Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill

Session 3550 DELIVERING TECHNICAL EDUCATION THROUGH INTERACTIVE DISTANCE DELIVERY INSTRUCTION 1 Austin B. Asgill, 2G. Thomas Bellarmine Southern Polytechnic State University1/ Florida A&M University2Abstract Despite the recent downturn in the nation’s economy, the demand for well-trainedengineers and technologists who are prepared to make immediate contributions to the industrycontinues to be at an all time high. Recent innovations in communications and networkingtechnology have produced an explosion of distance delivery methods and

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

interviewed, about half (8-10) are selected for the programs, reflecting a 6-8%selection rate for applicants. (See Appendix 1.) It is notable that students come from awide range of schools across the country. (See Appendix 2.) The schools include a mixof public as well as private and minority serving colleges and universities.Awards by field of study are shown in Table 1. Sixty percent of the awards went toEngineering majors, 40% in Electrical Engineering. Physics was the next largest group.The distribution of awards according to discipline reflects the research interest areaswithin Bell Labs during the1972-1995 timeframe. Physics Chemistry Math Eng CS Other CRFP 36

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Krahe; David Loker

introduces a Windows programming environment tostudents to help meet industrial requirements. Finally, it presents an example of the integration of PChardware and software.I. Introduction to Visual C++ Windows ProgrammingAs an aid to the development of visual C++ programming, the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC)Application Wizard is utilized. 1 The AppWizard asks a series of questions about the type ofapplication and the features and functionality for the application. It then creates the shell of theapplication containing the user interface and the application code. Based upon the shell of theapplication, the programmer modifies the application by adding control objects to the user

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Jones; Robert Wright

features four (4)distinct “offices” integrated into a common environment: 1) Gigabit Ethernet 2) Wireless LANs3) Private Branch Exchange (PBX) 4) SOHO (Small Office – Home Office). The transportlayer has several broadband access technologies including ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode),SONET (Synchronous Optical Network), and DSL (Digital Subscriber Line).The system architecture for each of the convergent offices is discussed in detail along withemphasis on the enabling technologies at the access level of service. A selection of data and callprocessing configurations and capabilities is presented, for example, wire and wireless, as well asother voice/data processing techniques utilizing ATM, IP, and DSL telecommunication facilities.The paper also

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

instructor.For an output circuit configuration 8 LEDs were connected to the parallel port and software waswritten to exercise the LEDs in various sequences and combinations. Figure 1A shows thecircuit diagram1. Figures 1B, IC and 1D show three of several programs that were used toexercise the LEDs. Program #1, written in MSW Logo2, counts from 0 through 255 and outputsthe binary equivalent numbers on the LEDs. Program #2, written in QBasic, is similar toprogram #1 except that each count is delayed by approximate 0.25 seconds. Program #3, writtenin C++, accepts a decimal number from the keyboard and displays the corresponding binarynumber on the LEDs.To illustrate input to the parallel port, eight DIP switches were used to control whether or not

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krohn

currentelectricity suppliers (fossil fuels, especially coal, and nuclear were emphasized). A guestspeaker involved in some aspect of the electric power industry typically presented a lecture. Labexperiments during this second week included a fuel cell demonstration, simple radiationdetection and counting, and determining the heating value of coal. During this week a field tripwas taken to the Flint Creek coal-fired generation station in Gentry, AR (approximately 150miles away). Figures 1 & 2 below are from two of the field trip locations visited during thecourse. Figure 1 - Hydroelectric turbine Figure 2 - Steam turbineThe majority of the final day of class was devoted to tying up any loose ends and allowing timein the computer

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William MacKunis; Daniel Raviv

’ navigational ability through various unknown environmentsimproves with time under the control of this algorithm. Furthermore, the simplicity of this Page 8.116.1approach makes implementation very practical and easily expandable to reliably control a groupProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcomprised of many agents.1. Introduction While current trends in robotics toward reactive, multi-agent control have demonstratedsystems that function efficiently and robustly in various environments 24

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

initiatives were introduced to addressthe transition from textbook problems and real world situations [2, 3, 9, 14]. A great dealof dialog at technical society meetings, and accreditation boards, centered on application-oriented courses and incorporating business scenarios and communication into technicalcourses [1]. Page 8.282.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationCapstone CoursesThe most significant result of the discussions was that nearly all technical academicprograms adopted a capstone course. These

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Godbout; Hisham Alnajjar

switch to another topic and see more explanations and examples. The student thencould choose to test his/her own knowledge and skills in that subject by choosing an example, findthe answer on his/her own, and then check it on-line.An ExampleAn example is presented below to show how students will encounter the animations and how thiscan be effectively used for understanding the concepts. The example is on loop analysis. When astudent selects loop analysis, he/she may then choose to look at loop analysis theory or a loopexample. If the example component is chosen, the example circuit is displayed and the resultantresponse is asked for as shown in Figure 1 below. Consider the 4-quadrant network. Find I0 usingloop analysis

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

& Web Browsers Tier 1 Internet Servlets Java Web Server Windows NT Server ODBC JDBC Driver API Tier 2 JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wolverton; Janet Wolverton

. Davis argues that“what an instructor needs is … one easy to use method for guiding discussion, focusing onreasons, and forcing judgment.”1 There are several step-by-step models readily available.1,6,27Whitbeck argues that the problem solving approach used in engineering design is a useful methodfor solving ethical problems.27 At USAFA each academic department offers active learningworkshops for new and returning faculty. To move faculty toward teaching ethics,interdepartmental seminars are planned in order to present the step-by-step models associatedwith solving ethical problems.VI. USAFA Plan to Improve EATCThe final stage in the ethics across the curriculum process at USAFA will enable faculty to feelmore comfortable while teaching ethics

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”announcements to provide electronic rather than photocopied material, and the digital dropboxfor providing quizzes and exams to students and for students to submit assignments andcompleted quizzes and exams, and the discussion board to facilitate student out-of-classcollaboration in preparing case studies.Computer Backgrounds of StudentsStudents have typically completed LTU’s Technical Computer Applications course, whichconsists of introductions to computers, “C” programming, and Lotus 1-2-3, and includesproblems to be programmed.Students in some academic programs are not required to take the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

8.1124.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationhistory and educational inertia of doctoral programs, amendments or alterations to the attainmentprocess have not been easy in traditional universities.Noble examined the European origins of the doctoral degree, particularly the terminology associatedwith higher education institutions [1]. It has been accepted by numerous writers that the universitywas conceived during the Middle Ages. Various influences nurtured its concept. Latin was thelanguage of academe giving rise to docere, profiteri, majister, studium, and universitas. In the ninthand tenth centuries, Islamic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

;T has developed a unique environment for multi-disciplinary teaming called theCenter for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP) [1]. The philosophy ofteaming used in the SDSM&T CAMP program can be summed up in the definition ofteaming given by Katzenbach and Smith in The Wisdom of Teams: “A team is smallnumber of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose,performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutuallyaccountable”[2]. It is expected that by the time the students are seniors in their capstonedesign classes that they will be able to adhere to this definition. As with any skill,students are generally not very good at teaming the first time they try it. They needpractice and this

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

, undergraduate institution of theliberal arts affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It is located in Conway, Arkansas,approximately thirty miles northwest of Little Rock. Hendrix currently has a student bodyof 1057 students from 35 states and 12 foreign countries. The faculty has 85 full-timemembers and 17 part-time members. The student to faculty ratio is 13 to 1, with anaverage class size of 15 students.Hendrix College switched from a trimester system to a semester system starting in Fall2002. Due to the switch, a complete renovation of the core curriculum requirements forgraduation was implemented. The new robotics course would help satisfy the naturalscience inquiry learning domain. The 2002-2003 Hendrix Catalog2 describes the naturalscience

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Kenimer; Jim Morgan

Educationstudents merely recalling the facts we present in class; however, many of our students feel thatthey have done a good job if they can repeat the examples from class on the test.Bloom presents cognitive learning as the recall of information and "the intellectual skills:comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing data, applyingknowledge, choosing among alternatives in problem-solving, and evaluating ideas or actions."1Typically these intellectual skills are referred to using the hierarchy presented by Bloom and hiscolleagues: 1. Knowledge (least complex) 2. Comprehension 3. Application 4. Analysis 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation (most complex)Obviously, faculty and employers want students who can perform at

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

Table 1. Some groups developed web sites for their companies. Moredetailed project descriptions are provided in the Appendix of this paper.Groups elect a Project Director who meets with the course instructor on a weekly basis. TheProject Director works with the group members to identify a list of tasks required in order to finish Page 8.1007.1the project by the end of the semester. The list of tasks includes, for example, sizing and selecting Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationa pipe

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

Table 1. Some groups developed web sites for their companies. Moredetailed project descriptions are provided in the Appendix of this paper.Groups elect a Project Director who meets with the course instructor on a weekly basis. TheProject Director works with the group members to identify a list of tasks required in order to finish Page 8.1008.1the project by the end of the semester. The list of tasks includes, for example, sizing and selecting Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationa pipe

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

facilitate student interactions by drawing out quiet students, ensuring equitable workdistribution amongst team members, and, as necessary, helping resolve team conflict. Finally,senior leaders provide information about performance and dynamics of their assigned team toinstructors through the weekly team evaluations. The weekly evaluation form used by seniorleaders during the 2002 Fall Semester is shown in figure 1.As mentors, senior leaders provide a wealth of information to the freshman design students onacademic issues, departmental policies and resources, employment opportunities, andextracurricular activities. Senior leaders provide considerable informal academic advisingespecially related to desirable/undesirable instructors, interacting with

