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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McDonald

closely related to technical engineeringdisciplines while Mullin’s are more closely related to non-technical skills like English, Art,Sociology, etc. Plumb and Scott (2000) discussed a process for developing performance basedoutcomes for engineering student writing assessment using portfolio collections of writingexamples from 13 students.Most recently, a variety of engineering educators have been promoting the use of, and using,electronic portfolios to collect and review student work. Reis (1998) described the StanfordUniversity Electronic Learning Portfolios project. This effort was intended to help individualscapture, organize, integrate and reuse the results of learning experiences throughout their careers.Rogers (1998) discussed the

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

discussion but the driverbehind this little project is more pragmatic. We wish to have a compact competencystatement for the math skills of our graduates. We have competencies and outcomes forall the mainstream electronics subjects but for math, it is just a statement of the topicsstudied. That is not enough. We need to know if a student can USE the math knowledgein a typical job context. Our senior-level courses can provide an approximation to thatapplication space so we have started by analyzing two representative courses. To avoidthe trap of becoming too narrowly specialized, we also looked ahead to the factors thatare driving changes in job functions. The objective of the project described in this paperwas therefore to quantify how we use math

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Williamson; Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

other groups within the company have developed. This includesa summary of projected operating costs, a staffing plan, and other related information includingrestraints on the amount of cash that is available from the proposing company.Using the RFP documents and the provided data, students must develop an after tax cash flow Page 10.1013.4analysis and use this to develop a proposal to the government for the privatized waste watersystem. This proposal must be presented in a formal written report and also presented in a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Cummings; John McMasters

various university club meetings, and some are even heavily involved in interacting with students working on various design projects, but the average engineer has little or no interaction with students over the course of their career. A number of companies, including Boeing, have created technical interest groups to encourage mentoring and sharing of corporate knowledge throughout the company. These efforts have been met with varying degrees of success. In an effort to improve this situation, the Boeing Technology Interest Group concept has been modified and expanded to include students within the groups. Concepts for including students (both graduate and undergraduate) and faculty

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

. recipients is not equally reflectedamong assistant professors.4Clearly women in SEM are operating in male-dominated fields. As such, they often encountersubtle (sometimes overt) biases which can impact their ability to achieve their full potential, tohave access to information and build social capital, and to be viewed as leaders. Indeed, similarto Valian’s5 discussion of gender schemas and the ‘accumulation of disadvantage’, Sonnert’sstudy Project Access6 and Mary Frank Fox’s7 research on productivity have confirmed subtlebarriers that, compounded over time, result in major disparities in the career advancement ofwomen and men in academia nationally. Their research indicates that: • Among younger women in the physical sciences, mathematics, and

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Omnia El-Hakim

students with potential topursue graduate education and to enter the professoriate.Phase I (1996-2001) Key Statistics(See Figures 5. and 6.) • The projected goal of CO-AMP was 400 underrepresented STEM Bachelor’s degrees per year. By the sixth year, Co-AMP has met this goal with exactly 400 underrpresented Bachelor’s degrees awarded. • The rate of increase from baseline to degrees awarded to underrepresented students in STEM disciplines from Phase I (from 215 to 400 degrees) was 86%. • The rate of increase from baseline to year six in the number of all STEM degrees awarded (from 2,789 to 4, 425 degrees) was 58.6%. • It is concluded that the rate of increase of underrepresented STEM degrees awarded from

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

the project. One emphasis is that the specific problem requirements are not outlined in greatdetail, as this is normally the way commercial projects are initiated. The teams must be involvedin defining what will make an entertaining experience for the clients’ customers, and in this waythey attempt to demonstrate some aspects of creativity.This course is offered yearly. We have had practitioners from as far away as New York Citydonate their services to the class. B) Theatrical TechnologiesSeveral aspects in traditional theatre developed over the years demonstrate a significant technicalbent. Lighting equipment, show control systems, modern lifts, and general electrical designfound in the theatre all require a reasonable level of

