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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

has made an effort to integrate it from the freshmen to the senior year. Thispaper describes three courses that have been developed and are “Issues in sustainabledevelopment” for the freshmen year, sophomore engineering clinic, and junior and senior clinicwhere the students get to address issues of sustainability in a design forum. The structure of theengineering clinic will be described in more detail here to give the reader a better understandingof the sustainability projects that are conducted under the purview of the clinics.Background on Engineering Clinics at Rowan UniversityRowan University is developing an innovative engineering curriculum that will produceengineers that are suited to meet the needs of a challenging workplace in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Cheney; Heather Brown

Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience for Advanced Education and Research Careers Brown, H.J. and Cheney, A. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN hjbrown@mtsu.eduAbstractUndergraduate research has been determined at many academic institutions and fundingagencies as a focal point for quality education (NSF 1996). Integrating research hasbecome an essential element in developing students for technical service careers andadvanced degrees. The industry professionals hiring students from the Concrete IndustryManagement

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

parameters, and(3) Engineering Clinic projects in the junior and senior years6–8. HMC’s engineering program isunified by the themes that design is the central activity of engineering9; that engineers typicallydesign systems; and that such design requires good models of the physical systems10.Design, clearly an integral part of HMC’s curriculum, “peaks” in Clinic in the junior (3 cr.) andsenior (6 cr.) years6–8. Since Clinic projects often require deep domain knowledge, it isreasonable to ask whether students can carry out in-depth design and development after a broad,general program. Our students can and do, as is evidenced by the willingness of companies topay substantial fees for their HMC Clinic projects. In fact, students do first-rate design

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

domestic hot water and space heating using a radiant floor. There is also a stone-linedsunroom for collecting and storing solar energy, and adjustable louvers over the extensive south-facing glazing to regulate incoming solar radiation. Data logging, control and user interface areintegrated by a LabVIEW-based automation system. The house continues to serve as alaboratory for multidisciplinary capstone design team projects. The project, which allows students to learn energy concepts in an integrated realisticsetting, provides numerous benefits for engineering students that are often lacking in standardengineering instruction, and that are being emphasized by the new ABET EC 2000 criteria. Itintroduces them to holistic systems thinking—that

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Duff

understanding to the point where students can engage insignificant design and modeling tasks. This is often addressed in senior-level capstonecourses and much has been written about their benefits. Another solution may be to makeinternships an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum, or by designing the programaround co-op experiences. However, a downside of both internships and co-ops is that theactivities (usually) occur off campus, and out of the structure of curriculum. In otherwords, there may be significant benefit, but weaving those benefits into other curricularactivities may be problematic. Page 9.58.1 Capstone courses, as

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Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

atension between an engineering program’s need to stay current versus the traditional coverage ofthe fundamentals of engineering science and design. The use of solid modeling (CAD) and finiteelement analysis (FEA) tools can require the introduction of new courses and/or a significantallotment of time within existing courses. Integration of the use of FEA software in coremechanical engineering courses can potentially absorb valuable time to accommodate the“learning curve” associated with CAD/FEA tools.In 2001, concerns about this learning curve led the Mechanical Engineering department atCalifornia State University, Northridge to adopt the SolidWorks family of design and analysistools as the standard for our curriculum. The most important reasons

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

responsible for the teaching of formal course work, their concern was most oftenfocused on student assessment data that could be used for individual student course grades. As aconsequence, some faculty viewed data collection in the context of a project as a means to obtaindata for course grades. This was the case for integrated design as this project was focused onundergraduate preparation, dealt with aspects of curriculum present is some courses taught byparticipating faculty, and incorporated a significant amount of student assessment.Partnerships/CollaborationAll projects required an extraordinary amount of collaboration and partnership. In addition, each

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Charles W. White; Sanju Patro

issue by modifying their curriculum to include courses onglobalization, global supply-chain management, cultural education, etc. KetteringUniversity’s Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering; and Business department recentlyhosted an international conference that brought together educators, students, andcompany executives from various countries to a common platform. By leveraging theWebEx communication technology, the conference provided an arena for individuals andorganizations from various parts of the world to interactively participate in the conferencein real-time. Undergraduate and graduate students got the opportunity to becomeinvolved in organizing the conference, in writing and presenting technical papers to aninternational audience

