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Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ian Campbell

Session 2653 The use of model making (and breaking) in freshman Engineering Statics courses. Ian Campbell School of Architectural, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Victoria University of Technology – AustraliaAbstractIn the Engineering degree programs that traditionally commence with an introductory staticscourse, instructors typically search for examples and applications that can explain and bringto life the physics and mathematics involved. Laboratory classes designed to reinforce theoryvia experiments are the norm but are often

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Myat Hla; Samuel Lakeou

Session: 1532 Remote Monitoring and Control of GPIB-based Electronic Experiment Myat Hla, BSEE, Samuel Lakeou Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of the District of Columbia slakeou@udc.edu, (202) 274-5834 I. Introduction This work presents a novel approach in the implementation of a remote laboratory foran electronic experiment using LabVIEW’s remote panel technology. In the past, a numberof remote labs have been tried and tested 1,2,3,4

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Turner Stuart; Cary Fisher; Jason Bartolomei

aeronautical or mechanical engineering, have elements Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof systems engineering imbedded in their programs, the Air Force Academy did not have anengineering major explicitly dedicated to systems engineering.Definition of Need:The U.S. Air Force desperately needs “airmen and a vibrant civilian workforce with science,technology, and systems- engineering skills.” —Dr. James Roche, Secretary of the Air Force.Recent notable engineering failures and cost overruns of several major governmental acquisitionprojects have been traced to a lack of systems engineering principles

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

departments and a topic well discussedin the 2001 ASEE conference2,3. The curriculum of the course was built around fourpillars: drawing, design, communication and teamwork.The Engineering Design LabThe University of Calgary invested 1.28 million dollars as a start up contribution to thedesign and construction of four technologically advanced laboratories for the first yeardesign course. The four linked labs circle around a central broadcast booth; instructorscan broadcast to all labs simultaneously and are able to monitor lab activities throughfeedback screens. The four labs accommodate 150 students at one time; students work atlab tables in teams of four. Each lab has a document camera, a projection screen, acomputer terminal for every two students

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Constantinos Panayiotou; Yu Song; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

communications,” in 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, Boulder, Nov. 2003[11] T. Thrasyvoulou, K. Tsakalis, and A. Spanias, “J-DSP-C, A control systems simulation environment for distance learning: labs and assessment,” in 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, Boulder, Nov. 2003[12] A. Spanias et al., “Using J-DSP to introduce communications and multimedia technologies to high schools,” in 33rd ASEE/IEEE FIE-03, Boulder, Nov. 2003.[13] T. Robinson, “SHORTEN: Simple lossless and near-lossless waveform compression,” Technical Report 156, Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Dec. 1994.[14] P. G. Craven and M. Gerzon, “Lossless coding for Audio Discs,” J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 44, no.9, pp. 706-720, Sept. 1996

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

studies in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering and technology. From the authors’ efforts to provide a research experience forundergraduates and from the generosity of the Xerox Corporation arose the “Xerox FellowsProgram.” The Xerox Corporation provides a small stipend for the student and his or her facultymentor and the student experiences the challenge and excitement of the research experiencethrough the mentorship of a faculty member.This paper describes the evolution of this program and presents a few of the student researchprojects

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daryl Orth

the delivery systems mentioned in this paper are only a survey ofwhat is available. To make the correct media choice, an instructor needs to know the advantagesand disadvantages of the various types of delivery systems.References1. Dick, W. & Carey, L. (1996). The systematic design of instruction (4th ed.). New York: Longman. Page 9.497.7“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

and sigmoid cellcan be identical. Only scaling changes in the Current Accumulation and Scaling Cellsare necessary as the complexity of each neuron increases. Indeed, this methodology isnaturally implemented via CMOS integrated circuit technology where repetition of circuitelements greatly eases design and reduces the cost of fabrication.4 S. M. Fakhraie and K. C. Smith, “VLSI-Compatible Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks”, Page 9.1096.4Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, SECS 382, ISBN 0792398254, KluwerAcademic Publishing, Boston, 1997.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nam Kim

Session _______ Developing an Inexpensive Device to Train Controller Tuning Nam K. Kim Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University 2004 ASEE Annual Conference Salt Lake City, UTAbstract Tuning of PID controller parameters for a new process is a challenge and of greatconcern to process control engineers. Developing and implementing an inexpensive devicealong with programs for on-line instant evaluation of tuning criteria benefit

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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

recruit and mentor young women comes through several programs sponsored byby organizations such as the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WEST) for which the women faculty in the college frequently participate in various events. There is a long list of special programs in which the College participates which can be accessed through the TAMU website (http://eapo.tamu.edu//). Efforts to diversify the engineering student population are intensifying at the present time. 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Physical

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Siegenthaler

engineering principles. With this foundation students will be able toadapt to wherever the technology leads them. Mathematics is the common glue amongthose areas. The better one knows mathematics, the better one does physics andchemistry, and the better one applies good engineering principles. We need better salespeople to encourage students to take more mathematics.As a part of the special projects assignments in Math 470, each student taught a lesson ona subject using mathematics related to the course material. An electrical engineeringmajor presented a class on the use of advanced mathematical techniques incommunications theory to improve the data download from Global Positioning Satellitesfor extremely accurate time keeping in the aviation