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Reaveley; Nick Safai

faculty.A recent advancement has been the partial integration of the American Society of CivilEngineering (ASCE) student chapter at SLCC and the ASCE student chapter at the UoU. Thestudents from the two institutions cooperate on scientific projects and activities. Participationin the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge competitions provides an extra ordinary opportunityfor underclass students to gain an appreciation of the design process, and to build a networkwith the UoU students.SLCC offers courses that cover all of the subjects that are included in the General Section ofthe Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (F.E.). Some UoU students take advantage of asummer semester F.E. review course that is regularly offered at SLCC. Since a passing sore onthe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xian Fan Liu

An Enhanced Vision-Based Approach to Detect Fires Sophie Liu Xiao Fan†, Alvin Anwar, Man Zhihong, Jiang Lijun‡ † Engineering & Physics Department, Oral Roberts University, OK 74171, USA/School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798/ ‡ Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613Keywords: Fire detection system, background image, foreground image, colour elementAbstractThis project will be used in teaching course “Engineering Computational Methods”course offered by Engineering and Physics Department of Oral Roberts University. Theproject will affect the research activity associated with computer engineering, electricalengineering, and

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Hole; Day Radebaugh; Kurt Soschinske

. Examples of current andproposed collaboration are given to illustrate the concept of single thread of ethics education.I. IntroductionEngineering ethics education: the need for a broader and more inclusive perspectiveThe practice of engineering, like many other professional occupations, has become anincreasingly complex and conflicted vocation. Decision-making complexities arise from bothtechnical and non-technical considerations. As in any other undertaking, engineering projects Page 10.1144.1are subject to the universal constraints of scope, budget and deadline. In addition, quality andsafety must be considered to be paramount objectives. As

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

course, most of the advanced features of Siman are covered and there are severalmajor projects. However, similar to the required simulation course, a significant portion of thecourse focuses on how concepts of discrete event simulation are implemented in Siman.Students who complete the simulation elective have had competitive submissions in thesimulation competition sponsored by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.Simulation Course OrganizationAs stated previously, the required simulation course is focused on concepts of discrete eventsimulation and modeling rather than language. In the first 25% of the course, students learnmodeling terminology and the mathematics of simple queuing models. Using the Starr paper2,the steady state response of a

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Fink

are performed on this state of the art industrial automated test hardware. TheTeradyne tester uses a form of the C programming language known as Image to operate test instruments.Figure 3 –The Teradyne Advanced Mixed Signal Tester. This instrument allows the students to programan automated sequence of tests to be performed by the tester. Components to be tested include voltageregulators to advanced mixed-signal chips such as DACs and ADCs.Laboratory Experiments and Results analysisThe two laboratory projects (ADC testing and DAC testing) were designed to each require seven weeks ofeffort (sequentially) for a team of two to three students. The goal of discovering correlation challenges

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

Future Growth of Software Engineering Baccalaureate Programs in the United States Donald J. Bagert, Stephen V. Chenoweth Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Abstract Despite the large current number of software engineering professionals in the United States,as well as projections that it is one of the largest-growing fields in the nation for the currentdecade, growth in the number of Bachelor’s degree programs in the United States has recentlydeclined. There are currently only about thirty schools in the United States that offer abaccalaureate degree in software engineering (including several

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

faculty to select a senior design advisor and define a target project. The topics rangewidely. Recent example projects include fabrication and characterization of back contacts forphotovoltaic cells, design and fabrication of special components for a vacuum system to studyquantum dot nucleation, designing a sulfur lamp system for pumping a laser, and designing andfabricating a novel high-flux alpha detector for the Joint European Tokamak. Often, the better Page 10.554.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

: platevib,20,20,0.1,30E6,0.282/386.4,0.30,1The resulting mode shape plot is shown in Figure 12, and the natural frequency listing isshown in Figure 13. The full macro listing is provided in Appendix C.C. Projectile Motion AnalysisAs a final simple example, a single node finite element model with a lumped mass iscreated, and the motion of this point mass in a gravitational field is calculated as afunction of time. The short macro is listed in Figure 14. The command format to executeit is: Page 10.206.5 project,ivel,theta,m,g,t “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianpeng Zhou

