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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

, and almost never the limiting one.”William A. Wulf and George M. C. Fisher, Issues in Science and Technology, spring 2002.INTRODUCTION Design requires the synthesis of many competing factors in order to develop thebest solution given the perceived problem. The Solar Decathlon project at the Universityof Virginia (UVA) attempted to teach students how to design and build a solar-poweredhouse. In the process the potential and problems of engineering design education wereexposed. There is a traditional triad in building design and construction made up ofengineering, architecture and construction. The mismatch in cultures and goals betweenthe three is profound and can lead to misunderstandings and even a degree of animosity.Yet when managed

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

for important information in pursuit of helping them construct their ownknowledge. Computer technology provides an additional mechanism to help teachers with theinstructional process necessary to sustain a generative learning environment in a classroom.Learning Objectives for the First-Year CourseIn order to meet the needs of today's freshmen, a paradigm shift based on engineering design andproblem solving is being considered for the freshmen year. It is believed that a focus on definingvarious types of problems and the problem solving process will provide a better foundation for anengineering education than a course that focuses on how to use computing tools to solveproblems. The main difference between the modalities is in the way content

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Deisenroth

Session (2003-246) ABET and Engineering Laboratory Learning Objectives: A Study at Virginia Tech Karen R. Most, Michael P. Deisenroth, Ph.D. Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061In light of emerging simulated and remote engineering laboratory courses, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has taken on the task of assessing whether thesenew courses can truly accomplish the goals of educational laboratories. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

technicalcommunication. In addition to the regular five-hour lab and one-hour class meeting per week fortechnical communication lectures and classroom activities, course delivery includes Webcourseware, e-mail, individual conferences, and alumni guest speakers.Usually both professors are present during the one-hour class although the class is usually devotedto communication. Occasionally, both professors share the hour when the chemical engineeringprofessor needs more time to explain technical issues. Sometimes both professors comment onreport writing requirements and critique sample reports.Over the past few years, like other engineering educators who have expanded their teachingtechniques to include the latest advances in technological tools, 12-17 I have

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Fenton; H. Russell Kunz; Suzanne Fenton

through gas diffusion layers to the catalyst on theirrespective sides of the MEA. Activated by the catalyst in the anode, hydrogen is oxidized toform protons and electrons. The protons move through the proton exchange membrane and theelectrons travel from the anode through an external circuit to the cathode. At the cathodecatalyst, oxygen reacts with the protons that move through the membrane and the electrons thattravel through the circuit to form water and heat.A general review of PEM fuel cell technology and basic electrochemical engineering principles Page 8.1140.1can be found in references [1]-[7]. Proceedings of the 2003 American

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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

hostility” with whichmost academic engineers view entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He further notes that thespecialized nature of the university in general does not nurture academics that are synthesizers4.The types of obstacles noted by these authors are real. Nevertheless, there is a clear messagefrom industry and also implicit in ABET that the undergraduate learning experience forengineers must be modified to provide context for the theoretical knowledge. Business issuesand the marketplace are a valid context for engineering.Our SolutionEngineering students at UT Austin are benefiting from educational innovations5. Gains incognitive science and the proliferation of instructional technology resources are resulting inbetter instructional

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Keyser; Ronald Musiak; Richard Mindek; Mary Vollaro; Steven Schreiner

to 88 freshmen in five sections of anIntroduction to Engineering class. This integration was initiated for a variety of reasons, including concernover meeting accreditation criteria, a desire to make ethics emphasis more explicit in the curriculum, andpersonal interest of the faculty. The lectures were based on case studies and a philosophically linked methodfor evaluating ethical dilemmas, taught during an ethics workshop attended by one of the faculty at the IllinoisInstitute of Technology during the summer of 2001.Based on student comments and on data collected from Impact Surveys at the end of the semester, this firstformal integration of ethics into these courses was successful. While most students admitted never havingbeen taught

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Motivating students to achieve

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

Session 3475 Teaching Lessons from Engineering Feedback Model for New Educators Dr. Ramesh Gaonkar Computer & Electrical Engineering Technology SUNY, Onondaga Community College Syracuse, New YorkAbstract:*The Shannon s communication model is often used as a presentation vehicle in a teaching andlearning environment. The model includes an input, an output, and a receiver or a transmitter.In engineering, we view this model as a open loop system. A classroom lecture by itself

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Gaonkar

Session 3475 Teaching Lessons from Engineering Feedback Model for New Educators Dr. Ramesh Gaonkar Computer & Electrical Engineering Technology SUNY, Onondaga Community College Syracuse, New YorkAbstract:*The Shannon s communication model is often used as a presentation vehicle in a teaching andlearning environment. The model includes an input, an output, and a receiver or a transmitter.In engineering, we view this model as a open loop system. A classroom lecture by itself

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Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

