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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdinc Acar; Faruk Taban; Ismail Fidan

involved as 13% of all the participants. Fig. 2 shows the ethnic distribution of theparticipants.Students established positive and productive interaction among themselves through teambuilding and brainstorming activities. These activities most often resulted in development of newand useful ideas. For example, some of the FLL team members solved the problem of havinglimited slots for downloading programs by intelligent use of sensors as triggering different partsof the program when needed.In 2004, several teachers incorporated different aspects of the FRC in school’s curricula. One ofthe major enhancements was to open up an elective Robotics class where Carnegie-Mellon’sRobotics Academy17 curriculum was taught along with others that support FRC

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

civil engineering education could play in addressing theeducational requirements necessary for one wishing to “solve” the engineering problems of theurban environment.IntroductionShould an engineering degree be required for personnel responsible for the planning, design,construction and operation of the facilities integral to the urban infrastructure? For the purposesof this discussion the urban infrastructure includes (but not exclusively) the followingcomponents: Transportation facilities (bridges and roadways), energy distribution systems (gasand electric), environmental systems (water, water supply, waste water, waste management),public service facilities (fire, police, health).This urban infrastructure is essential to the quality of life

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Uwakweh Benjamin; Richard Miller; Bryan Dansberry; Kettil Cedercreutz; Cheryl Cates

information technology, the negligible price of telecommunications, and historically low transportationcosts have resulted in shorter technology and methodology development cycles combined with ever increasingglobalization. In this scene of rapid advancement of the workplace, the interaction between academia and industryinherent in cooperative education forms an asset that has a strong influence on the competitiveness and wealth of acommunity. Conclusively a modern curriculum can only be planned with regards to its composition. The actualcontent, especially the focus on applications, should be executed as an interactive process between the universityand its stakeholders. With baccalaureate program through-put times at four to five years the work

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

Society for Engineering Education”manufacturing floor simulation involving the entire class2 and smaller group-based controlsprojects that use classical control experiments: solar tracking, water level control, salinitycontrol, temperature control of a chamber. For the control experiments, the system behavior isobserved rather than modeled and the control is performed with National Instruments equipmentand LabVIEW graphical programming language. Students first develop a basic level ofcompetency in the LabVIEW g-code, and then use simple programming techniques to develop anapplication-oriented understanding of feedback control.Control is an integral part of many engineering and applied science majors in the school ofengineering and applied science

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Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Session 3653 Assessing a Freshman Engineering Course Christopher Rowe, Stacy Klein, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Vanderbilt UniversityAbstractAssessment is arguably the most difficult activity in an engineering curriculum. An engineeringschool's first challenge is to align its incoming students with an area of study that appeals to theirinterests and will allow them to grow academically and ultimately embrace their profession. Asecondary challenge is to provide the students with essential problem solving tools in anatmosphere that is engaging while accounting for their diverse

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lawrence Carlson

) Page 10.1052.12. Modeling an existing part (testing comprehension)3. Creating a new part from scratch (application) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this paper, I discuss how these steps are implemented in a large-size, required first-yearengineering graphics course in the mechanical engineering curriculum. The third step isemphasized and illustrated through a unique rapid prototyping project in which students design anew body for a radio-controlled model car that is subsequently fabricated through the generouscontribution of

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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

converted into a surface Fledermaus willrecognize by using a companion program called DMagic. The DMagic programtranslates points to a solid surface with a color map for creation of an elevation legend.The surface can then be viewed with Fledermaus. Once the entities are imported into Fledermaus, they can be shown as a 3-D sceneeither on a computer monitor or projected on the VisBox screen. Fledermaus is able toproduce a split stereo mode for VisBox where one image is polarized vertically andanother image is polarized horizontally which produces the simulated 3-D effect whenviewed with polarized 3-D glasses. Figures 1, 2, and 3 show 3D images created usingFledermaus rendered as 2-D images.Applications in the Civil Engineering Curriculum

