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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Everly

Contractdescribed in this paper introduces students to simplified tools and test procedures for determiningthe electrical parameters of a quartz crystal. As a laboratory exercise, students investigate anexperimental technique for developing the equivalent electric circuit of a quartz crystal. Themeasured crystal parameters together with band-pass filter design equations are subsequentlyimplemented using a standard spreadsheet, thus eliminating the need to expose freshmanstudents to complex mathematics. To illustrate a practical use for quartz crystals, a third orderButterworth and Cohn band-pass filter is designed. Laboratory testing and assembly time tocomplete the contract is approximately six hours distributed over the quarter. In addition

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Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Sternberg

Hands-on classroom learning in material engineering Dr Steve Sternberg Associate Professor University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth MinnesotaAbstractSeveral hands-on, classroom based activities have been developed for use in a materialscience and engineering course taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Departmentof Chemical Engineering. These short (10 to 20 minute) in-class activities areinexpensive, easy, safe and do not require access to a laboratory, nor expensive testingequipment. The activities include: disassembling of consumer goods, building unit cells,crystallizing a super

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

challenging todistill into a few hours. This paper describes a four-hour electrical engineering module thatexamines the role of electrical engineering in the manipulation of audio signals, developed for anew introductory engineering course at the United States Naval Academy.In the first hour, students were given a short presentation on biometrics (signals that can be usedto identify a person) and participated in demonstrations of iris, face, and fingerprint recognitionsystems. They then completed a laboratory experiment in which they analyzed plots of speech(audio) signals, measured pitch frequencies, and identified male and female voices using thatinformation. During the following hour, after a brief overview of A/D and D/A conversion, thestudents

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

, structures and systems. All three programs providerelevant applied experience within the academic environment through laboratory and classroomprojects and experimentation. The programs also provide elective relevant industrial experiencevia cooperative education. The mission of the programs differ within the specialization by focuson thermodynamics, design and development, or CNC programming, production planning andquality control, or structures, project management and supervision.The Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (TAC of ABET) TC2K criteria calls for a continuous quality improvement plan. Inresponse the faculty and Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) for the engineering technologyprograms

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Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

neglectingthe underlying mathematical formulation of problems. A case-study, problem-solving approach, Page 10.18.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationwith hardware demonstrations and hardware laboratory exercises, was the method sought for thecourse. The learning outcomes were defined as those capabilities the cadets should have uponcompletion of XE475. These were 1. Apply physical and mathematical modeling (both from first principles and using system identification experimental

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Engineering, Physics multidisciplinary project) 28% • Specialties within related disciplines (for example Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics in a combined project; or a program of Computer Science with Computer Information Systems and Computer) 28% • Science and/or Engineering and School of Education (for example Nanotechnology, Industrial Engineering, and K12 Teacher Preparation) 20% • Sensors and a science or engineering application (numerous biomedical projects partnering with electrical engineering through sensor technology; also many multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate laboratories with sensors) 7% • Engineering or science in

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

the laboratory with a physical systemthat has small non-linearities which prevent the student from obtaining an exact match betweenmodel and experiment. This work describes an experiment designed for the sophomore systemdynamics course offered at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. This lab uses acommercially available hardware system and a digital computer. By a clever combination ofvarious response data, and using known differences between effective masses, the effective inertiaof motor, pinion, rack and cart are estimated without requiring disassembly of the system.Typical results are shown.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering and electrical engineering faculty at Rose-Hulman (RHIT) arecurrently upgrading the system dynamics and

