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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

first is a web application thatsupports an NSF funded curriculum development project. The second is a channelsupported by the uPortal portal system that automates the department’s graduateadmissions process and is deployed on the university’s IT portal system. The third is anapplication that integrates a Course Management System, Blackboard, with an outcomesbased assessment tool, True Outcomes, to automate the importing of student information tobetter measure outcomes for ABET accreditation. The fourth project is a linguisticsanalysis tool that finds word usage patterns in media articles.1 IntroductionOne of the program characteristics that ABET expects in engineering and technologyprograms that it accredits is the inclusion of some type of

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpost-secondary, undergraduate engineering-related programs. PLTW trains secondaryteachers to implement one middle school and six high school year-long courses. After twoyears on implementation, the training and education institute has offered four, eight, and ten-day workshops for 147 teachers in PLTW courses, integrated curriculum modules (ICM), orweb-based courses from 80 schools representing nearly sixty districts throughout the stateduring the fall, spring and summer. In addition, 81 teachers from 80 schools haveparticipated in one day workshops.The outreach component involves the implementation of an “Engineering the FutureOutreach” program and the formation of alliances with three

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Darby; Jane Fraser

followingcomponents: • 59 semester hours in AIM courses, • 24 semester hours in business courses, including finance, management, accounting, and marketing, and • 37 hours in English and general education.The AIM program specifies certain courses within the CSU-Pueblo general educationframework, including • 6 credits of economics, • 3 credits of statistics, • 4 credits of physics, • 3 credits of speech communication, and • 2 credits of computer information systems.The following principles lie behind the curriculum design 1. The program should be designed to promote the integration of technical and business knowledge. 2. The technical courses should be designed to provide a management perspective. 3. The technical

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

SMET students to travel together to JSC for a two-day engineering immersion experience.This opportunity includes a “behind the scenes” visit of JSC and a hands-on project highlightingvarious elements of engineering tasks. (4) Page 9.617.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education4. Increase coordination of curriculum between Community Colleges and Four YearUniversities by obtaining articulation agreements with surrounding area institutions. In order to achieve a successful integration of Community College Engineering

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

a curriculum redesign in the late 1990’s, the Purdue Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology department incorporated into the curriculum four required projectcourses: • ECET 196, a 2 credit hour first semester freshman course that required students to build an already-designed 3-output power supply, and use basic time plan techniques to maintain control of the project work. • ECET 296, a 2 credit hour sophomore course that required the students to design and construct an audio power amplifier while closely following both performance and hardware/circuit specifications. • ECET 396, a 4 credit hour junior course that required teams of 3-4 students to design and build a project based primarily on

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

engineering courses formatTo achieve the desired objectives, engineering courses in the first 2 years are carefully plannedand integrated with each other and with math and science courses. Teams of faculty fromseveral disciplines will oversee each course during both the development and implementationstages to assure that courses stay true to their specific goals as integral parts of the program.A set of curricular objectives were established that will enable student to more efficientlydevelop an understanding of important content. These objectives will also provide the set ofskills needed for the practice of engineering and have served as guiding principles for the facultydeveloping the new curriculum. These objectives are outlined below

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

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

mission, EEC facilitates integrated partnerships that cross disciplines and focus ontechnological systems. The objective is to yield well-rounded, professionally oriented engineerswith a global outlook and the ability to assume leadership roles in industry, academe, andsociety.Engineering Research Centers (ERC) - provides an integrated environment for academe andindustry to focus on next-generation advances in complex engineered systems, with synergyamong engineering, science, and industrial practice. ERCs integrate research with education atboth the graduate and undergraduate levels, producing curriculum innovations derived from thesystems focus of the ERCs' strategic research goals. ERCs aim to build trusted partnerships withindustry, develop

