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Roger Green

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0028 Rethinking Engineering Education Through a Leadership Perspective Roger Green (Roger.Green@ndsu.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Dakota State UniversityAbstractMany traditional engineering education environments operate according to an authority modelwhere teachers (the authority) seek to educate students (the subordinates). Although thepresence of an authority does not necessarily imply that an education system is authoritarian,teachers operating under an authority model often apply

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Bakr M. Aly Ahmed; Khaled Nassar; Mike Christenson

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0045 A Verbal Communication Game for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Students Bakr M. Aly Ahmed North Dakota State University Khaled Nassar American University in Cairo Mike Christenson North Dakota State UniversityAbstractThe ability to communicate effectively is of utmost importance in all professional fields.Effective communication skills are particularly important inarchitecture

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Byron Garry; Suzette Burckhard

Lohmann16 In the report, Recommendation 5 states: “Raise awareness of the proven principles and effective practices of teaching, learning, and educational innovation, and raise awareness of the scholarship of engineering education.” 16 It is with this goal in mind that the committee approaches the Best Practices in Engineering Education series.Best Practices in Engineering Education SessionsSince the early-1990’s there has been a series of meetings at the SDSU campus level to ‘talkabout teaching.’ These meetings were generally very informal, and covered topics across a widerange of educational subjects. Most of the sessions were guided and led by experienced faculty 36from the Education

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Aurenice M. Oliveira

only opened by the students in the assigned homeworksections. This behavior is particularly the case for non-EE major students, who wish to spend theleast amount of time for an electrical engineering class. With that in mind, the author prefers toassign e-books and textbooks that have a companion website where students can have access toonline chapter summary, multiple choice and true or false problems, fill in the blank sentenceson the chapter material, and exercises based on software tools such as MultiSim®, CadenceDesign Systems' PSpice®, and National Instrument’s LabVIEW®. Cadence Design Systems'PSpice files were developed to assist in circuit analysis. National Instrument’s LabVIEW fileswere developed to introduce rapids methods of

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Nannan He; Han-Way Huang

of view to the course with three objectives in mind. The first isto improve students’ awareness of the advanced MBD methodology. The second is for studentsto develop an appreciation for the MBD that will contribute to the efficient and cost-effectiveapplication development. The third is to give students the opportunity to learn modernprogramming tools enabling MBD. The following subsections present the three MBD topicsadded to the PT course, with the emphasis on the teaching approach and lab assignment design.Model-based Design ConceptWe introduced key MBD concepts that are important for an engineering practitioner to ourstudents during the first week. Five basic steps in MBD approach from requirement analysis,system design, implementation

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Cory J. Prust; Stephen M. Williams

the elevenABET (a) through (k) student outcomes. More details about the integration of senior designassessment into program assessment may be found in [5]. 214x Prepare a test plan and conduct a subsystem hardwareCourse Outcome ABET Student Outcome (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, asx Approach engineering design problems with an open and test. well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or creative mind, and use various

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Nannan He; Gale Allen; Cameron Johnson

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0019 Exploring Real-Time Applications in Hands-On Automation Courses Nannan He, Ph.D, nannan.he@mnsu.edu Gale Allen, Ph.D, gale.allen@mnsu.edu Cameron Johnson, Senior Student, cameron.johnson@mnsu.edu Minnesota State University MankatoAbstractIndustry and legislative leaders press for improving the quantity and quality of the work force.For example, the need for capable, dedicated, and experienced automation engineers continues toincrease. The training involves expensive laboratory equipment, small class size, and motivatedfaculty, but University budgets are

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Han-Way Huang; Nannan He

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0040 Experience of Teaching Embedded System Design using FPGAs Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Technology Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN 56001 Han-Way Huang, han-way.huang@mnsu.edu Nannan He, nannan.he@mnsu.eduAbstractAn embedded system is a product using one or more computers as its controller. Traditionally,the controller of an embedded system is an off-the-shelf microcontroller from microcontrollervendors. However, an off-the-shelf microcontroller may not provide the required peripheralfunctions or cannot achieve the desired

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Audrey LaVallie; Eakalak Khan; G. Padmanabhan

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0004 Impact of a Research Experience Program on North Dakota Tribal College STEM Student Retention Audrey LaVallie1, Eakalak Khan2, and G. Padmanabhan2 1 Faculty, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota (e-mail: alavallie@tm.edu) 2 Professor of Civil Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (e-mails: Eakalak.khan@ndsu.edu and g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu respectively)Abstract Recent educational research shows that students who engage in research projects aremore likely to