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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

department chair was invited to visit Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s (WPI) Fire Protection Engineering program (Professor David Lucht, P.E., isProfessor and Director, Center for Firesafety Studies). WPI’s Fire Protection Engineeringprogram has since helped our program and their generous support and advice is gratefullyacknowledged.Based upon the advice of Professor Lucht and the faculty’s experience in computersimulations, the Safety and Fire Protection Engineering Technology program was developedusing a performance approach. The approach is based on computer simulations and acurriculum with content similar to the program at WPI. However, the program at WPI leadsto a master of engineering. Study of the contents and instructional materials of the

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Watkins

. Wilkes, Maurice, It’s All Software, Now, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 33, No. 10, October 19907. Jerz, Richard, Redesigning Engineering Graphics to Include CAD and Sketching Exercises, Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June8. Toogood, Roger, Pro|Engineer Wildfire 2.0, SDC Publications, 20049. Shih, Randy, Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Inventor R8, SDC Publications, 200410. Connolly, Patrick, CAD Software Industry Trends and Directions, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Session 1253, Seattle, WA, JuneBiographyGREGORY K. WATKINSGregory Watkins received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, a Master ofEngineering

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Todd Johnson; Eric Key, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

groups, students will be asked to: 1. Record and plot the water temperature as a function of time 2. Obtain an appropriate mathematical model (exponential) representing their data 3. Determine the time constant associated with their data 4. Obtain additional information from the data (steady-state temperature, etc.) 5. Design a water heater for a home that will cool no more than 3 oC in 1 hour if turned off.As exemplified by the Newton’s Law of Cooling Experiment, each exercise will include a largecomponent of data collection and reasonably straight-forward analysis. This will allow studentsto master the essentials of the related mathematical topics without the distraction of open-endedquestions. However, a key feature that

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

the conversations during the sessions were lively. Moreover,the group produced several artifacts of ongoing value to the current and future students and thedepartment (e.g., a master list of questions related to the first PhD milestone -- the preliminaryexam, two collections of example research questions, a set of example dissertations). Finally,when the group discussed the plans for the following term (the autumn 2004 term), they decidedthat the current seminar approach was preferable to any other model considered.Offering 2: Autumn 2004The second offering of the seminar took place during the autumn 2004 academic term. Tenstudents participated in the seminar (all ten students enrolled in the PhD seminar at that point).This number included

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

. Indeed, those EP students maintaining aB-average in this program gain automatic admission to their prospective graduate program. Inaddition, by aligning their senior design activities properly, these students can complete their(nonthesis) masters degree in just one additional year. These tracks have proved very popular Page 10.554.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”with our students, attracting almost 50% of our majors. An example curriculum of this trackappropriate to electrical engineering

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

course mature, they will berecycled back into the program in the appropriate course in semesters 1-4. The modular natureof the curriculum is critical to ensuring that this can happen. The Capstone Course will providestudents an opportunity to bring together all of the skills and knowledge gained through theirstudies in solving real-world problems as part of a team. Tables 2-5 detail Certificates and Certificates of Achievement in Wireless and Security.A Certificate is distinguished from a Certificate of Achievement by the addition of generaleducation requirements. The Certificate of Achievement (Tables 4 and 5) are intended forexisting IT professionals who may have already completed Bachelors, Masters or PhD programs.These 1-year programs

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roya Javadpour

the house, including the ceilings with colors selected by our clients. • Electrical Team: Installed a ceiling fan with remote in the master bedroom and new ceiling fans for the remaining rooms. Added new lighting in bedrooms which required rewiring the electricity in the home. • Shelving Team: Added easy accessible shelves in the garage and closets Page 10.371.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

daily work and found a positive experience in a variety of ways oflearning: “I enjoyed the class pretty much. We actually covered a lot of topics in the class and we had some very good discussions. It is a good class for those who are looking for breadth in various areas outside of nitty gritty engineering. I was definitely one of them”. “This is my last course for my masters in manufacturing engineering degree and during this semester I have had one of the most positive experiences from all of my courses. My group this semester has an interesting blend of cultural views and experiences and it has been joy to learn and talk with each other. Furthermore, the project topic that we choose