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

credit hour discipline-based senior capstone project.However, it is at the freshmen level where the students are introduced to the foundations of thedesign process. The freshmen course emphasizes (1) problem definition, (2) attribute generation,(3) function, constraint and objective identification, (4) idea generation, (5) creative thinking,and (6) simple decision-making using individual and team exercises. All this is done in thecontext of a real-life application—improving an entity. In this case the entity is an everydaysmall appliance, tool, or toy.Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to evolving and verifying an integrated setof product and process solutions that satisfy customer needs. It uses modeling techniques toanalyze

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

has, up to that point, been foreign to them.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”One of these experimental interventions was initiated at a 99% African American high school inDeKalb County as part of Georgia Tech’s Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP)NSF GK-12 program, and consisted of involving high school students in a sophomore-levelmechatronics course.This paper will address the details of the program, how it aligns with the high school curriculum,and the many lessons learned regarding university/K-12 partnerships. The remainder of thepaper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides an overview of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis

guiding the selection of materials;acoustical properties or moisture resistance may trump durability in certain applications.“Invisible” TechnologyA university facility’s relationship to educational technology has matured far beyond the pointwhen the computer station was the showpiece of the college classroom. Technology can assistand enhance learning and various devices and systems will become a more essential componentin the learning process, it is time to think of technology as “just another tool” in an educator'stoolbox, and that school buildings be designed to seamlessly integrate technology.As a design concept, this means avoiding “over-celebrating” or overemphasizing technology,even as we create spaces that flexibly accommodate many

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Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

Implementing Self-Directed Problem Based Learning in a Multidisciplinary Environmental Engineering Capstone Class Kevin C. Bower and Kenneth P. Brannan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The CitadelAbstractThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel offers three differentcapstone classes during the second semester senior year. In an effort to meet ABET 2004-2005Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Criterion 3(d) requiring students to work in multi-disciplinary teams, the department has developed an artificial project that incorporates a “real-world” feel and integrates the three disciplines

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Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

information technology used throughout any Page 10.1384.3given semester. Further, each student is exposed to a different faculty member (typically not thefaculty member giving the lectures) in the learning center portion of each project. Finally, course “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”assessments / surveys are currently administered only at the end of a semester, such that studentresponses are integrated over an entire semester’s experience. The

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Blanton

network. There are a number of courses on personalskills such as technical communications, project scheduling, and supervision. Most importantly,the extra two years in the 4-year BMET curriculum at ETSU allows the student to spend twosemesters as an intern at a medical facility.Some of the graduates of the 4-year programs will compete with graduates of the 2-yearprograms for the BMET I, BMET II, and BMET III jobs. At ETSU, we expect that most of ourgraduates will be vying for the BMET specialist, BMET supervisor, and clinical engineeringpositions. We also expect that some of our graduates will make significant and noteworthycontributions to field of medical instrumentation.ConclusionsNowhere are technological advances more apparent than in the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

Page 10.834.1satisfy the University Studies Program, the college of engineering adopted the University Studies “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering Education”Requirements into an integrated first year program. This allowed an opportunity to introduceglobal problem solving skills and introduce design early in the curriculum while meeting theuniversity requirements.Each fall the college of engineering offers 12 to 14 sections of ES 1000, Introduction toEngineering. Each section has 20-22 students and is taught by faculty members that are selectedfor superior teaching skills and an interest in first year

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajab Challoo; Shuhui Li

electronics, power systems, and power system harmonics. From1995 to 1999, he involved into the research areas of renewable energies, neural networks, and applications ofmassively parallel processing. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TexasA&M University - Kingsville (TAMUK) in 1999. He is currently an associate professor at TAMUK. He is amember of IEEE and ASEE.RAJAB CHALLOO is a professor in the EE/CS department. He has been teaching and conducting research atTexas A&M University – Kingsville since 1988. In the department of electrical engineering, he has served as actingchairman, graduate coordinator, chairman of the curriculum committee, scholarship committee and researchcommittee. At the college

