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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Zhang

Telecommunications Program at Western Car-olina University. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include Communications Theory, Wireless Networks, BandwidthEfficient Modulation Schemes, Signal Design and Information Coding, and Digital Signal Processing Techniquesfor Communications. Dr. Zhang is a member of IEEE and ASEE. KEN BURBANK is an Associate Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technologyat Western Carolina University. Dr. Burbank is active with IEEE, SME, and TAC of ABET, and strives to bringpractical engineering activities into the classroom. His current project is the development of a photonics programwithin the Electrical Engineering curriculum. ROBERT ADAMS is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Caroline Baillie

link between research, practice and teaching.AcknowledgementsI would like to thank the interviewees for their time and patience, Ference Marton, JonasEmanuelsson and the Dept. of Education and Educational Research, Gothenburg University, TheTrecentenary Foundation of the Bank of Sweden and the ‘AGORA’ project Wissenschaftskolleg,Berlin, for supporting this study.Bibliography1..J.Bowden, and F.Marton., The University of Learning Kogan Page, (1998)2.Driver, Rosalind/Asoko, Hilary/ Leach, John/ Mortimer, Eduardo/ Scott, Philip, (1994) “Constructing ScientificKnowledge in the Classroom”, Educational Researcher, 23, Issue 7, pp.5-123.JohnCowan Beyond reflection where next for curricula which concentrate oncapabilityin Baillie and Moore (Eds) (2003

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Roselli

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Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

PeaceCorps volunteer. This service is considered the equivalent of seven research credits. Uponcompletion in the Peace Corps, M.I. students must defend a project report, rather than atraditional thesis, detailing their accomplishments as a volunteer. These students, from acrossthe country, were selected to be mentors in the GUIDE program because they typically havediverse interests and are service motivated. As the most academically experienced, the graduatestudents are the leaders of each group and responsible for mentoring both undergraduatestudents.Having just completed their first year in the GUIDE scholarship program, the second yearundergraduate students may have sophomore or junior status. They have exhibited a desire tocontinue an education

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

or senior seminar project has provided a continual update of aportable wind tunnel system. This system was effectively used in classroomdemonstrations and student lab activities for fluid mechanics and aerospace engineeringclasses. The present requirement of all ASE 4721 laboratory students to design andimplement a complete data acquisition and control program for this wind tunnel system isan effective tool for gauging readiness of those students to move beyond rudimentarytraining received in ASE 4113. This task provides good motivation to all upper divisionstudents who are required to take these courses, and improves their confidence in theirabilities to perform incidental programming. Using a complex benchmark assignmentreviews those

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sean Holleran; Elaine Chan; Chad Rasmussen; Alan McGaughey

several advantages, such as more freedom in theirchoice of thesis advisor and project, and are more desirable candidates to admissionscommittees. The workshop consists of a panel made up of a variety of speakers who stressdifferent aspects of the fellowship application process. In 2002 the panelists included a financialaid coordinator from the UM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, two UMfaculty members who review grant applications for the National Science Foundation, arepresentative from the UM Sweetland Writing Center, and several UM graduate students who Page 9.217.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

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Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

tools is provided to the teachers to take back totheir classrooms. All such curricula will become available online in late 2004 through theTeachEngineering digital library collection.SettingOne aspect of our professional development workshops that appeals to teachers is theopportunity to come to the university and spend time learning away from their classrooms. Theteachers in our four-day workshops, for example, constructed hands-on engineering projects thatrequired resources not commonly found in a K-12 school, such as a CNC laser cutter. This was agreat new experience for most teachers. However, for teachers that were not local, commuting tothe university and paying for accommodations was a deterrent from attending. The newer two-day workshop

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Watkins; Joel Esposito; Matthew Feemster

. experiment results, critique the proposed simulationmodel, and then augment the model in an effort to improve simulation accuracy. In each componentof the project, the students utilized the WinCon real-time interface to actuate the robotic link and tocollect measurements from the numerous sensors embedded on the physical plant. In Section 2, weprovide a brief overview of the course objectives. In Section 3, a description of the WinCon real-time interface and the rigid-link, flexible joint system is presented. The modular laboratory exercisesare described in Section 4. In Section 5, the success of the sequence of laboratory exercises isquantified in the form of follow-up evaluation sheets completed by the participating students.2 Course Overview

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Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Creese

C. “Time-Based Break-Even Analysis and Costing”, 1998 AACE International Transactions,AACE International, Morgantown, WV pp. ABC.02.1-ABC.02.6.2. Robert C. Creese, “Time-Based Breakeven Analysis”, 1998 Joint Cost Management Societies Proceedings, pp.AACE.02.01 - AACE.02.07.3. Creese, Robert C. “:A New Break-even Analysis Uses Production Time vs. Quantity”, Modern Castings, March1996, p. 52-3.4. Hand field, Robert B., and Ernest L. Nichols. Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Upper Saddle River,NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1999), pp 53-4.5. Newbold, Robert C. Project Management in the Fast Lane-Applying the Theory of Constraints, St. LuciePress/APICS Series on Constraints Management, Boca Raton, FL. St Lucie Press (1998), 284 pp.Bibliographic

