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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Morgera; Hanqi Zhuang

: classroom lecturing andhands-on practice through a remote setting; and (c) the course materials can also beoffered after modification to gifted high school students and, thus, be used as a vehicle toattract students to engineering disciplines. Since July 1, 2002 (the official starting date of the project), we have been activelyinvolved in developing the WIC Laboratory. After the laboratory is set up, it will have10 workstations that are inter-connected via campus LAN. Each workstation will consistof a PC, a data acquisition board, and other instruments. A web server and a processserver will run on every workstation. A number of web cameras will be installed in thelab. Students will be able to conduct WIC experiments, and Internet users will be

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

Page 8.97.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationused in a particular application. However, class diagrams can also depict class relationships thatare independent of any application.The example screenshots were taken from Rational Rose 2000 Enterprise Edition, a visualmodeling tool for object-oriented design and analysis. Courtesy is given to Rational SoftwareCompany for their use of the software.II. ClassesClasses represent the modeling framework from which all object-oriented systems are designed.As shown in Figure 1, the UML visually represents classes as a rectangular box with

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R Wane Schneiter

, and graphicalcommunication of ideas” an essential element of the engineering curriculum.1Surveys conducted of civil engineering students and graduates at Virginia Military Institute(VMI)6,7,8 and Lamar University,12 as well as likely hundreds of other unpublished surveysconducted by engineering departments lead to conclusions that engineers need and want bettercommunication skills to effectively perform in their careers.Written and oral communication has been recognized as an important element of engineeringeducation for nearly 50 years.1 Many suggestions have been offered on how to encourageengineering students to write using a variety of instructional tools, by developing specifictechnical writing courses, and by a proliferation of writing

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Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

-I, Appendix B).Typically, a student registered at Miami University would fulfill 28% Foundation requirement, 9%Focus requirement, and 63% in the field requirement as shown in the pie chart (Figure-1). Page 8.688.3Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Foundation (28%) Focus (9%) Field (63

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Keyser; Kourosh Rahnamai; Ronald E. Musiak

vectors with less than tenelements. Then, students are required to perform the following tasks. Write a MATLAB programto perform the moving-window averaging algorithm on a vector of arbitrary length. Test theprogram with several vectors with a limited number of elements and verify the output of theprogram with manual calculations. Fully test the functionality of their program on a vector witharound six hundred noisy data points. This test vector is generated by adding normallydistributed noise with zero mean and standard deviation of 0.2 to a sinusoidal function ofmagnitude one. Figure 1 shows the noisy and the filtered signal after using the moving-windowaveraging program. At this point students have created and tested a low-pass filtering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Cruz-Pol

Page 8.188.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationscientists in developing electronic components and products. During the workshop eachparticipant has a workstation and the girls receive a handout that helps them through theworkshop. Figure 1 shows a faculty member working with the students and Figure 2shows a doorbell constructed by the participants. Next section presents the handout thatthe students receive during the workshop. This handout is written in Spanish but it wastranslated to English to be included in this paper.Figure 1. Dr. Cruz Pol teaching the Figure 2

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; Brian Mouzon

control the voltage that is supplied to a particular load. Vin Vin R1 R2 R1 R2 Vout Vout RLFigure 1. Voltage Divider Circuitry (No Load) Figure 2. Voltage Divider Circuitry (With Load)A simple open-circuit (Figure 1) can be used to demonstrate the principles of voltage division. Inan open-circuit, the current through all components remains constant. According to Kirchoff’sVoltage Law (KVL), the sum of the voltage

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

safetyconsiderations in designs, design implementation, and multidisciplinary teamwork.1. IntroductionEngineering design is an important component of the undergraduate engineeringeducation. It is also known that workplace experience can provide engineering studentswith a perspective that is difficult to achieve in either the classroom or teaching laboratory.This paper describes an innovative proposed year-long program which providesengineering students with both design and workplace experience in several engineeringdisciplines.Engineering design is recognized as a key component of engineering education andmethods of providing undergraduate students with a significant design experience varywidely among disciplines and faculty. Dunn-Rankin, et. al.[1

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Doreen Lawrence; Broderick Boxley; Chris Kobus; Barbara Oakley

