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Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Salman Adam, Montana State University; Darla Goeres, Montana State University; Steven Anderson, Montana State University; Diane Walker, Montana State University; Alfred Cunningham, Montana State University

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Engineering Technology

ability to successfully lead an integrated design team toManagement completion.Communication Develop written, oral, and technical skills to effectively communicate with individuals having a broad range of backgrounds and experience.Professional and Consider the actual or potential immediate, short-term and long-termEthical impacts of professional activities, including social, political, economic, andResponsibility environmental impacts.All courses within the curriculum provide valuable contributions to meeting these outcomes.Assessment of how well the graduating MET students are meeting these outcomes is done withseveral assessment tools as summarized in figure 1 5

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University; Matthew Glucksberg, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

questions explicitly referred to “mathematical models,”indicates that modeling of the type that practicing or professional engineers use is nuanced andcomplex, and is disconnected from how students approach solving problems. We did see a smallincrease in the number of students proposing a mathematical approach to their scenario on thesecond iteration. This may indicate that a guided approach to the use of models in design wouldbe beneficial to novice modelers, although our Iteration 2 still did not provide enough of thattype of guidance. It is not too surprising that students would need help with this, since, ingeneral, an engineering curriculum tends to teach the disciplinary fundamentals in an abstractway, with routine and well-posed problems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir De Delva, Rowan University; Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University; Keith McIver, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

AC 2010-176: INTRODUCTORY LEVEL TEXTBOOK PROBLEMSILLUSTRATING CONCEPTS IN STRUCTURED ORGANIC PARTUCULATESYSTEMSVladimir De Delva, Rowan University Vladimir De Delva is a senior undergraduate chemical engineering student at Rowan University.Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University Muhammed U. Iftikhar is a senior undergraduate chemical engineering student at Rowan University.Keith McIver, Rowan University Keith A. McIver is a senior undergraduate chemical engineering student at Rowan University.Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University Katherine A. Whitaker is a senior undergraduate Chemical Engineering student at Rowan University.Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Stephanie Farrell is an Associate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guoping Wang, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

students to take an active part in the learning process. For example, the preview materialsand warm-up exercises will help students to prepare for learning new contents. The interactiveclassroom session, built around students' responses to warm-up exercises, replaces the traditionallecture/recitation format. The interactions between the instructor and the students promote activelearning, and maximize the effect of the classroom session. The on-line delivery is especially helpfulto the learning activities of non-traditional and physically-disabled students, who areunderrepresented in the STEM fields. 6. AcknowledgmentPartial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Amit Bandyopadhyay

, their preferred methodof research most frequently has been that of naturalistic observation or some other formFall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universityof observation in a more controlled or contrived situation. There is some suggestion thatthe behavioristic or neobehavioristic theories may provide some interesting facets ofintegration in new theories along with the information-processing conception which hasbecome more and more popular in recent years. On the other hand, we could defineinstructional theory as an integrated set of principles which prescribe guidelines forarranging conditions to achieve educational objectives. It is assumed that these principleswill be applicable to educational situations

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; MIchael Knieser, ILSI; Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

latest information for a rapidly changing domestic industry. Engineering 2020 concerns designing an engineering curriculum that grows to meet or exceed current and future demands. This is based on vision, values, variability, knowledge and awareness of the inherent worth of people [1]. In this work, we describe a state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary undergraduate course in electronic manufacturing that satisfy elements from engineering 2020 objectives. The course integrates knowledge from different technologies with application in life sciences. The course incorporates four technology processes: ASIC, PCB, FPGA, and MEMS into engineering application. Indiana Life Sciences Inc. located at Indianapolis, Indiana, will be hosting the manufacturing

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emily Evans, University of Arkansas; Heather Nachtmann, University of Arkansas; Kim Needy, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Economy

states that the curriculum being taught now is almost identical to thattaught many decades ago. In general, it is believed that engineering economy instruction putsmore emphasis on routine and trivial calculations and less emphasis on the analysis and decisionmaking processes2,3.According to the literature, while the teaching materials of engineering economy has changedvery little over the years, the actual implementation of the topic in the work force has changeddramatically. Smith9 comments on how risk and risk management is vital to the engineeringenvironment, and yet the curriculum in undergraduate classes only skims the surface of thesetopics. Most textbooks acknowledge the presence and an overview of methods for measuringrisk, but many do

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

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Mechanical Engineering

: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001). 7. Sepahpour, B., and N. L. Asper, “A Promising Model for Integrating Design in Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2001). 8. Byam, B. P., “An Enhanced Educational Experience for Capstone Design Projects: Using SAE Student Groups in An Industry Sponsor Role,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 2002). 9. Porter, J. R., Morgan, J. A. and B. Zoghi, “Integrating Project Management into the Capstone Senior Design Course,” Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference (Washington, DC: American

