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Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

on the course webpage.All students in the quality engineering courses must complete a semester project. In spring 2002,students selected one of four project assignments, except for one distance student group thatdecided to work on a work related project. The students choose one of the following projects:catapult, Wheatstone bridge, automotive disk brake system, or design of a cool drink. Studentsthat chose the catapult or disk brake system projects were provided with simulations thatfacilitated experimentation. We briefly describe one of the simulations here.The Catapult: The Catapult is a device designed to throw a projectile to reliably hit a distanttarget. The key word here is “reliably hit.” A good discussion of the mechanics of the

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Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Prestwich; Fiona McNeill; David Chettle

Radiation Physics is basedupon the equivalent of six half graduate courses plus a project and a comprehensiveexamination. The courses involve various aspects of both ionizing and non-ionizingradiation while the project is much broader in scope, but much less rigorous in depth thana thesis. Ideally the student can complete the requirements in one calendar year, althoughin many cases the project has lasted longer, so typically the time spent is roughly 18months. The program is flexible and many students have performed “off campus” researchprojects working with supervisors in industry and government organisations.EnrolmentIn the last few years enrolment has dropped within the undergraduate and graduateprogrammes. In the undergraduate programme, this

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

from otherengineering disciplines. The course is prerequisite to our capstone project course on softwareengineering. The architecture course does not cover general software engineering topics (such astesting, estimation, and management), but it does provide students in the capstone course withfoundation skills for software design and development. This type of architecture and designcourse should be an appropriate second level course for engineers with a minor emphasis ofsoftware.IntroductionThis paper addresses the underlying issue of where and how and why architecture and design fitinto the curriculum of courses for majors in computing and for service computing courses, whichare often taken by engineering and science majors. Historically, the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

communicate those findings both inwriting and orally, skills essential for academic success, as well as for life long learning.The new course includes a traditional lecture component (lectures, exams, portfolio), alaboratory component (based on current ASTM standards) and a research project (on atopic of the student’s interest). Determining course content involved systematicallycombining the content of the existing courses for each of the building materials,emphasizing materials science content; identifying relevant ASTM standards, tradeassociation web sites and information sources; and addressing ABET requirements andFE exam requirements. From a day-by-day topic outline, faculty stakeholders, who teachadvanced courses, and seniors, who have taken

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

engineering students can satisfy the international experiencerequirement is by participating in interdisciplinary “Mini-Terms Abroad,” a program funded, inpart, by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor and Keck Foundations. The mini-term curriculumtypically consists of a series of seminars during the term preceding the travel abroad, a three-weekfield experience in a foreign country during the winter inter-term or summer break, and thecompletion and presentation of a research project by multi-disciplinary teams of students duringthe term immediately following the foreign experience. The authors have developed a mini-termcourse program that explores the technical, economic, environmental, sociopolitical, and culturalaspects of electric power generation in

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

datacollection techniques and methods to process, analyze, and present data within the larger contextof addressing engineering and project design issues. Topics include traditional surveying, globalpositioning systems (GPS), digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic informationsystems (GIS,) and digital terrain modeling (DTM). The paper includes a discussion of lecturematerial, organization of laboratories, software programs and equipment. Page 8.679.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kander

, problem-solving techniques from many disciplines, and use of the computer as a problem-solving tool.• the ability to integrate scientific and technological factors with political, social, economic, and ethical considerations. Breadth is provided through study in several different strategic sectors that reflect nationalcritical technologies, and currently include: biotechnology, energy, engineering manufacturing,environment, information and knowledge management, health systems, and telecommunications.Depth is provided through study in an area of concentration selected from among these sectors,and includes a comprehensive capstone thesis project. One objective of the program is to educate students to solve problems in a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kuyath

