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Coordinator of Electronics Technology at North Harris College, agreed to work with uson the project. We received the grant. We were notified in fall of 1999 but did not receive fundsuntil December 1999.This grant was to fund an organizational and a follow-up meeting (funding for an additionalmeeting was added later) for a Gulf Coast Area Electrical and Electronics Technology TeachersOrganization. The organizational efforts were focused on the electrical and electronicstechnology teachers at member institutions of the Gulf Coast Articulation Consortium, but alsoincluded electrical and electronics teachers from all of the greater Houston and Gulf Coast areacommunity colleges, universities, proprietary schools, and high schools.The purpose of the

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goal of scaling these engineeringdesign courses to larger numbers of students. The system, deployed on laptops with wirelessnetworking, utilizes student self-evaluations and instrumented project management tools toprovide feedback of individual and team performance to the students and teaching staff. Wepresent an example of the usage and data collected from this system during a pilot test in anundergraduate computer science design course. Based on that experience, we discuss future plansto refine the system for early detection of problem teams and to instrument asynchronous andinstant messaging tools to support social network analysis of team communication.I. IntroductionEngineering design courses commonly combine traditional lecture delivery

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Session 2649 Modernizing a Physical Measurements Laboratory in Engineering Technology Francis R. Krygowski Youngstown State UniversityAbstractIn 1997, the Mechanical Engineering Technology faculty at Youngstown State University wereawarded a National Science Foundation Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant tomodernize a Physical Measurements laboratory, NSF-ILI Grant # DUE-9750992. This paperdetails the experience of that project.The objectives of the project were: to greatly increase the number of sensors available forstudent

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Ilya Grinberg

systems, electric machines, and power electronics). While the first level courses dealprimarily with elements, devices, and circuits, the second level courses deal with their advancedapplications, as well as with systems.This paper discusses curriculum structure, topical outlines, methods of delivery, pedagogicalstrategies (collaborative learning, individual and team projects, off-site industrial laboratoriesamong others), industry collaboration, including industrial advisory committee, and evaluationand assessment techniques, among others. Samples of student work and their involvement inresearch and creative activities are presented.2. Curriculum Objectives and StructurePower/machines option curriculum is structured based on the objectives of

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research for industry and provide real-lifeprojects for students in the form of thesis and graduation exit required senior projects. Thus, theimplications of the ATL are a win-win environment for all involved. The Advanced TechnologyLaboratories (ATL) provides a crucible where students can undertake defining educationalcapstone experiences that fully reflect new ABET criteria and the new millennium. This paperdescribes the computing resources and systems that have been put in place to support this goal.The ATL is a place where government, industry and academia have come together, whereeducation and research have come together, where computing and engineering have come togetherto create a knowledge-age, and where students grow into enabled

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has indicated that coursework shouldstress application of manufacturing principles over theoretical treatment1, the danger with apurely practical approach is that students tend to be trained in technical skills which in manycases will be obsolete within a few years of graduation. One proposed solution is to incorporatepractice-based projects or collaborative projects with industry3. However, this is not always Page 6.270.2"Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"workable in larger

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defects; provide the means for a veryhands-on approach to these topic areas. Most of the weld defects are visualized throughmacro-sections of weld joints showing inadequate fusion, inadequate penetration,inclusions, hot and cold cracks, concavity, etc.The Team ProjectUltimately, the culmination of the course is the team project. Students “best” learnfailure analysis by doing it themselves. To this end, the students are configured intomultidisciplinary teams with as much diversity as possible. Since the mechanical andcivil engineers out number the metallurgical and materials engineering majors, each teamwill have at least on member with materials expertise. Each team is given a failureproject provided by industry with an appropriate background and

