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quality of the senior computer design projects. We plan to measure this by sponsoring such projects in both internal and external design competitions. Page 6.457.11 11 3 Conclusions The new lab has integrated state of the art design tools in a consistent manner throughout the ECE curriculum. Each design workstation has been configured with adequate hardware and computational resources to give students a complete and integrated design experience. This has allowed the students to go from an initial "on paper" design to an actual hardware realization, which can

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education which is being applied atthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University to facilitate continuousimprovement of the curriculum. This perspective has been developed to better position theprogram in the context of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)criteria 2000, which emphasizes an outcome-based philosophy. This paper examines thedevelopment, implementation and results of the use of assessment tools in seeking continuousprogram improvement in Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University.Under the new ABET criteria 2000, engineering educators are being challenged to, not only,revise the content, depth and perspective of the engineering curriculum, but also to adjust, andadapt or re

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individual labsrepresentative of potential design challenges (with scope and complexity commensurate with thestudents’ current level). It was deemed essential to introduce the students to this "real world"engineering experience as early in their academic career as their capability allowed as an "careerinterest grabber". A second objective of this approach was to "encourage" the students to callupon a broad range of previous course(s) experience(s) to successfully complete each weeklydesign challenge. The final objective of the course was to maximize the opportunity for thestudents to have an early "hands on" experience with actual industry-standard components,equipment and software.The curriculum offering sequence of the lab course follows the

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Automated Controls, Electro-Mechanical,Powerhouse Operator, Polymer Operator, and Development Assistant.III. The ProgramDupont’s leadership team created a vision of how they wanted to integrate education into theiroperations. Their goals included the following5: o Create a “Learning Organization” that facilitates ongoing self-development by employees. o Establish and fully support a progression system that rewards people for certified skills acquired. o Provide employees with an opportunity to have more impact on their own future and the business. o Create and support multi-functional teams that engender flexibility of resources in a manufacturing environment. o Facilitate involvement of all employees in meaningful work

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revision cycle with their design work.The CEE curriculum allows students to pursue one of two emphasis tracks, infrastructure orenvironmental engineering. Students in either track take a minimum of two courses each in thewater resources, structures, and geotechnical areas as well as Surveying, Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering and common courses in statics, mechanics, materials science, andprofessional practice. There is also an eight-semester sequence of engineering clinics. Theenvironmental track also includes four additional courses in environmental engineering while theinfrastructure track has two additional structural engineering and two transportation engineeringcourses. The curriculum results in students with a broad view of civil

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Curriculum Committee. He has developed and taught the microprocessor designcourse since the middle 1970’s. He is working on an NSF CRCD grant on real-time embedded systems. Dr. Lenhertedits the IEEE Test Technology Technical Council Newsletter for IEEE Design and Test of Computers.ANDREW RYSAndrew Rys is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. He serves as Chair ofthe Electrical Engineering Curriculum Committee. Dr. Rys has been teaching courses in electronics, optoelectronics,integrated circuit design, and solid-state electronic devices. His current research interests are mainly concerned withelectrical characterization of wide bandgap semiconductors. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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. The ApproachThe objective is to create, demonstrate and share laboratory-based curriculum in which computersimulations are integrated with experimentation. The resultant educational outcome will providestudents and educators with an approach for understanding the capabilities, advantages,limitations, and correlation/validation of simulations relative to physical experience. Coursesdeveloped using this technique will feature integrated computer simulations and physicalexperiments with direct Internet access by other universities to participate and share resources.The methodologies being developed under a National Science Foundation CCLI-EducationalMaterials Development grant will assist other educators in expanding and improving

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Page 6.835.1techniques for measuring the effectiveness of the changes made.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”In the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arizona, we havetaken the approach of redesigning our Senior Capstone Project class to include industriallysponsored projects to firm up our student’s interdisciplinary real world design skills. Previously,students worked separately or in groups of two students each on projects designed and mentoredby individual faculty. We had already integrated communications into the curriculum 3. This newindustrially sponsored technique appears to