Session 1520 An Interactive Lecture for Web-Based ET classes Stephen J. Kuyath UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering TechnologyAbstract:To some degree distance education (DE) students are at a disadvantage because they are unableto participate in class lectures. The purpose of this project was to create an animated lecture fordistance education students providing them access to the benefits of a class lecture. Althoughmany formats have been used to create digitized, online lectures (e.g.: PowerPoint, MPEG orQuickTime movies, etc.) there are several advantages to using

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

equipment supplier for the new CIM lab.Past experience in CIM projects, especially academicprojects, was of prime concern in the selection process.Eshed Robotec was selected as theequipment/technology vendor for the project. Thecompany offered an impressive background in thedevelopment and production of educational systems forthe study of manufacturing technologies.Since the time of the contract award, Eshed Robotec Page 8.167.3has merged with Light Machines, a designer and Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 program is managed through the Center forEngineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University. The CEEO is a nonprofitorganization working with area schools to incorporate engineering into preK-12 classrooms. TheCEEO supports roughly fifteen different programs. The programs range from a summer camp formiddle school students to workshops for teachers and educators.The GK-12 project is a three-year project focused on pairing graduate-level engineering andcomputer science students with classroom teachers. The CEEO had six graduate fellows and fourundergraduate fellows in the first year of the project, and currently has eight graduate fellowsworking in the classroom and four undergraduate fellows working

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Holling

Page 8.510.3their perspective in the fields of study that they have chosen. Industry, on the other hand, demands graduateswho can quickly jump in and become productive and that possess both a research and an applied focus.20 At firstglance the Technologist will have an advantage due to the fact that the Engineering Technology education placesmore emphasis on current, existing technologies and skills.However, two trends are emerging in Engineering Education: - the requirement by industry for advanced degrees;21 - project and team based learning.22During the past 15 years, a trend has emerged that industry is increasingly demanding higher levels of educationand the requirement that engineers have completed a Masters Degree is relatively

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski

, motors,connecting wires and a programmable remote control system. The teams use these materials todesign and construct robotic devices that accomplish a simulated maritime mission. The kit ofparts is reusable each year and requires little machine-shop work to create machines, therebymaking this project ideal for repeated use. The experience is modeled on the capstone designactivity and contains many attributes of the final design experience. The U.S. Coast GuardAcademy has been the only program using this commercially available kit of parts and hasworked with the vendors to improve the system as a tool for engineering design education.IntroductionProviding engineering undergraduates with a sound introduction to the fundamental tools forsuccess

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

make decisions that affect them for the rest oftheir lives; selecting the college they wish to attend and choosing the field of study theywant to pursue. It is anticipated that this innovative approach, focusing on the 11th grade,can serve as a model for other Hispanic-Serving Institutions and for future nationalefforts. One of our goals is to make the activities undertaken by this project an integralpart of the recruiting and training efforts and expand them to reach a larger geographicalarea and a higher number of underrepresented students.The Role of TechnologyThe food industry has made great strides in using technologically sophisticatedequipment. Technology has resulted, among other things, in greater diversity of foodproducts and a more

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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THEO MARYONOVICH; Chris Netherton; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1292 Computer-Assisted GOAL-Oriented Walking Robot Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Theo Maryonovich and Chris Netherton Purdue University Calumet Hammond, IN 46323AbstractThe paper discusses a senior design project which was implemented during a two-semestercourse, Senior Design. These two courses are the capstone courses in ElectricalEngineering Technology curriculum offered in seventh and eighth semester. This projectand similar projects provides the student a unique opportunity to design and integrate theknowledge and

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

this trend have been described in Suh’s Principles of Design1 and Hazelrigg’sIntroduction to Systems Engineering2, among others.There has been a growing trend to re-examine what skills are taught in a design class. Thistrend is driven primarily by industry’s need for project management and design decision-making skills, in addition to analytical skills.3Another skill set which has been disappearing is design by analogy. Emphasis is placed ondeveloping novelty in design (the “new and different”). In fact, a “new and different”design requires complete validation, which is more expensive than modifying an existingdesign to achieve new objectives. The costs of validation and reduction to practice mustbe considered in the decision to develop a new