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Weber

has been mastered. It is important to secure the testing Page 10.1098.1environment in this application so that the instructor can trust the results. In addition, the author “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”is developing an on-line testing system that will be able to grade an answer to a range ofacceptable answers. Thus there is a need for a secure on-line testing environment.The only drawback to on-line assessment is the many new ways students can cheat. As stated byNeil Rowe, “From a

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

could be inserted into the master loop to check on the hardwarecomponents. This will increase the likelihood of detection and thus decrease the RPN. Thistechnique is very applicable to most embedded software development courses.There are certain actions that increase product reliability that can become a standard boilerplaterows for an FMEA. These have come to embedded programmers as a result of lessons learnedthe hard way. Foremost of these to one of the authors is that ALL registers of a controller shouldbe initialized, even the ones that are listed in the specification as a “don’t care.” What happensmore often than expected is that different production lots of controllers may have smalldifferences in the register values. These small changes

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

convincingly present an argument.The Circuit X lab experience occurs in the first few weeks of the first 3rd year lab.During the first week of the project each student team is given one of fourteen unknowncircuits to analyze. The circuit is contained in a small black box (Figure 1.) that is rivetedclosed. The boxes and circuits were fabricated by the ECE department machine shop andelectronic technicians. Each box contains a unique first or second order passive circuitthat must be analyzed by the students to determine the circuit topology and componentvalues. The graduate teaching assistants have access to the master record of which boxcontain which circuit. The boxes are numbered for easy identification. Electrical accessto the interior circuit is

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

they were experiencing firsthand the problems team leaders have in getting team members together and proceeding with adesign. Their attention to detail in using the design tools was excellent and the fact that 19 of theteam’s freshmen reported knowledge about two of the tools was a good indicator that the seniorsinvolved had mastered the concepts. The five goals were met in that the seniors did have practiceas a team leader, they did apply the design tools they had learned in class, the writing across thecurriculum requirements were met, the freshmen did have contact with an upperclassman, andthe freshmen did have exposure to the design process.ConclusionsThis is the second year that our seniors were teamed with the freshmen on a project. The

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

educators and secondary-school students. His research interests include 3-Dkinematic modelling of soft-tissue structures in the feeding of marine molluscs, and the use of computersand robotics in education.DUANE BOLICKDuane Bolick is a Masters Student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at WrightState University. His interests are in autonomous robotics and robotics based engineering education. Page 10.749.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

Lean implementation projects. In addition a semester project onproduction simulation using ProModel software is also required.VII. Ship Repair Simulation Exercise This simulation exercise incorporates repair of two ships of different sizes. One ofthe ships is shown in Figure 1. During the simulation, students track performance metricslike lead-time, cycle time, rework and distance traveled by material handler whileimplementing various tools of Lean in three phases. This exercise takes into accountlogistical issues such as inspection reports, master repair schedules, emergent repairs, inaddition to planned repair activities. This simulation exercise simulates repair activitiessuch as painting, blasting, engine overhaul, shaft

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

with undergraduate students.VI. The Group ExperienceMinnesota State University, Mankato is a teaching-focused public university with six colleges,offering bachelor and masters degrees in 150 programs of study to about 14,000 students.Mankato, Minnesota, a community of about 45,000, is a “nice place to raise a family” and isfamous for being the “big town” in the Little House on the Prairie series. Every fall, MSU has aweek-long orientation for all new faculty (including fixed-term hires). During this week, typicalnew hire information is dispensed. More importantly, there is an opportunity to meet newfaculty from the entire university.This work describes a group of faculty who started at MSU in the fall of 2002. While somefaculty were

