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International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

Session 1660 International Students and Communication Skills in Engineering Programs: A Recipe for Success Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dyani Saxby, Graduate Assistant Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractIt is of utmost importance that universities seek out creative ways to enhance thecommunication skills of their international engineering students. Too many engineeringstudents graduate and enter today’s global job market without sufficient communicationskills that will

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Dillard

2004, American Society for engineering Educationof LED’s, switches with potentiometers facilitated simple experiments and the PICkitTMUser’s Guide provided programming details and seven coding tutorials. An importantfeature of the PICkitTM was the unpopulated serial port communication snapoff board on theright side in Figure 1, which, after population, was used to communicate with a PC.Although the PIC12F675 lacked serial communication modules, coding for a simple half-duplex UART was not difficult. Armed with their own PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kit, eachteam OWNED a programmer and could execute all phases of their design at home. Figure 1. The PICKIT programmer/evaluation board from Microchip Technology, Inc.. The right side of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

Session 1793 The VOS Data Manager: Providing Immediate Feedback on Teaching Effectiveness Patrick R. Norris1, Alene H. Harris2, Chad W. Washington1 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering/ 2 Department of Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractNew classroom assessment technologies produce large amounts of data. However, providinguseful information to instructors, who may not be familiar with coding or analytic methods,remains challenging. For the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Samuel J. Stokes; Nagi El Naga; Halima El Naga

integrated with theWindows CE™ hardware, systems developed and tested using the Legos set of hardware,can be transferred over to more advanced controllers using the Windows CE basedmicrocontrollers. In this manner, the beginning Electrical/Computer Engineering studentis able to begin programming with tools that are iconic in nature, review how the iconiclanguage creates useful code, observe it's use in inexpensive hardware components, andthen move to building actual engineering grade products using Windows CE type ofsingle board computers.In this paper, the use of the Softwire Technology Iconic language and the ability forbeginning Computer Engineering students to make the cognitive connection betweenabstract languages and actual building of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Johnson

information is communicatedfrom the device to each assembly workstation using a specialized wireless infrared system with aprogrammable microcontroller. This proof-of-concept project was one of several components ina Manufacturing Engineering Technology senior capstone course. The resulting device wasgiven the name “Smart Pallet” by Dr. Wesley Baldwin who also presented the original conceptfor the project.Background:The operating environment for this project is a student constructed computer integratedmanufacturing (CIM) laboratory. A 15 foot by 6 foot oval assembly line track is the centralcomponent in the CIM laboratory. Assembly workstations are positioned at several pointsaround the outside perimeter of the assembly line track. In addition, GE

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Will Kim; Jeffrey Tisa; Peter Jansson

Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBackground As part of the Green Power Engineering pedagogy developing at Rowan University studentsare given the opportunity to take a senior/graduate elective entitled Sustainable Design inEngineering. The professor's website2 contains more detailed information about the course. Akey course requirement is that students undertake a project that will utilize their acquired skills todemonstrate some activity (research or technology based) that will forward the efforts ofsustainable design in engineering. Co-authors Jeffrey Tisa and William Kim developed thepower monitoring device described below. The device has the potential

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Muniram Budhu

Session 1793 A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING REUSABLE, INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS IN AN ENGINEERING DIGITAL LIBRARY: THE GROW-NCERL PROJECT Muniram Budhu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 USA. E-mail: budhu@u.arizona.eduINTRODUCTIONLibraries have always played a key role in education. They provide a place for the storage andretrieval of a large body of human knowledge. Digital technologies are now transforming andexpanding the traditional roles of library. Digital libraries provide an assortment of tools for auser to search, retrieve, create, customize and share content

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mario Simoni; Marc Herniter; Bruce Ferguson

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationVI. References[1] D. Hestenes, M. Wells, and G. Swackhamer. Force Concept Inventory. The Physics Teacher. 30 (3): 141-151, 1991.[2] Foundation Coalition. 13 January 2004. .[3] ABET Board of Directors. Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2003-2004 Accreditation Cycle. p2.VII. Author InformationMARIO SIMONIMario Simoni is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Parks College of St. Louis University in 1994 andhis Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Dennis Silage

capstone design projects utilizing Amateur Radio are exciting and can be thought of asgoing beyond the areas that are usually undertaken by undergraduate students. A supportivedepartment and faculty can thus provide an environment for ECE capstone design opportunities Page 9.1049.6in the emerging technologies of the wireless world. Thus, hopefully, the impediments to thereintroduction of Amateur Radio in the ECE capstone design program have been dispelled. The Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnical

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Sener

Document 2004-150 CRITERION 3-(b) OF 'ABET' FOR LABORATORY PRACTICES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION Joseph C. Sener, Ph.D., P.E. Civil Engineering Department Boise State University College of Engineering 1910 University Drive, MEC 403K Boise, ID 83725-2075, USAAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), 2003-2004 GeneralEngineering Criteria for Basic Level Program Outcomes and Assessments, requires

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

the students who enter our discipline are lessfamiliar—and less comfortable—than their humanities and social science peers with reflectiveprocesses that require introspection and that often increase rather than resolve ambiguity anduncertainty. The highly technical nature of much engineering content also makes the process ofestablishing community partnerships and projects that are closely linked to academic materialmore difficult than in some disciplines. The task, therefore, is three-fold: 1) to identifycommunity issues—such as environmental issues—that pose technical challenges and requiretechnical and technological expertise, 2) to support students, instructors, and community partnersalike in the process of applying the knowledge and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sven Nielsen

Basis 1 Assessing a Space, Human and context, Co-operation, learning design and management of projects, Architecture and de- signs, Information technology, DesignTable 1. Phases, semester themes and (some) courses of the M.Sc.; Programme in Archi- Page 9.943.3tecture and Design“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copy- right  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The main element of the pedagogical concept is study plans, which for each semester de-scribes

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

Session 2004-1793 Virtual Reality Tools for Enhancing Interactive Learning Angran Xiao 1, Kenneth Bryden 1*, David Brigham 2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50014 2 Iowa BioDevelopment, Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, IA 52501AbstractVirtual reality (VR) technology is capable of constructing a user-centered, three-dimensionalenvironment that is familiar to the student onto which abstract and complex information can be imposed.This virtual environment can stimulate interactive learning and comprehension

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Weissbach

Session 1793 Hardware Experiments in Feedback Control Systems Using a Geared Dc Motor Robert S. Weissbach Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractOne of the difficulties in teaching control systems to engineering and technology students is torelate classroom theory and computer simulation to experimental results. Students tend to focuson analyzing feedback control systems without understanding where the transfer functions of reallife systems come from. This effect is exacerbated by textbooks in control systems, whereauthors often assume that variables

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gouranga Banik

2406 Teaching Real-life Risk Management to MS Construction Students Gouranga C, Banik, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060AbstractThe nature of the ‘messiness’ of the real projects in which we are involved determines how ourconstruction practice proceeds. In order to train future construction students, we need to preparethem with the skills to deal with this

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

9.756.10 13. Steif, P.S. and Dollár, A., 2004, Reinventing the teaching of statics, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, June 2004 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationANNA DOLLÁRAssociate Professor, Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, OhDegrees: Ph.D., M.S., Krakow University of Technology, Poland.Research area: solid mechanics and engineering education.PAUL S. STEIFProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

Session 1621 Satisfying ABET Accreditation: Program Assessment Enno “Ed” Koehn, Rajesh Malani Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has revised the accreditationcriteria that is designed to assure that graduates of accredited programs are prepared to enter thepractice of engineering and satisfy industrial requirements. The general criteria also specifiesthat engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates possess or satisfy eleven (11)educational outcomes generally known as “a” through “k”.This investigation

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Akbar Eslami

2004-1186 session 1793 Gel Time and Temperature for Two Thermosetting Resins Steven D. Gordin, Akbar M. Eslami, Howard L. Price Department of Technology Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City NC 27909AbstractThe results of an investigation of gel time and temperature of two thermosetting resins have beenused to design a laboratory experiment for an undergraduate materials science course. Theexperiment is part of a larger effort to establish an undergraduate program in

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

objective was to simulate current industry practices concerning electronicdocumentation and information exchange. However, the initial “problem” presented to thestudent groups was the creation of a group web page. The students were provided with somesupport mechanisms, as described in the next section. During the summer of 2003, the instructorworked with the Information Technology Services (ITS) at NDSU to develop some of the toolsthat are needed to create student web pages. Page 9.518.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ramesh Narang

), Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda, Lean Enterprises Institute, Inc., Brookline, MA.BiographyRAMESH NARANG is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology program in the Department ofManufacturing Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, at Fort Wayne, IN. He hasreceived both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA in 1975 and1992. His research interests include: automated feature recognition, lean manufacturing, ergonomics, cellular Page 9.164.9manufacturing, and statistical process control. Proceedings of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Page 9.176.9Guide. Berkley, CA: Osborne/McGraw-Hill. (2000). Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education8. Grubb, W.N. The bandwagon once more: Vocational preparation for hi-tech occupations.Harvard Educational Review. 54 (1). 429-451. (1984).9. Heap, G. & Maynes, L. CCNA Practical Studies. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press. (2002).10. Hornbaker, R.D. How to take a Cisco certification. In CCNP Test Yourself PracticeExams. xxxi-liii. Berkley, CA: Osborne McGraw-Hill. (1999).11. Kelly, P. & Else, D., Working with industry in technology. In Education and TrainingConference IIR.6, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jon Plummer; Barry Lunt

