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Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

sand filters, an aerobic digester anda UV disinfection system. The treated effluent is currently used for irrigation of a golf course.The hydraulic conditions were constant throughout the duration of the pilot test. The onlyparameter changed in the tests was the concentration of solids in the biological system. The firstphase of the study was conducted with an average mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) of 9370mg/L for a period of 60 days. The second phase of the study was conducted with an averageMLSS of 6470 mg/L for approximately 30 days.Waste CharacterizationThe students participating in this project were instructed on the operation of the pilot system andsampling of the influent and effluent, as well as the type of samples required for

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Weber; Deborah Ross; Angela Lueking

sustainability while obtaining a traditionalengineering Master's degree. Students from several engineering departments complementtraditional disciplinary course requirements with courses in environmental regulations, policies,and technology. A required case studies course of the ConsEnSus Program brings practicingengineers together with students to discuss real-world sustainability problems. The industrialparticipants interactively present relevant case studies, and provide opportunities for experientiallearning through classroom activities and term projects. This paper will further explain theConsEnSus Program, its implementation, the initial successes of the program, and the case studiescourse and term project that was developed in collaboration with

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Smith; Angela Quick

Session 2530 The Unique Research Curriculum, Motivations, and Results of the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology William W. Smith, Jr / Angela Hinson Quick Georgia Tech / Rockdale Magnet School for Science and TechnologyIntroductionOpening in the 2000 academic year, the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology isan alliance between the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering and theRockdale County (Georgia) Public Schools. This magnet high school provides a uniquecombination of required research classes and projects, an international research

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

component of the biomedical engineeringcurriculum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). That goal is to provide studentswith the tools needed to practice the profession of biomedical engineering after graduation.Those tools or outcomes include the ability to: • develop an understanding of the engineering design process and learn that it is not trial and error. • apply engineering topics, and topics in the life sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the social sciences, to the design process; • apply team-building concepts; • develop and apply project management; • understand of the role of regulatory agencies; • develop skills in written and oral communications. • develop and maintain an

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Sloan; Ashok Goel

circuits is described. Undergraduate students worked with electricalengineering graduate students and faculty members for ten weeks on projects rangingfrom designing & study of GaAs-based circuits using MAGIC and L-Edit to modelingthe very high-frequency effects and parasitic capacitances in the GaAs-based VLSIinterconnections to computer simulations of GaAs-and SOI-based devices and circuitsusing the semiconductor TCAD tools. In this paper, the undergraduate research projectscarried out by the REU students are summarized1. IntroductionIt is widely recognized that active research experience is one of the most effectivetechniques for training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science andengineering. In the USA, National

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Sanders

of the program. The Japanese studentsare surrounded by English speakers around the clock.While at Rose-Hulman the students attend lectures on English, American Culture, andEngineering Design. Each group of 3-4 students is asked to design, build, test, and give anoral report in English on a project they select. We have found that such programs arebeneficial for the visiting students as well as the counselors. Because of their positiveexperiences during the summer, some Japanese students have returned to the U.S. forfurther study. Also, some of the counselors have gone to Japan to study. Page 8.811.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Hamilton

Session 2793 Retention Through History Robert Hamilton Boise State UniversityAbstract Civil Engineering has a long history of which most of our baccalaureate graduates arecompletely ignorant. Upon occasion a student may be aware of projects or people that are localin nature. Beyond this students seem to feel engineering has always been here with little or nodevelopment over the years. Since much of the theory currently in use in the civil engineering profession wasdeveloped in the twentieth century older members of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

Session 2793 The Building Bridges Seminar Mark Valenzuela, Ph. D., P. E. and Chris Gwaltney, P. E. Civil Engineering Program, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN, 47722abstractThrough participation in local public policy issues in local committees, faculty at the University ofEvansville became aware of the need for our civil engineering graduates to become savvy aboutissues facing engineering projects outside of the classroom. In particular, we wanted our studentsto realize that civil engineers have a special relationship with the public due to the nature of ourdesigns and the impact

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence J. Genalo

classroom instructors who modeled exemplary use oftechnology. The students were required to enroll in a technology rich engineering coursecalled Toying With TechnologySM which offered a positive, comfortable, and stimulatingatmosphere in order to introduce preservice teachers to aspects of science, math, andtechnology in the context of engineering. As a major component of the course, studentswere required to research and design an Engineering ABC Book tailored to both K-12students and classroom curriculum. A description of the Toying With TechnologySMcourse, cohort, and the Engineering ABC Book Project are examined and described.IntroductionToday, more than ever before, technological competence has become crucial tomaintaining our nation’s position

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

Integration of Research,Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are building alearning community of faculty, staff, and students who can respond to this kind of need.Because links with similar projects in the Netherlands and New Zealand were germane to theinvestigation, project results can inform similar efforts in other countries to augment engineeringcurricula.IntroductionIn an effort to cultivate an organizational culture that supports performance improvement andinnovative stakeholder collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR)and other natural resources agencies worldwide are exploring organizational change approaches.The University of Wisconsin, Engineering Professional Development (EPD

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

Experience such as a senior thesis, project, orseminar.”II. ObservationAs can be seen in the above, the General Education Curriculum places considerable emphasis onproviding the students with exposure to aspects in the humanities and social sciences, and with alesser extent, to aspects in science and mathematics. This is probably the case in many colleges Page 8.1243.2and universities. Engineering students are usually required to take courses that are not completely “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stan Guidera

-aided design application to explore and integrate a specific aspectof an architectural design component into the larger context of a design studio project. Such anapproach attempts to exploit the features of the software that may be most efficient while notrequiring the use of CAD for any aspect of the project that students or faculty feel may be moreappropriately addressed using another medium. For example, students could be required to useCAD software to analyze a site using 3D terrain modeling. Similarly, students could be requiredto analyze design proposals using 3 dimensional massing studies created using the software’s solid-modeling commands. This approach is based on the premise that the strengths of CAD canexploited by identifying a

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

8.613.4through all levels of engineering responsibility for project leadership, program leadership, and technology “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”policy making. Appendixes D, E, and F reflect the framework for innovative curricular design as anintegrated system of lifelong learning which supports a coherent sequence of graduate studies through theprofessional master’s, professional doctoral, and fellow levels of engineering proficiency respectively.5. ConclusionThis paper has established the conceptual framework for innovative curricular design in reshapingprofessionally-oriented graduate education

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Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

, communication, and teaming).Lewis et al. [14] correctly observed that if students are to develop effective teaming skills, thenteaming must be an explicit focus of the project. A metacognitive approach would encouragestudents to become conscious of their team skills. Thus, metacognition may be valuable forimproving an individual’s relationship not only to their own learning processes, but also to thelearning processes of others and to the collaborative learning process in general.Specific MethodologyWeinstein and Meyer [15] describe the importance of students’ understanding their own learningpreferences, abilities, and cognitive styles, and discuss how “learning how to learn” helps studentsdevelop knowledge of strategies required to achieve specific

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Travis Harrington; Keith Coleman; J. Douglas Sterrett; Robert LeMaster

industrial organizations.The Center gives faculty members in the Department of Engineering an opportunity to conductapplied research that is supported with undergraduate engineering students. The students areactively involved with projects that tie their coursework to the real world, and the center providesa necessary service to regional government and industrial organizations. The concept for thecenter began in the summer of 1999 when an Energy Management Administrator with theDepartment of Finance & Administration [1], contacted the School of Engineering. TheDepartment of Finance & Administration was looking for a resource that would provide the statewith independent third-party analysis and verification of new energy management

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

paper presents the design andimplementation of an undergraduate Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) course in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper describes the courseobjectives, textbook and reference materials, detailed contents and topics of the course, andgroup projects to be solved by the commercial CFD software. The results from the survey ofstudents on the use of commercial CFX software are also provided.Introduction Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the art of replacing the integrals or the partialderivatives in fundamental governing equations of fluid dynamics with discretized algebraicforms, which in turn are solved to obtain numbers for the flowfield values at discrete points intime and/or

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

. Faculty and industry advisors, workingjointly, carefully coordinate student activities. The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) assumed the lead in helping toinitiate the program by committing internship positions and providing financial support for eachof the students. Three senior students, two juniors, and an exchange student initially joined theprogram and completed the first two power courses in the Spring 2002 semester. These studentswere employed by faculty during the Spring 2002 semester and three of them worked for PNMduring the subsequent summer, after which they returned in the Fall to complete the powersequence. The senior students from this group are also completing their Capstone Designsequences with projects

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Development (AIAD) program, which covers all summeracademic programs at West Point, regardless of department or academic discipline. The firstprogram, the Cadet District Engineer Program (CDEP), is designed to introduce CivilEngineering majors to the function of a typical US Army Corps of Engineers District within thecontinental US and overseas. CDEP is an internship type program that does not provideacademic credit, and participation is voluntary. The program usually last between 3-5 weeks andstudents participate in various activities to include duties typically assigned to new engineerswithin the district. Some of these duties include: • Assistant Project Engineer • Quality Assurance Inspector • Project Manager

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe stock Dragonfly model (left) constructed from the factory kit and the aircraft as redesigned(note wing modification) by an MIT student for competition.DBF Project InceptionUnified Engineering is a required multi-disciplinary course for MIT Aero-Astro students enrolledin their second year. First developed and implemented in the mid-1970’s 1,2, Unified Engineeringis a two-semester course sequence, 24 credit hours per semester, that covers Materials andStructures, Dynamics, Signals & Systems, Fluid Dynamics, and Thermodynamics & Propulsion ina fast-paced curricular schedule that includes lectures, recitations, laboratories, and objective teststaught in an intensive 5 day/week schedule. Unified

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Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Session 1333 Teaching the Design of Energy Conversion in Propulsion Systems Craig W. Somerton, Laura Genik, Todd Jammer, Dean Hagler, and Tomohiro Hamada Michigan State University/University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA design project has been developed and implemented in a senior-level thermal design coursethat addresses energy conversion as it applies to land-based propulsion systems. The sameproject has been used in similar courses at both the University of Portland and Michigan StateUniversity. An in-house computer program, TeachPiston, is utilized which allows the students toinvestigate several operating

