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2008 GSW

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James Mayrose; David J. Kukulka

Session 10-1 Cooperative Learning: An Integral Part of Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum James Mayrose, David J. Kukulka State University of New York College at Buffalo AbstractStudents are confronted with an enormous amount of engineering content during their course ofstudy. Due to the tremendous amount of pressure placed upon performance in the way of grades,students often look for ways to “cut corners” or do “just enough” to get a decent grade. Studentswill only learn to master engineering concepts

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2008 GSW

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Ian A. Gravagne; Kenneth W. Van Treuren

Energy and Society was submittedby the authors and eventually selected for development into a course that was offered for the firsttime this past fall. Twenty seven freshmen from a wide diversity of disciplines voluntarily signed upfor the proposed course. The course meets one semester hour for four semesters. Students whoattend the entire course, four semesters, are able to substitute this course for one in their major(agreed upon by the respective curriculum committees prior to the course offering). The firstsemester is an introduction to energy concepts such as work, power and conservation of energy. Thesecond semester deals with energy production (conventional and alternative/renewable) and usage insociety. The third semester looks at the

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Jerry K. Keska

Session XXX 2-2 The Integration of Physical Experimentation Based on NI ELVIS System into an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program Jerry K. Keska Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70506 AbstractThis paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed

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2008 GSW

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Arup Maji; Mahmoud Reda Taha

Engineering and Construction Management. In an attempt to better integratethe Engineering students and Management degree students as well as to seek newefficiency in teaching, the Construction Management students were required to take a 4credit course that was previously required only of the Engineering students. The courseon “Civil Engineering Materials” includes a significant laboratory component and was tobecome the only laboratory course taken by the Construction Management students intheir 4-year curriculum. Starting Fall 2006, the prerequisites and course content werechanged to accommodate the new clientele. The integration proved to be challengingpartly due to the diverse academic background of the two cohorts of students(management and

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2008 GSW

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Sergio Chacon; Mequanint Moges

., Gallardo, V., Barbieri, E., Boggiano, A. and Ramirez, C., 2007, "Development of Hybrid Orientation Program for Instructional Excellence," Proceedings of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, South Padre Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education Island, March 28 -30, 2007, on CD-ROM.4. Moges, A., Yuan, X. and Liu, H., 2007, "Integrating Recent Advances in Sensor Network into Undergraduate Curriculum via Hybrid Deliveries of Lecture and Laboratory," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu

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Debra Pearson

assignments be evaluated?) • Internships (Issues to consider: Will an internship be required for completion of curriculum? Will the university provide the infrastructure needed to develop and inform students of opportunities? Will the internship be individual or will an entire multi-disciplinary team be hired to solve a problem in industry? What accountability measures are in place to insure a high qualify assignment?) • Work abroad programs (Issues to consider: Will the university provide direct assistance in terms of developing opportunities, obtaining work visas, and preparing students to work in another culture? Or will an external organization be used to provide such services? Will the work abroad program be

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2008 GSW

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George D. Gray

Improve Retention,” Proceedings of the 1995 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education 95 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.7. Sleeman, K., Sorby, S., 2007, “Effective Retention Strategies for Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education- Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright ©2008, American Society for Engineering Education ICEE 2007 Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, September 3-7, 2007.8. Lamancusa, J.S., Jorgensen, J.E., Zayas-Castro, J.L., 1997, “The Learning Factory-A New Approach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into the Engineering Curriculum”, Journal

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Carol Costello; August Allo

the assignedengineering documents and presentations delivered to the class, which have risen to thelevel of industry quality. As UTSA is the third largest Hispanic-serving institution in theU. S., the results are further underscored by the fact that 42% of the design students areclassified as ESL (English as a second language); 34% of the class is bilingual Spanish-English. Methodology of motivating minorities is discussed. IntroductionIn an effort to continuously improve the quality of education, the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department (ECE) has made revisions to the curriculum for the capstonedesign courses required of all senior year ECE majors, which is a two semester course ofstudy, Design I

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2008 GSW

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Ian A. Gravagne; Kenneth Van Treuren

security become ever more importantto Americans, engineering schools that have not traditionally focused on energy are moving toaddress the topic more formally. At Baylor University, an “energy core” of technical electives isbeing developed, including courses on wind energy, solar energy, power systems, turbines andcombustion engines. This paper documents the authors’ observations on the use of the TRNSYSsimulation software package in a senior/graduate elective on solar energy. The paper givesexamples of the types of projects students do using TRNSYS, how it can be used in theclassroom, and some suggestions for educators considering its use in future courses.Comparisons are made between projects completed using general-purpose numerical

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2008 GSW

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Matthias W. Pleil

Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico Thor D. Osborn Sandia National Laboratories AbstractThis paper will showcase an innovative approach to creating interest in microsystemsengineering processing and design at the community college undergraduate level. Thisproject based curriculum begins to address some of the economic competitiveness issuesraised in the recent National Academy of Sciences report “Rising Above the GatheringStorm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future,” and theNational Academy of Engineering’s “Engineer of 2020.” Common points raised includethe students

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2008 GSW

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel Ramos

highereducation that tout the benefits of this approach especially with regard to enhancingundergraduate instruction. This paper demonstrates how the Senior Capstone course(ELET 4308) in Computer Engineering Technology paralleled historical efforts toincorporate research-based learning in the undergraduate curriculum, thus anticipatingUniversity efforts in this area. The paper also examines the current state of the SeniorCapstone course and relation to the University Quality Enhancement Plan. IntroductionThe current emphasis on undergraduate research as an instructional tool can be traced tothe landmark Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: ABlueprint for America’s Research Universities. A

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2008 GSW

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Marwan Al-Haik; Zayd Leseman; Claudia Luhrs; Mahmoud Reda Taha

. Undergraduate research studentshave been an integral part of this curriculum development project. During this class students gainedhands-on experience operating a Nano Test Systems, atomic force microscopes (AFM), andfabricating nanocomposites based on ceramic nanoparticles.During these module students from Mechanical and Chemical Engineering were involved inapplying three dental fillers (silver, ionomer and epoxy) to cavity in human teeth using theassistance of a local dentist. Students prepared the sample (cutting, polishing) and ran severalnanoindentation tests to examine the hardness and modulus for these materials. Students also carriedout nano-fatigue tests to test the integrity of the filler/dentine interface. Upon submission the abstractof this

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2008 GSW

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E. H. Shaban

Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education Summary and conclusionPlacing the communication course in the curriculum as a requirement for graduation inundergraduate general electrical engineering degree is neither beneficial to the students nor to theenhancement of the curriculum. The communication course can be expanded in two or morecourses and placed as an elective for those who would like to pursue a communication career andgraduate education. This should be case in many other disciplines that have traditionally beenpart of the electrical engineering program and have emerged as a standalone disciplines suchbiomedical engineering, electronic devices and integrated circuits, computer science

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2008 GSW

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Steve Menhart

design course, however for manydigital applications microcontrollers provide a very cost effective solution in a compact package.This paper examines the tradeoffs and suitability of CPLDs, Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGAs), microcontrollers, and their associated software for digital applications typically taughtin a digital design course in an engineering technology program. IntroductionIn typical electronics and computer engineering technology curriculums (and similarly forengineering) programmable devices fall into either of two tracks. The first would includeCPLDs and FPGAs, and would be used to implement combinational logic, sequential logic, andstate machines, etc. The second would be comprised of

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2008 GSW

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August Allo; Carol Costello

Computer Engineering isnot part of the curriculum of many high schools; thus, students are not exposed to this field ofstudy. Many high school students have misconceptions of engineering, a complete lack ofunderstanding of “what it means to be an engineer”, and/or feel they are incapable of achievingsuch high aspirations. The University of Texas at San Antonio is the third largest Hispanic-serving institution in the U.S. One of the goals of the University is to recruit disadvantagedstudents and underrepresented minorities, especially those who are the first generation, to attain adegree in higher education. To this end, the authors, in collaboration with the College ofEducation and Human Development’s Academy for Teaching Excellence have created a

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2008 GSW

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Susan M. Bogus; Kerry J. Howe

project. Both courses require studentsto integrate the knowledge they have gained from their undergraduate curriculum into solving a real-life problem. In both courses, the project is a real project in progress at a local engineering or Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationconstruction company, and engineers or construction managers from the company act as mentors tothe students.2The challenge with using real-life projects is that project approaches are always changing. Onefairly recent change in the way that civil engineering projects are delivered is the

