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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004,American Society for Engineering Education 4IV. CurriculumHigher education teaching requires a set of knowledge bases andcompetencies distinct from yet compatible with the other university faculty responsibilities ofcontributing to the knowledge of the disciplines and professions through some form of researchand scholarship and consequent writing and professional service. A plausible 59–72 semestercredit curriculum for an Ed.D. in Engineering Education could contain learning components inthe following five areas: 1. Foundations 2

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

two groups of students in an engineering projects course allows comparisons betweendifferent methods.Utilizing this approach, two types of team training were offered to senior-level and graduateengineering students in an elective projects course at the University of Missouri – Rolla. Theeffects of conventional training in handling communication and team dynamics were comparedwith the effects of Action Science-based training in voicing inquiries and perspectives. Bothquantitative and qualitative data were used to evaluate the two approaches to training.IntroductionThe ability to successfully work in teams is a crucial ingredient for success in the workplace 1.Unfortunately it is often a neglected part of an engineer’s education. The ability to

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

, with more focus on theVLSI courses. Curriculum details (lecture content, text, references, projects, sample assignmentsand exams, computing environment and CAD tools) for sixteen undergraduate and graduatecourses will be disseminated through a web site maintained by Intel Corp., and on CDs availablefrom Intel.I. BackgroundIn the spring of 2003, the Intel University Relations office published a request for proposals(RFP) to develop and disseminate a “world-class” university-level VLSI Design curriculum in aneffort to “develop a highly skilled, international workforce that can support the continued growthof the computing industry.”1 The RFP listed as justification for Intel’s investment, deficiencies inVLSI curricula in the specific areas of

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

. Data-setdevelopment for these exercises is also discussed. MATLAB and the Image ProcessingToolbox are utilized to allow students to focus on higher-level understanding ofcommonly available image processing tools. The use of advanced tools allows students toattempt and finish meaningful examples. This paper focuses on exercises that serve as auseful complement to robotics curriculum and student robotics projects.1. IntroductionThis paper describes a single semester computer vision course tailored to fourth yearundergraduate students with strong engineering backgrounds and moderate computerprogramming skills. The students referred to in this paper are in the Weapons andSystems Engineering department at the United States Naval Academy. They have

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

. Page 9.1401.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationHardware DesignThe video graphics system described in this paper is an innovative application of the SerialPeripheral Interface (SPI) on the MC68HC11 microcontroller2, implemented with creativesoftware that controls the SPI using detailed timing in the program. The video graphicsproduced by this design are adequate for simple line graphs or similar images. Figure 1 showsthe display produced by the author’s implementation. A warning – if you as the reader of thispaper are not interested in low-level assembly language code and counting clock

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

stresses timely andcost effective development of outstanding products, the goal of engineering educators is tofacilitate the learning of each individual team member. Engineering project teams have thepotential to influence the student’s satisfaction, sense of competence, and persistence in the field.An “ideal” team experience in engineering education can be defined as having the followingcharacteristics16:1. Positive team performance in terms of both team processes (e.g., personal and interpersonal interaction) and team outcomes (e.g., the product);2. Demonstrated student learning of engineering content and skills; and3. Maintenance or enhancement of student commitment to engineering as a field (e.g., increased self confidence, satisfaction

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Niyazov; Mahmoud Ardebili

machines and real industrial processes as case studies. These changes are not just focused on upper level courses, but are aimed at courses throughout the engineering curriculum. The Engineering Mechanics class at Borough of Manhattan Community College (a 3- credit, 5-contact hour sophomore level class) has recently integrated a lab component. The main objective of the laboratory exercises is to supplement the learning and understanding of basic mechanics principles. The laboratory component is designed to give students a hands-on experience with the fundamental engineering concepts covered in the course, see references [1] and [2]. There are six exercises in the laboratory. They are: 1. Concurrent Forces

