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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

in nature, although competition is by nomeans a requirement. As mentioned above, in the design curriculum, industry-sponsored and professor-drivendesign projects have become fairly commonplace, particularly in capstone design courses.Professor-driven projects are also valuable in that the design experience can be tailored greatly tocourse content and desired educational outcomes. Hence, as they are already integral to a givendesign course, these two types of projects (or three if you allow students to define their owndesign project,4 e.g., in a capstone design course) should ideally already address ABET designcriteria successfully—or at least make an attempt to do so. On the other hand, the student-initiated design project may

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chong Chen

vehicle for employment news to be disseminated tothe interested students. This paper introduces the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology program curriculum atMiddle Tennessee State University and the industries in the middle Tennessee area. It discusseshow the university and faculty assist students to be hired on professional jobs. The university’scooperative education program is also addressed.Introduction A recent survey indicated that majority electronic technology programs had enrollmentdeclines in the last ten years. These programs involve both two-year and four-year schools. “Thepercentage of decline ranged from 20% to 90%, with most indicating an estimated 50% decreaseduring the period.”[1] There were many factors causing the

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap

curriculum for practicing engineers who have analready established technology competency base, and whose careers are centered on the practice ofengineering for the conceptual design, development, innovation, and need appropriate graduate educationleadership of new and future technologies such that they are quick to respond to real-world needs. At thislevel, a professional’s postgraduate education must be built upon an integrated approach that includes notonly a curriculum of learning of further advanced studies, but also a curriculum of learning that combinesself-directed learning, experiential-based learning gained through progressive experiences in engineeringpractice, and innovation-based learning gained through actual engagement in the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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

Page 8.776.15Information Technology, University of South Carolina, where she is currently a co-PI of an NSF “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”EEC Research Communications Studio project She received her Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric andComposition) from USC in 1993, and has since developed programs to integrate professionalcommunications into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Her research interests includethe role of writing and communications in cognitive and metacognitive development.Dr. Nancy S. Thompson is an associate professor in the English Department at the University ofSouth Carolina

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

theoretical response. All data acquisition and analysis is done usinga custom built Labview virtual instrument. This fundamental experiment from the vibration areais used at McNeese State University in many different ways throughout the mechanicalengineering curriculum. First, it is used in the freshman level Introduction to Engineering courseas an example of a typical modern engineering laboratory set up. Second, it is a very populardemonstration used in the sophomore level Strength of Materials course during the discussion ofstress-strain relations and how strain measurements are used to derive information about stress.Third, it serves as an example of transducer integration in the junior level EngineeringMeasurements Laboratory, illustrating

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

School in Boston’sChinatown. They also aid 1st and 2nd grade teachers in Lincoln, MA implement a hands-onLEGO based engineering curriculum aimed at giving students early exposure to engineering. Allof the curriculum created by STOMP students is available at the CEEO’s site –http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo. The feedback from teachers has been tremendously positive. They enjoy havingsomeone to collaborate with and feel the STOMP volunteers bring an energy and excitement tothe class. The number of engineering projects and level of difficulty of projects attempted isincreased by having STOMP volunteers in the classroom. The STOMP students feedback hasalso been good. The students enjoy their classroom experiences and feel rewarded by

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineers have solid training in applying engineering principles toanalysis, product design, testing and other technical duties, they are frequently not prepared tounderstand the nature and goals of the companies and ventures that employ them. Many studieshave noted the disconnect in engineering curriculum between the assessment of customer needsas dictated by the marketplace and the engineering of products. In product design anddevelopment engineers are often quick to offer solutions without fully exploring the actual needand market for those solutions. Approaching a problem with this kind of “solution fixation” canlimit an engineer’s contributions in business environments. What business skills do engineersneed to acquire and how does the

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Marlee A. Walton

CE Integrated Program. Specifically, the integratedprogram, which began a phased implementation in the Spring of 2001, already covers: • The 11 ABET outcomes • Leadership • Project management/construction • Business principles/public policyWhile the CE Integrated Program addresses nearly all the elements in the proposed BOK,it is uncertain if the elements are provided at the appropriate level of competency toassure civil engineers are successful in the future. Therefore, the BOK CurriculaCommittee invited Iowa State University’s CCEE Department to be one of the selectedinstitutes to develop a model curriculum to satisfy the BOK at the necessary competencylevel. To date, Iowa State University, Colorado