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ying Tang

Disassembly Planning and Demanufacturing Operation,” IEEE Trans. on Rob. & Aut., 17(6), December 2001, 773-784.[4]. Zussman, E. and Zhou, M.C., “Design and implementation of an adaptive process planner for disassembly processes,” IEEE Trans. on Rob. & Aut., Vol. 16, No. 2, April, 2000, pp. 171-179.Ying Tang is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University,Glassboro, Nj. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Northeastern University, P. R. China, in1996 and 1998, respectively, and Ph. D degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in2001. Her research interests include modeling and design of computer-integrated systems, Petri nets,Networking and communication, and FPGA

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Bradley; Walter Bradley

skills intoour freshmen engineering classes, the retention rate increased from 67% to 83% and thefreshmen GPA increased from 2.59 to 3.13. One simple approach to teaching time managementand study skills to freshmen and helping them develop new habits is to use a video seminar likeSuccess4Students with Internet follow-up.References1. UC and the SAT: Predictive Validity and Differential Impact of theSAT I and SAT II at the University of California, Oct. 2001.2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Faculty Senate Minutes, Item 5, February 2002. Page 9.723.7Biographical Information Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

Session 1793 How to Run a Successful Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site M. Grant Norton, David F. Bahr School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-2920IntroductionThe Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site program supports active researchparticipation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF). One of the goals of the program is that students are “involved inmeaningful ways in ongoing research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Thomas; Albert Rosa

solution to theproblem. In the early 1990’s the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)began emphasizing the importance of design in the curriculum. What ABET sought to influencewere programs wherein students had some experience with design before they attempted theircapstone design project. Although design was usually added to other than circuits courses, a fewbrave circuits instructors began to add some design content to their courses. Some circuits textsbegan to include some design problems. Today including design content in the first and/orsecond circuits course is still far from being universally adopted. Many students, especiallythose in non-electrical/computer engineering programs, view linear circuits as uninteresting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Brakewood

engineering. Itis also recognized that civil engineering students should have closer contact with real-worldconstruction, and in many cases this has been accomplished with bringing construction siteaspects into the classroom, but may also be accomplished by bringing the classroom to theconstruction site 1. In addition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) system, which is used for accreditation of most of the collegiate engineering programsin the United States 2 lists one of the outcomes that must be demonstrated is that the graduates ofthese programs have the ability to communicate effectively 3,4. One of the areas important forengineers in land development is being able to communicate field information effectively. Addedto

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River. 2. KELMAN, S. (1994) Cost Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique in The Ford Pinto Case --A Study in Applied Ethics, Business and technology, Donald Birsch and John Fielder editors. Page 9.972.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 3. BUTTERS G., Johan Calfee, and Pauline Ippolito. (1994) Defending the Cost Benefit Analysis: Replies to Steven Kelman in The Ford Pinto Case --A Study in Applied Ethics, Business and technology, Donald Birsch

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Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

Session 3692 Challenges of Changing Faculty Attitudes about the Underlying Nature of Gender Inequities Kimberly Covington and Jeff Froyd Texas A&M UniversityAbstractIncreasing diversity of the engineering student body requires at least one of two parties, eitherthe incoming student population or the institution offering engineering programs, to change.Efforts to increase diversity in engineering have historically focused on changing the incomingstudent population. At Texas A&M University, the second alternative, changing the institution(by

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

, engineering as a whole, naturalscience, and even liberal arts; demonstrating more general applicability of our methods.Hopefully, as we expand applicability of these techniques, we will be able to answerquestions concerning the robustness of our hands-on approaches. This will help us todevelop methods that are insensitive to student personality types, learning styles, culturalbackground and gender.5. AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge the support of the MSC Corporation, which has fundedmuch of the module development. Also, support is acknowledged from the Institute forInformation and Technology Applications (IITA) at the USAF Academy. In addition, weacknowledge the support of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. AirForce

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Corr

Session#The Engineering Design Experience (EDE) and Kids At-Risk Jim Corr The Spurwink School Auburn, Maine, 04210“The modern boy and girl have an impetuous lust for quick results. A job of skilldemands victorious patience. The young of today have protracted and painful effort. Alove of slapdash has grown up and found a philosophy behind which to entrench itself--.”Kurt Hahn, in an address to the Cathedral Company, Liverpool, England, Dec 22nd, 1940.1 Kurt Hahn, one of the moving forces in Outward Bound saw this over sixty yearsago, and along with others was moved to found an organization which would address theneeds of young

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. William Graff

, 1958, p. 319.2. Hayt, William H., Jr. and Kemmerly, Jack E., Engineering Circuit Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1962. Page 9.620.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringR. WILLIAM GRAFF is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneauUniversity, where he has taught since 1975. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue Universityin electrical engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

1793Bibliography 1. Harris, James G., “Journal of Engineering Education Round Table: Reflections on the Grinter Report”, Journal of Engineering Education, Jan. 1994, pp. 69-94 2. Rittel, H.W.J., “Impressions of Architecture 130: Notes and Observations of Prof. Horst W.J. Rittel’s Classic Design Methods Course at Berkeley as taught circa-1969- 1971” Design Methods, Theories, Research, Education and Practice, 1996 Vol 29 no. 1 to vol. 32 no. 4 3. Fauvel, R., Winkelman, P., “Organization of Technological Information for the Novice Mechanical Designer”, International Workshop on Pedagogics in Design Education, International Society for Design Science of Engineering Design, Pilzen, Czech Republic, November, 1998. 4

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

besuccessful.Bibliographic Information1 Todd, Robert H., Spencer Magleby, Carl Sorensen, Bret Swan, and David Anthony, A Survey of CapstoneEngineering Courses in North America, Journal of Engineering Education, April, 1995, pp. 165-174.2 Dutson, Alan J., Robert H. Todd, Spencer P. Magleby, Carl D. Sorensen, A Review of Literature on TeachingEngineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 86No.1, January 1997, pp17-28.3 Pimmel, Russ, Cooperative Learning Instructional Activities in a Capstone Design Course, Journal of EngineeringEducation, July, 2001, pp. 413-423.4 Engineering Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., 1997.5 Moore, Dan and Fred Berry, Industrially Sponsored

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Albee; Laura Dillon; Jonathon Oleszkiewicz; George Stockman

Session # 2620 CS1 and CS2 Pr ogr amming Exams for Assessing Lear ning and Teaching G. Stockman, P. Albee, L. Dillon, J . Oleszkiewicz Michigan State Univer sityAbstractIn the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Michigan State University (CSE/MSU),we use timed programming exams in our introductory programming courses to assess bothindividual student programming skills and course instruction. Administration and design ofthese exams presented challenging problems. In this paper, we describe these problems andhow we solved them in our programming exam system. Additionally, we describe

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

Session 2620 Teaching Graphical User Interfaces and Event Handling through Games John K. Estell Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department Ohio Northern UniversityIntroductionThe introductory programming sequence for both computer engineering and computer sciencemajors at Ohio Northern University can be summarized as follows. The first course covers theconcepts of sequence, iteration, and selection. The second course explores the object-orientedprogramming paradigm. Finally, the third course reinforces the object-oriented programmingparadigm and

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

classroom environment, the instructor should assess the progressof the course by reviewing assignments, tests, hand-outs, etc. and compare them withinstructional objectives, to make sure that the course is proceeding as planned and on schedule.He/she should also make use of students’ comments and their written suggestions, which oftenare invaluable tools in streamlining and/or shaping the course direction.Another important point is to periodically update the course content to reflect the evolving natureof engineering and technology. New discoveries, new theories, new materials, new computer-aided design programs, and new standards are some of the novelties that may have to beaddressed in the course.Learning Styles: One of the major objectives of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

recovery capability. Until 1994, WSMF buildings were thought to beProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationextremely effective in avoiding damage caused by the cyclic, dynamic loading of an earthquake.Observations following the Northridge and Kobe earthquakes, however, found a different truth.The failure of WSMF structures led the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) tosponsor a widespread initiative known as the FEMA/SAC Steel Program. The SAC JointVenture is comprised of three separate agencies: The Structural Engineers Association ofCalifornia (SEOAC), The Applied Technology Council (ATC), and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

curriculum by the faculty on a regular basis to ensure that the programoutcomes are being met. A group of three or four faculty members are assigned to evaluate eachcourse outcome on a continual basis and their recommendations are used to make courseimprovements. This paper will discuss the course and program outcome assessments. It willexplain how assessment data are collected, analyzed, and used in the enhancement of ourundergraduate programs.IntroductionThe College of Engineering at UTSA offers three undergraduate degree programs in civil,electrical, and mechanical engineering (CE, EE, and ME). These programs started in 1982 andreceived their first accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,Inc. (ABET) in 1986. In

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

Benefits of Information Technology and Learning Styles. Additionalinformation regarding other groups can be found at http://www.eng.vt.edu/odlc/irs/. . Department Topic Aerospace and Ocean Assessing conceptual knowledge Engineering Teaching of Vehicle Design Biological Systems Active learning techniques in engineering instruction Engineering Teaching Effectiveness - sharing experiences with the goal Chemical Engineering of improving the results of teaching and teaching satisfaction Civil and Environmental Sharing and developing

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephan Hussmann; Nitish Patel; Julainne Sumich; Bruce MacDonald; Abbas Bigdeli

a student but is used to guide the interview to focus on a studentor a task and hence validate the peer assessment.Although this is a design course, a few lectures need to be given to introduce the students to newconcepts, technologies, professional conduct and the design process as required for the project.Regular meetings with the whole class also help in tackling common problems like softwarenuances, instrumentation techniques etc.Computer Systems Engineering year three design projects during the period 2000-2003 include awide range of projects such as: 1) DC motor control using a digital encoder and FPGA 2) Walking robots (with vision, play acting and communicating with other robots) 3) Material sensing using line sensors