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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

Bringing an Integrative Modeling Experience to a Freshman Biomedical Engineering Course Douglas A. Christensen Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UTAbstract – As an integrating lab experience in our Fundamentals of Bioengineering freshman course,we have included a Major Project that ties together many of the principles of biomechanics andbioelectricity covered in the lecture. It uses the human systemic cardiovascular system as amodel. During the first half of the semester, students solve finite-difference equations describingthe flow of blood in the cardiovascular system using Matlab. During the second half, teams oftwo

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

teachers' scope of learning, provided them the background knowledge to develop aninterdisciplinary approach to teach mathematics and science, and made subject contents moreinteresting and stimulating to middle school students. Moreover, the design experience alsohelped teachers develop a project-oriented, hands-on approach to foster students' ability inproblem solving and lifelong learning.INTRODUCTIONThe shift from an industrial to information society in the U.S. called for reforms in mathematicsand science education. Two new education standards, the National Science standards [1] andthe National Mathematics Standards [2], were proposed by the National Research Council(NSC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), respectively

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Welker

have been discussed in the literature. Theseinclude having students work in teams on various projects; providing training in effective teamfunctioning; and providing learning objectives that cover elements of effective multidisciplinaryteam functioning. Upon examination of our curriculum in the Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering Department at Villanova University, we discovered that our students are oftenrequired to work in groups, but that we did not provide training nor did we routinely providelearning objectives relating to teams. Modules on team functioning have been developed and arecurrently being implemented in sophomore, junior, and senior level classes. These modulesinclude in-class activities and homework. The students are also

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

engineering curriculum andprofessionalism. Service learning is easily implemented in engineering communicationscourses because the nature of the courses lend themselves to written and oralpresentations to a professional audience, and, in the case of service learning, acommunity audience. In the IE Communications for Engineers course, students developprofessional written and oral communication skills by writing technical documents,giving oral presentations on those documents, and writing and delivering professionalemails. However, the team projects for the course are geared toward teaching studentsabout civic responsibility by having them design, develop, and deliver exercises geared topublic schools that demonstrate and teach elements of engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

into a four-year engineering degreeprogram. In this paper we will describe the:• FEST Program design and organizations,• Academic objectives using learning technologies,• Development of blended online versions of the FEST core courses,• Integration of engineering applications into the FEST core courses,• Development of a Collaborative E-Learning Library System (CELLS), and• Lessons learned.FEST Program Design and OrganizationsThe FEST project involves collaboration among faculty and administrators from severalinstitutions, including the CU at Denver College of Engineering and Department ofMathematics, the Arapahoe and Red Rocks Community Colleges. These are the peoplethat develop and deliver pre-engineering courses preparatory to a four-year

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

describes the integration of theengineering in context philosophy, which incorporates “real world” aspects, into the engineeringcurriculum.Four features of the EIC initiative are particularly worth noting at the outset. Specifically, theprogram is designed to: 1.) Cr oss engineer ing depar tmental boundar ies. It is administered on a school-wide basis, and the students not only work on multidisciplinary projects, but also on multidisciplinary teams (there may be no more than two engineers from any one discipline on a particular team). 2.) Be scaled up so that all students who want a truly multidisciplinary experience can have one, regardless of their major. 3.) Eventually encompass the entir e cur r iculum so that the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walker; Annu Prabhakar; George Suckarieh

Implementing a Web-Based Knowledge Base for a construction company: Industry-Academia Collaboration George Suckarieh, Annu Prabhakar, Tim Walker University of CincinnatiAbstractKnowledge Bases (KB) that capture and leverage the knowledge and experiences ofemployees are popular in many industries. However, in the construction industry,knowledge base implementation has been limited to some applications at the design stageor to project databases during the construction stage. This paper describes a project forimplementing a web based knowledge base to help a company transfer constructionknowledge from experienced professionals in the field to

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

important side benefit of implementing this applied research robotics project in theELET 492 Senior Design course, where student teams build robotics for our defense agencyclients, is realized with their success in the annual International Ground Robotics VehicleCompetition. This program has proven to be a definite benefit to motivating our students as wellas satisfying our clients.1. IntroductionThe 2002-2003 Vasilius Team of Bluefield State College was honored to bring new andinnovative ideas to the 11th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). Thevehicle draws upon many features of past GRV designs. For example, Vasilius uses a cameravision system and a laser measurement system like most GRVs. However, in addition to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Engineering. Results show nostatistically significant change in the average pre-test and post-test scores; however, a fraction ofthe students were found to experience significant increases and decreases. A regression analysiswas conducted in an attempt to understand the effect of the characteristics of the students such asgender and grade point average as well as project and section; however, no statisticallysignificant correlation between the change in SDLRS score and any of these factors were found.Interviews with instructors were also conducted and suggested that the decreases in the scores forone project were likely due to the nature of the interactions of the project mentor with thestudents. Implications of the results of this study for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

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

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

is used. 2. Depth and Breadth Graduates should have familiarity with topics across the breadth of the discipline, with advanced knowledge in one or more areas. 3. Design Experiences Graduates should have completed a sequence of design experiences, encompassing both hardware and software elements, building on prior work, and including at least one major project. Page 9.594.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with 110 faculty, 1800undergraduates and 1000 graduate students, employs a “lecturer and coordinator” who intervenesin three laboratory courses and a project engineering course.University of Texas at Austin:6 The Department of Mechanical Engineering with 60 faculty andover 1000 undergraduates has employed a senior lecturer (for over ten years) who offers onecourse in engineering communications as an “immediate” prerequisite to the Department’scapstone design course and then intervenes in the capstone design course itself.7Prior to Spring 2003, the UH College of Engineering had few options for their students in termsof technical communications instruction. The English Department at UH periodically

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

Assembly Manufacturing y Process Planning Supplier Testing Product Design Project Mgmt Figure 1: A Virtual EnterpriseIn this decade and beyond, it is predicted that growing product complexity and resultantdiverse skill requirements underscore the need for organizations to work together as aVE. More importantly, such a collaborative approach will enable the harnessing ofremote and far-flung engineering / manufacturing facilities (and resources) and createnew opportunities for these

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

integrative event during which students apply theengineering science and design principles learned during their previous studies to an actualproject. At Roger Williams, the course has been undergoing a transition to a client-based formatin which all of the student design projects are undertaken for “outside” clients.This fall a major initiative was undertaken that incorporated into the course a unique block ofinstruction on the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. The Baldrigeperformance excellence criteria are the framework that any organization can use to improveoverall performance. This instructional unit was introduced to enhance the students’ awarenessof the need for continuous improvement within a highly competitive world

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

project-based learning model was developed and is generallysupported in the American engineering education undergraduate community. A primary focus ofWestern Kentucky University’s engineering programs is to provide a project-based experience atall levels of the curriculum.Currently, the field of Digital technology is progressing rapidly. The electrical engineeringcurriculum at WKU requires all students to take a minimum of three courses in this field: DigitalLogic, Introduction to Industrial Automation, and Microprocessors. Students take Digital Logicin the first year. In the digital logic course students use the 7400 series TTL chips and XilinxCPLD. Students use an Allen Bradley programmable logic controller and an Atmel AVR STK500 Microcomputer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

programs or in research projects specially designed for thepurpose” 1.For the past five summers the NSF has funded a summer REU site in Characterization ofAdvanced Materials at Washington State University. WSU currently has the longest active REUprogram in materials research in the northwest. Our REU site brings students to Pullman tospend 10 weeks each summer focused on interdisciplinary materials research.The initial target population for our REU program was primarily students from schools in thePacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain states that do not have access to the moderninstrumentation that is needed for materials research. Over the five years of our program thenumber and popularity of REU programs has increased nationally and we have

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

schools, half the teachers are high schools teachers, theother half are community college professors. Another group of teacher “leaders” wereselected this fall (2003) for another two-year program. The business areas targetedare engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. The educators are required to participate in a one-to-two week paid summerexternship program to be followed by the submission of a curriculum report that reflectsthe externship experience and work-based learning activity. They are also required tosubmit an evaluation of student outcomes once the projects have been implemented.Other activities include company visits, and smaller workshops on topics that eitherhighlight a

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

initial semester of the student’s career.One project in the first semester ‘Introduction to Architecture’ course focuses on architecturalengineering, and consists of student teams designing and building a model structure that is loadtested. To test the effects of structural knowledge on the design process, three control groups ofstudents were established for the project, with each given varying amounts of structuralinformation for use in their design. The first group was provided no structural information andhad to rely on intuition, the second group was given limited information, and the third group wasgiven detailed information on structural concepts. The results of the study will be discussed, andrecommendations will be given on providing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

industrial and faculty mentors • Preparation and presentation of case problems • Access to official leadership transcript • Networking with industry partners, faculty, and peers • Use of ESC’s Collaboratory and meeting facilities • Opportunity to practice skills in projects, seminars and classesA Case for Leadership ExperienceOne of the most pressing issues facing companies today is the need for an increased number ofemployees who demonstrate positive leadership skills. Over 70% of top company executivessupported this statement in a study conducted by the Human Resources Institute1. Furthermore,only 8% of executives surveyed rated their employees’ leadership skills as “excellent.”2 Manycompanies do not have leadership training

