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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

, and technology focus electives. Project andlaboratory based instruction are employed as a tool for motivating students and to demonstrate therelevancy of material. Multidisciplinary courses provide the opportunity for students in differentdisciplines to work together. Some of the approaches—and lessons learned—may be of interest to otherstart-ups and programs considering transformation.Introduction Rowan University’s engineering programs are the result of an endowment by Henry and BettyRowan. The Rowan challenge was to create quality programs to develop engineers who could competein the new global economy. Four engineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Electricaland Computer, and Mechanical) were started in 1995; the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elizabeth Orwin

major. The hands-on engineering design course that was developed wasoffered in addition to the introductory engineering course, which had focused on giving thestudents a feel for engineering through a series of guest speakers and other activities. The revisedsecond semester course had a team-based approach to learning about engineering. Mini-lectureswere given on the engineering design experience and students were given hands-on tasks as wellas an overall design project. The course culminated in a team design competition. We found thatstudent attitude had a significant impact on the course outcome. Students were resistant to thenew approach to varying degrees and indicated that they felt overworked. This paper describes

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amber Lehrman; Heather Nachtmann

engineering students about theeffects of uncertainty and how to handle uncertain data. The research plan is presented alongwith a literature review in this area.IntroductionSeveral panel reports in the early 1990s claimed that undergraduate engineers lacked the abilityto succeed in the real world (Bordogna, et al., 1993; ASEE, 1994; National Science Foundation,1995; National Research Council, 1995). Around the same time, Condoor, et al. (1992) reportedthat students tended to primarily use subjective judgment in decision making as opposed toanalytical techniques. The research project discussed in this paper addresses both of theseconcerns. The objectives of this research are twofold: 1) to assess the current state ofengineering student abilities to

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lucey

thesame number of credit hours. In addition a number of required field trips, one overnight, are integrated into thecourses. Generally students have been Notre Dame undergraduate engineering student s in good standing, with anoccasional student from another institution. Participation in the program allows engineering students to makeprogress to their intended degree while maturing as well educated members of contemporary society. Required field trips have varied from year to year. Students have visited engineering projects unique to theUnited Kingdom, including the Channel Tunnel excavation, the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant operatedby British Nuclear Fuels, and the Thames Flood Barrier. We have also visited several industrial

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

members, Seattle University and Central KitsapHigh School developed a “learning community”. The “learning community” brings togetherstudents from three different classes from both university and high school to participate in aquarter-long design project. This “learning community” is described herein.The remainder of this paper is divided into five sections. In section two, the overall goals andobjectives of the learning community are presented. Section three provides an overview of thecourses participating in the learning community. Section four discusses how the learningcommunity was implemented. Section five presents the assessment results. Conclusions andrecommendations are provided in section six.II. Learning Community ObjectivesThe goal of

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

and documentsexamples of both faculty and student integration of modeling-based projects. A faculty surveyperformed in Fall 2001 indicated strong Purdue University MET faculty support for the directionpreviously set forth. Of the six CAD software packages surveyed, two packages indicated anincreased future utilization, while four indicated decreased future utilization in PurdueUniversity’s MET department.Examples of this 3D CAD integration using solid modeling will include formal and informal classprojects and extracurricular activities, as well as the development and final outputs of a number ofopen-ended design projects spanning from freshman through graduate level. Other examplesinclude the modeling and animated operation of mechanical

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

competencies, professional ethics and the development of a basic engineeringproject. The project includes engineering analysis, market outlook, basic productiontechniques, economic assessment, planning, design, manufacturing, testing and productevaluation. The focus of the other course is to further develop required skills in mathematicsand engineering science and learning the use of computer programming for the solution ofengineering problems. The approach taken in both courses is project/goal oriented, learningtopics are “discovered” as part of the project development. In one course, hands-onexperimentation is emphasized while in the other analysis and numerical simulation arepromoted. The experience of the past few years indicates that retention

