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Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

of activities related to the design and delivery ofeducational and research efforts and is characterized by three main innovative componentsnamely, 1) a new industry-university collaborative model for integrating basic and appliedresearch into a degree program, 2) creation and delivery of state-of-the-art course content andappropriate laboratories, and 3) creation of capstone projects that are implemented throughinternships.The curricular project involves the synthesis of the core of an embedded systems program basedon the latest research and close cooperation with industry. The content of the program drawsheavily upon advanced research and development in industry and academia and are reinforced by1 This research supported by NSF

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Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

outcomeportfolios as a measurement tool for the closed loop assessment process. It gives a newperspective to the exhibit materials for the purpose of accreditation.Introduction In most of the classroom education, the instructor delivers a brilliant lecture tohis/her satisfaction. However, an effective teacher would like to know how much of theknowledge has been absorbed or learned by the students from the lecture. While learningis proportional to instruction, the essential link between them is assessment. The processof instruction involves continuous decision making by an instructor. The instructordecides what to teach, how to teach, how much to teach, how long to teach, what toreview, what to ask in the test, and how to evaluate the test. These

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

Page 7.709.2 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright : 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"At the University of Colorado, Boulder. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder initiated a college-wide reform that was designed to model thereal-world of engineering. It expanded teaching methods to integrate team work, active and grouplearning, project-based design, and problem-solving experiences1.At the University of Oklahoma, Norman. The School of Civil Engineering and EnvironmentalScience (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, initiated a systemic reform thatincorporated four themes

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Jackson

Tech, covering introductory digital signal processing (DSP) and real-time programming. The target audience for this course is electrical engineers with Bachelor’s orMaster’s degrees who are working in industry with little or no knowledge of DSP and some workexperience with micro-processors and the C programming language. During the course, studentsare assigned several lab exercises to explore different aspects of DSP and the particular processorbeing used. Lecture material on DSP theory is delivered in the form of streaming video andslides on a CD-ROM. Online quizzes are given to test student comprehension of lecture materialand laboratory concepts. A staff of teaching assistants was hired to provide support for students.In order to provide an

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

molding and metal casting, and deep drawing. After studying their selected processes, thestudents had to figure out how to provide the forces, heat, fluids, motion, geometry, etc. to thematerials they chose for objects used to demonstrate their processes.One student modified a polishing wheel in the Materials Laboratory to provide centrifugal forcesand designed and built the means to hold the mold to the wheel shaft to demonstrate vertical spincasting. Using a vacuum former as a model, a group of students built their own pressure formingsystem. Another group used silicon rubber to make molds to cast small parts of materials withmelting temperatures under 400oF. They designed and built molds with sprues and runners,machined patterns or used common

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wood

from Clemson University and a Ph. D. from theUniversity of Virginia in physics. He has seven years of research experience in laboratories for American Cynamidand TRW. He has 25 years of teaching experience in physics and engineering technology at Tri-County TechnicalCollege. Since 1984, he has been Division Chair of the Industrial and Engineering Technology Division at Tri -County Technical College in Pendleton, S.C. He has been co-principal investigator of the SC ATE Center ofExcellence since 1995. Page 7.1269.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elizabeth Orwin

for Engineering Educationexperience with the engineering design process and to stimulate the development of engineeringskills. The course that we created consisted of a series of short lectures on the design process aswell as group activities and exercises to further illustrate these topics. We had a shortintroductory simple design exercise and covered reverse engineering, project management and thedesign process. Mini-projects in class served to illustrate the main points of the design process.Students were also given a logbook in which to record any notes from the class or any ideas thatthey might have in order to prepare them for the idea of keeping a laboratory notebook for thepurpose of patent rights. In addition, students were formed

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan ElKishky

Power Engineering EducationResources Subcommittee [5-9]. The drop in the number of faculty members engaged in electricpower education reflects shrinking of electric power programs in those schools.Table 1: Faculty engaged in electric power teaching and research (Carnegie-Melon Research IUniversities, 1994 edition) Faculty Engaged in Electric Year Year Year Year Year Power Teaching 1985- 1987- 1989- 1991- 1993-University 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994Arizona State University 6 5 6 6 5University of Alabama-Birmingham 3 3

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

-funded project.IntroductionBucknell's College of Engineering is implementing Project Catalyst, a three-year effort todevelop a general-purpose model for the nationally recognized need of systemic engineeringeducation reform. The plan is to integrate instructional design techniques, transform the Page 7.399.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”classroom into a cooperative learning environment, and incorporate efficiently and effectivelythe use of information technology in the teaching

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wies; John Aspnes

Alaskan communities have no access to the electric utility system and rely on diesel-electric generators (DEGs) for electric power. These systems are typically uneconomical due tothe shipping costs of fuel and require routine maintenance due to operating conditions [2,3].Efforts are already underway to build hybrid systems in remote villages of Alaska such as thediesel/photovoltaic/battery electric power system in Lime Village, Alaska backed by the AlaskaEnergy Authority (AEA). The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Science,Engineering, and Mathematics is stepping up to the challenge with the newly developed ArcticEnergy Technology Development Laboratory (AEDTL) whose mission is to promote researchand development of energy

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanford Meek; Mark Minor

curriculum to its current state. This will befollowed by a brief discussion of future improvements in Section 5, and concluding remarks andin Section 6.2. Course Content Undergraduate mechatronics education at the University of Utah is provided by a two-semester course sequence at the third year of the Mechanical Engineering program. The course isa fundamental component of the Mechanical Engineering design experience. Subject materialincludes mechanisms, sensors and actuators, micro-controllers, systems modeling, and feedbackcontrol. As typical of undergraduate curricula, lecture and homework assignments are used tobuild an understanding of fundamentals that are then reinforced by laboratory experiments andfinally practiced in a course

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan

affordable and widespread. New modeling and model abstractiontechniques are appearing. The most important set of technologies center on modeling andsimulation. Some of the key areas that require attention in modeling and simulation are: modelobject selection (what to model); degree of abstraction; level of depth; flexibility andmaintenance of models; integration of different models; and model validation. The results arediscussed under the following headings:Flexible Manufacturing: The discussion with a National Research Group from Oak RidgeNational Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratoriesindicated that the research in telerobotics and flexible manufacturing systems though showedprogress, it would be practically

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1566remained practically unchanged since around 1970, albeit for the piecewise and uncoordinatedintroduction of a number of new subjects such as computer science into traditional curricula. Dueto lack of equipment and support, laboratory work has been eliminated or confined to specialtycourses and design has taken the back seat to analysis. The perceived quality of engineeringundergraduate programs has shifted from excellence in education to accomplishment in research.However, since the 1980s, many warnings have been sounded regarding the inadequacy

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

assessed but aretaught in the curriculum. Banta, McGordy, and others have described formats for assessmentplans in the literature. 4, 7, 8, 9 The contribution that this paper describes is a process to ensurethere are linkages with curriculum issues.Information in NC State’s College of Engineering Assessment Plans includes the following: · Program Outcomes: Outcomes describe what the academic department intends for students to know (cognitive), think (affective, attitudinal), or do (behavioral, performance, psychomotor) when they have completed a given educational program. · Implementation: How/where the program will implement or teach the concepts related to each outcome. · Assessment Plan for data collection: Brief

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

and mentoring forvarious team projects such as Formula SAE, teaching a solid modeling class, infrastructuredevelopment, laboratory equipment procurement, and teaching the advanced strength ofmaterials class. The professors who are not actively involved in IEWorks may not fullyunderstand the process of IEWorks and serve to interrupt and overload the student. One current Page 7.645.11member in IEWorks mentioned having particular difficulty managing the extra work andmaintaining grades. From the responses to the question of whether the participant would Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

are steadily declining. The project is concerned with preparingunderprepared students for the technical workforce in an environment of globalization, rapidlychanging technology, and the declining of basic skills (communication and mathematics) ofincoming students.Our traditional approach to resolve these issues of underprepared students has been to offerdiscipline-based remedial courses. However, this compartmentalized teaching has notsucceeded in meeting the expectations of these students and reducing the attrition rate which isgenerally higher than 60%.Our project attempts to build a bridge between the skills of incoming students and the skills theymust have to meet the demands of the future workforce. This bridge is being built on a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

