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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Roylance

the videotapes oflectures along with web-based courseware are made available to MUST. MIT faculty also travelto MUST for direct discussions with the MUST instructor of the subject to assist in lecturedevelopment. MIT provides assistance when MUST students or faculty have questionsregarding the content or homework as they are delivered at MUST. To prevent MIT facultyworkloads from being overloaded by these additional demands on their own regular teachingduties, an MIT teaching assistant at MIT funded by the MUST/MIT program is appointed to act Page 9.37.1as an intermediary between the two institutions. Proceedings of the 2004 American

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Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

challenges engineering educators to structure learning so that competency is builtprogressively throughout a curriculum. The engineering community well understands the needfor proficiency in all modes of communication, with written communication considered of highimportance. For example, a panel of ten representatives from biomedical companies, assembledat Northwestern University in the summer of 2001, stressed the importance of communicationskills for entry-level biomedical engineers. Representatives from Abbott Laboratories, Datex-Ohmeda, and Nova Bionics said that entry-level engineers in biomedical engineering specificallyneed to be able to detail all project subtasks in project design, find and evaluate research relevantto a project, write

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

and secondary schools teaching and counseling methodology; developing resource materials, classroom lessons and practices, laboratory experiments and demonstrations for use in the schools and disseminating the information to teachers and students for the advancement of knowledge and providing workshops to parents and families to increase their participation in and awareness of the educational process of their children in order to support them through the k-12 system in order to achieve their full potential.The Center has undergone several fundamental transformations of its identity and objectivessince its establishment in 1978. Following the adoption by the N. J. Board of Education of theCore Content Curriculum Standards

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Session 3560 Improving the Classroom Environment: With a Focus on the Arab Gulf States Waddah Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (Retired) Principal, Geotechnical Engineering, Ames, IowaAbstract:This paper focuses on “viable teaching-learning” protocols for potential adoption by educators inthe Arab Gulf States, seeking to improve their classroom effectiveness. It was inspired byremarks and suggestions made by a number of engineering graduates, who have experienced“negative” aspects of the “classroom

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

possible at undergraduate teaching schools where the teaching load limits the timeavailable to complete complex research, and the lack graduate students places the research loadon the faculty. The natural consequence of the problem was to determine what others weredoing to foster professional development at other institutions.BackgroundThe question of professional development for Engineering Technology Faculty was addressed insome depth by Brizendine and Brizendine3, and Samples, et al4. Both reported that the answerwas plainly described by Boyer5 in his book, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of theProfessorate. Specifically, faculty should analyze their current professional developmentinterests and determine which of the four scholarship

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

. Upgrade core-engineering laboratories to complement upgraded MSET curriculum and its appropriate teaching modules, and develop new undergraduate laboratory for multidisciplinary dynamic systems and instrumentation.3. Conduct research training for undergraduate in MSET disciplines through a sophomore shadow program with interaction among teaching and research faculty and through Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) programs. In order to achieve the goals and objectives stated above, several faculty members fromvarious departments including Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Mechanical, Chemical andElectrical Engineering were invited to participate in the NASA PAIR program. These facultymembers were provided with undergraduate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

where he teaches courses and develops and teaches laboratories in the areas of digitalcircuits, digital systems, microcontrollers, and computer network hardware. Page 9.388.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

-creditlecture and a concurrent, one-credit laboratory section. With this approach, the lecture is taughtby the course instructor and each faculty advisor teaches a corequisite laboratory section. Allstudents register for the lecture plus a laboratory section taught by their faculty advisor. Byformally teaching a laboratory section, all faculty advisors receive recognition for their time andare motivated to take responsibility for the success of their student team. This proposal ispresently in the discussion state and not implemented.ConclusionsCooperative learning activities are well suited to a capstone design sequence because they caninclude many of the same practices adhered to by a design team in industry. For this yearlongcourse sequence, small

