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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysisand interpretation; an ability to formulate a range of alternative problem solutions; and computerliteracy specific to their profession. Additionally, potential employers of our EET graduates arein the automated manufacturing and testing sector of the industry; and that motivated the creationof an instrumentation and data acquisition course2 based on a thorough review of experiment-based data acquisition-supported instrumentation courses at other institutions3-6. This three-credit course meets for two one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Thedistinction between lecture and

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

for the levelof expertise brought to the research team by undergraduate students. Faculty with more openended, exploratory research found they had more difficulty managing and motivating thestudents compared to faculty with more specific projects. The most successful projects werethose that required a large number of “hands” and less experience, compared to those thatrequired a steep learning curve before students could be useful or productive in the lab.Mentors observed that the students often blamed themselves when things went wrong as opposedto understanding that setbacks are a natural part of the research process. For most of theparticipants this was their first experience with conducting actual research versus “canned”laboratory

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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

studentsin all four disciplines. Indeed, the hallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University isthe multidisciplinary, project-oriented Engineering Clinic sequence.The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technical principles,but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and the ability towork as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professional success [2, 3,4]. Rowan’s Clinic Program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Schmalzel; A. Marchese; Jennifer Kadlowec; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1526multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (2) teamwork asthe necessary framework for solving complex problems; (3) incorporation of state-of-the-arttechnologies throughout the curricula; and (4) creation of continuous opportunities for technicalcommunication [3]. The Rowan program emphasizes these essential features throughout thecurricula, beginning with the introductory freshman

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

education and careers which is well above thenational average. The structure of the program and its objectives, classroom discussions,lectures, laboratory experiments and demonstrations, homework, projects, mentoring sessions,and field trips are specific to appropriate grade course work.To accomplish a true academic continuum, a main thematic unit that is aligned with the NewJersey Core Curriculum Standards was created for each group that links all other subjects andactivities. Each unit and academic curricula follows the Standards for appropriate grade levelsand provides students with prior knowledge upon which we can build. FEMME groups and theirthematic focuses are: FEMME 4—Environmental Science FEMME 5—Aerospace Engineering

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

student’s load is measured in Value Unit (UV). The Value Units are the measureof intensity with which a course is taught, takes into reduces to a normalized number the numberof hours per week spent in lectures, laboratories, and the effort a student puts in its own time. Foreach semester, the student must register for the courses required by the plan of study, workloadvaries from 30 UV to 17 UV per semester, averaging 6 courses per semester.The first semesters courses are common and shared with students from other colleges, with arequirement of 31 UV in “General Education” courses. These include Philosophy, Writing,English, Sociology, Algebra, Trigonometry, Physics, and Chemistry. During the secondsemester, the student is introduced to the first

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

senior author has developed a number of “toolkits”,computer simulations written in LabVIEW, to provide virtual laboratories in DSP andCommunication Systems courses. He is quite enthused about these toolkits, but how do thestudents regard them? A questionnaire taken in last year’s class resulted in positive comments aswell as constructive suggestions. This paper will report on the students’ involvement in thedevelopment of the Communication Systems toolkit through their feedback. It will summarizethe reactions of two different classes at different institutions to the same toolkit. It will alsoreport on the efforts taken to address the constructive suggestions and describe the effect ofstudent involvement on the project on learning in the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

lecture-based and provided thestudents with enough information to understand the course content. The main focus of thecourse was in three main areas; overview of the theory of particle accelerators, basic types ofsources and the monitoring/cooling considerations in source design. This course served asprerequisite to the radiation applications course. Figure 1 shows the course description andcourse goals from the 1997 Georgia Tech General Catalog and Table 1 presents the breakdownof lectures for the course.5Course Credit 3 Credit Hours (3 Lecture / 0 Laboratory)Course Description Particle Accelerators; radiation sources for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

2004-1186 session 1793 Gel Time and Temperature for Two Thermosetting Resins Steven D. Gordin, Akbar M. Eslami, Howard L. Price Department of Technology Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City NC 27909AbstractThe results of an investigation of gel time and temperature of two thermosetting resins have beenused to design a laboratory experiment for an undergraduate materials science course. Theexperiment is part of a larger effort to establish an undergraduate program in

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

included a laboratory and a manufacturing course thatcontained a laboratory. As part of this activity, we decided to increase the design activity andmaterial selection within the new course. Starting in fall 2002, we made a copy of a materialsselection program, CES-4œ (Granta Design Limited) available to each student taking the course.A number of activities were devised to help the students become familiar with the program. Theculminating activity was for each laboratory group to design a children’s playground. They wereto select the materials and the manufacturing processes for a playground that could handle 20 to40 children from the ages of 2 or 3 to about 12 to 13 years old at one time. The Parks andRecreation Departments of both communities

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

proposal.IntroductionDUE’s grant programs generally fall into one of two broad categories; i.e., curriculumdevelopment or workforce preparation. Of the two, faculty members, particularly newfaculty members, have historically shown greater interest in the former. Depending on thetype of educational program being served, the Division administers two major programs:Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) and Advanced TechnologicalEducation (ATE). These programs are described in detail below.With two exceptions, the remainder of DUE’s grant programs are directed at workforcepreparation and expansion. The specific workforce preparation and expansion programsare: Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS); FederalCyber Service

