Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

.”“No problem,” laughed Lunts, sensing Twigg’s interest. “We can get you geeked-upquickly enough with the right training and support. See, check this out,” said Lunts as hehanded Twigg a brochure from the Campus’ Center for Teaching and Learning. “Thecenter can help you learn all you need to know.” Twigg took the brochure and quicklyscanned it. The brochure explained very clearly how the center could quickly teachprofessors how to design, implement and assess online courses. Page 9.822.2 2“Let me think about it Bruce. I’ve got to go now and get to my class

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

by implementingmultidimensional projects such as the solarbike, moonbuggy, and SAE formula one withthe final goal of competing in national competitions. It is through these projects thatstudents are able to see the big picture.Freshmen students are paired with a senior mentor and together, these teams are requiredto complete all aspects of the project from the initial research and the design process tobudgeting and manufacturing nearly everything from within the laboratory. In the end,the students are able to see the outcome of their projects by competing against top-notchuniversities in a national competition. Freshmen students complete the project as part oftheir fulfillments for the Introduction to Engineering Fundamentals course while

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

in addressing weak performers, and grading), students rated it highly as a valuable “real world” experience that gave them an advantage in the job market. • Increased use of contemporary educational technology, with computer-based methods of delivering courses increasingly taking the place of traditional lectures. • Coordination of engineering topics with other disciplines, such as physics, writing courses, and social science / humanities. • “Just-in-time” teaching: concurrent lecture and laboratory courses are sequenced so that lecture topics are covered just as they become needed in the laboratory. In previous models, lecture and laboratory courses might have proceeded independently. • Inclusion of senior design

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

:1. Professor Richard Felder website: http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/RMF.html2. Sharon Sauer and Pedro E. Arce, “Design, Implementation and Assessment of High Performance Learning Environments,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, ASEE, Nashville, TN, June 2003.3. Sharon Sauer and Pedro E. Arce, Assessment of High Performance Learning Environments,” V Best Assessment Workshop, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre-Haute, IN, April 2003.Biographical informationSHARON G. SAUERSharon G. Sauer is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology whereshe is teaching a variety of classroom and laboratory courses. She has long-standing interests in active learningtechniques and has published

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

some of the “typical” skills that are expected of “typical”software engineer.3. Softwar e Quality Assur ance at Milwaukee School of Engineer ingThe academic schedule at MSOE is based on a quarter system with three quarters in an academicyear. Each quarter involves ten weeks of instruction with the eleventh week devoted to finalexams. Typical software engineering courses are three or four credits, and most have anassociated laboratory session. The undergraduate software engineering program at MSOE [4]began operation in 1999 and had its first graduating class in spring 2002. The SE program wasvisited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in September 2002and is one of the first accredited SE programs in the United

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

student’s transition from high school to Virginia Tech. The programprovides the following:• the opportunity to become familiar with the university community• academic enrichment in selected subjects (i.e., mathematic, chemistry and engineering fundamentals• the opportunity to participate in seminar sessions to enhance personal and professional development.CoursesThe students receive instruction in chemistry, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals.Students participate in a chemistry laboratory as part of the program. These classes are taught byinstructors from each department. The five week summer classes are similar to those classestaught in the fall semester. Both, mathematics and engineering fundamentals introducesstudents to

Conference Session

Diversity: Women and Minorities in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carryn Bellomo; Korinne Caruso; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering(FUSE), that uses all these methods to attract underrepresented students to science andengineering through a program that includes presentations at high schools, invitedspeakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits9.Specifically, the program involves attracting 11th grade students to attend a two-weekScience and Technology workshop. The workshop is designed to introduce students tojob opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose them to college life, involve Page 9.631.1them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to pursue science and engineering Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

thecurricular aspects of the programs, outlines the differences in their approach to learning andresearch, and promotes independent research and scholarly publications as an important means toan advanced degree in engineering technology.IntroductionThe doctoral level education has become an essential qualification for anyone interested inbecoming an engineering technology faculty member. Although there are no doctoral levelprograms in engineering technology, producing graduates at the present time, the evolution in thefield will soon lead to the establishment of new doctoral programs. At the present time, for thosewho are teaching in engineering technology and are interested in programs leading to doctoratedegrees in a closely related field, there are