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

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Russ Pimmel

subject matter in depth and provideexamples, help students develop self-monitoring and reflection skills, and integrate thesepractices into the curriculum in a variety of subjects. In addition, the NRC report,Scientific Research in Education, 12 recommends that educational research projects posesignificant questions that can be investigated using direct empirical techniques, allow Page 10.542.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”replication and generalization across educational settings, and present

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Martinazzi

Session XXXX (Poster Session) Teaching Leadership with 10,000 Words, Page 2: Cinematic Portrayals University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Robert Martinazzi David F. Ward ABSTRACTLast year, the authors presented “Teaching Leadership with 10,000 Words” a paperabout using film as an integral part of to teaching leadership in an EngineeringLeadership class.1 This course was originally developed by the lead author, and hasproven itself to be highly successful at the

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

EducationThe Program Educational Objectives (PEO) of the Electrical Engineering (EE) programare:1 To provide the student with the knowledge of natural sciences, mathematics, engineering and computer science so that the student has the ability to systematically delineate and solve electrical and related engineering problems.2 To provide the student with a broad-based background in electrical engineering with experiences in the design, development and analysis of electrical and computer systems, subsystems and components.3 To provide the students with an engineering education to function as educated members of a global society, with awareness of contemporary issues, professional responsibility, ethics, impact of technology on

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Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Hoffmann

Improving Data Acquisition and Reduction in a First-Year-Student Laboratory Experiment Michael Hoffmann The Ohio State UniversityAbstract The College of Engineering at The Ohio State University requires all engineeringstudents to complete introductory courses in engineering as part of their academic experience.The courses are usually taken during a student’s first year and follow either a standard twocourse track or an honors three course track. Courses in each track have both lecture andhands-on laboratory components. For the second course of the standard track,four-member-teams of students must design and build

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

identified in the ARET Department's TAC-ABET Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP),program outcomes have been devised to describe what graduates of a degree program will beable to demonstrate and know when they graduate. The skills and abilities identified in theprogram outcomes are measures of the quality of the program and can have a significant impacton the validity of the degree. Professional experience through an internship program, whetherconducted in an office or through a program such as this, can enhance a student's understandingof the career field and practice, ultimately creating a better quality student. The process ofobtaining professional internships in a rural area is significantly more difficult than in largerurban areas. Economic

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fike

Teaching Telecommunications Fundamentals – A Networking Approach John L. Fike, P.E. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionAs with many topics in a rapidly changing technical world, an introductory course intelecommunications and networking presents a challenge to curriculum developers. How doesone teach fundamentals, such as frequency, bandwidth, and multiplexing, which change slowlyand do not always appear important to the students? How does one teach contemporarynetworking topics in a way that is interesting to the “techies” while not losing the

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

Education”I. IntroductionThe study of mechanical vibrations is a standard component of a typicalundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. At the University ofKentucky, vibration basics are included in a required systems modeling course,and some of the concepts are also applied in a required controls course. There isan additional course which is specific to the study of vibrations, ME-513:“Mechanical Vibrations”, which can be taken as an elective by upper levelundergraduates, or for graduate credit. It has been taught at the University ofKentucky Extended Campus Program(1) every fall semester since Fall, 2001, as anundergraduate-only elective.It seems that vibrations, in particular, is a topic that requires some hands-onlaboratory

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Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Schielack; Carol Stuessy; George Nickles

to reach out to K-12 students,exposing them to engineering and encouraging them to consider it as a career. These effortsinclude summer camps, demonstrations conducted by engineering students or professors in theK-12 classroom, and the development of teaching materials that explicitly cover engineeringconcepts. Many of these efforts can be found on the ASEE Engineering K-12 Center website2.Douglas, Iversen, and Kalyandurg6 identify using specially-trained K-12 teachers as a means toimprove K-12 engineering education and outreach. If teachers are trained in and understand thepractice of engineering, they can both teach prepared curriculum covering engineering andindependently integrate engineering into their curriculum. A significant

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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johan W Joubert; Dolf Steyn

rubric was used asassessment tool in order to guide learners in terms of required competence.The applicable program deals with operations research which is often perceived to be demisingas a decision support tool in industry. However, this is not actually true, as the relevancy andinterdisciplinary nature of operations research makes it an indispensable part of operationsmanagement. What rather should be asked is how operations research is introduced and taughtto undergraduate industrial engineering students. The results of our research indicate that learnerperceptions and their resulting actions during the study period are indeed influenced by theselected assessment method.IntroductionAlthough theory readily acknowledges that assessment should

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

engineering students with such practical experiences havebeen co-op or internship programs and the inclusion of senior design project or capstone-typecourses in the curriculum. Both of these approaches capitalize on the fact that learning and recallof information are known to be much better when a student is immersed in the learningenvironment rather than simply being told about it or asked to read about it. Given the challenges and difficulties involved in providing practical experiences toundergraduate engineering students via co-op or internship programs, it became necessary to findother alternatives that could allow them to be exposed to the practice of the engineeringprofession in an academic setting. In this regard, senior design

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Braun

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationlaboratory described above.6 This work describes an educational approach intermediate betweena tabletop LED construction project and a complete multiple mask integrated circuit fabricationsequence. The simpler approach6 suffices to demonstrate physics, chemistry, and materials’properties. The present approach allows students to gain hands-on experience with integratedcircuit fabrication techniques and process equipment. Use of the relatively low volume dust freework spaces and gloveboxes in the lab provides some economic savings relative to a cleanroomfacility. Not including the initial cost of the empty room provided by the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

relationship of learning methodologies to the knowledging process is therefore dependentupon student preconceptions, amount of acquired information, and metacognitive abilities. Therelationship is also dependent upon other factors such as teacher expertise, teaching ability, de-fined curriculum, and learning environment.7 Further, effective assessment techniques and fac-ulty professional development strengthen the bonds between learning and knowledging. Particu-larly in current times, an important aspect becomes generational preferences.Generations Theory SynopsisKnowledging requires more than just a lecturer routinely handling a large class and covering in-formation. It requires a mentor match between a professor interested in presenting

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

bedistant learning students. Removing this barrier will change the method of highereducation.The fourth goal of the bill that substantially affects traditional universities is thestandardization of transfer of credit. This is a very important objective and, if passed,will require traditional universities to accept transfer credits from ANY university,traditional Page 10.258.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”or proprietary. In other words, if an “English 101” course curriculum is defined, then atraditional

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

and accountability. Journal of Engineering Education 2002;91(2):211-21.[6] Splitt FG. The challenge to change: On realizing the new paradigm for engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education 2003;92(2):181-7.[7] Adams RS, Turns J, Atman CJ. Educating effective engineering designers: The role of reflective practice. Design Studies 2003;24(3):275-94.[8] Pomalaza-Raez C, Groff BH. Retention 101: Where robots go...Students follow. Journal of Engineering Education 2003;92(1):85-90.[9] Tay FEH, Gu J. A methodology for evolutionary product design. Engineering with Computers 2003;19(2- 3):160-73.[10] Fink FK, "Integration of engineering practice into curriculum - 25 years of experience with problem based learning," in

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Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

advanced student can simulate an entire design or project. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper demonstrates how to integrate co-simulation of VHDL and SPICE into existingcourseware. It also highlights the benefits of using co-simulation in conjunction with traditionalwaveform-based simulations across all levels of digital design.Introductory Digital Logic CoursesEducators have found that students who are used to working with circuits and components canhave difficulties adapting to a hardware description language7, 13. With co-simulation, studentsand instructors can create a component