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emily Mowry

Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, Nuremberg Code, etc. The BioethicsResource Center from the National Institutes of Health6 provided us with additional documentsand case studies. The Case Studies in Science website7 from the University of Buffalo providedus with the bulk of case studies used in the syllabus.Results We successfully created a day-by-day semester course syllabus (presented below for fall2003 dates). The course includes thirteen case studies, four guest speakers, three in-class movies,and a group project. Ethics in Biomedical Engineering Course SyllabusAugust 28 – Overview of syllabus; Guest speaker on bioethicsSeptember 2 – In-class video Miss Evers’ Boys; Introduction to the Tuskegee study and a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

science majors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute optimized the boat cargo deliverysystem it operates in the Venetian lagoon and canals. The team combined sophisticatedgeographic information systems, clever data tracking, and carefully cultivated relationships withthe individual boat captains in the Consorzio to design a system that halves delivery times andthe attendant boat traffic, pollution, and canal damage. A follow-up team collected boat wakedata, analyzed canal traffic patterns, and developed a procedure for estimating canal wall damagefrom wake impact. The results of both projects provided the basis for the new cargo boatwarehouse and distribution center now under construction in Venice. And each student receivedacademic credit for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Miroslav Velev

Session 1532 Integrating Formal Verification into an Advanced Computer Architecture Course Miroslav N. Velev mvelev@ece.gatech.edu School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. Abstract. The paper presents a sequence of three projects on design and formal verification of pipelined and superscalar processors. The projects were integrated—by means of lectures and pre- paratory homework exercises

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

contemporary engineering education. Thus, gaining background in theory andpractice of constructive learning uniquely prepares engineering graduate students who planacademic careers. This presentation describes a novel approach in which engineering graduatestudents learned about learning theory through study, discussion, and practice in a constructivistenvironment.The approach was developed as a training program for engineering graduate studentsparticipating in the NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) Project at the Universityof South Carolina. These graduate students mentor small groups of engineering undergraduateresearchers who meet in weekly Studio sessions to develop their research and communicationsabilities. The graduate student

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jesse Pappas; Eric Pappas

experience.Successful programs, projects, and research at premier engineering schools around thecountry are equipping students with the advanced creative and cognitive abilities requiredto succeed as contemporary professionals. This paper is a review of the innovative, multi-disciplinary, educational methodology that is manifest in several types of new efforts,including: 1) Engineering design in a studio atmosphere; 2) Engineering courses forcreative problem-solving; 3) Encouraging creativity and insight through journal writing; 4)The agenda for creativity at the UK Centre for Materials Education; and 5) A focus on thepersonal creative process. Research for this review inspired The Creativity, Innovation,and Design Report, a new national publication dedicated

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Mesa, Arizona AbstractThe Arizona State University and community colleges across the State of Arizona have ahistory of collaboration that is acclaimed as a national model. However, Arizona StateUniversity East and its community college partners are working diligently to elevate theireducational partnership to a new level beyond traditional articulation and the transfer ofcoursework. This paper describes a model curriculum development project designed tocreate a seamless microelectronics laboratory curriculum between local communitycolleges and Arizona State University East (ASUE).INTRODUCTION ASU East and Central Arizona College, Chandler Gilbert Community College, MaricopaAdvanced Technology

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Cirucci; Joseph Santoro; John Coulter; Herman Nied; David Angstadt; Charles Smith

curriculum at Lehigh University. Annually,approximately eighty mechanical engineering juniors complete a three-credit course entitled ME240-Manufacturing. This course exposes them to a wide array of manufacturing processes from ascientific, business and social standpoint. The course is innovative in that manufacturing scienceknowledge is acquired while students simultaneously develop skills in the areas of teamwork,project management, business analysis, and customer focused product realization. An additionalinnovation is the creative inclusion of approximately 120 local middle school students. Thesestudents benefit by developing an awareness of engineering as a potential future career at acritical age. The cooperative university/middle school

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

, the Internet that is. Web-enabling software has been around for a while, but it is more recently that companies have begunto exploit its capabilities. The purpose, usefulness, and advantages of using a web-enabled systemwill become readily apparent as an example of how it can change the way a company performs itsday-to-day business is presented. Simplifying a process by automating it using the Web can helpreduce the time commitment by parties involved, reduce ambiguity, improve communication andcollaboration, and has the potential to save a company money in the long term. On the otherhand, implementing a system can be costly and may extend the project deadline or not be in placein time for its utilization. For those companies with the need

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Freeman

to solve the specific problem at hand, be it a lectureconcept/learning objective or a homework assignment. Then, after the student has developed acertain familiarity with the software, they can more readily use the software’s own moreencyclopedic assistive materials to address new and more comprehensive tasks. The approach takenincorporates the use of “screen capture with audio” avi tutorials, along with a variety of interactivematerials including; supplemental lecture notes, homework assignments and solutions, sampleexams and exam solutions, and projects. Liberal use is also made of the software packages’ ownassistive materials. The software “taught” includes MathSoft's Mathcad and MSC's Working Model2D, with TechSmith's Camtasia used to