Conference Session

Electromechanical Curricula

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Fuehne, Purdue University-Columbus; Kathy Bradley, MotoTron, Inc; Eric Bradley, MotoTron, Inc

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Engineering Technology

competition.Additionally, teams are required to submit their controller software to a design review prior tothe competition. After the competition, teams are also required to make a performancepresentation, summarizing their data acquisition and performance of the vehicle. The paperdetails the training, the competition and the results of design reviews and performancepresentations.IntroductionRetention of college students and particularly freshmen students is a universal concern amonginstitutions of higher education. Typical retention rates of freshmen who go on to takesophomore-level courses are in the 60 -70 % range while the overall five year retention andgraduation rate has been reported at 37%.1 Institutions have implemented many potentialsolutions to

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; David Freiberger, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

over 1.5billion people, a 225% increase since the peak of the dot com boom in the year 2000 [1].Another electronic communication technology whose use has increased significantly in the lastfew years is mobile-phones. Over 2.4 billion people use cell-phones [2]. Third-world countriesshow the largest increase in cell-phone usage, since no tangible channel (i.e. copper lines, opticalfiber, microwaves, etc.) is needed (other than ubiquitous towers) to enable communication. Page 13.13.2Although a plateau has not been reached yet, further increases in availability of Internet and cell-phones (and any other communication systems) are limited by one

Conference Session

Industry and Engineering Technology Partnerships

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Colwell, Purdue University Calumet; Shoji Nakayama, Purdue University Calumet; Carl Jenks, Purdue University Calumet

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Engineering Technology

skill” courses together. Thesecourses also serve as useful accompaniments in the curriculums of the various specialty areas ofthe engineering technologies. However, this curriculum was not arbitrarily and unilaterallydeveloped; it was developed through a series of well-planned advisory committee meetings overmany years. Page 13.714.2 The program has benefited in its overall guidance from Technology Accreditation Criteria(TAC/ABET) Criterion 2, which lists the eleven areas of expertise a graduate must possess uponprogram completion; most people know these as the “a-k” criterion.1 Under this standard, an engineering technology program must

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Ossman, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

response (IIR) filters, rounding of the coefficients can result in an unstable filter. Thesensitivity to wordlength effects can be reduced for IIR filters by implementing the filter in 2ndorder sections (biquads) instead of in a single Nth order block. Students explore the wordlengtheffect for IIR filters both in single block and biquad realizations using MATLAB. After Page 13.872.2simulating the effects, students download rounded coefficients onto Texas InstrumepvuÓTMS320C6711 DSKs and verify that experimental results correlate with simulation results.The objectives of this lab exercise are to: 1. Become proficient at using the Filter Design

Conference Session

Innovation & Assessment in the delivery of IT/IET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Stienecker, Ohio Northern University

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Engineering Technology

the 1960’s, [1] the industry has grown in leapsand bounds, similar to many other technology fields. According to statistics released by theRobotic Industry Associates (RIA), the robotics industries’ only trade group[2], the industry hasdoubled since 1996 [2]. When one reviews [3, 4, 5] the instructional materials currently available tothe robotics student she or he will find an assortment of old applied industrial robotics materialpublished in the mid to late 1990s with a plethora of robot design and kinematics texts that werepublished after 1999. This represents the traditional and current approach to the roboticseducation at many institutions. In the last four decades the student that took a robotics class wastypically a mechanical or

Conference Session

Graduate Education in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess Godbey, Jacksonville State University; Dana Ingalsbe, Jacksonville State University; Terry Marbut, Jacksonville State University

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Engineering Technology

searchingfor qualified employees. The skills needed by workers in manufacturing have changed as havethe skills needed by its leadership. Indeed, graduate-level education must provide a pool oftechnical professionals with effective management skills and leadership abilities. Recognizingthis, one university NAIT-accredited technology department developed an innovative graduateprogram designed to provide students with a broad base of knowledge and skills needed toeffectively manage and control production in manufacturing environments. The resulting degreeis a Master of Science program with a major in Manufacturing Systems Technology. Thisprogram’s purpose is to produce industrial leaders who 1) make decisions to integrate appropriatetechnologies, 2

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention in ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aram Agajanian, DeVry University-Chicago; William M. Timpson, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

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Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, SUNY-Farmingdale

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Engineering Technology

be integrated into any Networking or Telecommunications courses. The firstpart of the paper will introduce the ideas and business models behind Joost. It will discuss whatmakes Joost different and its advantages and potential disadvantages over its rival technologies.Then it will address the new P2P network technologies discussed in the class used by Joost andother important technologies implemented like H.264 for encoding and decoding and X.509 forencryption. The second part of this paper will focus on classroom experiment of the peer-to-peernetwork technology as a TV. As a result, students (1) will learn how to install and setup Joostapplication as a TV; (2) will observe bandwidth requirements, type of protocols used and thequality of the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

, surface plates, right-angle plates, precision parallels, gage blocks, andgage pins.The Industrial Advisory Committee recommended to add metrology concepts in the ETcurriculum. The industrial interest was driven primarily because companies have realized thetremendous benefits of understanding the basic principles of measurement without which it isimpossible to implement six sigma.The course covers areas of metrology such as, gage R&R, bias, linearity, measurementuncertainty, inspection of size, form and orientation tolerances using 1994 GD&T standard1. Inthe initial development phase of laboratory experiments, students perform six laboratoryexperiments in teams. These experiments are on: (1) measurement of size, (2) flatness, (3

Conference Session

Projects & Partnerships Result in Student Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Tippens, SPSU

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Engineering Technology

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Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Brian Lien, Princeton High School; Michelle Shafer, Mt Notre Dame High School; Steve Brickner, Harrison High School

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Engineering Technology

• Activities can better illustrate the practice of engineering than lecture only • Project work can facilitate better appreciation of teamwork and communication skillsTo augment the project work, the Colleges of Applied Science and Engineering developedinstructional modules on a variety of engineering disciplines as well as topics that span alldisciplines. These were developed to provide the specific instruction on topics that the highschool instructors could not provide. For example, modules describing the engineering andtechnology disciplines were developed as were modules on engineering design, problem, solvingand technical communication. A summary of the modules developed for the program are listedin Table 1. Table 1

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Digendra Das, SUNYIT

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Engineering Technology

the possibility ofestablishing a Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in the emerging field of Nano andBio Information Technology. All the participants agreed that in order to achieve this goalan initial organization would have to be formed for a period of two years, which wouldbe located at SUNYIT, Utica, NY, and named “New York Nano-Bio-MolecularInformation Technology (NYNBIT) Incubator”.The mission and purpose of this organization is to set up a plan to establish a Center forAdvanced Technology (CAT) focused on fostering an environment of research,development and education and creating a new industrial base in New York State in thisunique technology area.The collaborating Institutions are: 1. SUNYIT 2. SUNY- Geneseo 3. SUNY

Conference Session

Electromechanical Curricula

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores, Alfred State College; David Hunt, State University of New York, Alfred

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Engineering Technology

that meets for three one-hourlectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. The course learning objectives are shown inTable 1. The EMA course is team taught, the lectures are taught by a MET faculty member andthe laboratory is taught by an EET faculty member. The topics covered in the lectures mainlyinvolve theoretical analysis of statics, dynamics, and strength of materials. A summary of thetopics covered in the lectures is given in Table 2. Course Learning Objectives • Apply basic methods of statics, dynamics and kinematic analysis • Analyze the characteristics of common mechanisms • Be able to work with, describe and use the common types of mechanical to electrical transducers used in this

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Sgro, Eastern Kentucky University; Steve Freeman, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

as the “Backward Design Process”. This is an approach to develop technical courses thataim to cultivate higher-order skills in students. By incorporating recommended critical thinkingdesign features, this article provides examples and a framework for the development of newcourses or the revision of current courses. A list of websites devoted to critical thinking andUnderstanding by Design tools is included at the end of this article for additional information.Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking can be defined as, “the art of thinking about thinking in such as way as to: 1)identify its strengths and weaknesses, and 2) recast it in improved form (where necessary)”3 (p.22). Chaffee1 defines critical thinking as, “An active, purposeful, organized