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

graduate from the curriculum. Feedback will also be used to modify the program.• CEES seminar. One problem that has surfaced as we have implemented cross-course integration of projects (e.g., a soil mechanics class designing an earth dam must interface with a water resources class who is designing the reservoir for water supply) is that the students from the two courses have difficulty finding a common meeting time. Another problem is finding time to assemble students enrolled in Sooner City courses in order to administer questionnaires and diagnostic tests, such as RATs and CATs. Thus, we have revised our curriculum to include a 1-hour seminar course in which all CEES students must enroll. Pending Regent's approval, we

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

about their specific major so thatthey can make an informed decision. Thus, a new freshman program is being established toaddress these concerns both in and out of the classroom. These efforts are being implemented inconjunction with the redesign of the introductory engineering course (ES 130) offered atVanderbilt University from a skills-based approach to a problem-solving approach. An integral part of the introductory engineering course is a semester long project. In order to(a) familiarize the freshman with the different engineering majors and (b) incorporate theengineering design process into the curriculum, discipline-specific engineering design projectshave been implemented into the freshman Engineering course. The discipline-specific

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

on processimprovement and automation, which has resulted in a shortage of employees with technical skills[2] . Engineers, thus, play an important and expanding role in this exciting field, yet undergraduatechemical engineering students are rarely exposed to food engineering. This course developedand integrated applied food engineering coursework and food chemistry experiments to providestudents with the skills directly relevant to the evolving needs of the food processing industry. Rowan University is pioneering a progressive engineering program that uses innovativemethods of teaching and learning to prepare students for a rapidly changing and highlycompetitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE [3]. Rowan Engineering is

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

relevance to their standard curriculum or takes time away from anestablished project, then they are much less likely to continue the activity once the GK-12 Projecthas ended.Fellow InstructionThe method of instruction that takes place in the classroom can take several forms. One of theseis where the fellow does the majority of instruction for the class. Within this model there areseveral different approaches. The first is that the teacher tells the fellow they will have 20 minuteseach day to present an engineering topic to the class. The fellow prepares a lesson – trying to tieit in with what the class has been working on – and then presents it to the class. The teacher is inthe room primarily to maintain control of the students and has very little

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rudolph Eggert

, Design forManufacture, Design for Assembly, and Product Testing. Industry has a higher demand forIndividual Design Projects and Interdisciplinary Design Project activities, in relation toAcademia’s current coverage. Also, academia appears to overemphasize oral and written designreport activities.A majority of respondents indicated that 25% or less of the department’s faculty participates inplanning, monitoring and coordinating the design stem. And lastly, personal computers are thepreferred choice of CAD platform in industry and academia as compared to Unix stations.IntroductionDeveloping an engineering design curriculum to meet the needs of industry for higher qualityproducts is quite a challenge for any institution. When preparing revisions to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Belle Upadhyaya

of several animations. • Development of an interactive visual-based analysis of a second order damped vibrating system. This module, developed in FLASH Action script, has the capability to illustrate the effect of changing spring and damping parameters. The graphical plot and the physical animation are seen simultaneously. • An interactive CD-ROM of the module that includes links to several related topics, Page 8.1292.1 PowerPoint presentations, video clips, and text material. • Development of a data acquisition and analysis module that is integrated into the Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

project and similar projects provides the student a unique opportunity to designand integrate the knowledge and skills acquired through number of different courses.The paper expounds in detail, the features from user’s perspectives and software designmethodology. The system uses the HTML language as the GUI interface for users. All the data ispassed using CGI forms and the Perl scripting language[1,2,3,5]. All necessary data is kept in onedatabase with 5 tables within that database that holds information on the users, lessons, grades andstudents. For the interaction between the HTML forms and database, the SQL[6] programminglanguage is used with an Open Database Connection (ODBC).I. INTRODUCTIONThis paper describes a project to write a program

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Martin; Shailendra Mehta; Ronald Steuterman; Leah Jamieson; Donald Blewett; William Oakes; Edward Coyle

: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ST. Louis MO, June 2000.[4]W.C. Oakes, E.J. Coyle and L.H. Jamieson, “EPICS: A Model of Service Learning in an Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ST. Louis MO, June 2000.[5]E.J. Coyle and L.H. Jamieson, “EPICS: Service Learning by Design,” Appeared in Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering, E. Tsang, editor, American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), 2000, pp. 59-74.[6]L.H. Jamieson, E.J. Coyle, M.P. Harper, E.J. Delp and P.N. Davies, “Integrating Engineering Design, Signal Processing, and Community Service in the EPICS Program,” Proceedings

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

develop courses in Fieldbus instrumentationtechnology. Lee College, a two-year college, is working with four-year schools in particular,with the University of Houston-Downtown to develop Fieldbus technology at all levels ofhigher education.A Fieldbus technology workshop for educators from two-year and four-year colleges, anduniversities was held at Lee College during August 2001 and July 2002. Both technical and educational aspects were covered in each workshop.Fieldbus technology networks all devices of an instrumentation system to each other and istruly an advanced distributed control system (DCS). Previous systems were called DCSbut were not truly 100% distributed. The single twisted pair bus of the fieldbus systemprovides both power and

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

come from a background in which they have not routinely interacted withindividuals from other cultures, nor have they traveled extensively. Our graduates typically seekemployment as professionals with large airlines or manufacturers that have significantinternational operations. The lack of exposure to other cultures places graduates at adisadvantage when they begin to work with individuals from other countries.The goal of this new initiative was not simply addition of a course to the curriculum, but to makeglobal issues and cultural awareness an everyday part of each student’s curriculum. As part of Page 8.43.1 Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

sense of depth andinterconnected layers within the outermost, observable level of culture and secondly, the dynamicrelationships between the levels of culture. An artefact such as a building, for example, gainedcultural significance from the practices, behaviors and shared understandings which haddeveloped around its use. Teaching practices in the form of curriculum and content, provided onwebsites and handbooks, may have been considered as physical artefacts but for the purposes ofthis analysis were considered as practices which were closely tied to the understandings andmeanings attributed to them by the members of the culture. Consequently Schein’s model ofculture analysis was amended to more clearly illustrate those understandings and the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

of what topics will be covered at what time and in what sequence, but more at the levelof groups of topics associated with an assessment. Grades on assessments serve throughout thecourse as motivation for student achievement.A set of courses makes up a curriculum. A curriculum is a generally recognized set ofknowledge and skills, often represented as a large set of topics organized around themes into alogical sequence of courses. A primary student motivation is to be certified as havingsufficiently mastered the knowledge and skill set of a curriculum, showing the importance of thestructure provided by grades and assessments in courses.In university education, students are expected to grow and develop in their cognitive abilities.However

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session # 2526 Establishment of Mechatronics Laboratory at UMES Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Srinivas Sai Shyam, John Wood, Anthony Stockus University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853-1299AbstractModern mechanical engineering curriculum not only emphasizes the fundamentals ofsolid mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermal sciences but also the applications of thesesubjects in design, control and manufacturing.Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of mechanics, instrumentation and control,software engineering and information technology. As such it integrates well with not onlythe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

from our course (if any) that these goals are being met. Quotes are from studentsobtained in confidential focus groups conducted by Dr. Suchowski unless otherwise indicated. Itshould be noted that the results described by Beichner et al.5 resulted from using the proposedteaching methodologies in several classes over two semesters as part of an overall integration ofthe curriculum. The course goals and objectives are as follows. 1. Develop student design and problem solving skills. This type of introductory course has a positive impact on developing these abilities6. ECE 123 provides design and problem solving experiences primarily by offering choices during circuit construction and in troubleshooting hardware and software

