Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

engineering and information sciencedepartments, primarily within the United States. The data analyzed include the course titles,course structure, textbooks used, major topics and how they are covered, projects, and laboratoryexercises, if any. We found that the courses can be divided into three categories: those that coverthe general topics of computer networks using some practical examples, those that specificallydiscuss Internet protocols, and those that work through a set of programming projects afterstudents have had a previous network course.1. IntroductionPervasive use of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web (the web) has made teachingcomputer network courses a necessity for many universities and colleges. Students take networkrelated

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

Page 1 of 23 Session Number Engineer ing Education in Egypt: Sur vey and Assessment Sedki M. Riad and Mostafa M. Kamel Pr ofessor , Vir ginia Tech / Pr ofessor Emer itus, Cair o Univer sity, and PfCE ConsultantAbstr actThis paper provides an overview of Engineering Education in Egypt. It surveys bothgovernmental as well as private institutions. The paper discusses the challenges facingEngineering education institutions in the country as well as critiques the new private universityexperiment that began in 1996. The paper also discusses undergraduate curriculum issuesthrough examination of samples of Electronic and Communication curriculum from some of

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

to taking the measurements lab isrestricted to cook-book style science experiments with fill-in-the-blank laboratory reports. Thesestudents are not prepared for an engineering experience where they must design, conduct andreport upon their own experiments. Therefore, a scaffolding approach is used throughout thesemester where the students aregiven increasing responsibilityfor developing experimentalprocedures and data analysisformats in successiveexperiments. For the finallaboratory project in the course,the students must design,construct, calibrate and use astrain-gage based load cell.The load cell must accuratelymeasure the weight of theinstructor. A representativefinished product is shown in Figure 1. Typical

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

first semester required course for all 200 first-year engineeringstudents at Bucknell University. Last year, the course was modified into a format consisting offour project-driven units, with the middle two being student-elected topical seminars ofapproximately 25 students, and the first and last being taught to the entire class as a large lecture.This paper describes the reworking of the first unit of the course to include a design projectfocused on making the university more accessible for persons using wheelchairs. The mainlearning objectives for this project were to have students 1) Use the engineering design process2) Practice teamwork skills 3) Practice oral and written communication skills 4) Apply mathskills 5) Relate economic and other

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

National Science Foundation’s Combined Research-Curriculum Development(CRCD) program. The objectives of this curriculum are: 1. To synthesize relevant principles and themes from a number of allied disciplines in sciences and engineering such as environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering/geology, water resources engineering/hydrology/hydraulics, chemical engineering, biological and agricultural engineering/biological sciences, and agronomy/soil sciences; 2. To incorporate rapidly evolving research on subsurface fate and transfer processes, site remediation and waste containment methods into the curriculum; 3. To provide exposure to a multi-agency perspective such that “real world” site

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

health and the environment [1]. In arecent conference this definition of green engineering was more broadly defined as transforming Page 9.1281.1existing engineering disciplines and practices to those that lead to sustainability. GreenEngineering incorporates development and implementation of products, processes, and systems Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthat meet technical and cost objectives while protecting human health and welfare and elevatingthe protection of the biosphere as a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

programs.References 1. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs, www.abet.org 2. Engineering Economy: Current Teaching Practices, ASEE 1999, Session 1339 3. Engineering Economy – A Follow-up Analysis of Current Teaching Practices, ASEE 1997, Session 1239 4. Retention Studies, RIT Internal Documents.RON FULLE—Assistant Professor Fulle has been teaching at RIT since 1998 in the TelecommunicationsEngineering Technology Program. He received his MS in Telecommunications from the U of Colorado—Boulderand BS in Mathematics from SUNY Oswego. He has over 25 years of telecom industry experience with a large USbased telecommunications company.CAROL RICHARDSON--Professor Richardson has been the Department