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andpresent a complete robot design. This activity is extremely important to make students follow theprogramming methodology presented in the course, which facilitates integration. In addition,students who want to participate to the contest are allowed to present their design of a robotic toyfor autistic children. This is an important incentive to help freshmen see that they can take on thechallenge of the contest without compromising their grades (because of an excessive workload)in the courses they are taking.Table 1 – GEI 321 Course Organization# Subject Project1 Course Introduction Assembling ROBUS2 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Temperature control

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on outcome 4, which asks them to apply those very same toolsto the new concepts in an integrative fashion. This may indicate limits to students’ abilities toachieve higher-level learning outcomes on their own. At the same time, the number of studentsnot attempting that outcome makes clear the need for measurements to focus on assignments thatall students are likely to complete.It is, of course, pertinent to ask how high these levels of achievement should be. One can arguethat passing a course should be contingent upon achieving all educational outcomes for thecourse. Such a grading approach is possible, and has been used for one of the other core coursesin the WPI ECE curriculum. However, it required significant restructuring of assignments

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Graham Walker; Henry Chaya

attention to the interactions among students andinstructors, time management and team participation. The students affirmed that the instructorsshould play the role of advisors. To paraphrase one student "Spend the first two weeks telling usexactly what you want, then leave us alone. We’ll call you if we need advice." In addition, manystudents found working with others to be a challenge, and therefore some students wanted teammeetings more frequently, a mandatory meeting once a week. Other students did not see a needfor this.The consultors evaluation of the course was that "the class came together well". Some of theircomments were that they "saw dramatic growth in their ability to function as an integrated team,"and that they were "impressed by the

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and techniques. Also presented isa course project in which a VB program was successfully used for a real-timetemperature control system. It is concluded that, by embedding VB programming to theControl and Instrumentation curriculum, we have created an effective and efficientteaching and learning approach and, as a result, students not only have gained thetechnical knowledge but also have significantly developed their skills for computerapplications.I. IntroductionOver the last two decades we have seen a strong growing trend of computer applications,especially PC applications, in the control and instrumentation industry. In response to theneeds of current industry and graduate job market, we have revamped our old ElectricalEngineering

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?", Frontiers in Education, Kansas City, MI, Nov. 2000.4. Robinson, M., Fadali, M. S., Carr, J. & Maddux, C. "Engineering Principles for High School Students", Frontiers in Education, San Juan Puerto Rico, Nov. 1999.5. Ninnes, P. Representations of indigenous knowledge in secondary school science textbooks in Australia and Canada. International Journal of Science Education v. 22 no6 (June 2000) p. 603-176. Eijkelhof, H., Franssen, H. & Houtveen, T. The changing relationship between science and technology in Dutch secondary education. Journal of Curriculum Studies v. 30 no6 (Nov./Dec. '98) p. 677-90.7. Wang, J. An empirical assessment of textbook readability in secondary education. Reading

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University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, has been offering a Master of Science degreeprogram via distance learning to an off-campus site at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB),about 60 miles south of Cal Poly. The M.S. in Aerospace Engineering program is in demand byworking engineers and Air Force officers at VAFB. It gives them needed access to advancedtraining that will benefit their professional growth and careers.So far, about 15 graduate students have been enrolled at the VAFB site. They are mostly part-time, adult learners consisting of engineers and Air Force officers. The off-campus site has thesame curriculum and faculty as the main campus. During the fall, winter, and spring quarters,courses are offered via video teleconferencing and during

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Alexandre Botari; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

considerably.Such kind of education prepares the students for the effective professional practice in a moresolid way, coherent with the complex demand of present world.Bibliography1. Lusiada, F: “Centro de Estudos Superiores da Fundação Lusiada”, Santos: UNILUS. 1994.2. Brito, C. da R. “La Formación del Profesional de Ingeniería y los desafíos de la Nueva Realidad Mundial”, In:Reunión Nacional de Facultades de Ingeniería, 19., Cartagena de Indias, 1999. 1999 Ingeniería, Calidad yDesarrollo. Cartagena de Indias: ACOFI, 1999. p. 341-346.3. Brito, C. da R.; Ciampi, M. M. "The Impact of Globalization in Project of Curriculum of an EngineeringProgram". In: Internationalen Symposiums “Ingenieurpädagogik´2000”, 29., Biel, 2000. Unique and

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Prism 1, it can include a variety of disciplines including biotechnologyand bioprocessing, agricultural engineering, and food engineering.This paper describes a biotechnology and bioprocessing course that was developed as a requiredsenior laboratory for bioengineering students at the University of Toledo. The course isstructured as an integrated series of laboratory experiments that follow a “biotechnologyproduct” from conception to completion. The students guide their “product” through the researchand development phases, into production and purification, and finally into analysis and“packaging” of the final product. This course differs from many traditional biochemicalengineering laboratory courses 2-5 in that it incorporates a broad range of

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Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

, and teamwork. Clearly, design/buildprojects completed by small teams of students and which include both written reportingassignments and oral presentation requirements could help address the preparation shortfallsrevealed by the survey. With engineering up front, it was logical to put some of these designprojects into the freshman programs in addition to such projects traditionally positioned in thejunior and senior years of the curriculum. As a side note, one of the surveyed graduatesremarked, "without these people skills many of an engineer’s technical skills will gounnoticed".182. The Early EffortsFor several years, the Ohio State engineering faculty and academic advisers had observed thatmany students dropped out of engineering before

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horizon, but there were no A&E products orcost estimates to move the discussion beyond the general need and the “maybe I can help” level.In 1998, an academic advisor for the West Point Golf Team, who knew that the golf team’spractice facility had a very low fund raising status, approached a Civil Engineering instructor.Since the Civil Engineering Division desired to develop new senior design capstone projectseach year, the concept of using civil engineering students in the senior design capstone course toperform the initial A&E design work for a new facility quickly materialized.The senior design capstone course, which is built around a semester-long comprehensive teamproject, integrates all aspects of the civil engineering curriculum

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Sue Ann Kearns; Merredith Portsmore; Judy Barsosky; Catherine Rogers; Chris Rogers

classroom. There has been a very high level of excite among both genders forthe activities. Improvement in problem solving skills as well as a heightened interest inengineering and building by both boys and girls have been observed. Understanding of the needto plan , to compromise with others, and to communicate ideas has also been mentioned. Morequantitative evaluation of the impact on math and science knowledge and gender differences iscurrently under development.In discussions with teachers, activities like the farm and The Lorax, that integrate engineeringactivities tightly with existing curriculum pieces or reading and writing are often given asfavorite activities. They seem more comfortable with activities that relate to subjects they

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Maria Flores; Arthur Gerstenfeld

unemployment has risen and many of the newjobs are in the informal sector. Political traditions also have to be changed and uprooted whereneeded.Nevertheless, there are signs of increasing trade between the United States and Latin America.Latin America – not including Mexico – attained a positive balance of fourteen billion dollarsthis year, four times more that in 1999 according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. This isdue largely to the higher oil prices reached last year. Oil exports from Venezuela doubled inyear 2000 totaling thirteen billion dollars.9The focus which follows will be on the most advanced integration process in Latin America andthen it will provide with an overview on Argentina, Brazil, and Chile which are the mostdeveloped

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Lindsey Van Wagenen; Chandni Shah

Session 1665 All Day Mathematics Workshops Chandni Shah, Lindsey Van Wagenen Department of Mathematics Polytechnic UniversityIntroductionOne of the challenges that many students face when making the transitionfrom mathematics courses in high school to ones in college is learning toread and dissect a complex problem. Most students achieve success inhigh school by learning and applying standard methods to solving prob-lems. When in college, the hardest thing for students to learn is the processof struggling with a problem over an extended period of time. Too manyteachers, in a misguided effort

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Internet. Even so, an on-line electronics engineering technology program must includeconcurrent laboratory instruction. In fact, the current criteria for accrediting engineeringtechnology programs specify that theory courses “should be accompanied by coordinatedlaboratory experiences1.”Through our EET industrial advisory committee and other contacts, we have begun receivingrequests to offer electronics courses on-line. In recent months, these requests have escalated, andnow there is great interest in having an associate degree in EET available on the Internet.Nevertheless, offering an entire degree raises new issues—curriculum issues for the departmentand other issues that cannot be resolved within our own department