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel

require the students to construct sensors for the LEGO robot as well as program thesensors to complete a final problem-solving project. The short-term results include increasedinterest in the course objectives and graded assignments. Long-term results have yet to bemeasured but we are encouraged by both the students’ and instructors’ positive feedback.Introduction The United States Military Academy requires all incoming plebes (freshmen) to enroll inCS 105 – Introduction to Computing. This 40-lesson course provides an introduction to theprinciples of computing along with an overview and introduction to information technology (IT).The course has two objectives, which are accomplished using hands-on activities, group projects,and active

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

Design and Graphics (ED&G) 100 is an introduction to engineering designcourse for all freshman baccalaureate-engineering students at the Altoona College of thePennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, engineering design andprinciples are taught through team-oriented design projects supported by communicationskills: graphical and written. The course has three components with fifteen doubleperiods (two hours each) for each segment of the course. The first component of thecourse introduces students to computer application skills including CAD. The secondcomponent deals with manual graphic and drafting skills. The third component focuseson team-based engineering design projects. Working together in teams, students work

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bernal; Sheryl Duggins

collaboration seeking a definition ofthe software engineering body of knowledge. The significance of the results of the project oncurrent software engineering curriculum is investigated and the state of software engineeringdegree programs around the world is examined.IntroductionThe software engineering discipline began when the term "software engineering" was first usedin 1967 by a NATO study group to discuss "the problems of software" and popularized with thesubsequent 1968 conference in Germany10. Over the last 35 years, the international softwareengineering community has made progress towards defining the discipline, with the last decadebeing marked by tremendous progress towards defining software engineering on an internationalscale.The efforts of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

* Abstract An NSF-funded, interdisciplinary project of curriculum development and research on embedded system design has benefited teaching and research programs of the BAE Department at Kansas State University. The benefits included improvement in teaching of instrumentation and control courses, curriculum opportunity for BAE undergraduate and graduate students on embedded systems, enhancement of graduate research, and undergraduate research experiences.IntroductionIn a report of the Academic Program Administrators Committee of American Society ofAgricultural Engineers (ASAE) issued in 1990

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

high schools. We havedisseminated a "computing and composition" approach, originally implemented in first-year college programming and English composition courses, to a high school curriculumin an urban setting. The Computing and Composition Project served students attendingfour Newark, New Jersey high schools, each serving populations with different profilesof academic performance. The instructional program included the development of a seriesof case studies based on the state high school science and mathematics content standardsand the specific curriculum in place at the schools. These learning modules weredesigned to emphasize the skills required to solve problems and learn the syntax of theC++ programming language. Teamwork was an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Steven Parks; Krisnamurthy Jayaraman; Edward Evans; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Charles Petty; Andre Benard

Session 1712 NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development on Multiphase Transport Phenomena M. J. Amey 2, A. Bénard 2, G. G. Chase 1, E. A. Evans1, K. Jayaraman 2, R. S. Mohan3, S. M. Parks2, C. A. Petty 2 (presenter), O. Shoham3, S. A. Shirazi3, K. D. Wisecarver3, M. Zhuang 2 1 The University of Akron/2Michigan State University/ 3The University of TulsaSummaryThis curriculum development project on multiphase transport phenomena draws on the researchexperiences from nine research laboratories at The University of Akron, Michigan State

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowing discussion, we will cite examples from the five modules that the three authors of thispaper developed. These modules deal with computational skills in the technical area, with oralcommunication skills in the communications area, project management skills in the professionalarea, and ethical interpretation and global and societal impact skills in the ethical-societal area.Table 1. Instructional modules subdivided by skill category Technical Skills Professional Skills Communication Skills Ethical-Societal Skills Computational

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

grouped into four categories as shown in Table 1. Technical Skills Professional Skills Communication Skills Ethical-Societal Skills Computational Project Management Graphical Communication Contemporary Issues Design Lifelong Learning Oral Communication Ethical Interpretation Experimental Teaming Written Communication Global-Societal Impact Modeling Time Management Problem SolvingTable 1. Instructional modules subdivided by skill categoryBefore beginning to develop the actual instructional material, the developers agreed on a set ofspecification so that the modules met a series of general requirements and, perhaps

