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

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

developed and taught for the first time inour SE curriculum during the Winter Quarter 2000-2001 [8]. The students are first introduced tothe importance of requirements in SE-283 (Introduction to Software Verification), and SE-280(Software Engineering Process). The concepts of RE learnt in SE-3821 are reinforced in SE-380(Principles of Software Architecture) and the process is scaled up for the students in their three-quarter experience of “Software Development Laboratory”[5], where the students work on large-scale projects in a “real-world” setting.2. Curricular contextThe academic schedule at MSOE is based on a quarter system with three quarters in an academicyear. Each quarter involves ten weeks of instruction with the eleventh week devoted to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Zekavat

lecture-laboratory format. It consists of two hoursof lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. At MTU this course is required for mechanicalengineering and biomedical engineering majors and forms the foundation for theirinstrumentation sequence. The civil engineering department is considering requiring EE 3010 aspart of its core curriculum. Approximately 150 students per semester spend two hours per week Page 9.86.3in the lecture hall and two hours per week in the laboratory. The topics presented and theirsupporting laboratory activities are presented in Table 1.The lecture and laboratory experiences are structured to fulfill several

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

Session 2547 Revving up interest in Hands-On Engineering Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeIntroduction: This paper provides an overview of the past, present, and future changes to a laboratory-based course providing hands-on experience in manufacturing. At the 2002 conference for theASEE, Mukasa E. Ssemakula presented a paper (session 3649)1, describing successes for acourse that helped students gain hands-on experience in a Mechanical Engineering Technology(MET) program. Using this presentation as a springboard, a pilot program at Penn State

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

control,analog and digital electronics, microcontroller technology, interface electronics and real-time programming. The laboratory sessions focus on small, hands-on interdisciplinarydesign projects in which small teams of students configure, design, and implement asuccession of mechatronic subsystems, leading to system integration in a final project.For example, as an introduction to digital design, students apply the fundamentalprincipals of combinatorial and sequential logic to the design of a quadraturedecoder/counter circuit that is used to interface an incremental optical encoder to amicrocontroller. The design is implemented using the appropriate software development

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

and recommendations for future work.2 BackgroundTraditional approaches to system design in computing sciences have focused primarily onsoftware design, whereas system design in other engineering disciplines has focused primarily onhardware design. With the introduction of inexpensive microprocessors, it became possible toprovide students with hands-on laboratory experiences to construct simple embedded systems.As these systems have evolved in commercial applications, the number and complexity of Page 9.528.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

non-traditional educational focus is in the management of the systems and human resources thatmove these technologies from the laboratory into full commercialization for the benefit ofsociety. Specifically, the microEP graduate program strives to emulate an industrial work groupin an academic environment, an environment that is based in assessing performance throughevaluation of individual projects and knowledge rather than in meeting group objectives.The microEP program also stresses the concepts of civic responsibility through the concept ofthe “citizen technologist”. All microEP students are trained in their responsibilities to lead theircommunities after graduation to repay the large investment that society has placed into theirgraduate

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

acquire anunderstanding of what works well at one university and may wish to adapt the practices to theirenvironment.The specific setting for this course is a small, private school located in the Northwest and in acity with numerous high-technology companies. As a result, the methods may or may not beapplicable to a large, state school and, depending upon location, interaction with practicingprofessionals may be problematic. We will provide an overview of the design course but will notgo into intricate details such as individual lecture topics, document contents, project funding,laboratory space, and equipment.The first section discusses instructional objectives and sets the motivation for the next section,course structure. Here, we define some

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

Education,” Distance Education 15(1), 1994, 160-171.16. Alexander, D.G. and Smelser, R.E. “Delivering an Engineering Laboratory Course Using the Internet, the Post Office, and a Campus Visit,” Journal of Engineering Education 92(1), 2003, 79-84.17. Ferguson, C. and Wong, K.K. “The Use of Modern Educational Technologies in the Flexible Delivery of Engineering Degree Programs,” Internationalisation of Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 7th annual convention and conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (Melbourne), 1995, 261- 265 (ISBN 0-7326-0886-4).18. Ferguson, C. and Wong, K.K. “Issues in Using Computer-Aided Learning Programs to Enhance Engineering Teaching – a Case Study,” Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

. Instructional lectures on each experimental method aregiven during each group’s (having maximum 5 students) laboratory classes. Each group has onelaboratory class of 3 hrs duration per week. A written laboratory report is required to be turned-in by the students before the commencement of next experiment/laboratory class. The ultimategoal of these practical exercises is to provide hands-on experience for students in analyzingfracture behavior in biomaterials. Also, we strongly believe that these laboratory exercises helpstudents in developing their learning, analyzing and creative thinking skills/abilities.As already mentioned in the course methodology (section 2.1.3), mechanical testing includingmicroindentation hardness testing, fracture toughness

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

course entitled “DigitalElectronics” (TECH 4374) has been taught in a four-credit-hour format of one two-hour lectureand one two-hour lab per week. When we designed the manufacturing engineering curriculum,we decided to reorient this existing digital electronics course toward the needs of the increasingnumber of manufacturing engineering undergraduates who will take it as a requirement, whilekeeping it at a level that is accessible to technology students as well. In 2001 we began a curriculum-improvement project funded by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program. We chose theDigital Electronics course as one of the main targets of our efforts. In this paper we will describe

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

control - Assignment Assignment Examination case studies Assignmentquality accreditation.Theory of metal cutting and Examination Examination Laboratory Examination Assignmentpractical machining processes.Modelling of threedimensional tool/workpieceinterference for performanceprediction.Introduction to group Examination Assignment Laboratory Case studies Case studiestechnology, flexible (Aluminium (Aluminiummanufacturing systems and

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hari Janardanan Nair; Frank Liou

gauged the interrelation between various related disciplinesthey should able to choose their field of research or application.The goal of the introductory courses is to grasp the basic operation theories of micro-scaledevices such as sensors and actuators and to bring the student to an adequate level ofawareness irrespective of their technical background. Careful design of the syllabus isessential so that it suits the background of students in each discipline. For example,students from electrical engineering may have prior knowledge of the IC fabricationmethods and solid-state physics when compared to others from biology or medicine.Individual attention from faculty members or laboratory assistants may be provided toquickly solve problems and

Conference Session

Role of Professional Societies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianne Dorland

technologies, processes andpractices needed to meet global societal and marketplace challenges. The objectives of theinstitute are to: • Facilitate the advancement of R&D and evaluation frameworks for sustainability that will enable industry to meet societal needs while reducing the impact of their operations. • Match industry’s needs for innovative technologies, processes and practices with the resources of leading academic institutions and national laboratories. • Empower chemical engineers to help make the entities they serve contributors toward a more sustainable world. • Cultivate mutually beneficial alliances with government agencies, industry and NGOs to identify critical issues regarding

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino; Ronald Barr

E and F (see Table 1).Classr oom Testing Methodology Three Biomechanics modules, covering seven specific challenges, were tested in thisclassroom setting. They were: 1. The Iron Cross (IC), one challenge; 2. The Virtual Biomechanics Laboratory (VBL), three challenges; and 3. Jumping Jack (JJ), three challenges.The same testing methodology was used for each module. First, a general background lecture on Page 9.311.2the module’s topic was given using a Powerpoint slide show prepared by the first author. The Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rahul Kulkarni; Wajiha Shireen

processing capability and flexibility toimplement advanced motor control algorithms. This paper presents the SVPWM strategy incontext to how it can be implemented using a DSP. The paper will include analytical equations,software flow diagrams and experimental results from a laboratory prototype drive system.II. Introduction: Advanced motor drive systems used in modern equipment and industrial processes requirethe following features from a typical motor controller -• Fast processing to implement advanced algorithms to minimize torque ripple, on line parameter adaptation, precise speed control etc.• A flexible solution so that future modification can be realized by changing software instead of redesigning a separate hardware platform

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

allengineering majors; chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering here atYSU. Courses were given up by all the majors in order to get the required space in thecurriculum. Three courses were developed, one for each quarter, and each course was worth 3quarter hours and included a laboratory component. The courses were designed to incorporatefeatures that would maintain students’ interest in engineering and develop useful skills for laterparts of the engineering curriculum. Faculty resources would need to be about the same asrequired for the courses replaced so that the program could be instituted without requiring theaddition of new faculty.The factors determined as fundamental to a successful freshman engineering program

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

by implementingmultidimensional projects such as the solarbike, moonbuggy, and SAE formula one withthe final goal of competing in national competitions. It is through these projects thatstudents are able to see the big picture.Freshmen students are paired with a senior mentor and together, these teams are requiredto complete all aspects of the project from the initial research and the design process tobudgeting and manufacturing nearly everything from within the laboratory. In the end,the students are able to see the outcome of their projects by competing against top-notchuniversities in a national competition. Freshmen students complete the project as part oftheir fulfillments for the Introduction to Engineering Fundamentals course while

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suryaprasad Jayadevappa; Ravi Shankar

hands-on laboratory intense course with three laboratoryassignments, two tests and one term project. Some of the laboratory assignments involvedextending few of the design examples developed and provided in class. For example, partof the first assignment involved reusing the 1-bit adder to develop a 4-bit adder. Theother part of first assignment involved reusing the 4-bit adder to develop a 8 bit adder.For the term project a simple instruction set computer was first discussed in detail inclass. This involved the various stages of the processor design including the SystemCdesign code being made available. Later the students were given a specific instruction setwith few addressing modes and encouraged to develop the design for the processor

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

identifiedrecommendations for best practices in new engineering curricular models and the bullets belowsummarize these points. • Implementation of “engineering up front”: the exposure of freshmen to hands-on, real- world engineering practice early in their undergraduate education, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects. Many engineering programs have postponed this experience until the junior or senior year. • Integration of students working in teams rather than independently, including cooperative learning, especially in the earlier undergraduate years. Although the study found an emphasis on a team approach as a difficult process (including problems related to team composition, organization, methods

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

described above has been implemented and studied at the FAMU-FSU College ofEngineering, Tennessee Tech University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, in a varietyof courses such as Momentum Transfer, Heat Transfer, Kinetics, and Introduction to ProcessDesign. A close coordination with the laboratory work associated with these courses has beenfollowed in some cases in order to assess the impact of the approach on the students in other Page 9.1207.4team settings. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering