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Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-879: PLANNING A LIVING-BUILDING LABORATORY (BUILDING ASA LABORATORY) THAT WILL INTEGRATE WITH ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY CURRICULUMJason Durfee, Eastern Washington University JASON DURFEE received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. He holds a Professional Engineer certification. Prior to teaching at Eastern Washington University he was a military pilot, an engineering instructor at West Point and an airline pilot. His interests include aerospace, aviation, professional ethics and piano technology. Page 12.1156.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Regena Scott, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1743: IMPLEMENTING HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXERCISES INUNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONRegena Scott, Purdue University A Ph.D. student in the Industrial Technology Department at Purdue University, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies at California State University Long Beach and her Master of Science at Purdue University. Prior to returning to academia, Regena spent 20-years in the aerospace industry. During that time she worked in contract administration, in training and executive development and as a senior executive administrator. Since coming to Purdue, Regena has participated in a variety of research projects and as a conference presenter both in the U.S. and

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1359: LABORATORY ENHANCEMENTS FOR IMPROVINGEMBEDDED SYSTEMS EDUCATIONRocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College Rocio Alba-Flores received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at the State University of New York, Alfred. Her main areas of interest include control systems, robotics, digital systems, microprocessors, and signal and image processing. Page 12.998.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Laboratory Enhancements for Improving Embedded Systems

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston-Downtown

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Engineering Technology

Education, 2007 Student Automobile Engines Used in Applied Thermodynamics LaboratoryIntroductionThis paper describes the experience of a professor with extensive testing background teaching aThermodynamics course that was unpopular with students because of lack of tangible conceptsand applications. He compared the experience that students had in courses in structural designwhere students were building and testing beams and had the opportunity to see cracks anddeformations of structures at failure with the one of students in thermodynamics, an esoteric fieldthat includes difficult to understand concepts such as enthalpy and entropy. The thermodynamicscourse offered in the past lacked practical laboratory

Conference Session

Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Richard Harris, Sandia National Laboratories

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-2502: A HOLISTIC REVIEW OF MECHANICAL DESIGNCURRICULUM IN AN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMJyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University Jyhwen Wang joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 2001 after working 10 years as a researcher and R&D manager in steel industry. He teaches mechanical design applications and his research interest is in the areas of mechanical design and material processing technology. He received his Ph. D. degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University.Richard Harris, Sandia National Laboratories Rick Harris is Manager of Mechanical Design within the Weapons Engineering division of

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eva Graham, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Engineering Technology

2004. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she led research efforts on various robotic projects. Following this, she joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2005 and founded the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Laboratory. In addition, she is actively involved in inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists through active mentoring and training.Eva Graham, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Eva Graham is the current manager of NASA/JPL’s Minority Education Initiatives, in which she works to make sure that groups typically underrepresented in science and engineering will have a chance at success. She began

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John Hackworth, Old Dominion University; Richard Jones, Old Dominion University; June Ritchie, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

, California.June Ritchie, Old Dominion University JUNE RITCHIE is a Senior Instructional Designer and Instructor for the Center for Learning Technologies in the Old Dominion University Office of Distance Learning. She joined the staff of Old Dominion University in 1999. Page 12.1031.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Managing a Distance-Learning EET Laboratory Course Using Collaboration SoftwareAbstractMethods of managing various distance learning EET laboratory courses using collaborationsoftware are detailed. Particular emphasis is given to different types of

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Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Rajadas, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University

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Engineering Technology

educationalfacilities needed may be too expensive to build while research facilities are not available, or evenappropriate, for undergraduate education. In the development of the facility described in thispaper, that of a low speed wind tunnel, the approach has been to ensure that the laboratory isadequate to address representative engineering problems, and adaptable enough for the student tolearn how to solve new problems by the suitable arrangement of models and instrumentation.The Wind Tunnel Teaching Facility at ASU PolytechnicMechanical and Aeronautical engineering technology programs deal with problems that areassociated with the interactions between fluids and other aspects of engineering. For example,the performance analysis of an aircraft will need

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; David Spang, Burlington County College; Alexander Genis, G I I, Inc.; Tony Midora, PMT, Inc.

