Contents Volume 23 number 4

2007

Part I

Special Issue

Trends in Agricultural ,Biosystems and

Biological Engineering Education (III)

Guest Editors

Linus Opara

Sultan Qaboos University

Sultanate of Oman

Joel Cuello

University of Arizona

Covers

Abstracts

M.S.Wald	Editorial

Linus Opara and Joel Cuello	Guest Editorial

Michael D.Boyette	Viewpoint- The Problems of Teaching Practical Design To Today’s Engineering Students- the Agricultural Engineering Experience

Ann D.Christy and Marybeth Lima	Developing Creativity and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Engineering Problem- solving

D.D.Mann, S.Ingram, K.J.Dick, D.S.Petkau and M.G.Britton	An Experiment in Integrating Communication into the Biosystems Engineering Design Trilogy

Chi N.Thai, Kazuo Morita and Koichi Iwasaki	Adapting Pervasive Learning Technologies to Mixed Local/Distance Agricultural and Biological Engineering Education

Rabi H.Mohtar, Tong Zhai, Jin-Yong Choi, Bernard A. Engel and Juli J.Fast	Outcome-Based Evaluation of Environmental Modeling Tools for Classroom Learning

Patricia C.Harms, Steven K.Mickelson and Thomas J.Brumm	Longitudinal Study of Learning Communities in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

David K.Gattie and Timothy L.Foutz	Systems and Engineering Ecology:Developing Formal Foundations for Ecological Engineering

D.D.Mann, J.Ripat and A.Quanbury	Interprofessional Teaching Teams: Addressing Emerging Areas in Biosystems Engineering Using a Client-based Learning Project

Barbara C. Williams, B.Brian He, Donald F.Elger and Briar E. Schumacher	Peer Evaluation as a Motivator for Improved Team Performance in Bio/Ag Engineering Design Classes

Carl L.Griffis, Thomas A. Costello and Lalit R.Verma	A Unified, Interactive Approach to Degree Program Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Evangelyn C.Alocilja	A Case Study on Problem Based Learning in a Bio-Resource Optimization Course

Matthew J.Darr, Timothy S. Stombaugh, Scott A.Shearer and Richard S.Gates	A New Course to Teach Microcontrollers and Embedded Networking to Biosystems and Agricultural Engineers

Indrajeet Chaubey and Marty D.Matlock	Teaching Undergraduate Students to Manage Aquatic Ecosystems at the Watershed Level: An Ecological Engineering Approach

Ajit K.Mahapatra, Krishan L.Kumar, James L.Julson and K. Muthukumarappan	Designing a Design Course for Agriculture Engineering in Africa

John M.Fielke	UniSA’s Agricultural Machnery research Design Centre – Collaborative University/Industry Research and Research Education in Agricultural engineering

Hartono Sumali	Teaching a US-Based Laboratory Course Overseas

Part II

Contributions in: Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering,

University-Industry Cooperation, Remote Laboratories,

Transport Engineering, Electrical Engineering and

Fluid Mechanics

Jose Rios, Dolors Planas and Rajkumar Roy	Cost Estimating Training by Doing: a Web-based Process Centred Approach

Young B.Moon, Teresa Sanchez Chaparro and Alfonso Duran Heras	Teaching Professional Skills to Engineering Students with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-an International Project

Euan Lindsay, Som Naidu and Malcolm Good	A Different Kind of Difference: Theoretical Implications of Using Technology to Overcome Separation in Remote Laboratories

Aled Williams	Progress through Partnership:How do Industry and UK Higher Education Built Environment Courses Work Collaboratively

D.E.Bolanakis, E.Glavas and G.A.Evangelakis	An Integrated Microcontroller- based Tutoring System for a Computer Architecture Laboratory Course

R.Clive Woods	Use of Software for Real- time Spectrum Analysis

Fang Clara Fang and David Pines	Enhancing Transportation Engineering Education with Computer Simulation

Christopher Depcik and Dennis Assanis	Merging Undergraduate and Graduate Fluid Mechanics Through the Use of the SIMPLE Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Phillip Sandborn and Peter Sandborn	Using Embedded Resistor Emulation and Trimming to Demonstrate Measurement Methods and Associated Engineering Model Development