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Michele Casey; Kevin Torres

Session 3550 Electrical Engineering Technology Experiences for Kindergarten Students Kevin Torres, Michele Casey Penn State Erie, The Behrend College/Creekside Christian SchoolAbstractAn outreach project has been designed and implemented to provide kindergarten students withengineering technology experiences. In engineering education much has been done in outreachto middle school students and high school students. But very little is being done to reach out toK-6 and practically none for kindergarten students, especially in the field of engineering.This paper describes electrical engineering

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Richard A. Kolk; Claudio Campana; Jun Kondo; Devdas Shetty

curriculum incorporates a language-neutralteaching approach for mechatronics system design courses that links the educationalexperience more closely with the processes and projects found in industry. Mechatronicseducation at the University of Hartford focuses on four categories; components (sensorsand actuators), computer interfacing electronics, systems (modeling, analysis,simulation, and control), and language-neutral visual programming environments forimplementation. The last category is especially important when one considers the extentof general software knowledge in mechanical engineering and the complexity of thelanguage based software development process for developing real time embeddedapplications. The goals of this paper are to describe

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Zhong Gu; Sheela Ramanna; James Peters; Hal Berghel; Daniel Berleant; Steve Russell

number of years and institutions (Martin et al. 1996; Huff et al. 1995;Braxton and Stone).5,9,12 Closer to our present concern of software engineering, Thompson andHill (1995) describe teaching functional programming across the curriculum.23 More recently, aconference was devoted to teaching object orientation across the computing curriculum.14Grodzinsky et al. (1998) describe using project teams across the computing curriculum.7Cushing (1997) describes cleanroom software engineering techniques across the curriculum.6Software engineering as a field has considerably greater breadth than what these efforts areconcerned with (Liu and Peters 199911; Peters and Ramanna 199819; Peters et al. 199820; Peterset al. 199816

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Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

the certification program.Table 1 shows a matrix of courses appropriate for introducing sustainable engineeringconcepts, as identified by the committee. We targeted required courses for insertion ofmaterials related to sustainable engineering. The idea was to ensure that students would becontinuously exposed to the concepts of sustainable engineering without interfering withtheir degree plans or discounting the contents of the courses. A packet containingsustainable engineering concept examples and modules has been distributed to theinstructors of the targeted courses. Instructors of the targeted courses are expected torevise the contents of their courses to incorporate the sustainable engineering concepts inclass examples, course projects

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Michael Larson; Melanie Landry; Donal Collins

concept of an industrial-scalecrawfish peeling machine. The graduate students and undergraduates worked together toemploy a structured design methodology in a course which satisfies many of the ABET2000 objectives and gives the students a window on the process of developing intellectualproperty and bringing it to the marketplace.I. IntroductionThe motivation behind this design effort is a direct result of Louisiana losing its positionas the leading producer of crawfish tailmeat. While thousands of people still work in thestate to produce millions of pounds of tailmeat, recent years have seen a less expensiveChinese product being imported into the U.S. resulting in a loss of market share and jobsfor Louisiana companies. This project seeks to

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Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

move backward for 5 seconds. Thestudents are shown how to compile and download the program to their robotic device (inthis case, the car), and then execute the program on their cars. Next students are asked tochange the code to have the car move forward some specified distance. It should be notedthat the given program specifies time, but not distance or speed. The students are left todiscover the relation among the three variables. This exercise is the beginning of mostfield experiences for grade 3 and up.The students quickly progress to using bumper and light sensors, traversing mazes andfollowing (or avoiding) dark lines, and many other projects that become increasingly lessdirected and more creative and open-ended. Two examples of the more

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Christine Noble; Karen Schmahl

presentation format. Schmahl and Noblesuggested that the poster format facilitates creation of “better products, fosters student interactionso students learn from each other and enables students to develop some planning and teamskills.”2 To assess the effectiveness of this approach in the engineering economy course, surveyswere administered to students.The CaseThe final case focused on evaluation of after-tax cash flows of multiple alternatives of equipmentpurchases with uncertainty of projected production volumes. A modified version of “TheCutting Edge” case from Cases in Engineering Economy was used with permission of Ted. G.Eschenbach.3 In the case, means of adding production capacity must be evaluated in order to bid