Conference Session

Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

, practitioners and other professionals working in theareas of sustainability and engineering. It is a collaborative project, lead by the University ofQueensland. The Sustainability Knowledge Network and its previous incarnation, TheAustralasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL), is part of a wider movement in Australiawhich has focused on developing discipline -specific, subject gateways in order to assist with thedelivery and dissemination of academic information. In Australia, this movement is coordinatedby the Australian Subject Gateways Forum. Subject gateways grew out of initiatives undertakenin the United Kingdom, such as the eLib program.1Subject gateways perform an important role as a “middle-ware” agent. They sit between the userand the Web

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

profiles in the fin to both analytical and numerical (finitedifference) solutions. This kind of experience enhances the understanding of the transfer ofthermal energy by undergraduate mechanical engineering students and exposes them to severalimportant concepts in heat transfer.I. IntroductionThe Design-Build-Test (DBT) concept has, recently, been used in undergraduate engineeringlaboratories [1, 2] and also in capstone senior design projects in which students design, develop,build, and test [3]. Traditional undergraduate heat transfer laboratories in mechanical engineeringexpose the students to heat transfer concepts presented in lecture classes, but do not provide themwith design experiences similar to what they might face as thermal

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. Currently, many undergraduate andfirst-year graduate students in the aforementioned fields do not have exposure to recent researchtrends in Machine Learning. This paper reports on a project in progress, funded by the NationalScience Foundation under the program Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD), whose goal is to remedy this shortcoming. The project involves the development of amodel for the integration of Machine Learning into the undergraduate curriculum of thoseengineering and science disciplines mentioned above. The goal is increased exposure toMachine Learning technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

weeks, held three face-to-face meetings and continuouslycommunicated with TCAP 3 and with the other two constituent committees; the AccreditationCommittee and the Licensure Committee. Look ForwardThe BOK–Curricula Committee tried to creatively contemplate the likely nature of infrastructureand environmental problems and opportunities decades ahead. The Committee avoided beingoverly bound by today’s conditions. Instead, likely changes in infrastructure and environmentalchanges were considered. Possibilities include sea level rise, sharp decline in oil supplies,increased globalization (clients, employees, partners, projects), resurgence of nuclear powerplants, mining of landfills, user fee-based

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

. Inthe original physics-based curricula, labs involving mechanical application were practically non-existent. To provide for new mechanical lab activities, basic laboratory stations were procured,an engineering measurements lab and course were created, and innovative, low-cost practicalexperiences were developed. These activities quickly became too numerous for a single course,and will need to be distributed into the engineering science courses. The electrical engineeringcomponent has been influenced by technology advances and changes in focus. Improvements tolaboratory equipment and software have simultaneously simplified many lab measurementswhile allowing for more complex projects. The focus has shifted from fundamental physicsmeasurements

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Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Ansari

with no insulation,resulting in considerable thermal discomfort to occupants several months in a year. Tomeet the objectives of “climate responsive building design & construction”, an initiativeat Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology (MJCET), entitled Centre forEnvironment Studies & Socioresponsive Engineering, has conceived and developed thedesign of “The Natural House”. This has been set up as an undergraduate R&D project,supervised by two faculty members (the two authors of this paper). It is expected thatfollowing the R&D phase the students – a group of twenty-three mechanical engineeringjuniors, including eight female students, will construct a small “Natural House”.The House is being designed for maximum

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tara Gallus; Phil Laplante; Peter Wiesner

8.1279.2implementing strategies, strengthened quality assurance, and ability to take risks with“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”backing of the community. Long term value for developing organizational capabilitiesinclude: ability to execute a strategic plan, authority with clients, increased retention oftalent, capacity for knowledge- development projects, forum for “benchmarking” againstrest of industry, knowledge-based alliances, emergence of unplanned capabilities,capacity to develop new strategic options, ability to foresee technological developments,ability to take advantage of emerging market opportunities.Most of the