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

direction to the exhaust gases decreasing an efficiency of the cycle.4. Lab simulations are used as a culminating activity that helps students to developskills in the higher levels of learning in the Bloom’s taxonomy: Analysis, Synthesis andEvaluation. The lab simulations have been designed with sound pedagogical goals inmind. The simulation portion of the Learning Tool is well integrated into other learningactivities, and the simulations as authentic and interactive as possible6. The followingexample involves experiments with the 7-stage Armfield Centrifugal Compressor, modelFM 12. It is a small-scale radial flow rotodynamic machine that is available in ourThermal/Fluid Science laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

students in theprocess control laboratory experiments. A simple circuit to turn on/off an electric bulb orelectric heater can be used for real-time tuning. The initial controller setting of three keycontroller parameters [proportional gain (KC), integral time constant (τI), and derivative timeconstant (τD)] can be computed using the major tuning approaches such as Ziegler-Nichols,Cohen-Coon and Tyreus-Luyben methods.The robustness of the tuned parameters has been tested for a disturbance in the set point as wellas in the process. Each of these disturbances is illustrated graphically to demonstrate itsperformance. This approach provided students an instant quantitative guideline as to how goodthese tuning methods are for a given

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Matis; Linda Ann Riley

Session 1526 Teaching Theoretical Stochastic Modeling Courses Using Industrial Partners and Their Applied Problems Timothy I. Matis, Linda Ann Riley New Mexico State University Department of Industrial Engineering P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 4230 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 This paper describes a pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation’s CourseCurriculum and Laboratory Improvement program that addresses the common learningchallenges of engineering students enrolled in an undergraduate stochastic processes

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Calculus 2 Physics Phys1Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 1 Phys2Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 2 Phys1Lab Physics with Calculus 1 Laboratory Phys2Lab Physics with Calculus 2 Laboratory ChemIntro Introduction to Chemistry Chem1 General Chemistry 1 Chemistry Chem2 General Chemistry 2 Chem1Hon Honors General Chemistry 1 Chem1Lab General Chemistry 1 Laboratory Chem2Lab General

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

to understand the basicconcepts involved in measuring signals, converting them to a different form and controlling asimple system. Most of the activities developed are accessible from the Internet so studentsanywhere can have concepts reinforced through computer-based activities. The activities varyfrom viewing animations to interacting with programs, to working with interactive Excelspreadsheets. The activities are meant to supplement actual laboratory experiences that normallyoccur in engineering curricula.Greenfield Coalition Curriculum ApproachTo implement the concepts of experiential learning and allow students to more easily acquirecore competencies, Greenfield Coalition developed a unique approach to design coursematerials. An

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

criticisms leveled at engineering schools by the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers in their Curricula 2000 Report1 and the Manufacturing EducationPlan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps2 document and in other papers which alleged that schoolsoffer too few “practical” and “hands-on” courses. Stout has a rich tradition of teaching studentstechnical skills that can only be taught in laboratory experience. By integrating theory and Page 9.727.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperimentation with

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson

information is communicatedfrom the device to each assembly workstation using a specialized wireless infrared system with aprogrammable microcontroller. This proof-of-concept project was one of several components ina Manufacturing Engineering Technology senior capstone course. The resulting device wasgiven the name “Smart Pallet” by Dr. Wesley Baldwin who also presented the original conceptfor the project.Background:The operating environment for this project is a student constructed computer integratedmanufacturing (CIM) laboratory. A 15 foot by 6 foot oval assembly line track is the centralcomponent in the CIM laboratory. Assembly workstations are positioned at several pointsaround the outside perimeter of the assembly line track. In addition, GE

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

undergraduateenvironment at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. This program isdesigned to significantly improve undergraduate education in the areas of mathematics, science,engineering, and technology (MSET) by directly benefiting from the experiences of NASA fieldcenters, affiliated industrial partners and academic institutions. The three basic goals of the program were enhancing core courses in MSET curriculum,up-grading core-engineering laboratories to compliment upgraded MSET curriculum, andconduct research training for undergraduates in MSET disciplines through a sophomore shadowprogram and through Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Since the inception of the program nine courses have been modified to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

New Paradigms in Naval Science and Technology R. Kavetsky, D.K. Anand, J. Short, G.E. DieterDirector, S&T Revitalization, Office of Naval Research/Professor of MechanicalEngineering, University of Maryland, College Park/Defense Laboratories ProgramAssistant to the Deputy Director Defense Research & Engineering/Dean of Engineering(Emeritus), University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThrough the years the Department of Defense (DoD) has been able to provide its forces withsuperior warfare capabilities with their innovative use of human resources. These significantadvances in warfare capability were brought about in large part by successful transformationsintroduced through the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

realization of digital systems, and isoften used in digital design laboratories 24–27. With the chip configuration stored in on-chip memory, each download reconfigures the chip resulting in a time-efficientrealization of multiple design iterations.The project goals are a demonstration of a working computer, plus a technical report todescribe the system. In addition, students keep records of their weekly laboratory work inlaboratory notebooks (which are used during the entire semester). In addition to the firstlaboratory period, the project spans the last five weeks of laboratory (in a 14-weeksemester) where each workbench accommodates a group of two students.The Design ProcessThe design of the computer begins with students understanding the rules of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

