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Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; JianJian Song, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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required course in electromagneticcompatibility and signal integrity for our CPE curriculum and a redesign for our required two-course sequence in electromagnetics for our EE curriculum. The EMC/SI course for CPEs hasbeen offered several times. The initial redesign for the EM courses for EEs is complete and willbe implemented in the 2006/2007 academic year. Also included is an evolving elective course inhigh-speed design which has been offered since 1999.AcknowledgementThis work is supported by the National Science Foundation, CCLI A&I DUE-0410845.7 Wegratefully acknowledge members of our advisory board, Thomas Van Doren with the Universityof Missouri-Rolla, Bruce Archambeault with IBM at Research Triangle Park, and Gloria Rogerswith

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2006-1246: INTEGRATION OF A DSP HARDWARE-BASED LABORATORY INTOAN INTRODUCTORY SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS COURSELisa Huettel, Duke University LISA G. HUETTEL, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Laboratories in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research interests include the application of statistical signal processing to remote sensing and engineering education. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Page 11.797.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

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Sajay Sadasivan, Clemson University; Deepak Vembar, Clemson University; Paris Stringfellow, Clemson University; Carl Washburn, Greenville Tech; Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University; Anand Gramopadhye, Clemson University

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systematize the inspection process.To facilitate an effective redesign of the curriculum, an appropriate assessment methodology hadto be devised. This involved developing course objectives. Using Bloom’s taxonomydescriptors [14, 15], goals for student outcomes at the course level were developed for aprototypical course. These address the nature of the desired outcomes, such as knowledge,comprehension, or analysis. These refined outcomes are used to organize daily topics, developlesson plans, construct exercises, and develop supporting material, integration exercises,simulation tests, software support manuals and examinations. The methodology used to apply theBloom’s Taxonomic approach to the prototypical course is illustrated in Figure 8

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Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; L. Fink, University of Oklahoma; Carolyn Ahern, Ahern and Associates

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2006-203: A HANDS-ON, INTERDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY PROGRAM ANDEDUCATIONAL MODEL TO STRENGTHEN A RADAR CURRICULUM FORBROAD DISTRIBUTIONMark Yeary, University of Oklahoma Dr. Mark Yeary is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and assistant professor. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 11 years of teaching experience. For the 1999-00 academic year, he received the Outstanding Professor Award, given by the Texas A&M student chapters of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu, and IBM in Austin

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78 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY.AbstractTo be successful in the global marketplace, U.S. electronics industries must adopt a systemsapproach to product and process design. Reliability is an integral part of this systems approach.Undergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs across the country, includingthose at RIT, do not provide the hands-on reliability training students need in today’smanufacturing environment. Using the University of Maryland’s program in ElectronicPackaging and Reliability as a model, RIT is in the process of creating the Reliability Educationand Analysis Laboratory [REAL], a cutting-edge program that will integrate reliability conceptsand laboratory experience

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similarway. Truth tables are further introduced based on these experiments under the LabVIEWenvironment and integrated with the above in a single laboratory session. By trying outthese virtual experiments, the students examine all the logic rules without excessiveexplanation. They then are requested to design digital logic functions described by truthtables and to implement them with graphical function modules in LabVIEW diagrams. Page 11.861.6 A = 0, B = 0, A and B =0 A = 0, B = 1, A and B =0 A = 1, B = 1, A and B = 1 C = 0, D = 0, C or D =0 C = 0, D = 1, C or D =0 C = 1, D = 1, C or D = 1 Figure 3. An

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. Prior to participating in any module, the student views an “Introduction to the Virtual Enterprise” and “Introduction to the ALIVE System” streaming videos. When ALIVE is used as a curriculum integrator, students would quickly become familiar with this information and would skip to the next step.2. In some cases, students take a pre-test evaluating existing knowledge and perceived capability.3. The student is placed in the role of a short-time intern walking into a new department of the company. The function of the area is explained and physically demonstrated to the student. The functional step may or may not involve teams. The student is required to perform the functional operation for some higher implementation levels.4. Next

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Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Bradley Jenkins, St. Petersburg College; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida

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2006-901: MADE IN FLORIDA: A STEM CAREER OUTREACH CAMPAIGNMarilyn Barger, University of South Florida MARILYN BARGER is the Executive Director of FL-ATE, the Florida Regional Center for Manufacturing Education housed at Hillsborough Community College. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College, and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of South Florida. She has over 15 years of experience in developing curriculum in engineering and engineering technology and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Florida.Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College ERIC A. ROE is the Director of FL-ATE, an NSF Regional Center of

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

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chemical engineering students are rarely exposed to drugdelivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant to theevolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this we have developed and integrated applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. He or she must also be skilled in characterizationtechniques and physical property testing of the delivery

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2006-1496: THE LASER CULT: HANDS-ON LABORATORY IN PHOTONICSAlan Cheville, Oklahoma State University Alan Cheville is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Oklahoma State University. Starting out along the traditional tenure path as a researcher in THz ultrafast opto-electronic devices, his interests are shifting to the larger problem of engineering education. Dr. Cheville is currently engaged in several curriculum reform efforts based on making engineering more relevant to students and emphasizing student development to an equal degree as content. Page 11.1308.1© American Society for

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2006-944: ASSESSING TEACHING METHODS FOR A COURSE IN NUMERICALMETHODSAutar Kaw, University of South Florida Autar K Kaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University of South Florida. With major funding from NSF, he is developing customized and holistic web-based modules for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods (http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu). He has authored the textbook - Mechanics of Composite Materials, which is currently in its second edition. His scholarly interests include development of instructional technologies, integrating research in the classroom, thermal stresses, computational mechanics, and nanomechanics of

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Raju, P.K., "Impact of Della Steam Plant CD-ROM in Integrating Research and Practice", 1998 North American Case Research Association, p. 118.9. Sankar, C.S., Raju, P.K., Kler, M. (1999), "Crist Power Plant: Planning for a Maintenance Outage", Business Case Journal, 5(1&2): 122-145.10. Raju, P.K., Sankar, C.S., Halpin, G., and Halpin, G., “Dissemination of Innovations from an EducationResearch Project through Focused Workshops,” Journal of SMET Education and Research, 3(3&4): 39-51,July-Dec. 2002.’11. Raju, P.K., Sankar, C.S., Halpin, G., Halpin, G., and Good, J. “Evaluation of an Engineering Education Courseware Across Different Campuses,” Frontiers in Education 2000 Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2000

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in Dynamics1Abstract In an effort to produce more, better graduates faster than in previous years, theUniversity of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) integrated multi-intelligence principles into asophomore-level dynamics class. The principal hypothesis is that students who arepresented with authentic real world problems will be better equipped to solve traditionaltextbook problems. The belief is that confronting real problems enhances learningthrough the establishment of a context making the information relevant and meaningful.In this environment, students are more apt to learn and retain the information through theenhancement of student interest. A secondary hypothesis is that real problems will stimulate student creativity and,therefore

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John Lee, San Jose State University; Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Tai-Ran Hsu, San Jose State University; David Parent, San Jose State University

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DAVID PARENT is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University. He teaches courses and conducts research in semiconductor device physics, integrated-circuit (IC) manufacturing, digital/mixed signal IC design and fabrication, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Contact: dparent@email.sjsu.edu. Page 11.40.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Development Framework for Hands-On Laboratory Modules in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)IntroductionMany of the most popular and advanced consumer products in recent years

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Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute; Arman Molki, The Petroleum Institute; Michael Ohadi, The Petroleum Institute

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2006-1293: A PROPOSED PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV) SYSTEMFOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES IN A MODERN MECHANICALENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY PROGRAMAfshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute AFSHIN GOHARZADEH, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the petroleum Institute. An expert in experimental fluid mechanics, Dr. Goharzadeh obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Le Havre in France (2001). After his Ph.D. he joined the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen (Germany) as scientific researcher. He characterized experimentally the flow at water-sediment interface. Using the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Refractive Index

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Laboratoryfor the School Preview and Summer Program for High School Students. The equipment willbecome an important part of our outreach events and summer program for promising high schoolstudents from backgrounds underrepresented in the engineering profession.Reference:1. SFSU Civil Engineering Curriculum Mission Statements, Internal Report by School of Engineering, San Francisco State University (2003).2. Sabatini, D.A., Teaching and Research Synergism: the Undergraduate Research Experience, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 123, No.3, 98-102 (July 1997).3. Jenkins, S. R., Pocock, J.B., Zuraski, P.D., Meade, R.B., Mitchell, Z.W. and Farrington, J.J., Capstone Course in an Integrated

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Mohan Krishnan, University of Detroit Mercy; Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, University of Detroit Mercy

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addition, engineers with better communication and teamworkskills are needed to ensure U.S. competitiveness in today’s global economy.In order to address this competency gap a team of faculty members (consisting of faculty fromboth ME and EE departments) started work in the late nineties to integrate Mechatronics-basedactivities at all levels of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at University of DetroitMercy. These included a new senior level technical elective in introductory mechatronics alongwith mechatronic activities in freshman design and in the introductory electrical engineeringcourse for non-EE majors. This effort has been very successful, and now mechatronics activitiestake place in many pre-college programs that the school

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Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; James Johnson, Howard University

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position tracking, Fig. 9 Square-wave position tracking, X=20 ms/div, Y=2 rev/div X=100 ms/div, Y=2 rev/divFollowing the design and implementation of the PI controller, the student is introduced to thedual loop controller (proportional position with an inner proportional-integral speed loopcontroller).This controller represents a modification of the PI controller. The dual loop controlleris employed frequently in servo position loops found on numerically controlled machines andhas been chosen for this reason. The Simulink model implementing the dual loop controller isshown in Fig. 10. The students, with no difficulty, modified the values of the controller’s threeparameters-the proportional gain in the

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Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2004. 3. Falkenburg, D. and Schuch-Miller, D. “Strategies for the Development of Web-Based Engineering Case Studies,” International Conference on Engineering Education, Valencia, Spain, July 21-25, 2003. 4. Fortenberry, N.L. “An Examination of NSF's Programs in Undergraduate Education,” Journal of SMET Education: Innovations and Research, 1(1), pp. 4-15, Jan-April 2000. 5. Fromm, E., “The Changing Engineering Educational Paradigm,” Journal of Engineering Education, 92(2): 113-121, April 2003. 6. Marghitu, D. Sankar, C.S.. and Raju, P.K. “Integrating a Real Life Engineering Case Study into the Syllabus of an Undergraduate Network Programming using HTML and Java Course,” Journal of

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

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. Page 11.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Laboratory Development for Robotics and Automation Education Using Internet Based TechnologyAbstract This paper describes laboratory and curriculum development integrated withInternet based robotics and automation for engineering technology education. DrexelUniversity’s Applied Engineering Technology Program received a NSF CCLI grant todevelop a series of laboratory courses in the area of internet based robotics andautomation in manufacturing. The development efforts include industrial partnershipwith Yamaha Robotics, restructured and advanced courses in applied engineeringprogram curriculum, and laboratory activities integrated with network technologies

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it is an integrated system. Students interact with a realmechanical system, and then use that system in a lab setting to touch the concepts that areconveyed in lectures and homework.There are alternate hardware choices for this series of laboratory experiments. Commercialhardware such as force feedback gaming joysticks, Sensable’s Phantom Omni haptic device, andImmersion’s Impulse Engine 2000 provide platforms that can be used off-the-shelf for conveyingsystem dynamics concepts via a haptic device. However, these systems are cost prohibitivecompared to the haptic paddle kits, and do not allow students to study the hardware on acomponent-by-component basis prior to working with the assembled system. The authors areaware of only one other low

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-weekcontinuing education workshop, which will introduce teachers to the microfabricationlaboratory. Here science and math teachers, as well as future science and math teachers,will be exposed to the techniques used to make transistors and integrated circuits. An Page 11.407.6instructional package will be given to workshop attendees to assist them in learningmicroelectronic fabrication techniques. The package would include materials to help theteacher present the fundamentals of microfabrication to the high school and middleschool students. Teaching material in the package will include presentation material suchas PowerPoint presentations and interactive

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focused on EET andCET programs. The electronics discipline is an attractive choice because relatively lowcost components, devices, tools and measurement instrumentation are available. Theauthors investigated the available technology and hardware capable of providing a Page 11.638.2combination of “hands-on”, remote-controlled and/or virtual experiments.[1-9] In thispaper, we analyze the laboratory component in depth and propose a solution.Our premise is that the reason there are no purely distance EET or CET programs isbecause no one has developed a pedagogically effective solution to the laboratorycomponent of the curriculum. The laboratory component

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a combination of events that place the laboratory experience atan evolutionary crossroads. Specifically, the development of ever more complex numericalalgorithms and computer hardware, and the movement to outcome based assessment with theEC2000 criteria. The EC2000 criteria replaced the more prescriptive conventional requirementswith the ability to define your own objectives and methods to achieve them, including in thelaboratory.Computers have been an integral part of engineering since their inception. As they have becomemore powerful, smaller, cheaper, and easier to use their use within the engineering professionand curriculum has grown. As the power of the computer grew the use of numerical techniquesto solve or analyze problems was

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Introductory ThermodynamicsAbstractThis paper describes a laboratory component for a sophomore level introductoryengineering thermodynamics course. The class is core component of the EngineeringScience curriculum at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The introduction of thelab is part of a greater curricular modification to invigorate engineering education atBMCC by integrating real world situations and active-learning based instructions intoclassroom. Thermodynamics is an abstract subject. Many students lack first handexperience with the subject matter. They resort to memorization rather than gaininganalytical understanding of concepts. The Lab component is designed to create anopportunity for students to accumulate

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Daniel Schmidt, Bismarck State College; William Wahlman, Bismarck State College; Zachery Allen, Bismarck State College

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the information in this document may not be new, but it was acquired the hard way:through empirical experimentation. One of the unique properties of this project is that it wasdriven from an Energy Industry instrumentation and control perspective. While originallyfocused on the Energy Industry, an unexpected benefit of this project was the acquisition of newknowledge in many areas including but not limited to, online teaching and learning, research anddevelopment, technology integration into academia, and human machine interface development.This is the main motivating factor in producing this document. If remote laboratories are tobecome a permanent and legitimate part of online education, we need to learn from each other’swork. It is our