computer lab forstudents and providing computers to the teaching staff. The acquisition of at least twentycomputers will be enough to establish a computer lab. Students will use them for computation,drafting, and writing laboratory reports. One of the young teachers could be trained to teachcomputer-aided design (CAD) to the students.5.3 TextbooksThe Faculty is severely suffering from the shortage of textbooks. Existing edition of textbooksare old and outdated. One text is shared by several students which severely hamper their abilityto prepare for their classes. Several alternatives could be followed to alleviate the problem.As a first alternative, it is necessary to contact American publishers for their South Asian prints. Ihave identified three

Conference Session

Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

prepare students for thesechallenges. We have developed a graduate course on microstructural characterization, analysis,and modeling that is based on concepts of stochastic microstructures and uses model systemsbased on spatial geometry concepts of point processes, packings, and tessellations. Using discreteconstituents such as discs, we develop the fundamental ideas of spatial geometry and imagealgebra more transparently to aid student comprehension. Once these principles are covered, weextend them to more complex structures such as multiphase materials.IntroductionThis paper discusses our experiences with a 3-semester-hour (2 lecture and 2 laboratory hours)course taught to graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NC A

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Ford; Vincent Wilczynski; Gregg Dixon

. Some of the parts require tight tolerance limits in order for theengine to operate properly, giving the students an appreciation for quality control inmanufacturing processes. The completed engine is visually attractive and has interestingoperating characteristics that demonstrate the operation of properly timed valves and crank-drivenflywheels. The freewheeling speed of the engine provides a measure of construction quality.This paper provides an explanation of the construction and testing of the air engine, a descriptionof how the project is integrated with laboratory and lecture activities in a sophomore level designcourse, and an explanation of how this activity fits into the achievement of desired educationalobjectives of the course and of

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Obenchain; Keith Bearden; Dan Diaz; Brian Self

,Albuquerque, NM.BiographiesBRIAN P. SELFBrian Self is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Hereceived his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in Bioengineeringat the University of Utah. He has four years of experience with the Air Force Research Laboratory and isin his third year of teaching in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the US Air Force Academy.Areas of research include impact injury mechanisms, sports biomechanics, and aerospace physiology.KEITH L. BEARDENKeith Bearden graduated from USAFA in 1988 with a degree in Engineering Mechanics and Math. Hisfirst USAF assignment was to Hanscom AFB, MA working in a systems program office. From there hewas selected

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

course entitled Introduction toEngineering every fall semester. Earlier assessments indicated that the course was generally wellreceived, and several key issues were addressed. The issue at hand now, is the content of thecourse. Because of the wide range of background in math, science, and computing of ourfreshmen group, it is a challenge for any instructor to go in depth on any engineering conceptwithout running the risk of losing those at the lower competency level and at the same timekeeping the course interesting and challenging for those who are well into the advanced sequence.Faculty with varied backgrounds teaching the course are grappling to find innovative ways tofulfill the main objectives of the course, viz., retention, offer a better

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron

of these sitesdoes not correspond to a specific teaching method.Last year, we adopted a new teaching method for an advanced programming course in C++. Thegoal of the method, derived from problem-based approaches, was to support students inprogramming a large-scale project that lasted the entire semester (similar in spirit withapproaches suggested in 2,3). It was obvious from the start that an independent site for the coursewould be needed to provide a posting and collaboration space centered around the project. Page 7.807.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2163regular PC computers cannot meet the requirements of CAD software packages. Moreover,professional copies of CAD software packages cost an average of $5,000 to $20,000 per license.There are very few state-funded institutions of higher learning which can afford such luxuriousstate-of-the-art design laboratories to educate ten to twenty students at one time. Therefore, inmost cases, professors have to invest in the $200 to $300 student version CAD packages withmoderate speed PCs to teach Introduction to CAD. The authors have actually

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Rompelman; Maarten Uijt De Haag; Jos Uyt de Haag; Brian Manhire

Engineering Education .Leiden .Enschede . Delft . Wageninge .Heerlen Fig. 1. The Netherlands2. Education in The NetherlandsThe Dutch educational system for children consists of mandatory education from age 5 through16 consisting of two stages: primary education and secondary education. Primary schools startteaching children at age 4 until about age 12. These schools focus on teaching reading andwriting skills, science, history, and society-related topics [1,2]. For primary education one

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

course. The trueessence of engineering practice and engineering spirit can have a meaningfuldevelopment with the presence of real-life tools-of-the-trade. The training of teachers tounderstand, use and teach the use of these tools is a major component of the program.The importance of this aspect of the program should not be underestimated. And theprocurement of needed infrastructure is secured by attending to the partnership of statedepartments of education, industry, universities, and, of course, local school systems.Project Lead The Way programProject Lead The Way has developed a curriculum of five courses for high schools andone course for middle schools. The high school affiliate must agree to offer all fivecourses. These courses are for any

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationregard to legal limits, giving the students a chance to gain experience with the FAA certificationprocess.Fabrication WorkA strong emphasis of the Penn State flight vehicle design and fabrication course is on “hands-on” experience in the laboratory, which the students are required to attend for several hours perweek. Ideally, here the students put into reality what had previously been developed in thedesign groups. In the laboratory, students work in small teams usually consisting of at least onemore experienced classmate acting as a leader. The students learn simple tasks, such as sanding,as well as more complex composite-material fabrication methods, such as the processing of pre-preg or

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

; Symbolic and Numerical Computer; Electronic; Operational Systems; Construction Techniques of Programs; Antennas and microwaves; Formal Languages and Automata; Communication Systems; Digital Laboratories; Electrical Materials and Processes. · 4th. Year: Digital Systems; Automatic Control; Digital Communications; Software Engineering; Hydraulic, Thermal and Electrical Machines; Graphic Computer; Teleprocess and Computer Network; Digital Processing and Stochastic Processes Signals; Mathematical Programming; Software Engineering Laboratories. · 5th. Year: Integrated Circuits Conception; Telephonic Systems and Planning Systems of Communications; Tolerance Basis to Flaws; Communications Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Data Base; Generation

Conference Session

Ethics across the Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

in engineering requires that students understand their professional and ethicalresponsibilities. ABET also asks programs to ensure that students integrate ethicalconsiderations into a "major design project." Even a quick look at these ethics requirementsmakes it clear that the ethical component of this new engineering curriculum cannot becompletely delegated to the ethics expert, for example, a philosopher who would teach afreestanding course in engineering ethics required of all engineering students. For reasons thatwe will discuss below, the freestanding course, while an essential part of a successfulengineering program, does not by itself achieve the integration of ethics into the engineeringcurriculum that ABET requires.One of the

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

logical one and an ideal vehiclefor the delivery of the 180-hour MPI program. 60 hours of this program will be spent inclassroom and laboratory activities (covering manufacturing processes and systems, problemsolving, communications, teamwork, and project management) while 120 hours will be spent atan industry partner’s site working on a paid internship. The instructors for the program will berecruited from the PRIME colleges and universities while mentors for the internships will belocated from area industry. A pilot MPI program was conducted in Summer 2001 at a single sitein one county with 25 students from 4 different high schools. In the Summer of 2002, ten sitesare planned with 25 students at each site – the program will impact the ten

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

andposition engineering graduate education to meet both the technology and societal needsof the 21st century. This paper adds value for the preparation of adjunct faculty membersas graduate instructors and future teaching scholars. The paper contains an expanding setof Promising Practices in engineering and technology education that are currently beingused. Teaching at the graduate level requires a high level of motivation in faculty whoare committed to excellence in knowledge, in research, and in contributions to theprofession, and/or serve to the community. Adjunct professors are an excellent way tobridge with the community and add richness to many course and degree programofferings.Historical PerspectiveThe role of the adjunct within the modern