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

Document: 2004-327Division: Computers in Education A Hybrid Software/Hardware Approach for Teaching Digital Logic Design for Computer Science Undergraduates Mahmoud K Quweider, Anna Hernandez CS/CIS Department University of Texas, Brownsville 80 Fort Brown Brownsville, TX 78521 U.S.A. 1-956-574-6605AbstractAs a means to stress basic concepts in digital logic design for Computer Science majors at ourminority based institution, a hybrid approach was creatively followed to enforce key conceptsin digital logic design. The

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

learning environment) tends to exhibit higher levels ofachievement, develops more positive interpersonal relationships, achieves greater levels ofacademic self-esteem, and tends to increase students’ retention of knowledge in science andengineering subjects.(4,5)In this paper, various strategies for success in the classroom are outlined and discussed. Inparticular, activities pertaining to: 1) planning courses, 2) conducting courses, and 3) developingpositive learning environment (in and outside the classroom), are explored. In short, whatcolleges of engineering in the Arab Gulf States should aspire for is: a dynamic, forward-lookingeducational framework that fosters constant renewal and is in-tune with social and culturalrealities. Then, and only

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

explanation. Figure 1 shows the frame of main slide. Page 9.171.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The icon “Questions” links to questions designed to evaluate different levels of learning. The icon“Homework” links to activities and local questions. In addition to the main slide, pages such as“contents”, “Glossary” and “Help” were included. Also, a help page is included to describe using methodsof EMP. All of the pages/slides have colored backgrounds and some animated pictures to increase

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee

with instructor-student interactions, insteadof worrying about the potential effects of perceived course workloads. Page 9.1045.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroduction Student evaluations of teaching and various factors believed to affect how students rateinstructor performance are the subjects of numerous literature reports[1-6]. Many faculty believethat high levels of course workload and/or intellectual rigor may cause students to give pooroverall course/instructor

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

conception to implementation. Activities include hand sketching, CAD, CAE, CAM,design optimization, rapid prototyping, and structural testing. The learning objectives, pedagogy,required resources and instructional processes as well as results from a student assessment are discussed.1. IntroductionA recent survey of undergraduate students in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics atMIT has shown that there is a desire for training in modern design methods using state-of-the-artCAD/CAE/CAM technology and design optimization. Individual students have suggested theaddition of a short and intense course in rapid prototyping, combined with design optimization.The specific reference from the student survey is paraphrased here:"The CDIO [conceive

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

graphical representation of the overall objectives of anengineering curriculum - without regard to the courses that are used to meet those objectives.Horizontal Axis and ScaleThe primary (horizontal) axis is a succession of twelve steps describing the life-cycle of anengineered object or system from problem (or need) definition on the left to removal andrecycling on the right as defined below: 1. Define - with the client - the underlying problem to be solved. 2. Determine its design or performance criteria. 3. Create conceptual solution alternatives. 4. Evaluate and select - with the client - the best alternatives from among these concepts. 5. Subdivide the selected concept to yield a number of schematized and related sub

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

is most common in US universities.Realizing that most US universities will not change their ways so drastically, the paper describesand analyzes experiences with several other and less far-reaching ways in which industrial guestshas been brought into Delft University of Technology curricula:1. Provide a single lecture period as part of a course.2. Provide specific expertise for a course exercise.3. Teach an entire course.4. Coach a thesis - along with university staff.5. Participate - as quasi-student - in university-taught classes.Experiences with each of these will be described, but more importantly, lessons learned from theexperiences and the methodology for improvement of the utilization of industrial practitionerswith students will also

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Stratton

subtitle of a very interesting article on thisconcept by Yan Kishinevsky and Shalom Zelingher (1) is “An Innovative Emission-OffsetProject That Utilizes Anaerobic Digester Gas-Powered Fuel Cells to Produce Electricity.”Direct conversion of solar power to electric power has been a dream of people for over a century.New lightweight less-expensive materials are making this more feasible, at least for low powerapplications and remote sites. A few utilities and others have deployed this process over the lastfew years in limited applications. New materials used in the process may make it more economicin the future.Wind is plentiful in many areas, and using the wind to produce power has been around muchlonger than electric power. Wind, however, in most

