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Linda Broadbelt; L. Catherine Brinson; Kathleen Issen; Brad Kinsey

, tenure, funding, teaching and service. Seed questions provided afoundation for lively, interactive discussions consisting of student-posed questions and diversefaculty perspectives. While most panelists were Northwestern University engineering faculty (tofacilitate scheduling and minimize costs), a final capstone event included engineering facultyrepresenting several different types of institutions. The capstone event highlighted similaritiesand differences in engineering faculty life and responsibilities between institutions. Theinformation and perspectives students obtained through this series will assist them in determininga career path: academia, industry or government. Those choosing academic careers are betterprepared to identify and

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

expenditure of some organizational energy, the focus of TECH-4 EducationalConsortium was on the creation of a technical educational structure that would be compatiblewith the existing community college and university system. This effort lead to a multiyearmillion dollar proposal with industry match to NSF's Advanced Technology Education Division,ATE. Grant partners are Brevard (Melbourne), Hillsborough (Tampa), Seminole (Sanford), andValencia (Orlando) Community Colleges; along with the University of South Florida (Tampa)and the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and Cirent Semiconductor (Orlando). Theawarded grant crossed the boundaries of three ATE areas (Curriculum and InstructionalMaterials; Teacher and Faculty Development; and Laboratory

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Occupational Safety & Loss (2) Capstone II: Manufacturing System Design (3)As can be imagined when examining this list of technical topics, there is a diversified group offaculty required to teach such a program. Backgrounds vary from many different engineeringdisciplines including mechanical engineering, materials science engineering, electricalengineering, and industrial engineering. The common thread within the faculty is a distinct arrayof manufacturing experiences. These experiences allow for the integration of current industrialapplications into the technical topics. Faculty supports the “hands-on, minds-on” philosophywithin the curriculum.There is an extensive array of physical laboratory space and associated equipment required

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generated. At the top of the reality chart would becourses which address the myriad of stakeholders one finds in industry, such as the FDA, U/L,end-users, manufacturing, service, financial, legal, etc.Real-world experience and exposure can be achieved through a number of mechanisms includingdesign courses, computer simulation, laboratory experiments, guest speakers, industrialsponsorship of design projects, field trips to hospitals and medical industry, internships andcooperative education. In this paper, we describe the mechanisms currently being used inbiomedical engineering curricula to create real-world experience and suggest future directionsfor incorporating the real-world into undergraduate curricula.II. Real World SkillsWhen incorporating

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as elementary school. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons ofthese students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientificand engineering disciplines. Engineering faculty believe the Toying with Technologycourse is a component of the long-term recruitment of K-12 students, particularlyminorities and women, into technology-based fields3, 4, 5.This course is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technologicalinnovations in wide use today via a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences basedupon simple systems constructed out of LEGOs and controlled by

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

(EET), with options incomputer engineering technology. There are about 200 students majoring in EET andover 1100 students have received Purdue EET degrees from IPFW during the past 36years. The average age of ECET students is approximately 28 and most are employedfull-time while taking courses toward their degrees.The first two Internet courses offered in ECET were presented during the Fall 2000semester. Both courses introduce programming languages. One, EET/CS 114, usedVisual Basic 6 to teach introductory windows programming and is structured as a lecturecourse, with no scheduled laboratory. The other, EET 205, uses Microchip PIC Assemblylanguage to introduce assembly language programming and is structured as a lecturecourse with an assigned

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Thomas Barnwell; Ronald Schafer; Joel Jackson; Douglas Williams; David Anderson; Monson Hayes III

Processing; laboratory exercises using the TMS320c62x platform;and online feedback, testing, and exercises. The target audience consists of practicing engineerswith disparate backgrounds. The goal of the course is to teach basic DSP theory as well asprinciples specific to the implementation of DSP algorithms on a fixed-point processor. Thecourse length is designed to be roughly equivalent to a one-semester university course. It will bedelivered asynchronously over the Internet as described below and it takes about 12 weeks tocomplete. Due to the breadth of the material covered, students will gain a firm foundation in basicDSP principles and learn skills needed to implement DSP algorithms but they will not be expectedto become experts in the field

