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By Klaus Wuersig, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

ICEE 2005. A Presentation to Participants of ICEE 2005 in Gliwice, Poland July 25-29, 2005. By Klaus Wuersig, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Alfred. Where is Bradford?.

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By Klaus Wuersig, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

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  1. ICEE 2005 A Presentation to Participants of ICEE 2005 in Gliwice, Poland July 25-29, 2005 By Klaus Wuersig, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Alfred

  2. Where is Bradford?

  3. Engineering! How to survive the first two yearsAn Overview • Freshmen Students a study in bewilderment • 2. Comparison with students of the 60’s thru 80’s • 3. The all important First Semester and it’s sequels • 4. The course, the Lab. , the Seminar, the Field Trips, the Egg Drop, the Freshmen Project • 5. MatLab, C++, Sophomore support, The Home Room, More Field trips, More Speakers, Co-Op, Bonding • 6. The second year, First discipline courses, a new role as mentors for the new students

  4. Selected Slides for Overview Sections Women in Engineering

  5. Selected SlidesThe Egg Drop Competition

  6. Selected Slide One of many Lab Experiments

  7. Selected Slides Freshmen Projects

  8. Seminar Speakers and some of their Topics • Fiber Optic Fundamentals • Fundamentals of Satellite Communications • The Co-Op Program at U. of Pittsburgh • Nuclear Proliferation and Basics of Atomic Weapons • The US Space Program • Consulting Engineering

  9. Examples of Field Trips • Dresser Rand Corporation • Cutco (Alcas) Corporation • American Refinery • Kinzua Dam Project • Cooper Power Corporation • Cummings Diesel Corporation • Weyerhauser Paper Mill • Buffalo, NY Central Post Office

  10. Simulation using MatLab for a rectified exponential decaying Sine Wave(One of several dozen typical Problems) • disp('Chapter 4 problem 24') [6] • t = linspace(0,10,500); • for k = 1:500 • vs = 3*exp(-t(k)/3)*sin(pi*t(k)) • if vs > 0 • vL(k) = vs; • else • vL(k) = 0; • end • end • plot(t,vL),ylabel('Load Voltage (V)'),xlabel('Time (s )’ )

  11. The Banquet A Celebration of Accomplishments and Camaraderie

  12. The Author with some of the Sophomore Students

  13. The Engineering Lab, Home for the Students (Open for 24 Hours)

  14. Second Year Courses of the various disciplines • Linear Circuits and Systems I &II, Digital Logic, Computer Organization, Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits, Computer Science Concepts, Electronic Circuits and Measuring Lab • Computer Methods in Civil Engineering I&II, Mechanics of Materials for Civil and Environmental Engineering, Statics & Mechanics of Materials I&II, Intro. to Mechanical Engineering Design, Intro. to Thermo-Fluids Engineering, Kinematics of Machinery, Applied Thermo., • Engineering Seminar

  15. ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty Development Committee and the Deans Office for travel funds so the paper could be presented at ICEE 2005. I would also like to acknowledge the support of my wife Celeste and the many helpful suggestions she made in various stages of this writing. Finally the Engineering students of Pitt-Bradford are to be commended as the impetus behind writing this paper.

  16. Engineering at its best Three Engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, “It was a Mechanical Engineer. Just look at all the joints.” Another said, “No, it was an Electrical Engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections.” The last one said, “Actually it was a Civil Engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?”

  17. And How Engineers Think! A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particular slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed: “What’s with these guy’s? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!” The doctor chimed in: “I don’t know, but I’ve never seen such ineptitude!” The pastor said: “Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let’s have a word with him.” “Hi George. Say, what’s with that group ahead of us? They’re rather slow, aren’t they?” The greens keeper replied: “ Oh, yes, that’s a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime.” The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said: “That’s so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.” The doctor said: “Good idea. And I’m going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them.” The engineer said, “ Why can’t these guy’s play at night?”

  18. ANY QUESTIONS???????

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