Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li; Rajab Challoo

the assumption of steady-stateconditions. Students usually thought that the course was old-fashioned and boring, which greatlylimited student’s ability to understand wide control applications of electric machines. However,modern electric machines are widely interacted with power electronics, DSP and digital controltechnology. These technology changes are not reflected in traditional teaching structures of thecourse. This paper gives the restructuring of the course at TAMUK through an integrativeteaching approach and computer assisted teaching methodologies so as to provide students acomplete view of an electric drive system that consists of electric machines, power electronics,controllers, power supply systems, and mechanical loads

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

fallThe views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the United States Page 9.933.1Government. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester; CS408A is taken the following spring semester. CS407A emphasizes softwareengineering and design principles. Students are assigned to project teams and determine specificproject

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

mathematical and scientific tools of analysis,experimentation and design on which the practice of engineering is built. There were a total of11 Technical learning outcomes. The Social learning outcomes category neither means “hard tocharacterize” nor “non-essential but a good idea anyway.” These outcomes reflect the very realneed for engineers to have “soft” people skills in addition to the traditional “hard”cognitive/technical skills. The new global market place demands engineers that are ambassadorsfor the profession and who are able to convincingly communicate to diverse and non-technicalaudiences. “An understanding and experience dealing with engineering practices and principleswill only get you so far” comments Kerry Hannon in The Graduate

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

blackboard has, but all in one place and easier to decipher.85. More information in general86. The grades section should be more accurate, half the time when I would look at them the points would change or not reflect my proper grade.87. No changes.88. No it's a good website - maybe more photos of professors.89. I thoought that the TIDES website was very thourough and easy to use. no additions are needed in my opinion.90. More food related classes91. Maybe I just missed it, but I didn't see where stuff was due easily posted on the website.92. Make sure it works when using an apple computer and the internet explorer web browser.93. I would like to see more guest speakers.94. nothing.95. The website was easy to use; I

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

one would receive additional technical trainingas well as practice/business training in order to meet the demands of IT industry.Ongoing professional education maintains or improves workers' knowledge and skillsafter they begin professional practice. It also proves that an IT profession has to maintainhis knowledge and skills at the current level and understand the most advancedtechnology in his field. After a professional's initial education and skills development arecomplete, ongoing education requirements help to assure a minimum competency levelthroughout the professional's career. The fact is that some college degree and non degreecomputer related programs do not even reflect the current technology.One aspect of professional development

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

interested in ML?In review, students seemed to find the module very hard, and this reflected negatively on howmuch they liked it. Strangely enough, they did grade the module well in terms of its relationshipwith machine learning and about a third of the class demonstrated interest in learning more aboutthe subject.Modifications were applied to the module to try to make it more palatable to the students for thesummer of 2003. The original module specification was broken down into 3 sections: 1. A theoretical neural networks handout. 2. A detailed explanation of the perceptron learning and pocket algorithm. 3. A module handout specifying grading and deliverables.Originally (in Spring 2003) all these sections were lumped together and the students

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

fornon-SME majors, or persisting in SME majors despite challenges and setbacks. Her researchaimed to derive a set of testable hypotheses from student reflections. This study’s findingsinclude a number of factors specific to engineering, as well as science and math majors: 1) Students who chose to discontinue an SME major were not “different kinds of people” from those who succeeded in an SME major.11 Those who switched out of SME majors were not necessarily less qualified to master the necessary technical concepts, but their evaluation of the SME-major academic experience was highly dissatisfactory, either due to a perceived lack of success, or to a dissatisfaction with the way courses were taught. 2) Both

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

proportion of the design engineer’s time and it was properly given a greatdeal of attention in the analysis-oriented classes. The designer is increasingly being a managerand user of software for these computationally-intensive tasks. This should provide the designerwith more available time for the higher-level creative tasks of conceptual and preliminary designand with large-scale error detection, critiquing and validation of software results being vital stepswhich must be carried out before the final design is accepted. The content of engineeringeducational programs is slowing changing to reflect this changing role of the typical designengineer regarding how and by what/whom the computational task is conducted

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

accreditation visit in the fall of 2003. One goal of the paper is to present thecomprehensive, measurable and flexible educational objectives and outcomes as well astheir systematic evaluation process.Another goal of the paper is to describe a new technique for presentation of assessmentmaterial for accreditation by ABET and CSAB Criteria for Engineering and ComputerScience programs. The e-assessment presentation system is highly integrated anddeployed throughout the CS and CpE programs and clearly driven by the School ofEngineering outcomes and objectives.The developed system is to be systematically reviewed and updated to ensure a completeand realistic reflection of the quality of education in the CS and CpE programs of theSchool of Engineering. It

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

practical hands-onexperience (internship). The program seems to touch on all of the skill sets that employers value.However, like any educational tool, the ILTM program needs to be continuously refined. In thedecade since ILTM was instituted, there have been notable changes in the business world, andthe program must change to reflect those changes. Today, globalization is often an assumedaspect of business, with many companies having plants or offices overseas. It is still importantof course to understand the dynamic of running a multinational corporation and serving foreignclients, but the way that the topic is covered needs to be updated, as several ILTM graduatessuggested. Other topics have become more prominent – over the past few years, with