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Academy Press.McKenna, A., McMartin, F., Terada, Y., Sirivedhin, V., and Agogino, A. (2001) “A Framework for InterpretingStudents' Perceptions of an Integrated Curriculum,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM.McInerny, S., Stern, H.P., and Haskew, T.A., 1999, “Applications of Dynamic Data Analysis,” IEEE Transactionson Education, 42:4, 276-280Roedel, R. J., El-Ghazaly, S., and Aberle, J.T. (1998) “An Integrated Upper Division Course in Electronic Materialsand Electromagnetic Engineering -Wave Phenomena for Electrical Engineers,” Proceedings, Frontiers inEducation, Tempe, AZ.Roedel, R. J., El-Ghazaly, S., Rhoads, T.R., and El-Sharawy, E. (1998) "The Wave Concepts Inventory - AnAssessment Tool for Courses in Electromagnetic

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

an active participant. The following methodologies were incorporated into thepedagogy of the course curriculum which has shifted the element of competition from theequation of learning and has replaced it with cooperation.a) Active Listening and Notes TakingStudents were positively rewarded to participate and inculcate in the active listening and notestaking process. This activity has integrated the students in the classroom engagement. Studentswere positively rewarded for further elaborating the notes and subject matter on their own(synthesizing).b) Maintaining of Portfolio that reflect the student work in totemStudent were required to maintain their total work, this was evaluated at the end of thesemester as the log and meter to fathom the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

biomedical engineering student at Northwestern University. Hehas been involved in this project since its inception and is currently the project manager. Upongraduation, he plans to pursue graduate work in the Learning Sciences or work in industry.BUGRAHAN YALVAC is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in assessment studies forthe VaNTH ERC, at Northwestern University. He holds B.S. degrees in Physics and PhysicsEducation and an M.S. degree in Science Education from METU, Ankara. For his Ph.D. studiesat Penn State, he majored in Curriculum and Instruction and minored in Science, Technology,and Society (STS).DAVID E. KANTER is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the School of Education and SocialPolicy (Learning Sciences) and Research Associate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

werenominal as for any engineering or science course. The biggest challenge was the internal cohesion of the course since it was taughtby a triumvirate with mixed backgrounds, discrete teaching skills, and each carrying theirspecialty’s particular language. For the course in 2004 (and presumably useful beyond this date)we obtained a NSF NUE (Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education) grant14 for $100K to createa web book. This book is becoming available on our course web site4; compared to the 2003course, the material is more fully integrated within each subject area of nanotech and is in asemi-archival format so the students will have access to it. Perhaps more importantly, as an NSF-sponsored grant, it will be on-line for any users to

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

College Department of Engineering, Messiah College Grove City, PA Grantham, PA ftduda@gcc.edu erikson@messiah.edu Nolan Van Gaalen Department of Engineering, Dordt College Sioux Center, IA nolan@dordt.eduAbstractRecent curriculum advancements in engineering education highlight the value of a healthysynergy from including applied mathematics and science, industrial work, and need-basedprojects. In light of the growing interest in globalizing engineering education, a service-learningapproach to globally-based humanitarian projects is an effective approach to

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

University, and presently atLawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan. Due to his extensive education, Prof. Hassan taughtalmost every undergraduate course in the electrical and computer engineering curriculum and taught many graduatecourses including: Engineering Analysis, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Very LargeScale Integration, Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits, Network Synthesis, Digital Control Systems,Digital Communications, and Optical Communications. Dr. Hassan is also serving as a consultant for localcompanies in these technical areas. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society since 1993,member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and a registered Professional Engineer

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

about being a part of the decision making process In the class. By taking an active role in the class, students feel more enthusiastic and excited about the learning process. Technology Education as a subject, lends itself easily to this concepts. Few students are passive containers waiting to be thrilled by the vast knowledge of the teacher. The nonlinear approach to curriculum organization not only makes the curriculum come alive for the student, but keeps the teacher excited and enthused as well (Thode & Thode, 1997). This constructivist approach is central to the amazing outcomes of his program. He callshis approach a “nonlinear” approach. According to Thode, nonlinear refers to students