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

equally important. Virtual instruments can be used to teach all of these areas ofinstrumentation. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech Universityuses its first project laboratory, offered in the second semester of the sophomore year, to covermeasurements, instrumentation and other topics.II Project LaboratoriesThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University began stand-alone project laboratories in the early 1960s. The project lab structure has continued to evolve overthe past 40 years.1-9 Students take 5, 3-hour credit laboratories not directly associated with anylecture course. Although the laboratories have no directly associated lecture course, they do have preand co-requisites. In

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

answers areawarded with cash prizes, beginning at $100 and increasing to $1 million.3The likelihood of near-universal familiarity of the game by the public likely to visit during ouropen house led to a proposal to develop a game based on the format of the television show.Designed to meet several criteria, the game would be entertaining to a chronologically diverseaudience, would be relevant to engineering and engineering education, and could be producedusing available resources.III. DevelopmentThe student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers facilitated the developmentof the activity. The activity, conducted in a large lecture hall on the PCC campus, utilized acomputer attached to an LCD projector. Microsoft PowerPoint was

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Reuber; Mark Archibald; Blair Allison

must demonstrate that graduates have...familiarity with statistics...” Page 8.606.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Grove City College, we have chosen to satisfythese general ABET requirements with the following specific course outcomes related toexperimental statistics: 1. Students calculate mean values only (where parametric statistics in not appropriate) and draw conclusions based on the values. 2. Students calculate linear

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

patterns in the First-Year Engineering Projects course, and provide anenvironment that promotes community and engagement in engineering among the women. Page 8.1316.1The Stage: First-Year Engineering Projects Course Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Women’s Manufacturing Workshop (WMW) series is set within the framework of the First-Year Engineering Projects course (FYEP). 1 Each year, approximately 350 first-year engineeringstudents complete this hands-on, team-based projects course. The students

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

report by the CACHE Corporation(1) details the required skills: “1.know how to use a modern technical library to search for information located in electronicdatabases, and how to access electronic information services through the World Wide Web. Page 8.232.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”2. understand the implementation of elementary algorithms for the numerical solution ofengineering problems. These algorithms should include algebraic and differential equationsolving, linear algebra, and optimization.3. be

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

interactive and static forms. A brief example of how anengineering topic would be developed into a calculus problem suitable for in-class use ina mathematics class is given in Figure 1. The majority of the development of interactiveweb-based materials would likely be part of a follow-up project due to the substantialincrease in resources required. Page 8.673.4 4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFIGURE 1-- Example Problem:Engineers, in particular mechanical and

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Tucker; Bob Lahidji

Session No.1460_ Faculty Load: online vs. live programs Bob Lahidji, Ph.D., Walter Tucker, Ph.D. Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Bob.lahidji@emich.edu Walter.tucker@emich.eduAbstractA cursory literature review reveals a paucity of empirical data on these two questions: (1) doesmeasurement of faculty load differ between online and live classes? (2) is there a cost differencebetween online and live courses? This research attempts to answer these

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

/GIS Laboratories and Equipment at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)The GPS/GIS Laboratory at UHD has excellent GPS equipment that is used for educationalpurposes. Figure 1 shows a partial view of the laboratory at UHD. The GPS equipment consistsof the OMNISTAR DGPS receiver. This receiver has the capability to collect signals from 12satellites and at the same time a signal from a stationary satellite that applies all necessarycorrections. This system has sub-centimeter capabilities defined as the ability to determinelatitude and longitude of a point with errors of less that one-centimeter. The system is used in astationary manner to teach GPS in the laboratory where a stationary antenna was installed at thetop of the building. This GPS

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

stimulates innovation by effectivelyusing both sides of the brain. It is a unified approach that builds on comprehensive problemsolving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science, engineering, technology,and daily life. The different dimensions, namely Uniqueness, Dimensionality, Directionality,Consolidation, Segmentation, Modification, Similarity, and Experimentation provide leaders,managers, and other problem solvers with new insights and thinking strategies to solve everydayproblems they face in the workplace. Problems are not constrained to a particular profession orsubject, and may be used by individuals and teams. It is easy to teach, learn and use themethodology.1. Introduction This paper details case studies where

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; Kathryn Clifton; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”The upper reaches of the Yosemite Watershed have been almost entirely urbanized. The middlereaches of the watershed are heavily dominated by polluting, outmoded industrial andcommercial land uses mixed within a historically residential neighborhood. The lower portion ofthe watershed contains the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a Federal Superfund site which hassevere land and subsurface contamination from point and non-point sources, three sewageoutflow structures that negatively impact water quality during large storm events, severalupstream landfills, and open space historically used for waste and fill disposal (Figure 1