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in proper engineeringanalysis at the beginning of a project (through techniques such as QFD) are more palatable to abusiness than dollars spent rectifying a problem once a design or product has been released.Utilizing QFD applications requires cross-functional communication of all internal and externalplayers involved with development and production of a given product or process. Here again,human relation skills associated with program and project management activities are a must forthe engineer functioning in this arena.Opportunities are becoming increasingly obvious for engineers to come equipped with the abilityto work through cross-functional team dynamics and have a sound level of knowledge of designand / or product configuration and

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step paves the way for othersto extend the trials with greater quantitative assessments in more suitable and rigorouseducational environments. Page 6.168.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education More detailed quantitative assessments, for this project, were not warranted since untilrecently our college did not support distance education. At this time our college is implementingcampus-wide distance- learning strategies. This project was the next logical step to our online labresearch

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Sheryl Sorby

semester. This left one session unac-counted for. Since understanding and being able to visualize multiview projection is so importantfor success in engineering graphics and since there was only one software module developed for Page 6.66.2Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationorthographic projection of normal surfaces, the decision was made to include one session of a“traditional” lecture on multiview projection involving inclined and single-curved surfaces. Fig-ure 1 shows the comparison between the course outlines for GN102

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projected to be the fastest growing andrank among the top 20 in the number of new jobs created over the 1998-2008 period. Relevantwork experience and a bachelor’s degree are prerequisites for many jobs; for more complexjobs, a graduate degree is preferred.” The need for Systems Analysts, which, from theirdescription most closely matches the IT professional discussed in this paper, will be the numberone growth career in the period 1998-2008. Some 577,000 new workers (an increase of 94%)will be required in this area.4One indicator of the need for and success of programs of this type is the explosive growth of the Page 6.584.3IT program at

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, a series of demonstrations, and references. Eachmodule is self-contained and takes approximately one to three weeks to cover. One of theways these modules are unique is that the material is presented by the use of designproblems, design homework examples, and design projects. A set of short videotapes(approximately three minutes each) keyed to the professor’s lectures allows for basicconcepts to be presented by moving from the lecture mode to a video mode.I. IntroductionThe concept of the studio-classroom was originated at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstitutePhysics Department about eight years ago. Expanding on the traditional lecture format,the studio-classroom concept was designed to revitalize the learning environment usingeducational

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Nagraj Balakrishnan; Michael Leonard; Judith McKnew

Session 1526 Configuration Management Instructional Material for Engineering and Management Students Michael Leonard, Nagraj Balakrishnan, Judith McKnew Clemson UniversityAbstractThis paper documents interim results of a NSF–CCLI funded project to develop innovativeeducational materials in Configuration Management (CM) for use as a module in regularlyscheduled courses in engineering and management. CM is a methodology for identifying thecomponents of a continuously evolving product and its associated production system, to controlchanges to these components and to maintain

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

number of sections and section sizes to beaccommodated, separate spaces for the two programs was desired.2.2 LaboratoryAlthough different laboratory exercises are used in the two course sequences, both havethe goal of hands-on experimentation, reverse engineering projects in small groups, anddoing small-team design projects. Since some instruction is presented in the laboratoryroom, presentation capability is needed.3. Facility DevelopedThe first experimental course, which eventually led to the Freshman Engineering Honors(FEH) program, was offered in the 1993-94 academic year. The entire course was taughtin a regular classroom equipped with fixed tables and movable chairs rather thanindividual desks. Laboratory experiments and design/build

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Judith Waalen; Malgorzata Zywno

Session 1330 The Effect of Hypermedia Instruction on Achievement and Attitudes of Students with Different Learning Styles Malgorzata S. Zywno, Judith K. Waalen Ryerson UniversityAbstractThe goal of this ongoing action research project has been to increase student learning andsatisfaction using an innovative approach to instruction, evaluation and interaction with students.A process control course in electrical engineering was redesigned, introducing collaborative, activelearning using real-life applications. The course utilizes interactive hypermedia