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Molu Olumolade

program deletionThis paper discusses how the implementation of industrial exercises as a component of a regularclass laboratory experiments has benefited the industries involved as well as maximized studentslearning even in the absence of industrial internship. It also shows how industries can beencouraged or motivated to participate in academic endeavors in a non-financial way.Introduction:College students everywhere experience various forms of problems. These problems have beenexpressed in such areas as course work, teaching methodology, interaction patterns in theclassrooms, and inadequacy of facilities and equipment. In addition to these problems are themost recent observed problems in the areas of communication skills, comprehension

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

mathematics and physics at the University ofColorado and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Yale University in 1928.Dr. Deming learned statistical process control at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Deming’s claimto fame came when Japan requested his help with its post WW II census. He stayed longer andhelped Japan rebuild its economy by teaching statistical methods. Upon returning, Demingappeared in a documentary titled “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” Deming was 80 years old atthe time. After its airing, Deming’s four-day seminar was delivered to many organizationsthroughout the US. Dr. Deming worked up until the day he died, consulting and teachingorganizations his basic tenets on quality. Dr. Deming died in November of 1993.He was the author of many

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Calvert; Michael Shannon

develop courses that are relevant, challenging, rigorous, and pedagogically sound. This paper discusses the manner in which physics concepts are presented in theclassroom. Specifically, how we motivate the cadets, by bringing the military relevance ofphysics into the classroom and the laboratory. We place a heavy emphasis on the focusedpresentation of theoretical concepts coupled with innovative and interactive demonstrations andexercises centered around actual military hardware. A selective curriculum of physics topics,tailored to meet our program goals of educating future officers, has been developed andimplemented. This paper will highlight the techniques that provide a positive driving force tocadet learning and result in an Army

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

Electronic Portfolio system, enables students toeasily create, manage, and share web-accessed electronic portfolios that document theirknowledge, skills, and achievements from coursework and from extracurricular activities.Campus discussions of electronic portfolios began in 2002 as part of a special study of VirginiaTech's Core Curriculum. Out of these discussions emerged a recommendation to use electronicportfolios to support student reflection and the thoughtful accumulation of academic work overtime. For this purpose, planning began in the summer of 2003 and a pilot project was launchedduring the fall semester. Educational Technologies and the Center for Excellence inUndergraduate Teaching (CEUT) facilitated the pilot project and recruited a

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis

they join the workforce.The authors believe that modern teaching facilities supported with digital simulation tools andwell equipped laboratories, have a great impact in the development of engineering technologyprograms in power systems and energy technologies. A good example of this perception is thefact that the EIET program at UNI has recently completed its first year of operation with greatsuccess and increased enrollment. Part of this achievement was due to the fact that the facultyuses advanced software and hardware tools to educate the students that choose the EIET major.This in turn allows for the continuous improvement of the curriculum so that it is always modernand attached to the trends of the ever-expanding electrical engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

wireless networking. Also required are hands-on laboratories that can beused by students for programming, development, and configuration of networks usingdifferent operating systems and hardware configurations. Similar programs, in Indianaand nationwide, are compared and contrasted. Also discussed are national, regional, andstate demand and employment factors that provided justification for the new degree.BackgroundIndiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne1 (IPFW) offers over 175 degree programs, islocated in the 2nd largest city, and is the 5th largest university in Indiana. The newBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology (CPET) degree, which wasapproved by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education in October 2003, has aninitial

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

researchseeks an architecture that can be used by an instructor to make an online learning system for acourse the instructor wants to teach in classroom or online, rather than developing an in-depthtutoring system for any specific course. The Intelligent Interactive Tutoring System Shellintegrates mathematical tools and an expert-system-type logical analysis/synthesis tool in a web-based environment. The IITS consists of several components including an instructor interface, astudent interface, a student model, a student log, a reasoning system, and a mathematical toolinterface module, and guides the student through a monitored problem solving session.1. IntroductionStudents need academic support outside the classroom, which may be provided by a

