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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

andconscientious engineer and citizen.In specialized courses, students are taught an information base (Maxwell equations, Laplacetransform, etc.) considered useful in solving engineering problems. In addition, students arerequired to solve certain types of problems, become familiar with certain types of examples, taketests, and complete projects in order to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of the field:the methodology usually used by electrical engineers as well as the tools and processesconsidered helpful to students for learning good engineering designs and practices. As is thecase with all engineering programs, the goal of our electrical engineering program is to trainwell-rounded electrical engineers who are competent in their field

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

presents the result of this process, and providespreliminary assessment of how the new curriculum is functioning. Page 8.45.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionIn February 1997, then Dean Richard K. Miller of the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Iowa created and charged the Curriculum Advancement Task Force (CATF)with development of a vision for a new curriculum to complement the new educationalopportunities to be offered by the addition and renovation project. The

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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Tim Anderson; Rufus Carter; Brian Thorndyke; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

University, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, NorthCarolina State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Charlotte andVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The data from all nine universities havebeen placed in a common format, making it possible to carry out appropriate cross-institutionalstudies. More extensive descriptions of the SUCCEED LDB can be found elsewhere 5,6,7. TheSUCCEED LDB is a unique resource that has been and continues to be studied 3-13.SUCCEED is an ongoing project, and the LDB continues to be updated as data becomesavailable. As of the current study, the LDB contained demographic, entry, term and graduationrecords of all undergraduate students in

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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Gerson de Oliveira

possibility of experimentation of new alternatives in the information’ssearch and in the problem’s solving. That makes the teacher an unreplaceable element,mainly in the orientation, correction, project/tasks suitability into the ideal level of thestudents background and also into the subject demands, creating the “familiarizationconditions in the ones involved with computers”46.Niquini and Botelho37 say that the teacher is an important part of the environments created Page 7.320.2by the multiple educational technologies, taking a fundamental role into the teaching- Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Washington Braga

interested in promoting changes in Engineering Education. This paper presents some reflections on teaching strategies to promote active teachingthat may result in effective learning. Most of them have been used for some time now in anundergraduate Heat Transfer course at the Mechanical Engineering Department of PUC,Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is essentially an analysis course, that issupposed to give fundamental information on Heat Transfer. A following course calledThermal Systems Projects is oriented towards technical and industrial problems. Thelearning environment to be considered herein is an extended classroom, combiningsynchronous (face-to-face meetings) and asynchronous (using Internet email conferencingsystems

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Curriculum Development in Graphics

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David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

project. However, the students had a tendency to blame the instructor for the fact thatthe student was up all night working on an assignment, when in fact the student had skipped lab.The net result was that very few labs were turned in late. Required lab attendance forced thestudents to start work on projects when they were assigned which enabled students to ask forhelp during lab. This helped reduce but not eliminate students working all night to completeassignments just before they were due. The instructor also saw an increase in the number ofstudents coming to instructor’s office for help as the students realized they had problems beforethe due date.6. Weekly writing of assessments and two office visits became required. The assessments were

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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Harry Franz

of the charter included development of job-based curriculum andtraining module units, and the dissemination of these materials to instructors ateducational institutions.The development of standards for control systems personnel was a priority goal ofthe charter. The charter also included the goal to develop widespread supportfrom local, national, and international industry. The building of strong bondsbetween education, industry, community, and government was another goal in thecharter, as was the sharing of resources that included materials, projects, staff andfaculty, equipment and facilities, grants, and others. Page 8.571.2

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Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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Chong Chen

Drafting/Design (2 courses) Machine Tool Technology Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Statics Strength of Materials Fluid Power Robotics Electrical Circuit Analysis Digital Circuit Fundamentals Electronics Introduction to Microprocessor Programmable Logic Controllers Instrumentation and Controls Industrial Electricity Engineering Economy Senior Project C++ Most of these required technical courses involve both lecture and lab. After taking thesecourses, students obtain both solid knowledge and hand-on experience on the covered topics. Thegraduates of the EMET program are expected to be able to operate, design, and troubleshoot