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

andtechnology, who are at the leading edge of advancing the practice of engineering through theirteaching, industrial engagement, and original professional scholarly work relevant to creativeengineering practice and its leadership for technology development. The paper raisesfundamental questions that must be answered to design a complementary faculty reward templateof creative professional scholarly work, teaching, and engagement for high-caliber engineeringprofessionals in parallel to the academic scientific research template, which predominantly existsat schools of engineering and technology across the nation. Page 9.823.1

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Limberis; Bijan Sepahpour

systems. The positions of each of the degrees of freedom are acquiredusing optical linear encoders and a National Instruments data acquisition board using aLabVIEW interface. The experiment uses the theoretical values that are calculated during thepre-laboratory section for comparison purposes. The uncertainty behind the measurementsystem is analyzed. Plots of input force vs. output amplitudes and phases are generated for thevarious operating frequencies of the system. These results are finally compared to thepredicted results and conclusions are drawn. A sample laboratory handout is presented. Page 9.927.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American

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The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

faculty has a diverse set of skills and expertise but shares a common vision ofmultidisciplinary project-based learning. The current full-time tenure track faculty roster is 25%female and is led by Dean Dianne Dorland, who joined Rowan in 2000.Henry M. Rowan Hall opened in January 1998, and was dedicated that April. The $28 million,95,000 SF building was designed to accommodate seamless integration of teaching, research andproject-based learning. Figure 1 shows a view from the atrium of Rowan Hall. Classrooms haveeasy access to laboratories and laboratory-support rooms. Non-load-bearing walls separateclassroom and laboratory modules so that they can be easily modified. The building contains atechnology spine, which is a key to the building's

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

staff involved in the CIM unit need to be proactive in respect tohazard awareness. Veal and Maj note that:“Unlike traditional, standard computer science tutors, laboratory CIM workshop tutors mustalso be aware of potential safety hazards and legal requirements. They need to pay particularattention to other potential safety hazards elsewhere in the laboratory even though they may beengaged in dealing with the problems of a particular student” 11.Bell uses virtual reality to simulate potential accidents: “not so much to teach new information orto test students’ knowledge, but rather to stimulate reflective thoughts and discussion” 1. Butrejdraws on case studies of accidents to enhance safety awareness 3.It might be thought that a 5V line inside a

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

environment where engineering students and faculty andeducation students and faculty can collaborate to design and build laboratory equipment andinstructional materials to enhance teaching and learning of mathematics and science in K-12.Three one-credit hour courses, ENGR 202, 303, and 404 are being created so students canreceive academic credits while engaging in multi-year, multi-disciplinary service-learningprojects. Community service provides the context for students to develop and grow skills inengineering design, teamwork, and communication.Another function of the Engineering Design Center for Service Learning is to support WMUstudent volunteers, which numbers approximately 400 students about half of whom are educationstudents, to lead after

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

formthe foundation of engineering. Focusing on applications in biological systems to teach theseconservation laws provides a new and unifying approach to the introductory, interdisciplinaryfundamentals course in Biomedical Engineering departments.Chapters 1 and 2 provide exposure to bioengineering problems and motivation for a quantitativeengineering approach. The manuscript begins with a basic review of engineering calculationswith an emphasis on elaborating the physical variables, which are introduced in the context ofdifferent biomedical technologies. The fundamental framework of the conservation laws isdescribed in Chapter 2.Chapters 3-6 cover conservation of mass, energy, charge, and momentum in biomedical systems.Each chapter begins with a

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

Session 1375 THE ABC’S OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION: ABET, BLOOM’S TAXONOMY, COOPERATIVE LEARNING, AND SO ON Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent North Carolina State University/Education Designs, Inc.If you are like most university professors, you were not taught anything about how to teach ingraduate school or when you began in your first faculty position. All you had to go on was howyour professors taught, but nobody taught them anything about teaching either. It doesn’t make alot of sense, but that’s our system. Teaching is too complex and too important a profession to let people do it

