several teams and require each team to provide the solution for a differentloading condition acting on the beam. For example, distributed loading over the overhang can beassigned to team 1, distributed loading acting between the supports to team 2, distributed loadingover the entire beam to team 3, and so on. When preparing the script files for these problems, theteams are asked to place their scripts in separate “function M-files”, so that these functions can beutilized later by other script files. The reason for this request is that the authors plan to combinethe work of all teams into one comprehensive main script, which is capable of making calls toeach of

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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Aaron Titus; Guoqing Tang

]. They went further assaying “Time plus energy equals learning. There is no substitute for time on task.” It is widelyagreed among U.S. university/college professors that adequate time on task is at least two hoursof home study for each class hour. In reality, in the U.S. students actually spend only 0.3 to 1.0hours for each hour in class [8], far below the expectation of their professors and significantlyless than the two to three hours outside of class for each hour in class spent by their peers in theU.K. [11]. This raises real concerns. Part of the problem is related to the design of the course: “Inmost course descriptions what teachers do in class is described while what students do out ofclass is not—it is simply not planned in the same

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Synectics Other criteria Ethical considerations Generalizing solutions Identifying potential problems VI. Implementation Planning Carrying through Following up Page 7.440.18Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education VII. Ideas to market VIII. Intellectual Property Introduction to intellectual property: Patents, Copyrights , Trademarks , Trade Secret, Unfair Competition. 16 * Patents What is a patent? Types of patents, Patentability Patent application; patent claims Disclosure

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chaturaporn Nisagornsen; Arun Arunachalan; Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

skills and knowledge is a basic requirement for “corporate survival.” There areseveral critical issues that need to be considered when planning the implementation of a trainingprogram so that the organization benefits both on a long-term and short-term basis. The factorsaffecting the development of training strategies depend on organizational objectives that rangefrom compliance and productivity improvement to executive training for keeping up with thelatest technologies and procedures. Although traditional training is designed to provide astrategic advantage, the ability of the worker to cope up with speed is a major problem that needsto be resolved.Learning and working are two very conflicting activities. Humans’ stereotypical workingbehavior

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

responding to changing environmental conditions that have the potential to reduce peace and stability in the world and thus affect U.S. national security. U.S. environmental security involves accomplishment of the environmentally related actions specified in the National Security Strategy. Accomplishing U.S. national environmental security goals requires planning and execution of programs to prevent and/or mitigate anthropogenically induced adverse changes in the environment and minimize the impacts of the range of environmental disasters that could occur 3. Also important in defining environmental security is setting the limits as to what is notincluded in this working definition. This

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

according to Valenti. The Society ofManufacturing Engineers (SME), in its Manufacturing Education Plan,8 surveyed corporationsthat employ manufacturing engineers or manufacturing technologists to review the professionaland technical competencies of newly hired graduates. From the survey results, SME identifiedproject management, written/oral communication, and business knowledge/skills as some of thecompetency gaps present in newly hired engineers.To further support this notion of the softer side of engineering being as important as the hardbiting technical, Krackhardt and Hanson claim the informal organization is what makes or breakscompanies.9 The purpose of the informal component of the organization is to handle theunexpected, where the formal

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2001 Annual Conference

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Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

beenunsubstantiated and contradictory. Kilminster went on-line again and gave Marshall andKennedy the MTI recommendation that STS 51-L launch should occur as planned.Mueller, a NASA administrator asked if everyone supported this decision, but noengineer from MTI responded to this question. NASA proceeded with its plans to launchSTS 51-L on January 28th , 1986. Ethical Issues Addressed in the Case Study The case study was modified to add fictional characters in order to bring out theethical issues that were present during the 1979 decision to choose the option to addshims. An excerpt from the information added and presented in the case study is asfollows:Billy: Both Option #2 and Option #5 may work without any

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2001 Annual Conference

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Richard Behr; Christine Masters

assessment planned for the Spring 2001 semester. Page 6.605.9 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Along with some specific suggestions for improving each software module and experiment,students participating in the preliminary testing during the Fall 2000 semester offered a numberof positive comments regarding the MechANEX exercises. • “Physical representations of what we did in class were helpful.” • “The experiment reinforced the theory learned in class. It is good to see the material

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”paper. However, student feedback from all assignments indicated that sufficient detailwas provided so that the ANSYS usage portions of the assignments did not overwhelm orfrustrate them.The ANSYS work included in the courses outlined below represents an initial attempt atthe University of Kentucky Extended Campus Program to better utilize ANSYS as alearning tool. The experience seemed to indicate an educational value to theassignments, based on student feedback and classroom discussions. The plan for futurecourses is to build on this work, and seek more open-ended design-type ANSYS projects,possibly making