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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Frank Wicks

intenseconcentration that was required for the project. Models were developed of Carnot, Otto,Diesel, Brayton and Rankine cycles. The piston cylinder cycles showed a piston moving upand down with simultaneous display of properties, work and heat and the development ofa 1 st law process and cycle table and resulting efficiency. The nuclear power plant simulation displayed the components and response tothrottle, control rod motion, change in flow and a scram. Separately the reactor kineticswere programmed in Basic on an Atari 400 game computer with time responses of inputand output responses traced on a TV screen. The next step was to take the students to the computer room to execute thesimulations. It was discouraging, but then understandable

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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Semahat Siddika Demir

applets in this project. This research was funded by the Whitaker Foundation (PI, Dr. S.S. Demir). Page 8.117.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationREFERENCES1. Demir, S.S., Butera, R.J, DeFranceschi, A.A, Clark, J.W, and Byrne, J.H. Phase Sensitivity and Entrainment in a Modeled Bursting Neuron. Biophysical Journal 72: 579-594, 1997.2. Demir, S.S., Clark, J.W., Murphey, C.R. and Giles, W.R. A mathematical model of a rabbit sinoatrial node cell. American Journal of Physiology 266: C832

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Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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Bertram Pariser

TCI, The College forTechnology. He has published 19 papers and serves as the Faculty Advisor to Tau Alpha PiNational Honor Society. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering& Plasma Physics, and BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr Pariser Co-Founded 5venture companies, and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed over $100million of new shareholder value in client businesses. As Managing Partner of The MITCUCorporation, Dr. Pariser led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capturevalue-creating profit and growth opportunities.Bpariser@alum.mit.edu Page 8.53.8 “Proceedings of

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James Ladesic

Curriculum TechnologyEnhancement Program (CTEP) at Embry Riddle is a University program createdby faculty for faculty who teach engineering and science. CTEP is designed toprovide engineering faculty at both ERAU campuses with incentives andopportunities to advance their skills in the use of professional-grade engineeringsoftware as well as in the use of other contemporary educational technologies. Itis hoped that this project will foster and encourage enthusiasm among theengineering faculty for the implementation of technology within the courses theyteach. It should also help them identify opportunities within the curriculum for theapplication of modern engineering technologies that could enrich course delivery,enhance student-developed design

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Robert Gilbert; Cynthia Finley

experience in the fourth year. An effort was made each week to help thestudents relate what they were doing in the laboratory to what they were doing in the lectures andhomework assignments. The second possibility is the change in the laboratory exercises utilizingthe SimSite program. In the third year, the SimSite exercises were completed as part of anongoing project, with a project report due at the end of the semester. Many students complainedthat the project was too spread out, though, and the teaching assistant observed that nearly all ofTable 2. Sample of student responses to the question, “Did the lab exercises help you understandthe course material better?”*Third Year of Laboratory • “Yes – I learned a lot from both listening to my

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Arlene Mueller; Elaine M. Cooney

students arecomfortable with visual logic problems and verbal logic problems, they are ready to play withand thereby learn about electronic logic.The challenge is to make this technology accessible both conceptually and physically toelementary students. The children are introduced to the concepts of combinational logic usingvisual and verbal logic. The hardware is made available by using a circuit board designed forthis project.Purpose and ObjectivesThe purpose of this project is to teach second and third grade children simple electrical circuitryand how it is related to digital logic circuits. With this knowledge, the children can developprojects such as interactive bulletin boards and simple robots. There are three main objectives:1. Provoke

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Patrick C. Gee

the experience of working ingroups and working on an engineering and technology project that had design, testing andpresentation.VI. ConclusionMEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at the Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-University at Indianapolis(IUPUI) by exposing them to engineering and technology related activities in the various formsdetailed in this paper. The School of Engineering and Technology has a primary goal offulfilling its mission to expose students on a pre-college level to higher education, technicalfields and areas of engineering and technology through the MEAP program.PATRICK GEEPatrick Gee is a Visiting Professor for the Mechanical Engineering

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

Session 1430 Next Generation Principles for Enhancing Student Learning Sudhir Mehta, Scott Danielson North Dakota State University / Arizona State University EastAbstractThe National Science Foundation recently funded the proposal "Statics: The next generation."This project incorporates proven pedagogical findings to improve teaching of statics,specifically, and engineering courses in general. Using past and current research, twelve "NextGeneration (NG) Principles" are proposed for enhancing student learning. These principlesinclude incorporating active cooperative learning, service learning

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

included the following three components: Ä Lecture and discussion - The purpose was to reinforce concepts in mathematics and science, and to lay the groundwork for laboratory and design activities planned for that day. Typically, the lecture and discussion would last less than one hour. Ä Laboratory work - A number of simple and inexpensive home-built devices and toys were provided to teachers to illustrate science and mathematics principles and to provide teachers with a set of useful teaching tools for use in their classrooms. Page 5.557.2 Ä Design - It was a project-based learning experience in which

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Nuclear Power and the Environment

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Robert Simpson; David Hintenlang; James Tulenko

production systems, (i.e. wind,coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, etc.), evaluated on a consistent basis, taking into account thesocial and economic effects in addition to the cost (dollar) effects. A major problemaffecting the evaluation of the environmental and social costs of energy production inconjunction with the monetary cost is a lack of standardization, without whichcomparisons are difficult or invalid. A conflict has arisen between those intent onprotecting their view of the environment and those intent on providing continuingeconomic development. Previous studies of the environmental consequences have beendone by the Pace Law School Energy Project, which is part of the Pace University Schoolof Law's Center for Environmental Legal Studies, located

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

suggests that 1) managers and engineers view the same facts fromdifferent perspectives and 2) there is a general difficulty to send or receive bad news, particularlywhen it must be passed to superiors. It is possible that the level of risk was not effectivelycommunicated to higher levels of management. Lighthall6 argues that there was a lack in basicskills in statistics with the engineers, and that the data and analyses were not valid but deficient.In fact, NASA safety organizations were not staffed with professional statisticians or riskanalysts, and project engineers were not trained in modern statistical analysis techniques.3 The following hypothesis and supporting hypotheses are thus presented for this study: Engineering curricula

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

a number ofassessment instruments specifically for this project. Assessment results indicate that the presentform of the Vis-MoM courseware is well received by both professors and students. In addition,quantitative results indicate a significant increase in both short term and longer-term conceptual Page 7.341.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”understanding when using the Vis-MoM courseware over standard lecture alone. Theassessment instruments developed specifically for this

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

the challenge below. You need to take this opportunity to participate in thisactivity to the best of your ability. You should identify anything you are uncertain of and identify what you would do to research more toremove this uncertainty. Your effort on this activity represents -10% of your score on the first midterm exam.Part A. Recent sports reports have focused on the use of proteins as supplements to enhance an athlete’s performance. As such, there isgreat interest in the pharmaceutical industry to produce protein-based products that can be used in over-the-counter performanceenhancing supplements. You have just been promoted to project manager at ProteinPlus Corporation. ProteinPlus Corporation’s primaryrole is to design protein

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New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationobjectives of these exercises were: 1) elicit and record students’ initial concepts, 2) to illustratethe functional aspects of living systems, and introduce the principle that the design space of lifeis constrained by a rational set of physical parameters, and 3)allow the instructor to establish theframework for the discussions to follow in the course.Module 2: Introduction to The Human Genome Project and genetic mapping. For this exercise,the students were shown the recently published map of the human genome1 and were challengedto decode the meanings of its annotations

