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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

Session 2309 A Biomedical Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at Purdue University Karen M. Haberstroh, and Thomas J. Webster Department of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1296IntroductionA recent study by the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that highest need for engineers inthe next decade will be in the biomedical sector, with 33% more jobs projected by the year20081. Clearly, programs are needed to increase the number of qualified and diverseengineers trained in biological sciences and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Session 2793 Batch Grading of Excel Homework Assignments Dennis R. Stevenson, P.E. Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-ParksideThis is a report of a design project to incorporate automated grading of Excel homeworkassignments in an engineering economy course. The instructional faculty wished to (1) reducethe amount of time spent on grading and at the same time (2) improve the quality of grading and(3) reduce the lag time in providing feedback of results to students.A grading system, somewhat unimaginatively named Grader4, has been used for

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion

relatively consistent with only minor changes. This consistency cannot besaid for the focus and content of the laboratories. Initially, the weekly laboratory assignmentswhere used to reinforce specific VHDL features or hardware principles and then were followedby a multi-week quarter ending project. This bottom-up approach was met with limited success. Page 7.787.61 For the record, Xilinx’s Foundation Series version 3.1 is currently being used. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationMany

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Duff

subject semesters. Much of thestructure of the course as it was to be taught in the Internet version was incorporated into those twosemesters of the traditionally taught course. The essential characteristics of learning elements such asquizzes, homework, exams and group projects, were then carried over into the Internet version. As aresult, a number of specific comparisons could be credibly made between the traditionally taught courseand the Internet taught course.Some features incorporated into the Internet course are 1) that both quizzes and homework are nowautomatically graded so that immediate feedback is provided to the student, 2) some course materialhas been animated and student group projects are presented to the rest of the class on the

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Session 3130 Development of a Problem Test Bank for Linear Circuits and Its Implications for Improving Learning and the Assessment of Student Learning Charles F. Yokomoto, Maher E. Rizkalla Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringI. IntroductionIn this paper, we describe an on-going project that is taking place in our departmentwhose goals are to establish some uniformity in the assessment of student learning acrosssections in our introductory linear circuit analysis course, to promote an understanding inthe culture of our department of the different levels of cognitive

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationpredecessors did, their experiences for the most part are limited to those of an "end user," and nota "developer." Therefore, the concept of programming is foreign to many of them.(ii) It is well understood that a programming language cannot be learned by just reading a text-book or listening to class lectures. One needs to read the textbook, attend lectures, and more im-portantly, practice the subject matter by writing programs. This is the justification for addinglaboratory modules to programming courses.An improvement to the lecture technique of teaching programming courses is to run the sampleprograms in the classroom and show the results via projection display equipment. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

. International Experiences 10 Tours Begin 10a. Library Skills 10b. Student Panel 11a. Ethics 11b. Registration Review (Registration begins this week) 12 Fall Break – students work on projects, classes do not meet 13a. Units and Dimensions 13b. Estimation of Answers 14 Thanksgiving—students work on projects, classes do not meet 15a. Minidesign #3 Demonstration in Class 15b. Course Evaluation 16 Grade review, meetings with instructor Page

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

system are both easily observable and related to fluid mechanics. Effective use of these phenomena as demonstrations would bring a lively atmosphere in the classroom and help inspire students to learn the subject. (4) Homework or projects. Some blood problems are suitable for more in-depth study and can thus be used as homework or projects in the course. In our classroom experience, we noticed how merely mentioning such topics immediately captured the student’s attention and galvanized their interest unlike anything we had seen before. Working through this type of projects would provide a deeper insight to some key concepts in fluid mechanics.III. ImplementationThe plan mentioned above was implemented in the fall semester

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

creation of a modernteaching laboratory, curriculum design, and growth in faculty and students.The new MS program follows the structure of our existing MSEE and MSCE degrees, andrequires little additional university investment. Specific course offerings will be described, alongwith their laboratory components and the set-up of the Photonics Instructional Laboratory.Curricular overlap with senior electives and with graduate students from other disciplines will alsobe presented. Connections for research and entrepreneurship in photonics have been created,allowing students to undertake MS thesis work, MS projects, or prepare for Ph.D. level study.Recent connections to distance learning will be described.This paper also will describe the

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

· Pocket Logger · Oscilloscope · Digital MultimeterOnce the data was gathered, students learned things such as lab report formats, importantequations and Microsoft Excel. All three tools helped students take their experimental data andpresent it in a usable format.LabworkEngineering is an application of scientific knowledge to real world situations. To truly knowwhat engineering is, students must have some sort of real life situations and projects to workon. That is where the labs come in. These labs are not simple, one-day labs that one wouldexpect to do in a physics or chemistry class. They are a series of related labs, each series

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edwin Zivi; Jenelle Piepmeier

