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William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

student’sfunctional areas.IV. The Manufacturing Processes CollaborationThe Manufacturing Processes (MP) collaboration is the most extensive of the three collaborations,beginning with a joint laboratory period in week 3 to disassemble the product and ending with theMP final reports delivered in week 11. One MP team is formed for each DIS team, and a memberof each DIS project team acts as the liaison to the corresponding MP team.The DIS team is responsible for determination of make or buy decisions for all parts, although theMP team often influences these decisions. For example, the MP team may recommend that a partpreviously identified as a fabricated part be purchased instead. Resolving these questions is theresponsibility of the DIS student who serves as

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Rodney Allen; Richard M. Felder; Catherine E. Brawner

by research and experience.As part of the assessment effort, SUCCEED fielded e-mail surveys in 1997 and 1999 to whichrespondents reported their use of such instructional practices as writing formal instructionalobjectives for undergraduate classes, conducting in-class learning activities, and assigning team-based homework in traditional lecture courses (in contrast with laboratory and design courses,where teams have traditionally been used). About a third of surveyed faculty members returnedthe survey in each administration (32% in 1997 and 36% in 1999).This paper compares the results of the two surveys with respect to the use of certain teachingpractices among faculty and shows the relationship between attending faculty

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Sara Soderstrom; Chris Lorenz; Michael Keinath

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at theUniversity of Michigan, the first workshop of the series was focused on cooperative learningtechniques for the classroom and presented by Dan Budny of the University of Pittsburgh. Inthis session, we discussed the purpose of using cooperative learning techniques, how they benefitstudents in the classroom, laboratory, and in study groups, how they promote active learning, andhow they differ from collaborative learning. A meta-analysis of sound research studies hasshown that cooperative learning increases real learning, motivation, and retention. Dr. Budnypresented a collection of principles to help design cooperative learning experiences that fosterteamwork and improved learning. Small

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Leo Smith; Hisham Alnajjar; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Ladimer Nagurney; Devdas Shetty

projects for all Senior Capstone Projects• The Faculty involved has gone through a training program in the area of active and collaborative learning and useful pedagogues. A new design laboratory for interdisciplinary, integrated student learning has been created. Further efforts are in progress to create measures to assess the effectiveness and outcomes of the new implemented methodologies.Various parts of the project have addressed engineering curriculum reform from the freshman tosenior year based on a problem based collaborative learning approach. In addition, the curricularreform is very relevant to the new ABET accreditation guidelines with focus on outcomes. Theprojects have taken an

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David J. Ahlgren; Igor Verner

projects.Stated skill development areas for ENGR 120 included the following: robotics fundamentals,software development using Interactive C, basic use of laboratory instruments (oscilloscope,signal generator, voltmeter), use of CAD packages for mechanical and electrical design, dataacquisition, data analysis using Excel, digital logic basics, motor control (PWM, PD/PID, fuzzylogic), basics of microcontroller interfacing (A/D, parallel port), and development and use ofsensors for ranging and flame detection. The course also provides practical, hands-onexperiences with electrical and mechanical construction, cabling, soldering, and other technicalskills.Robotics TeamStudents interested in more advanced robotics studies join the Trinity Robot Study Team

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Kenneth Manning; Luke Bellandi

, PhDKen Manning is the Technical Manager for Project Links, and an Adjunct Associate Professor for the CoreEngineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He has also worked as a thermal-hydraulic design engineer for General Electric, first at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and then at theCorporate Research & Development Center. His B.S. is in Physics from the University of Oregon, received in 1976,his M.S. is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984, and his Ph.D., also inMechanical Engineering, is from Rensselaer in 1992.LUKE B. BELLANDILuke Bellandi is a recent graduate from Rensselaer majoring in Electrical & Systems Engineering. He has been aprogrammer with Project

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Jr., Eugene Niemi

is to offer a course of study in marine sciences integrating the natural andsocial sciences in a manner not offered by established academic institutions in the New Englandregion, or for that matter, in much of the country. The availability of courses, laboratories, andsupervising faculty from four campuses provides students with a greater range of choices than iscurrently available at a single campus. The organization of the school and the courses to beoffered are described. Each of the campuses of the UMass system (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth,and Lowell) brings individual strengths to the program. The core courses in the program aredescribed together with the areas of specialization available at each campus. A description ofhow fluid

