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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. C. York; Tamara Knott

to teach the engineering design process, projectmanagement, and graphics communication to first-year engineering students. In years past, thelarge number of Virginia Tech engineering students has inhibited our ability to provide studentswith support and facilities during the build phase of their project. In spring 2004, the EngEdepartment enhanced the student design experience by providing workshops where students havesupervised access to a shop-like atmosphere. Students get to borrow/use basic tools in a safeenvironment to perform project construction work. To help motivate the students, winners ofprevious freshman design competitions are hired to mentor and supervised the freshman teamsduring these construction workshops.This paper

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

andrapid accretion of new technical subject matter into the typical curriculum, today’s programslook remarkable similar to those of the early 1960s. This paper contends that there needs to be arapid and pervasive systemic change to electronics technology education now or there is a realdanger that the skill sets of tomorrow’s graduates will become even more disconnected from theworld of work than they presently are. This change needs to embrace and emphasis a systemslevel approach to the teaching of electronics technology along with a meaningful infusion of theScan’s report soft skills into the curriculum.During the early 1960s, the United States Office of Education, under the then Department ofHealth, Education, and Welfare, prepared curriculum

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

rather than facilitate student learning. In short, they “teach the way theywere taught” 5, lecturing, developing assignments and tests, and assigning grades. Students movethrough a standard sequence of self-contained courses taught in isolation where they learn tosolve problems within the narrow context of individual courses6. Laboratory courses are oftentaught using a “cookbook” approach, not affording students sufficient opportunity for criticalthinking and synthesis of knowledge; connecting what they have learned to prior knowledge orexperience and applying what they have learned in new applications and/or novel situations.Upon completion of core coursework, students are often expected to synthesize the knowledgegained in each course

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8,9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal course in product dissection at StanfordUniversity (http://www-adl.stanford.edu/), and a similar course in product dissection wasdeveloped as part of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership between Penn State

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

”, “simulation and reverseengineering”, and “rapid product development”(4) It is interesting to note that material inMETBD 410 covers all the responses listed above. This suggests that not only does theinstructor need to be well versed in the technology in order to teach the course, but the student isbeing exposed to the latest technology in the field. For a faculty member looking to expand theirresearch interests with an emphasis of being able to directly apply it to the learning environment,the area of rapid prototyping is an ideal fit.Summary Page 10.1084.12A Rapid Prototyping class and laboratory is an excellent way to offer an advanced CAD

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Vallone

; Card, David; Jones, Cheryl; Layman, Beth; Clark, Elizabeth; Dean, Joseph; andHall, Fred; Practical Software Measurement. Addison-Wesley, 2002.Thomsett, Rob, Double Dummy Spit and Other Estimating Games. American Programmer,June, 1996. Page 10.1045.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÀ 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAuthor BioIn addition to teaching at Monmouth University, the author, Lee Vallone, is currently employedby Lucent Bell Laboratories. Lee has been leading development teams for over 15 years withteams ranging in

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION DESIGN AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING John D. Fernandez & Larry Young Texas A&M University – Corpus ChristiABSTRACTMany computer science programs require students to complete software engineering and humancomputer interaction (HCI) courses. Upon graduation, these students join other softwareprofessionals in the field to contribute to the development community. However, the differencesin the two approaches to developing interactive software are not addressed so that students leavethe institution without an integrated view of the two methodologies. Professors at Texas A&MUniversity – Corpus Christi teach

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

, Switzerland.Kline, S. J. and F. A. McClintock, 1953, “Describing Uncertainties in Single-Sample Experiments”, Mechanical Engineering, vol. 75, pp. 3-8.Klein, S. A., 1992-2002, “EES, Engineering Equation Solver”, F-Chart Software, Madison, WI.Taylor, B. N. and C. E. Kuyatt, 1994, “Guideline for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty in NIST Measurement Results”, NIST TN 1297, NIST Physics Laboratory, Gaithersberg, MD, available online at .BIOGRAPHYSHELDON M. JETER is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the George W. WoodruffSchool of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has degrees from Clemson University, theUniversity of Florida, and Georgia Tech. He has been on the academic faculty at Georgia Tech since 1979

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

ranking, the top eight quality characteristics or the design elementswere identified as teaching methods, students, instructor qualifications, facilities, technologyand equipment, physical learning environment, curriculum design, material and institutionpolicies, respectively. Page 10.1434.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

, “The CDIO Initiative offers an education stressing engineeringfundamentals, set in the context of the Conceiving - Designing - Implementing - Operatingprocess, which engineers use to create systems and products.”With respect to teaching and learning reform CDIO states, “We know some interesting factsabout how experiences affect learning. Engineering students tend to learn by experiencing theconcrete and then applying the experience it to the abstract. Unlike their counterparts of yearspast, many engineering students today don’t arrive at college armed with hands-on experienceslike tinkering with cars or building radios. Yet, hands-on experience is a vital foundation onwhich to base theory and science.”In the paper, Lessons Learned from Design