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

process from mini-design problems, which focus on problem solving skills, to majorcapstone design projects, which encompass many skills 2, 4, 9, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 47. Leifer has notedthat instructing students in the engineering design process provides an opportunity forintroducing constructivist learning experiences into engineering student classroom activities 22.He drew on Kolb’s experiential learning model which describes learning as taking place in aniterative cycle of four basic steps: reflective observation, concrete experience, activeexperimentation, and abstract conceptualization. Based on this cycle, Leifer suggests thatengineering design and technical concepts should be intertwined. In this way, students can bestlearn technical

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

standards. Figure 4 depicts the logical view of the hardwareplatform, illustrating a mobile unit equipped with laptop, cell phone, drive tester and globalpositioning system (GPS) receiver as part of the hardware configuration. The mobile unit is used formobile IP projects and for collecting power measurements to develop propagation models forcellular coverage. Student projects focus on the integration of different wireless technologies intoone heterogeneous environment in which wireless terminals use one or multiple WLAN technologiesto connect to the internet. Figure 4 – A view of the functionality of the Wireless Island

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tohru Kitamura; Masashi Tani; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Session 2253 Pre-College Education of Engineering at Kanazawa Institute of Technology to Senior High School Students in Japan Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kazuya Takemata, Masashi Tani and Toru Kitamura Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Wakasa Senior High SchoolAbstractIn order to stimulate young students’ interest in science and engineering, Kanazawa Institute ofTechnology (KIT) and Wakasa Senior High School (WSHS) started a collaboration project in 2000.KIT gives a two-day pre-college engineering course to students from WSHS. As students have littleengineering knowledge, we intend to achieve the objective

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Ashok Agrawal

by the difficulties encountered indevelopmental courses that are designed for technical students. Students may also lose interest bynot experiencing hands-on engineering technology. St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley is addressing this problem through itsGateway To Technology Program (GTTP). The GTTP is one of the three components of theGateway to Manufacturing Excellence project funded by the National Science Foundationthrough the Advanced Technological Education program The GTTP is a one-semester integratedcurriculum that prepares a cohort of students for immediate entry into one of several engineeringtechnology programs offered at the college. This course would typically combine CollegeOrientation, Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Bellamy; Barry McNeill; Veronica Burrows

, faculty usually design the learning activities of their courses with specific learningobjectives in mind. With the implementation of outcomes-based assessment, student self-assessment of their own learning and of the effectiveness of the learning activities in their coursesis a significant part of the course and program assessment of learning effectiveness.Students in an introductory engineering class were required at semester’s end to assess theeffectiveness of course learning activities (homework, projects, lectures, assigned textbookreadings, etc) in supporting their achievements of the course learning objectives. This wasaccomplished through the use of a matrix that mapped each of the course learning objectives tothe course learning

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Session 2530 Designing Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for Middle School Students Larry G. Richards1, Hilary Bart-Smith, Gabriel Laufer, Joseph A.C. Humphrey, Randy Bell, and Robert Tai University of VirginiaAbstractThe University of Virginia has undertaken a major project to design, implement, test, anddistribute Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for use in middle school science and mathcourses. A new senior design course sequence for fourth year Mechanical Engineersallowed 30 students to

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

telecommunications. Inorder to complete the degree, students must choose a concentration in one of twocurrently available high-demand IT knowledge areas: Graphics and Data Presentation orInformation Security and Network Administration. Each concentration includes a six-hourcapstone design project. Graduates from this program will fill an important niche in the ITjob market that lies between those who graduate with IT business skills (from ourManagement Information Systems (DMIS program)) and those technical experts whograduate with degrees from existing technical areas such as computer science, computerengineering, and electrical engineering. Page 8.662.2The BS-IT

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Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1