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

technological, officers must have a thorough knowledge of how theirweapons function as a system in order to take full advantage of them. It is for this reasonthat the primary emphasis of the Systems Engineering major at the Naval Academy hasremained oriented more towards the engineering of control systems, like those commonlyin modern weaponry. The present curriculum of the Systems Engineering major contains six requiredcourses, covering fundamentals in mathematical modeling, simulation, and control. Eachmajor takes five additional elective courses. These are organized as two two-courseelective sequences in an area of specialization and a fifth major elective that may betaken in any engineering-related course. Two-course elective tracks

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

need for an integrated construction curriculum and specificallyaddresses the need for a Senior Level Topics course which synthesizes the fundamentalbody of knowledge of construction, and develops the research skills of senior students.Among the requirements for content of the senior level course, important links need to bedeveloped between the textbook content and the latest reported research in journals andanecdotal and current happenings in the profession. Important current topics need to beexplored and students given appropriate guidance to reach their potential. This paperaddresses the design and presentation of a Current Topics course in Construction. Theessential elements of the course are refereed to as the Rudiments of the course in

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

integration of different parts of theuniversity. A select few universities had built strong programs in transportation. The success ofa program was heavily dependent on the ability to develop and maintain research centers tosupport educational activities. Pignataro and Hoel (8) found that some university administrationswere not supportive of the formation of interdisciplinary programs, leaving transportationspecialists within separate departments to act independently. This paper explores the extent towhich multidisciplinary approaches to transportation are being taken in the study region. Thepaper does not attempt to examine administrative issues.Identification of Essential Transportation TopicsDuring the late 1980s, an Institute of Transportation

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

finding qualified instructors is difficult.Consolidation of the students from each community college and CU Denver into a singleblended course allows those students to move forward in completing the pre-engineeringrequirements at their home institution. Figure 1. The FEST Program addresses the foundation courses of the pre- engineering curriculum, including mathematics, engineering science and information technology, and an Introduction to Engineering course.Academic objectives using e-learning technologiesBy implementing e-Learning technologies into the FEST project we hope to achieve thefollowing academic objectives:• Bring real-world problems into classrooms through the use of videos, demonstrations, simulations and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

nation seems tobe a reduction in the number of credit hours required for graduation; therefore, it does not seemfeasible for civil engineering programs to devote a significant portion of the curriculum toconstruction issues. The authors do believe however, that construction concepts can beincorporated into senior capstone design courses. An example of such a project is outlined inthis paper. The following paragraphs provide a brief synopsis of the efforts of various schools inaddressing construction issues as published in the literature.The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute hasimplemented a graduate-level course entitled “Integration of Design and Construction.”3 Thecourse involves a mix of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aisha Lawrey

future pool of qualified high-tech workers andprofessionals, especially underrepresented groups like minorities and women. This program iscomprehensive in that it has two major components: outreach efforts and instructionalmethodologies. 1. The “Engineering the Future” outreach component consists of a comprehensive information campaign about the rewards of engineering and technology professions. 2. The “Education and Training Institute” instructional component implements pre- engineering curriculum in middle and high school classes.This paper will focus on the programs of the “Engineering the Future” outreach component.IntroductionAn ASEE report says, “Engineering education programs must attract an ethnic and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

participants are free to register in and receive credit for coursespresented by any of the partner universities … allowing for access to professors from manyuniversities rather than just one, and for creation of an M.Eng. program customised to satisfyeach individual’s personal and professional needs and interests. Upon completion of degreerequirements, participants receive the Master of Engineering in Design and Manufacturingfrom their university of admission.Courses, Modular Format and Presentation ScheduleThe course curriculum is structured in two streams: Technology and Processes Stream andBusiness Management Stream. Each stream contains about 15 courses, from which a total of12-14 courses are presently offered annually. Courses are cycled through

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Pietryga; Gregory Dick; Jerry Samples

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education FIGURE 3 Remote SCADA System One-Line Diagr am ExampleUndergraduate ProgramPresently, the Power Systems Simulator is being re-integrated into the laboratory section of anundergraduate course, Power Systems Analysis 1, at UPJ. Initially, the simulator will be used asa demonstration tool to reinforce the theoretical material studied in the lecture portion of thecourse. As the students become more familiar with the equipment, they will actually complete aset of laboratory assignments that have been designed for use with the simulator. An outline ofthe various laboratory assignments by topic is as

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

earned only a D+ in a recent American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE)survey2. This ASCE report also estimates that the investment needs to bring the condition ofthese deteriorated systems to an “acceptable level” is estimated at more than 1.6 trillion dollars.Consequently, we must emphasize the maintenance and renewal of our infrastructure by usingsound infrastructure management principles.The term “infrastructure management” has been used since the 1980s to describe the activitiesinvolved in maintaining and rehabilitating civil infrastructure systems, such as transportation,water, and wastewater. Transportation infrastructure management has typically focused onsystems of bridges or pavements. More recently, the term “asset management” has

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

traditional model ofengineering education—simply learn a multitude of skills and being satisfied with thereassurance that someday and in some mysterious way, they might become useful.References 1. John R. Waltrit and Charles J. Martin, “Longitudinal Assessment of the Integrated Curriculum in Engineering (ICE),” FIE 21002, http//fie.engrng.edu/fie2002/index.htm 2. Matthew W. Ohland and Benjamin L. Sill, “Communicating the Impact of an Introduction Engineering Course to Engineering Departments,” http//fie.engrng.edu/fie2002/index.htm 3. Nikos J. Mourtos and Burford J. Furman, “Assessing the Effectiveness of an Introductory Engineering Course for Freshman,” FIE2002, http//fie.engrng.edu/fie2002/index.htm 4. N

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe benefits of integrating communication assignments into a 600 student problem-baseddesign lab include the opportunity for students to learn from the experience and exampleof other students and from collaboration with real world clients.Institutional ContextThe Boyer Commission’s Report of 1998 called for a restructuring of undergraduateeducation at large research institutions. The report emphasized interdisciplinarity,undergraduate participation in research and the integration of communication skills intocourse work across the curriculum. At the University of Calgary the recommendations ofthe Boyer

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

.MicrocontrollerStudents take this course in the third year. This is an introductory course in microprocessors. Itcovers CPU architecture, assembly language, stack operation, vectored interrupts, memoryorganization, and input/output peripheral devices based on Motorola 68HC12 chips. It has beenoffered twice by two professors, and the first author of this paper taught it in the Fall 2003semester. Both professors adopted the same textbook: 68HC12 Microcontroller: Theory and Application, by Daniel J. Pack and Steven F. Barrett, Prentice Hall, 2002.“Project-based learning” is the pedagogical approach we take to educate our students, and weemphasize the importance of the labs. We try to integrate lecture component and the labcomponent together. Many times

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Shaw; James Gidley

AssignmentThe first author taught Thermodynamics (MEE 310, which became EGR 314 in 1993) from 1990to 1997. As the course was adapted to provide an integrated rather than sequential coverage ofthe first and second laws and was adjusted to fit into an engineering curriculum being redesignedto meet the ABET criteria for general engineering, we thought it was important to be moreintentional about integrating the objectives underlying ABET criterion 3 g, and h into appropriateengineering courses. Thermodynamics seemed a logical place to attempt this, particularly withrespect to the second law. These changes meshed well with a more modern approach to secondlaw analysis, which was becoming a larger part of the course.The writing assignment was first used in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

trajectoryprediction program to determine the rocket launch location (distance from the goal) and thelaunch elevation angle prior to their launch. The predictions were based on measured values ofrocket mass, engine thrust force, and rocket drag force. The camp staff included high schoolteachers, volunteer engineers from local industry, and engineering faculty. The pedagogicalchallenge in the design of the camp program was to develop an appreciation for engineeringanalysis and modeling in an audience that lacks the necessary mathematical sophistication. Thispaper reports on the development of the camp curriculum, recruitment techniques forunderrepresented campers, interaction between high school instructors, professors and volunteerprofessionals, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

Session 2003-1190 NEW MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WITHIN THE AALBORG PROJECT BASED LEARNING MODEL Sven Hvid Nielsen, Associate professor Department of Production Aalborg University, Denmark e-mail: i9shn@iprod.auc.dkABSTRACT: Aalborg University’s thirty years of experience with project-organised andproblem-oriented studies has proved by continuous assessment to be an important innovationin higher education. The curriculum in engineering as well as in natural science is project-organised from the day the freshman arrives until graduation. In the design-oriented projectwork the students deal with some

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

one of the first urban publicuniversities to require a significant core curriculum for undergraduates. This core consisted of54 hours of courses divided among three tiers: general introductory knowledge, discipline-specific knowledge, and knowledge integration. The University also imposed a new graduationrequirement: satisfactory performance on an exit examination in writing. The core curriculumremains. However, in 1999, the Texas Coordinating Board for Higher Education mandated thatall public universities permit portability and transferability of the core curriculum; UH thusreduced its core to conform to those adopted by others. The exit writing exam was discontinuedin Fall 1999 when it was determined that the effort and expense were not

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Thetechnologies consisted of autonomous robots that were relatively easy to build and Pocket PCswith an integrated wireless capability in order to access the Internet. The paper includes thebackground information on the course, technologies, and the applicability. In addition, studentexperiences with the tools are also covered in the paper.I. IntroductionThe effective use of computer applications is essential for incoming freshman engineeringstudents. However, there are some entering freshman engineering students who lack thecomputing skills necessary to be productive in the beginning courses. The lack of skills can beattributed to a variety of reasons, such as an impoverished pre-college environment orinattentiveness to the details when the opportunity

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Shipbuilding.The mission of ACCeSS is establishing an international design environment where thedisciplines associated with hull, machinery, weapon and control system design can be broughttogether within the context of the total ship system design, thereby facilitating the creativeknowledge development, educational changes and discipline integration required for trueinnovation. Secondly, ACCeSS seeks to utilise this unique education and research environmentin the recruiting, training and long-term career development of the best and brightest youngengineers in the US (and UK). The latter initiative is expected to contribute to countering thecontinued downward trend in recruitment and retention in the marine industry being experiencedin both countries.1.1

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

discrete components and common integrated circuit chips. It has evolved to an embeddedsystems approach based on the PIC12F675 microcontroller. The salient features of thePIC12F675 are listed in Table 1. Table 1. Key Features of the PIC12F675 Core Architecture Peripherals 8-bit data bus Two timers 8-pin package 10-bit SA-ADC Harvard bus structure One analog comparator Orthogonal RAM 8-bit EEPROM for data storage Direct, indirect and relative addressing Internal 4 MHz oscillator To exercise the PIC12F675 to its

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pong Chu

-Iron Man Draft of Computing Curriculum - Computer Engineering, http://www.eng.auburn.edu/ece/CCCE.[8] IEEE Computer Society/ACM, CE-DIG - Digital Logic of Pre-Iron Man Draft of Computing Curriculum - Page 9.102.14 Computer Engineering, http://www.eng.auburn.edu/ece/CCCE/Digital_Logic.pdf. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”[9] Maurer, P. M., “Electrical Design Automation: An Essential Part of a Computer Engineer's Education,” Proceeding of IEEE Frontiers in Education

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hesham Shaalan; dulal kar; Rafic Bachnak

and microprocessor-based systems.In addition, electronic instruments such as power supplies, function generators, digitalmultimeters, and oscilloscopes must be available to allow the integration of hardwareand software in an environment that addresses real world applications. The DSLconsists of twelve workstations and supports a class of 24 students. The logic analyzersand PLD programmers will be placed in such a way that each of these units is shared bytwo workstations. The computers are networked and connected to the Internet. Detailedinformation about the major equipment follows.- Computers (OptiPlex GX270T): Pentium 4 processor, 3 GHz, 1 GB SDRAM, 19” Dell UltraSharp 1901FP, 120 GB hard drive, Ethernet 10/100, 2.4X8 DVD- RW

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

: Theory and Practice. “Writing is integrative, entailing theactive use of one’s total intellectual equipment; writing requires symbolic manipulation, which in turnfacilitates learning; writing serves as an epistemic function, modifying the human knowledge it records;writing in (is?—doesn’t make sense otherwise) a unique mode of learning involving all themajor types of learning; writing provides both immediate and long-term self-provided feedback; writingis active and personal; and writing is a self-paced mode of learning.”3 There seems to be a consensusamong educational researchers that a person retains information best when the learner has to actively dealwith the material. This active participation can be achieved through immediate