. Introduction and Motivation The Pontiac School District is an inner-city, largely minority district surrounded bysuburban, largely white school districts of varying levels of affluence (Figure 1). Theperformance of Pontiac students on the mathematics section of mandated state tests(Michigan Educational Assessment Program—MEAP) and nationally normed tests issignificantly below that of students in the surrounding districts. For example, in thestatewide ranking of the percent of students who pass the mathematics portion of theMEAP test, Pontiac ranks in the lowest 1.3% of all Michigan school districts, while six ofthe seven school districts surrounding Pontiac rank in the highest 10% statewide and theseventh district ranks in the 61st percentile

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Assessment & Quality Assuranc in Engr Ed

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

. Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) is a state-assisted university serving Indiana’s secondlargest city and the surrounding region. The core mission of IPFW is to provide qualitypostsecondary education in northeastern Indiana by focusing on student learning, while fosteringintellectual exploration and attainment, and serving the region. The overwhelming majority ofour engineering graduates are from and employed in Northeastern Indiana and the surroundingareas.(b) a process based on the needs of the program’s various constituencies in which the objectives are determined and periodically evaluatedThe potential constituencies of an engineering program include:1. Alumni2. Employers3. Industrial Advisory Committee4

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Education. Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright @2003, American Society of Engineering Education* The project described in this paper is funded through a Advanced Technology Education Grant by theNational Science Foundation award # DUE-0202444 The Williams Air Force Base conversion to a college campus has opened numerousopportunities to develop a unique partnership between two-year and four-yearinstitutions. ASU and Maricopa Community Colleges both received substantial portionsof the Williams facilities because of base closure. The wide range of high qualityfacilities that were made available made it possible to create a peerless coterie. [1]ASU relocated the College of Technology and Applied Sciences and its programs,laboratories, faculty

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

bone.SettingIn general, the proposed experiments and design projects introduce the students to a practicalexperimental technique of reflected photoelasticity for the evaluation of stresses in a member.The objectives of the experiments that used a specimen in uniaxial tension show the student thefollowing: 1. The development of stress in a member 2. The region where the theoretical axial stress equation is valid 3. The effects and determination of assembly stress 4. The interaction of normal, bearing, and contact stressesEquipment and specimenThe experiment setup is shown in figure 1; equipment, specimen, and parts needed are: 1. Tensile machine 2. Reflection polariscope 3. Manual null-balance compensator or

Conference Session

Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Johnson; John Fesler; Kenneth Stier

$7.50 per person per shift and a facility cost of $10 pertable per shift. The participants in the workshop are given an orientation to the company, theproducts, and the jobs that are available. Initially, there are 13 different positions thatneed to be filled for the production of the two product lines (See figure 1). Theparticipants are assigned to these positions and given an orientation to the layout of thefacility. Tables are set up according to the production facility orientation. Writteninstructions are provided to the associates at each workstation. Page 8.1070.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sarah Rzasa; John Wise; Elizabeth Kisenwether

,and IST (Information Sciences and Technology) to develop a problem-based curriculum designedto encourage creativity, customer-oriented design, and to foster understanding of theentrepreneurial business world. This paper will present the outline and initial findings of ourassessment plan. Lessons learned in the first 18 months of course offering will be shared, andrecent improvements (inclusion of online portfolios and improved curriculum co-ordinationbetween courses) are discussed.BackgroundTwo years ago, Penn State applied for and received a grant from General Electric todevelop an entrepreneurship minor within the College of Engineering. The originalgoals for assessment were as follows: 1. Are students more motivated and more likely

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Kuennen; James Pocock

theAir Force Academy. It covers such things as the cadet honor code, classroom decorum, ethicsacross the curriculum, student services, technology to support teaching, a new instructor survivalguide, and many other topics. The Center for Educational Excellence surveys new instructors toassess the quality and impact of the program.After a week to work on course material, the second part of orientation takes place within thedepartment. It covers department organization and policies while preparing the new instructorsto teach one of the Academy’s core courses administered by the department (see Table 1). “AirBase Design and Performance” is a course that every student at the Academy (approximately1,000 per year) is required to take. The maximum class

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moayyad AlNasra; Virgil Cox

in the competitive engineering market. To accomplish someof the main objectives of engineering education, continuous evaluation of thecurriculum will be needed. The engineering educators usually prepare engineersand technicians to become productive professionals in the engineering market, but,unfortunately, the engineering market is moving at faster rate than the engineeringeducation. This ultimately puts pressure on the engineering educators to improvecourses and curriculums at a faster rate.Another approach to address this issue is to understand the problems and thechallenges the students are facing with the new emerging technologies [1]. Theteaching techniques should change accordingly in order to have better use of theallocated

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivier de Weck

, materials & structures,signal & systems and thermodynamics & propulsion. A second set of learning objectives centersaround skills required by successful engineers, such as technical communications, modeling,experimentation and estimation under uncertainty. Our initial experiences are positive andsuggest improved learning by mutual reinforcement of theory and practice. Student motivationand understanding of key concepts appear to be enhanced, relative to a traditional lecture-onlyformat. Further refinement and more quantitative assessment of learning success are ongoingefforts.1. IntroductionTraditional curricula in Aeronautical Engineering have focused almost exclusively on aircraftdesign. This has led to a strong emphasis on the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

history. Numerous textshave provided software supplements for years, and now posting lecture notes on web sites is notunusual. Terpenny, Sullivan, et al have taken this concept one step further. They reviewed webrelated learning issues and a developed a virtual classroom [1] for engineering economics thateven allows for open ended projects with industrial interaction [2]. Their web site [3] allows stu-dents to interactively select among a variety of topics and even take multiple choice quizzes.Prompts congratulate correct answers and provide general guidance for wrong answers. The current project restricts its focus to equivalence modeling to allow interaction at anequation level much as would occur in a professor's office. The following

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

andcomplexity that are far beyond the capacity of an academic group to acquire or (even ifdonated) to support adequately. Simulation is an obvious but underused way to provide abroad and realistic environment to demonstrate how the tools work. This paper describessimulation of an ion implanter and simulations for other tools are being developed usingthe same principles. The control computer emulates all the typical features of a realmachine (physical set-up, calibration and operation). In addition, typical faults in the toolcan also be introduced. The tool simulator can also be linked to conventional processsimulators for virtual lab activities at several course levels.1. Tools for technology teachingAny mature commercial technology is intrinsically a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

Laboratory-Oriented Studies (DELOS)Simulation technology is integrated into undergraduate engineering courses and laboratoriesthrough the development of teaching modules (TM) for complementary computational fluiddynamics (CFD), experimental fluid dynamics (EFD), and uncertainty analysis (UA). TMinclude three parts: (1) lectures on CFD and EFD methodology and standard procedures and UA;(2) CFD templates for academic use of commercial industrial CFD software; and (3) exercisenotes for use of CFD templates and complementary EFD and UA. The commercial industrialCFD software is FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/, which is widely used in many industries anduniversities and is a partner in the project. Initial TM are based on those developed as “proof ofconcept

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonya Smith; Marian Muste; Ganesh Rajagopalan; Donald Yarbrough; David Caughey; Alric Rothmayer; Barbara Hutchings; Rajesh Bhaskaran; Tao Xing; Frederick Stern

Laboratory-Oriented Studies (DELOS)Simulation technology is integrated into undergraduate engineering courses and laboratoriesthrough the development of teaching modules (TM) for complementary computational fluiddynamics (CFD), experimental fluid dynamics (EFD), and uncertainty analysis (UA). TMinclude three parts: (1) lectures on CFD and EFD methodology and standard procedures and UA;(2) CFD templates for academic use of commercial industrial CFD software; and (3) exercisenotes for use of CFD templates and complementary EFD and UA. The commercial industrialCFD software is FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/, which is widely used in many industries anduniversities and is a partner in the project. Initial TM are based on those developed as “proof ofconcept

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

investigation suggests that both industrial practitioners and undergraduate Civil(Construction) Engineering students consider two of the eleven (11) outcomes to be particularlyimportant. In addition, graduating seniors in Civil (Construction) engineering believe theircoursework has given them a strong background in the identical two areas. These include: (1) anability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; and (2) an ability to identify,formulate, and solve engineering problems. In contrast, three outcomes received slightly lowerratings from each of the groups. These include, a knowledge of contemporary issues; the broadeducation necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context;and an

Conference Session

Information Literacy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Smith; Lawrence Whitman

