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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

junior level for all civil engineering technology students. The course credit hourswere increased to 4 semester credit hours to allow for developing a laboratory component for thecourse.The use of lab assignments in the transportation course allowed students to get hands-onexperience and training in conducting transportation studies utilizing the latest standardsemployed in the industry. The lab also enabled the instructor to use open-ended problems suchthat members of each team can search for feasible solutions that meet specific guidelines.Different teams may end up with different analysis results or design solutions. Feedback fromstudents indicated their appreciation for integrating the lab assignments into the course.This paper describes the

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

qualityproduct, but a more satisfied teamTeamwork Exercises as Teams Move through Project Phases Forming Phase During the forming phase the curriculum focused on forming 1) an understanding of theproject, 2) needs of the client, and 3) the team. The team building exercise, Rope Geometry,required the team to build a geometric shape while blindfolded. The goal of the exercisepromoted initiating and communicating to successfully build the geometric shape. This exercisecreated a situation in which students relied on their ability to develop a communication networkin order to operate effectively as a team. Lacking information about each other, 0.3

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ann Marie Flynn

traditional undergraduatechemical engineering course and the assessment of that integration by examination of thefeedback loop highlighted by the dashed enclosure in Figure 1. Formulation of General Green Engineering Concepts Incorporation of General Concepts Into Specific Engineering Courses And Development of Green Engineering Problems Assessment by Presentation of Green Engineering Instructor Problems

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney; Richard Englund

Session 1150 A Demonstration of Heat Affected Zone from Welding Richard Englund, Shannon Sweeney, David Johnson The Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractHeat effects on base metals caused by welding are often described to students in courses inmanufacturing, design, or materials. An example where students may measure these effects wasdeveloped, is presented here, and is intended for programs and students who prefer to learn fromconcrete examples, as is typical of many engineering technology students. Description ofsituations where heat effects may be deleterious are

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

engineering curriculum. The newer ones have a sprinkling of examples and problems from non-traditional specialty areas, but not enough to provide good coverage of any one area. There are some good one- or two-semester comprehensive texts in specialty areas, usually aimed at seniors and graduate students; but there are currently no texts or series of texts designed to cover the specialty in an integrated fashion throughout the curriculum. Page 10.1310.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

the lessons learned from these curricular efforts and adds the additionalcontent area of industrial design to the curriculum.For true curricular improvement, it is not enough to include topics of continuous improvement ineducation; rather, manufacturing education must shift to a new paradigm of learning16.Chisholm19 draws a parallel between the design of curriculum in the university and the design ofproducts and systems by industry. His theme is that, to better prepare future engineers for theirroles in a rapidly changing world, there needs to be a completely new approach to the educationand training of manufacturing engineers. This approach should follow an integrated orconcurrent model of design and manufacturing. This integrated approach

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BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

required, even in an introductory class.We have implemented this vertical lab structure in the Introduction to Biomedical Engineeringclass at Bucknell University during the fall semester of 2004. The class consisted of 13sophomore BME majors. The class has an integrated lecture/laboratory format which meets fivehours a week in two two-hour blocks, and a one hour lecture. Laboratories are generally carriedout within the two hour block. The purpose of the course was to give students an introduction tosome of the fundamental aspects and concepts of biomedical engineering including biofluidmechanics, biomedical mass transport, and bioinstrumentation. The goal of the laboratory was toreinforce technical concepts from class and to prepare the students

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepak Gupta; Robert Creese

different shapes was very time consuming,and the program is used to evaluate approximately 80 percent of the shapes assigned. Thestudents must develop programs for two or three additional shapes. This permitted the projectteams to be reduced in size which increased the ability of the teams to meet and increased theamount of shapes that could be investigated. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the logic ofthe program with its benefits over the current approach (developing separate spreadsheets), topresent an example of the program input and results, and to describe the typical students usingthe program. The student teams previously have used spreadsheets to solve the problem, but when theyinvestigated complex shapes, such as the