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access of physical laboratoryfacilities between academic institutions. The goals of this project are directly responsive tosignificant areas of educational and national concerns. The primary goal is in response to thedynamic and diverse expansion of new high technology subjects that make it very difficult formany academic institutions to keep pace. The rapidly evolving nature of technology makes itimpossible for most schools to keep current with correspondingly expensive laboratoryequipment and to offer newly evolving courses. Conversely, the development of sophisticatedand versatile software with constant upgrades provides an attractive alternative in computersimulations. Educators and students can become dominantly indoctrinated and highly

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Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Full-Body Contact Statics and Other Freshman Engineering Experiences Jed S. Lyons, Lars Cederqvist University of South CarolinaAbstractHundreds of papers presented at ASEE meetings have described introduction to engineeringcourses and projects. This paper provides actual instructional materials for three inexpensiveactive-learning activities that can be performed by first-semester freshmen to introduce them toengineering and motivate them to learn a suite of computer applications. Two of them are in

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Randall Musselman

Session 1332A Fun Hidden Transmitter Hunt Offers an InexpensiveHands-On Antenna Experiment Rich with Insight for the Students Randall L. Musselman Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, CO Abstract This paper describes an antenna design project that adds a great deal of hands-on insight into antennas and propagation. The testing of antennas in done under the guise of a game, where students use their antennas to locate a hidden transmitter. The

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Sue Ann Kearns; Merredith Portsmore; Judy Barsosky; Catherine Rogers; Chris Rogers

activities at the first grade level.IntroductionThe primary goal of Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) isto bring engineering into the K-12 classroom. Constantly building and taking things apart togain a better understanding of how they work, children are natural engineers. By bringingengineering into the classroom, these natural instincts can be capitalized on to excite childrenabout math and science and interest them in a future careers in science , math , and engineering.Engineering also provides a way to integrate subjects and to show students the real worldapplications of the subjects they are learning. It lends itself to the development of personallymeaningful projects that the students can relate to and

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, local ham radio clubs, and local radio-controlled aircraft organizations. TheTAP Program includes workshops for training teachers in wireless telecommunicationsand summer camps for middle school (grades 7-9) students with game-based activitiesthat teach the fundamental technologies that will prepare them to enter further studies inResidential Broadband Wireless, Voice over IP · TCP/IP Wireless Networks, and Voice,Video and Data Integration. Plans also include transmissions to and from theInternational Space Station and other projects coordinated with the help of NASA.Background:The U.S. Census Bureau reveals that less than twenty percent of all new jobs created inthe twenty-first century will require a four-year degree or higher. Greater than

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Shirley Holloway

Session 1845 Transforming Curriculum Development: Putting an entire institution on line for the benefit of students, faculty, the professions and industry. Shirley A. Holloway The Northern Alberta Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn response to current trends in post-secondary education, the Northern Alberta Institute ofTechnology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta has embarked on an institute-wide initiative dubbed“LOGging Our Curriculum.” The goal of the project is to create outcomes-based, modularized,digital curriculum housed in a database accessible to NAIT instructors

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Roger Smith; Holly Bentley; William G. Fahrenholtz

Composition C PlaneFigure 1. A hypothetical binary phase diagram with an isopleth at Figure 2. A hypothetical ternary phase diagram 32 weight percent B. with an isopleth at 20% A, 70%B, 10%C.When studying phase diagrams, the most common exercise is an isoplethal analysis. Anisopleth* is a line of constant composition, shown in Figures 1 and 2. Isopleths are parallel to thetemperature axis in a temperature-composition diagram. In a two-dimensional projection of athree

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(PDS) to providethat early skills set which could then be employed in any subsequent course. The goalbeing to encourage IronCAD™ to become as ubiquitous among the MET student body asExcel™ is now. Since IronCAD™ features both photorealistic rendering, web graphicsformats and animation, it is anticipated that students will have sufficient skills to useIronCAD™ to prepare graphic information for presentations and web projects in almostany other classes.II. Production Design ApplicationsFollowing a first semester introductory CAD tools course utilizing AutoCAD™, secondsemester students advance into MET 102, Production Design & Specifications, a coreMET course. This course as its name suggests, allows students to learn industrialproduction