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Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

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Douglas Jacobson

guarantee for admission to the M.S. in computer engineering program.Increased marketing has led to increased off campus enrollment, which was to be expected butdoes pose a problem for the instructors of the courses. The two courses with the highest offcampus enrollments are Information System Security and Information Warfare, each withtypically over 60 off campus students. The former has several large projects which creates agrading increase for the instructor. The department has provided Teaching Assistants (TA) tohelp with the overload. Information Warfare has a lab component with one large “break-in” labthat lasts several weeks. Since the labs are all designed to be accessed over the internet the

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Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alan Price

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering”spatially referenced data sets—i.e., data reference by location in space, described in terms ofshape, place, and relationship to other spatial data, and contains attribute information—ArcMap8.2 from ESRI 9 was used to analyze and present the results of the study.V. Research Methods and DatasetsThis paper is a descriptive and exploratory study of the early use of GIS at DeVry University,Pomona, to data mine using freely available California state educational data and DeVryUniversity historical student data. Data or information needed to complete the project

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Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas O'Neal; Thomas Jacobius; Joseph Steig; Arnold Heggestad; Abigail Barrow; Phil Weilerstein; David Barbe

of Research. He serves on the boards of several Venture Funds and has been involved in multiple startups.THOMAS M. JACOBIUSTom Jacobius is Director of Interprofessional Studies and The IPRO® Program at Illinois Institute of Technology inChicago, Illinois. Tom received the B.S. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Illinois Institute ofTechnology and the Master of Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Managementwith a concentration in marketing. He has established the interprofessional project (IPRO) team course requirementas IIT’s signature educational experience for students across all disciplines and professional programs and allacademic levels, and involving just as broad a range of faculty

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Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

Page 9.105.10Cradled Dynamometer Design. The cradled dynamometer was design by two mechanicalengineering students for their senior design project. The design consists of two parallel I-beamrails, with cross members, mounted on locking castors. Between the rails is mounted a 5 kW DCfield wound generator, with shafts extended out each end, to enable connection of motors ateither side. The generator is cradled with bearings at each side. A lever arm is mounted on thelower side of the generator and extended to a compression/expansion transducer, which isconnected to one of the I-beam rails. The output of the transducer is sent to an signal transducerand display unit (original equipment manufacturer, OEM). With proper calibration, students areable

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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

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Randy Winzer

has always believed in a strong role for the industrial advisory committeeand has had one in place since the inception of the program more than 30 year ago. The marksof the advisory committee are exceedingly prevalent throughout our curriculum and program.The advisory committee has been evaluating student work in the form of capstone projects fromthe seniors for more than 2 decades now. We saw the constituent input mandates contained inTC2K as an opportunity to strengthen this already active group’s role within our program. Thepolicy and procedures document referred to earlier addresses this by including a sectionspecifically documenting the role of the advisory committee. That section is included below.“Policy and Procedures for EET

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

Üniversitelerinde Kadınların Konumu” (Position of Womenin Turkish Universities between 1980-1990), Unpublished project, in Zengin- Arslan (2002).[18] Sağlamer, G (2003) “Türkiye’de Kadın Hakları ve Yüksek Ögretim’de Kadın” (Women Rights and Women inHigher Education in Turkey), Speech delivered at Rotary Club’s 8 March Celebration, İstanbul.[19] Sağlamer, G (2000b) Women in Higher Education with Special Reference to Technology & Science : Turkish Case,June 20, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.[20] Abacıoğlu, Asuman, http://listweb.bilkent.edu.tr/kadin/2000/Mar/0047.html.LERZAN ÖZKALE, Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Management Engineering, Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Turkey. Her research focuses mainly on topics related to Integration

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IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

. L. Hammond, H. O. Merriman, and M. M. Provus. Educational evaluation and decisions making. Gall, M. D., W. Borg, and J. P. Gall. 1996. Educational research: An introduction. 6th ed. New York: Longman Publishers. First published by Itaaska, IL: Peacock, 1971.7 Frechtling, J. A. 1993. User-friendly handbook for project evaluation in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.8 Frechtling, J. and L. Sharp. 1997. User-friendly handbook for mixed methods evaluation. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.9 McGourty, J., C. Sebastian, and W. Swart. 1998. Developing a comprehensive assessment program for engineering education. Journal of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abrar Khan; Shuhui Li

the significance of LabView and NI ELVISvirtual instruments as replacements of traditional instruments, and to understand the basic NI Page 9.409.3LabView and graphical programming concepts. This would develop students’ interests and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationconfidence and give them a clearer understanding to use LabView and NI ELVIS formeasurement, analysis, and design of various electric and electronic circuits as well as moreadvanced design projects.3.1. Comparing

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

during World War II with design anddevelopment of weapons like the atomic bomb and radar defense systems, engineering came tobe more and more like applied physics. The Russian launch of Sputnik in December 1957accelerated the movement of the engineering curriculum toward applied physics. Until the mid1970s, few engineering programs contained any design projects and social courses in writing(composition) were confined to successfully passing, or having waived based on some “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering EducationIntroductionWith the implementation of a new major in biomedical engineering at Bucknell University,faculty from the biomedical engineering program have become an integral part of theintroductory engineering course required of all first-year engineers. This course, ENGR 100Exploring Engineering, is designed to provide the students with an introduction to Bucknell’s sixengineering disciplines as well as overarching concepts such as engineering design, ethics andteamwork. This is accomplished by dividing the course into 4 components includinga group design project assessing wheelchair accessibility on campus, two student-chosen topicalseminars and the reading and analysis of engineering related books. As the topical seminars

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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

; advertisements that do not put minority groups in a constraining, biased or abusive Page 9.1085.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineeringsituation; divulgation of contributions to candidates in election campaigns; releasing workersduring work-hours to social actions; maintenance of literacy programs for employees andtheir families; maintenance of learning programs for young people; maintenance of a goodservice for consumer assistance; projects of environmental conservation in public areas; and,finally

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Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jammie Hoskin; Brad Wambeke; Ronald Welch

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Biloxi, Mississippi, November 6-9, 1999.10. Duff, J.M. (1990). Teaching engineering graphics as a body of knowledge. Proceedings of the 44th Midyear Conference of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Tempe, Arizona, 1990.11. Cumberland, R. R. (2001). The foundation of a progressive engineering graphics curriculum: A directed project report. Unpublished masters thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette.12. Gredler, M. E. (2001). Information Processing Theories. In Learning and instruction: Theory in to practice (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice-Hall. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abi Aghayere

. 4 7. Turning Consulting Activities into Scholarship : Present or publish in a practice-based publication or at a conference on the following: -- something useful and/or new and innovative in your consulting practice -- consulting case studies -- consulting applications -- monitoring of existing or developing technologies -- integration of practice into the classroom: documenting how technical aspects of consulting practice are integrated or incorporated into the curriculum -- documenting how professional issues facing industry and the profession are incorporated into the curriculum 8. Publish or present on Independent study projects with students 9. Publish or present on your leadership and service experiences with professional societies

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

biological inputs, initialtemperature, and the spinning speed of the impeller. Again, the engineering models simulate thefermentation process so students can practice varying chemical and biological inputs and controllingprocess parameters without the expense of doing so with real equipment.The VR environment used at the Indian Hills Community College is a 2.7 meters wide by 2.1 meters tallsingle-wall, rear-projected system driven by an SGI Octane 2T M, Figure 3 (a). It is a passive stereosystem that utilizes a Christie-Digital Mirage 2000T M projector with a Stereo Graphics projector Z-screenTM. The navigation for these VR environments is accomplished using a tracking wand, so theposition and orientation of the wand is always known, allowing it be

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

which department do you currently teach? AOSS AERO BME ChE CEE EECS ENGIN IOE MSE ME NAME NERS FE PharmE PIM Other 4. Which of the following describe your current duties as a GSI (check as many as apply): hold office hours attend class teach a lab teach a discussion section give lectures grade homework or papers grade exams grade labs or projects hold review sessions email with students maintain website other

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ahmed Rubaai

layer. Manycases are tested concluding that the adaptive fuzzy topologies are efficiently reducing the effectof external disturbances such as load changes and input voltage changes, on different types ofDC/DC converters. A commensurate number of components is designed and built. The components are testedindividually and in various combinations of hardware and software segments. The entire systemwill be fully tested. The other work to be completed includes the integration of the full systemand the start of the implementation stage of the project. Two categories of tests, namely, loadregulation, and line regulation will be carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposedcontrol system.References 1. J

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Alam

has 13 core credits.The senior year includes a substantial design project, typically involving team participation, aswell as senior courses providing an in-depth treatment of digital logic and systems theory.In order to validate the number of core computer science credits required for the CpE program,the present authors carried out an e-mail survey of peer institutions, the results of which areillustrated in Fig. 2. Page 9.832.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Hochstein

.) (q) quantify and justify the financial impact of product and process 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following Program Outcomes. development and improvement (Note: Letters correlate with POs in ABET Self-Study Document.) (r) organize and use a project implementation plan None --- 1st year committed to defining current state of achievement of POs. (s) facilitate multidisciplinary group to accomplish q & r