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Rebeca Gonzalez, Chapin High School; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado; Alexandria Ogrey, University of Texas, El Paso; Mary Kay Roy, University of Texas, El Paso; Alan Siegel, NYU

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Electrical and Computer

. Preliminary evaluation results are encouraging – students from a wide range ofacademic majors find MPCT engaging and report that the analytical tasks were effective at conveying insightand decreasing anxiety towards foundational mathematical concepts. This paper extends prior reports on MPCT with evaluation results indicating that more than half ofattendees indicated increased confidence in the understanding and application of quantitative analysis tasksand detected differences in that nature of students‟ engagement with math in MPCT and traditional mathcourses. In addition, this report includes an overview of an emerging effort to investigate the integration ofMPCT into secondary school curricula.Introduction MPCT is integrated into an Entering

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, State University of New York, Buffalo; Chilukuri Mohan, Syracuse University; Steve Macho, Buffalo State College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

participation ofsteering oversight board and steering oversight committees at each level. Figure 2 representstypical curriculum lifecycle for an individual program, such as Smart Power Engineering,Electric Power Fundamentals, etc. It has a number of program outcomes and course outlines2. Fig.2. Curriculum Development for Typical ModuleFigure 3 represents curriculum structure of interrelated modules delivered either at one or atmultiple institutions. Administration and delivery infrastructure are unified and linked toconditions in Fig. 2. Such a structure with distributed modules and unified administration anddelivery network reflects the concept of the consortium by providing flexibility, integration ofexpertise, and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R.F. William Hollender, Montana State University; James Becker, Montana State University

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Electrical and Computer

, save for possibly a circulator will be used.Students will then be asked to compare their measurements on the system (range for a giventarget size/distance/velocity, minimum detectable signal, etc.) with appropriate calculations. Byhaving a fully integrated system, it is hoped that calculations will match reasonably well withmeasurements. To make this lab feasible the content regarding the Doppler will be moved toearlier in the semester and an additional Doppler board will be constructed. This board will befully integrated and will seek to improve the phase noise of the integrated VCO using additionalbias filtering as it is believed that phase noise associated with the VCO limited the performanceof the fall 2009 EE 433 Doppler system

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Kristina Lawyer, Michigan Technological University; Meredith Berlin, University of Colorado - Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jonathan Wiggins, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

experiences. One approach,sustainable engineering through service learning, appears to have pedagogical advantages, buthas yet to be rigorously explored. This paper outlines an approach to evaluate if such anadvantage exists. Our goal is to determine if (and how) service learning provides an appropriatemethod to instill sustainable engineering educational outcomes in engineering students. Servicelearning has been shown to enrich students’ learning experiences and to be intrinsicallymotivational to engineering students. Consequently, we are evaluating the outcomes resultingfrom the explicit integration of sustainable engineering and service learning in engineeringeducation. Sustainable engineering via service learning efforts, both curricular

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Michael Rust, Western New Engalnd College; Diane Testa, Western New England College; Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College

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Biomedical

. Food and Drug Administration(FDA). Many biomedical engineers learn the language and practices of QSR and design controlson the job. Experiential learning in these areas gives biomedical engineering graduates avaluable skill set coveted by medical device companies. This skill set will position biomedicalengineers apart from other engineering disciplines and will help more completely define thebiomedical engineer. The Biomedical Engineering Department at Western New England College has developed anapproach to the capstone senior design course which integrates QSR and design controls into thecurriculum. This integration uses an experiential method in which students follow the guidelinesfor design control and QSR, closely mimicking best practices

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Michael Evans, Virginia Tech; Brett Jones, Virginia Tech; Carol Brandt, Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

also incorporated multimedia production andnetworking technologies as an integral part of the activities. As a sociotechnical unit, socialsoftware provided a platform to conduct the activities. Social software refers to software thatallows people to connect or collaborate through computer-mediated tools. 44 The Moodleplatform was used in this intervention to allow for this computer-mediated sharing andcollaboration.The implementation of the Save the Penguins curriculum in an informal setting with underservedyouth in a rural community was a success in that students experienced engineering in the form ofplay. They came away with more positive attitudes toward engineering and asked their teachers,“When can we save more animals?”Bibliography1