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wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

from Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in1988. In 1994, she received the M.S. degree in Physics from University of São Paulo, São Paulo, and Brazil.In 2000 she degree Ph.D. in the Department of Computer and Digital System engineering at the PolytechnicSchool of University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is teacher and researcher at LARC (Laboratory of ComputerArchitecture and Networks) where she has developed projects at multimedia applications for high-speednetwork and distance educationWilson Vicente RuggieroWilson Vicente Ruggiero is President of SCOPUS TECNOLOGIA S.A. He is an assistant professor ofComputer Department and Digital Systems Engineering of Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo andDirector of Laboratory of Computer

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Shelia Barnett

conditioning, paper mill, telephone, government contractors,and a biomedical pharmaceutical company. From employer evaluations, we find most of thestudents performed extremely well. Some of the employer comments were: “Student’s greatattitude a plus … work ethic will be an asset to any organization,” “… student is a cut above therest,” “Student exceeded expectations of intern program,” “… provided great support for multi-million dollar project,” etc. Student surveys showed that students regarded their experiences positively and wantedto continue working in some form of internship or cooperative experience. However, studentsdid express anxiety in beginning work in an engineering environment with no previousexperience. Most students were able to

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Duke; Don Morris

of the form used to report a summary of the assessment results and anyrecommendations based on the evaluation of the results. Any particular assessment tool,homework, group project, laboratory reports, quizzes, testing, or combination deemed necessaryby the instructor could be used. The assessment might be used to monitor (M) or summatively Page 7.238.2assess (S) the student achievement. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFig. 2. Schematic diagram depicting the process for course

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Osborne; Bill Carroll

offered.Course Design and DeliveryCS/EE Online courses are delivered via the World-Wide-Web in the form of hypertext files.This permits a wide range of options for course design and implementation. All courses aredesigned to facilitate asynchronous and self-paced learning. On-line Web access (utilizingcourse WebPages and WebBoard, and email) is used to facilitate group discussions and Q&Awith the instructor, and support other logistical needs such as homework assignments. FAQs andthreaded discussions are provided through the course WebBoard. Threaded discussions andQ&As are kept from each semester and are made available to students in future semestersthrough the WebBoard. Use of the WebBoard to organize project teams in CSE 5324 is shownin Fig

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David Braun

at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Heworked at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996, after completing the Ph.D. inElectrical Engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara. Please see www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ for information about hiscourses, teaching interests, and research projects in semiconducting polymers. Page 6.529.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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William Drake; Douglas Walcerz

goals that are being satisfied and those which are not. Thisinformation can motivate and direct efforts to improve curriculum.In practice, the measurement of educational outcomes is difficult and can be expensive, the results are oftenambiguous or statistically unsound. The positive impact of continuous improvement on the curriculum isdifficult to provei. Despite the difficulties and expense, accrediting groups and other agencies havemandated outcomes assessment and continuous improvement. Of special note are new criteria by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which apply to engineering programs in2000ii, and are projected to be mandated for engineering technology programs in 2001iii. The new criteriarely extensively

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Martha Wilson

, and sponsored activities, including IE students in these efforts if they are interested. • Investigate the possibility of developing K-12 outreach programs such as summer camps and mentoring programs. • Continue the brown bag lunches and try to include more female students. • Collaborate with WES to sponsor activities for female engineering students. • Work with the campus freshman advisors to assist them with advising potential engineering students • Work with the campus tour guides to help them understand the types of projects performed in the engineering departments, and how the facility supports those projects. • Conduct surveys or interviews in other departments at UMD to try to determine why

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Frederick Reardon; Cici Mattiuzzi

that may be used includes,but is not limited to, the following: student portfolios, including design projects; nationally-normed subject content examinations; alumni surveys that document professionalaccomplishments and career development activities; employer surveys; and placement data ofgraduates.”1The College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento,has initiated a new method for assessing the outcomes of our graduates, in response to the newABET requirements. This paper describes our industry site visit survey program. Page 6.581.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering