elective(s) in unit operations could be Table 1: Suggested Traditional Chemical Engineering Curriculum Required Subjects Basic Sciences basic skills/freshman class math material and energy balances chemistry thermodynamics physics fluid mechanics biology heat transfer mass transfer/separations Possible Electives transport phenomena§ safety reaction engineering biochemical engineering control materials/polymers unit operations laboratory class(es
and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. His teaching interests are vibrations, CAD/CAM/CAE, and engineering design. Research interests include engineering education pedagogy and use of computer-aided engineering applications for design. Page 11.397.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Design and Implementation of a Probe Station as a Capstone ProjectAbstractA probe station is an essential piece of equipment used in semiconductor wafer testing. Itprovides a platform for the
2006-2500: PREPARING FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: A GRASS-ROOTSAPPROACH TO ENHANCING K-12 EDUCATIONKenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University Kenneth Hunter is currently Associate Professor of Basic Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He has over 30 years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, a government laboratory, and his own consulting business. He is a licensed P.E. in the State of Tennessee.Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University Jessica Matson is currently Professor and Chair of the Industrial and
. Page 11.974.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Open Source Software and Live Linux CDs: Elements of Successful Lab ModulesIntroductionIn addition to the intellectual effort, hands-on lab development can require substantial budget,labor, and laboratory resources. Often, commercial software can require a significant budgetcommitment. At the same time, system configuration and software installation can also require asignificant labor commitment. In many colleges, incorporating laboratory activities into a classnecessitates the dedication of a physical room to a single course section. In many environments,obtaining the necessary budget, labor, and room resources for hands-on lab modules
f. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility h. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context j. a knowledge of contemporary issuesare directly related to the issues proposed in this paper.22Incorporating international development within a service learning context in the engineeringcurriculum provides a learning/teaching paradigm by which engineering programs candemonstrate they are addressing ABET Criteria 3c, 3f, 3h, and 3j. Civil, systems, environmental,agricultural and power engineering programs are engineering majors most suited to address theseissues. However, chemical, biomedical, electrical and
. Page 11.239.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Assessing Student Comprehension in a Windows 2003 Server Project Through the Use of a PortfolioAbstractLike many subjects, the teaching of Windows 2003 server can be filled with rich detail andinformation that can be quickly lost by the student without proper reinforcement. In the past,hands-on instruction of computer servers has been done with step-by-step laboratories. Theselaboratories act as a “cookbook” for the student as they process each step of the recipe. Studentsusing these “cookbook” methods concentrate more on completing the required steps thanactually synthesizing the learned information. This paper discusses the use of portfolios in aWindows
Bridge Decks”, Intl. SAMPE Technical Conf., p. 2903 (2004).10. K. C. Chen, B. London, L. Vanasupa, T.T Orling, and L. Christensen, “Travelogue from the Materials World: A First Week Laboratory Activity”, ASEE Annual Conf. Proc., 3664 (2004).11. W. D. Callister, Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, (2001).12. PRIME website: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/13. M. Alley, M. Schreiber, and J. Muffo, “Pilot Testing of a New Design for Presentation Slides to Teach Science and Engineering,” 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conf., T1A-1 (2005).14. S. Krause, J.L. Decker, J.L. Niska, T.L. Alford, and R. Griffin, “Identifying Student
Stanford (d.school), an initiative lead by Professor David Kelley (co-Founder of IDEO Product Development). He has published in the areas of diagnostic electro-physiology, functional assessment of voluntary movement, human operator information processing, rehabilitation© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 robotics, design team protocol analysis, design knowledge management, and concurrent engineering. A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, he taught product design, created the smart product design (mechatronics) curriculum at Stanford, and most recently teaches a graduate course in "Team-Based Design Innovation with Corporate Partners"; a Design Theory and
identify the program as a highlight of their freshman year, both academically andsocially, and they report that it has had a strong impact both on the work they choose to do asupperclassmen and on the way in which they do it. (2006 is the first year in which a Terrascopeclass will graduate, so we do not yet have any data on post-graduation activity.)The authors of this paper include a co-director of ESI/Terrascope (Hodges), faculty responsiblefor teaching the Terrascope classes (Bras, Epstein and Hodges) and an associate director ofMIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory (Lipson) who has been conducting research on thesocial and educational outcomes of Terrascope and its MIT antecedents since before theprogram’s formal inception. The program is
), accessed January 2006.8. Thompson, E. “Project for Signal Processing Course,” Department of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University - Fort Wayne, Personal Communication (2005).9. Moor, S, “Case Study: Renovating a Computer Teaching Laboratory for Active and Cooperative Learning,” ASEE 2006 Illinois-Indiana and North Central Joint Section Conference, (Fort Wayne, IN).10. Moor, S. “Music in MATLAB,” http://www.engr.ipfw.edu/~moor/music/.11. Peterson, M., “Resources to accompany Musical Analysis and Synthesis in MATLAB,” http://amath.colorado.edu/pub/matlab/music/, November 2005, accessed January 2006.12. University of Jyväskylä, “MIDI Toolbox contents,” http://www.jyu.fi/musica/miditoolbox/index.html, ©2004
the ASEE Meryl K. Miller Award in 1994.Susan Scachitti, Purdue University-Calumet Susan is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. She holds degrees in Industrial Engineering Technology from the University of Dayton and a MBA in Management from North Central College. She teaches TQM and consults in the area of continuous improvement. Sue is past chair of the IE Division of ASEE and formerly served as division chair, program chair, newsletter editor, and treasurer. She has served as a TAC/ABET commissioner since 2003 and program accreditation evaluator since 2001. This year she is a TAC alternate commissioner representing IIE.Lash Mapa
2006-62: HUMANITARIAN DESIGN PROJECTS: HELPING CHILDREN WITHCEREBRAL PALSYCraig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979, and his Ph.D. in 1982, all in engineering from UCLA.Brian
, Old Dominion University Richard Jones has been teaching at ODU since 1994. He is a retired United States Navy Submarine Service Lt. Commander with sub-specialties in Ballistic Missile, Torpedo, Sonar, and Radio systems. Richard has previously taught Mechanical Engineering Design at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He holds an ASEET from Cameron University, a BSEET from Oklahoma State University, and a Master of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.William Stanley, Old Dominion University William D. Stanley, Eminent
.IntroductionSeveral different avenues currently exist to augment the education of undergraduate studentswithin the private sector. Internships and co-operative agreements are two of the more commoninteractions that provide students a preliminary look at the world they will be working in aftergraduation. However, these avenues do little to provide young, energetic and capable men andwomen the opportunity to experience the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, especiallyin small start-up environments. To address this issue, several institutions have begun offeringcoursework designed to introduce students to entrepreneurial concepts.1,2 However, whilecoursework is a good start, to effectively teach entrepreneurship to students the private sectormust
2006-836: A MANUFACTURING PROCESSES COURSE WITH A MIXEDLEARNING COMMUNITY AND NON-LEARNING COMMUNITY AUDIENCE:QUANTITATIVE RESULTSMario Castro-Cedeno, Rochester Institute of Technology Mario H. Castro-Cedeno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Packaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. He teaches courses in introduction to manufacturing, materials technology and computer aided design to engineering technology undergraduates. Before joining RIT in December of 2003 he accumulated 30 years of engineering and management experience at various firms, including NASA and General Electric. Mr
2006-1671: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN CLASSROOMENVIRONMENTFarid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State University F. Farahmand is currently with the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technology department at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. He is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has several years of teaching and industry experience combined with research background in optical and sensor networks.Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, Central Connecticut State University V. Rajaravivarma is currently with the Computer Electronics and Graphics Technology department at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. Previously, he was with
Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University, in Brookings, SD, where he has been instrumental in developing an internationally competitive value-added food and bioprocessing research program. He has been involved in teaching several undergraduate and graduate courses in food and bioprocess engineering for the last nine years. He was formerly a Research Associate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Page 11.278.1© American Society for Engineering
year-long design course. This courseplays the critical role of keeping students engaged in engineering while giving them experiencesthat have been shown to promote retention (see discussion below under “Utilization of BestPractices”).Each year of the curriculum has themes that we plan to emphasize. These are shown in Figure 2.In the first two years, we emphasize engineering basics and systems thinking. Two courses inthe sophomore year have been added to promote these themes and two existing laboratories wereadjusted. The two sophomore-level courses are Materials Selection for the Life Cycle, andNanotechnology, Biology, Ethics and Society. Both courses emphasize systems thinking, thefirst in the design process, the second through articulating
Committee, US government, and eight foreign nations.Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Stephen Williams is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri in 1990 and has 20 years of experience across the corporate, government, and university sectors. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. He teaches courses in control systems, electronic design, and electromechanics.Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Mossbrucker is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering
incorporate feedback from this teaching of the courseand from the follow-on project to improve students' application and written communication ofparametric design techniques.1 J. A. Newell, D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communicationskills across and integrated laboratory sequence," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 31, pp. 116-119, 1997. Page 11.281.122 D. K. Ludlow and K. H. Schulz, "Writing across the chemical engineering curriculum at the University of NorthDakota," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, pp. 161, 1994.3 N. Van Orden, "Is writing an effective way to learn
another two years take the Sijil PelajaranMalaysia (SPM). The Malaysian Government has recently recognised that the country's economicsuccess is directly related to the capability of the population in foreign languages and technicalknowledge. English Language is being re-introduced as a medium of instruction for teaching ofscience and mathematics in both primary (grades K-7) and secondary (grades 8-11). English hasalways been one of the compulsory SPM subjects. Following SPM, students can then continue tostudy for two years to obtain their Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM). The STPM allowsstudents to matriculate for university entry.The first case study, between Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and Tunku Abdul RahmanCollege (TARC) has
received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998 and his B.S. from WPI in 1992. Among his areas of interest are use of computing and process simulation in the curriculum. He has received the 2005 Raymond W. Fahien Award, the 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award and the 2002 PIC-III Award from ASEE.Richard Zollars, Washington State University DICK ZOLLARS is a professor in, and director of, the School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has been teaching engineering for 27 years. His interests are colloidal/interfacial phenomena and reactor design
2006-1822: FRESHMAN COURSE ON SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETYHilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University Hilkat S. Soysal received a law degree from University of Istanbul, Turkey. She practiced law in private companies and two state universities as a counselor. In 1993, she joined Istanbul University College of Engineering as a Lecturer. While teaching law courses for undergraduate engineering students, she did a graduate study in the Marine Engineering Program and received her M.Sc. degree in 1996. She continued to take graduate courses in marine engineering until she moved to the USA. Between 1997 and 2000, she took various courses in MBA and Computer Science, and engineering at
description and a New Teaching FormatThe ENGE1024 course description is: “Introduction to the profession and the College ofEngineering; foundation material in: problem definition, solution and presentation; design,including hands-on realization working in teams; modeling and visual representation of abstractand physical objects; scientific computation; algorithm development, computer implementationand application; documentation; ethics; professionalism”.9The course is a 2-credit course and all engineering freshmen are required to pass the course witha C- or better grade. Traditionally, this course was taught by EngE faculty using two 50-minlessons every week. In spring 2005, the first two authors took the lead in piloting a new formatinvolving one 50
. Page 11.132.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 "A System Design Integration Approach (SDIA) integrated into the freshman year"Abstract: This research paper demonstrates that design can be easily introduced at thefreshman engineering year with great success and can be continuously integrated at everylevel of the undergraduate curriculum. “Attachment A” summarizes the teaching/learningmethodology for the first-year ECE 1551/1552 course sequence required for the freshmanelectrical/computer engineering and computer science students.This design system approach [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] is developed by the main author as theresult of his involvement in the “Total Quality Management” revolution of the 1980s
2006-266: DEVELOPING A FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING (FE) BASEDCOMPETENCY MODULE FOR A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING COURSEKeith Williamson, East Carolina University Dr. Keith Williamson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Systems at East Carolina University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University. Dr. Williamson’s current research is focused on University/K12 partnerships and thermo-mechanical processing. He was previously on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Old Dominion University.Gene Dixon, East Carolina University Gene Dixon is a faculty member at East Carolina where he teaches professional practices topics to
2006-1007: HOME SCHOOLERS IN AN ENGINEERING/EDUCATION K12OUTREACH PROGRAMLawrence Genalo, Iowa State University LAWRENCE J. GENALO is Professor and Assistant Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. He received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics with Systems Engineering emphasis in 1977, served as Chair for Freshman Programs and DELOS Divisions, and runs the Toying With TechnologySM Program at Iowa State.Jamie Gilchrist, Iowa State University Jamie Gilchrist is a preservice teacher in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction's elementary education program. She is an undergraduate teaching and laboratory assistant for the Toying With
Science I Introduction to essential programming concepts using C. Decomposition of programs into functional units; control structures; fundamental data structures of C; recursion; dynamic memory management; low-level programming. Some exposure to C++. Laboratory practice. (Intended for non-CS/CE majors).4. Cp Sc 1010 Introduction to Unix An introduction to the Unix workstations used in the College of Engineering CADE Lab. Topics include the X Windows system, Unix shell commands, file system issues, text editing with Emacs, accessing the World Wide Web with Netscape, and electronic mail. Self-paced course using online teaching aids.5. Math 1210 or 1270 Calculus I or Accelerated Engineering Calculus I
organizational change resulting in improved student data systems, relevant academic policies, outcomes based curricula, effective programmatic assessment and evaluation strategies, and national and state accreditation. Additionally, Dr. Krueger has owned three companies and currently guides other professionals pursuing entrepreneurship endeavors in both the private and public sectors via her current endeavor Pathways to Performance, Inc. Dr. Krueger’s research interests include educational and organizational assessment and evaluation, teaching and learning engineering within P/K-16 and its application to the college curricula and academic performance standards as a means for
2006-831: CONTENT ASSESSMENT AT THE COURSE LEVELRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20062006-831: CONTENT