Economy and Engineering Research Writing classes were each separated into twosections in fall 2002. One section of each course received instruction in a traditional lecturesetting. The other section was taught using the web lectures. Pre and post-tests were givenbefore and after the instructional sessions to assess the instruction. This paper presents themethod of the study, the specific results, and the implications for Web instruction in these areas.Introduction First semester Industrial Engineering graduate students at Wichita State University arerequired to take Engineering Research Writing. This is an eight-week, 1 credit course usuallytaken in a student’s first semester. Over eighty percent of the students in this program

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra

, monitor overall student progress and to plan and improve curriculum andteaching. As such, an educational assessment professional engages in the following tasks: 1. Working with subject matter experts in the area targeted for assessment to determine the goals, objectives and outcomes of the intervention that is to be assessed; 2. Develop valid assessment tools (whether traditional or rubrics) to measure desired outcomes; 3. Alternatively, helping to choose already-existing assessment instruments that are relevant to the intervention’s intended outcomes; 4. Implement finalized instruments for the desired program or intervention; 5. Report assessment data; and 6. Help to interpret

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

sessions for completing the ILS had to beplanned. While more students would likely have completed both questionnaires if the ILS wereadministered at the beginning and at the end of the course in which the study was located, theauthor wanted to avoid test-fatigue, to minimize the intrusiveness of the study on the students,and to ensure a reasonable spacing of the two tests. The ILS was administered in the second orthird week of classes. Therefore, in a 13-week course, the time lapse would have been relativelyshort, approximately 10 weeks. Thus, a retest after the summer break was chosen instead,approximately eight months after the first ILS test was administered.Table 1 illustrates how many valid ILS questionnaires were available at different

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell; Debra Fowler; Jim Morgan

University have about 1,600 studentsenrolled during both the spring and fall semesters. These courses are taught using an ActiveCollaborative Learning (ACL) strategy in sections of 100 students that meet twice a week for 2-hours. Course material is distributed to the students and faculty over the Web. Figure 1 belowdescribes the Active Collaborative Learning (ACL) process as used in CVEN 349 – ConstructionProject Management (around 100 junior and senior level students) and ENGR111/112Foundations of Engineering I and II (about 92 freshmen students). The major challenge for theinstructor is to get a massive amount of material into the hands of the students in a timely andeffective manner so that they can study before class. In the case of CVEN 349

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Debra Fowler; Jefferey Froyd; Don Maxwell

tookthe LASSI at the beginning of the academic year. Improvements would normally be expectedafter two years in a challenging engineering curriculum. However, data on several different scalesappears to indicate that improvements are smaller than might be expected.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires in Engineering Criteria2000 (EC2000) that engineering programs must demonstrate graduates have “a recognition of theneed for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.”1 The requirement leads to a need fordefining and assessing lifelong learning and is being approached in a variety of ways at the postsecondary level.2,3 For the purposes of the present paper, lifelong learning is defined as having

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly

Session 1460 Incorporating Engineering Standards in the Major Design Experience William E. Kelly The Catholic University of AmericaIntroductionThe ABET Criteria for Engineering programs require students to incorporate engineeringstandards in the culminating design experience.1 The United States National StandardsStrategy (NSS) calls for increased efforts to educate future leaders in engineering,business and public policy on the value and importance of standards. 2 There is a uniqueopportunity for the standards community to assist academe in incorporating

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Perry Deess; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

ELA and comparison groups.For 1995, 1996 and 1997 sophomore cohorts, the ELA students’ passing rates were slightlyhigher, although the difference was not statistically significant. The sophomore retention rateswere the same for experimental and comparison groups after the first year of the program,however in the second and third years the retention rates of the experimental group were higherthan the rates of the comparative group and the difference was statistically significant.1. IntroductionThe Educational Learning Assistants Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology wascreated to increase the retention rate of sophomore students in NJIT's Educational OpportunityProgram, which received funding from the Gateway Engineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Dokachev; John Carpinelli

simulator and its source code are freely availableunder the terms of the GNU Public License.1. IntroductionIn order to perform useful work, a CPU must be able to perform arithmetic and logicaloperations. Although copying data from one location to another is the most frequentlyperformed operation within a processor, a CPU that cannot modify its data would not be usefulfor practical applications. All processors include circuitry to perform some arithmetic andlogical operations, and this topic is typically covered in computer organization and architecturecourses.Integer multiplication can be performed using any of several methods. The traditional shift-addapproach and ROM lookup tables are two methods used to implement multiplication, but eachhas