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Mark Hickman; Kevin Lansey; Jeff Goldberg

electronictexts but allow students to question a faculty when reviewing the material. There is also interestin the materials at the community college level.In this paper we report on the development effort and the difficulties involved, both in facultybuy-in and in course development. We have run a small experiment using the materials forengineering economics and our results are included.1. IntroductionIn Spring 1998, the General Electric Foundation (GE) granted $450,000 to the University ofArizona (UofA), College of Engineering and Mines (COEM). The project covered three mainareas: 1. The development of 1-credit web based modules on various topics of engineering science. 2. The development of materials in systems/statistical

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Rui Shen; Maruthi Dantu; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

(IDDM).BG Tracker 3 is an application designed to help patients manage diabetes. This programaccepts point data from a blood glucose curve and outputs a graph of the data to the screen.D-Net Blood Glucose Monitoring 4 allows patients to create personal blood glucosemonitoring database on-line. Patients can enter daily blood glucose values, get graphicfeedback of daily blood glucose values over a number of days, and check the values theyhave entered in database.The Diabetes Research online glucometer project 5 is a free resource designed to assist in theself-management of diabetes.The MyDiabetes Web site 6 has a personal "Daily Diary" for tracking blood glucose levels,medication usage, diet, exercise and care schedule.The Diabetic Daily Log

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Don Horton; Chad Kidder; Mark Yeary; Rainer Fink

: Device Orientation with Wireline and Wireless InterconnectsII. Literature ReviewKalia, et. al. discuss the efficient practices for increasing the Bluetooth capacity which pertinent toour project 1. These span from the modes of operation for slaves in a piconet to how to bestmanipulate these modes to achieve 255 slaves per single master in a piconet to the intricacies ofparking and unparking slaves. Since our project stems from the premise of tracking how manyslaves are in a particular piconet at a time (and channeling information accordingly), these areareas of interest to our task at hand.The premise of their discussion is that by manipulating between active and parked modes, thenumber of slaves participating in a piconet can be increased from

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

lifelong learning, the vital importance of interpersonal skills, the intrigues of corporate politics, the centrality of teamwork in engineering, the existential pleasures of completed projects, the varieties of motivation for engineering practitioners, the frequent career path transition of engineers from focusing primarily on technical work to focusing on management, the unrelenting pressures on personal life. • The Civilized Engineer by Samuel Florman 2. This book is a collection of essays in which Florman, a practicing engineer, explores the origins of engineering, engineering ethics, conflicting loyalties, women in engineering, engineering curricula, the existential pleasures of engineering

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Ed Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

of this paper is to present the resultsof a student assessment of a specific web-assisted teaching methodology that has been used toteach twelve engineering courses.The MethodThis particular method grew out of the one of the author’s familiarity with the use of PowerPointbriefing charts in a business environment. In business, engineers, project managers, andorganization managers routinely communicate information to employees, customers, and peers ina briefing format. The ability to pull together technical briefings on very short notice is animportant practical skill. It is becoming standard practice in industry for briefing charts,calculations, drawings, and computer models to be stored in intranet-based databases that can beaccessed by

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Hugh Jack

that topics could be presented and used immediately.Early in the semester the students were given detailed tutorials that guided them towards theknowledge needed to build the workcell. In the last half of the semester the project was assignedso that they could integrate their knowledge into one working system. There are several benefits tothis pedagogical approach. First, the students gain an awareness of the issues involved in thearchitecture and design of an Integrated Manufacturing System. Second, the use of a databasemakes them acutely aware of the structure of data and events in an integrated system. Third, thestudents gain a firsthand knowledge of the details that would be hidden if a Graphical User Inter-face based package were used

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Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

individual and group projects, experiential learning and off-campus service-learning, all of which form important ingredients of the newly proposed course in constructiontechnology.V. New Approach to the CNT 105-Introduction to Construction Technology CourseThe primary objective of this three-credit, lab-based course is to expose the first year students, tothe world of construction through classroom lectures; field trips, videos, and guest speakers.Additionally, the course emphasizes communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.An important aspect of this course is engaging the students in common, community basedresponsibility. In this case, construction of a home for the Habitat for Humanity of GreaterIndianapolis. The selection of the

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Gaile Griffore; Craig Somerton

experience.To investigate other trends, the learning assessment ratings were plotted against the teachingevaluation rating for specific groups of courses. The only service course taught in the departmentis thermodynamics, ME 201. In Figure 5 we see that there is a similar relationship as that for allrequired mechanical engineering courses, including the trends noted at both the higher end andlower end of the teaching evaluation rating scale. The learning assessment rating data for juniorlevel courses in mechanical engineering are presented in Figure 6. Again the trends areconsistent, though it should be noted that the two courses represented by the data points at theupper end of the ratings are project intensive courses, which have been recognized as