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James Wade; Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz

Session 3430 Utilizing New Instructional Technologies to Optimize the Learning Process Roy Eckart, Virginia Elkins, Terri Heidotting, Catherine Rafter, Eugene Rutz and James Wade University of CincinnatiAbstractThe goal of this project, funded by a grant from the General Electric Fund, is to determinewhether using new instructional technologies to optimize the learning process for students withdifferent learning styles and personality types. This paper presents the progress made towardthis goal in the first year of a

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Julia Williams

Page 6.978.1needs of engineering education. By this I mean that many of the portfolio models we areProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationworking from come from the language arts and education fields; while these portfoliosmeet the needs of certain faculty and students, they are less applicable to engineeringstudents, faculty, and programs. In designing an engineering portfolio, I believe we can,however, adopt several portfolio principles that seem to be common across disciplines.For the purposes of this paper, I am focusing on documentation of student learning incommunication, but I have evidence from the portfolio project

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been conducted. Students are presented with a list of possible stadiumdesigns, in which the major parameters are cost and seating capacity, and are challenged todetermine which best meets the team's needs. Working in teams of 3-4, they analyze data toquantify the effect of team payroll on won-loss record, which in turn affects ticket sales andmerchandising revenues. They produce an optimized economic strategy for running the team,the cornerstone of which is the stadium selection. To support this project, engineering classroominstruction is devoted to introducing the design process (~2 weeks), fundamentals of engineeringeconomics (~6 weeks) and basic statistics (1 week). Concurrently, communications facultymembers train students in public

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, theseprofessional skills are taught on-the-job by mentoring, “stand and deliver” instruction,correspondence, computer-based instruction, etc. Such internal training may require severalmonths of a new engineer’s first year on the job.In a recent course in Engineering Professional Responsibility, student teams were assigned asemester research project in which they were tasked to 1) Analyze their own four-yearcurriculum in comparison to other Universities, 2) Determine the preferred set ofknowledge/skills/abilities at the entry level for the job they plan to seek, and 3) Plan thesupplemental education (through seminars, short courses, certificate courses, etc) required to“bridge the gap.” In researching for this project, student teams were encouraged to

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

, because before dedicating funds to specific laboratories, the entirelaboratory system could be analyzed and be designed for higher productivity. Secondly thereare existing private industry and government agency resources available to the university inthe northern part of Alabama, in particular, Huntsville, that may reduce the need forownership of laboratory equipment; i.e. streolitography equipment. Huntsville, Alabama is atown where numerous high tech industries and government agencies coexist. A number ofprojects from these industries involve projects in manufacturing that may be suitable forjoint investigation and training between industry and AAMU. This joint research interestbetween the AAMU and industry will create a bridge that would close

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Sarah Irvine; Mary Anne Lesiak; Andrea Prejean; Teresa Larkin-Hein

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Session 2480integrated lessons. The sessions followed a teaching/training methodology for instruction inusing the computer applications in the lab. First teachers discussed general principles ofeducational web design, and then participated in a whole-group training session on how to usethe tools. Then teams were given lab-time to work on their projects with one-on-one assistancefrom the session leaders. Thus, participants had ample opportunity to ask questions and receivepersonal assistance from the

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composed of executive board members from each ofthe student organizations in the School of Engineering. Through the operation of the SaturdayAcademy, the Morgan engineering students are able to develop their leadership skills whilereaching out to mentor pre-college students. The objective of the Saturday Academy is to exposeunderrepresented pre-college students in the urban community of Baltimore City to a collegecampus, to student mentors with whom they can relate, and to learn how science, engineeringand mathematics (SEM) relate to their everyday life. While these students participate in hands-on design projects, they learn how to work in teams. They attend classes that enhance their skillsin mathematics as well as English, with a focus on