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianpeng Zhou

ofInstructional Technology: Comparing Technology-Enhanced and Traditional Instruction for a Course in Statics,”Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2003, pp. 133-140.[3] den Ouden, P. “Let Students Show What They Know” The Teaching Professor. Vol. 16, No. 8, 2002, pp. 3.[4] Lowman, J. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. 2nd Ed. 1995, Jossey-Bass of John Wiley & Sons, NY.[5] Weimer, M. “Active Learning: Implementation of Our Best Intentions” The Teaching Professor. Vol. 16, No. 9,2002, pp.1-3.[6] SIUE. “Assessment Use of Bloom’s Taxonomy”, 2003, SIUE Undergraduate Assessment Office[7] Zhou, J. “Achieving Balance between Student-Centered Learning and Instructor-Centered Teaching – A CaseStudy of an Environmental Engineering Course

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

“vertical integration” thusprovides for pre-viewing of senior activity and responsibility, as well as giving earlierintroduction to the breadth and open style typical in the start-up world(4).Design, build, and fly At Georgia Tech, a vertically integrated, multidisciplinary student team is led bya graduate student in the Masters program in Aeronautical Engineering. This team is aparticipant in the annual challenge of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics) for a design, build, and fly activity (5,6). The teams are large, typically 10-20 students, and have involved a multiplicity of disciplines including aeronautical,mechanical, industrial and electrical engineering. The basis for grades and evaluationsare three: “individual

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Hereceived numerous awards from the NDSU and professional societies, including the ASEE, and several grants fromthe NSF, 3M, and HP to enhance engineering education. He is a Fellow Member of the ASEE, and co-author of thecourseware, “Statics: The Next Generation,” which is electronically published by Prentice-Hall in August 2001.ZHIFENG KOU is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering and a Master degree student in Computer Scienceat North Dakota State University. His research interests are biomechanics of head/neck injury, bioinstrumentation,neuro-engineering, medical informatics, telemedicine and e-health, and engineering education. He is a studentmember of the ASEE and

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

Prentice-Hall in August 2001. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationZHIFENG KOU is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering and a Master degree student in Computer Scienceat North Dakota State University. His research interests are biomechanics of head/neck injury, bioinstrumentation,neuro-engineering, medical informatics, telemedicine and e-health, and engineering education. He is a studentmember of the ASEE and authored various journal and conference papers in his concentration areas. Appendix The Form of Student Engagement Survey

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

A Case-Study of Assessment in Materials Laboratory Claudia Milz, Rufus L. Carter University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 / Marymount University, Arlington, VA 2220 Materials engineering students are often ill prepared to enter the workforce upongraduation. While students master the content knowledge they often lack critical skills forsuccess. Our industry feedback of internship students indicates weakness in the areas of:technical writing, critical thinking, professional attitude & teamwork, analysis, reasoning anddecision making. We have examined the effectiveness of new teaching and assessment methods in theMaterials

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Dudevoir; Carl Fossa

introduced a variety of small requirements and forced thestudents to learn the electronics necessary to complete the design requirements. Students quicklygrasped the idea that learning new things is an inherent part of design. An unintended byproductof this approach was that students got four more opportunities to complete a design at the sametime they were learning the electronics. As a side note, the idea of introducing academic topicsvia design requirements or applications has migrated into several other courses since that time.Not only does this technique provide valuable learning, it is also highly motivational to studentswho want to see an application of the concepts they are required to master in real products. Over the course of

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

safety and its impact upon jobperformance, productivity, and workmen’s compensation claims, to name a few. In addition, the5S philosophy is being used as a vehicle to introduce the Lean philosophy to our students and to Page 10.747.4enable students to master and apply their technical communication skills. Initially, two courses at Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTAMUC, IE 101 – Introduction to Industrial Engineering and IT 340 – Quality Managementand Improvement, are being used to