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-251: DEVELOPMENT OF NDE LABORATORY FOR AET STUDENTSAND CERTIFICATION PROGRAMVladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis, Associate Professor and Program Director of Applied Engineering Technology in the Goodwin College, Drexel University, taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, biomedical engineering, and acoustics. His research interests include ultrasound wave propagation and scattering, ultrasound imaging, electronic instrumentation, piezoelectric transducers, and engineering education. He serves as a member of the Drexel’s Faculty Senate.David Spang, Burlington County College Dr. David I. Spang, the Dean of Science

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Tarek Abdel-Salam; Mohammed Faruqi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Engineering Technology

of Adaptive Control, Neuro –fuzzy systems, Internet based Teleoperational systems and Robotics &Automation.Mohammed Faruqi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Faruqi is an associate professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Texas A & M University-Kingsville. His interests are: engineering education, and applications of composites to concrete structures. Page 12.981.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 INTRODUCING THERMAL AND FLUID SYSTEMS TO INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS WITH HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXPERIENCEAbstractThis paper describes a thermal-fluid

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-206: A LABORATORY EXERCISE TO DEMONSTRATE HOW TOEXPERIMENTALLY DETERMINE THE OPERATING POINT FOR A FANRobert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie Robert Edwards is currently a Lecturer in Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at Erie where he teaches Statics, Dynamics, and Fluid and Thermal Science courses. He earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Gannon University. Page 12.55.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Laboratory Exercise to Demonstrate How to Experimentally

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1761: INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF ANENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR ASUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY: AGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTKathryne Newton, Purdue UniversityEdie Schmidt, Purdue University Page 12.905.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Instructional Development in Support of an Enterprise Resource PlanningSoftware Application for a Supply Chain Management Technology Laboratory: A Graduate Student ProjectAbstractThe XXX Program, within the Department of YYYin the ZZZ (ZZZ) at WWW University,has recently developed a Supply Chain Management Technology (SCMT) Laboratory.Supply chain

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Sheyman, Wayne State University

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Engineering Technology

distance coursesbecause the technological innovations have open up new vistas to be explored inimparting education. Probably, there is not a universal approach how to use the Internetto introduce the various scientific disciplines. One of the biggest hurdles to offeringdistance courses to undergraduates is requirement of the laboratories. This paperpresents an example of the computer simulation of the thermodynamics laboratoryexperiments for undergraduate students. It also presents some ways in which eachstudent should do independent laboratory work and should not obtain extraordinary helpon this work that will have being on his/her true grade. It provides a further step into therealm of introduction the thermodynamics course on the

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manocher Djassemi

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Engineering Technology

A Hands-on Approach To Teaching CAD/CAM for Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping ApplicationsAbstractThis paper describes an integrated laboratory-oriented course IT445 in computer-aideddesign/manufacturing and computer numerical control. Teaching this subject in an 11-week ofacademic quarter is a challenging task requiring a combination of instructional delivery methods.We used a hands-on learning approach involving in-class computer-based exercises and team-based laboratory projects. The course content is designed around four major subjects: softwarefamiliarization, hardware familiarization, design and manufacturing integration, and industrialapplications. The author will share his observations and experience with

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

contain both lecture andhands-on laboratory design work in the same course time period. Its format was coined the“lecture-laboratory venue.” The folks at this luncheon meeting all agreed that it was a uniqueidea that had merit. At that moment the College of Engineering dean happened to walk into thismeeting. As he inquired as to what was going on, one of the folks at the meeting explained thatProfessor Tapper had a new idea that had merit and would be an excellent way to help revitalizethe electrical engineering technology program. Interestingly enough, the first words from thedean in response to this was, “What is it going to cost me..?” This seemed like an interestingcomment in that the dean had no idea of the details of our preceding

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Massoud Moussavi, California Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

androuting in cheap designs. While optics has become a vitalpart of electronics, it has unfortunately been absent in mostfour-year college/university engineering technologyprograms. The Electronic and Computer EngineeringTechnology (ECET) program at California StatePolytechnic University - Pomona (CalPoly-Pomona) hasrecognized this deficiency and in order to help alleviate thisproblem joined the NSF funded PHOTON2 project (1). ThePHOTON2 project is a New England Board of HigherEducation (NEBHE) sponsored program (2). By workingclosely with NEBHE, ECET program developed a seniorlevel photonic course using modified PHOTON2 materialsand laboratory experiments. This course uses optical andlaser components and equipment supplied by PHOTON2project. This