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStarting in 1996, the Sooner City project has been funded by three NSF grants, shown in Table 1,as well as significant support from OU. Table 1: Summary of NSF Support for Sooner City. NSF Award NSF Project Title Amount Start End Number Program DUE- CCD TLC Design: Integrating Team $100,000 3/15/97 2/28/00 9652973 Learning, Computing, and Design in Undergraduate Engineering Education EEC- Action Sooner City - Design Across the

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Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

defined collective efficacy as a “group’s sharedbeliefs in its conjoint capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required toproduce given levels of attainments” (p. 477). In contrast to self-efficacy, which involves aperson’s beliefs about his or her ability to perform particular behaviors individually, collectiveefficacy refers to group members’ aggregate beliefs about how they can perform as a unit.Collective efficacy is “an emergent group-level attribute.” (p. 478) that is assumed to influencegroup processes (e.g., goal setting, management of resources, coordinative activities, taskstrategies employed, effort expenditure, perseverance despite set-backs, morale) and outcomes(e.g., level of performance achieved as a group)1

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Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vyas Harinath; Pfumai Kuzviwanza; Jianzhong Lou; Leonard Uitenham; Keith Schimmel

Session #3613 Biodegradable Polymer Characterization Laboratory Unit Keith A. Schimmel, Jianzhong Lou, Pfumai Kuzviwanza, Arvind Vyas Harinath, Leonard Uitenham North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractA current research area of significant environmental, economic, and scientific importance isbiodegradable polymers.1-4 Biodegradable polymers is also an area that has great promise forbeing used to integrate life science into the chemical engineering curriculum. To this point,however, high quality laboratory manuals on biodegradable polymers have not been developed.Therefore

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey

Propagation, Digital logic circuits,Hardware devices and drivers, and Computer architecture. In the survey, a scale from 1 to 5 wasused, with 1 indicating no coverage, and 5 indicating through treatment of the topic. Page 9.662.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering 5.00 4.00 3.00 2.00 1.00 0.00 Networking average

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

metropolitan area; the telephone system (POTs, network synchronization and switching, ISDN, SONET, cellular telephone); video (NTSC, switching and timing, compressed video standards, such as MPEG and Px64 HDTV); and optical networking components and systems. TCOM 5671 - Professional Project Proposal – 1 credit hour One semester prior to the anticipated date of graduation, a student must enroll in this class. During enrollment, the student will propose a Professional Project that demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of his/her field of study. The student’s Project Committee will review the proposal, approve its scope, and develop a plan for assessing the final project, including standards regarding

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris; Dawn Conniff; J. Ledlie Klosky

Page 9.868.3stuck. His friend Mary tried to pull his tongue loose. His tongue stretched to an unlikely length Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbefore it was freed from the chair lift. The students could relate to this movie and really enjoyedthe change of pace even though it was merely a 2 minute clip. As soon as the clip was over theinstructor displayed the slideshow below: Figure 1: Dumb and Dumber illustrates the engineering concept of strain.A student was chosen to physically measure the initial length of Harry’s tongue and the finallength. Using the change in length divided by

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationhead/chair to understand his/ her personal leadership style 1. It can be autocratic, directive,positional power, democratic, personal power, motivational, controlling, visionary, etc. It isimportant to apply different leadership styles for different situations. In most cases at theuniversity level, it appears that the department head must use something other than autocratic,directive, and controlling types of leadership3. The personal power or persuasive power isusually more effective. A good department head should have a passion to help the faculty andstaff to become successful in their profession, and he

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

assess the math skills of students in ECE225 Electric Circuits. This is typically the first course in Electrical Engineering, with aprerequisite of Physics II: Electromagnetics, and a co-requisite of Calculus VI: DifferentialEquations. In Fall 2003, a 9 question assessment test was used, covering integration,differentiation, calculus based optimization, trigonometry, simultaneous linear equations,complex arithmetic, and problem solving. A total of 32 students were assessed. The averagescores on each problem are shown in Figure 1, with a maximum of 10 points possible for eachproblem. The average score in problem solving was less than half of the scores in all othercategories except that for optimization, which also involved some problem

