Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

controlprimarily because it allows us to focus on sensors and controls, not on the mechanics ofprogramming. It is also well accepted in industry and has led to job offers for our students.LabVIEW™’s integrated data acquisition and control environment includes excellent informationpresentation capabilities. This allows students to easily see what’s actually happening with anacquired signal and how applying various signal analysis tools affect it. This permits very rapidhands-on testing of signal processing routines to, for example, best reduce the effects ofelectrical noise on a desired signal.Why teach LabVIEW™ ?1,2,3 • It is fun for both the students and the faculty • It is an industry accepted standard that can translate into job offers • The

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

loop, as a generic approach to reflect the fact that when the societal need changes thePh.D. program in engineering must adapt to it. An example of a newly established, innovativePh.D. program in Engineering at Robert Morris University (RMU) in Pennsylvania that attemptsto address some of these issues has been illustrated.1.0 IntroductionIn recent years, the U.S. has lost its manufacturing base to the emerging countries, such as Chinaand other Asian-Pacific countries. For example, China has now become the “factory floorcapital of the world.” The economic consequence of the loss of our manufacturing base isenormous. Today, U.S. engineering graduates must not only compete for the fewer engineeringjobs in the U.S., but they must also compete

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSecond Course Description:The second course is more involved with integration of products than with programming.While the course is not intended to prepare the student for every aspect of life after theclassroom, it is intended to build an attitude that the very difficult systems can be brokendown into more manageable parts and then solved. The second course assumes a basicprogramming background of the instruction set learned in the first course.This course tends to be more intense. It involves the process of product integration.Students are being prepared for the interview process and later success with a first

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2247 Designing A Free-Space Optical/Wireless Link Jai P. Agrawal, Omer Farook and C.R. Sekhar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis paper presents the design of a very high-speed data link between two buildings in aUniversity campus that will operate at gigabit rates. The project uses a cutting edge technology ofeye-safe laser communication through free space. This is an all-optical design is future-proof inregards to technological advancement in the rate of data transmission and

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He hasB.S. and Ph.D. degree in BioMedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. He teaches in Louisiana Tech’sIntegrated Engineering Curriculum. His primary research interest is in integrated engineering education.LAURA WESSON is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. She has a B.S.degree in chemistry and a Ph. D. in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She teaches in theintegrated freshman and sophomore engineering courses and a senior level chemical engineering reactor designcourse. Her main area of research focuses on the fundamental properties of surfactants.NORM PUMPHREY is an Associate Professor of and a former Program Chair in the

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

Industrial Engineering LIVE! Classroom Lab Activities used in an Introductory IE Course and in Recruiting Freshmen Dr. Susan F. Freeman College Of Engineering, Northeastern UniversityAbstractIntroduction to Industrial Engineering Courses provide an overview of IE history and commonmethods that are used by Industrial Engineers to analyze systems and design efficient processes.A series of active labs are integrated into a traditional course where the students are introduced toconcepts, apply solution techniques for those concepts with class and homework problems

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hartin; Henry Kraebber; Nancy Denton

in tune with departmentalplans, curricula, courses, degree objectives and desired student learning outcomes. The existing foundation for the department’s education processes included a departmentalstrategic plan that defines the department’s core values, beliefs, mission, and vision. Corelearning objectives were developed and approved for all major courses. A well-defined faculty-driven curriculum design and review processes has been in place for many years. Facultymembers are conducting assessment and attempting to improve their courses and the degreeprogram through continuous improvement documentation. This documentation is an important

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

as an ensemble of “softer” skills, such asnegotiation techniques, familiarity with foreign languages, and comfort with informalcommunication skills.Some of the largest obstacles for redesigning the current engineering curriculum lay inacademic culture. One of the largest is faculty’s anathema toward learning new softwaretools as they are released, successfully integrating them into the curriculum, andeducating students in the skills required to use them, as well as emphasize the notion ofcreative use. Faculty by and large assume teaching students software is a waste of time—something the students can learn by discovery—instead of understanding that such toolscan enhance students’ understanding of physical system behavior, a necessary

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

greater adoption ofmobile technologies are concerns regarding data integrity and wireless network security. Thiswork details creation of a new 2-year degree program in wireless communications that integratessecurity throughout. Security concepts and hands-on experiences are woven into the programitself and within individual courses. This model curriculum will benefit individuals andinstitutions interested in developing similar programs based on regional workforce needs.Key topics include an overview of the current program under development and the expectedevolution that will occur over the next few years. Additionally, the authors share research andinsight into future trends for this new technology; describe the skills needed by this

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

AC 2005-226: DESIGN, RAPID PROTOTYPE, CAST, AND TEST AN ALUMINUMLINKRichard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar Page 10.414.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Design, Rapid Prototype, Cast, and Test an Aluminum Link Richard B. Griffin and Terry Creasy Mechanical Engineering- 3123 Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3123Abstract Integrated design, rapid prototyping, manufacturing processes, and testing has beenaccomplished in a junior materials and manufacturing class. Students are given a design space