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

situations as many exercises are prepared as warranted by the topic addressed. Threeexamples are presented in this paper (see Appendix). Two exercises are presented in Example 1pertaining to the topic of internal reactions at two different locations of a beam shown in Figure1. The feedback information is also included in each exercise. The reason for providing thesetwo exercises on the same topic is for the students to recognize that there is a fundamentaldifference in terms internal forces between these two locations, which in turn would translate todifferent stress conditions at these two sections (1-1 and 2-2). Example 2 is on calculation ofstresses using the same beam in Example 1. Two exercises are shown – one for normal stress atpoint A at

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Chance Glenn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

. Page 13.736.2The Local Access NetworkThe local access network is sometimes referred to as the “last mile” of the information highway.It has also been known as the local loop network or the “outside plant”. It is the part of thetelecommunications network that connects individual subscribers (residential and business) to anetwork node (e.g., a telco central office). The local access network was originally designed toprovide analog voice service. It was required to transmit a limited range of audio signals (up toabout 4000 Hz), DC control signals (on/off hook and dial pulses) and ringing voltage (about 90VAC @ 20 Hz) over a distance that normally ranged up to about 13 miles (1). The traditionalmedium of choice has been twisted pairs of copper

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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Engineering Technology

technicalproficiency, and also understand the mission and goals of their employer to remain in theworkforce. Current engineering technology accreditation requirements recognize these demandsand focus on measurable student outcomes. The new requirements seek to develop life-longlearning skills, written communication skills, and oral communication skills along with technicalproficiencies in all graduates. Satisfying these goals requires new teaching methods that are morestudent-centered.1 One technique being applied is project-based learning.2,3Project-based leaning provides enriching educational experiences that help motivate students tobecome self-learners.1 Project-based learning experiences give technology students a chance toconstruct their own knowledge

Conference Session

Distance Learning in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meral Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismet Anitsal, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Bonita Barger, Tennessee Tech University; Michael Allen, Tennessee Tech University

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Engineering Technology

borders. Courseobjectives are to: 1. Practice and knowledge of managing global business practices; 2. Gainknowledge of business environment within which the company operates on the factor of nationaland organizational culture; 3. Gain knowledge of the influences of national culture on theinternal arrangements of a company; 4. Gain knowledge of how internal arrangements influencethe strategy of a company; 5. Practice and knowledge of International Human ResourceManagement issues in making the company strategy work; 6. Gain knowledge of cross culturalnegotiations and communications; 7. Experience in interviewing and interacting with peoplefrom other countries/cultures.Marketing – Strategic Marketing Graduate CourseThis MBA level strategic marketing

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

; ancienttechnology is short on its documentation. As a result, one cannot just pull an ancient period bookfrom the shelf and read about the then current technology from 10 to 20 thousand years ago.However, there are two prominent people, who have studied the history of the stone tool periodand learned how to recreate the artifacts of that period. By using the reference material,researched and produced by Crabtree3 (1972) and Whittaker11 (1994), the process of building aset of Stone Age tools (refer to Figure 1) was started.Figure 1. Stone Age tools. Page 13.259.4To help with the classroom delivery of these newly created ancient tools, an AV cart wasacquired

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

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Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention in ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene Ferrara, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Andrew Vavreck, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

in the College of Engineering programs, as well as the overall rate of attrition.Data was compiled to determine where the students who completed the Introduction toEngineering course EDSGN 100 in each year of interest were two years later. Numbersare reported in Table 1 for students who completed EDSGN 100 in seven differentacademic years – Fall 2000/Spring 2001, Fall 2001/Spring 2002, Fall 2002/Spring 2003,Fall 2003/Spring 2004, Fall 2004/Spring 2005, Fall 2005/Spring 2006, and Fall2006/Spring 2007. In each case, except for the last group of students listed, the numbersindicate the status of the students two years later. So, for example, for students whocompleted EDSGN 100 in Fall 2000/Spring 2001, data has been collected to report

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Louis Frenzel, Electronic Design Magazine; James Hyder, Intel; Michael Lesiecki, MCCCD; Thomas McGlew, Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center

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Engineering Technology

massiveimplications for changes in program content and structure so the intent of this paper is tolayout the issues and promote wide-ranging discussion that will lead to a community ofinterest to support all relevant program change initiatives. The authors represent a rangeof academic, publishing and industry interests but they have a common commitment tounderstanding the change agents that should drive curriculum planning. It has been arecurring theme at past ASEE conferences 1, 2 and this paper is intended to furtherstimulate the dialog but more from the perspective of 2-year colleges. Page 13.1269.2There are two commonly used techniques that can help. The first

