Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darcy Schein; Cathryne Stein

from NASA, Naval Research Laboratory and University of Oklahoma wereinvited to give students interaction with professionals in robotics. Speakers discussed roboticexploration, project management, artificial intelligence and learning, and then tied those topics tothe concepts the students were learning in Botball. Our goal was for students to envisionthemselves in careers and higher education in STEM areas by hearing about each presenter's areasof research, personal stories, and experiences in the field.Break-out sessionsWhile the plenary sessions gave participants the opportunity to hear about cutting edgedevelopments in robotics, the break-out sessions allowed participants to share their owndiscoveries about using robots in science

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

, circuitdesign, computer programming, laboratory set-up, and data measurement and analysis.a. Development of Calibration Test Bench for Electronic Components This is an industrial based project co-sponsored by the local automotive industry. Theobjective of this project is to build a calibration test stand whose foremost feature is thecalibration check of electronic components that interface with data acquisition devices. Thepurpose is to test expensive automobile components, such as pressure transducers, for re-use.Figure 1 shows a test stand used in this project. Figure 1: A pressure transducer calibration test stand In the development, a Druck DPI-610 pressure transducer calibrator was used as the maincomponent for

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Burt Swersey

book, Working with Emotional Intelligence6, explains “new ideas Page 8.1069.3are fragile and all too easily killed by criticism.” Goleman tells about the efforts oneProceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcompany made to prevent criticism that comes too early. He quotes Paul Robinson,director of Sandia National Laboratories, “We have a standing rule that wheneversomeone offers a creative idea, the people who speak up about it first have to be angel’sadvocates, people who support and defend it, only then can we

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zia Razzaq

EET II. Two courses each of 2 credithours were found to be necessary as opposed to a single one since each department generally hastwo specialty areas, for example, civil and environmental, electrical and computer engineering.Thus, a civil project can be covered in EET I and an environmental one in EET II. Each course isdivided into three five-week modules or sessions. In a given week, there are two class/laboratoryperiods each of a 75-minute duration, and one recitation period of 50-minute duration.Typically, the first class period is used by the instructor to introduce the related engineering ortechnology area related to a laboratory project. In addition, the instructor briefly explains aboutthe type of professional opportunities available

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moeness Amin; Athina Petropulu; Ahmad Hoorfar; William Jemison; Robert Caverly

lecture or demonstration on a specific subtopic and focused toward the learning outcome associated with that subtopic. Each concept module (indicated as Module A-1, etc.) will have a varying number of these 15 to 20 minute subtopics (between five and nine). • A mechanism for reinforcing the learning objectives presented in the 15 to 20 minute subtopics. These mechanisms may take the form of generated simulation models for use in design-oriented laboratories/practicums and will be put in such a form as they can be imported into readily available software such as MATLAB or microwave and RF CAD tools (Sonnet, Serenade, ADS or Microwave Office, SPICE). Other

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

” Conclusions Parsons et al. (1999) presents an excellent summary of warnings research thatreviews and summarizes data from more than 150 laboratory and field studies publishedduring the last 15 years. One interesting observation presented in this paper is that“laypersons may not recognize that a warning is poor until they see a good one.” Anexcellent start toward producing a “good” warning can be assured by ensuring that itcomplies with standards which have been available for a more than 50 years. Wheninvestigating an accident scene or equipment, where accident prevention signs were (orshould have been) utilized, it is important to document whether the signs conform to theaccepted standards published more than 50 years ago. Just as the general

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Freddie Frazier; Kelvin Kirby

eachcourse. In addition, the team will develop an evaluation process designed to ensure thestudent has mastered the course content. The outcome of the activities will produce amodel for each mathematics course. In conjunction with the classroom and supportactivities, the project will establish a computer laboratory with instructional andevaluation tools used within the mathematics community. The judicious integration ofexperienced teaching and available technology will develop the infrastructure needed toenhance teaching and student performance in mathematics at Prairie View A&MUniversity. A preliminary study revealed that introductory courses in mathematics(algebra and trigonometry) experience a failure rate of almost fifty percent each