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

An Undergraduate State-Space Theory Course with Emphasis on Designs Chiu H. Choi, Ph.D., P.E. Electrical Engineering Program Division of Engineering University of North Florida Jacksonville, Florida 32224AbstractA new approach of enhancing undergraduate engineering courses is proposed in this paper. Theenhancement is the integration into the courses a wide range of practical design problems ofwhich the solutions require in-depth knowledge of computational software package. Thisapproach was tried on an undergraduate-level state-space theory course. The reasons

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

instituted a Capstone Senior Design Project course forengineering technology students that includes an integrated group of Computer, Electrical and MechanicalEngineering Technology students. He has also structured an Intro. to Product Design course for non-engineering majors as part of the University’s new School of Technological Entrepreneurship .In 2002 Prof. Di Bella was awarded the University wide Excellence in Teaching Award for his innovativecontributions to the teaching of engineering students. He was awarded the College of EngineeringExcellence in Teaching Award in 2004. Page 10.377.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Arizona State University (ASU) campus at Mesa, Arizona received an AdvancedTechnology Education (ATE) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a series ofsix laboratory curriculum modules in the area of microelectronics. The partner institutions ofthe ATE grant are Central Arizona College, Chandler Gilbert Community College, MesaCommunity College and the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC).MATEC is a NSF funded center for Advanced Technology Education. The laboratorycurriculum development efforts include both lower and upper division courses, which havelaboratory activities integrated into the course. The instructional materials developed utilize theMicroelectronics Teaching Factory (MTF) as the laboratory of choice

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

Integration of Interactive Simulations and Virtual Experiments in Fiber Optics and Wireless Communications Courses for Onsite, Online and Hybrid Delivery Yakov E. Cherner*, Amin Karim**, Ahmed S. Khan** *ATeL, LLC, **DeVry UniversityAbstractRapid pace of technological growth has placed new demands on the skills, competencies andknowledgebase of engineering and engineering technology graduates. In order to be successful inthe 21st century workplace, graduates are required to acquire Digital-age literacy. Theengineering and engineering technology graduates are not only expected to understand the theorybehind state-of-the-art technologies, but also to

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

stimulated international collaborations on collegiate ed-ucation. As a predominant manufacturing base and an emerging mass market, China has becomean important base for engineering and technology (E&T) in the past decade. It is apparent thatcollaboration with Chinese universities on E&T education will help further our understandingsof the needs and the developing trends for engineering and technology professionals. This article explores the potentials and issues of collaborating with Chinese universities forE&T education from a curriculum perspective. By analyzing the TAC of ABET accredited ECETcurriculum at Western Carolina University and that from a representative Chinese university, EastChina University of Science and Technology, the

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiunn-Chi Wu

theassessment instrument and the consistency between learning materials and the educationalobjectives. Although there are various reform activities of engineering education in Taiwan, few ofthem are focus on integrating the engineering education outcomes into the academic program.Two year ago, several faculties from two institutions (National Central University andYuan-Ze University) who are aware of the impact and importance of the ABET EC-2000 andthe outcome-based course planning. This is the background of how we initiated this study.Six faculties from the ME department of two institutions participated this study. Our aim is toexperiment the feasibility of the outcome-based course planning so as to redesign our currentcourse planning in

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Ben Miller; Judith Norback

and reports while the technical workplace discoursecommunity’s interaction is based on contracts, status reports, proposals, technical reports, andtechnical presentations.11 Of course, maintaining separation of the two spheres is importantbecause students are gaining foundational knowledge in the academic community that they willapply in different ways in the workplace. Technical communications is at a nexus where studentscan learn how to activate their knowledge base by practicing their analytical skills.Discipline-specific instruction in communication skills makes the content of a course morerelevant to students. Although across-the-curriculum applications have met with much success, itis widely noted that “what constitutes an effective

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

root of entrepreneurship, whether in emerging or existing enterprises, as “Managing Discovery for Wealth Creation.” ‚ Entrepreneurship is widely recognized as an academic field in its own right, with a huge research literature that spans, inter alia, organizational management, technology management, engineering management, economics, finance and marketing. The American Academy of Management has an entire division devoted to entrepreneurship. The American Society of Engineering Education does too. Babson College has become the leading undergraduate business program in the nation by focusing on an integrated curricular approach to entrepreneurship. The large number of existing educational

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Somerton

An Ethical Puzzle for University Administrators Craig W. Somerton Michigan State UniversityAbstractIt has long been recognized that ethical behavior is an essential element of an engineer.Considerable attention has been given to ethics in engineering education. Some programsinclude a full course in ethics, while others integrate ethical issues throughout their curriculum;but all programs need to create a culture where ethical behavior is prized and unethical behavioris not accepted. This culture must be grounded in the behavior of the faculty and administrators.With rampant student cheating and plagiarism, the faculty and administration must set