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball Challenge, and how it can be used as a class project.1 IntroductionIntroductory engineering courses are used to teach general principles while introducing thestudents to all of the engineering disciplines. Robotics, as a multi-disciplinary application can bean ideal subject for projects that stress the different engineering fields. A major consideration inestablishing a robotics course emphasizing mobile robots is the type of hands-on laboratoryexperience that will be incorporated into the course of instruction. Most electrical engineeringschools lack the machine shops and expertise needed to create the mechanical aspects of a robotsystem. Most mechanical engineering schools lack the electronics labs and expertise needed forthe

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

Ship builders Mechanical c,d,e,f SKM Civil consultants Civil c,d,f Furntech Furniture research Mechanical b,f Zentel Medical software Mechatronics f Pasminco Co Smelting Mechanical c,f Rolls Royce Turbines Mechanical a,b,c,d,f a. General coursework content, b. Case studies within coursework c. Honours projects (unfunded) d. Honours projects (funded

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design course. The capstone course is a summary and reflection ofthe whole undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, internationalizing this course has special significance.The effort on this course will serve as the basis for discussion and exploration for internationalizing othercourses. In addition, it is reasonable to assume that engineering schools in different countries have somecommon requirements and expectations for graduating mechanical engineers, and some common practiceto achieve these requirements. There are some common practices in this course, including centering ofthe course around a capstone design project, organization of the students into design teams, and therequirement for team presentation and defense of their design at the end

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

University of Houston, multidisciplinary teamswork on design projects provided by local industry and the faculty. In the spring of 2003two of the projects, sponsored by a faculty member, were to develop museum quality,interactive demonstrations/experiments with externally mounted controls demonstratingthe characteristics and useful implementations of 1) magneto-rheological fluids and 2)shape memory alloys. Both projects provided challenging problems for the teams inelectro-mechanical system design and fabrication and in controls, as well as requiringconsiderations for ergonomic, aesthetic, and safety issues. The high quality of the designand implementation of the experiments and the overall attractiveness of the projects willassure them a prominent

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

patients can be described to students inreality. Bringing students to these laboratories will give them firsthand knowledge and providethem the opportunity to practice the knowledge they have just learned if they are involved inresearch projects in laboratories. In recent years, Internet and intranet developments have greatlyexpanded the possibilities for medical imaging instruction 1-3, 6-7. Advanced web sites of medicalimaging have been well developed mainly for graduate study or for research purposes. Imageprocessing techniques for medical imaging are usually of interest primarily to the softwareengineering industry. In fact, however, these techniques are an inherent part of imaging systemsand are closely related to imaging principles

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

• Automated assembly required for some packages • Thermal problems associated with differences in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between certain packages and the PCB substrate – typically FR-4. Figure 1. Typical SMT component packages: left, small outline (SO) transistors, right 132-pin quad flat pack (QFP).The author has been involved with SMT since the early 1990s. Believing that SMT would havea major impact on both the topics that should be taught in BS EE and EET programs, as well ason all lab-oriented courses, he proposed and was granted a sabbatical for the 1992-93 schoolyear. During that time he was employed as a senior project engineer at Delco Electronics Corp.(now Delphi Delco

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

SESSION #1526 Mechatronics/Microcontroller Education for Mechanical Engineering Students at the University of South Carolina Victor Giurgiutiu, Jed Lyons, David Rocheleau Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208, victorg@sc.eduABSTRACTThe Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of South Carolina has embarkedupon a project to enhance the Mechatronics/microcontroller education of non-EE engineeringstudents. NSF funds the project with cost-share by the Department of Mechanical Engineeringand the College of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

exam in the first semester. Two primaryfactors were reported for withdrawals within the first seven weeks of the course. First, studentsindicated significant apprehension regarding the level of programming required (programminghad been added to the first project in 2001). Second, a number of the students who withdrewwere convinced (without firm evidence) that the majority of other students in the course weremore proficient at programming.These observations led to modifications to the first project with the dual goals of improving theeducational experience for the students and retaining a greater percentage of students through thefirst semester. First, the emphasis was changed from programming and physics to engineering asan application of math

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

Engineering 19, 20. Theproposal for the new program included a new course, ECE 491 Senior Project I, whichwas introduced to satisfy two distinct goals: provide a capstone design experience;introduce new material in the area of computer network hardware. The course is notintended to replace a typical course in computer networks, which covers material relatedto network architectures, protocols and performance.The CourseOrganized in a 14-week semester with two 50-minute lectures and one 3-hour laboratoryperiod per week, ECE 491 has several goals: to learn about computer network protocolsand hardware; to work on a design project that must interface properly with other groups;to evaluate the project from ethical and socially responsible points of view; to