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Thomas J. Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald E. Barr

Session T3A3 Promoting Program Outcomes Early in the Engineering Curriculum Ronald E. Barr, Thomas J. Krueger, and Ted Aanstoos Mechanical Engineering Department University of Texas at Austin AbstractProgram outcomes are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that students should be able todemonstrate at the end of a degree program. ABET requires that accredited engineeringdepartments must define a set of program outcomes, publicize them broadly to all constituents,and put into place a process for

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Timothy I. Matis; Linda Ann Riley; James H. Matis

to construct empirical probability distributions, 2. the key role of certaindescriptive statistics to describe the shape of a distribution, and 3. the calculation of regressioncoefficients for statistical predictions of future system behavior. The modules are integrated into the curriculum of high school probability and statisticscourses, including the Advanced Placement Statistics course. The number of schools offeringthis course has been rising rapidly in number since the introduction of the Advanced Placementprogram in the early 1990’s. A module whose topic involves the population dynamics of theAfricanized honeybee infestation is described in this paper. This module is presently beingimplemented in several schools in Texas in a

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Daniel J. Burroughs

. Therefore, it is necessary toeducate students not only in the technical aspects of security, but also in the situation-dependent way that it is applied. Such an education would provide students with theskills needed to enter the field and the in-depth understanding to be upwardly mobile. Tothis end, the curriculum is being developed to provide a mix of both technical skills andbroad knowledge. This is present both in the course material, and our commitments toutilizing the strengths UCF has to offer (National Center for Forensic Studies, PublicSafety Technology Center, etc.) and developing tight integration with other departments(Criminal Justice, Business, etc.). Additionally, all of the courses in this program aremade available through the FEEDS

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

Session T4A3 Challenge-Based Instruction in an Engineering Technical Elective Course Ronald Barr1, Marcus Pandy2, Anthony Petrosino3, and Vanessa Svihla3 Department of Mechanical Engineering1, Department of Biomedical Engineering2, and Department of Curriculum and Instruction3 The University of Texas at Austin AbstractThis paper presents the methodology and results of teaching an engineering technical electivecourse using a challenge-based approach. The challenges consisted of eight

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Rita Caso; Kristi J. Shryock; Jo Howze; Jeffrey Froyd; Arun R. Srinivasa

Enhancements.” Proceedings, 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/papers/1672.pdf, accessed 24 February 2005.6. Triplett, C. and S. Haag, “Freshman Engineering Retention,” Proceedings, 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, http://www.foundationcoalition.org/events/news/conferencepapers/2004asee/triplett.pdf, accessed 24 February 2005.7. McKenna, A., F. McMartin, Y. Terada, V. Sirivedhin, and A. Agogino, “A Framework for Interpreting Students' Perceptions of an Integrated Curriculum,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, http://www.asee.org/acPapers/code/getPaper.cfm?paperID=3052&pdf=00412_2001.PDF, accessed 24 February 2005.8. Pomalaza-Ráez, C.A., B.H. Groff, B.H

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Suketu Shah; Mohammed E. Haque; Gaurav Agarwal

develop web based 3-D visualization and animation toexplain the various environmental conscious concepts and elements. The objective of thisresearch paper was to showcase the energy saving elements used in an energy conscious single-family home design using 3D animation and virtual walkthrough. The model and animation canact as an excellent teaching tool to explain the various concepts integral to an energy consciousdesign, as the instructor would present the entire scheme in a virtual world so that the studentscan understand the concepts with more clarity and ease. The model would also help generateawareness among common people about energy conscious design as the web interface is easilyaccessible and user friendly

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Terry Creasy; Richard B. Griffin

Session T1B3 Designing, Rapid Prototyping, Casting, and Testing an Aluminum Link Richard B. Griffin and Terry Creasy Mechanical Engineering- 3123 Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3123Abstract Integrated design, rapid prototyping, manufacturing processes, and testing has beenaccomplished in a junior materials and manufacturing class. Students are given a design spaceapproximately 4 in. x 4 in. x ¼ in. Within that volume, they must design a link that may be rapidprototyped, cast, and then tested. The

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Scott Starks; Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald

Session T4D1 An Overview of Space-Oriented Activities for Texas PreFreshman Engineering Program Participants in the El Paso Area Scott Starks, Eric MacDonald Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at El Paso Sally Blake Departments of Teacher Education and Physics University of Texas at El Paso AbstractProviding pre-college students with activities to enhance their understanding

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Sarah J. Smith

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Ethics: An OverviewStudents have learned the literal definition of ethics: the study of morals – good versusbad, right versus wrong, acceptable versus unacceptable. Applied ethics suggestsfoundational principles must be integrated into engineering curriculum. A case studyapproach develops graduates who are able to formulate exemplary ethical choices oncethey leave the university and enter corporate America or academia. Thus, engineeringeducators have an exciting opportunity to impact the application of ethical theory.As an academic community, ethical values must be practiced, believed, and upheld.There can be no excuses: instructors’ houses must be in order

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G. Beate Zimmer; eremy S. Flores; Alexey L. Sadovski

background or situation of afreshman. Having been recruited in the Advanced Calculus class for a research project inApplied Mathematics, Jeremy was supported as a research student under a NASA grant whichallowed him to be paid for up to 19.5 hours of research activity per week.Research Set–upThe student was incorporated into an integrated research environment within the Division ofNearshore Research and the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at TAMU-CC. Within the academic unit he was included in weekly research meetings with Dr. Zimmer,Dr. Sadovski and their research students. On the Division of Nearshore Research side, Dr. Tissothelped him understand the Matlab program for neural networks and gave him a share of an officeto further

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Wayne N.P. Hung; V. Jorge Leon

communication,innovation, and creativity9. International student exchange program, that allows students to studyabroad for one or two semesters, is another excellent avenue.The revised manufacturing curriculum and pedagogical approach at TAMU are consistent withthose from other universities. The "global virtual team" model in which engineers workingtogether via internet is likely to be the life of professional engineers in near future. Severaleducational institutions are preparing their students for this scenario. At TAMU, students haveaccess to an integrated virtual learning and intelligent tutoring system. This web-based virtuallaboratory and tutoring system allows students and engineers to learn different aspects ofprogrammable logic controllers at

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Ross Kastor; Robert Askew; Richard Bannerot; Paul Ruchhoeft; Elena Poltavtchenko; Colley Hodges; Chad Wilson; Cari-Sue Wilmot

& Lab* ECE Systems Design^ & Lab*Figure 1. The ECE curriculum flowchart with the communications spinehighlighted. symposium treating several of those issues. In addition, students will produce a lengthy researched argument on a topic relevant to engineering.”This special section of Composition II is taught by a PhD candidate in creative writingwho worked as a technical writer for thirty years. Although she is an exception to thenorm of graduate students who teach Composition II, it is hoped that CCE and theDepartment of English can continue to offer these courses to interested first-yearengineering students. Graduate Seminar in

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Amir Karimi

and these criteria(b) a process based on the needs of the program's various constituencies in which the objectives are determined and periodically evaluated(c) an educational program, including a curriculum that prepares students to attain program outcomes and that fosters accomplishments of graduates that are consistent with these objectives(d) a process of ongoing evaluation of the extent to which these objectives are attained, the result of which shall be used to develop and improve the program outcomes so that graduates are better prepared to attain the objectives.Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and Assessment: Although institutions may use differentterminology, for purposes of Criterion 3, program outcomes are statements

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Pete Hylton

program risks, greatly reduces the chance of failure.Once he began teaching full time, one of the classes that the author was responsible forwas the Capstone Design Class for his department. During the course of the firstsemester, it became obvious that the students would benefit from development of somesort of connectivity between all the various topics that they had studied in the four yearsleading up to their last semester. TRM was an obvious mechanism for accomplishingthis. Each semester since, the author has introduced TRM concepts in the class, and hasrequired the design teams to perform a full technical risk analysis of their design project.This has forced them to recall material from their previous classes and integrate it intoboth their

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Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty; Chad Lloyd

networkedenvironment, will be fully described. The firmware for the microcontroller is written inKeil’s C Integrated Development Package. Hardware and software elements arediscussed in detail as well as the challenges faced during the development of a workingmodel. Hardware topics include the DSTini chip itself, the development socket, thedevelopment board and all supporting hardware. The software elements include the KeilPackage, JavaKit and the server application programmed for the microcontroller.Applications of this type of microcontrollers include security and access control, webappliances, and many other network capable systems. The work is partially funded by aresearch grant from the Russell Chair for Manufacturing Excellence that promotesapplied