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Frey

prototyping. It was thought that the Rapid Prototyping and designof industrial projects would be valuable in increasing the translation between 2-D drawings andactual 3-D parts. In order to accomplish this, the following research questions were proposed: · Does offering a lower cost design and prototyping service provide a useful service? · Do Industry/Education partnerships in design and Rapid Prototyping result in viable products? · Do these partnerships increase student scores on standardized tests?Following the initiation of a new low cost or pro bono cooperative program for design andprototyping at Southeast Missouri State University a steady influx of inventors and companiesshowed interest in pursuing development of

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

professional development, detailthe activities covered in the gender equity professional development, and discuss the strengthsand weaknesses of the program determined through the project evaluation.SummerScape Professional Development FormatFor two years 16 middle school teachers per summer were recruited as school teams from Metro-Atlanta area school systems. Teachers participated in 6 hours of professional developmentduring the spring semester to provide them with background information about SummerScape,the National Science Education Standards, inquiry-based science, collaborative learning andgender equity. In June SummerScape staff provided 4 days of professional developmentcovering the scientific content for the classes with an emphasis on using

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Murali Paranandi

thecourse. The objective of the course is to provide the student an experience that helps gainan understanding of “what we can and should do with computers and what computersmight do to and for us” [SIMON, 1987]. This is accomplished through two successiveprojects. The first, normally four to five weeks in duration, focuses on “what we can dowith computers and what computers might do to us” portion; the second, lasting for therest of the semester (about 10 weeks) addresses “what we should do with computers andwhat computers might do for us”. The project 15 described in this paper provides anexample of the effectiveness of the first project.The ProjectThe design challenge was to design and build a small inspirational object to be placed ontheir

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

EducationTypes of TablesTables need to be developed to describe entities and processes, but which tables? A good ap-proach to specifying tables is first to be aware of the different types of tables, and then use thetable types as a checklist to see which tables are needed for each entity or process. Tables can becategorized as descriptive, transaction, child, reference, summary, or historical, as well as tablesserving multiple purposes. From the onset, it must be stressed that the only fields that should bein more than one table are identifiers, such as for employees (EmpID ) or projects (ProjID ).1. Descriptive or master tables typically contain fairly static data typically dealing with entities, such as employee, product, or customer tables. A

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Field

Faculty Engineering Design Methodology Faculty Project Scheduling Faculty Overview of Survey Data Analysis Faculty Library Research Skills Library Personnel Business Communication Faculty Project Organization and Documentation Skills Pappajohn Center Personnel Overview of Business Partner Organization Business Partner Personnel Presentation Skills Pappajohn Center PersonnelSince January 1999, administrative responsibility for the day-to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathrine Nguru; Murat Tanyel

. In order to facilitate such an experimentalenvironment with limited institutional resources and student time for hardware implementations, avirtual toolkit of computer simulations was developed using LabVIEW. LabVIEW’s graphicalinterface with live help windows and other visual feedback rendered this project achievable andenjoyable even for a freshman student programmer. This paper will recount the project both froma professor’s point of view and from that of a freshman student, who did not know about theprogramming language nor about the processes she was to simulate at the onset of the project.The paper will also describe the toolkit prepared to demonstrate a wide variety of topics coveredin a typical communication systems course and

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

alarger project to integrate design concepts throughout the chemical engineering curriculum atSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T).IntroductionTraditional undergraduate laboratories in chemical engineering provide students an exposure toconcepts of engineering science learned in the classroom, but do not provide open-ended, designexperiences similar to what graduates might face as chemical engineers in industrial positions.The traditional experiments in a unit operations laboratory tend to be created around fixed piecesof equipment. The procedures, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results tend to benearly identical for every team of students assigned to conduct a particular experiment, resultingin students

