Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi

Institute ofTechnology (SUNYIT), Utica, New York. The first course deals with the basics of fiberoptics and contains a structured lab of eight experiments while the second coursesincludes advance topics and experiments in optical communications, and a project. Thepaper also discusses the development of experimental facilities used in support of thesecourses. The implementation of these courses has made our curriculum current, andhelped the students to enhance their career options in the current technologicalenvironment.IntroductionOptical communication is a technology of transmitting information in the form of lightby way of optical fibers or free space as a medium. Over the last two decades the lowcost of optical fibers, enormous capacity and

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Holcombe

during the years between high schooland college. Each of these ‘student types’ may have different views on the transitionexperience.This paper reports on the results of a survey of ET graduates which was designed to ferretout the areas in which they felt they were well prepared and also those in which they felttheir undergraduate education could have done a better or more complete job. Graduatesmay have transition difficulty in areas such as ability to perform in a multi-disciplineteamwork environment, ability to understand the business case of assigned projects,problem solving skills, troubleshooting, critical thinking skills, project management,working within a budget, reporting to a supervisor, written and oral communicationskills, working in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

biotechnology for the National Council forScientific Research of the presidential office, a total of 46 institutes and centers (in whole or in part) are Page 8.130.1recognized as involved in biotechnology activities. Of these, 29 are universities and 17 are non- “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”universities. In total, 26 centers have research projects related to biotechnology and 8 universities haveregular courses in biotechnology for graduate students. Overall there are 536 people working in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ochoa

microcontrollers have similar architectures, instruction sets, and addressing modes.The 6805 microcontroller design is a semester long project. A modular design approach isfollowed. Students design each microcontroller subsystem separately and then, at the end of thesemester, the individual components are integrated. The subsystem designs include: abidirectional parallel port, a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART), anaddressing unit, a data unit, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and a central processing unit (CPU)controller. One at a time, each subsystem is designed, implemented and tested in a simulationenvironment, and then implemented in a programmable logic device (PLD). Once all thesubsystems are completed, the students integrate them

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jorge Gatica; Anthony Bruzas; Abhishek Gupta

format.Defining a set of parameters that can be specified in the tags in the HTML code thatinvokes the applet ensures versatility. These parameters can be defined by the user/instructor Page 8.227.3without having to access or edit the code, adding flexibility to the module to set up a variety of“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education “mixer Design/configuration problems.SignificanceThis project focused on tools to facilitate the educational process as applied to mixer designprinciples. The students in Engineering will find it

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Lin; Matthew Sanders

thereare not many hands-on statistical activities in the textbooks, in one of the engineering statisticscourses offered by the Industrial Engineering Program, an interesting lab project was created toallow students conduct the experiment, collect and analyze real data, interpret the results andexpand their horizon to ask more questions for further investigation. This lab project is known asEmpty Pop Cans Experiment. The variations of this type of experiment are numerous but theauthors only discuss the experiment performed during one particular term in this paper.Objective of the Experiment (Question/Problem)The objective of the experiment is to investigate if different brands of empty pop cans showsignificant mean weight difference

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

understanding ofthe course material. He does not abuse the modern technologies such as Power Point to cover ahuge amount of material, or even worse, show page after page of the textbook through Page 8.1011.2presentation viewers.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education The number of waking hours has not changed for either Efed or his students. Hence, hedoes not supplement but complement the course with new tools. For example, if he wants toassign projects in a course, he knows whether use of tools such as mathematical

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

° • Operate in multi-disciplinary teams • Troubleshoot and design • Be effective project managers • Understand limitations Classroom for Clarification WEB To prepare for class Laboratory Project Exploration Figure 1 Execution Figure 1 Microelectronics Curriculum Delivery Format at Arizona State University EastThe content delivery plan that is being tested in the microelectronics curriculum is ahybrid model that consists of a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

committed faculty, outstanding facilities and essential fundingrequired meeting program needs4.The primary objective of the Department is to provide the student in the Basic Program with acurriculum designed to accomplish three primary purposes4. • To provide a broad general education that enhances communication skills and encourages all-around development of students, both individually and as productive members of society, • To ensure a thorough preparation in the fundamentals of science and engineering, and • To provide a foundation to the planning, design, construction, and operation of civil engineering projects

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

. Page 8.505.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionIn order to teach well, every instructor should be ready to answer a student’s (often unasked)question: “Why should I learn this?” In fact, an instructor should have several different andpersuasive answers to this question that help provide students a context where they might use thecourse material as well as motivate them to learn it better.This project resulted from bi-weekly lunch conversation series that the two authors had abouttheir teaching styles and their impact on the learning outcomes of students. Carol expressed

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Burt Swersey

soon. I have become very respected in the group and am doing a lot of the design work on the project. My prototyping, drawing and creative problem solving skills really help me a lot here. My day to day work is very similar to the IED/PDI/Inventor's Studio experience. The fact that I keep a good notebook and am able to come up with and more importantly demonstrate design solutions has helped me be a great success. Everything I learned in your classes puts me at a huge advantage! Thanks!”The message made our day. But how can we teach engineers to be entrepreneurial in acourse on design? At the heart of being entrepreneurial, is the ability to see opportunitiesthat others do not see and create solutions that satisfy

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Peretti; James Spivey; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

] and portfolio-based additions to capstone courses at the senior level.For the past two years, a research and teaching team in the chemical engineering department at NorthCarolina State University has been iteratively designing and implementing a junior-level writing andspeaking module as part of a larger NSF grant.[4] The purpose of this module is to provide instruction intechnical writing, oral presentation, teaming, and project management skills within the context of thelaboratory course. This serves as a precursor to a similar senior capstone course that includes instructionin multidisciplinary teaming.Design featuresThe Teaming, Writing, and Speaking (TWS) instruction series is a discipline-specific module andconsultation series that was

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

execution.Modern Business Management E-commerce: this includes business-to-business Internettransactions which have the potential for increased productivity in civil engineering andconstruction by comparing suppliers and finding new sources, learning about delivery options andtracking orders, and getting technical advice. Another e-commerce trend that will change civilengineering is electronic construction management companies that use the Internet to coordinatecommunications, share design updates, and even hold project meetings in chat rooms.V. Response of Academic InstitutionsIn response to the real need to deal with the realities of life today, civil engineering programs atmany academic institutions took a fresh look at their curricula. Many programs

Conference Session

Innovations in Web Site Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Van Epps

individuals throughout the libraries to enter information directly to a central database andretrieve information, removing the additional step performed by a data entry person.Applications for web interactions with databases can be as diverse as an instruction reportingform, a list of books on approval for faculty review and a subject list of databases.This paper will provide a brief overview of some of the technologies available to createdatabase-to-web applications, describe three projects which use this approach and mention howthose applications can enhance library services and operations. The ability to generate low-maintenance pages and incorporate advanced information technolo gies enhances services topatrons while freeing staff for other more

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

to use the program SolidWorks to create solid models ofsimple machines. They will translate their designs into kinematic models using a fuseddeposition of material rapid prototyping machine (Stratasys FDM1650) at the University, andalso build soap and wax models that emulate lithography and micromachining at the K-12school.The project also includes an assessment portion to assess its effect on the students. At thebeginning and end of the program, the students will fill out a questionnaire based on the Test ofScience Related Attitudes (TOSRA). The test is designed to assess changes in student’s attitudetoward scientific inquiry. An additional method of assessment, the review of students'comments in their personal portfolios, should indicate

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

a comprehensive list of courseassignments with due dates. Decide when exams will be given, when homework assignments willbe due, and when special projects or papers will be turned in. Consider your own schedule as youare setting up the semester calendar. For example, you might want to schedule exams for each ofyour classes in different weeks, so that the grading task will be spread out. Also, you might wantto assign shorter homework sets with greater frequency to allow your preparation and gradingtime to be more evenly distributed throughout the semester. In addition to establishing thetimeline, determine what types of assignments will provide the best aids to learning. Werecommend including a writing/presentation component to every course

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas K. Miller; Catherine E. Brawner; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Engineering EducationWhile developing entrepreneurial skills is certainly valuable, engineering students are rarelyexposed to the entrepreneurial perspective at either the undergraduate or graduate level.5,6,7Historically, curricula have been dominated by design-and-build projects with an emphasis ontechnical excellence that has for the most part excluded the overriding picture of costs, timing andother market forces. Recent conferences are particularly good sources of project-basedapproaches to meeting these objectives.8,9,10 The fundamental question of product marketability isamong the least addressed in an engineering classroom.11Championing the need for the development of entrepreneurship in engineering education is theNational Collegiate

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Oro; J Hines

(capillary tube). Pictures of anomalies such as icing during startup are also shownand discussed.A LabView graphical user interface was developed by two undergraduate students as asummer project. It collects the pressure and thermocouple data, transforms it to normalengineering units, and presents it to future students. This interface is also is served to theweb making it accessible to classrooms across campus. Close up pictures and a web camare used to show the students the operating system while the GUI is used to present Page 8.426.2thermodynamic data to the students in real time. This setup cost less than $2000 to

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

other options on how to keep their students learning during such anabsence.A two week absence from campus was required for the author to complete an internationaladoption. Although the absence was anticipated from the beginning of the semester, the exactdates of the trip were not known until about one month before the trip. Without graduatestudents to cover the missed classes and laboratories, the instructor chose a combination ofvideotaped lectures and laboratories, exams, a computer design project, selected readingassignments, and professionally produced videotapes to keep students learning during theabsence.Students and Classes AffectedThe students affected were juniors in a BS degree program in Civil Engineering Technology(CET) at the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

his or her invention by exclusively selling his orher invention or selling the invention rights and (2) the specific field benefits from the inventiondisclosure. The disclosure, part of a patent, provides the scientific details of the invention and is astepping stone to build society's storehouse of knowledge. Without the patent disclosures, manyscientific breakthroughs and advancements may have remained unknown, thereby reducing theoverall scientific storehouse and limiting further scientific advancements.Introducing IP into an Engineering CurriculumEngineering professors are known to give projects, but not many incorporate IP into their projectrequirements. References are sometimes required, specifically references to copyrighted material

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

T. N. Fogarty; Kelvin Kirby

organization. It sounds like work and the students look forward to it each year. The park director explains how each item found on the beach must be listed in a specific category on a data card. The data cards are collected and sent to the national office in Washington, DC for analysis. As part of a large research project, students take the task very seriously.ConclusionsThe Explorer Post project has become very popular. The trips to Space Center Houston havegrown from one almost full bus to two very full busses from three different high schools. We planto add another high school each year. More students are participating in visits to the collegeresearch laboratories and several schools have instituted the visit as an annual event. The

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

tools - forprocess simulation, data acquisition, and dynamic systems modeling – are employed whereneeded. As the students progress through the curriculum, they find that assignments requiringcomputer-aided analysis become more frequent and more complex.Word processing is used to some extent in every chemical engineering course. The earliestapplications will typically be small project reports of a few pages in length. Project reports at thejunior and senior levels become more complex. They will generally have more content, but theymay also require equation editing, and often contain embedded charts and drawings. Theequation editor included with Word® is used for equation editing; Excel® or Mathcad® are used

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mihaela Albu; Keith Holbert

experiments. Papers[8,14,15,16,17] show the evolution of this approach as applied to spectrum analyzer topics. Figure 1. Example of a remote experiment using a signal generator and a data acquisition card.Most educators have utilized Java platforms for greater portability and easier access via webbrowsers. There are also projects developed in the LabVIEW™ environment that can beexecuted on a LabVIEW player freely distributed by National Instruments.We acknowledge that the dominance of the Internet in the development of information andcommunication technology has made Web-based distributed solutions increasingly attractive.Apart from providing other services, the World Wide Web is being looked upon as anenvironment for hosting modeling and simulation

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

. • Labs up to now are nothing new, just pre-preparation. Later labs will be better, but I don't see how using the old SDL1) Please comment on the clarity and understanding of the projects are better than another option.material presented. • Mostly useless in dealing with V&V. Labs have been strictly • Dr. Suri obviously understands the material, but I have for Reqs and Specs. trouble seeing the information as an integrated flow and not • Overall, I think they so far the labs have been completely just stories

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

Models for Integrating Writing II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Pinkus

instructor to teach any engineering content, it does require that theinstructor work as a coach with the students on a lengthy term project. On the most basiclevel, an instructor has to deal with coaching anywhere from fifteen to twenty extremelyintelligent students through lengthy reports on topics of their choosing. Classes are usuallygrouped by engineering option, so instructors are at least limited to certain engineeringdisciplines at a time, such as electrical and computing, manufacturing, infrastructure,aerospace, nanotechnology, physics, and biomedical engineering. The topics of theseproposals, feasibility studies, and case studies are often quite extensive and complex. Onthe flip side, some proposed topics are just impractical. The

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nghia Le

Session Number 2526 The Coin Detector Circuit Nghia T. Le Purdue UniversityI. IntroductionThis paper discusses the design of a Coin Detector Project that utilizes an inductor as aninductive proximity switch. The project covers basic analog/digital circuits that thestudents have learned during the first two years in the Electrical Engineering TechnologyProgram at Purdue University. Figure 1 below shows the block diagram of the project. OSCILLATOR RL ACTIVE PEAK

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

Society for Engineering EducationII. Introduction to CCL2’s Features and LimitationsCCL2 is designed to be extremely easy to use for beginning C++ students. CCL2 consists of twofiles, “consoleClass.cpp” and “consoleClass.h”. To use the class library, students simply add thetwo files to an existing Visual C++ project, declare an object of class Console in the main sourcefile, and simply use the member functions available. Both files are fairly well-documented as faras descriptions of member functions, side-effects, and the types of arguments required and returnvalues.With the exception of the class constructor and destructor, CCL2 member functions are dividedinto three categories: General-purpose functions, Console Graphics functions, and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

. A description of the process and content follows.BackgroundThis paper is being presented to the ASEE conference attendees as a way of introducing anorientation course to the educational community. The course is designed to use the case studyapproach and to be “general” enough in content to service several technology degree programs.The National Science Foundation has provided funding for projects which generate industrial casestudies to be used in higher education. Nashville State Technical Community College has had theopportunity to be involved in several of these projects, and has developed quite an expertise in thefield of “case studies”. It seemed logical that the college needed an orientation class for students

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

shows inone extreme passive learners who view successful learning as memorization of concepts to passexams, and the other extreme consisting of fully engaged learners who see success in thelearning process as a change in self-perception and possession of new ways of seeing things inthe world. The transition stages in-between show a growing effort on the part of the learner to“make sense of concepts,” and to find some meaningful vital connections to the real world.The study conducted by Driel 6 focuses on a curriculum innovation project in higher engineeringeducation. The study is carried out against the backdrop of suspicions that the “lack of success ofmany innovation projects are due to the failure of teachers to implement the