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’ investigations. Ampletime was provided to apply the computer tools during the workshops. Additionally, oneafternoon of each two-day workshop was devoted to engineering applications of differentialequations, using their modeling and computational tools. Electronics laboratory space wascoordinated at each workshop to allow the mathematicians to construct RC first and secondorder systems, measure time constants and physically tweak parameters in their equations. Thetextbook authors served as the teaching assistants in the electronics lab! All survived the labs,and appreciated more the jargon and context of differential equations for their engineeringstudents.Opportunities for CollaborationCollaboration in the Boston University Differential Equations

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Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

Paper #808 for Multi-Media at ASEE 2001 Session 2793 Introductory Design in Freshman Engineering Gunter W. Georgi and Lorcan M. Folan Department of Introductory Design and Science Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201AbstractPolytechnic University teaches a 4-credit course in Freshman Engineering that introducesstudents to software and hardware tools, teamwork, written and verbal communicationskills, project management, as well as overview lectures on major technical and non-technical disciplines. Several laboratory experiments and two term projects emphasizeengineering design

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K. Arthur Overholser

must be a full-time, tenured or research professor in the School of Engineering. Some seminars do involve team-teachers from other units of the University.The following seminars have been offered during the academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.In each case we indicate the semesters in which the section was offered and, in parentheses, theenrollment during that semester. • “High-Fidelity Sound Reproduction”. Taught by electrical engineering professors, this seminar takes advantage of the interest many young people have in recorded music to teach circuit theory. It includes laboratory demonstrations and work at Nashville sound studios. [Fall, 1999, 15 students; Fall

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Session 3430 Student Feedback Using Adaptive Web Based Surveys Jerry M. Hatfield Northern Arizona UniversityAbstractABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 has caused us to look much more seriously at what we teach,how we teach it, and particularly at how we assess the process and its results. This paperaddresses the gathering, processing, and response to student feedback, a very important part ofthe quality control process.Most colleges of engineering have traditionally conducted end of course evaluations by studentsas a means of assessing the quality of teaching and

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Engineering. These activities arecentered on the Computer Integrated Engineering Enterprise (CIEE) - the Learning Factory atRobert Morris College. This new facility will be used for teaching, research, lifelong learning,and recruiting activities by creating a new paradigm in engineering education featuring theintegration of all experiential learning activities.II. The Engineering Initiative at Robert Morris CollegeRobert Morris College is an independent, coeducational institution founded in 1921, and offersundergraduate and graduate degree programs that integrate the liberal arts with professionalprograms in business, applied sciences, teacher education, and communications. Totalenrollment at the main campus in Moon Township (in Pittsburgh’s western

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Richard Schultz; Darryl Sale; Chang-Hee Won; William Semke; Arnold Johnson

the engineering skills that are required by industry andthe engineering skills that are taught in our universities. One fundamental skill that is commonlyused in industry but almost always neglected in academia is the systems engineering approach todesign. The University of North Dakota is taking the initiative to teach systems engineering at the Page 6.889.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationundergraduate and graduate levels by designing small spacecrafts in class. The result of

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Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

-credit class willconsist of a weekly three-hour laboratory taught in our chemical engineering computer lab. Weanticipate being able to introduce the students to several useful computer applications, includingPOLYMATH, Aspen, PRO/II, MathCad, and Matlab. The goal is to teach the basics of each ofthese programs to the students so that later, when they need to use these programs in their otherchemical engineering courses, the instructors will not need to spend time covering the basic use Page 6.606.6of each program. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Session 2525 Spacecraft Instrumentation: Integrating Design across the Curriculum Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractSpacecraft instrumentation presents challenging and engaging design problems forinterdisciplinary teams of students from electrical, computer systems, aerospace and mechanicalengineering. Recently, senior design teams and UROP students have collaborated withastronomy researchers to help design sounding rocket and satellite instrumentation payloads.The Spacecraft Teaching and Research for Students (STARS) Project is extending these

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Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Linda Head

curriculum, using • Preplanned field exercises in laboratory components of select courses and modules in Freshman and Sophomore Engineering Clinics, and • Open-ended field exercises as part of Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics.Faculty from Civil, Chemical, and Electrical Engineering are involved in this project. Fieldequipment purchased for the project is used to obtain water, air, and soil/sediment samples,measure fundamental soil/sediment, water and atmospheric parameters in the field, and survey /map field sites. Activities supported by the requested equipment are both preplanned and open-ended. In preplanned activities, students complete specific tasks similar to traditional laboratoryexercises, except the activities are

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William Black; Robert Weber; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira

communications circuits and virtual environments is difficultbecause of the rapidly changing underlying technologies and the breadth of necessary multi-disciplinary understanding. Researchers tend to become ‘delta functions of excellence’ withoutsignificant collaboration with others, especially in different fields. This cultural divide isinvariably carried into the classroom, where courses and laboratories are only rarely coordinatedin a way that will maximize their impact on student understanding and ultimately careeropportunities. By providing a framework for both faculty and students to expand theireducational and research horizons in an area of critical national need it is hoped that everyone,students and faculty alike, will significantly benefit

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Jerome Tapper

“stand-alone” course separate from its counterpartlaboratory meeting. The idea behind a combined lecture-laboratory was to give the students areal-time look and feel for what they were being taught. There was consensus from the industrialadvisors and this author that this approach would be most effective, as by definition“Engineering Technology” is a truly “hands-on” applied curriculum.In creating this new teaching venue, one of the most important elements to consider was theamount of (in class) time available for teaching a new and ambitious course. After all, there isonly a limited amount of time that can be spent in any given course. Northeastern University’sSchool of Engineering Technology is on the quarter system, with approximately 10

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Session 3213 Using Critical Evaluation and Peer-Review Writing Assignments in a Chemical Process Safety Course Douglas K. Ludlow Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri-RollaIntroduction In preparing engineers for the future there are increasing demands on engineering educatorsto teach writing, oral communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in addition to thediscipline content. An important skill that engineers can develop is the ability to find out what hasbeen done before so as

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Teresa Larkin-Hein

growing both in and out of the classroom and laboratory. Certainlytechnology has the potential to serve as a powerful tool to improve the educational process forstudents as well as teachers 1. However, educational technology is only as good as the content itsupports 2.Many traditional teaching methodologies have clearly been shown to put students in the role ofpassive rather than active learning 3. Traditional instructional methods have also been shown tobe inadequate in terms of promoting deep learning and long-term retention of important physicsconcepts. The explosion in the availability of technological tools is literally forcing physics aswell as other SMET educators to change the way they teach. These changes, however, mustinvolve much more

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David Bunnell; Bill Knowlton; Amy Moll

will be tested. Additionally, thetime and effort to develop and review objectives before teaching the class highlights any gapsand deficiencies in the curriculum. “When clearly defined goals are lacking, it is impossible toevaluate a course or program efficiently, and there is no sound basis for selecting appropriatematerials, content, or instructional methods.”6 In line with the concept of “continuousimprovement” we intend to formally meet and review the objectives, strengths, and weaknessesof each course to assure that each course remains integrated and relevant.While developing the learning objectives for each course we referred to Bloom’s Taxonomy ofCognitive Domain7 to insure that we were teaching at an appropriate level. While it is

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distance course are both essential. Successful instructors frequentlygive their often overloaded students some flexibility in assignments and test-taking. Instructorsare also optimistic that as they grow more comfortable teaching online and technologies becomemore sophisticated, their retention rates will improve. There is significant variation amonginstitutions–with some reporting course-completion rates of more than 80 percent and othersfinding that fewer than 50 percent of distance-education students finish their courses. Severaladministrators concur that course-completion rates are often 10 to 20 percentage points higher intraditional courses than in distance offerings.There has got to be recognition in the rewards system that this is just

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller

. The MediaDesign and Assessment Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla provided the programmingresources. Supplementary support from the Instructional Software Development Center at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla and the Missouri Department of Economic Development are alsoacknowledged.Bibliography1. D. W. Brooks, Web-teaching: A guide to designing interactive teaching for the world wide web, (PlenumPress, New York, NY, 1997).2. S. G. Smith and L. L. Jones, “Images, Imagination, and Chemical Reality,” Journal of ChemicalEducation, 66, pp. 8 - 11, (1989). Page 6.1168.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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James Newell; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

. Understanding of the economics of high value added chemicals 2. Design, fabrication and operation of new and innovative technologies 3. Examination of scale-up from laboratory scale at Rowan to pilot plant scale in both West Deptford and Sonning England. 4. Experience with direct interaction of students with plant operators, chemists, engineers and managers.All of the above outcomes are enhanced with the industrially-sponsored project.References1. R. D. Nelson, R. Davies, and K. Jacob, "Teach 'Em Particle Technology," Page 6.652.5 Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 29, no. 12, pp.12-15 (1995). Proceedings

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

, K. Design of a Pragmatic Network Communications Laboratory for EngineeringTechnology,, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, 19979. Tymann, P. VNET: A Tool for Teaching Computer Networks to Undergraduates, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 23,21-24, 1991.10. Veal, D. & Maj, S. P. Computer & Network Technology: Education at Maximum Value and Minimum Cost.2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, St. Louis, MO, 2000.DAVID VEALDavid Veal received his honours degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of York in England. Aftercompleting a Grad.Dip.Ed. from the University of Keele he lectured in Physics at South Devon College UK for10 years. He now lives in Western Australia where he has taught Computing and Physics at high school

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Nikolaos Katopodes; Donald D. Carpenter

redesigned course has similar objectives to the original course,however a computer laboratory section was added and the presentation of material was changed.Previously, numerous alternative solution methods were covered in a very deductive matter.Now, fewer solution methods are introduced and the class is taught more inductively with aproblem solution approach. The instructors consider the redesigned course to be a vastimprovement over the old course; however, a more quantitative evaluation of the effectivenesswas desired. The first comparison was of the student evaluations for the two courses. Whilestudent evaluations are not the best indicator of a successful course, they can give an indicationon how the course is being received. The second

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-basedteaching tools for ECE 101 he was a teaching assistant during labs and class work exercises for this course.ROBERT REYNOLDSRobert Reynolds is in the first year of an MS in computer engineering program at the University of Maine. He did thefirst work on these web-exercises almost three years ago. He currently works in the ECE Department’s IntelligentSystems Laboratory Page 6.1145.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Elaine M. Cooney; Kenneth Reid

assignmentselectronically.Although this course still required class meetings for laboratory experiences, some laboratorysimulation tools are also available over the Internet or available for download. In the future,methods can be implemented to make this course accessible to distance learners.IntroductionEET 360: CIMT in Electronics Manufacturing is a junior/senior elective designed to givestudents a broad understanding of the processes involved in producing electronic circuit boardsand electronics assemblies. Lectures begin with component fabrication and selection, electronicdesign and analysis, and printed circuit board fabrication. Through-hole and surface mounttechnology assembly are studied. Students are required to write a series of short papers onmaterial covered in

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Mehdi Shadaram; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras

: Research Expositions, the Geological Society ofAmerica Conference, the Computational Neuroscience Symposiums, the JointMathematics Meetings, and the MIE Annual ConferenceAnother benefit of this program has been securing research positions with otheruniversities and/or research sites. Students have the opportunity to participate in anexternal research experience during the summer session. During the regular schoolsemesters, a student coordinator makes arrangements to secure research slots for students.Currently slots are being secured with Sandia National Laboratories, University ofMichigan, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, CaliforniaTechnology Institute among many others. This summer, it is expected for at least 40

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systemsOutcomes6.1 Students will make use of the Internet to further their understanding and expand their horizons in the field of thermodynamics [GM2, 4].6.2 Students will utilize computer tools (Excel, Mathcad) to address open-ended problems and to perform parametric investigations [GM2, 4, 5].6.3 Students will utilize computer tools (Word, PowerPoint) to present their findings on their design project and laboratory experiences effectively [GM4, 5].b: Letters and Numbers in brackets refer to grading methods (GM’s) used to assess students performance. 2.2. Grading/Evaluation Methods (GM’s)The proper use of grading methods by the professor illuminates the teaching focus and pointsdirectly to the nature of activities students