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; Jerald Varner

Session 3532 Implementation and Effectiveness of the Integrated Signals and Systems Laboratory Michael F. Anderson, Lance C. Pérez, Jerald L. Varner Clarke College/ University of Nebraska, LincolnIntroductionOver the past three years, the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University ofNebraska, Lincoln (UNL) has implemented an Integrated Signals and Systems Laboratory(ISSL) in its undergraduate curriculum. The laboratory experience uses a common experimentalplatform, the Telecommunications Instructional Modeling System (TIMS), in a sequence of fourcourses at the junior and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

the potential impact on fish in the river)were also discussed with senior management.The primary focus of the Product-Architecture members of the group was the design ofthe enclosure and an integrated internal interactive exhibit. The Civil Engineeringstudents primarily focused on the construction, regulatory issues, costs and coordinationwith the planning for the pier reconstruction being conducted by a consulting company.The students were scheduled to spend one full day per week (Product-Architecture designstudio and Civil Engineers capstone design) on the project but undertook additional workat other times. The Product-Architecture students also used the project as part of othercourse work, especially in the ME 635 Modeling and Simulation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

Session 1526 Assessing an Interdisciplinary Robotics Course William W. White, Jerry B. Weinberg, George L. Engel, S. Cem Karacal, Ai-Ping Hu Southern Illinois University Edwardsville1. IntroductionThe curriculum in any specific area of study tends to narrowly focus students on that area,whereas real-world complex systems tend to integrate components from multiple disciplines. Thedevelopment of such systems has shifted from designing individual components in isolation toworking in cross-functional teams that encompass the variety of expertise needed

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

including written reports, oral presentations, and poster presentations. The course isstructured to facilitate a highly hands-on active learning experience, with class meetings twiceweekly in a lecture/lab setting for a total of three hours. In addition, both a machining skillscomponent (six one-hour lab sessions in first semester) and an electronic instrument trainingcomponent (six one-hour lab sessions in second semester) are being integrated into the coursethis year. The overall effectiveness and success of the course and the benefit to the George Foxengineering program and students will be presented and discussed.IntroductionThe first engineering students enrolled at George Fox University in 1987, in what was a 3/2 dual-degree engineering

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Subsequently, as an outcome of defining this national initiative, it is clear to members of the Task Forcethat engineers have creative worth which is gained in practice by developing their innate creative talentthrough actual professional experience in significant technology development projects. As such,professionally-oriented engineering graduate programs can no longer operate in a vacuum or beconsidered high-quality without integrating into the professional curriculum project-based (problem-centered) learning that focuses on innovation and employs the systematic engineering method which isprimarily used to conceive

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virgilio Gonzalez; Ahmed Musa; Mehdi Shadaram

& Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References[1] N. K. Swain, M. Swain, and J. A. Anderson, "Integration of virtual instruments into an EET curriculum," Firenze, Italy, 2004.[2] C. Rosenberg and S. G. M. Koo, "Innovative and easy-to-deploy communication networking laboratory experiments for electrical and computer engineering students," Como, Italy, 2002.[3] D. K. C. Chan and A. Richter, "CAD-supported university course on photonics and fiber- optic communications," Cahrlotte, NC, United States, 2001.[4] B. Chapman, "Virtual experiments in electronics: Beyond logistics, budgets and the art of the possible," vol. 3894, pp. 118, 1999.[5] Z. Nedic

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

andsimulation in engineering design education. Along with these lectures, various software modules,tutorials and practical examples were created. The described approach will allow the students tomake design decisions systematically and enable them to solve complicated, multi-attributedecision problems involving tolerances and uncertainty. By including this material into theundergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum, students will gain a new structured way ofapproaching an engineering design problem. Although they will only be introduced to a limitedversion of the decision making process, the students will nonetheless be able to solve anyengineering design decision problem within the scope of undergraduate engineering

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

An Alternate Route For a Career Related to Engineering Education: A Kumon Franchise Doreen Lawrence†, and Barbara Oakley†† † Kumon North America, Inc. Glenpointe Centre East- 5th Floor, 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ, 07666/ ††School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48306 AbstractKumon North America, Inc. (KNA) is North America’s largest supplemental educationprovider. In studying the relation between KNA and engineering, it has been found thatnearly ten percent of all Kumon mathematics instructors have left successful engineeringpositions to run their own Kumon

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Session 3438 Hands-On Graphics Communications – Designing Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Success David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2004,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

these three major components can be integrated into anexisting academic program. The study presents a comprehensive approach to integratethese three components into an existing Computer Information Systems (CIS) program.The goal of curriculum improvement is to help students gain and improve their practicaltechnical skills while they are still able to earn their academic credits.IntroductionAs the US industry globalization moves, industry and corporate infrastructure changesaccordingly. Those changes redefine new higher standards for worker’s technology skillsets. This study presents the impacts on US workers as a result of the changes and findsout that using computer software is an important tool for today’s workers to prevail inthis industry