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E. H. Shaban

curriculum. The electrical engineering design curriculum is enhanced byoffering the integrated circuit design course elective that provides real, practical, handson experience in circuit design for the graduating seniors. Such projects can either beused as a stand alone cap-stone design or to assist the student to accomplish amultidisciplinary design projects in collaboration with other engineering disciplines. IntroductionABET program criteria for electrical engineering curriculum require that the curriculummust provide the depth and breadth across the range of engineering topics implied by thetitle of the program [1]. The acquired knowledge in the program should allow the studentto analyze and design complex

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Paul Ruchhoeft

Introducing Emerging Technology into the Engineering Curriculum Through Capstone Projects Paul Ruchhoeft Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard Bannerot, Ross Kastor, and Gangbing Song Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractIn the one semester, three engineering department, capstone design course taught in theCullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, multidisciplinary teamswork on design projects provided by local industry and the faculty. A rich source of gooddesign problems associated with

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Chau Kim Tran; Amir Karimi

fashion, isentropic relations can be determined by integrating explicitlyequations (67) or (68). The resulting equation was presented earlier as equation (60): (γ m −1) / γ m T ⎛P⎞ =⎜ ⎟ T0 ⎜⎝ P0 ⎟⎠The mixture specific heat c p is the weighted average specific heats of vapor and carriergases. With the effective area ratio of a given nozzle from the calibration expressed byequation (61), the steady, one-dimensional equilibrium flow of an inviscid, thermallyperfect gas is described by the set of algebraic equations, equations (62), (64), (65), (66)and (68) where the integrals in equations (66) and (68

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Eyad Masad; Dan Zollinger

Masad and Zollinger 2004 ASEE Annual Conference-Gulf Southwest Section Integrated Approach for Teaching Laboratory Courses and Basic Properties of Construction Materials By Eyad Masad and Dan Zollinger Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3136 Tel: 979 845 8308 Fax: 979 845 0278 Email: 979 845 8308 ABSTRACTA common course in the curriculum of civil

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

their objectives. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering included laboratorywork as an integral part of the course, but out-of-class team effort was required in others. Thesense of belonging to a department was seen to aid in retention not only in the department but inengineering. An early opportunity for name and face recognition was seen as important for thestudent’s identification with the college.Disadvantages were also evident in this course structure. Students interested in engineering butwho had not yet decided on a major were nonetheless asked to choose a freshman course fortheir first semester at UTA. If they later decided on a different major, the freshman course in thenew major had to be taken. Furthermore, no course provided an

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Ahmed Musa; Virgilio Gonzalez

implementation of a new course in communications through thecreation of a computer-based laboratory for modeling and simulating communicationsystems. The lecture course in a typical Electrical Engineering (EE) curriculum, alongwith this laboratory, provide a totally integrated delivery system for teaching a widespectrum of topics ranging from transmission/reception concepts and applications toperformance analysis of fiber optic networks. The laboratory is easily implemented byconstructing a PC-based computer network supporting several simulation tools. Studentsare able to access a variety of software packages for analysis of different communicationsystems. The topics covered in the laboratory can be divided into three categories:communication signals

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Mario G. Beruvides

). “Teaching Real World Issues through Case Studies,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 4, October, pp. 501-508. 7. Wankat, P.C. (2002). “Integrating the Use of Commercial Simulators into Lecture Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 1, January, pp. 19-24. 8. Mackenzie, J.G., Earl, W.B., Allen, R.M. and Gilmour, I.A. (2001). “Amoco Computer Simulation in Chemical Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 3, July, pp. 331-346. 9. Thompson, B.E. (2002). “Pedagogy of an Aircraft Studio,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 91, no. 2, April, pp. 197-202. 10. Lackey, L.W., Lackey, W.J., Grady, H.M., and Davis, M.T. (2003). “Efficacy of Using a Single, Non

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Tariq A. Khraishi; Larissa Gorbatikh

, involvinga design problem, in a junior-level Dynamics course at the University of New Mexico. The twoauthors taught the class in consecutive semesters and followed-up on the same experiment inboth classes. This effort is in-line with recent departmental emphasis on integrating design intothe engineering curriculum. The Department has recently instituted a five-course, four-yeardesign sequence in its curriculum with the hope of graduating better engineers. Another benefitto the current PBL experiment, besides emphasizing to students the integration of design intoengineering practice and education, was to give students an opportunity to use the 3D CADsoftware that they have learned in the year or two before taking Dynamics. While working on theproject

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Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Barbara Austin

Challenge-Based Instruction in Biomechanics Using the VANTH Internet Modules Ronald Barr1, Marcus Pandy2, Anthony Petrosino3, and Barbara Austin3 Department of Mechanical Engineering1, Department of Biomedical Engineering2, and Department of Curriculum and Instruction3 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 AbstractThis paper discusses the biomechanics learning modules developed as part of the VaNTHeducational coalition. The pedagogical framework for these modules is based on the widelypublicized book “How People Learn” (HPL). The HPL teaching

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

, while at the same time exposing them to applications fromscience and engineering. The objective of such exposure throughout the curriculum is to catchthe interest of students at an early stage, and thus encourage them to pursue those career paths. The project uses web-based modules to address its goals at two levels. One is to increaseinterest in science and engineering at the lower level courses for majors and non-majors. Theother is to improve retention by offering support for upper level courses. While some modulesare course specific, others are deliberately planned to be independent, allowing for maximumflexibility. All modules are available over the Internet. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; M. M. Holt; R. H. Cox

associatedobjectives of the partnership are 1. To establish scholarship programs to assist women and minority students with the expenses of college at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. 2. To establish mentoring, internship, and support programs that includes faculty members from both universities and industry professionals. 3. To provide a smooth transition from an undergraduate degree in mathematics or computer science at TWU to a graduate degree in engineering at TTU, including visits from TWU to TTU and visa versa, specially designed curriculum materials, and smooth admissions experiences. 4. To develop a model program for (i) undergraduate programs that are unable to offer engineering degrees but would like to

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Kenneth Van Treuren

understand how this topic was integrated into thecurriculum. Some students commented it depended on the class. Other comments aboutadding more “real world” experiences were also given by the students. This is clearly anarea in which the curriculum can improve. EGO 10 covers a similar topic, contemporaryissues. The students commented that exposure to this topic should be increased in thecurriculum. They also said some professors are doing a better job than others. The sureycould identify an opportunity to learn from faculty that are already incorporatingcontemporary issues into their classes. EGOs 11 and 12 generally reflect the confidenceand exposure to situations that the students experienced. The comments centered onpossible software packages that

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

. SICE Systems Integration Conference, Kobe, Japan, pp. 359 - 360 (in Japanese).18. E.J. Coyle, L.H. Jamieson, and L.S. Sommers, 1997, “EPICS: A model for integrating service-learninginto the engineering curriculum”, Michigan J. of Community Service Learning, 4, pp. 81 – 89.SHUNMUGHAM R. PANDIANDr. Raj Pandian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from theIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His fields of research interest include control, robotics, andmechatronics, as well their applications to renewable energy, environmental monitoring, and rehabilitation. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE