Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Johnson, Purdue University; Sergey Dubikovsky, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, thespecific plans for the upcoming week, the issues facing the team, and a summary of the hoursspent on the project for each team member. The first few times a team produces the weeklyreport presents challenges to the teams as this is their introduction to Gantt charts and weeklyreports. After two or three weeks of practice producing the charts and incorporating constructivefeedback, the student teams produce the charts within ten to fifteen minutes. More importantly,the teams begin to use the charts to plan and manage their projects. The Gantt chart presented inFigure 2 is a high-level chart prepared early in the project by a student team. The gap in thecalendar reflects the team’s realistic view that no work would be accomplished during the

Conference Session

Curriculum in Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

know points areassociated with sketch preparation and quality. Many students will take pride in their work andmake an effort to prepare quality sketches. A few students will consistently put minimal effortinto their course work and their sketches will usually be poor, reflecting their poor attitude Page 14.717.14toward their studies. The author also believes that providing examples of good (and maybe bad)sketches helps students understand assignment requirements and instructor expectations.Conclusions and RecommendationsFor many practicing civil engineers, hand-drawn sketches are still an important part of theengineering analysis and

Conference Session

Laboratories in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Walter E. Thain Jr.; Thomas Fallon, Southern Polytechnic State University; John Copeland, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

process. Initial observations of the students who took the network security class using the described 10 laboratory exercises, support the same result. Linux-based security tools are freely available in the Internet and they can be easily installed in many of the Linux distributions. So, there is a minimal cost in terms of software related items. With the tools-oriented labs, students have a chance to learn how theoretical lecture topics (e.g., asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, etc) are reflected and utilized in real world applications. Students have a chance to configure certain files in order to accomplish some of the tasks required in the labs. This experiential learning

Conference Session

Curriculum in Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

accredited schools that will have to occur as a consequence of the “raisethe bar” initiative which ASCE and NSPE say is vitally necessary to both imbue globalperspective and restore the technical ability of those seeking licensure as professional engineers.“Raise the bar” will affect the under-graduate side of education by broadening the educationalbackground as noted by ASCE in BOK-2nd edition.10, 11 But at the same time there will besomewhat of a reduced technical content of the BSCE degree. This is not yet reflected incurricula because the full scope of BOK-2 has not yet been incorporated into ABET-EACrequirements.The ultimate goal of ASCE is to have a society of civil engineers who are not just number-crunching analysts, but who instead will be