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li

-the-art computer hardware and software IT tools used in the laboratory for control,measurement, design, data acquisition, and result analysis. It finally gives conclusions.2. AN INTEGRATIVE TEACHING APPROACH The basic teaching structure of the restructured Electric Machinery course is based on theintegrative and controllable energy conversion or electric drive system of Figure 1 [3, 4]. In thefigure, the power-processing unit (PPU), consisting of power electronics based converters, getsits power from the utility source with single-phase or three-phase sinusoidal voltages of a fixedfrequency and constant amplitude. The controller, by comparing the input command with actualmeasured values of speed and/or position through sensors

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Dunlap; M.L. Meier

Session xxxx Integrating the Financial Aspects of Laboratory Procedures into Electron Microscopy Courses at a Community College and Materials Science Courses at a University Mike Meier and Mike Dunlap Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of California, Davis Davis, CAAbstractBasic financial issues related to the cost of performing standard laboratory procedures andmaterials analyses have been incorporated into two courses in an attempt to teach students howto plan an

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean

collective experience and bestpractices of the authors from the development of assorted labs for a variety of ET distancelearning program in an attempt to develop a standardized framework for the development of aVirtual Automation and Controls Lab and future virtual laboratory course development.4. Laboratory ObjectivesThe course of Automation and Controls offered in the Mechanical Engineering TechnologyProgram of the Department of Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University has theobjective of teaching students: (1) Pneumatic components and pneumatic circuit designs. (2) Feedbacks from electrical sensors and related ladder diagrams. (3) Introduction to Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC) and PLC [4,5] programs. (4

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan De Vries; Gillian Saunders-Smits

Session 3102 Learning by doing: An innovative laboratory exercise to enhance the understanding of thin-walled Mechanics of Materials Gillian N. Saunders-Smits, Jan de Vries Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsIntroductionMechanics is widely considered to be the core of any type of construction engineering course inthe world, be it a mechanical, aerospace or naval architecture engineering course. Yet at the sametime it also considered by many students as one of the most difficult subjects in the course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Dudevoir; Carl Fossa

Teaching Engineering Design – The Evolution of a Senior Design Course in Electrical Engineering Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Glen P. Dudevoir Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Carl.Fossa@usma.edu Glen.Dudevoir@usma.eduAbstract Engineering students typically take a core set of courses that include both laboratoryexercises and semester design projects. These courses provide the students with practicallaboratory and experimental skills, as well as teaching them to apply these skills to a well-defined design project. However, the core engineering courses do

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

™ is taught as the programming language andinterfaced with two different systems, sensors and controls. One system uses Vernier®instrumentation and data acquisition and the other uses National Instruments® PCI interfaceboards and a variety of discrete sensors and controls. These systems will be compared andcontrasted to expose the reader to two approaches to teaching data acquisition systems. Anoutline of suggested laboratory experiments and related objectives is included.Introduction:While the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and Mechanical Engineering Technology(MET) curriculums are very different, we have found a common ground in our treatment of dataacquisition and control. We both use LabVIEW™ to teach sensors, data acquisition and

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Chapman; John Brocato; Jim Harden

Improving the Writing-Evaluation Abilities of Graduate Teaching Assistants in ECE Labs John Brocato, Jim Harden, Bill Chapman Mississippi State UniversityIntroductionIn 1999, faculty in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State Universitybegan a project to improve the writing-evaluation skills of graduate teaching assistants(TAs) in charge of undergraduate laboratories in electrical and computer engineering(ECE). Long considered valuable for discipline-specific undergraduate writingexperiences, undergraduate laboratories have also proven problematic due to the largegaps between sound writing-instruction pedagogy, the standards and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

Teaching Non-Engineers the Engineering Thought Process with Environmental Engineering as the Instrument Jason C. Lynch, Michael A. Butkus, and Marie C. Johnson Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996Abstract Environmental engineering is a broad discipline with seven areas of specialty asidentified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Based on application of theenvironmental engineering program criteria, an ABET accredited program’s curriculum requiresstudents to have familiarity with each of these specialty areas. The challenge in anundergraduate program is to provide this