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

cycle that should be practiced atall levels and in all phases of the educational institution. During the last two years, wehad learned the appropriate assessment processes, assessment tools, and skills. We alsopracticed those skills through preparation and implementation of Department Assessmentand Continuous Improvement Plan (including mission, strategic objectives, programeducational objectives, assessment of program educational objectives, program outcomes,assessment of program outcomes), the 2002/2003 outcome-based ECET AnnualAssessment Report, outcome-based course assessment, and continuous improvement onall level of teaching-learning, laboratory equipment, facilities, and faculty development.This paper presented an example of assessing

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

simple and robust, functioning in almost any Internet environment • To be accepted, the system must make online teaching and learning easyScalable network delivery: In 2001 our laboratory took on the challenge of creating a solutionthat meets this challenge. We have created Network EducationWare (NEW) primarily fromopen-source software that is available with no license fee to all. The tools with which we startedwere created for use with Internet multicasting5, where one station sends an identical message tomany others. This approach is sometimes called peer-to-peer operation because all computershave identical ability to send to each other. It offers a simple model for scaling to large numbersof participants and has attracted talented

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turner Stuart; Cary Fisher; Jason Bartolomei

: 1. Application of the fundamental concepts of systems engineering to solve engineering problems. 2. Laboratory techniques including procedures, recording, and analysis. 3. Design, fabrication, and testing techniques. 4. Use of contemporary systems engineering analysis, design, test, and management tools. 5. Written and oral communication skills. 6. Knowledge of ethical and professional responsibilities. 7. Breadth and depth of knowledge and skills in systems engineering, human systems, information systems, operations research analysis, mathematics, program management, and other disciplines necessary to effectively identify and solve the types of

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

30-minute blocks of time at least 4 days a week. Set realistic scholarship goals and prioritize activities. 2. Publish or present on ABET assessment experiences and procedures. 3. Publish or present on new course and curriculum developments, experiences in the classroom: what works, what doesn't, innovative methods for enhancing student learning, assessment of pedagogical methods, etc 4. Publish or present on online teaching experiences; comparison of online versus face-to-face or hybrid courses as it relates to student learning 5. In the absence of laboratories, consider scholarship in the areas of computer modeling and simulation, and pedagogy 6. Consider writing and publishing a textbook in your field

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

universities need to provide their undergraduate students with“a research experience that is genuine and meaningful.” 13 However, the difficulty is to putengineering students, “as much as possible, in the shoes of the engineer,” 14 when the technologyis as new as the need to teach it, and there is a short supply of both engineers and engineeringtools in the new technology. Page 9.119.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringTo address this concern, laboratory space and equipment are available to allow a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall 2001.[2] G. Bebis, D. Egbert, and M. Shah. “Review of computer vision education,” IEEE Transactions on Education, (46)1:2-21, Feb 2003.[3] W. Clement, “An instructional robotics and machine vision laboratory,” IEEE Transactions on Education., 37:87-90, Feb 1994.[4] B. Maxwell, “Teaching computer vision to computer scientists: Issues and a comparative textbook review,” Int. J. Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence, (15)5:757-773, 2001.[5] S.M. Smith and J.M. Brady. “SUSAN - a new approach to low level image processing.” Int. Journal of Computer Vision, (23)1:45--78, May 1997.[6] M. A. Turk and A. P. Pentland. “Face recognition using eigenfaces,” in Proc. of

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

abilities will improve.• Students’ attitude toward math and science will improve. This is critically important as we try to increase the number of students who will eventually become scientists and engineers.Bibliography1. Jordan, William, Elmore, Bill, and Silver, Debbie, “Creating a Course in Engineering Problem Solving for Future Teachers”, Presented at ASEE annual meeting, Saint Louis, June 2000. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).2. Jordan, W., Silver, D., and Elmore, B., Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers, Presented at ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).3. Jordan, W., and Elmore, B, Developing an Outreach Program to Introduce

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

experiments no longer in use in the course and ideas on how todemonstrate specific theoretical concepts not already covered by one of the lab sessions, plusseveral topics that could best be described by the phrase, “I wonder what happens if….” Thebenefit to this approach is that the instructors (faculty and teaching assistant) were able toobserve in a short amount of time which types of projects seemed appropriate for the students.The obvious disadvantage is that the instructors needed to spend a tremendous amount of timemanaging the projects, in order to provide relevant feedback to the students on each individualproject.In the Fall 2003 semester, each laboratory division was given a single project title and basicobjectives. Then each lab team

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

that enhancesstudent-faculty interaction through wireless remote access to live and archived instructionalmaterials. The overall project goals are to integrate, test, and disseminate new and emergingtechnologies that link the mobile student to the classroom or laboratory. Through a video/audiocapture capability installed in the classroom and a network server, lectures can be streamed inreal-time or archived for later viewing. Students can have access to these resources using hand-held devices, tablet PC’s, or laptops with mobile connectivity. When viewing a live lecture,students will have the ability to interact with the instructor using messaging software. This paperwill detail the basic system requirements as well as the technical approach

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

Session 2266 Thermal Fluids Systems Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy Michael R. Maixner, George Havener United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the new pedagogy used to teach thermal fluid systems engineering (TFSE)to cadets who major in either mechanical engineering or engineering mechanics. Previouslytaught as a 4-course sequence consisting of separate and distinct subject material onThermodynamics (ME 312), Fluid Mechanics (ME 341), Heat Transfer (ME 441), and EnergyConversion (ME 467), the current presentation integrates this subject material in

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Adams

from fivedifferent academic departments at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology collaborated to developan introductory course in MEMS open to all science and engineering majors of junior standing.This course was team-taught and included a laboratory component, giving students hands-onexperience with the processes involved in the fabrication of MEMS devices. This paper presentsthe results to date of this multidisciplinary faculty team’s efforts to make MEMS more accessibleto a larger audience. In particular, the paper documents the development of the new course andits content, as well as the continuing evolution of its implementation.I. IntroductionStarting out as the realm of solid-state physicists and electrical engineers, the silicon

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilya Grinberg

andmonitoring of large dynamic electro-mechanical systems, such as electric motors and/or drives.This paper concentrates on remote control of a group of electro-mechanical devices (variablepower supply, electric motor, dynamometer, and instrumentation) integrated in one complex aswell as visualization of their control parameters (such as voltage, speed, torque, current, andpower).The paper also discusses log-on security procedures, hardware and software development, videostreaming to ensure quality video and sound, and teaching methodologies to provide successfullaboratory delivery.HardwareFor electromechanical part of the project it was decided to utilize existing laboratory equipmentused in the Technology department of Buffalo State College. It

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Session 2620 Computing and Programming with LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach in teaching various computing and programming principles toengineering students utilizing the LabVIEW software is discussed. LabVIEW, acronym for“Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench”, is a powerful and robust graphicalprogramming language developed by National Instruments, Inc. for use in various engineering andscientific related fields. At the present time, this software tool is mainly utilized in

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

escalate student engagementwith course content. As shown by B. Shneiderman a conceptual framework fortechnology-based learning and teaching has emerged as an engagement theory. 4 Thefundamental idea underlying engagement theory is that students must be meaningfullyengaged in learning activities through interaction with others and worthwhile tasks.While in principle, such engagement could occur without the use of technology, thetechnology can facilitate engagement in ways which are difficult to achieve otherwise.Thermodynamics together with other thermal-fluid sciences (thermodynamics, fluidmechanics, and heat transfer) are typically considered to be among the most difficulttopics taught in engineering curriculum.5 The Learning Tool described below

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thrassos Thrasyvoulou; Constantinos Panayiotou; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

MATLAB INTERFACE WITH JAVA SOFTWARE Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Thrassos Thrasyvoulou, and Venkatraman Atti MIDL, Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 AbstractThe J-DSP editor is an object oriented environment that enables distance learning students toperform on-line laboratories. The editor has a rich collection of signal processing functions andis currently being used in a senior-level DSP course at ASU. In this paper, we present newenhancements to the infrastructure of J-DSP that provide embedded MATLAB™ scriptingcapabilities. The synergy of the J-DSP object-oriented