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Manufacturing
Simulating Manufacturing Processes in Education and Training: Color Sorting Example See Attached Movie: [ WMV Format ] [ AVI Format ] [ MPG Format ]		Richard Johnson and Samuel Cotton Ph.D.
Implementing Lean Manufacturing Concepts in Non-manufacturing Areas		Wangping Sun, Ph.D. and Todd Yanagawa
Interfacing with Manufacturing Systems in Education and Small Industry Using Microcontrollers through the World Wide Web		Samuel Cotton Ph.D. and Richard Johnson
Mechanical
A Dynamics Project: Quarter-Mile Time of a Dragster		Shannon Sweeney
Characterizing Sustainable Mechanical Engineering		Richard C. Ciocci, Ph.D.
Soda Can Mythbusting		Joseph F. Dues, Jr.
Education
Renewable Energy Alternatives - A Growing Opportunity for Engineering and Technology Education		Kurt A. Rosentrater, Ph.D., Youakim Al-Kalaani, Ph.D.
Laboratory Experiments and Teaching Methodologies for Learning Dental Materials.		K. V. Sudhakar, Ph.D.
Electronics
Are We Teaching the Right Subjects in AAS Degree Electronics Technology Programs?		Louis E. Frenzel Jr.
Tech Tip: 120VAC LED Circuit - class design exercise		Jeffrey S. Beasley, Ph.D.
Tech Tip: Effective or RMS Voltage		Guillermo Rico, Ph.D.
Civil
Wastewater Effluent Flow Control Using Multilayer Neural Networks		Heidar A. Malki and Shayan Mirabi

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