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

, understanding, andskills to interact and provide leadership in implementing this breakthrough management tool ofSix Sigma.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the integration of Six Sigma into the undergraduateengineering/technology curriculum.2. Six Sigma Tools and MethodologyThe fundamental objective of the “Six Sigma” methodology is the implementation of ameasurement based strategy that focuses on quality improvement of process, products andservices by reducing the waste and variation through the use of statistical tools [1]. Thefollowing statistical tools and techniques are essential for implementation of Six Sigma [1,2]. • Process Maps • Cause and Effect Diagrams (Fishbone Diagram) • Quality Function Deployment (QFD

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

differential analog input channels, 12 bit resolution, 200 kS/s • 2 analog voltage output channels, 12 bit resolution, 10 kHz update rate • 8 digital I/O channels with TTL/CMOS compatibility; and Timing I/OGPIB controller board: • IEEE 488.2 compatible architecture (eight-bit parallel, byte-serial, asynchronous data transfer) • Maximum data transfer rate of 1 MB/sec within the worst-case transmission line specificationsSignal conditioning accessory: • Model SC-2075 from National Instruments Page 9.747.2 • Desktop signal breakout board with built-in power supplies, connects directly to 6024E DAQ board Proceedings of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusuf Mehta

teaching assistants and multiple sections in aweek. This led to the following problems; (1) the students were not able to correlate the lecturecourses with the laboratory and (2) it was difficult for students to understand the significance oflaboratory and its application to civil engineering industry as a whole.After teaching this course for three years, the author has developed a methodology, whichoptimizes the resources available and provides an opportunity for students to actively participatein the laboratories. The author tried this technique in the past two years and has proved to besuccessful. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed methodology and theimplementation strategy along with certain pitfalls, which instructors should

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Survivor: A Method for Active Learning in the Classroom that Addresses Student Motivation James A. Newell Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Phil Wankat (1) succinctly states the importance of active learning in the classroom:“Involved students learn!” As a result of the dissemination of the overwhelming evidencesupporting active learning, more engineering faculty (including presumably almost all of thosewho would choose to read this paper) are utilizing active learning in their

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Davis

thechart at µ0 ± kσ/ n , where k is some constant (usually 3). When a sample mean falls inside thecontrol limits, it is assumed that the process is in control. However, if a sample mean fallsoutside the control limits, an out-of-control signal is generated. The control limits are generallyplaced far enough away from the central value of µ0 as to make it very unlikely that a signal willbe produced unless the process has genuinely gone out of control. For example, if X follows anormal distribution, k = 1 would be disastrous – almost a third of our sample means would fallbeyond the control limits even when the process was in control, meaning that we would have ahigh frequency of false alarms with such a chart.III. Evaluating Control Chart Performance

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

Session 1109 Classr oom Testing of VaNTH Biomechanics Lear ning ModulesRonald Bar r 1, Mar cus Pandy2, Anthony Petr osino3, Bar bar a Austin 3, and Evan Goldber g1 Department of Mechanical Engineering1, Department of Biomedical Engineering2, and Department of Curriculum and Instruction3 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712Abstract This paper presents the methodology and results for the classroom testing ofbiomechanics learning modules developed as part of the VaNTH educational coalition. Thepedagogical framework for these modules

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

to 2000 fpm. Figure 1 shows atypical inline system. The inline system is typically configured after the printing press system.The operation of a printing press is to place images and text on the web and dry the ink beforeheading into the inline system or a folding system. Page 9.752.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 7 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Angle Bar Deck Seam GluerDie Cutter Plow

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

to more accurately reflect CFD process and capabilityand accuracy for specific student applications, including comparisons with AFD or EFDvalidation data. The evaluation confirmed that the implementation was worthwhile andpromising, but at same time indicated direction for improvements. (1) Use of differentspecialized CFD templates for each exercise implied different CFD process for each applicationand did not facilitate site testing. (2) Exercises lacked options and depth. (3) Overly automated. Page 9.450.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Modesitt

www.ipfw.edu/sesurvey.1. IntroductionThere is a lack of qualified software engineers to address the dramatic worldwide growth inInformation Technology, and the supply of Software Engineering (SE) programs is not keepingup with the increasing demand for qualified SE professionals2,3. Data to support these beliefsincludes results from a survey conducted since 1999, under the auspices of the IEEE-ComputerSociety and ACM.4,5,6,7.Because of the high demand for SE professionals, institutions of higher learning (hereafter justcalled “universities”) have an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of society worldwide,as well as increase enrollment and revenues, while continuing to develop SE-specific curriculaand courses for students. The scarce resources

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

experiments. Students analyze and relateEFD results to fluid physics and classroom lectures, including teamwork and presentation ofresults in written and graphical form. Implementation described based on results for anintroductory level fluid mechanics course, which includes complementary CFD laboratories forthe same geometries and conditions. The laboratories constitute 1 credit hour of a four credithour 1 semester course and include tabletop kinematic viscosity experiment focusing on UAprocedures and pipe and airfoil experiments focusing on complementary EFD and CFD. Theevaluation and research plan (created in collaboration with a third party program evaluationcenter at the University of Iowa) is described, which focuses on exact descriptions of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

specificationAs in a real RFP situation, questions could be asked in class (bidders briefing) or submitted inwriting. The answers, to the written questions, are then posted with the questions on the classwebsites. This avoids giving an advantage to teams that test or tryout ideas on the instructor(procurement officer). If they have a unique idea, they need to ask enough questions to makesure it meets the RFP requirements, and bid it. If they ask too detailed a question then the othergroups could benefit. How to ask questions on an RFP is part of a winning strategy.The list of class projects is shown in table 1 with the modifications required to accommodate aclass project. Typically the modifications include listing a number of components and prices that

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhonda Lee-Desautels

for highschool students. The committee felt the need to develop a computer-based modelingdemonstration for use in the high school classroom, and hope to do that in the future. ForProgram B, the issues brought up in the panel format, such as family, work and college issues,are felt to be more of interest to the Grades 9-12 students.The next challenge was how to advertise our programs to the schools. We decided that a tri-foldbrochure would be developed and provided to the area schools. We gave our outreach programthe title of “How About Engineering?”. The front page of the brochure opens up to a listing ofthe two programs that includes information about each program (see Figure 1). In the twoadjacent inner pages of the brochure photographs of

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Pfarr

Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse (N-ETEC), operated byNJCATE at Middlesex County Community College in Edison, NJ, is providing a resource centerfor a broad range of engineering technology disciplines. The NCME resource center provides themanufacturing education resources for N-ETEC through cooperative planning and Internet links.Classifications of Manufacturing Education MaterialsInstructional materials in the database will be classified making searches by key words possible.The primary classifications of materials included in the clearinghouse are: 1. Manufacturing processes 2. Materials technology 3. Automation systems 4. Quality management 5. Design for manufacturing 6. Production and inventory control 7

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

Fluid Power is 2/3 hydraulics and 1/3 pneumatics. The advancedhydraulics portion includes study of multiple circuits with steady state and dynamic loading.Design of mobile hydraulic circuits is also studied. The pneumatic portion includes study ofsizing and applying pneumatic devices and associated components to practical industrial typecircuits to produce linear and rotary motion. Study includes compressor types and selection,actuator and control valve sizing, and distribution system installation and sizing.MET 382 Controls and Instrumentation for Automation is a required instrumentation courseutilizing the fluid power laboratory. The course is designed to study data acquisition from motioncontrol circuits (flow, pressure, velocity