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Scott von Laven; X. Qian; A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 1520This paper describes how the Mechanical Engineering program introduces engineering studentsto high performance computing, and parallel computing in particular, without adding courses tothe curriculum. The Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University hasundertaken the High Performance Computing Initiative to Enhance Engineering Education.Under this initiative we not only introduce undergraduate students to high performancecomputing but also make it an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum.Our high performance computing initiative was launched with funding from the Department ofEnergy (DOE) Alliance for Computational Science Collaboration (ACSC) project. A high-performance computing laboratory to support the

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development of these courses,along with feedback from the first graduating class, current students, and industry.IntroductionThe decline in enrolments in power engineering courses is well documented. Even amonguniversities with well-established electrical power engineering programs, the percentage ofcurricula requiring a course in energy conversion has declined1. At the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE), elective courses in power systems did not run last year due to a lack ofstudent interest.The demand for students with an interest in power systems has been strong as of late. In thebuilding electrical arena, this need was apparent when a group of 25 local design firms andcontractors approached MSOE and requested a design sequence to address a

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into classroom 2000 arediscussed. A joint design course between two universities and an industrial partner, utilizingIPTeam software is also presented. Some of the other new cutting edge educational deliverymode and software such as Asynchronous Learning Networks and ZenPad used in pilotprograms in leading universities are also studied.I. IntroductionDue to highly competitive working environment, modern businesses have adopted cutting edgetechnologies as a way to compete in global market place. Because of the perceived benefits ofthese technologies in transmission of information and the extensive use of them by the modernbusiness world, colleges and universities have begun integrating these technologies into theclassroom 2000 environment

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time to time incidents occurred which brought responses which highlighted the values, beliefs and attitudes shared by the group.In many instances, it seemed that the practices epitomized the formal delivery of thecurriculum, whereas the behaviors had features that in much earlier literature had been namedas the ‘hidden curriculum’13. These were the lived experiences, the informal learning thattook place – of strategies, techniques, and relationships.Each of these subheadings identified above, could be the subject of an investigation in itself,but time and space limit this discussion to choosing a subset of the whole to demonstrate howthis framework could be used and I will use some of the visible tangible manifestations of theculture – the

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Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

SESSION 2330 The Learning Portal Richard L. Upchurch, Judith E. Sims-Knight University of Massachusetts DartmouthAbstractUndergraduate engineering education is experiencing a paradigm shift, from teacher-centered tostudent-centered pedagogy characterized by student teamwork and integrative curricula 1. Theresearch and experiences underlying this shift have revealed that effective learners not only learnactively, but they develop an awareness of their skills in learning, and engage in self-assessmentand reflection. Research in psychology has found that the

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Marion Hagler; John Chandler; A. Dean Fontenot

dealt with. For Linn and Hsi’spedagogical principals in their Knowledge Integration Environment, helping students tolearn from each other and promoting lifelong science learning is two of the four segmentsof tenets that form the foundation for KIE. Within the section, “Helping students learnfrom each other,” are the basis for forming community learning environments: learningfrom each other, social activities for respective interactions, designing criteria andstandards, and employing multiple social activity structures. 10 While it is obvious thatLinn and Hsi’s tenets would work in a traditional classroom or an online classroom, theyseem to be basic fundamentals for online discussion of literature and developing a senseof community in which

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Raghu Echempati

handouts, class notes and computer laboratory manual (iii) enhance the faculty research in virtual forming and support the integration of applied research into the undergraduate curriculum (iv) introduce an advanced virtual forming course at the graduate levelAs mentioned before, there are some changes in place both in terms of course content and structurefor the ME-510 class. The students’ start off by observing the one-step (QuickStamp) and theincremental (DYNAFORM/LS-DYNA) results of the example benchmark problems provided bythese software companies. They then model and perform simulation of simple stamped partsfollowing the tutorials provided to them. For their project, students

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

funding of a new laboratory and thepossibility of new research opportunities.Even more important than the benefits to the individual faculty members, when taken togetherthese initiatives represent a broader opportunity to make an impact in semiconductor testingresearch. This impact will reach beyond Texas Instruments or Motorola alone by promoting theresearch results and curriculum to other universities. In addition, the combined initiativesrepresent an environment where broader research problems can be addressed that stretch acrossdigital and mixed-signal testing. As the initiatives mature, attention will be placed on thecreation of a research center of excellence aimed at developing collaborative research andacademic interactions with other

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Stuart Steele

. Page 6.221.5Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Background and Overview of CS 398 (Advanced Senior Project)The senior project represents the capstone design course of the Computer and InformationScience (CIS) curriculum. The senior project provides an opportunity for students to apply theknowledge and skills gained in other courses as they synthesize a solution to a significant,realistic problem, plan and manage a software development project and implement the solutionusing state of the art methodologies, techniques and tools. Senior projects are carried out on ateam basis (individual projects are

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Ryan Wicker; Connie Della-Piana; Bill Diong

. Laboratory Equipment: Hardware and Software The key requirement driving the laboratory setup to service the courses that will benefitfrom this lab is to have an open, integrated controller development platform that allows plantmodeling, analysis, control design, system simulation, controller implementation and controlverification. Such a platform has emerged only recently because of the tremendous gains in DSPtechnology and a simultaneous reduction in its cost. Furthermore, it is becoming widely adopted Page 6.926.2in industry as product development time and cost become more pressing concerns in anProceedings of the 2001 American

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for three years. The course, which has been designed and taught by an engineeringprofessor, is part of the College of Liberal Arts’ Senior Capstone program and is offered tostudents from any college in the university. The course structure encourages students to viewcontemporary issues from an organizational, personal and technical perspective. The presence ofboth engineering students and liberal arts students in the same class allows students to shareknowledge and break down stereotypes as they study accomplishments in the fields ofengineering and science.Introduction The practice of engineering is not conducted in a vacuum. Engineering accomplishmentsaffect society and, conversely society affects what engineers can accomplish. As

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presentations and report writing. The studentsdevelop their own operating procedure for running the experiment. The procedure and safetyconsiderations are combined into a Job Safety Assessment Form (JSA).A safety program, initiated in 1982, has evolved into an extensive safety program, PAWS(Prevent Accidents With Safety), with a high level of student involvement. During eachexperimental cycle, a group is designated to serve as the student Safety Committee as itsassigned experiment. Among other duties, the Safety Committee conducts safety audits of the unit Page 6.260.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Jace Hargis; Anne Donnelly

Session 2330Engineering Education and the Internet: A Study of the Effectiveness of Web Formats on Student Learning Anne E. Donnelly1, Jace Hargis2,1 Associate Director of Education and Outreach, Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology, University of Florida/2Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of North FloridaAbstractThere is an explosion of interest in internet classes at all levels of engineering education. Thepotential and advantages of the internet as an educational delivery mode are huge. The webprovides learners with a

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

system, the student laboratory experience as well asthe authors’ methodology for integrating outcomes-based assessment strategies in the lecture and thelaboratory segment of this courseI. IntroductionThere has been considerable interest recently on incorporating “experiential learning”, especiallythe laboratory experience, with emphasis on modern instrumentation and computer-assisted dataacquisition in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. As the society becomes increasinglytechnologically advanced, real time-data acquisition and on-line processing of data will becommon place both in workplace and home. This has required the engineering faculty to modifytheir curriculum to ensure that the students have savvy and skills to set up experiments

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William Sullivan; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

including Virginia Tech, the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst, and the General Electric Company. As envisioned, the virtualclassroom will remain an open resource on the web that can be used by any university inteaching a first course in engineering economics. In addition, it is anticipated that it will serve asa continuing resource that students can return to regularly throughout their education and serveas a resource for practicing professionals. Farther reaching, this research is an integral part of alonger-term and broader vision to build an undergraduate “National Technological University”(NTU) for selected core courses in the engineering curriculum. It is anticipated that throughcomputer-based learning methods utilized at the undergraduate

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Robert King; Joan Gosink

Accreditation Criteria” in the ABET EC 2000criteria. The ABET EC2000 criteria requires that universities and programs have a process forcontinuous improvement. The process flow shows that Criterion 3 is based on objectivesdeveloped by the institution and program in Criterion 2 which requires "(a) that an engineeringprogram have detailed published objectives that are consistent with the institution’s mission, (b)a process to determine and evaluate objectives, (c) a curriculum and process that ensures theachievement of the objectives, and (d) a system of ongoing evaluation3." So, prior to describingthe correlation between what we teach in MEL and the Criterion 3 outcomes, shown in Table 1,we will set the stage by summarizing the institutional and program

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Anthony Tzes; Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

, active-learning environment. An integral part of modern engineering systems is the design of advanced controlstrategies, which require interplay across disciplinary boundaries, necessitating a thoroughunderstanding of fundamentals of multiple engineering disciplines in order to analyze and Page 6.711.1“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”synthesize emerging technological products. For example, breakthrough control design conceptsfor hybrid fuel cells, intelligent highways, space-plane, biologically inspired systems

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Ronald Sterkenberg; Raymond Thompson

conducted.Observation, survey, and interview methods are anticipated being used. A visitation templatewill be created to ensure consistent results. Second, structured visits to obtain the assessmentinformation. Third, involve the AT Industrial Advisory Committee in a parallel process toprovide input and feedback on suggested curriculum changes. Fourth, develop methods meetingthe identified needs and working them into the academic curriculum.Development of a visitation template and visitation areas is in progress. Grants and air carrierpartners will provide travel support. Once the visits are completed, a specific set of performanceobjectives will be determined. Then, the AT department can provide curriculum and otheropportunities for students to become

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Peter Golding; Walter Fisher; Stella Quinones

success for entering students, À Development of linked projects and/or assignments, À Comparison of studentsÀ progress in each cluster course to identify students who are having difficulty in one or more courses, and À Multiple interventions for at-risk students.Seminar in Critical InquiryDuring 2000, all components of the University of Texas System, including UTEP, adopted a newcore curriculum. The UTEP core includes Seminar in Critical Inquiry as an institutionallydesignated option. It is often referred to within the UTEP community as just University Seminar.All students entering UTEP, who have undertaken less than 30 hours of college course work, arerequired to enroll

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Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

Session 2209 A Biomedical Engineering Design Experience from Freshman Year to Senior Year Lisa M. Milkowski, Ph.D., P.E., Vincent R. Canino, Ph.D., P.E. Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)AbstractThis paper presents a methodology of integrating design throughout the engineeringstudent’s years of study.Students have sufficient time to learn and achieve more in a design experience startingwith a two credit freshmen course, continuing with one credit courses throughout thesophomore and junior years, and ending with two credit design courses in each term ofthe senior year. With sufficient

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Sanjay Joshi; SangHa Lee; Timothy Simpson; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

lifelong learning, barriers to lifelong learning, and impact Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationof lifelong learning for individual engineers. Many of these studies are summarized in a 1985report by an NRC panel.2Lifelong learning is an issue of importance for engineers around the world. UNESCO sponsoredseveral significant studies including “Advances in the continuing education of engineers.”3 Thereport resulting from this study summarizes practices in continuing education in a number ofcountries, both developed and developing, and also the delivery systems used. UNESCO playeda central role in the

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Shari Kimmel; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

theseskills.Problem solving heuristics originally used in an introductory computer science course wereadapted to teach problem solving skills to beginning engineering students. The introductoryEngineering Design and Graphics course (ED&G 100) at Penn State - Berks Campus exposesstudents to conventional drafting techniques, computer graphics and engineering design. Thetypical class consists of mostly first-year and some second year students with a wide range ofskills and experience.During the fall 2000 semester, a section of ED&G 100 with 17 students taught by the first authorincluded writing and problem solving exercises integrated into the curriculum. The majorassignment in this course is a group design project in which students apply skills

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William Black; Robert Weber; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira

experiences will range fromuntethered personal computing to totally immersive virtual environments. Engineers capable ofdesigning such devices will need a diverse set of engineering skills in hardware/softwareintegration and human factor issues that are presently treated separately in both curricula andresearch. This paper gives an overview of a new Combined Research and CurriculumDevelopment (CRCD) project at Iowa State University. This project will integrate upper levelteaching and research in communications, radio frequency (RF) and very large scale integrated(VLSI) hardware and software design, and virtual environments in a coordinatedinterdisciplinary program for simultaneous hardware/software co-design.Education and training in both

