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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

established.The paper describes development of the Safety and Fire Engineering Technology program,institutional response to community needs, curriculum, facilities including laboratories andsimulation programs, student background, and depicts program growth. Finally, conclusionsdescribe reasons for success of the program and future plans for continued development.IntroductionThis paper describes the Safety and Fire Protection Engineering Technology program at theUniversity of Houston-Downtown (UHD). The historical development of the program isdescribed to emphasize how UHD meets the needs of the community. The objectives of the Page 9.906.1program were

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

engineers andcontemporary engineering problems. Seven one-hour laboratories are included during thesemester. Homework focuses on the development of an ability to solve engineering scienceproblems in the topic areas. There are two semester exams and a cumulative final, allemphasizing problem solving.Table 5: Schedule of Topics in Introduction to Engineering.Topic WeeksFields of Engineering 1Engineering Design 2Units and Dimensions 0.5Engineering Estimates 0.5Introduction to Electrical Engineering 3Introduction to Mechanics 3Mass and Energy Conservation

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

emphasis coincided with a reduction in engineering curricula that hadfocused on application related design activities. Prior to that time, undergraduate engineeringprograms were typically of five-year duration, with 170 or more credit hours. In response toconsiderations of economy and declining enrollment, universities were forced to reduce credithours and program length. Courses eliminated during this time typically included theapplication-based laboratory classes, which, in the short term, allowed engineering to fall in linewith the program lengths of other disciplines. Unfortunately, the long-term impact of thesedecisions was to be largely negative for engineering graduates. Observing this, McMaster andMatch said that “Too few of our

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

developing this emerging engineering educationfield. DME-USC established a course for teaching microcontrollers to mechanical engineeringstudents – EMCH 367, www.me.sc.edu/courses/emch367. The course consists of four majorcomponents: (a) classroom instruction; (b) homework; (c) laboratory; (d) project. The classroominstruction is focused on instilling in students the basic knowledge related to programming andusing the microcontroller. Part of the classroom instruction is performed in a computerlaboratory, where the students interact with simulation software on a one-on-one basis. Thehomework is focused on the students’ understanding and retention of the concepts in a self-teaching style, and it consists of examples that students follow and exercises

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

Paper 2004-1243 Real or Simulation: Experiences Using Computer Simulation versus Remote Operation for Process Control Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Stewart; David Elrod

, classes meet for two hour-long lectures and athree-hour laboratory session each week. The lectures are taught by a team of four faculty. Eachlaboratory session is led by two teaching assistants. A total of ten teaching assistants support thelabs and hold office hours during the fall and spring.Initially, ME/CEE 1770 was a text-based course. Lectures were from presentations that Page 9.228.1accompanied the required course textbook. Laboratory activities were established to go with the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

some of the “typical” skills that are expected of “typical”software engineer.3. Softwar e Quality Assur ance at Milwaukee School of Engineer ingThe 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 finalexams. Typical software engineering courses are three or four credits, and most have anassociated laboratory session. The undergraduate software engineering program at MSOE [4]began operation in 1999 and had its first graduating class in spring 2002. The SE program wasvisited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in September 2002and is one of the first accredited SE programs in the United

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

Engineering enrollment ofover 500. In the same time frame, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering (CoE) Page 9.403.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwas going through the ABET 2000 accreditation process. Based on the industrial andgovernment laboratory (JPL) experience of Donna Shirley and members of the AME AdvisoryBoard, it was obvious that a modern Aerospace Engineering program had to teach more than theold basics of aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion, especially more

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

andrelative conceptual simplicity, it has been difficult to present electronic neural networksin a form convenient for the university classroom or electronics laboratory setting. In thispaper we describe an approach for implementing a neural network though which manymajor analog and digital MOSFET circuit concepts can be illustrated and demonstrated.This approach is amenable to realization in discrete electronic modules through whichassociated laboratory exercises and design projects may be created. Furthermore, thesame concepts can be extended into Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where thelimitations of component count and performance can be overcome and addressed to a fargreater degree.IntroductionThe fundamental motivation to study neural

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

? Whatmakes an image scientific?” were addressed. The class focused on studio/laboratory experiencesfor mixed teams of students. A range of fluids apparatus were made available, and students also created novel flows.Writeups were required for each image (to the art students’ shock). Student work was evaluatedfor both artistic and scientific merit.This course represents a radical departure from normal engineering curricula; typically all finearts studio courses are specifically excluded. However, the course proved to be very successful inattracting both graduate and undergraduate students, engineering women in particular. Oneoutcome of the course is the recognition by students of the beauty of fluid physics that surroundsus each day, leading to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

Undergraduate Computer Vision Curriculum to Complement a Robotics Program Randy P. Broussard, Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier United States Naval Academy Weapons and System Engineering DepartmentAbstractThis article discusses a computer vision curriculum, including laboratory exercises,which is suitable for undergraduate engineering students. While classroom andlaboratory exercises focus on off-line computation, on-line implementation can beachieved with simple equipment such as web-cams. Exercises include a sidewalk or linefollowing exercise utilizing the Hough transform, a face recognition using eigenfaces,barcode reading, handwriting recognition, and sign language recognition

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

between science (or the sciences) and practice. As Mead expressed it,“We were out in the research laboratory trying to figure out what was true. . . .Of course, thingsthat don’t work in the lab don’t work in the real world, but things that do work in the lab oftentake a long time to work out in the real world.”4 Mead might also have added that things thatwork in the lab sometimes do not work at all in practice. The “bridge” between the engineeringcurriculum and engineering practice matters, then, because it educates students about the realitiesof the disjunction between the laboratory and practical application. Ideally, educationalexperiences that fulfill the Criterion 4 requirement give the students an understanding of theintegrative nature of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

laboratories. These graduate students read thedraft reports, make appropriate comments and return the reports for final production. The graduatestudents critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while alsoteaching the above laboratories. The reports are then read again and a grade is assigned. The issuesregarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for theundergraduates who will be impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involvesleading engineering students to the realization that communication is important because it is beingevaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills becauseof their need to focus on how

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

student’s transition from high school to Virginia Tech. The programprovides the following:• the opportunity to become familiar with the university community• academic enrichment in selected subjects (i.e., mathematic, chemistry and engineering fundamentals• the opportunity to participate in seminar sessions to enhance personal and professional development.CoursesThe students receive instruction in chemistry, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals.Students participate in a chemistry laboratory as part of the program. These classes are taught byinstructors from each department. The five week summer classes are similar to those classestaught in the fall semester. Both, mathematics and engineering fundamentals introducesstudents to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

design experience to our students. The paper also providessample design projects.Design in EE CurriculumThe mission of the EE program at UWP is “to provide a quality electrical engineering educationwith extensive hands-on and laboratory experience that will enable our graduates to practice theirprofession with proficiency and integrity.” One of the main objectives derived from the mission is“to graduate engineers who have the ability to use modern analysis and design techniques and have thelaboratory skills to use state-of-the-art equipment to solve practical engineering problems.”Consistent with its mission and objectives, the EE curriculum is designed to provide a qualityundergraduate education complemented with extensive hands-on laboratory

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

221. Power flow 4Total number of lessons 45A laboratory requirement emphasizes applications of these introductory topics in power andenergy. For the students who will take no other power and energy courses, this is normally theironly laboratory experience with voltage levels commonly considered to be dangerous. Everystudent continues to learn electrical safety with every lab exercise in this course. The first lab Page 9.945.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

"teacher-centered" with some elements of"interaction" and "collaboration" between teacher/student and student/student. TheConstructivist paradigm was also adopted because it is the currently dominant school of thought9(at least in the U.S.A. and Western Europe). Description of Instructional FacilitiesThe Spring 04 Machine Vision course will be taught in the BAE Collaborative DistanceEducation (CDE) Laboratory that was developed using Student Technology fees anddepartmental funds. It was operational in Summer 2003 and currently has 30 workstations forstudents and a teacher station connected to an isolated 1.0 Gbps LAN with direct fiber

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

requirement has not been used as a deciding factor inselection. Instead we have targeted recruiting directly at institutions, majors, and organizations,which result in an application pool that is more representative of the general population than theaverage demographic pool in engineering at Washington State University.Our REU program starts at the beginning of June and runs for ten weeks ending the first week ofAugust. We have found that interactions between the students are increased if they all stay indormitory accommodation on campus. These interactions are important not only on the sociallevel but also appear to increase collaborations in the laboratory. During the first week of theprogram the students meet each other, are introduced to the

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

%) 7. Photograph (5%) 11. Power Point Presentation (10%) 4. Static and/or Dynamic Analysis 8. Performance (5%) 12. Background Information (5%) (20%)Approximately 8 weekly 3 hour laboratories were allocated for working directly on the design project with a budget of $125 perdesign team. Four teams were created (2 per laboratory section), 2 small “competition” teams with 4 students each (maximumallowed), all of whom expressed interest in going to the Region VII Regional Student Conference (RSC) in Lincoln, NE and 2larger teams comprised of the remaining students in their respective laboratory section (8-10 students each). To promoteequality, the large teams were asked to perform