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Umid Nejib

, and other costs associated with faculty additions and laboratory upgrade andsupport.The MOC also assigns tasks and authority of relevant institutional offices associated with the project.For example, the program P/I while responsible for the management of the project, is specificallyrequired to develop an implementation plan for Goal-1 and Goal-2 with recommendations oncurriculum, financial projections, and assessment tools. These recommendations should be within thearticulated boundaries of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET EC-2000). The MOC document directs J.S.S., as a part of its on-going commitment, to allocate adequatefunding and support for the implementation of Goal-2 as it unfolds in India including

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Bonnie Osif; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

must structure the mechanics topics sequence so students can apply their newfoundknowledge directly to the project as the course progresses. With regard to topics outside the scopeof the course, such as engineering codes, the instructor must raise student awareness and citereferences for the students to explore. Finally, the instructor should provide an opportunity forstudents to assess and get feedback on their understanding of the knowledge throughout the projectsolution stages.Inquiry-based learning is differentiated from the other two strategies in that it is driven by specificquestions for which the students must present answers that are grounded on investigation,research, experimentation, or discovery. While step-by-step laboratory

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Bruce R. Dewey; Raymond Jacquot

MechanicalEngineering in 1969. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE and ASME and has been active in ASEE for the past twodecades serving as Rocky Mountain Section Chair and PIC IV Chair. His professional interests are in modeling,control, simulation and animation of dynamic systems. He currently serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering.BRUCE R. DEWEYDr. Dewey is a graduate of Iowa State University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1959, and M.S. in NuclearEngineering,1964) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1967). In 1982, hemoved to UW. He has worked as a consultant and research collaborator for Union Carbide, Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, General Electric, Laawrence Livermore Laboratory and Pafec, Ltd. His research

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793VIII. Bibliography1. Texas Instruments. TMS320C3x DSP Starter Kit User’s Guide. Texas Instruments, 1996.2. Chassaing, R. Digital Signal Processing-Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK. J. Wiley,1999.3. B.P. Lathi. Signal Processing and Linear Systems. Berkeley-Cambridge Press, 1998.CHRISTOPHER J. VONDRACHEKChristopher J. Vondrachek is currently a hardware design engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. Heearned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Portland in 2000 and currently works as a printed circuit board designerwithin Intel’s desktop products division. His technical

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full time basis.The lower division circuits course, EE 240, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, studied in thispaper is offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is required of allengineering majors in the college. This is a three-unit lecture, one-unit laboratory course thatrequires both a Physics course in Electricity and Magnetism as a pre-requisite and an applieddifferential equations course as a co-requisite.In this study, we collected the records of 229 students who had completed the EE 240 courseover the past two academic years. Only the lecture portion of the course was studied, not thelaboratory. For each of these students, the following factors were recorded: • CSUN grade point average

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

ofACR’s rapid prototyping business. Greg also collaborates with UA for teaching computer-aided design and rapidprototyping to undergraduate students by building prototype models of CAD files sent by the students to ACR.CHRISTOPHER Y. CHOIChristopher Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of theUniversity of Arizona. Dr. Choi has established the Instructional Computer Laboratory and developed a courseentitled Introduction to Computer Aided Design and has introduced Rapid Prototyping in conjunction with the state-of-the-art CAD technology. Dr. Choi received a Ph.D. degree in M.E. from Colorado State University.ALFONSO ORTEGAAlfonso Ortega is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical

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Jerry A. Caskey

Department to students who want a background in environmental engineering. Thetopics covered include sedimentation, filtration(including micro and ultrafiltration), adsorption,ion exchange, and membrane separations. A laboratory project has been developed to makedrinking water out of raw sewage using sedimentation, granular filtration, carbon adsorption,deionization, ultrafiltration and chlorination. The project has had a natural appeal becausestudents easily relate to raw sewage and drinking water. The purification process wasconstructed using Plexiglass cylinders, Tygon tubing, peristaltic pumps and permanentlymounted on a 4 ft by 8 ft plywood panel. Water samples are taken after each unit operation andthe following tests performed: Suspended

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Satinderpaul Devgan

Page 6.923.1well-established Center for Neural Engineering that is funded by the Office of Naval Research "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"and six well equipped research laboratories for CISE, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),Intelligent Signal Processing, Intelligent Control Systems, Probabilistic Design, and ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing, which are well equipped with latest computer hardware and softwareneeded to support research. Our faculty’s academic and research areas include signal and imageprocessing, intelligent control systems, application of ANN, fuzzy logic and genetic