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

additional laboratory science courses and mathematicscourses through calculus, as well as traditional engineering science courses such asthermodynamics and fluid mechanics. The four Motrosports Engineering minor courses are usedas major courses in the curriculum. The Old Dominion University courses will be offered inMartinsville both live and through ODU’s TELETECHNET satellite television distance learningsystem. Laboratories for the Motorsports Technology courses will be uniquely situated at theVirginia International Speedway in Martinsville and at the NASA Langley Windtunnel facility(operated by ODU), in Hampton, Virginia. Plans are to initiate the program in the Fall 2007, asfunding becomes available. This paper will describe the detailed

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati; James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management positions in industry working for such companies as Battelle's Columbus Laboratories, Rockwell International, and Claspan Corporation. He joined the University of Cincinnati in 1985.Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati Max Rabiee is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1987. Dr. Rabiee has been a registered professional engineer since 1988, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

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Engineering Technology

for residue streams resulting from biofuel manufacturing operations. He is formerly an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, in the Department of Technology. He received the Faculty of the Year award in 2002 sponsored by the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. Page 12.1146.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Partnership in Undergraduate Research ExperiencePractical laboratory and work experience has been helpful in reinforcing the undergraduateeducational experience. With limited resources, individual organizations may struggle to give

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

/her academic field of study and ismade up of the following courses: Fundamentals of Biology, Molecular Biology andGenetics, Cell Biology, Biotechnology Laboratory courses, Compliance, Process QualityControl, and Bioinformatics Technology. The minor is available to any ---- Universitystudent majoring in any four-year degree baccalaureate degree program, i.e., science,technology, agriculture, pharmacy. The purpose of the minor is to offer the graduates ofthese four-year programs the basic knowledge and understanding of life-science basedproducts, processes, and product quality to seek employment opportunities in the area ofbiotechnology and biotech-manufacturing. The biotechnology minor aims to provide aUniversity-wide opportunity for

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Omar Zia, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

. Improve information exchange by creating a centralized Internet repository for educational materials. These materials should include tutorials, exercises, case studies, examples and histories, as well as laboratory exercises, software, manuals etc. 8. Encourage the development of www-based initiatives for technical information dissemination to industrial users of control systems and encourage the transfer of practical industrial experience to the classroom.Only two of these recommendations (1 and 6) may be difficult to satisfy in ET programs. Therest can be easily implemented in any ET program. One of the fundamental strengths of ETundergraduate program is the emphasis placed on laboratory work. Recommendation # 4

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand, farahmandfar@ccsu.edu

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Engineering Technology

availability, learning about VoIP, its protocols, and underlyingtechnologies can be considered as valuable academic investment. Consequently,engineering, IT, and technology students who are familiar with these concepts can beready for the future competitive job market.Unfortunately, as in many other universities and colleges, at Central Connecticut StateUniversity we offer no specific courses on VoIP technology. In fact, in the currentnetworking and IT curriculums, we don’t even cover the topic of Voice-over-IP.Consequently, many of our graduates and undergraduate students have very littleunderstanding of VoIP and its underlying technologies.In this paper we present a simple VoIP laboratory experiment that can be integrated in theclassroom. As an

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Devine, University of Notre Dame - College of Engineering

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Engineering Technology

semester of the course bynot only traditional means common in many surveying courses and but also new assignments andactivities. The current textbook used in the course covers the subject matter in the secondchapter. An active classroom exercise is used to bring the experience of the subject matter intothe classroom when covering this chapter. Laboratory exercises for the course still utilize thesteel tape. Thus, error corrections for temperature can be used to reinforce the concept of error.An Internet investigation assignment is used to get students to search beyond the class textbookand reinforce the types of error that occur with EDM and GPS equipment. Level survey workboth in the classroom and laboratory always involve “closing the circuit