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Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

this lab has been designed for first-semester sophomores, a more advancedversion of the lab is currently being planned for junior and senior level students. The moreadvance model may include a recirculating blood supply, greater variations in transmembranepressures, the use of bovine serum and corresponding analytical modeling.Biomaterials Testing LaboratoryWith the current advances in artificial skin development and skin replacement technologies inthe field of biomedical engineering, we have integrated a two week materials science moduleinto our Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Course. This component of the course isdesigned assuming the students have not had an introductory materials science course. Tocoincide with the lecture

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wierman John; Shoukas Artin; Robert Allen; Larry Aronhime

technology, where hingesrotate around joints, thereby encouraging the user to use upper body movement while movingforward. A business plan anticipates market penetration through extensive testing with steadystate sales of about 5000 units/year and gross revenues between $2.5M and $5M annually. Hinge Hinge Hinge Page 8.723.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition© Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. An isometric view of Strider

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Goldberg

25 students and we are becoming more established oncampus with each additional semester. We have had 24 graduates with placement in both industryand graduate school. Each year approximately 60 students hear our informational presentationsand seek information about the program.The program allows students exceptional flexibility in designing a degree program to meet theirneeds. Requirements ensure that the students cover areas within engineering and outside ofengineering and we focus on the application of technology. Our requirements are designed to beagile in that students can quickly piece together degree programs in "hot" areas.We have formulated research questions based on the needs of our key stakeholders. In thisreport, we present

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

degrees from The Citadel in1984, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, and The University of Texas at Austin in 1996.He served for eleven years in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He is a member of ASEE,ASCE, and ACI. Page 8.400.9Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2661 Four Reasons for Including an Ethics Component in Engineering Classes Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyABET Criterion 3 requires that engineering programs pay some attention to ethics andprofessionalism. For already jam-packed curricula, however, simply adding a required ethicscourse might not be feasible.This paper examines several reasons encouraging instructors to consider an ethics across thecurriculum approach in lieu of a stand-alone course. These include acquainting students withprofessional expectations, fostering an awareness of ethics in the

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Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda

offinancial and managerial accounting usually required in the business school curricula. Even thesingle combined course offered in some business schools seems too a large price to pay accordingto many engineering faculty. Since the students usually find the accounting material uninterestingand in their view, unimportant, they tend to side with the latter faculty group creating even moreimpetus for the technology driven argument to avoid the topic altogether.Of course, this is a narrow argument, which, if followed, graduates engineering students bereft ofany financial literacy and unable to understand the accounting scorecard in their eventual workorganizations. One possible solution is to identify the most critical learning objectives and deliverthem

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlee Walton

Session 2615 The Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: The Gap Between the Blackboard and Business Marlee A. Walton Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Civil Engineering curricula have been criticized for not effectively preparing engineering studentsfor the workplace. Industry wants technically competent students who also can work as part ofteams, manage projects, communicate well and understand the economic, social and politicalcontext of their professional activities. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), with

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Diane DiMassa

Session 1478 Ocean-Related Senior Design Projects for Mechanical Engineers at UMass Dartmouth1 Prof. Diane E. DiMassa Mechanical Engineering II-116, U Mass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-910-6606 ddimassa@umassd.eduAbstractThis paper discusses several ocean-related capstone design projects completed bymechanical engineering students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Someprojects are detailed analytical projects that involved complex simulations, others aresystems engineering projects

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rafael Rodriguez-Solis; Rafael Medina; Jose Colom

the laboratory experiments. It is expectedthat with this experience, the students will choose their concentration area before their junioryear, and will help coordinate future courses in the ECE Department. The laboratoryexperiments are performed in the facilities of the High-Tech Tools and Toys Laboratory, createdwith the support of NSF CenSSIS.II. EE Department BackgroundThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, the third largest campus of the state-owneduniversity system of Puerto Rico, homes the daily activities of about 765 faculty and almost15,000 students. According to the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) 2000edition of Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges UPRM ranks 14 th in theU.S. in terms

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Georg Mauer

,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering EducationAnnual Conference & Exposition Montreal 2002.http://www.asee.org/conferences/caps/document2/2002-2039_Paper.pdf Page 8.625.8 Proceedings Of The 2003 American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education[6] Tom Morel, Rusl Flowers, Jerry Schumacher, Don Welch “Use Of Robots To TeachInformation Technology And Problem Solving At West Point,” Proceedings of the 2002American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Montreal 2002.http://www.asee.org

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

Session 1566Developing and Assessing Integrated Mechanical Engineering Curriculum for Middle School Students Mausumi N. Syamal and Gary A. Ybarra Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NCAbstract – Our society is becoming increasingly dependent on technology. The use of cellphones and mp3 players permeates every age group and socio-economic stratum. The creationof new devices that improve human life quality is the essence of engineering. Yet, the vastmajority of the population does not even know what engineering is. In a 1998 Poll 61% of adultsclaimed that they were “not

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

discusses her initial choice to be a physics major becauseof her love of math and science, but then adds, “my new involvement in social justice convincedme that I wanted to work towards improving lives more directly than a physicist might…So afterpondering my potential life as a physicist, I decided that I wanted more social responsibility.From the little that I’ve heard and read, engineering might be the right mix of math, science, andsocial responsibility.”In her final version, this student quotes from readings from her humanities and a social scienceclasses as she outlines the various considerations that an engineer must have. From socialtheorist Harold R. Kerbo, she concludes that “with new technologies come people without thosenew technologies