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Bahador Ghahramani

Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 174-180, 1996.[8] G. Premkumar, K. Ramamurthy, and K. Nilakanta, Implementation of Electronic Data Interchange: An Innovation Diffusion Perspective. Journal of Management Information Systems 11, no. 2, 1994.[9] B. Rechtin, Foundations of System Architecting. Systems Engineering, 1(1), 35-42, 1994.Biography of the Author:Dr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was aDistinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His workexperience covers several years of academics, industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani haspresented and

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Jeff Fant

Camp andthe Plano Amateur Radio Klub (P.A.R.K.), there are a lot more kids on the air and we aretalking to each other on a regular basis.”Jordan Goldblatt, KD5KQM(Grade 8)Comments from parents:”Tech Camp 2000 was an exceptional learning environment that constantly challengedstudents with new ideas and hands-on situations to reinforce the material. While it maynot be for every student, it is a wonderful blend of classroom, laboratory and fieldactivities that engages learners at a lot of different levels.Our son, Jordan Goldblatt, worked very hard to earn his FCC Technician license prior tothe camp session. During the session, he learned a lot about radio frequency (RF)technology and how to work effectively in a group to achieve a goal.Jordan

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Kwok Pang

, three hours for lectures and three hours fordesign laboratory. The model is used extensively to show how a plant is designed andconstructed, from process engineering, detailed equipment design, piping, civil electrical andinstrumentation and finally to construction.They now appreciate how complex the piping network is or how and why such a plot plan is puttogether. Students also have an opportunity to visit the actual plant in Chevron’s El SegundoRefinery. It is such a treat to the students to finally see the real plant, exactly the same as themodel which they have studied for several years. They climbed to the platform to see the largeair-coolers and their exposed finned tubes. They marveled at the height of the depropanizer.The design

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Rakesh Pangasa; David Scott; Marc Herniter

, Laplace transforms, frequency response, and op-amp analog filtering. MATLAB has been used throughout the course in the following applications: a. Solving ordinary differential equations arising from RL, RC and RLC circuits. b. Measuring time constants from data collected in the laboratory and graphed using MATLAB. c. Measuring frequency content of signals filtered with a resonant RLC circuit by employing the Fast Fourier Transform. d. Root finding and pole zero mapping of transfer functions in the s domain. e. Laplace and inverse Laplace transforms using symbolic mathematics f. Partial fraction expansion of s domain functions. g. Frequency response Bode

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Nicholas Arcolano; Richard Vaz

addressed in EE 2311 is fairly typical of introductory signal and system analysiscourses in curricula that present continuous-time analysis separately from and before discrete-time analysis. The main topics of the course are: • Description and classification of signals and systems • Singularity functions • Impulse response and convolution • Trigonometric and exponential Fourier series • The Fourier transform and some of its applications • The Laplace transform and some of its applicationsThe course meets 35 hours during WPI’s 7-week term, and has no formal laboratory component.Students are expected to invest about 15 to 20 hours per week, including class time, into thecourse.Historically, this course has proved to be challenging for

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Katherine Carels; James Howard; Charles Bersbach; Debra Larson

specializing in Computer Science andEngineering. She was one of the three graduate students that took EGR 686 Managing Engineering Design duringthe spring of 2000.JAMES HOWARDJames Howard is an astrophysicist for Navel Research Laboratory and is simultaneously enrolled as a master studentin NAU’s Master of Engineering program specializing in Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the threegraduate students that took EGR 686 Managing Engineering Design during the spring of 2000. His research projectis “Redesign of the Narrow Angle Tracking Mirror on the Navy Prototype Interferometer”. He is graduating withhis Master of Engineering this May of 2001

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Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