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

side engineers in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of whatengineers do. The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and science backgrounds, thenwould serve as spokespersons for engineering in their respective classrooms. During the fiveyears that this program was in operation a total of 67 teachers from throughout the United Statesparticipated. Of the approximately 100 engineering faculty at WSU 19 served as mentors (somemultiple times) during the teacher’s stay. After gaining some experience with this activity we settled upon the following procedurefor conducting the program. Advertisements for the program were disseminated in variouspublications from state and national science teacher’s organizations. The

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

few has long been a concern in most academic and professionaldisciplines. Copyright laws, patent laws, academic honor codes, and professional ethics codes allgive evidence of the historic need to protect intellectual property (IP). In the public orcommercial arena, the victim of IP theft usually has the burden of detecting, proving, and suingor pressing charges against the violator. In the classroom or instructional laboratory, the victimsof IP theft (students) are not generally in a position to detect, prove, or prosecute the perpetrator.Academic honesty codes or honesty contracts encourage most students to fulfill their ethicalobligations, but the codes do not guarantee complete compliance, nor do they provide a means ofdetection or proof

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

. Page 9.976.1Outcome PortfoliosUsing outcome portfolios is an idea that evolved from the compilation of course portfolios, apractice that is traditional in our department. An outcome portfolio is assembled separately foreach program outcome by compiling evidence of student work related to that particular outcomefrom material that is routinely collected and assembled in the form of course portfolios. Everyinstructor develops a course portfolio for every course that he teaches in a given semester bycollecting a mix of student work, instructor lecture notes, handouts, and other materials. All ofaforementioned materials are important to the curriculum committee in assessing course contentand plotting general pedagogical strategy. However, EC-2000

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

participativeinquiry.Historical PerspectivesWe begin with the concept of engineering education as promulgated through the GrinterReport of 1955. The Grinter Report was the end result of a multi-year, US based commissioninto the current state and future goals of engineering education. The effect of the Grinter reportwas profound. In one stroke, the traditional, apprenticeship-style, hands on, shop focused,drawing and design oriented training of engineers was abandoned in favor the currentmath/science model of lecture, lab and tutorial. To put it bluntly, “Not anticipated were thedownstream imbalances in academe that emphasized engineering science and analysis to thepoint of reductionism at the expense of design and integration”1.The framework for the teaching and

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McCartney; Lynette Krenelka; John Watson; Dara Faul; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

Technology)accredited undergraduate engineering program at a distance. Since its inception, the DEDP deliverymechanism has evolved through a number of enhancements to keep pace with advances ininformation technology and improved distance learning and teaching methods.The first generation of DEDP course delivery method included conventional videotaped lectures,static Internet Web pages of handouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories.Major limitations of this delivery format included an inherent delay in delivering the videotapes tothe students and the asynchronous problems associated with faculty handling on-campus anddistance students in the same class. To eliminate this delay in the lecture delivery times and toprovide an optimal

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

precision measurement technique in sucha way that it may be taught to an interested group of undergraduate students. Thesoftware development provides an opportunity to teach the calibration process: fromtaking measurements to producing a calibration report. Capacitance Scaling MethodModern instrumentation is designed for automated control in order to create customcalibration procedures. In the case when very precise and specialized tests are necessarywithin the metrology community, it is particularly challenging to establish computercontrol of an entire procedure. Accurate calibration of capacitors that range from 1nF to100 µF over a wide frequency range (100 Hz to 100 kHz) is a demanding task.There are several

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

additional expenses except for travel and living costs. • The students be at least at sophomore and preferably at junior level • The schedule at international institutions be compatible with UM-D schedule. • There be a reciprocal student exchange arrangement with the selected institutions abroad (this was needed to address issues related to tuition and fees of international students.)Program GoalsThe major thrust of the international program was to expose our undergraduates to academic andstudent environment at an international institution. In addition, it was expected that 1. UM-D students would work in a team environment in a laboratory setting or on design projects with students from the host institution and students from other

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

students each assemble an electrical circuit analog of the same system. With the models,they make measurements of pressure and flow for both healthy cardiovascular parameters andfor several common diseases.Introduction – We developed our two freshman biomedical engineering courses around three goals: 1) tointroduce beginning students to our Department and the field in general; 2) to teach basicconcepts and principles that underlie several specialties in biomedical engineering; and 3) tochallenge the students with real-world problems, giving them a chance to assess their interest andskill level early in their academic careers. The purpose of this paper is to describe how weaddressed these goals in the first-semester's class by incorporating

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

laboratory reports) that document their self-assessment.The portfolio of supporting documentation also provides a tool for the assessment of the course.Portfolios in general have been long discussed in the literature of assessment and compared toother assessment tools5. Since these portfolios are collected and maintained by the studentduring the semester and each is accompanied by an assessment written by the student, theseportfolios overcome several of the disadvantages described by previous authors6. In particular,these concerns include the time required for faculty evaluation of the portfolio, storage resourcesrequired if the portfolio is maintained by the institution and lack of compliance if the portfolio ismaintained by the student.This system

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

set at the early stages of theprogram will help the students to achieve their educational goals and personal achievements.With this in mind in fall 2000, three courses were identified to implement a testing sequencewe called the “ten minute quiz”. The courses areECET-100 ECET seminarECET-102 Electrical Circuit-1ECET-152 Electrical Circuit-ll.All the three courses are required for the program.Concept based objectives were written for all the courses and is used by the faculty whoteaches the courses. The grading criteria included the following.Homework 5%10 Minute Quiz 25%Tests (3) 30%Final (Comprehensive) 15%And the Laboratory 25%At the beginning of every class a ten minutes quiz was given to the students based on theconcepts that was taught

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

Engineering. Presently, Dr. Lucas is on sabbatical at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC.TIMOTHY A. JOHNSON, PH.D. Timothy A. Johnson holds a BS Ed (1972) in education from Illinois State University, an MS (1976) in natural science from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. (1983) in BME from UNC-Chapel Hill. Research interests include cardiovascular electrophysiology, sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition, processing and display. As an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, he teaches linear controls and directs BME laboratory rotations.STEPHEN B. KNISLEY, PH.D. Stephen B. Kindly, graduate of Duke University (BSE 1973) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 1988) is currently an

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman; Alok Verma

SpaceAdministration (NASA) offer a joint program for faculty and research development. This programknown as ASEE/NASA Faculty Fellowship program offers opportunities for professional developmentfor Engineering Technology faculty. This paper discusses one such experience involving applied researchat NASA Langley Research Center, which resulted in professional development of the faculty memberwhile enhancing the undergraduate curriculum in Engineering Technology.I Introduction Success in an Engineering Technology programs has been traditionally evaluated based uponthree factors namely, Teaching, Research and Service. While the relative ranking of these factors isarguable 1,2, it is the research (and the associated requirement of publication), which

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

It is evident to the attendees of this conference that just as students have individuallearning styles that faculty also have individual teaching styles that they are comfortable with.The author is most comfortable when actively moving in the class and hence had only usedmultimedia content for specific images or simulations and the remainder of the time used the Page 9.583.2chalk/whiteboard. However, since a new tool was being investigated, the author polled his Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

computer laboratory period per week. The lectures focus onfundamental engineering concepts and problem solving. Prior to Fall 2002, each lab period wasorganized into a series of four or five tasks to be completed either by teams of four students orindividual students, as specified by the instructors. Typically, tasks provided the students withstructured exploration of the use of new computer tool syntax/procedures and simplefundamental engineering problems. Each lab concluded with a "check for understanding" on thenew concepts covered in the lab. Students then applied the theory introduced in lecture and thesyntax/procedures learned in lab to the solution of homework problems and team projects withengineering context.In Fall 2002, four MEAs were