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Zecher, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

element models rather than being theoretically based.The course begins by introducing basic FEA terminology and then covers the basic stiffnessmatrix approach using one-dimensional spring elements. The objective of this portion of thecourse is to give students a fundamental understanding of how FEA numerical computations aredone. However, within the course, this is the only coverage of developing stiffness matrices. Page 13.419.2  k1 − k1 0  u1   F 1  − k 1 k 1 + k 2 − k 2  u2  =  F 2        0

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

technology programs, inaccordance with the technology criteria 2000 (TC2K)1 adopted by the TAC/ABET, is that everyprogram must demonstrate, through documentary evidence, that program educational objectivesand program outcomes are achieved. The program educational objectives are defined as broadstatements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program ispreparing graduates to achieve during the first few years following graduation. The programoutcomes are defined as statements that describe what units of knowledge or skill students areexpected to acquire from the program to prepare them to achieve the program educationalobjectives. These are typically demonstrated by the student and measured by the program at thetime of

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoffa, none; Steven Freeman, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

are likely to learnthe nature of science through implicit instruction (i.e. performance of scientific inquiry with noreflection on the nature of the activity) should be called into question” (p. 928). A well-designedlab report asks a student to reflect on the activity, the assigned readings, and the lecture content,and synthesize these into a new, succinct document. These are the primary goals of the synopsislab report format.Traditional Laboratory ReportsThe traditional lab report, for the purposes of this study, was defined as a report in whichsubjects may take as much space as they wish in order to report the information in Table 1. Thetraditional style of lab report is written chronologically, similar to other documents that have

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

of the FPGA and HDL [1] has allowed studentsto create larger designs, test them, and make modifications very easily and quickly than using atraditional approach.In implementing the embedded systems design course, we wanted to ensure that our studentsworked with the state of the art (i.e. current Field Programmable Gate Array devices, standardinterfaces, current technology I/O devices, real applications, software tools, and hardwaredescription languages) and that they still did actual hardware design and fabrication. We wantedstudents to have independence in the selection of projects, but had to ensure a uniform level ofsupport. Finally, we had to ensure that this presented our students with a reasonably achievabledesign effort, and that they

Conference Session

Sustainable Design & Global Issues in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University

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Engineering Technology

AdvisoryBoard at this institution, that these areas of study will continue to provide a strong foundationupon which to build a relevant, substantive and yet, a flexible curriculum as reported here. Thisconference paper will describe these global engineering study areas and the potentialdevelopment of a curriculum that would promote these areas of engineering technology.BackgroundA careful and constant scrutiny of the following, 1. Local and national news 2. Curriculum changes in various engineering technology programs throughout the country 3. A survey of the recent placements of our own ET graduates and the present engineering positions of our evening, part-time students1 4. Meetings with the faculty and Industrial Advisory Board members

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Border, Bowling Green State University; Erik Mayer, Bowling Green State University

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Engineering Technology

newmicroprocessors.The faculty made the decision that it was best to invest in new microprocessors, rather than tostay with the 80186 hardware. The basis of this decision was: (1) the growth of embeddedmicroprocessor applications and their adoption (for the most part) of non x86 architectures andthe fact that (2) operating systems use of low level code (such as x86-based assembly code) isnow limited to coding at the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of the OS kernel, thus limitingthe relevance of classroom and laboratory instruction of x86 machine and assembly code. Page 13.774.3During the selection process of a new, non x86 microprocessor a number of vendors

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abu SARWAR, Austin Peay State University; John Blake, Austin Peay State University

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Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

Systems” to be taken during the students’Junior year of study.1 This course was structured to provide students hands-on exposure to theinternal workings of modern operating systems.During the 2004/2005 academic year, the material being taught in the software programming wasevaluated. In accordance with the Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001) report by the ComputerSociety of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-CS) and the Associationfor Computing Machinery (ACM), the two software programming courses being taught fellwithin the traditional imperative-first approach. This approach starts students off with softwareprogramming activities without any real preparations.2 After careful review, it was found thatthe student population