-416, 1998.Biographical InformationRICK DULEY graduated with First Class Honours in Computer Science in 1996. He is currently a DoctoralResearch Student at Edith Cowan University working in the field of Software Engineering Education. Coming froma Heavy Industry and Mining background he has a special interest in things industrial and in the application ofengineering principles to software construction. r.duley@ecu.edu.auDr S P MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientific information systems integration andmanagement. He is the author of a text book, ’The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation’, which was commissionedby the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

extraction to disposal inthe life cycle of a product, the design process is where we make, or reflects where others make,the most important decisions; the decisions that determine most of the final product cost,3 and thedecisions that determine most of the ethical costs and benefits and to whom they accrue. It paysto do design well, but design is much bigger than our pursuit of profit, protection, or pleasure. Itis revolutionary behavior that has become routinized and institutionalized. Whether in theOlympics, in the laboratory, or on the operating table, we can no longer even decide wherehuman nature ends and technology begins. Every generation lives in a very new world withradically fewer natural species and many new technological species. Few, if

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Shirley Holloway

support materialsRationaleStudent Self-Assessment (optional)Connection activityExploration activityExperiential activitySummaryPractical activityStudent Post Self-Assessment (optional)The LOG typically does not contain lecture material since the main purpose of the system is tofacilitate classroom and laboratory activity rather than to create instant distant delivery materials.However, individual lecturers may elect to incorporate notes into their LOGs or use links to theweb, a text or CD ROM. Versions of the LOGs created for distance delivery would be expectedto be more complete in content and may include links to or embed video or audio lectures.Preparing and Working with a Digital Curriculum DatabaseTypical instructors at NAIT are content

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Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

feeling the crunch of class and laboratory space (and even parking), time-shortenedcourses offer a solution. The Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, offered thefirst intensive course in 1998 and today, there are almost a dozen offerings of such coursesacross the various disciplines. This paper will present some research comparing the traditionallength courses to those taught in a time-shortened format, and discuss how this transition will bemade in the Department of Construction Technology, IUPUI.II. An Overview of Time-shortened CoursesTime-shortened courses are actually not a new phenomenon7. After all, summer sessionofferings of courses, has been around for almost 80 years. Initially such courses were offered tostudents who may

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thegraduate level are required to attend another school since SPSU does not offer graduate civilengineering or civil engineering technology programs. With respect to transportation, all students are currently required to take a course entitled“Introduction to Transportation Systems” which is a 4 semester hour course with 3 hours oflecture and 3 hours of lab scheduled each week. This course attempts to generate interest in Page 6.1070.4transportation engineering through the use of the step by step approach to the analysis and designof roadways, traffic analysis including capacity analysis, and the basics of transportationplanning. Laboratory

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Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

from UMASS at Amherst. His research interest aremicrowave circuits, microwave remote sensing, and numerical methods for electromagnetics. He is currently thecoordinator of the COOP program at the ECE Department and the IAP coordinator. He teaches courses in the areaof Applied Electromagnetics and basic circuit analysis.RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ SOLISHe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Penn State University and an MSEE from the University of Florida. His research interest are microwavebroadband antennas, microwave circuits, high frequency simulations, and numerical methods for electromagnetics.He is currently the director of the Radiation Laboratory, which is sponsored

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Zdzislaw Kremens

offer a number of programs, which perfectly match the critical disciplines 3,reported by the Department of Labor and specifically illustrated in Fig.3. The statistics in Fig. 4present the total enrollment in chosen IT, Engineering Technology and Technology programsoffered at CCSU. This leads to an optimistic conclusion. If the new program responds directly tothe identified and growing demand for new educated workers, there will be employmentopportunities. One hopes that the enrollment will also grow steadily. In extreme cases,universities and schools cannot simply accept more students because the available resources arelimited (qualified faculty, laboratories, equipment, dormitories etc

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

CIVEN 4711 Basics Soils Testing Laboratory 1 ENGSC 3233 Fluid Mechanics 3 ENGSC 2613 Introduction to Electrical Science 3 *ELECT ---3 Directed Elective 3Fifth year (fall) 15 Fifth year (spring) 17 Total 160

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Philip Lau; Merredith Portsmore; Scott McNamara; Chris Rogers

engineeringopportunities in order to help excite and engage them in the math and physics courses that willdominate their first two years of school. The course at the senior level, however, grew out ofstudent demand to explore distributive intelligence. In both cases, students coming into thecourses had different backgrounds with regards to electronics/building experience andprogramming languages. Hence, a tool set was needed that all students could quickly and easilyuse regardless of their previous experience. Moreover, the course instructors wanted tools thatwould be easy to support and maintain and allow students to complete projects outside of theclassroom or laboratory if necessary.While many tools exist for teaching robotics, the need for text based