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Philip Lau; Merredith Portsmore; Scott McNamara; Chris Rogers

LabVIEW. Thelimitations of the RCX (3 inputs and 3 outputs) do provide some restrictions in terms of robotcapabilities. However, the benefit of rapid prototyping and ease of programming usingROBOLAB permits students to address a wider range of issues and topics. The freshmenrobotics course allows students to get excited about engineering and learn about robotics with noprevious building or programming experience. Freshmen were able to use the icon basedsoftware with little or no instruction and build and program robots in their dorm rooms.Freshmen projects ranged from robotic animals to a search and rescue for the lost “Mars PolarLander”. At the senior level, students were able to address distributive intelligence issues withmultiple robots

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Donald Goddard

, these students then explain actualengineering design projects and the field of engineering to students who can be motivated andrecruited to the engineering profession.I. BackgroundAn electronic search was performed at the web page “Search the Journal Engineering EducationDatabase” which allows searching for articles in the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education.The search was executed using the search words “high school” and yielded 128 “hits”.Amazingly, in the entire 128 hits not a single paper had the term “high school” in the title. Iassert that this is amazing because of the number of my colleagues who complain about thequality and quantity of students coming into our programs, how ill prepared these students are,and how uninformed they are

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Eli Fromm; Jack McGourty

members of ourNational Visiting Committee as well as to our Dean’s Council.The above process generated a final list of 39 quantitative metrics (See Appendix A) that theinstitutions have been using to track the institutionalization of curricular and pedagogicalinnovations. Once each objective had its set of related metrics, the schools initiated the datacollection phase of the project. This included the gathering of current data as well as informationsince the inception of the Coalition program. Types of data collected included mostly archivalinformation in such areas as enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Other data was derivedfrom program records and faculty recollection regarding participation rates and use oftechnology in the

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Pam Newberry; Constantine Anagnostopoulos; Chalmers Sechrist; Barbara Stoler; Douglas Gorham

Session 2432 Pre-College Engineering Education and Standards for Technological Literacy Constantine Anagnostopoulos Chair, Pre-college Education Coordinating Committee IEEE Educational Activities Board Douglas Gorham Project Manager, Pre-college Education IEEE Educational Activities Pam B. Newberry Associate Director, Technology for All Americans Project International Technology Education Association

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Victoria Wike

the safety of and respect theright of consent of human subjects; (2) a constant awareness of the experimental nature ofany project, imaginative forecasting of its possible side effects, and a reasonable effort tomonitor them; (3) autonomous, personal involvement in all steps of a project; and (4)accepting accountability for the results of a project. It is not clear that the authorsconsider all four of these points to be about values. In an earlier passage, only the firstseems to be referred to as a moral value. In addition, the second point seems to be moreabout methodology than it is about what is valuable, that is, it is more about how to domoral deliberation than it is about what is important.2. A second list of values, this time

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Victor L. Paquet; Ann Bisantz

from a case study model. The case material, based on the automotive manufacturingindustry, includes the description of the overall manufacturing system, seven multi-periodlaboratories across the two courses, and computer modules intended to support the design andanalysis activities in the laboratories. Over the duration of the project, the courses are beingtaught using the modified laboratories, and evaluations, including student surveys, gradecomparisons, and comparison of test question answers, are being conducted to compare studentperformance before and after the implementation of the proposed laboratories. Results fromcompleted evaluations are discussed.BackgroundErgonomics (IE 323) and Methods and Measurement (IE 424) are required courses

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Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

per week for 3 hours and thecourse was designed so that most of the work was accomplished in class; this was an intentionalaspect of the design to avoid overloading already busy students.At the beginning of the semester, students were presented with the learning objectives for thecourse, which were: • Students will apply theoretical knowledge from core Mechanical Engineering courses to an engineering system. • Students will demonstrate effective professional skills, including communication, team, and lifelong learning, in conducting their team project, in design reports, and presentations.The students were asked to decide what type of project they would like to undertake to achievethese objectives. After some

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Larry Richards

program. Our approach stresses minimalist learning– the students learn the essential commands and capabilities of each program, and thenelaborate these on their own. The scripts include some instructions that cause errors orlead to problems. This forces the students to think about the limitations of the software,and how to overcome them. They also learn that all software has flaws. Each lesson hasan associated assignment to be completed outside the lab. Two major projects includedeveloping a personal webpage, and a CAD design competition. This paper includesexamples of student work and sample scripts.1. IntroductionIn their first year at the University of Virginia (UVa), our students are exposed to twocomputer laboratory experiences. The first

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J.B. Troy; David Kanter; B.J. Reiser

necessitates thatbeyond learning systems physiology’s content and concepts, pre-professionals must learn to applyrelevant aspects of systems physiology to unanticipated new tasks. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology’s EC-2000 criteria similarly support engineers learning to apply theirknowledge. This paper describes a principled approach by which we are designing a BMEinstructional environment in which students learn systems physiology subject matter coupled to itsapplication. We explain how our design principles for this instructional environment evolved fromthe Project-based Science pedagogical framework and a modern understanding of how peoplelearn, and further discuss our process of participatory design, which involves

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Winston F. Erevelles

Session 1463 Design and Implementation of the Computer Integrated Engineering Enterprise (CIEE) – the Learning Factory at Robert Morris College Winston F. Erevelles Robert Morris CollegeI. IntroductionThe engineering initiative at Robert Morris College seeks to enhance the technical andengineering abilities of the workforce in southwestern Pennsylvania through an innovative,industry-driven, hands-on, project-based system of education and training that integrates theoryand practice in Manufacturing, Software, and Logistics

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Eugene Rutz

were given for homework assignments to ensure students stayed on-task andengaged. The homework required the completion of specific modules. Students submittedhomework via email. The instructor graded the assignments and then returned them, also viaemail.Two projects were also assigned that required students to work in two-person groups. Studentscommunicated with each other by phone and email. The projects further promoted studentinteraction, particularly between traditional students and professionals in the workforce.The discussion board provided another mechanism for purposeful interaction among courseparticipants. The instructor would periodically start a new discussion by posting a question orsome observation around an aspect of risk

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Rodolfo Molinari

primitive CAD programs for personnel use. At thismoment it was inevitable that the engineering courses would incorporate the computer as a di-dactic tool. Near the 80’s decade final, there was a significant increase in personal machines computa-tional power accompanied of an also significant reduction in hardware costs and this allowedthat mathematical modeling projects and engineering processes programs could be developedand used with reasonable adaptation for the personal machines and, consequently, this promotedsignificant changes in the methods of engineering project and research. So that these methodol-ogy changes had influenced the learning process was a very few years matter.Finite Element Analysis Among all of the computer

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J. Tim Coppinger; Carl Steidley

Controllers, Control Systems, Capstone Projects, Systems Programming,and System Analysis and Design.The Mechanical Engineering Technology students benefit from the study of mechanicalcomponents, the design of tooling and fixtures, the selection of material handling equipment,pneumatic actuators and clamps, and the relationship of material selection to the manufacturingprocess.The Control Systems Engineering Technology students study the use of sensors, data acquisition,actuators, networking of equipment, robot controllers, programmable logic controllers, and thecommunication of the cell with overall factory operations.The Computer Science students will focus on the development of controlling algorithms, cellcontrol, user interfaces, networking, and

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Joby Anthony; A. Henry Hagedoorn; Bahman Motlagh

mathematicaland word processing software. Various Internet sites are used to provide examples and applications ofthe course material that is being discussed. The primary software package used in the course isMathCad. This arrangement allows students to simultaneously solve problems while the professorsprovide instruction. This dynamic method of teaching helps the students learn how to use the softwarealong with enhancing their understanding of the engineering concepts. The instructor’s station at thefront of the room has full multi-media capability to project a computer screen and to work under adocument camera. Anything at the instructor’s station can be sent to every computer screen in theroom. In addition, the student work on any computer in the room

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education. It will enumerate the rewards that accrue to both facultyand students through an international exchange and the components that must necessarily beincluded in the program if it is to be successful and live a long and prosperous life. It willinclude such things as: making the initial contact, evaluating the proposed site, developing abudget, generating support, documenting the responsibilities of each institution, planning for thetrip, emergency contingency plans, orientation meetings with the students, language difficulties,academic credit, recruiting, technical projects, and final evaluation.The paper will conclude by reviewing two different exchange programs, one in Europe, which iswell established and has been operating for many years