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

arranged. After a welcome screen,and network-connection and update progress displays, the student sees the Lab Directory, asshown in Fig. 1. Page 9.1039.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering” Fig. 1The Directory and most other windows have a set of navigation buttons along the top and aninformation field at the bottom that displays information about objects on the window that thecursor passes over. This information window, along with the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

had a lab directly associated with each core course. The decisionwas made to create a set of core laboratories that were separate but aligned in a co-requisite structure with the core academic courses, Table 1. Table 1. Core Labs - AY 2000-2001 Semester Lab Co-requisite Core Courses Fall 2nd Year ECE Lab 1 Intro to Signal Processing Digital systems Spring 2nd Year ECE Lab 2 Circuits Linear Systems Fall 3rd Year ECE Lab 3 Electronics Microprocessors Spring 3rd Year ECE Lab 4

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

may vary depending upon the projects selected for the semester. A list of this equipmentis given in Table 1. In addition, programming software for the PLC’s and compilers for theAtmel microcontrollers are in computer labs throughout the building. Students check out thisequipment in a large plastic tote and use it for the entire semester. Considering a typicalsemester may have 32 students in the course, split into two sections, the College of Science andEngineering at WKU has made a substantial investment in the course. Equipment Description Vendor Cost MicroLogix 1000 Programmable Logic Controllers Allen Bradley $265 Cable Programming Cable

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Majumdar; Mehmet Sozen

hydrogen withoxygen as oxidizer is considered. Newton-Raphson method is used for solving the resulting setof nonlinear algebraic equations in the model. Several case studies that were performed arediscussed and recommendations on how this approach can be implemented in thermodynamicstextbooks are presented.Intr oductionIn most elementary engineering thermodynamics textbooks[1-4], there are several standard typesof problems considered dealing with combustion/chemical reactions, and chemical equilibrium.In the typical combustion problems considered, there is usually sufficient information about thecomposition of the combustion products or sufficient information for determining thecomposition of the combustion products from a simple conservation of

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Damian Watkins; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

PC HP/Compq Gateway HP/Compaq Model T1000 Model G-400 Model H5450Figure 1. Illustration of the various Mobile devices used in this study.Students participating in the mobile computing course modules had three mobile devices forwhich to choose from: COMPAQ/HP Tablet PC TC1000, HP IPAQ 5450 POCKET PC, and theGateway notebook PC. The mobile devices ran a modified version of the Microsoft WindowsPlatform customized to processing power and memory allocations available. ‚ Gateway Notebook – Windows 2000 Professional ‚ IPAQ Pocket PC 5450 – Windows CE 3.0 (Pocket PC 2000) ‚ Tablet PC TC-1000 – Windows XP Table PC editionWindows CE

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Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

manufacturers refer to the sequencer function as the “drum controller”. However, incertain cases PLC manufacturers use the Table-to-Register or File-to-Word functions instead ofthe sequencer function [1]. These functions are not as versatile as the sequencer function.In this paper we will illustrate how students can utilize the sequencer function in the laboratoryfor controlling electromechanical actuators and robots. We will also illustrate how to control thetime period between each sequencer step.IntroductionSequencer functions can be used to control multiple outputs with several step patterns. Thismeans that in every sequenced step, you can change the state of the output devices connected tothe output ports housed in output modules. Output can

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”cross section throughout its closed loop wooden structure, except for the plane of thepropeller, where it is tapered to be circular. The four-bladed, variable pitch propeller isnine feet(~2.75 meters) in diameter, and is driven by a 75 horsepower(56kW), 3-phaseelectric motor at 1200 rpm. The pitch of the propeller blades is controlled by a 4096:1 geared 24V DC

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Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