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

measures that wehope will be appropriate and useful to measure something like “ethical competence” at theundergraduate student level. We are doing this in order assess our varied educational programs,and to identify the best practices in different contexts. This report focuses on measures being developed at IIT, using the InterProfessional(IPRO) program as our primary partner. Our partner program at Purdue, the Engineering Practicein Community Service (EPICS) is also developing an ethics curriculum and measures; they arereporting elsewhere on their work.Measures Under Development and Preliminary Results Ethical decision-making (EDM) Our approach is based on that used by Mumford6 to explore ethical decision makingbehavior in

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

demonstrated by the realism captured in the project examples given show that they have been able to meet the primary goal of enhancing their modeling skills while at the same time broadening their exposure to the capabilities of software tools in studying the behavior of a mechanical system. In addition to mass property and Bill-of-Material analyses (studied in introductory courses) they are now able to model assemblies where motion can be simulated, interferences checked and kinematic measurements taken.̇ The Challenge of Interpreting an Analysis: While kinematic analysis capabilities integrated into a CAD system can greatly enhance the study of a design, they can also lead to poor design decisions if used incorrectly without proper

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Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Goldberg engineering projects teach students how to take anidea from paper and turn into reality8. For the past eight years each fall semester Texas Techcivil engineering students, mostly freshmen, have their own chance at devising Rube Goldbergmachines. Students have carried out projects to accomplish very precise engineering tasks suchas leveraging a solid wooden cube onto a tall block and moving a small object two inches onto aplatform. A pilot freshman curriculum has been designed and implemented in the MechanicalEngineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology9,10. The course sequence givesfreshmen an overview of a broad range of mechanical engineering activities. The first coursegives students most of the basic tools they will

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pacella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

these changes have had on other students as a teaching fellow.Implementation of this change has occurred over the past ten years via modifications and Page 15.93.2additions to the course curriculum. While the course still offers two fifty-minute sessionsof traditional lecture on principles of engineering science (dimensional analysis, dataanalysis, statics, mechanics of materials, heat transfer, and computational tools) and atwo-hour discussion session; a hands-on team-oriented project based learning designproject was added in an attempt to improve the overall effectiveness of the course byallowing students to become truly involved in their

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

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Mechanical Engineering

Masters program with 150 students, areadministered by 4 departments with a combined fulltime faculty of 38 and a professional staff of5. Page 15.1271.2Our experience parallels other institutions in seeking new and better ways to addressaccreditation and assessment planning1-9. Given the level of work required to demonstrateprogram achievement and faced with substantial teaching, research and service loads, programadministration must be streamlined. Since continuous improvement and embedded outcomeassessment is an integrated effort on the part of faculty, small efficiencies become magnifiedwhen applied across the College.Continuous ImprovementOver

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Clark, North Carolina State University; Jeremy Ernst, North Carolina State University; Brian Downs, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

curriculum at other institutions. The study sample of fifty-six(N=56) graphics education instructors was selected from Engineering Design Graphics Division(EDGD) members that were listed in the 2007-2008 membership directory. The EDGD memberswere contacted via email and responses were collected by an online survey instrument. Overall,the results were checked for invalid responses and then compiled. The results indicated thatrespondents were interested in remaining up-to-date with changes to distance educationtechnology and topics even though the field might not be as up-to-date as they would desire.Possible future trends identified in this study were an increase in professional development and amigration to online and distance education from

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Brent Jenkins, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

supported by Circuits I are developed and taught, work will be needed toverify the appropriateness of its coverage. When possible, surveys of stakeholders other thancurrent students should be conducted and analyzed to verify both course effectiveness andappropriateness of coverage. Stakeholders yet to be surveyed include instructors of subsequentcourses, students who have completed subsequent courses, industrial advisory committeemembers, alumni, and employers of program graduates.ConclusionDetails have been presented about a circuits lecture/lab course that is able to serve as both thesole circuits course in a mechatronics engineering program and as the first of a two-semestercircuits sequence in an electrical engineering curriculum. Analysis of a

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Wei PAN, Idaho State University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-821: ENHANCING ELECTROMAGNETICS INSTRUCTION USINGMATLAB AND MATHCADStuart Wentworth, Auburn University Stu Wentworth received his Electrical Engineering doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1990. Since then he has been with Auburn University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in electromagnetics and microelectronics. He has authored a pair of undergraduate electromagnetics texts, and has won several awards related to teaching. He is a long-standing member of his department’s curriculum and assessment committee.S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University Dr. Mousavinezhad is an active member of IEEE and ASEE having chaired sessions in

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-2327: WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL LABORATORIES FORELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Joshua Quesenberry, Virginia Tech; Justeen Olinger, Virginia Western Community College; Kevin Diomedi II, Virginia Western Community College; Robert Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Richard Clark, Virginia Western Community College; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

. Page 15.636.7To use any one of the three software packages, the student and the instructor orGTA must have a digital camera interfaced with their personal computer. As allVirginia Tech engineering students are required to own a Tablet PC and all of theTablet PC models that meet the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s specificationcome equipped with an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, the first cameraevaluated was the webcam integrated in an Apple Macbook Pro owned by one of theauthors. The second camera evaluated was a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, a stand-alone camera with 2 megapixel imager. Using Skype, the images received from bothcameras were of more than sufficient quality to resolve the components on theanalog/digital trainer and the

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Skelton, Jackson State University; Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Evelyn Leggette, Jackson State University; Tzusheng Pei, Jackson State University

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Electrical and Computer

could result in success at the undergraduate level.ConclusionsFrom this initial effort in the special topics course in computer engineering it is recognized thatadditional work must be directed toward the integration of self-reflection, self-regulated learningand problem solving technologies into all courses across the engineering curriculum. Inaddition, an effort will be made to reinforce many of the skills discussed in the freshmanuniversity success course which include time management, study techniques, critical thinking,note taking, textbook reading, and examination preparation. The importance of these topicsbecame apparent in the self-reporting by the students and in certain instances their lack of use orunderstanding of their self

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Eugenio Lopez-Aldea, NIEDAX; Nuria Oliva, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Nevena Mileva, Plovdiv Universifty; Catalina Martinez-Mediano, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Mihail Milev, Plovdiv Universifty; Slavka Tzanova, Sofia University; Edmundo Tovar, UPM; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo

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Electrical and Computer

clearly possible for mobile learningproviders to provide mobile learning courseware to their students.What is mPSS?Our group has been involved in the design, development, evaluation and implementation of PSS(Performance Support Systems) in higher engineering and vocational education2, leading to thedevelopment of Internet-based Performance Support System with Educational Elements(IPSS_EE) 3, which exhibits all features of a Learning Content Management System. Page 15.892.2IPSS_EE is an integrated electronic environment, which is available via Internet. It is structuredto provide individualized online access to the full range of information

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

software development for general-purpose multicore based computers, whichcan be easily adopted by other institutions; 3) I will use authentic MTP problems, aprofessional development environment, and real dual-core processors (i.e. Intel Core 2quad-core) throughout this course to enhance students’ capability to solve “real-world”MTP problems; and 4) I will evaluate the effectiveness of PBL in enhancing students’learning outcome of multicore programming, and provide useful guidance for otherinstructors to enhance and apply PBL to multicore or other programming courses.2.2 Brief Review of PBL PBL is an instructional and learning method based on using problems as a startingpoint for acquisition and integration of new knowledge [14]. PBL

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Sadowski, Purdue University; Patrick Connolly, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

research interests include enhancing visualization skills and creative thinking.Patrick Connolly, Purdue University Patrick Connolly is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology with Purdue University at West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Design and Graphics Technology and Master of Science degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He completed a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Purdue University in 2007. Professor Connolly has been teaching at Purdue since 1996, and has extensive industry experience in CAD applications and design, CAE software support, and customer service

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Gibbon, University of The Witwatersrand; Ian Jandrell, University of the Witwatersrand

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Electrical and Computer

students are also studying engineering for reasons thatdo not include an interest in, or an aptitude for, engineering. Some of the reasons are theavailability of scholarships and bursaries to study engineering, parental pressure and futurefinancial security after obtaining an engineering degree.In 2004 the changes included extending the course over two semesters, adding a critical thinkingcomponent and changing the laboratory concepts. In 2005 formal tutorials were dropped andself-learning concept in the laboratories was extended. Developing a “global” learning approachby integrating the laboratory tasks with the lectures was introduced in 2007. In 2009 therequirement for the students to pass all topics in the course to pass the course, and not

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noelle Comolli, Villanova University; William Kelly, Villanova University; Qianhong Wu, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

engineering major do you study principles associated with the diffusion of dissolved molecules across membranes (EE, ME, CHE)? 3. In which engineering discipline do you study strength of materials such as membranes and prosthetics (CHE, EE, ME)? 4. Does engineering help people (1=little,2,3,4,5=very much) 5. Are you excite about becoming an engineer (1=little,2,3,4,5=very much) 6. Engineers have an ethical obligation to do quality work (1=no,2,3,4,5=always) With regards to the first two questions about the engineering disciplines, approximately 80%of the students indicated in the pre and post class quizzes that flowing fluids and diffusion wascovered in the chemical engineering curriculum. There was a modest shift in class