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

addition to “traditional” engineering knowledge of mathematics, science,engineering and experience in engineering problem solving and system design, students aremandated to be able to function on multidisciplinary teams, to communicate effectively, and tounderstand a wide range of issues in engineering. These issues include: professional and ethicalresponsibility, the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context, andknowledge of contemporary issues. While recognizing the importance of these issues within theengineering curriculum, many departments find it difficult to effectively integrate experiencesthat include the full spectrum of professional or “soft” skills that simulate current industrialpractices8. Service-learning

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Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter

Using Learning Objectives for Course Design and Curriculum Improvement Donald D. Carpenter Civil Engineering Department Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075AbstractLearning Objectives are statements of specific observable actions a student should be able toperform after an established period of time (a lecture, course, or curriculum). LearningObjectives, which are also commonly referred to as Instructional, Teaching, or EducationalObjectives, clarify the expectations of faculty in terms of measurable or observable studentperformance. In other words, these statements describe the ability of

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

or mismatched understandingscan lead to inappropriate career decisions, ineffective curriculum, and poor performanceevaluations. This paper describes a process and defines the profile of an engineer performingwell in professional practice. Developed with input from both academic and non-academicengineers, the profile presents technical, interpersonal, and professional skills or behaviors thatalign with key roles performed by the engineer. The profile is a valuable resource for educatorsand for students aspiring to become high performing professionals in the field of engineering.IntroductionSociety holds high expectations of people in professions entrusted with the well-being of peopleand society as a whole. The engineering profession, for

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

teams researched and presentedthe following case studies: a beer brewery that mimicked an ecological system, a Speedoswimsuit that mimics sharkskin, and airplane wings that mimic bird flight. The freshmen gaineda strong understanding of the concepts presented in this book, imagine what would happen ifbiology was integrated throughout the curriculum.Biology in other Engineering CoursesEngineering students could become prepared for their careers, by being exposed to biology andcomplex systems study throughout their education. This could occur by including a module thatinvolves biology in every course that is taught throughout the curriculum. As with planning anycourse it is important to adhere to a continuous improvement loop. Some possible ways

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Meredith Aronson; Reid Bailey

played a major role in the dynamic of integration, as institutional goalsand priorities have shifted with external events. The roots of the design course lay with a “cubiccentimeter of chance” that emerged in fall of 2000, when the Dean of the College of Engineeringagreed to fund a position to develop a multidisciplinary capstone design course. The institutionalclimate during this first year created a setting where departments were willing to consider large-scale integration of the curriculum. Committees were involved in assessing redundancy ofteaching across departments (e.g., numerous departmental thermodynamics courses, statisticscourses, etc.), and thus there was an interest in reducing the number of design courses (and thusthe costs) across

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Alfadala; Andrew Wilson

Driving Continuous Program Improvement by Integration of Assessment into Strategic Planning Andrew J. Wilson and Hassan E. Alfadala University of QatarAbstractThe College of Engineering at the University of Qatar is seeking to become among the firstengineering programs in the Middle East to be evaluated by ABET using the EC2000 Criteria.The Chemical Engineering program’s assessment and continuous improvement activities haveevolved over the course of five years to move from emphasizing assessment measures tofocusing on targeted areas of improvement and targeted assessment. The next step has been tointegrate the curriculum assessment activities

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

and economically motivated projects [9]. • Freshman programs model ways to satisfy Engineering Curriculum 2000 (EC 2000) criteria in an engineering educational project [3]. Not only are these programs ways to introduce communication, teamwork and planning skills in an engineering context, these programs set the expectation of students for this integrated approach in the remainder of their engineering education. They create a generation of students who associate such problem-solving strategies as inherent to what engineering is.The early introduction of engineering and the balance of technical and professional skills also benefit thefemale engineering population [2] which often magnifies problems

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

distance/asynchronous learning technologies and methods, object-oriented programming,modeling, and design.HASSAN AREF is Dean of Engineering and Reynolds Metals Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Hejoined Tech in April 2003 after ten years as department head at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has along-standing interest in engineering education and arranged for the first ever session on “Education in Mechanics”at the 2004 International Congress of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics in Warsaw, Poland.SUSAN MAGLIARO is Director of the School of Education at Virginia Tech. She holds an Ed.D. in curriculum andinstruction from Virginia Tech. She has experience as a classroom teacher in general and special education

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Sanju Patro

alreadybegun to change the way engineers work. In the automotive industry, these challenges havebeen most severe in the areas of supply chain integration, organizational culture shift, andcommunication. More and more newly hired engineers in the automotive/manufacturingindustry are required to work in global team projects. In addition to the basics of engineering,the engineer of the future will need to have a thorough understanding of the extended network ofentities that form the supply chain, need to be adept in dealing with individuals from diversecultural backgrounds, and will need to stay abreast of the latest collaborative technologyavailable. In this paper, we present a model for teaching engineering courses through whichstudents experience

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

Industry_____________________________________________________________________________________Professional Master of Engineering ─ For Creative Engineering Practice & LeadershipLevel IV Engineer –Skill-Sets / Outcomes Aims of professional Master of Engineering programs for engineering practice & leadership a) Professional Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) programs provide a very practical component to lifelong learning; a recognized professional degree; and an integrated approach that combines advanced studies with self-directed learning, progressive experience in engineering practice, and actual engagement in creative technology development & innovation. b) High-quality, postgraduate professional M.Eng. programs should emphasize project-based (problem-centered) ─ “innovation-based learning” ─ concurrent with

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

application equipment for seed, fertilizers,and pesticides; irrigation; yield monitors; sensors for detecting soil fertility and weedpopulations; and remote sensing imagery.This paper will report efforts to initiate “precision farming” implementation and researchat University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES).UMES is an 1890 land granthistorically black university and it’s mission is consistent with the goals of the endeavorwhich includes (i) integration of advanced technologies in agricultural practices at UMESwith a view to improve productivity with due emphasis on research, education andoutreach; (ii) environmental stewardship and (iii) remote observation and analysis. Whileall aspects of “Precision Agriculture” will be integrated with the project

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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

disciplines do, so they can make an informed choice. Faculty from the various engineering departments must take an active role in the development and delivery of this first-year curriculum.• Assessment We need to know what students are being taught in the high schools in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics, and we need to more effectively assess their individual level of preparation before they begin their first-year studies. We need to continually assess how well they are understanding the fundamental body of knowledge in engineering, science, mathematics, and social science, and most importantly, integrating and applying all of it. We

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

Boulder (CU). As part of the program, an EDC option in theEnvironmental Engineering (EVEN) B.S. degree is being proposed. Given the success of theEngineers Without Borders (EWB) outreach and service program, it is expected that studentinterest in the EDC option will be significant. At a workshop on “Integrating Appropriate-Sustainable Technology and Service-Learning in Engineering Education” held at CU onSeptember 27-29, 2004, participants were surveyed on existing courses and programs at theiruniversities that are relevant to EDC. A description of the proposed curriculum, option coursesand technical electives for the proposed EDC emphasis in EVEN are provided. Relevant socialscience and humanistic electives are recommended. The information will

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

, Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, Bureau of Sociological Research, 1994; p 258-259.3. Seymour, E. and N. Hewitt, Talking About Leaving, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.4. Mullins, C.A., C.J. Atman, L.J., Shuman, and B.S. Gottfried, “Freshman Expectations of an Engineering Program,” Proceedings, 1995 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.5. Tester, J.T., D. Scott, J. Hatfield, R. Decker, and F. Swimmer, F. “Developing Recruitment and Retention Strategies through ‘Design4Practice,’ Curriculum Enhancements.” Proceedings, 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/papers/1672.pdf, accessed 24 February 2005.6. Triplett, C. and S. Haag, “Freshman Engineering Retention,” Proceedings

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw

graduate with a BS inIT in April 2005.STEPHEN R. RENSHAWStephen Renshaw is an Instructor of Information Technology at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Hereceived a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in 1985 and 1987. Prior toinstructing full time he experienced 14 years within industry in various Information Technology areas including: Page 10.819.6telephony, process control, system integration, networking, and health care computing. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ernest Tollner; David Gattie

systems.Referenced resources comprised the readings list.IntroductionThis discussion seminar stemmed from the proposition that thermodynamic laws guidingnonliving and living processes drive ecological processes. We set about to review andrefresh ourselves on the thermodynamics of nonliving processes in order to provideorientation from which to begin an inquiry into the thermodynamics of living systems.Several questions were surfaced and the answers that evolved over the course of thediscussion are presented.A. What is a thermodynamic system?A thermodynamic system, or system, from a macroscopic viewpoint is defined as aquantity of matter or a region in space chosen for study. The mass or region outside thesystem is called the surroundings (Cengel and Bowles

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

Paducah, Kentucky. Six chemical engineering oriented laboratory experiments inprocess control are integrated into the course to enable students to make observations,draw conclusions, and establish relationships for specific cases. During subsequentlecture periods students develop the observations they make into general relationships,many of which they later test in the laboratory.Assessment conducted on student learning indicates that laboratory exercises were mostvaluable when they preceded classroom discussion (in an inductive structure), providedthat the instructions for the experiments and their analysis were very detailed. Non-inductive exercises were preferred for difficult material to aid in developing practicalunderstanding of theoretical

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Schurmann; C. Stewart Slater

., reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, microfiltration and gaspermeation exist that can also be integrated into the curriculum and are described elsewhere [1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].Background Pervaporation selectively separates a liquid feed mixture, typically using a nonporouspolymeric membrane. The generally accepted mechanism for pervaporative transport issolution-diffusion [9]. Transport in a pervaporation process is generally considered to followthree steps: 1) Sorption of the liquid mixture on the feed side of the membrane 2) Diffusion through the membrane 3) Desorption on the permeate side of the membrane to the vapor phasePreferential solute permeability, which is based on solubility and diffusivity of the solute in

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

An Experimental Course for First-Year Students: Leadership in Engineering Mary E. Goodwin Iowa State UniversityAbstractA first-year leadership course was created for engineering students. The purpose of the class wasto develop stronger leadership skills in undergraduate engineering students early on in theircollege career. This was done by actively engaging students in leadership activities that gaveopportunities for practicing skills while also providing classroom instruction on leadershiptheories, issues, and concepts. Industry has expressed a need for graduating engineering studentsto have stronger leadership

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

developers: Rivet, Shamir, and Adelman. It uses asymmetric 512, 768, or 1024 bit keys for encryption. IPSec does not use RSA as an encryption method for data, but it instead uses it during IPSec tunnel negotiation.Data IntegrityIPSec also provides data integrity services. Because the public Internet is open to all, it ispossible that a message may be intercepted and altered. Therefore, the need to ensure theintegrity of data exists. Simply put, data integrity services ensure that the recipientreceived data is the same as the sender originally sent. The method used to provide dataintegrity is again rooted in mathematics, and it is something called a “hash” value. Ahash value is a value that is derived from a one-way mathematical

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Bruce Muller

the new61131 languages. The Control Logixsystem and the RS Logix 5000 softwareis used with the switch and pilot lamppanel and on the assembly system in thesecond PLC course. The first course usesthe SLC 500 system and the switch andpilot lamp panel for programdevelopment Figure 3Programming with the IEC 61131 Languages – GoalsAs a result of the laboratory modifications including the addition of the newer Control LogixPLC systems, four of the five new IEC 61131 PLC standard languages were integrated into thesecond PLC course EMET 4302. The goal was to give the students an opportunity to solvediscrete automation system problems using these four standard languages.Exercises - Three

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

with success.2. COPEC – an organization generating developmentCOPEC means Council of Research in Education and Sciences. It is an organization that worksvisioning the futureIt works to stimulate and to foster the efforts to bring an international perspective in education. It aims toestablish and maintain the interchange among institutions, educators of educational institutions in Braziland in the several countries worldwide. It seeks for-The improvement of communication and the interchange of researches in education field andsciences between the countries.-The development of an apprenticeship community and the development of education andsciences areas constituting in an intelligent way of collective knowledge for the integration withsocial