Maximizing Your Productivity as a Junior Faculty Member: Being Effective in the Classroom J.W. Bruce, Lori Mann Bruce Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThe most distinguishing difference between “practicing” engineers (in industrial or government)and the university “faculty engineer” are instructional duties. In new engineering educators,inability or insecurities in instructional duties are by far the most common complaint [1].Furthermore, these new educators face a classroom of students that are possibly hostile tolearning and are usually much less prepared than the educator at the same point in their career.The results are low teaching

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

Engineeringprogram at Penn State.1. The Learning Factory brings hands-on experiences to freshmen in the product dissection classes and to seniors in the capstone design courses. Students pursuing the Product Realization Minor are even more involved with the activities at the Learning Factory. The Society of Automotive Engineers also uses the facilities at the Learning Factory when building the Formula Car. The Learning Factory received the Boeing Educator Award in 1998 and has also participated in outreach to elementary and high school students including Take-Your- Daughter-to-Work Day.2. The senior capstone design projects are almost entirely sponsored by industry. Each student design team works on a unique project proposed by industry

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pramodh Viswanathan; Molu Olumolade

, health and comfort of theworkers (see Figure 1).There is absolutely no compromise among safety, health and comfort. They must allcomplement each other to achieve optimum productivity (see Figure 1). Safety and health dealwith the work environment and comfort deals with work station. Human factors have beenknown to enhance long-term performance of workers and prevent them from being overlyoverwhelmed or fatigued. It is therefore highly imperative that men as well as machines berecognized as essential components of the system. Page 9.885.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

informationA successful research program brings an educational organization not only prestige, but also apositive economic windfall to the institution and the community. Successful collaborativeresearch between industry and academic institution may help in developing new technology forindustry or creating new businesses. Throughout its existence of more than 100 years, personalcare for excellent teaching and learning has been the trade mark of Youngstown State University.However, during the last several years, development of productive research programs, parallelwith the outstanding teaching, has become an important educational goal [1] for the University.It is increasingly apparent that the College of Engineering and Technology is expected to leadthe

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

the loop.1. IntroductionThe Department of Engineering Technology at University of Central Florida has been involvedin teaching control feedback concepts since its inception. Over the yeas this commitment hasevolved into a four-credit upper division course, EET4732. This course introduces analog controlsystems with the following topics; mathematical modeling and simulation, time and frequency Page 9.743.1response, stability analysis, analog controller design and implementation, and an introduction to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Duff

• Create an “as built” virtual model of the facility for future construction and expansion. • Use that model for training and virtual tours. • Extract views suitable for promotional literature, both print and Web. Working with Richard Newman, Director of Training Operations for the MTF andJohn Robertson, Academic Coordinator, the students were given access to the facility asconstruction and installation was finalized. Because the majority of equipment wasdonated from the MTF’s industrial sponsors, final arrangement and configuration ofequipment was not known at the time the project commenced. Figure 1 shows a generallayout of the facility. The visitor corridor at the bottom of the diagram allows

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

developing skills needed for advance experimentation.The ABET 2000 assessment criteria [1] requires the outcome of students’ academicperformances that includes students’ ability of designing and conducting their own experiments.For the past several years a variety of assessment surveys have been conducted in the MechanicalEngineering Program to investigate students’ opinion on the educational effects of laboratorycourses through the exit interviews, alumni surveys, and student focus groups. The numericaldata compiled from those surveys have showed that the ratings on certain categories such asdesigning components, systems, and experiments are lower than the other remaining outcomes[2]. Although the integration of design in the entire curriculum and

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Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Research Experiences program for Undergraduates in an Historically Black college and University. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein1 , Pamela Leigh-Mack2 , Bert Davy1 .and John Wheatland 3 1 Department of Civil Engineering and 2 Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, 3 Dean’s Office, School of Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore Maryland.AbstractInvolving undergraduate students in research has been recognized as a method ofdeveloping the intellectual capacity of undergraduate student. This paper reportsoperation, achievements and challenges of a Science Engineering and Mathematics(SEM) Summer Research Training program, which has been in operation for