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Robert Ribando; Gerald O'Leary; Timothy Scott

, wemean the wisdom to know when a simple “slide rule” calculation is sufficient for theengineering job at hand and when a rigorous, thorough computational analysis would beappropriate. To address the problem of little computer use between a first year programmingcourse and the canned “design” packages commonly employed toward the end of thefour-year program [5], some departments have added a numerical methods coursesomewhere in the curriculum. With an already overcrowded curriculum undergoingcredit hour reduction under a state mandate, the addition of a new course did not seem aviable option for us. To our way of thinking the heat transfer course that is taught in thesixth semester or thereabouts of the undergraduate mechanical engineering

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Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

has been shown to be an effective means of addressing the needs of engineeringcurricula and the community [4]. Engineering, however, has lagged behind many otherdisciplines in the integration of service learning into the curriculum [5]. Recent examples ofengineering service learning include projects integrated into freshman-level introductory courses[5, 6], capstone senior design courses [7] and multidisciplinary approaches [8]. Other initiativeshave sought to integrate the co-curricular activities of student organizations with engineering Page 6.462.1service learning [9]. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Martin Morris; Fred Fry

is also suggested as an important part ofaccreditation.Cross-Disciplinary Team StructureThe engineering teams consisted of a frame and ergonomics team, a suspension and controlsteam, and an engine and drive train team. Each engineering team chose a team leader. Then anoverall project manager was chosen from these team leaders. The entrepreneurship teamconsisted entirely of business management majors with an informal leader arising from thegroup. Marketing students had worked with the engineering teams in earlier semesters. Thestudents were organized semi-formally into a structure shown in Figure 1. The overall projectmanager from the engineering teams was responsible for integrating the efforts of all of theteams and facilitating

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Natalie Mello

sendingstudents to all parts of the globe. Current national opinion is that universities owe their studentsmore attention to risk management and care when students travel as part of their academicexperience. 9 With the recent unfortunate tragedies that have occurred in Costa Rica, India,Guatemala and Japan involving students on some form of “study abroad”, more attention isbeing paid to how these experiences are managed by the institutions. 10-14II. WPI’s Global Perspective ProgramIn 1970, WPI adopted a new curriculum, called the WPI Plan. The WPI Plan replaced atraditional, course-based technical curriculum with a project-based program emphasizingteamwork, communication, and the integration of technical and societal concerns. Among thedegree

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,students did three times as many of the second than the first. Not surprisingly, we also found thatthe there was a significant increase between the first and last score in the case of the secondproblem. Anecdotal evidence suggested that this was due to the fact that students found thesecond problem more interesting. Though minimal evidence, this implies that problemcomplexity is not a deterrent to drilling quantitative problems if a suitable vehicle is created topresent them.Although we are in our initial stages of testing the prototype system and integrating it as alearning tool into our undergraduate curriculum, we are encouraged by our initial results. Thisinitial prototyping and testing is part of a larger goal of making a general problem

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Vincent Scotto; Peter Schuyler; Howard A. Canistraro

can serveas a valuable partner in this process.This paper will provide an overview of development and implementation of industrial advisoryboards at two institutions. This efforts were undertaken to aid in satisfying several ABETaccreditation requirements. The specific activities and functions of the industrial advisory boardwill be discussed, as well as the challenges faced during implementation.IntroductionWith the advent of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 and beyond, the emphasis of the evaluationof engineering and engineering technology programs has shifted from the strict examination ofcurriculum content, to measuring outcomes based assessment. As these programs are required tocreate and demonstrate a process for the evaluation of

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Wen-Whai Li; Charles Turner; Alfredo Martinez

of environmental citizenry by moving the concepts ofsustainability into the core curriculum.5 Another valuable source of information is theSecond Nature Web page that contains sustainable information and syllabi for a widevariety of disciplines including engineering. 6The Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Sonora, Mexico, hasdesigned an educational model called Sustainable Cell in order to integrate the principlesof Agenda 21 into their Industrial Engineering Department. This educational model isbased on developing a proactive conscience towards ecological and social problems whichensure, in the future, responsible participation of these professionals at their workplaces. 7Engineers as well as the Heinz Family