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

Teaching with Technology: A Strategy for Pedagogy and Practicality using CAE Software Loren Sumner, Renee Rogge Mercer University / Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyEngineering schools across the country face the growing challenge of adapting to rapidlychanging technology. Computer aided engineering (CAE) software exemplifies this trend. TheMercer University School of Engineering initiated a three-year project to establish anengineering analysis center utilizing CAE resources in undergraduate education. Learningmodules have been designed and implemented to enhance teaching of engineering fundamentalswithout compromising the depth or breadth of course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

been used to teach statics in architecture courses. Theprogram is also ideally suited to teaching concepts of structural redundancy and anti-terrordesign, since it is possible to see the response of a structure when members are removedinteractively: e.g. removing a member from a loaded truss by clicking on the member. The paperdescribes the program and the teaching methods that have employed it, including lecturedemonstrations, a homework problem, and a laboratory exercise.OverviewThere is a well established and sensible tradition in engineering education that a curriculumbegins with basic subjects and then incrementally increases the range of phenomena consideredand the sophistication of their analysis. In structural engineering education

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

years ago. She has extensive teaching experiences at thesecondary, community college, and adult (teacher professional development) levels.LUKE CAMPAGNOLA (B.S. Colorado School of Mines) is an instructor and research assistant for the Physics andComputer Science Departments at the Colorado School of Mines. He has worked on the development of 3-Dimaging software and has also been involved in teaching physics laboratories and educational software development. Page 10.1190.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

two contact hours one semester. The author’s typical semester teaching load is ninecontact hours.VI – SummaryThe author has shared his perspective on technical research and publication and pedagogicalscholarship in a small teaching-oriented non-major research campus environment. While basedmostly on personal experience, the perspective has been presented in general terms so that it maybe of the most use to a general audience. Finally, the author’s specific experience has beenconveyed in an effort to place the discussion in context.1. King, J., "Winning an NSF/ILI Laboratory Grant – An NSF Reviewer Gives Advice", Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference. Washington, D.C., June 1996.2. Sullivan, L.L., Erevelles, W.F., and Doyle

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

Design. McGraw-Hill. 2000. 3. Chang, M. “Teaching top-down design using VHDL and CPLD.” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference. 1996. 4. Chu, P.P. “A Small, Effective VHDL Subset for the Digital Systems Course.” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2004. 5. Electronics Workbench. www.electronicsworkbench.com. 6. Floyd, T.L. Digital Fundamentals with VHDL. Pearson Education. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 2003. 7. Fucik, O., Wilamowski, B. M. and McKenna, M. “Laboratory for the Introductory Digital Course,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2000. 8. Greco, J. “Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in Digital

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

An Optimized Approach for Teaching the Interdisciplinary Course Electrical Engineering for Non Majors1 Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat+, Kedmon Hungwe++ and Sheryl Sorby† + Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Tech University, Houghton MI 49931, E-mail: rezaz@mtu.edu ++ Dept. of Education, Michigan Tech University, Houghton MI 49931, E-mail: khungwe@mtu.edu † Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech University, Houghton MI 49931, E-mail: sheryl@mtu.edu AbstractThis paper introduces plans for an optimized curriculum and teaching approach for

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

. Page 10.894.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationPedagogic IssuesThe obvious question in this project is: "How do you teach engineering to a second (or third,fourth, fifth, or sixth) grader?" Engineering is a process, not a body of knowledge. Hence, it isquite different from much of the elementary-level science content. However, the scientificmethod is also a process, so engineering can grow naturally from the laboratory and exploration-based aspects of the science curriculum. Also, science provides the knowledge base forengineering. There does seem to be a tendency to slip back from

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Backer

A shift in teaching methodology: From Instructor Led to Student Driven Multimedia Instruction Patricia Ryaby Backer San Jose State UniversityAbstractMultimedia can be a powerful tool in exploring the nature of the world around us, including itstechnological systems. This paper describes the design, development, and evaluation of self-paced multimedia and web-based modules that are used in an advanced General Education (GE)course in the College of Engineering at San José State University. The design and developmentcycle of these modules began in 1994 and spanned nine years. The General Education course,Technology and Civilization (TECH 198

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sofia A. Pechorskaya; Alexandr M. Shvaiger; Charles Dolan

the Associate Professor position inRussian University is about $ 100 per month).As demonstrated in [3], engineering courses are very difficult to teach on-line because of theneed for laboratories and equation manipulation, especially at the undergraduate level. But Page 10.953.2simultaneously, “many of the issues can be solved through collaboration among institutions tocreate a strong national shared engineering curriculum enabled by on-line methods… It may play 2005-1175_Final.doca remarkable role in brining together the work of colleges and universities across the UnitedStates (and eventually across the

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

Using Problem Based Learning to Teach Thermodynamics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Paper 2005-2092 Dr. Alfred Carlson Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Department of Chemical EngineeringAbstractA problem based learning (PBL) approach was used to teach the first course in ChemicalEngineering Thermodynamics (First Law, Second Law, Fluid PropertyThermodynamics). PBL was compared to a traditional lecture approach and an activelearning approach which were used to teach the same course by the same instructor interms immediately before and after the PBL term. Student learning was assessed in allthree

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