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

in 2002 and 2003.8 Students were required to communicate with their customers, anillustrator, and tradesmen, three forms of communications that are necessarily quite differentfrom traditional student-professor exchanges. Students were required to design under resourceconstraints that included: time to complete the project, a limited budget to purchase materials andlabor, availability of materials, and constructability. The students also designed an experiment totest the product, conducted the tests, and analyzed the results. These students continued workingon the same designs as part of their senior design course. Because the students worked onprojects in both their junior and senior years, there was both a reflective period and an

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tsung-juang Wang

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

’ writings reflect more of “casual” (like informal talking) thinking rather than real report writing skills. Reading habits have gone down significantly. Some students tend not to read the book or the notes (neither before the lecture nor after the lecture). When I started my teaching career I noticed students spending significant amount of time going through worked out examples from the book. I always make it a point to solve problems that are not worked out in the book. This way the students have opportunities to see variety of problem solving skills. The number of opportunities available makes it convenient in one aspect; however, this also inhibits a lack of drive on the part of

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

and computer engineering. This new course is entitled ECE 480—Electrical and Computer Engineering Capstone Course4. It was modeled after the original EE482 course, with some changes to reflect lessons learned while offering EE 482 each semesterover a five-year period.One of the most important lessons learned since EE 482 was first introduced in 1997 has beenthat the area of embedded (computer) systems represents a very fertile framework for electricaland computer engineering students to acquire their major design experience. Analog, digital, andmixed-signal technologies have continued to evolve at a very rapid pace, with a large gapexisting between fundamental topics covered in introductory courses and the integratedknowledge and skills

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

university hostels residents 22,000 102,000 364 It should be noted that these figures do not include those for institutions that do not belong to the Ministry of Higher Education.The above figures, especially those related to the rate of growth of governmental universitiesmay seem quite impressive. They, however, do not necessarily reflect a similar growth patternin the quality of education. The fact is that different indicators on the quality of higher educationin Egypt show marked decline. Some factors leading to this decline is external to the highereducation system. They relate to the decline in the quality of High School Certificate graduates

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

. The objective ofthe course is to expose students to energy efficiency in day-to-day life to save bothmoney and energy thereby protecting the environment. This course provides studentswith the necessary knowledge and information on the main operating principles ofhousehold devices/appliances enabling the appropriate selection of energy efficient, costeffective, and environmentally responsible choices. The course relies on active learningcomponents to enhance the cognition of the fundamental concepts of heat transfer,principles of energy conversion, and thermodynamics. The course successfully generatedinterest in the student population as reflected in the enrollment increasing from 40students in the first semester to 600 plus students per

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamaraju; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe consistent and positive findings in this study are also indicative of improvements in thesoftware design that were informed by initial research, and reflect the improving nature of thelearning technologies informed by iterative evaluation.7. Study 4: Instructional Multimedia as Support for a Traditional Lecture in Statics (Applied: Class Context)7.1 RationaleStudies conducted for the project such as the games experiments presented above provide strongevidence that the software can serve as an effective alternative to traditional lecture. This isconsistent with other research [18, 19], which indicated that

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

students' backgrounds from the student perspective as well aspreconceptions based on student opinion. Question topics include those about student majorselection, knowledge about engineering, prior level of physics, math etc., and prior computerskills. In the last week of the semester, the student survey was modified and given to all students.Questions were modified to reflect change in the time line and assess student perspective of thecourse and their knowledge. The surveys were evaluated and compared both within and acrossall sections.There was a 70.5% response to the post-course survey of the 316 freshmen that took ES130 inthe fall semester. Based on the responses received, the results are shown below: Changed engineering majors

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Zekavat

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

unless you wanted it completely open ended • Chemistry of the photovoltaic cell to show energy conversion • Trouble shooting e-mail source. i.e.: what if wires come unhooked? Duct tape? • AV • Catalogs and price lists • Post assessment • More real life applications • Alternative car types other than Legos • Not with out using it in class • Video on solar technology • Post assessment journal writing to record their thoughts/ideas and process; have students reflect during this processDo you cover the topics of the ETK in your classes? • Doesn’t everyone cover renewable resources? • 13 answers of Yes o Technology classes (6-8), energy, conservation of energy, friction, from a math

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

to more accurately reflect CFD process and capabilityand accuracy for specific student applications, including comparisons with AFD or EFDvalidation data. The evaluation confirmed that the implementation was worthwhile andpromising, but at same time indicated direction for improvements. (1) Use of differentspecialized CFD templates for each exercise implied different CFD process for each applicationand did not facilitate site testing. (2) Exercises lacked options and depth. (3) Overly automated. Page 9.450.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

Education”the card they were holding to stand up as I went through the questions. This way the students were notreporting their own answers. The results were quite revealing. Of 54 students in the class: ! 42 said they would report ethical misconduct where they were employed ! 52 admitted to downloading music and not buying the CD ! 40 admitted to downloading movies ! 29 admitted to cheating on an exam or quiz ! 19 said they would report someone they knew was cheating on an examThe class was concluded with a short “quiz.” I asked each student to reflect and write down the twomore important things they learned from the discussion in class. A number of students were surprisedat how wide spread the