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Thomas J. Krueger; Ronald E. Barr

Finite Element 1, 4Analysis to lower division engineering students and whether it can be done effectively. Asearly as 1992, Steven Howell 3 pointed out that the Finite Element Method (FEM) is typicallyintroduced in the upper level engineering courses. With the ‘integrated design software’available for the PC, it is now possible to expose freshman level students to the finite elementmethod without overwhelming them in the detailed math required to set up a model.” In the 2Spring 1999 issue of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal, William Cole stated, “Solidmodeling

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J. M. Duff

their attitudes on ethical issues.From students’ own discussions and from Goulet’s experience, it appears that studentattitudes and perceptions can be favorably impacted by clearly and forcefully settingstandards of appropriate behavior and by integrating ethical and legal decision-makinginto the curriculum. In that manner, ethical behavior is something that is done, rather thanstudied. Wankat and Oreovicz have proposed strategies for instilling honest behavior inengineering students by stressing (as did Goulet) the Engineering Code of Ethics; byreducing anxiety that might foster unethical behavior; by faculty always being a presencein the classroom and laboratory; and by structuring engineering education in such waysthat unethical behavior is

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W. Roy Penney; Nathaniel S. Weston; Megan V. Park; Edgar C. Clausen; Dave C. Marrs; Anthony M. Scalia

that 42% ofstudents in senior laboratory over a four year period were Type 3 learners, who areaction-oriented “hands-on”, common sense learners. This exercise has several benefits: • It provides an opportunity for students to have additional “hands-on” experience; • It demonstrates a physical application of the data or correlation; and, • It helps to develop an appreciation for the limitations of the data or correlations.As part of the combined requirements for CHEG 3143, Heat Transport, and CHEG 3232,Laboratory II, junior level chemical engineering students at the University of Arkansaswere required to perform simple heat transfer experiments or demonstrations usinginexpensive materials that are readily available in most

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Tariq A. Khraishi

Conference Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationprojects. The Department has recently instituted a five-course (one of which is an FEA course),four-year design sequence in its curriculum with the hope of graduating better engineers. Theother design courses are a CAD course and a manufacturing/machining course prior to the FEAcourse, and a machine component course as well as a capstone senior design course after theFEA one. Another benefit to the current PBL assignment, besides emphasizing to students theintegration of design into engineering practice and education, was to give students an opportunityto use the 3D CAD software that

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Terry Kohutek; Arun Srinivasa; Andrew P. Conkey

integration between engineering, science, andmathematics. Students needed to understand more clearly the roles of models and analyticalperformance predictions in the engineering design process. To address these opportunities, aprototype of a new first-year engineering course that builds on prior curriculum initiatives isbeing offered in the 2004-05 academic year. The prototype is project-based in that two projectsform the core of the syllabus. Further, specifications were developed to aid in tailoring projectsto meet the goals of the class. These specifications include defining time constraints for studentsand faculty; acknowledging the range of abilities of the incoming students; satisfying the needsof downstream faculty members, course instructors

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Jeffrey Froyd; Donald A. Maxwell

integration between engineering, science, andmathematics. Students needed to understand more clearly the roles of models and analyticalperformance predictions in the engineering design process. To address these opportunities, aprototype of a new first-year engineering course that builds on prior curriculum initiatives isbeing offered in the 2004-05 academic year. The prototype is project-based in that two projectsform the core of the syllabus. Further, specifications were developed to aid in tailoring projectsto meet the goals of the class. These specifications include defining time constraints for studentsand faculty; acknowledging the range of abilities of the incoming students; satisfying the needsof downstream faculty members, course instructors

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Kambiz Farahmand; Kai Jin

evolving processes that are mostlyproviding goods to the US and overseas automobile manufacturers. Program curriculumand teaching methods have also evolved over the years as originally expected. Thestructured curriculum presented originally provides two integrated portions (Industrial &Electrical) based on design, test, and manufacturing with respect to the knowledge baseand needs of the Maquiladora Engineers. This paper describes the program developmentand the long distance teaching techniques used in the graduate engineering degreeprogram offered by the Texas A&M University-Kingsville for educating the Rio GrandValley Engineers. The innovative features introduced to the program, teachingchallenges, student research projects, and the

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Kevin M. Nickels

Digital Design I. In Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004.9. K. Kramer and D. Maxwell, Projects with applications to Wireless Communications – An Innovative Approach to the Digital Design Course. In Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004.10. W. A. Chren and B. G. Zomberg. Programmable logic course development in an engineering curriculum. In Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, pages 1154 1158, 1993.11. R. Coowar. Designing with field programmable gate arrays. In Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, pages 853 859, 1995.12. D.W. Horning. Integration of digital

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Tim Coppinger; Hesham Shaalan

been fully realized yet. The International Standard Organization(ISO) defines an industrial robot as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose,manipulative machine with several programmable axes, which may be either fixed in place ormobile for use in industrial automation applications1. Integrating robots into manufacturingsystems requires knowledge of both the manufacturing and robot systems. Furthermore, a robotsystem is more than the hardware; it includes all devices interfaced to the robot for control of thework cell.The Manufacturing Automation course is offered as part of the Electrical EngineeringTechnology curriculum2. This course covers computer integrated manufacturing systemsprimarily from a hardware and control

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John W. Hansen

expressway and move onto their career pathway and focus on the specifics of the career. Traveling on the STEM Career Expressway, students change lanes as their interests change and they explore the variety of careers open to them in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Simultaneously, their core academic knowledge and skills are enhanced and applied through a highly integrated curriculum. The development, definition, dissemination, and adoption of the STEM Career Expressway is the single most important strategy of this project because of its ability to position Technology Education as an integral component of public education for preparing our state’s workforce and its ability to integrate and support the core academic

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Jose Amieva; Apolinar Zapata

accommodate for students that are visual learners,auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners. It is a fact that the students learn better whenthey participate in the learning process, instead of just playing a passive roll. Usingpresent technology, there is the possibility to visualize the abstract calculus concepts byperforming virtual experiments that will permit the active participation of the student inthe learning process. This paper presents two virtual electronic laboratory experiments tobe used as an aid in the visualization of two of the main calculus concepts: Integrationand Differentiation. These experiments were designed using electronic simulationsoftware and contain, as main elements: operational amplifiers, resistances, andcapacitors

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Chandrika Rao; Carol L. Binkerd

the relevance of these concepts in the practice of their profession. An instructor must try to tie the problems together and show the connection between theories and practical aspects learnt from two or more courses. Approach: Working along these lines we invited one of the GIS instructors on the second day of class to informally discuss DBMS and its relevance to GIS. Prior to this class presentation, the two instructors discussed a number of topics. The database instructor posed to the GIS colleague an almost identical set of questions as those to the local businesses. This enables the DBMS instructor to compare industry expectations with GIS related database concepts in the curriculum. Outcome: We received positive

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Yavuz S. Tunc; Malur N. Srinivasan

then “sculpt” it into the nanomaterial [20]. Examples of this technique arelithography/etching and mechanical attrition (ball milling). To form the final product withnanostructure the assembly and synthesis may be done sequentially, such as ball milling andsintering, or in by integrating assembly and synthesis [20, 22].Characterization of NanomaterialsSophisticated techniques are necessary to characterize nanomaterials. These include X-raydiffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning tunneling electronmicroscopy (STEM) and others, with which many mechanical engineering majors may not befamiliar.Planning and Teaching the CourseA course containing the above topics may be taught as an elective for senior-level

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Chad A. B. Wilson

Section T4A1 Meeting Two Needs: Teaching Engineering through Writing Chad A. B. Wilson Cullen College of Engineering University of Houston AbstractThis essay describes the theory behind the use of writing in engineering classes, as wellas several strategies for implementing such content-based writing. Despite thewidespread use of writing in disparate disciplines across the university, writing is notgenerally an integral component of “content” courses in engineering. In this essay, I buildon recent theories of

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Roop Chanda; Mohammed E. Haque

difficulties oflogistics and cost. Besides the risks involved in construction site visits, the site may not be at aparticular stage of construction during the academic semester, or the construction process maynot be fast enough to understand multiple aspects within a short duration of field visits.Considerable pedagogical advantages can be achieved by the integration of the moderninformation technology (IT) and visualization techniques in teaching engineering technology.The objective of this research was to develop 3-D animations and virtual walkthrough on steelstructural construction. These visualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teachingin the classroom but also an effective self-directed tool for open learning via the web