, increased students’ participations in the teaching process are needed to improve theeffectiveness of students’ learning. This paper reports the experience and findings of a projectwhere videos of water treatment subjects were used and integrated in the instructional activitiesof these courses. The impacts of videos on students’ learning were assessed both qualitativelyand quantitatively. Bloom’s taxonomy on learning levels was used to design the assessmentquestions for each course. This project found that the use of appropriately selected videosimproved the learning environment, increased students interests in learning by promoting activestudents participation in the learning process, promoted high levels of learning and naturallybroke long class

Conference Session

Diversity: Women & Minorities in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Michele Summers; Donna Evanecky

United States show thatpostsecondary positions will increase by 36% or more through 2012.4 This tells us that thedemand for new teachers should increase. Projected growth in college and university enrollmentover the next decade is due to retirement of faculty, as well as increased enrollment numbers.The enrollment increase stems largely from the expected increase in the population of those 18 to24 year old.4 Companies requiring undergraduate degrees as a stipulation for hiring or jobretention also affect enrollment. One way or another, academic institutions will be required tohire teachers, in order to keep up with the demands. If the numbers are true, then more and moreindividuals will be entering the academic arena and be faced with the

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

were established with emphasis on projectdevelopment elements including: establishment of university memoranda of understanding,formation of collaborative teams, problem identification and client need assessment, backgroundresearch and preliminary study production. Courses lead to a 3 credit design/research courseincluding project specific elements of fundraising, proposal writing, and implementationplanning.PSU has furthered their mission to recruit and retain students by creating a learning communityand holding awareness-raising functions around luncheons, social and educational activities andoutside the classroom hands-on training and skill development. Skill outcomes of the programinclude: Adaptability, leadership, lifelong learning, self

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

. The required textbook for this class is Page 10.35.4Advanced Digital Design with VERILOG HDL by Ciletti 6 and the optional reference is Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFundamentals of Digital Logic with VERILOG by Brown7. The students have the option ofusing three different CAD tools which are Silos II, Xilinx and Altera (Quartus II). The studentsare given several homework assignments and also four design projects. Toward the end of thesemester, the students work on a team project

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vallino; Michael Lutz

. Page 10.339.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this course, we assign projects such as small transit system simulations and computer games.Each of these projects requires the team to develop an FSP model and use that to drive theimplementation. One problem with the finite state process definition used by LTSA is state-space explosion. The composite FSP has exponential growth for the number of states in thesystem. The larger projects that we assign in this course will commonly have millions of statesin the composite. While LTSA can handle systems of this size, a naïve approach to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

converseStudents often assume that there is very little communication between disciplines. Each domainis nicely parceled out and no interdisciplinary conversations are necessary. This idea comesnaturally to them, since the academic departments at the institutions they attend are similarlydivided.But outside of the rarified air of academics, disciplines must mix and converse and interact bynecessity. Almost every substantial engineering project requires multiple disciplines to workclosely together. Thus students need to know the jargon of these other disciplines, at least at arudimentary level. This often comes home to students in our senior design projects course wheninterdisciplinary teams of varying engineering disciplines tackle a real world project

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmonthly issues of the Digest provide a pattern that helps to illuminate currentmegatrends, and to project them into likely future directions.Using over three years of the International Engineering Education Digest as a datasource, and with the luxury of hindsight, eight major themes emerge from the world ofengineering education: Entrepreneurship and connections with industry Outsourcing and the external environment shaping engineering education Student mobility Diversity issues Capacity building Private higher education Funding of higher education Quality assuranceThese individual themes are complex enough, but when taken together

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance Lovell; Dale Litwhiler

ofUSB data acquisition units in an electromechanical engineering technology laboratoryenvironment. Features, advantages and disadvantages of the hardware are discussed. TheLabVIEW™ software tools (virtual instruments) developed to interface with the USB device arepresented. Examples of sensing and control systems experiments and projects are also given.IntroductionThe Universal Serial Bus (USB) has quickly found its way from consumer electronics (cameras,scanners, printers, cell phones, etc.) to laboratory equipment. The ease of connection andrelatively high data rate of USB makes this technology very useful for portable data acquisitionunits. Several units are now available at very reasonable cost from companies such as LabJack,Measurement

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Johnson; Donatus Cobbinah; Ahmed Rubaai

automation applications.3 The New Instructional LaboratoryA year ago, Moog donated funding for an in-kind equipment gift to Howard. This gift wastargeted specifically for ECE, with the ultimate goal of equipping a multi-disciplinary seniorcapstone design project laboratory in mechatronics. The ECE department chose to use thedonation to develop a modern motors and controls laboratory. The Moog equipment was wellsuited for such a development. Since most laboratories have approximately 15 to 20 students persection, we decided to create 6 workstations, with a seventh station as a development prototypeand a spare. During the past year, the lab space was renovated to move an existing office spaceand house the new lab. Three-phase 208V power was installed

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

placed on the number of experiments that theWSU students could request.After obtaining data from which dynamic process models could be built the WSUstudents were given a second assignment. This time the assignment was to obtain aparticular response from the system located at the UTC site. A sample assignment sheet(in the form of a memo) for this second portion of the project is also in the Appendix.Note that the assignment was different for each WSU student. Some were asked to tunefor set point changes, some for disturbance rejection; some were asked to do this for highvalues of the set point, some for low values; and some were asked to obtain responseswith a specific decay ratio while some were asked to obtain responses with a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

the best of competinginvestment alternatives. This paper describes a game, integrated into an engineering economicscourse as a semester-long project, which simulates this practical economic decision-making.Students started the semester with $10,000 and “ran their company” throughout the semester,applying principles learned in class to a series of possible investments presented by theinstructor. The game thus filled the role of the traditional homework problems, but had someadditional goals and benefits: It created a framework for active learning of the material. Students had to not only learn various economic analysis techniques but also decide for themselves which ones were most applicable to the case at hand. It created a

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

modelingstatement for each gate in the design. The level of abstraction continues to increase untilat the end of the course the modeling is at the algorithmic level. The design projects usedfor each level of abstraction will be detailed. The other topics covered in the course deal with various aspects of computerarchitecture and digital systems. The detailed operation of the registers and anarithmetic/logic unit are explored. The operation of the control unit is also discussed, butin a quarter system there is not sufficient time to model it. Rather, the course moves onto advanced functional units, such as floating point units, and discussion of the IEEEFloating Point standard. A single precision floating point add/subtract unit is modeled

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

professional studentorganizations on campus, and faculty talks on research in engineering. Spring semesterfeatures speakers invited by upper-division students, employers with opportunities forinternships, simple engineering design projects, resume and interview development bycareer services, and field trips to local engineering companies and manufacturing centers.The seminar features two or three Native American professional engineering role modelsas speakers each semester of the academic year.The DOC seminar offered for the first time in spring of 2004 produced some positiveresults relating to several program objectives. Students reported that the seminar madethem more aware of the COE community, faculty, and administration; they also reportedthat

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hartin; Henry Kraebber; Nancy Denton

measures typically consist of, but are not limitedto, student portfolios, student performance in project work and activity-based learning; results ofintegrated curricular experiences; relevant nationally-normed examinations; results of surveys toassess graduate and employer satisfaction with employment, career development, careermobility, and job title; and preparation for continuing education.”6 The faculty identified two or more assessment points for each program outcome.Assessment points identify the course or other activity where performance-indicating data arecollected. Multiple assessment measures in a process that produces documented results providesthe best evidence on the performance to the stated outcomes and objectives. Faculty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

. [AEEN 3303] Structural AnalysisAEEN 33XX. [AEEN 3304] Reinforced Concrete DesignAEEN 33XX. [AEEN 3331] Building ConstructionAEEN 33XX. [AEEN 3335] Environmental Systems for BuildingsAEEN 43XX. [AEEN 4316] Structural Steel DesignAEEN 43XX. [AEEN 4320] Building Services EngineeringAEEN 43XX. [AEEN 4326] Construction EngineeringAEEN 42XX. [AEEN 4279] Senior Design Project IAEEN 42XX. [AEEN 4289] Senior Design Project IIGeneral Engineering Courses (29 SCH)CEEN 2301. Mechanics I (Statics) (FOSC course)CEEN 3143. Geotechnical Engineering LaboratoryCEEN 3144. Construction MaterialsCEEN 3145. Construction Materials LaboratoryCEEN 3311. Strength of MaterialsCEEN 3317. Engineering EconomicsCEEN 3342. Geotechnical EngineeringCEEN 3392. Hydraulics and