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robbins; Rajapandian Ayyanar; Paul Imbertson; Ned Mohan; Ben Oni

undergraduate level, followed by a course that is mainly oriented towards graduate students.In the undergraduate course, we decided to present many more topics in an integrative mannerwith twice the in-depth knowledge. For example, students should be able to design feedbackcontrol in power electronics and electric drive systems.Compared to a traditional course, presenting twice as many topics with twice the in-depthknowledge is a challenge that was met by following the steps listed below: • Avoiding legacy topics that waste valuable time and provide misleading impression that they may still be applicable. As an example, various arrangements in dc machines as generators are omitted. • Searching for commonality in various topologies to

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

integrated into the four-year curriculum is alsopresented.II. Course Structure Freshmen in the Mechanical Engineering program at WKU are currently required to take4 engineering courses. Two of the present courses are somewhat typical of introductoryengineering courses at many universities. Courses ME 101 and UC 101 are designed to fulfill Page 9.372.2university general education requirements while exposing student to the engineering field. This Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcourse

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

and Management,Integrated Business and Engineering, Integrated Computer Science and Business, and acampus-wide, year-long experiential program in Integrated Product Development.Entrepreneurship teaching – graduate: Historically, entrepreneurship education atLehigh has focused on the graduate MBA program in the College of Business andEconomics. This program has recently implemented an entrepreneurial track led by anexperienced and successful entrepreneur. The graduate MBA has been augmented by acombined MBA and Engineering Masters program, where students earn dual degrees inbusiness and engineering. Also at the graduate level, one of the authors, Professor Ochshas offered a new product development course with industry-sponsored projects

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

. Page 9.1248.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe new Biomedical Engineering Department will provide a complete, in-depth BiomedicalEngineering curriculum to students already well grounded in the core undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. The program highlights an immediate introduction to the major, strong personalinteraction with faculty, strong partnerships with industrial participants and a signature laboratoryemphasis. It is rooted in the College’s historical emphasis on applied research, and in theCollege’s tradition of industrial interaction. Faculty will provide a curriculum that will

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Qaissaunee

Applied Science (AAS) Degree Program to include Wireless Communications, thedevelopment and implementation of new Wireless Communications AAS and credit certificateprograms articulated from high school, through community college, and to the university level.With multiple entry and exit these new programs will incorporate work-relevant, industry-drivencurricula that integrates “best practices” in IT education with industry skills standards andcertifications, preparing technicians for the wireless communications industry. The projectcomponents include curriculum development and adaptation, program development, professionaldevelopment for high school and community college faculty, and development of a 2+2+2articulation. As a part of a network of

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Curriculum Enrichment and Development – …there are only a few courses at the high school level in the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) inventory that can be viewed as having any substantive engineering emphasis or content. This lack of approved engineering curriculum discourages schools from …programs with an engineering orientation because they are largely restricted to awarding local credit for these offerings–––which may not always be transferable1. Teacher Training and Professional Development – The Glenn commission report raises disturbing questions about the level of teacher preparation in science and mathematics 4, moreover, teacher certification tracks in higher education almost never provide pre

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

positives.I suggest that ABET needs to review engineering programs with the following principles inplace:1. Examine programs in a minimally invasive manner.2. Determine whether the curriculum, as delivered, meets minimal standards for the degree awarded.3. Determine whether the faculty and facilities are sufficient to deliver the degree program.4. Investigate whether there is an active, periodic mechanism for program improvement that involves review by and input from external constituencies (alumni, employers, colleagues).Some might claim that this is exactly what ABET 2000 accomplishes, but many faculty woulddiffer. In their minds, how should ABET change? Here are several suggestions

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Michigan State University. She was part of a research team studying bestpractices in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Undergraduate Reform for SRI and NSF, and policyevaluator for an NSF Rural Systemic Reform project on math and science curriculum reform in the Navajo Nation.Taner Eskil is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan StateUniversity. Mr. Eskil holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and will soon complete his Ph.D. research in the areaof internet agent support for electronic commerce. Mr. Eskil has been instrumental in developments in the College ofEngineering freshman gateway course in computational tools.Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

be competent in those areas addressedby the authors. After examining the high school curriculum currently in place, there has been arealization that a secondary school education as now constituted provides very little exposure tothe skills and general problem solving techniques that is emphasized in the technology standards.Interestingly, the identified skills are much like the ones that an engineer develops in completingan engineering degree. The problem we face in California is that the State mandates the primaryand secondary school curricula2, and getting any changes made to the comprehensive and well-established program is a Herculean task, one that is exceedingly difficult and time consuming.As an alternative approach, we have developed

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Rob Walstrom; Kukjin Lee; Jayme Hero; Galen Faidley; Bernard Lwakabamba; Feng Chen; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

. Weplan to continue to develop it and investigate what will make it an effective learning tool.AcknowledgementThis work is funded by grant number 0088071 from the National Science Foundation as part ofthe Combined Research and Curriculum Development (CRCD) Program.Bibliography[1] D. Rover, J. Dickerson, R. Weber, C. Cruz-Neira, K. Lee, and Z. Min, “Using a Design Document to Support Interdisciplinary Learning,” 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, Colorado, November 2003.[2] J. Dickerson, D. Rover, R. Weber, C. Cruz-Neira, E. Eekhoff, B. Lwakabamba, F. Chen, and Z. Min, “CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments-Course Integration,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, June 2003.[3] J. A

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

a particularly strong position toundertake major curricular and pedagogical reform.In support of reform activities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a newprogram, Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education in 2002. Thisprogram called for innovative strategies to effect reform, including streamlining thecurriculum through the reduction of legacy materials, introducing topics in emerging areas ofengineering, and forming integrated partnerships that cross disciplines and focus ontechnological systems. CSM engineering faculty interested in curriculum reform developed aproposal to this solicitation; the proposal was funded in fall 2002. This paper describes aspecific objective of the project, namely the

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel Mendelson

nanotechnology. Possibly this is because nanotechnology is multi-disciplinary, and the institutions cannot integrate the science and engineering disciplines in orderto properly teach it. In addition, there is no infrastructure for teaching nanotechnology; and thereare no university models and no textbooks to follow.Previous investigators have proposed an integration of the basic sciences in teachingnanotechnology courses [3]. However, they could not implement their plan [4] and did notinclude the engineering disciplines. In 2003, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) obtained aNational Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop a new sophomore-level course thatintegrated the science and engineering disciplines along with ethics [5]. The purpose of thecourse

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Atif Qamar; Zahed Siddique

using book andmultimedia tutorials. These tutorials utilize text, snapshots, movies, etc. to facilitate learning of3D modeling techniques for the CAD softwares. Usually the user reads the instructions and thentries to follow it using the software. Advancements in new multimedia technologies can providehigher level of interactions to facilitate the learning process. In addition, 3D web-basedrepresentations can increase understanding of creating 3D solid models and assembly processesfor CAD software. In this paper we present an interactive training environment, where users areprovided with interfaces in such a manner so that he/she can go though the steps of creatinggeometry in a simulated CAD environment. Multimedia tools are used to develop

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Barbara Olds; Heidi Loshbaugh; Ruth Streveler

programs requested and received funding four of the five years the Mini-Grantprogram operated.writing across the curriculumThe first program we examine is located in the Liberal Arts and International StudiesDivision of the Colorado School of Mines. The Writing Program was created in 1997 inresponse to campus needs to improve the quality of written communication for CSMgraduates. An Alumni survey conducted in 1994 and a faculty survey conducted in 1996yielded virtually the same findings: CSM students and graduates needed more experiencewith technical writing. A Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) committee wasrecommended to the Curriculum Reform committee and the Writing Program was one ofthe developments from the committee’s work. The program

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Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

, American Society for Engineering EducationConcept inventory assessment instruments in other disciplines are under development in otherprojects as well: ‚" Materials Concept Inventory [7, 8] ‚" Signals and System concept inventories [9-11] ‚" Fluid Mechanics [12] ‚" Thermal and Transport Sciences [13] ‚" Strength of Materials [14] ‚" Electromagnetics [15] ‚" Electronics [16]Reports from each of these projects indicate that gains in student conceptual understanding incourses taught using traditional lectures are less than might be expected.Curriculum InnovationsDevelopment of an Integrated Multidisciplinary Curriculum for Intelligent Systems is a projectthat is supported by the Combined Research and Curriculum Development (CRCD