Academy students andgraduates approximately 125 ABET accredited Systems engineering majors per year. The ten-fold increase in Systems department enrollment since moving to Maury hall in 1976 required aninnovative facility design to provide the most laboratory, classroom, and design project supportspace within the existing building structure.During the 1999-2000 academic year, the joint Systems and Electrical Engineering departmentrenovation committee performed a requirements driven study. Initial steps included therequirements questionnaire summarized in Appendix A and the formation of subcommittees tostudy: • Temporary swing space facilities • General facility design • Lab-classroom designConcurrently, a pilot “classroom-of-the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie Ofosu

profession as a faculty teaching in atechnology program, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)stipulate that one must have some industrial experience, among other expectations. Thevalue of this lies in the fact that it helps in bringing aspects of the real world to theclassroom. This helps the students to appreciate how the theories and principles learnt inthe classroom relate to practices in industry. Page 7.555.1Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Eberhardt

designed to re-enforce concepts and expose students to a cooperative laboratoryenvironment. Student groups participate in two conceptual design projects, one a flightvehicle, the other a space mission. Multi-media presentations provide the framework forthe concepts. To attract the widest range of students possible, analysis has beeneliminated in favor of conceptual understanding.AA101 has always made use of the web for providing information. In the past, the webpage was static. The AA101 web page has now transitioned to a dynamic resource wherestudents can interactively determine such things as how range or speed affects aircraftweight. They can interact with a visualization tool to understand simple controls.Students can participate in discussion

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationand population studies… It advances fundamental concepts, creates knowledge for the molecularto the organ systems levels, and develops innovative biologics, materials, processes, implants,devices and informatics approaches for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, forpatient rehabilitation, and for improving health”.IV. The Biomedical Engineering ProjectThe coordinating team of Lusiada Engineering School has conceived and developed a project ofan biomedical engineering program, which basic characteristics are:- under graduation,- five years,- the inclusion of new courses- the effective work in projects 2.So besides the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Petry

assessment plan. The goals andobjectives are clearly defined. Learning experiences and assessment measures are bothtraditional and innovative. These innovative approaches will serve as a model to otherdisciplines.Assessment OverviewEducational assessment is generally considered a method of evaluating student performance andattainment. Although this may sound relatively simple in fact it is a complicated challenge foradministrators and faculty at universities throughout the United States. Architectural programsare somewhat unique. In addition to the traditional means of assessment (i.e. testing) thesubjective nature of the design studio projects provide challenges and opportunities for bothstudents and faculty. Portfolios, always hallmarks of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

, which is transmitted outside the computer, must be set to an industry standard voltage/currentlevel. These standards are designed to insure that the transmitted data is immune to outsideelectromechanical and electromagnetic noise interference.In this paper, we will describe the terms used in serial communication systems. Then, we will describea project in which a digital circuit is designed to convert the parallel data to serial format. Applicationspecific chips are available to perform the task of parallel-to-serial and serial-to- parallel conversion.One example of such an application specific chip, is the INTEL 8251A [1], which is a UniversalSynchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (USART) chip. This chip can be programmed toconvert

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Randell; Marty Bowe; John Feland; Daniel Jensen

to use wire for the frame and RP for the other parts. Figure 5 – Prototype of Baja Car4.1 The USAFA classesThe two courses where we have primarily used the RPT are our sophomore-levelIntroduction to Design course and our Senior-level Intercollegiate Competition Designcourse. The Introduction to Design class exposes students to a suite of design toolsincluding: customer needs analysis, brainstorming techniques, functional modeling, QFD,decision making tools for embodiment options, design for manufacturing, design forassembly, design of experiments and, of course, prototyping). The course includes threedesign projects. The first project is merely a check of cadets’ abilities at prototyping andis assigned at the

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

it’s done)4. Comments from students regarding their team experiences5. An evaluation of the study to date.Introduction Responding to the demands of industry for graduates skilled in teamwork, many engineeringprograms have introduced projects that require students to work in teams 2. Positive teamexperiences also contribute significantly to student academic success and to improved rates ofretention3. Creating teams, however, does not always engender effective team behavior 4.Students who report negative team experiences typically cite lack of communication among –and lack of commitment by – some participants as factors critical to unproductive or failed workefforts5. Nationwide there is increasing interest in the subject of forming teams on

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Matsson

Session 2263 On the Integration of Fluid Flows and Fabrication John E. Matsson Oral Roberts UniversityAbstractThis paper shows the integration of fabrication and fluid mechanics. The project consistsof the design and fabrication of a portable Taylor-Couette apparatus for visualization ofcentrifugal instabilities in fluid flows. Students were told to design the apparatus so that itwould show both primary and secondary instabilities. This necessitated incorporatingcalculations of the relevant parameter regions and the determination of a suitable methodfor