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

student. Itcan also be considered as a contract between a student and the course instructor.Assessment ActivitiesTypical classroom assessment activities include mid-term and final examinations, quizzes,homework assignments, laboratory exercises and reports, project work and reports, oralpresentations etc. However, assessment activities need not be confined to the classrooms. Thecourse instructor usually assigns % weights to each of these assessment activities (e.g. 15% each Page 10.923.2for each exam, 10% for laboratory reports etc.). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

study scientific or engineering problems.CSE has emerged as a powerful and indispensable method to analyze a variety of problems inresearch, production and process development, and manufacturing. Computational modeling andsimulation is being accepted as a third methodology in scientific discovery processing andengineering design, complementing the traditional approaches of theory and experiment. Manyexperiments and investigations that have traditionally been performed in a laboratory or the fieldare being augmented or replaced by computational modeling and simulation. Examples includeweather and climate modeling 1, fossil fuel combustion simulation 2, engine and vehicle design 3,materials development 4, aircraft design 5, electronic design

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

without the support andpartnership of corporate and federal partners who have participated in the past and currently:Bechtel Corporation, the Boeing company, EE Just, the Environmental Protection Agency, Ernst& Young, Fluor Hanford Inc., the Ford Motor company, IBM, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the National Science Foundation (NSF),Sandia National Laboratories, Shell, Siemens and Westinghouse Hanford company. The Collegeof Engineering and its departments have also contributed funding, and faculty have mentoredmany students. NSF’s Alliance for Minority Participation funding has been critical to thecontinuity of this program. Costs for the program are given in the following table

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

traditional classroom settingwith classes held everyday at sea, it is the various ports of call that provide the “laboratories”(field component) from which approximately 20% of the credit earned for a course is fulfilled.The integration of classroom and international fieldwork enables Semester at Sea to provide alearning environment unattainable on a traditional land campus. The challenge to engineeringeducation is to find a way to make this laboratory experience valuable and relevant to thecoursework.The authors responded to this challenge by organizing a program directed at engineering andbusiness students interested in manufacturing and operations management issues. From anengineering perspective, the idea would be to adapt “land-based” ABET

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

tabulation of simple multiple-choice data, to that which includes equations, graphs, and short answers. Furthermore, wecombine this technology with technological innovations in the content enhancement category,perhaps best illustrated by the development of applets. The number of available applets continuesto increase while the conceptual level is diverse, typically covering high school to advancedundergraduate courses in science and engineering. These content-rich applets are appropriate inboth the laboratory and classroom settings.This combination of student-directed content enhancement and real-time feedback allows moremeaningful active learning and a novel, sophisticated level of classroom communication.Instructors receive real-time feedback to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. Some fundamental topics in introductory circuit analysis: a critique;Davis, A.M.; Education, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 43 , Issue: 3 , Aug. 2000Pages:330 3352. A new design-oriented laboratory for the introductory circuits core course at Penn StateUniversity; Mayer, T.S.; Medunick, J.R.; Chunyu Zhang; Jackson, T.N.; Frontiers in EducationConference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. 'Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change'.Proceedings. , Volume: 1 , 5-8 Nov. 1997 Pages:506 - 510 vol.13. Laboratories for introductory circuits and electronics; Takach, M.D.; Heeren, R.G.; Frontiersin Education Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 , Volume: 2 , 1-4 Nov. 1995 Pages

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

. Facilities include classrooms, computer laboratories, faculty and staff offices,and dormitory facilities for students. ECE laboratory facilities are provided by FudanUniversity. IIIST currently enrolls about 200 freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors inComputer Science (CS) and about 70 ECE freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Theundergraduate students at IIIST are primarily full-time students, who are recruited directlyfrom high school.PSUPortland State University has its roots in the G.I. Bill, and has since developed into avibrant urban university, with a mission of service to the city. In recent years PSU hasbecome the largest university in Oregon. The University has been nationally recognizedfor its innovative undergraduate curriculum

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

different backgrounds, different technical skills and different capabilities will havesome input to its formulation, from management to engineering to manufacturing. Thus, it onlymakes sense that this interdisciplinary viewpoint percolate down to the activities of academia.To understand our perspective, one must have some idea of the environment in which ouractivities are embedded. As a small, regional site of Purdue University, resources, whether theybe financial, personnel or laboratory-related, are limited. Since access to resources constrains thetypes of projects that can be undertaken, the resource limitations of the site constrain the types ofprojects that can be addressed. Probably the most important constraint that limits our activities