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

. To understand the overall concept of a process, simple processes areexplored which take place in well-known systems, such as an automobile and its processunits, the engine, starting the engine, cooling system, and the heater-air conditioner (summerand winter). The key components of the automobile are shown as a process flow diagram. Abrief overview of this process flow diagram is given in about 15 minutes.We then develop the concept of a chemical process and how a chemist prepares a newproduct in the laboratory and how a chemical engineer must take these chemistry conceptsand relate them to large-scale production facilities. A short discussion of a simple example ofa process given by Solen and Harb2 is used for this purpose.The human body

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum. Specifically task groups at the college level have been formed to study in depththe teaching practices and content with regard to major design experience, communicationskills, and laboratory pedagogy, because of clear evidence from all constituents indicating theneed for improvements. The following sections include sample results of direct and indirectmeasurements of program outcomes as well as corrective actions proposed to improve theprogram.Program Assessment – Direct MeasurementsAt the course level, instructors individually perform the initial assessment. The mainassessment tool used is the Instructor Class Evaluation Form7. This form reports the gradedistribution as well

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

University ofNevada, Reno and provides a forum for synthesis of concepts from numerous scientific andengineering programs with a focus on nanotechnology. The course also implements the novelstrategy of presenting a microcantilever transducer as the “bridge” linking the micro- and nano-domains. Ongoing research in atomic force microscopy, as well as biological and chemicalsensing, is integrated into course material and laboratory experiences. The course in this wayprovides an example of an effective, highly pertinent small system.More detail about the course will be presented later, but we will first focus on the broadereducational strategy to which it belongs.2.0 Unifying Educational Strategy: Mapping Content to All AudiencesThe material

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

equations. Students learnthe concepts of the plane wave, wave reflection and transmission, boundary conditions, andpenetration depth. These principles are then applied to waveguides, antennas, and free spacewave propagation. The final subject of the course is an introduction to RF communication links.Basic communication system architectures are presented and the concepts of noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and link budgets are introduced. This paper will discuss the course curriculum andthe laboratory in detail.Introduction In today’s industry where many electronic systems operate at increasing frequencies, anunderstanding of fundamental electromagnetics is becoming not only a desired trait but also arequirement for the entry-level engineering

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

manage a class using hand-on/laboratory activities 10 2.10 0.99 9 2.67 1.004. Ability to design and implement appropriate investigations for children 10 2.30 1.25 9 2.78 1.095. Ability to conceptualize activities that use math and science concepts to solve problems 10 2.80 0.79 9 3.11 1.056. Ability to use computer technology and other instructional media as teaching tools 10 3.20 0.92 9 3.89 1.057. Ability to develop appropriate forms of assessment 10 2.20 0.92 9 3.00 0.87Note: n = Number of fellows

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

question must be answered “is different information beingassessed in the different courses?”. If all 3 reports are assessing the same thing, then 1 isenough. If a student can write effectively about a soil mechanics laboratory project, it isreasonable to expect that the same student can write effective about a fluid mechanics laboratoryproject.The following is a detailed look at the assessment plan for Outcome 1, which is essentially theengineering science and experimentation outcome.Outcome OneCivil Engineering graduates will demonstrate the mathematical, experimental, and engineeringscience skills required in the civil engineering problem solving and design process

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

(flashlight, tape recorder), Light (lasers, paint), or Optics (cameras, telescopes, microscopes). The course will include a two-hour laboratory component each week.The text How Things Work by Louis Bloomfield covers each of these topics and numerousothers and was selected for the course2. The text was well received by the students: they enjoyedreading it and found most of the explanations easy to follow. The text contains numerousexercises for developing the lower three levels of Blooms Taxonomy: knowledge,comprehension, and application. Many of the exercises and case studies require the students toapply material in both presented and new situations. For example, lift is explained in the fluidmechanics chapter through discussion of

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Atif Qamar; Zahed Siddique

user can now try to create the solid model in Pro/ENGINEER.IV Observations and lessons learned from using the training environment The training environment, presented in this paper, has been used to provide instructions forstudents to self learn Pro/ENGINEER in the Product and Process Design Laboratory at School ofAME of University of Oklahoma. Observations and lessons learned from the preliminaryimplementation are: The training environment provided a tool for students to perform solid modeling operations in a CAD software like environment. This helped students to understand the material without using the software, which students did not have access to if they were not on campus. The training helped

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ghanashyam Joshi

: High school trigonometry.MEEN 201: Manufacturing Processes laboratory – Study of fundamentals of engineeringmaterials and processes in manufacturing as related to design and production. Students willdevelop short seminars on the new advances in manufacturing processes and examine theeconomics of processes. Students will be given laboratory assignments in material removal,forming, casting, joining, heat treating, and computer-aided machining. Students will beprovided SAP/R3 experience with job order, process costing, and manufacturing/maintenancescheduling through educational demonstrations. Prerequisite: MEEN 120.MEEN 570: Engineering Management - Introduction to the broad field of engineeringmanagement with specific emphasis on subjects such