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2008 GSW

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Benjamin S. Kelley; Adam P. Ecklund; Aaron Dabney

the second summersession, participating students will take a regularly scheduled math class and a second class that isnontechnical. Further, they will reside in the residence hall that during the academic year houses theECS Living-Learning Center. Baylor’s Foster Success Center will assign a graduate student to workwith these students, and Success Center staff, and the ECS Student Success Specialist, willcoordinate other community and academic enrichment activities. Again, it will be a balancing act toencourage students to participate in this enrichment program that will improve their chances ofpersisting in an ECS curriculum, versus an unintended result of actually increasing the enrollmentyield within the at-risk admitted population

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2008 GSW

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Edward Crowley

curriculum developer,with several challenges. These challenges include defining the applied cryptographycourse with respect to course goals, scope, content, and organization. While there arewell-established cryptography courses offered in the Computer Science and Mathematicsdisciplines, these classes tend to focus on mathematical foundations rather than servicesand applications. Consequently, the developer of such courses finds that resourcesparticularly those relating to “hands-on” activities are lacking.For a lab module designer, creating modules that support an applied cryptography classpresents several unique challenges. For example, the choice of laboratory softwarepresents a unique challenge. This is especially true since most commercial

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2008 GSW

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Miguel A Ramos; Mayuri Mahajan; Vishal Naik; Aditya Gupta

] Software SkillsThe software skill is an integral part of the project in this lab. The various skills learnedby students are applied by them to a real project in this lab. Their skills are enhanced asthe semester progresses, as can be seen from Figure 6 They are provided with hands ontraining on MS Project. Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education Software Skills, Fall 2007 10

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2008 GSW

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Ronald E. Barr; J.P. Mohsen; Jane M. Fraser; Amir Karimi; Nelson A. Macken; John A. Stratton; John J. Uhran, Jr.; Sandra A. Yost

John A. Stratton Rochester Institute of Technology John J. Uhran, Jr. University of Notre Dame Sandra A. Yost University of Detroit Mercy Abstract During the 2006-2007 academic year, ASEE hosted a series of panel sessions at theannual ASEE Section and Zone meetings to involve the membership in an activity called the“Year of Dialog” (YOD). The central theme of the YOD was to focus on “The Scholarship ofEngineering Education (SEE).” The ASEE Zone and Section leaders were charged to organize aYOD session at each of the twelve

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2008 GSW

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Mario Ortiz; Professor Andrea Mammoli; Professor Peter Vorobief

bromide absorption chiller in the summer and flows through heating coils in the winter,providing cooling and heating respectively. To overcome problems associated with intermittentinsolation, an insulated concrete tank is used for hot thermal storage. Additional concrete tankswithout insulation are used to store chilled water. These cold storage tanks are used as theprimary chilled water source to meet the cooling load, while the absorption chiller providesadditional cooling during peak load periods. The cold storage tanks are cooled by a district chillerat night when district chilled water demand and the cost of electricity are low. TRNSYS, atransient systems simulation program with a modular structure, is used to model and predictoptimal

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2008 GSW

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Richard Bannerot

nomeasurable differences in testing performances among the three classes, but a positivecorrelation was demonstrated between better homework or quiz grades and testing grades.Copies of example of quizzes and an example project are provided. The results from studentsurveys indicate fairly strong support for the quizzes over homework and the use of a websiteover a more tradition format for the course. However, almost 25% of the students prefer a moretradition course format of weekly homework and writing on the board. IntroductionThe ultimate skill to be learned in an undergraduate engineering curriculum is “problemsolving.” Since essentially all engineering (and science) classes are limited to a narrowdiscipline

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2008 GSW

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Gary Rubendall; Sergio Chacon; Mequanint Moges

Technology Laboratory and the College ofTechnology’s test bed as well as junior and senior level laboratories in the Department of EngineeringTechnology of the University of Houston’s College of Technology. His main research interests areconverged networks, voice over IP, and network security.MEQUANINT MOGESDr. Moges joined the faculty at the University of Houston, College of Technology in august 2005, where heis presently an instructional assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Technology. Dr. Mogeshas taught various courses at various levels such as ones basic circuits, embedded systems, sensornetworks, data communications, computer networks and telecommunications. He is also actively involvedin curriculum development and revision