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Carr

creation of new things thatpeople want", then young women and men who aspire to advance mankind's well beingneed exactly this kind of holistic thinking. Most engineering freshmen have littleaccurate knowledge about what distinguishes an engineering education from one in, say,science, but today's college students actually become energized by getting intoengineering academic work as soon as they enter college.Implementation of a significant revision of the freshman engineering curriculum hasrequired the usual mix of patience, vision, diligence, and attention to details. The processhere at Northwestern started by engaging leading faculty to drive this enterprise. Usingtheir collective wisdom they crafted two new course sequences that encompassed

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

schools. Many of the programs are targeted towards specific schools within thedistricts. In addition, we have been able to assist schools to address and meet their specificneeds.Engineering is used as the vehicle to involve pre-college populations in technologicaleducation and to motivate the children to pursue technological careers. For example, NJIT’sWomen in Engineering & Technology Initiative - FEMME program is an intensive four-week single-gender program offered in the summer to post-fourth through post-eighth gradegirls. Academic curricula and coursework is specially designed in alignment with the NewJersey Core Curriculum Standards (NJCCS). A main thematic unit created for each groupintroduces each grade level to a different

Conference Session

Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

,professional political resistance to change, the Library follows an integrated approach tothe analysis of complex, real-world challenges, and then involves a team of engineers,managers, and IT professionals to offer a theoretically sound, as well as practical solution.Due to the in-depth and quality content, the simple browser readable interface, and theexciting, interactive and powerful 3D graphics, the quality 2D videos, the active codeoffered for calculations, and the open-source learning / assessment environment offered,learners enjoy the eBook cases and find them more attractive than printed (i.e. passive,non-interactive, non-self calculating, and non-assessing) traditional textbooks.Our 3D multimedia learning material have been validated and

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

Session1353 INTRODUCING DESIGN TO FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Mark E. Cambron and Stacy S. Wilson Department of Engineering Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101AbstractThe role of design in an engineering curriculum is a key issue to the success of the program andgraduates. In the Electrical Engineering program at Western Kentucky University, two newcourses have been developed for the first and second years of the program which are focused onteaching design through robotics

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

having an international experience, as well as having realworld experience that will someday lead them to a job (1).Today’s students grew up in an increasingly shrinking world, with about half of them having hadan international travel experience with their family and nearly all of them having taken a foreignlanguage in their earlier education (1). Somewhere along the way, though, the internationalexperience doesn’t seem to fit within the engineering curriculum; there are too many courserequirements to complete before graduation; and students drop off from their grander intentions,many even letting go of their hopes of developing a better understanding of a foreign languagewhile at college. The barriers to international engineering study are

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Katz; Donna O'Kelly; Sheldon Landsberger

Engineering Groundwater Nuclear and Radiation Eng. Program Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab Soil Leaching National Laboratories Dynamics Radiochemistry Lab Techniques Figure 1. Overview of Interdisciplinary Graduate Radiochemistry ProgramSpecific objectives of the proposed program include: 1. Develop an integrated curriculum that offers courses within three programs and exposes graduate students to a variety of technical areas in nuclear and radiation engineering, environmental and water resources

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

2. Arrange rules so they emphasize the promotion of education, but at the same time leave open the opportunity for students to learn on their own and to innovate 3. Design performance events which simulate real world activities as much as possible 4. Choose design judges from industry who are accomplished engineers with an interest in education 5. Listen to the advice and suggestions of faculty advisorsFor the past decade, the IGVC has been used by many engineering curriculums in the U.S. andoverseas to help students achieve invaluable engineering training. When properly executed, theengineering design projects pertaining to development of an IGVC vehicle can be used todemonstrate outcome of curricula that satisfy most if

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

describe the ENGR 220 course, the truss design project, and the supportinglaboratory exercises. Our aim is to provide sufficient detail to allow these activities to beincorporated into engineering mechanics courses at other institutions with minimal effort. Figure 1 - A wooden truss typical of those built in our course.II. Description of the ENGR 220 CoursePrior to the full implementation of the integrated engineering curriculum 1-4 in the 1999 -2000 academic year, a traditional mechanics sequence of statics, mechanics of materials,dynamics and fluid mechanics was in-place for civil and mechanical engineering. One ofthe most significant problems associated with this traditional sequence is that studentswere taught to calculate forces