,” Engineering Education, July/August 1990, pp. 554-559.4. King, R. H., T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidis ciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, 1999, pp. 311-317.5. Miller, R. L., and B. M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidis ciplinary Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, 1994, pp. 311- 316.6. Phillips, J. R. and A. Bright, “The Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic: Past, Present, and Future,” Journal of Page 9.968.4 Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 2, 1999, pp 189-195

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Graduate Education in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

Session 2650 A Master of Science Program in Telecommunications Engineering Technology Warren L G Koontz Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntroductionAbout 35 years ago, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research and development arm of the BellSystem, provided a program to train newly hired Members of Technical Staff. A new MTS, whousually joined Bell Labs just after receiving a BS degree in either electrical or mechanicalengineering, was first sent off to get a Master of Science in EE or ME. But even this was notenough. Upon completing the MS, the still

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

the different educational levels. This rapid development suggests that providing biotechnology educational materials by theconventional systems is a very difficult and time-consuming process [7]. Conventional education ofbiotechnology requires a specific place (classroom and laboratory), specialist/educated teacher, textbooks,and considerable investment for experimental devices. Many of the biotechnological experiments are toocostly, too time consuming, too dangerous to be done easily in classroom [7]. They are among thelimitations to the development of biotechnology education via conventional models. Computer based instruction software often reduce the instruction time and students’ motivationis increased [7]. Also, It

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004. American Society for Engineering Education”Problem 6: Graduates are leaving college with critical gaps in their knowledge. Industry wants a graduate who knows the essential fundamentals but also has knowledge of the most recent products and methods.Solution 6: Revise and update your industry advisory board with new members. Such a change brings fresh new information and ideas. Ask for their recommendations and implement their suggestions.Problem 7: Most electronic departments lack the funds needed to equip laboratories to teach the latest

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the constructiontechnology education and training community organizations that are interested in forming a newcollaboration or in improving an existing collaboration.The remaining part of this paper is divided into the following subsections: Academia; Industry;New Materials, Processes, and Equipment; Collaboration; Academia/Industry Collaboration:Why? Intellectual Property Issues, Educational Examples of Actual Collaboration andConclusion.AcademiaMembers of academia are often first aware of new, developing technologies. From graduateprojects and laboratory testing, they can see new innovations before anyone else does. Academicleaders can also see, based on their research and hands-on work, which areas of industry researchneed the most

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

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

the experience of the authors who withoutexception were involved in teaching.Computer, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, ComputerScience and Mathematics -- Papers in this category were grouped under six themes:Laboratories, Traditional Course Support, First Year Chemical Engineering Courses,Web Course Support for Problem Based Leaning, Large Course Support, and A NewCurriculum. Most of the reviewed papers dealt with the use of the World Wide Web toincrease access as the educational improvement. However, interestingly, a couple ofpapers suggested that the use of the web not only increases access to the physical orsimulated laboratory experiments but laboratories in a closet could actually decreasecosts since

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

demonstrations, andcurriculum development populated the rest of the workshop. The main target audience of thisworkshop was participants from two- and four-year institutions that are either considering orcurrently using Rapid Prototyping technologies. They were all impressed with the practicalhands-on activities in the laboratory and vendors' showcase. There were four Rapid Prototypingtechnologies present at the workshop: 3D Systems' ThermoJet, Stratasys' Prodigy andDimension, Z-Corp's Z310, Helisys' Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) 2030.Solidworks, the design software, and Materialise, the RP file enhancement software (Magic),also introduced their products in the workshop. Sony demonstrated its capability using the highend RP machine. BJB

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

grading schemes that ebb and flow in their accuracy. CPR applies theprocess of scientific peer review to education. Students perform research (study), write abouttheir “findings”, submit it for blind review (and act as reviewers themselves), and finally usepeer feedback to improve their understanding. All of this is possible without intervention fromthe instructor using CPR.This paper reports on part of a continuing study on the utility of CPR in engineering education.In this instance, CPR was introduced into a writing-intensive laboratory course in chemicalengineering. Students worked in teams, but were required to submit individually-craftedexecutive summaries using the CPR system. Assessment was based on instructor inspection ofstudent work

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

Programmable Digital Multimeter (DM 5120). All of theseinstruments are equipped with GPIB interface. A Pentium IV computer equipped with NationalInstrument's IEEE488.2 card controls the setup. A system schematic of the measurement setup is given inFigure 1. This is an extension of a “Computer-Integrated-Electronics” teaching laboratory setup whichwas featured to do automated measurement of I-V and C-V characteristics of semiconductor devices andsensors and, to extract SPICE parameters from them for undergraduate electrical engineering education atthe University of Southern Maine. Creative utilization of this standard test equipment for 2- and 3-terminal device measurements and their automation were reported earlier (see Guvench [4] and [5