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent’s preparation for future engineering practice. The course format is a three-hour lecturewith one-hour laboratory/recitation. The laboratory/recitation hour is limited to a smallenrollment (25) that allows student/instructor interaction in problem-solving techniques. Thetotal enrollment ranges between 250 and 275 students in Fall semester and 120-150 students inSpring semester. The enrollment during the summer session is around 50 students.The first part of the course is used to advise students in proper course selection and preparestudents for college life. Students are introduced to basic tools of survival in engineeringprograms. Topics include study skills, time management

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

. English has both active and passive voice.5.1.1 Active Voice Active voice emphasizes the performer of the action while not emphasizing the action performed: The engineer filed the report. Dr. Rudolph Lehmann conducted the experiment in the laboratory as planned. In these examples, the engineer and Dr. Rudolph Lehmann, as subjects performing an action, are emphasized by their placement at the beginning of their respective sentences; the subjects’ actions (filed the report and conducted the experiment) are, thus, not the sentences’ focus.5.1.2 Passive Voice Passive voice emphasizes the action performed by the subject, while either not emphasizing the

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

todevelopment of a new set of courses to be offered only to the Institute students on theuniversity campus by the community college faculty. For example, the Institute physicssequence is now 12 quarter (8 semester) credits. As the credits were adjusted for theInstitute in Vancouver, the content of all lower division courses were also streamlined tomatch their equivalents at the main WSU campus in Pullman, WA. The new Institutelower division courses automatically transfer to the university when students get to thejunior level.Getting faculty involved early in the development process was the key factor in oursuccess. Community Colleges provided stipends or release time for their faculty whofaced significant course or laboratory development.IV.1.a. Lower

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

to, case studies, development of design aids, and laboratory testing. Students would typically be required to prepare and submit a proposal to the faculty mentor and the department chair for approval. Independent study projects could be used as an elective course. Students could be required to present a seminar to faculty and peers and prepare a scholarly paper on their work. 12 To provide greater publicity for the projects, faculty should be encouraged to publish a list of potential projects and scholarly works for undergraduate students at the beginning of the fall term. Page

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

. Most institutionshave the equipment related to materials study and only need minimal adjustment incurriculum to achieve this comprehensive approach. The paper presents a curriculumdesign used at Ohio Northern University. Three phases of materials study arechronologically presented including sample laboratory exercises and concludes with amaterial selection case study.Phase 1 [1/5 time of the course]The structure: A critical component of the materials study that educates about buildingblocks that include atom, cell, grain, and crystalline compositions and formations1. Whenthe structure of materials is studied well, it can be used as a reference point indetermining material behavior and selection. It is essential that students learn

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

laboratory experiences and practices developedin the Information Technology (IT) industry. The targeted audiences are from the ABETaccredited programs in Computer Engineering/Technology or Computer Science studentsin their senior year with a background in (i) Internet; (ii) IP Addressing; (iii) Local AreaNetwork technologies, such as Ethernet; and (iv) Basic router configuration. In the firsthalf of the paper, the key concepts related to Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) andVirtual Private Network (VPN) technologies are discussed in detail. In the second half ofthe paper, the lab time procedure to setup a VPN test lab at Central Connecticut StateUniversity (CCSU) is described. This section also focuses in configuring the VPNHardware Client and

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

) Each of these books was selected because it highlighted an interaction betweenengineering and society in which many, often incorrect, ethical decisions were made. Each bookwas sponsored by one faculty member, who led the book discussion laboratory for that book andgraded the resulting papers. Students ranked their interest in the books, with the majority ofstudents receiving their first or second choices. In addition to buying and reading their elected book, students also read The Right Thingto Do: An ethics guide for engineering students, a book on ethics written specifically for thisaudience by Aarne Vesilind [4]. The book serves as a written reference for the material coveredin the lectures discussed above, including the seven step