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 The Engineering Economics of Energy Use and Capital Investment Janis P. Terpenny, Lawrence L. Ambs, John R. Dixon, Julia L. Sullivan,1 and William G. Sullivan2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2AbstractA potential capital investment involving energy use or energy conservation is always incompetition with other possible uses of the same available capital. The competition may comefrom other energy related projects, or from proposals for, say new

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

since the students already had received threeweeks of exposure to the modeling software before the surveys were initiated. A comparison ofall the studies indicates that the advanced topics (prototyping, kinematics, FEA) were the mostnovel to the students and hence showed a bigger gain in the pre- to post- level of understandingof the topic. This underscores the students’ enthusiastic reception of these modern, technology-based topics in their freshman engineering design and graphics coursework. Table 10: Average Pre- to Post- Increases (Descending Order) Study Average Increase Study 6: Rapid Prototyping 2.04 Study

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

technical and policy issues in electricpower development (which are later presented to a campus-wide audience during Wintertrimester); (3) a detailed journal documenting observations from three weeks of field work in NewZealand that includes visits to power stations (hydroelectric, geothermal, fossil-fuel, and wind-based generation), national grid and power company control centers, and additional sites withenvironmental or cultural significance.(1) Seminars Prior to Field Work AbroadThe purpose of the seminars is to familiarize the students with the socioeconomic andenvironmental context in which power engineering decisions are made in New Zealand and tointroduce the economics and technology of hydroelectric, geothermal, and wind power

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Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerardine Botte

. UMD, Chemical Engineering Course Catalog, www.semesters.umn.edu/dulcat/template/courses.cfmBiographical InformationGerardine G. Botte is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Ohio Universityand Assistant Director of the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology. Shereceived her B.S. from Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela), and her M.E. and Ph.D.from University of South Carolina. She worked for three years as a Process Engineeringin a Petrochemical Complex (PEQUIVEN, filial of PDVSA,Venezuela) before going tograduate school. Dr. Botte’s research consists of applying chemical engineeringprinciples to the analysis of electrochemical systems. Her current research interests are infuel cells, lithium ion batteries, and

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Long; Kevin Sutterer; Frederick Berry

Session 3580 EXPLORE ENGINEERING: Rose-Hulman’s Outreach to Middle and High School Students Dale Long, Kevin Sutterer, and Fred Berry Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionRose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) places a high priority on reaching out to the localcommunity. This is part of the formula for its success. Such outreach fosters serviceopportunities so students can discover engineering, mathematics, and science careers are aboutmore than calculations, theories and books. Service is a fundamental aspect of being aprofessional and thus

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

,” MATLAB News & Notes, p. 4, Oct. 2002. [Online]. Available: http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/oct02/programming.shtml5 BlueJ. [Online]. Available: http://www.bluej.org/K-Y. DAISY FANDaisy Fan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. She teaches computingand her area of research is optimization with application to environmental systems. She received her Ph.D. inCivil & Environmental Engineering at Cornell and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at the University ofManitoba, Canada.DAVID I. SCHWARTZDavid Schwartz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. He teachescomputing and his area of research is educational technology. He has published two textbooks

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Sekmen; Recayi Pecen; Ayhan Zora; Ismail Fidan

Session 4560 Implementation and Assessment of Knowledge Based Systems In Various Engineering Courses Ismail Fidan1, Serdar Tumkor2, Ali Sekmen3, Recayi Pecen4, Ayhan Zora4 1 Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505/2Istanbul Technical University Gumussuyu, Istanbul, Turkey/3Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209/ 4 The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614AbstractKnowledge-Based Systems (KBS), which mimic human problem solving expertise incomputerized form, have been widely used in many manufacturing processes for planning

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Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

: Page 8.1012.3 o Learn about engineering through a realistic, hands-on problem-solving experience.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education o Learn about the engineering design process--the application of math, science, and technology to create devices and systems that meet human needs. o Learn about truss bridges and how they work. o Learn how engineers use the computer as a problem-solving tool.The contest received nation-wide participation with more than 19,000 registered teams enteringthe competition. The top six finalists traveled to West

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Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Conte; Mesut Baran; Joel Trussell; Jack Brickley; Griff Bilbro; Greg Byrd; Cecilia Townsend; Ben O'Neal; Amir Mortazavi; Mehmet Ozturk

the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionDuring the last three decades, the scope of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) haswidened dramatically largely due to advances in digital technology and computers. The ECEeducators responded to this continuous expansion by modifying their core courses andintroducing new electives. In recent years however, it became clear that it would no longer bepossible to maintain a modern ECE curriculum by adding a course or two when the need arrived.The changes prompted the ECE departments to consider innovative ideas in curricula design. Thenew curricula often included introductory courses