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

LabVIEW software for control and data acquisition.Background EET 371 Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control is a junior-senior level coursein the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, IUPUI. The purpose ofthe course is to introduce ECET majors to automation concepts and control and instrumentationequipment and software. Emphasis of the course is on integration of hardware and software systems. It focuses ona major laboratory project to implement a model automated-assembly-line-style test system foran FM circuit board. (Figure 1) To update the course to provide for more experience with state-of-the-art technology,machine vision has been added and control of a Rhino Selective Compliance Assembly

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

languageTable 2. Simplified Breakdown of Primary School Curriculum in the Arab Gulf States Page 8.887.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • Courses’ contents are old material, often irrelevant, and improperly sequenced • Poor text books • Insufficient recitation and lab periods • Very little, if any, hands-on laboratory experiments • Technical terms, symbols, and notations should be presented in English, side by side with Arabic • No help sessions on regular

Conference Session

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Radhika Kotha

our own research andapply our own problem solving skills to the objective of designing a thermally comfortable, aestheticallybeautiful house which would function with a very low expenditure of energy.What is even more exciting is the prospect of actually building a Natural House. That would be theculmination of a long and rich educational experience. After doing the calculations and the mathematicalmodeling we plan to do a computer simulation of the house under various environmental conditions. Thenext step will be to build a working scale model for laboratory testing under actual outdoor conditions.The design can then be modified and improved as needed.The last step, which we are eagerly looking forward to, is the construction of a small

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

education need to develop asymbiotic partnership relationship that benefits both.When streaming media solutions are applied to the challenges of making high quality educationmore affordable and available to consumers, everyone benefits: Business and industry,telecommunications, science and medicine, and education all share in the benefits of faster andbetter information delivery methods. Unlike several years ago, when computer learning waslimited to classrooms and computer labs, students no long have to rely on attending lectures,taking copious notes, participating in classroom exercises and laboratory experiments, handing inpapers, or other activities requiring their physical presence. Educators no longer have to rely onphysical classrooms

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grimm

ethical dilemmas. The project cost report, report number 9, isrequired to include the costs associated with conducting the engineering design workassociated with each project based on typical salary levels for practicing engineers plusoverhead and real costs related to development of any models or prototypes built. Thisreport must also include the costs associated with production of a working prototype aswell as costs that would be incurred if a “quantity” of the designs were produced. Forexample if the design project involves designing a special laboratory test apparatus thestudents must determine the cost of producing one working prototype and the cost ofproducing a reasonable number of the test apparatus that could possibly be sold

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

real-worldcustomer requirement, then offer one or more solutions by explaining real-worldmachines, or processes, or systems, or management tasks and then discuss furtherdevelopment, service, maintenance, integration, connectivity and many other issues withseveral feedback loops, and then offer discussion opportunities for real or virtual teams.In terms of delivering the individual cases in the Library the 3D Virtual Product Democoncept is followed, an innovation on its own, in that learners are taken virtually intoreal hi-tech factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and laboratories and are given interesting Page 8.87.3Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales; Thomas Consi

that can be tackled with simple tools and small budgets. We have createda Freshman seminar subject at MIT in which the students build and modify a kit-based modelrocket. In parallel we discuss the elements of rocket physics and guide them in creating theirown predictions of the what the acceleration curve should look like for the rockets. Their goalfor the term is to collect the data needed to test their predictions. To accomplish it, they build acompact microcontroller circuit that can log acceleration at 1,000 samples per second. Duringthe term, the students learn the basics of programming the microcontroller and explore its uses inthe laboratory. At the end of the term, the class goes to a large open area, launches the rockets,and returns