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

viewed as different from the rest; hence, the question of “Is this reallyengineering?” arises. Also, in order for SE to fit into a common core it may have to sacrificecurriculum quality. For example, other engineering program rarely will require a programmingcourse in their first semester, or even worst require two programming classes during their firstyear, but it is critical for software engineering students to begin programming as soon aspossible.Another problem with software engineering being part of the college of engineering is theuniqueness of the SE laboratory. The SE program requires computers and appropriate softwarein their laboratory, and they occasionally require a special laboratory set up (i.e., area wherestudents can work on a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Igor Verner

assignments, develop instructional units (on subjects related to theseassignments), and practice teaching them using the project method.The course is given in the departmental laboratory of technology. It consists of three modularparts. The first part includes lectures and laboratories. The lectures consider pedagogicalaspects of experiential learning and subjects related to systems and control design. Thelaboratory activities include the following: (1) assembling sensor systems and implementingfeedback control processes; (2) computer aided design and producing machine parts; and (3)programming robot manipulations. The second part of the course focuses on roboticsprojects. The third part of the course is students' practice in teaching robotics to

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

used for allmonitoring and shall be collected during the first six hours of the storm event discharge. Eachsample collected shall be analyzed for twelve water quality parameters. Because all twelvewater quality parameters could not be easily done in the University of Hartford EnvironmentalEngineering Laboratory (e.g., oil and grease) and that the student engineering project should gobeyond only collecting and analyzing water samples, it was decided that the student projectwould supplement the data collected by a consultant that would specifically meet therequirement of the general permit. With this in mind, the objectives of the student project wereto: • Design and construct an automatic mechanical stormwater sampler • Collect and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

Activity/Project Course Title Year Term Laboratory Reverse Mini-Design Final Design TEAM Taken Taken Experiment. Engineer. Project(s) Project WORK Fund. Eng. Design 1 1 Υ Υ Υ Creative Design 1 2 Υ Υ Manufacture. Process 2 1 Υ Υ Engineering Materials // // Υ Υ Mech. of Materials 2 2 Υ Υ Υ Mech. Lab I

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

capstoneexperience for Engineering Technology students, documenting their ability to integrateknowledge from various technical and general education areas and apply it in ameaningful way. The portfolio development process requires students to reflect on pastexperiences, both academic and professional, and then use the information gained fromthis reflective process to develop learning statements that address specific learningobjectives.Excelsior’s Engineering Technology programs represent a laboratory of innovativeassessment, articulation and course delivery, whose techniques can be used by alleducational institutions to further the cause of educating and recognizing worthy studentswho might not otherwise be able to complete traditional degree requirements

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Adams

knowledge of management principles pertaining toequipment use. The class includes "hands-on" experience, such as field trips to farms andvineyards to a look at current farming practices around central Missouri. The students areparticularly fond of the "hands-on" experiences, and have requested more. Traction andballasting are two topics that are difficult to demonstrate in the lab due to availability and cost ofequipment. New laboratories have been developed using LEGO Mindstorms to demonstratetraction and ballasting. An introduction to autonomous vehicles is added in the form of an"autonomous tractor pull" to make the experience more exciting and educational for the students.By using small models of tractors, students gain an understanding of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

Session 1532 Student Projects in PLC Networking Max Rabiee, Ph.D., P.E. University of CincinnatiAbstract:A case study of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) networking in the classroom and itsimplementation during the laboratory session will enable students to better understand thesubject. In this paper, we will present a PLC network project that was part of an honors contractprogram in a flexible automation course. Students who participate in the university honorsprogram can complete the project as partial fulfillment of their honors program’s

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

Session Number 1526 Enhancement of Computational Engineering within an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Robert Spall, Thomas Hauser Utah State UniversityAbstractThe NSF supported Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Initiative (CCLI) project describedherein addresses concerns regarding undergraduate education at research universities as high- 1lighted in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report by incorporating advances in information tech-nology into the curriculum. This has been accomplished by developing an