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

. Even on-line, animated testingsoftware does not test the ability of a student to see a project through from beginning to end.Thus, we need to be able to integrate grade data from a variety of sources, including email fromteaching assistants.Successful users of CMSs often have small courses or courses that employ standardized testingand do not have significant project components. In some cases they have been able to developtheir own application software either for enhancing an existing CMS or they have created theirown CMS. Enhancing a CMS would be time consuming and the programs developed to this endwould require maintenance over time, which we have already noted is costly and time-consuming.The continuing development of innovative tools to

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

onfundamental and applied multidisciplinary research in pollution prevention. Pollutionprevention is a key element of new EPA initiatives to protect our children's health and topromote environmental justice and urban environmental quality. Selected students fromall over the USA work closely with engineering faculty on funded research projects inengineering that encourage pollution prevention and sustainable development. Thiseight-week program exposes students not only to the values of research experiences buthelps them reinforce and build other important skills such as communication, social andleadership. The ultimate objective is to provide the REU participants with an enrichingresearch experience that will encourage them to pursue graduate

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

a wide range of partners including industry,Professional Institutions and other Universities. The course delivery involves new methods ofteaching, learning and communications that range from text-based to internet-based. There is astrong emphasis on employment-based project work.The paper will also cover:• The key features of course and curriculum development and the role of partnerships• The most effective methods of teaching, learning and communication Page 7.1181.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

when compared to students learning in traditional learningenvironments.1,2 These methods incorporate technologies such as wireless keypads that activelyengage students during the lecture. The benefits of collaborative methods where students workon projects together is dependent upon the group dynamics.3,4 According to Darlin andMcShannon3, traditional methods were successful for those students who generally aresuccessful in engineering while the success for high-risk students increased when the interactionlearning was conducted with the faculty member. Students can increase their problem solvingand critical thinking skills when given an opportunity to witness how an expert approaches andsolves a problem.5 Learning these skills requires a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

, qualitative assessment strategies have been implemented throughfocus groups convened at the end of the freshman year experience and through analyses oftargeted journal assignments.The freshman design project is the cornerstone of what we now call tDEC and its impact must bevalidated to justify the effort expended by students and faculty from all the disciplines involved.The Drexel Engineering Curriculum (tDEC) freshman design program involves about 550students working on 116 teams ranging in size of from 2 to 6 members. Each team has a designproject and a technical advisor from the College of Engineering faculty. Since engineering facultyfrom every department are involved, there is a need for uniformity in grading standards. Theassessment forms that

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

importance of team work Ø Solve a problem Ø Understand the importance of ethics in engineering.These specific project objectives were designed to meet the following goals: Ø Increase participant knowledge of and exposure to engineering as a possible career by involving the students in hands-on workshops while letting them experience university life. Ø Contribute to students’ confidence in their ability to make career decisions by enhancing their understanding of the engineering profession.Selection ProcessEXITE! was a nonresidential camp with participants recruited locally. The application forms andrelated information were sent to directors of local elementary and middle schools. The directorswere responsible for informing the

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

College of Engineering. Thisdesignation elevates the class to the status of counting toward a student’s engineering degree, insome cases. Enrollment for the spring semester 2002 is forty students, with many students on aburgeoning waiting list. This enrollment change requires, for all practical purposes, the class to betaught in a more traditional manner; with fifteen students it could be taught in the form of anengineering seminar with individual projects. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is best described by itsISO 14040 definition: 11 LCA is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product by: · Compiling an inventory of relevant inputs and outputs of a product system

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh

of 3 faculty members traveled with 26students; in 2001, I was the sole faculty member with 13 students. My program, EPICS, orEngineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence, is a two-semester course required of allstudents at CSM. The first-year course is EPICS I, the sophomore year, EPICS II. Page 7.1093.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOur courses are interdisciplinary and project based. Students work in teams of 4-6 to solvecliented technical problems, improve communication

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

to the second-level studies (M.S. program). During the stage C some specialized(advanced) courses are taken and a final design project is carried out.The system of study is flexible in many ways. The student is granted a lot of freedom in designingand carrying an individual program of study: there is a large number (more than 400) of the studycourses to choose from, 7 diversified areas of concentration, individual pace of the advancementof the study, several exit options. A total of 162 credit hours are needed to obtain the B.S.degree. The curriculum requirements are formulated separately for each area of concentration.The coverage of fundamentals of electronics and information technology, as well as necessarybreadth of the curriculum, is

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

Technological Education (ATE)project to place an Information Technology option within the Engineering Technology at aDistance (ETD) program currently offered at the University of Central Florida.Leaving the campus.The more common method for involving industry into curriculum evaluation is to establish anindustrial advisory board usually involving the industry members after the curriculum has beenestablished. Using the criteria listed above, the methodology seeks to gain the input andacceptance of industry by meeting with the employers to find the best value in a curriculum thatwill serve the industry needs and meet the employee’s education and training needs. This modelis characterized by Jack Welch in his autobiography and is defined as the “vitality