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Engineering Education.5. Devens, P.E. 2000. MATLAB & Freshman Engineering. Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.6. MATLAB”, MATrix LABoratory is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc..7. Piepeier, J.A., Knowles, K.A., and Bishop, B.E. 2002. The Use of MATLAB for Robotic Control in an Undergraduate Robotics Laboratory. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.8. Rizkalla, M.E., Yokomoto, C.F., and Oloughlin, C.L. 1996. A New Design-Oriented Approach for Freshman Engineering. Proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

student (STS); Community and primary impact is that Economic Development people do things differently as a result RESEARCH • Basic research • Mu ltidisciplinary and • Applied research • Student laboratories SCHOLARSHIP • Original works integrative research • Policy research • Thesis and dissertation • Evaluation research • Cross-disciplinary teams • Performances of research (the objective is

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

Page 8.848.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationparticular laboratory group, students doing research at either the undergraduate or the graduatelevel and their advisors can benefit from specific training in the mentoring aspects of thisrelationship. The Mentoring Workshop project we describe here has been developed by theWomen in Science and Engineering (WISE) Committee at the University of Cincinnati, avolunteer faculty committee which was created in 1996. The Workshop was first developed tosupplement the WISE Summer Research Experience for Women Undergraduates (REWU), whichis in its fourth

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

these perspectives.FacultyThe primary risk factor for engineering retention that affects the faculty was workload. Toaccomplish the important, necessary tasks for teaching was not possible, given the number ofengineering faculty employed. Faculty were required to carry 12 semester hours of class and 12office hours each semester. With required laboratories, the student contact hours increased evenmore. At the time of the study, the department had ten full time faculty members. Of the ten,one was the department chair and another was the associate dean both of which had thecommensurate administrative duties further increasing faculty workload. Some of the areasaffected include: • Assessment – assessment tools are not utilized as they should

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani

Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • Gain limited experience with sheet metal forming, hand tool operation, and manual assembly of mechanically fastened structures. • Become better familiar with laboratory testing as means of design validation. • Improve teamwork and communication skills. Table 2. ABET 2000 Criterion 3 - Program Outcomes and Assessment • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. • an ability to design a system

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

and study. In commuterinstitutions they have little connection with campus life whereas CS and CE demands studentsspend most of their time on campus namely in labs. Such factors are beyond the realm ofinfluence of institutions of higher education. However, colleges and universities can initiateseveral policies that will improve retention of minority students in core IT fields.This paper reports the findings from a case study conducted at the University of New Mexico(UNM), a Doctoral Extensive and a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution. UNM grantsundergraduate degrees in both core IT fields—CS and CE. Due to its proximity to nationallaboratories (e.g. Sandia & Los Alamos laboratories), private industry (e.g. Intel), and stategovernment

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

circuits, single phase and three phase circuits. Computer aided analysis of circuits is used. 257 Power and RF Electronics Class 3, lab. 3, cr. 4. Prerequisite: EET 207 and MA 221 (calculus I) This course is a study of the application of circuit analysis techniques to amplifiers used in power and RF electronics, including bipolar junction transistors, power MOSFETs, thyristors, RF amplifiers, phase lock loops, switching power supplies, and appropriate applications. Computer aided analysis of circuits is used.Circuits and Electronics IntegrationOver time the Purdue faculty developed textbooks and laboratory procedures to match this newcurricular approach

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hart; Mike Williams; George Grandle; Alvin Womac

, laboratory-type exercises, and possibly with videos or technical process Page 8.427.6animations. It is believed that hands-on videos may be used to record and display relevantdemonstrations and eventually simulated animations may be used to create laboratory-typeactivities for the student on the course website. Length is to be twelve modules for afifteen-week course.Web-Course Platform Selection and Implementation As a result of the myriad of complex and competing concerns addressed underMethods, the selection and development of an independent web-site skeleton at URLhttp://bioengr.ag.utk.edu/spraydrift has begun using Macromedia Dreamweaver

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Poldrack; Richard Hoge; Randy Gollub; Mark Vangel; Ian Lai; Douglas Greve; Julie Greenberg

Department of Psychology, UCLA 6 Research Laboratory of Electronics, MITAbstractFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) represents a new and important topic inbiomedical engineering. Statistical analysis of fMRI data is typically performed using free orcommercial software packages that do not facilitate learning about the underlying assumptionsand analysis methods; these shortcomings can lead to misinterpretation of the fMRI data andspurious results. We are developing an instructional module for learning the fundamentals ofstatistical analysis of fMRI data. The goal is to provide a tool for learning about the steps andassumptions underlying standard fMRI data analysis so that students and

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Denise Carlson; Janet Yowell; Jacquelyn Sullivan

secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS in civilengineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding Co-Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory andProgram. She received her PhD in environmental h ealth physics and toxicology from Purdue University. She spent13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries and served nine years as thedirector of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research center.Janet L. Yowell is the Outreach Coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and Learnin g Program at the Universityof Colorado at Boulder. She holds a BA in communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

in terms of both product and production improvement. Furthermore, the product was afterwards commercialised based on suggestions from some of the projects.• A group of 4 – 7 students engages in issues of an industrial enterprise, typical 6,7 and 8 semester projects. Cases from Industrial Technology. • Larger enterprise. 6.sem. The starting point is a manufacturing and quality point of view in connection with two automated TIG welding processes within an inspired co- operation with a larger industrial enterprise. There were carried out a comprehensive scientific experimental research in the laboratory with the 14 critical parameters accounting for receiving a profound theoretical examination

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

systems, to our social structure and even our basic belief systems, what choicedo we have?“Hold on there!” you say? “What is all this stuff about fundamental and social radicalchange?” “What has all that got to do with the work of my group and my laboratory?”The answer is ‘nothing, and everything.’ Alone, individual researchers can make a hugedifference in the broader knowledge base, or only a minor contribution. But collectively,individual knowledge and technologies will eventually find their way into broadapplications. This is inevitable, in part, because of the magnetism of economics. Thedrive to cure cancer is stimulated not only by the drive to lessen human suffering, butalso by ego, money, and political pressure. It is precisely because

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

, homework, laboratory reports, term projects, oral reports, term papers or design projects. 4. Determine the evaluation method to be employed with the artifact or evidence. 5. Establish the expected level of performance.Appendix I illustrates the evolving student learning outcomes assessment plan developed for theMET degree program at IUPUI.The Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology determined that a senior level“graduation exam” similar to the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination would be theoptimal student outcomes assessment tool for several learning objectives in the MET and CIMTdegree programs. The major impetus for the development of the exam was that, unlikeengineering students in ABET accredited programs, engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

detection.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 8.867.3  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the undergraduate level, multidisciplinary Senior Design projects have been recentlyundertaken on various aspects of microrobotics. The Laboratory for Autonomous, CooperativeMicrosystems (LACOMS) at RIT is developing a prototype concept called MEMScouts in orderto demonstrate an effective system for deploying swarms of micro-agents to remote locationsunder real world conditions and to cover several areas of microrobotics teaching and

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

institutions is encouraged. Evidence of extensive and thorough laboratory performance is required. Phase I includes, but is not limited to: (1) faculty acceptance of project proposal, (2) defining and limiting project objectives, (3) initial research and source contacts, (4) procurement of materials, and (5) periodic progress reports. EET 491 – Senior Design Project, Phase II Credit 2, hours arranged Prerequisite: 490. Phase II includes, but is not limited to: (1) continued research and Page 8.971.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

and extracurricular activities.4 The overall competence and effectiveness of faculty members may be judged by such factors as the level of academic achievement; the diversity of their backgrounds; the extent to which they further their own education in relevant areas; industrial experience; teaching experience; being technically current; interest in and enthusiasm for improving instruction; involvement in laboratory development; publication and other scholarly activities; active participation in professional and scientific societies; favorable evaluations from students, graduates, and peers; the ability to