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

technology. The need for practical relevancy led to the establishmentof our Industrial Advisory Council with members from several companies and the USgovernment. New programs emerged such as the Certificate Program in ManufacturingEngineering and a part-time Masters of Engineering degree program with a project focus. Othercollaborative activities include joint responsibility for the Annual Thermal ManufacturingWorkshop, industrial sponsorship of senior design projects and providing outside feedback aspart of our ABET EC2000 continuous improvement process. The current level of collaboration isgood but can be improved. For a university in which most of the students attend classes full-timeduring the day, meeting the needs of the students from industry

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga; Bill Hutzel

as fuel cells used as part of a smaller decentralized powersystem, could eventually become required reading. The purpose of this paper is to provide one example of how renewable energy topics canbe integrated into undergraduate MET and EET courses. The context of this discussion is asmall photovoltaic array that was designed by students at the West Lafayette campus of PurdueUniversity. The design project exposed undergraduate students to an alternative energy sourcethat is not typically addressed in an undergraduate curriculum. Once the photovoltaic system isoperational, the long-term educational goal is for MET and EET students to develop a greaterappreciation for alternative energy sources as part of their core coursework.Planning

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

tools.An example student project will be presented and the learning outcomes discussed.IntroductionMany universities currently teach kinematics and dynamics of machinery and machine design astwo separate courses with some schools still teaching these as three separate courses. However,due to the recent ABET requirements and other curriculum issues, many universities areconsidering to integrate these courses into a single one. In fact, a common recent trend [1] is toteach an integrated course, which includes concepts of statics and basic solid mechanics. Otherexamples include the integration of technical drawing and solid modeling, dynamics andintroductory vibrations, finite element analysis (FEA) and machine component design andsystem dynamics and

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominique M. Durand; Dmitri Kourennyi

focusing on computer modeling using NEURON software with a number of modelsincluded or publicly available and which does not require special computational skills to createcustom models. Thus such a course is well suited for students from the Departments ofNeurosciences and Physiology & Biophysics. On the other hand, the course provides deepfundamental background for biomedical engineering students. In the pilot run of the course proved to be interesting and well evaluated by the students.The projects completed by students were related to their research and well interlaced withfundamentals learnt in the lectures The strategy in development of the course for the fall of 2002 will include more standardmodels available for students

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

curriculum will greatlybenefit the learning process of students because these tools allow extensive use of design-oriented problems such as open-ended problems and projects in the curriculum. Solving thesedesign-oriented projects and problems provides the students with valuable insight andunderstanding of design and analysis processes involved in real-world engineering problems. Page 7.708.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The main objective of this paper is to describe the

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Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

a Good BookWriting a textbook is a large-scale project. Staying organized and practicing good projectmanagement skills are essential for the successful completion of a text. Understandingthe flow of the actual process of physically creating a textbook can be very helpful forplanning purposes. The flow chart that follows describes the major steps, fromprospectus to publication, typically found in the process of creating a textbook.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 7.1006.3 Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Author

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Stephen; Jerry Weinberg

. Theprerequisite to the HCI course is “Interaction Programming,” a course that provides the studentswith an understanding of event driven programming, graphical user interfaces (GUI), and one Page 7.788.1∗ For course materials and additional information please visit www.cs.siue.edu/hci Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Educationlanguage to program GUI’s. This is a second language course for the students. Students tend totake the HCI course in their junior year just prior to the Senior Project

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

National Science Foundation Graduate K-12 Fellows grant at theUniversity of Oklahoma is a combined engineering and education class. The goal of this upperdivision or graduate credit course is to prepare authentic science and math educators by providingboth the educational theory and the scientific knowledge to prepare authentic classroom exercisesin the K-12 environment. This paper reviews the course demographics, goals, content, andexecution of the first offering of this course in fall of 2001. A discussion of the combination ofeducation majors with engineering majors and a presentation of a combined curriculum ispresented. This course is not only a model for other NSF GK-12 projects, but other universitiesinterested in bridging the gap between