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Shirley Fleischmann

this is an essential part of each engineer’s preparation? Thequote by Lord Ashby provides an ideal for the relationship of a supporting generaleducation program to technical courses in a curriculum. Unfortunately, mostengineering faculty have little control over general education courses taught by differentdepartments. This is also not the only way – or the best way – to assure something that isimportant to us. Lord Ashby indicates that the path to culture should lie through astudent’s specialty (engineering), and so this becomes something that must flow fromengineering. The ABET 2000 criteria clearly indicate that the engineering curriculumshould include an understanding of ethical responsibility (criterion f), that engineersshould understand

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Susan Creighton; Edward Young; Jed Lyons

. Comparison of the pre-to-post survey results after Spring 2001to the current results will be an indicator of the experiments success at meeting the desiredoutcomes. In this way, the educational experience of our future mechanical engineers isimproved.AcknowledgementThe support of the National Science Foundation through the Instrument and LaboratoryImprovement Program award DUE-9850749, the Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program award DUE- 9950153, is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. Lyons, J., Morehouse, J., and Young, E., “Design of a Laboratory to Teach design of Experiments”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Session 2526, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.2. Lyons, J. and Young, E

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Sanjeev Arora; Masoud Naghedolfeizi; Jim Henry

Session 2150 Remote Laboratory Operation: Web Technology Successes Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Sanjeev Arora, Jim Henry Fort Valley State University/ Fort Valley State University/ University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded Fort Valley StateUniversity (FVSU) a three-year project to develop an undergraduate minor program in computerbased measurement and instrumentation. The primary objective of this program is to enhancethe existing mathematics, engineering technology, and computer science programs at FVSU.The

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enrolled in TEC 110, and 19 students enrolled in TEC 250 in the fall semester of 2000 when thisstudy was conducted.National Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT)NAIT accredits the SMSU Industrial Technology program. NAIT has the following requirements withrespect to assessment:Assessment Plan and Integration: An assessment plan shall be comprised of, but not limited to, thefollowing for each program: (1) program mission statement, (2) the desired program outcomes/studentcompetencies, (3) evidence that the program incorporates these outcomes/student competencies, (4) theassessment measures used to evaluate student mastery of the student competencies stated, (5) compilationof the results of the assessment measures, and (6) evidence that these

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package selected as the backbone is the mathematical spreadsheet Mathcad(Dimension VII, Media). This choice is based on the requirements discussed above. Thepackage has capabilities of handling technical mathematical problems, and has advancedfeatures such as hyper link and graphical abilities. An executable version can be created,removing the need to run a copy of the software package.The structure of the instructional aspects of the proposed tool is dictated by therequirements of curriculum and the component described above as Dimension I,Managing Goals. The user is presented with the structure of a typical industrial electricalpower system, Fig. 2. The components of this system are chosen to cover i) most of thesubjects in the curriculum, ii

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ultimately have to be integrated successfully.Table II shows the tools and methodologies linking them to the product development phase.Table III shows a typical curriculum that can be used for product design courses. A typicalproduct design curriculum should make the students familiar with the steps in creative productdesign starting from concepts to production and marketing. The students should be introduced tovarious product redesign techniques using case studies. They should learn about issues of designfor disassembly, reliability, and maintainability and different tools that can easily have an impacton the new product development process. Page

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anhistorical perspective within engineering curricula is sporadic and spotty at best.An area within the mechanical engineering curriculum at Bucknell that has proven to be a goodoutlet for historical connections is the senior design projects. The typical sequence of events insenior design courses (MECH 401 and MECH 402) is given in the Appendix. One historicallybased topic has been presented within the list of choices for student selection in each of the mostrecent three years. Each time, a team of three or four seniors has chosen to undertake thehistorical topic and build its designs around it. The following two examples present the nature ofthe projects.II. 1998-99 Project: Designing an 18th Century BridgeQuestions:* What ever happened to Thomas

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

ASEE Annual Conference and exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.. 2. Development of Engineering Competencies in Freshman Courses. Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, A. Jalloh, Mechanical Engineering department, Alabama A&M University, ASEE Paper, Session 1566, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and exposition, St. Louis, Missouri. 3. Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum. Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, Amir Mobasher, A. Jalloh, Mechanical Engineering department, Alabama A&M University, ASEE Paper, Session 2266, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and exposition, St. Louis, Missouri.. 4. Integrating the Product Realization