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

all three of the above degreeprograms. The author’s describes how his industrial experience helped him shape aninterdisciplinary course that challenges the student to be creative and build on the strengths ofhis/her fellow students in four degree fields. The student of today needs to be more “Job Ready”and not just “know the theory” if he/she is to compete for the jobs of tomorrow. This includesbeing able to work in interdisciplinary groups to accomplish project goals. The use of selfdirected laboratory experiences can keep the students engaged and active in learning the courseobjectives. The use of laboratory teams made up of the different degree programs more closelysimulates the reality of autonomous interdisciplinary design teams in

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Ayush Bhardwaj, Savannah State University; Crystal Reeves, Savannah State University; William Lehman, St. Mary School; Sylvester Chukwukere, Savannah State University; Shinemin Lin, Savannah State University

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Engineering Technology

called a lecture-and-labenvironment. This environment traditionally uses lectures on subject matter and is supplementedby laboratory experience. If the laboratory experiments are not generating the expected results,very often the whole experiment needs to be repeated. The unexpected results could be due tofaulty components, incorrect design specifications, or improper connections. Nonetheless,implementing a circuit in the lab with undesired output might be time consuming. However,having an electronics simulator will enable the students as well as the instructor to analyze theperformance of a circuit prior to implementing the actual hardware components.This paper investigates design, simulation and implementation of a decade counter using

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

courses are taught by individuals with extensive academic knowledge butrather limited industrial experience. They are theoretical experts but often lack the practicalexposure that is also required to be a successful practicing engineer. Even the assignments,laboratory experiments, and projects reflect this academic slant to their engineering education.Traditionally this is how engineering classes are taught focusing on theoretical solutions tohypothetical problems. The real world engineering perspective is classically absent or minimal atbest from the coursework and curriculum. However, the importance of this real worldengineering experience cannot be overlooked.Two seasoned engineering professors in the Engineering & Design (E&D

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; Eric Benson, University of Delaware; Lawrence Hotchkiss, University of Delaware; William Balascio, University of Delaware

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Engineering Technology

that of the average college course. Reading assignments frequently requirescrutiny of detailed example problems. To encourage deeper levels of understanding as outlinedin Bloom’s taxonomy4, considerable emphasis is usually placed on active learning in the form ofproblem sets, laboratories, and design projects.On end-of-semester course evaluations, ET students at the authors’ institution frequently rate thetime commitment to their ET courses as considerably above average. Students direct commentsto instructors indicating that they perceive their course work loads to be heavy. At the sametime, instructor observations suggest that some students make inefficient use of their out-of-classtime. This study was initiated to accomplish two primary

Conference Session

Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Uhlig, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University; John Watson, National University; Howard Evans, National University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-2815: EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION OF AN ONLINE ENGINEERINGCOURSERonald Uhlig, National University Dr. Ronald P. Uhlig is currently an Associate Professor in the Applied Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Technology, National University. He is the Lead Faculty for Wireless Communications, with overall responsibility for the Master of Science in Wireless Communications program. In addition, he is leading the effort to establish a multidisciplinary Educational Technology Laboratory, joint between National University and Project Inkwell (www.projectinkwell.com) He is also a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell. Prior to joining the National University faculty, he

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jinwen Zhu, Missouri Western State University; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Engineering Technology

. These efforts have led to the emergence of nanotechnology dealing with a widerange of engineering applications at the nano scale. Nanotechnology has future impacts in theapplication markets such as medicine, healthcare, biotechnology, communications, andelectronics. Due to rapid development and broad impact of nanotechnology, education andtraining of a new generation of workforce skilled in this field will play an important role in thedevelopment and applications of nanotechnology. It is a challenge for educators, especially forengineering technology educators, to provide an appropriate curriculum and effective learningenvironment including state-of-the-art laboratories for students who want to enter the nano fieldafter their graduation. This

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Technology

Experimental Systems through Student Projects to Enhance the Automation Curriculum in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program.AbstractThe use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in industry is on therapid increase, especially with developments of modular instruments and sensors that are easilycontrolled through Ethernet or other industry network standards. The need for skilled personnelto implement and utilize these systems is also increasing. Courses which incorporate SCADAapplications are offered widely across the nation and in many colleges. These courses ofteninclude theory and laboratory component in which students learn how to implement and programthese systems. By providing an