. “Dispensing Technology.” SMT. October 1996: 56-58.10. Weisstein, Eric W. “Spherical Cap.” Math World. 1999. Wolfram Research. 2 September 2003 .11. “Soldering Materials.” U.S. Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon. 27 October 2003 .12. “Wave Soldering.” PCB-Process Defect Guide. 2003. PPM Monitoring. 27 October 2003 .13. “Solder Connections.” U of U ECE Secondary Server. 2003 Electrical Engineering Department University of Utah. 27 October 2003 .JON PLUMMERJonathan R. Plummer is a design engineer at Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems Inc. He received a B.S. and an M.S.degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from Brigham Young University.BARRY LUNTBarry M. Lunt is an Associate Professor of EET at BYU in Provo, UT. Dr. Lunt

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mya Poe; Dennis Freeman

Session 1793 Integrating Technical Writing into a Large Lecture Course Mya Poe* and Dennis M. Freeman+,# *Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies / +Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / #Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractTechnical writing was incorporated as an integral part of a large lecture, undergraduate subject inbiomedical engineering. The writing component was

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Marjan Zadnik

Teaching in Engineering, Science and Computing: A Collaborative Process to Improve Quality Marjan G. Zadnik, Joan Gribble, Shelley R. Yeo†, Peter L. Lee. Division of Engineering, Science and Computing, † Learning Support Network, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845.IntroductionThis paper outlines a process encouraging the involvement of all academic staff in theDivision of Engineering, Science and Computing at Curtin University of Technology toimprove the quality of their teaching and students’ learning. The Teaching

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Simo Lehto

learning goals for the wholelearning period can be divided in the following way.-Profession of the engineer (selected field of engineering, engineering in general)-Objects of engineering work (non-living world, organizations, enterprises)-Engineering work (development work, global economical, environmental, legal, and humanconstraints)-Working environment of the engineer (selected field, human being, organizations, marketeconomics, business)-Modern tools of engineering = technology (abstract tools = mathematics, concrete tools =modern ICT and mechanical machines)-Personal development (specializations, continuous learning and professional development).Structure of new EEThe new EE model resulting from the work in Finland can be summarized as a

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Ward; Richard Howell; Debby Knotts; Deborah Fisher; Jerald Rounds; Jennifer Scott

throughcomprehensive, affordable education based on intimate interaction with the creators andpractitioners of new technologies. The local, regional and distance members of ourdiverse community of students, faculty and staff are actively engaged in all segments ofindustry, government and academia. Our students experience strongly interactivelearning in a vibrant physical, intellectual and cultural environment. The Missions of theDepartment of Civil Engineering at UNM are to provide high-quality learningexperiences for students and lifelong education for practicing professionals, and todevelop and disseminate new knowledge to meet the engineering and construction needsof New Mexico, the nation and the world. In addition to the Mission Statement, theDepartment

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

. Students who use theWeb often circumvent libraries by conducting undiscriminating online searches andthereby lose the benefit of the library’s scholarship and expertise. According to oneeducator, "It's all about content…. The library is really good at vetting and organizingpublished content, while the educational-technology groups work with faculty with theirunpublished content. And yet students need both at their fingertips. We don't want themjust going to ‘Google’."4The ability to find and evaluate information is important for both engineering student andgraduate engineer who make extensive use of the Web to access to vast databases anddigital libraries. Both depend heavily on search engines to discover and locate materials.and mostly fend for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Johnson; Martin Morris; Arnold Ness; Richard Deller; Julie Reyer

BEST/STEPS: Hands-On Education and Recruitment of Underrepresented Groups Julie A. Reyer, Richard W. Deller, Martin J. Morris, Arnold Ness, Richard T. Johnson College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University By the time students enter college, lack of rigorous high school coursework can eliminateengineering as a potential career path[1]. Bradley University has developed new summer campprogram designed to attract students to engineering and to interest students in taking high schoolcourses needed to pursue engineering. The campers were members of underrepresented groupsselected with the input of representatives from local public schools and industry. The purpose ofthe camp, sponsored by the Society of

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Idowu

Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationVery early in the semester one class meeting is scheduled in one of the technology classrooms atPenn State Harrisburg’s Library for hands-on interactive session on electronic resources. Thereference librarian guides the students through search techniques on science, engineering, andtechnology databases hosting several hundred journal titles. This step is crucial in helpingfamiliarize the student with the systematic process of scientific research. Besides technicaljournal papers, students typically need extensive product information from variousmanufacturers as they complete their design work. It therefore becomes necessary to familiarizethem with

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Ciezki; Brian Jenkins; Samara Firebaugh

Electronics. 1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.4. Evans, A., T. Davies, and S. Wilks, Is your laboratory a turn-off? Intl. J. Elec. Eng. Educ., 2002. 39(3): p. 284-292.5. Wright, C.H.G., et al. Teaching DSP: bridging the gap from theory to real-time hardware. in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. 2002.SAMARA FIREBAUGHSamara Firebaugh is an assistant professor at the U. S. Naval Academy, where she teaches and conducts research inthe field of microelectromechanical systems. She received the B.S. degree from Princeton University in 1995 andthe M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 and 2001.BRIAN JENKINSBrian Jenkins