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

with four areas of specialization which includeComputer Science (traditional), Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and ComputerNetworking. The curriculum content for the Computer Science degree is based on the 2001ACM Curriculum Report. The CNS department has 11 full time faculties. Half of the facultieshave earned a Ph.D. degree and the other half masters degrees. The Computer Science degree atUVSC is accredited by ABET in 2002 and currently has 869 students. In this curriculum, thestudents matriculate into the CNS department after successfully completing the requirements of30 hours of core courses common to all computer science students. The students continue takingcore courses until the first semester of their junior year, when they

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

flow in an integrated supply chain; information,money, materials and services. The case study used in the Supply Chain module is “The Powerof Virtual Integration; Dell’s Supply Chain”12.The quality module is introduced with a history of the quality movement including the teachingsof W. Edwards Deming, J.M. Juran, Philip Crosby, Activity Based Costing, ISO 9000 and theMalcolm Baldridge Quality Award. The modern movement in Six Sigma is introduced and thefollowing quality classes are used to cover the toolkits used in the 5 stages of theDefine/Measure/Analyze/Improve and Control (DMAIC) phases of Six Sigma processimprovement processes. The Supply Chain/Quality section of the course is concluded with aGE master black belt guest speaker.The

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

Page 9.389.6verge of slipping”, ‘on the verge of tipping,’ or both occurring simultaneously. These areProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringdifficult concepts for students to master initially. Figure 11 allows for the student to change theplacement of the rope, thereby changing the point of application of the force, until slipping, ortipping or both occur (it is noted that the breadboard is not needed to demonstrate this learningactivity. It is shown here as something that could be conveniently done while using the board forother demonstrations). Changing the angle of the rod, as shown in Figure 12, will allow thestudent to observe

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Almeida; Guillermo Salazar

WorcesterPolytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He received his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology in 1983 in the area of construction engineering and project management. He has 30 years of nationaland international experience as a consultant, contractor, researcher and educator in the construction industry.J OAO C. ALMEIDA is a Ph. D. candidate at the Civil and Environmental Engineering department, WorcesterPolytechnic Institute (WPI.) He holds an MBA from University of North Florida as well as a Master of Sciencedegree from WPI in construction project management. He has more than 15 years experience in the constructionindustry (residential buildings) and management

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nripendra Sarker; Mohan Ketkar

. 4. Sastry, S. S. 1984. Introductory Methods of Numerical Analysis. Prentice Hall, India.Biographical InformationNRIPENDRA N. SARKER is currently Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Technology of the Prairie ViewA&M University, TX. He also worked at universities in Bangladesh, Japan and UT at San Antonio and at softwareindustries. He received his Master’s and PhD degrees from the Texas A&M University at College Station, TX. Hisresearch interests include simulation, algorithm development, and computer networking.MOHAN A. KETKAR is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at the Prairie View A&MUniversity, TX. He received his masters and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

, and maintaining girls' interest in engineering, mathematics, science and technology during the secondary school years.• Encouraging girls to learn about careers in SMET fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented, pursue studies in science, mathematical, engineering and technological fields.Academic curricula provides participants with opportunities to master higher levelproblem solving skills in mathematics, science and technology, learn about computerscience and engineering principles and prepare and motivate them to choose mathematics,science and technology college preparatory courses in high school. Counseling andmentoring sessions with female scientists and engineers in industry and academia areoffered for

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

extensive research record in power systems and control systems, and applications ofintelligent systems.HARISH PALLILAHarish Pallila is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University.He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 2002. Currently he isworking on intelligent systems towards his master s degree. Page 9.192.12 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

State University, 1988. He received the Master of Science in Engineering Sciences from HarvardUniversity in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, Indiana. Daniel Pack is a recipient of the Outstanding Academy EducatorAward, Tau Beta Pi Faculty Award, Digital Corporation Scholarship, Magoon Teaching Award, and NSFTravel Scholarship. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary), Tau Beta Pi(Engineering Honorary), IEEE, and ASEE. Page 9.1096.12Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &