Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

to address this missing educational componentfor maintenance professionals. A team approach was adopted to facilitate acquisition ofequipment and development of laboratory activities3. The course was established on a permanentbasis in 19924. Table 1 lists the original course topic outline and laboratory activities. Minorchanges to the lecture topics and ongoing significant laboratory evolution have occurred in theyears since its inception. For more than five years now, the course has been offered at least twicea year for up to thirty students per session.Several mechanical engineering and mechanical engineering technology programs havedeveloped machinery vibrations courses5. In an approach that appears to still be unique to thePurdue

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sayward Touton; Cory McDonald; Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

students’ success/non-success.3 This training is to ensure that the mentors will bewell equipped to meet the challenges that the first year students will soon face. At this seminar,the graduate and undergraduate mentors are assigned to their teams for the year and are able toget acquainted before meeting the first year student. Figure 1: Graduate and Undergraduate Mentors at the Training SeminarAt the first GUIDE meeting of the fall semester, mentors and mentees are assigned to their teamsfor the year. In addition to the weekly GUIDE meeting, the mentoring teams meet twice a weekoutside of the class in a social setting. Initially, these meetings allow the students to getacquainted with one another. Once they are acquainted, the teams begin

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

accredited SE programs in the United States. This paperalso describes how SQA is being taught at MSOE and discusses the advantages and limitationsof our approach.1. Intr oductionA Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula (CC2001) was established in 1998 by Institute forElectrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-CS) and the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) to undertake a major review of curriculum guidelines for undergraduate programs incomputing. The task force was assigned the task of providing curriculum guidance in the areas of(i) Computer Science, (ii) Computer Engineering, (iii) Software Engineering and (iv)Information Systems, so that the enhanced curriculum takes into account the latest developmentsin computing of the past decade and

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Viva Austin; Keith Koenig; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Mississippi State University, butprogrammed solutions are still presented in many of the courses of this discipline. Sincemany students did not take an additional programming language course, instructors inthose courses have commonly had to take the time to introduce syntax and structure ofprogramming required for their classes. The issue of such overhead that tookinstructional time from their primary topics has been addressed in this and many otherinstitutions by the addition of introductory courses3 that include such topics asintroductions to MathCAD4 and Matlab5, and specific familiarization with programs usedin the laboratory for data acquisition and control. In the past fifteen years, the languagesand derivatives shown in Table 1 have been used

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

feedback time, protection of students identity, and eliminationof bias of students response with their grades. The system is in operation at the College ofEngineering, Temple University since Fall of 2002. Students can assess faculty teachingperformance anytime during the semester, and the results are immediately prompted back to theinstructor. This allows the instructor to make changes in the course material or in teachingtechnique before the semester is over. This paper also introduces a technique for analyzing web-based raw data, and correlating it with students expected class performance so as to remove anybias. The course evaluation system can be quickly modified, and implemented by an instructorfor any course.1. IntroductionEffective

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

). The resources in GROW are collected from the Web, created by developers at theUniversity of Arizona, and contributed by users. The emphasis in this paper is the potential useof GROW as a learning environment. This environment allows a student to learn from richinteractive learning objects. Learning objects have several definitions in the literature. In thispaper, a learning object is “any digital resource that can be reused to support learning” [1]. Eachlearning object within a group have properties that allow it to be reusable, self-contained,aggregated and tagged with metadata (http://www.wisc-online.com/Info/FIPSE%20-%20What%20is%20a%20Learning%20Object.htmlGROW learning objects are intended to make a paradigm shift from linear, static

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

issues that need to be resolved to meet the demands of students withdifferent backgrounds. This paper discusses the contents of these database courses and thepractical issues that we have experienced in teaching these courses.1. IntroductionDatabase management systems (DBMSs) have been a fast-growing area during the past decades.DBMSs are now ubiquitous as fundamental tools for managing data and for supporting advancedapplications. As a result, DBMS courses have been offered from different perspectives in manydisciplines. This paper discusses DBMS education from a computer science perspective, that is,we focus on the fundamental principles and techniques inside DBMSs, especially relationalDBMSs. These principles and techniques of DBMSs are now

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David J. Bettez; G. Lineberry

backdropof the assessment movement among U.S. colleges and universities over the past 25 years, it issurprising that only modest attempts have been made to identify and measure interculturalcompetencies, that is, those skills and abilities that the student participating in an internationalexperience should gain from the exposure. From the authors’ perspective gained from a combined 40 years of intercultural educationexperience, the following will be addressed: (1) Potential explanations for the dearth of formal assessment strategies for study abroad andforeign exchange programs. (2) Results of a recent survey of other universities’ assessment practices. (3) Progress toward construction of a guide for use during structured interviews with

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

DevelopmentThe old AE curriculum and the new ISA curriculum are shown in Figure 1 for comparison. Thelatter was designed to satisfy five requirements: Page 9.403.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Old AE Degree Requirements: 123 Total Credit HoursYr FIRST SEMESTER Hr SECOND SEMESTER Hr ENGL 1113, Prin. of

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Fodor; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Intelligent Fuzzy Controllers Laboratory Janos L Grantner1 , Ramakrishna Gottipati1 , George A Fodor2 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5329, USA grantner@wmich.edu, r0gottip@wmich.edu 2 ABB Automation Technology Products AB, S-721 67 Vasteras, Sweden george.a.fodor@se.abb.comAbstract The Intelligent Fuzzy Controllers Laboratory has been developed in the Department ofElectrical and Computer

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

format.LabVIEW SoftwareLabVIEW software provides a very graphical interface for the user. Many papers address theusefulness of LabVIEW in education1,5,6. LabVIEW has a front panel for presentation of data andstatus, and a graphical programming approach that allows easy use of a library of functions orsubroutines. A typical control panel is shown in Figure 1. These control panels have been usedvery successfully for presentation of data acquisition in laboratory experiments. This usefulnesscarries over to the VL’s as well for presentation of computer-generated information. Figure 1: Typical Control Panel for Data Acquisition in an Experimental LabLabVIEW is the accepted standard in visual programming environments7 and is used extensivelyin

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

attributed to the perception that CAD applications are ineffective as amedium for design exploration and that CAD has been perceived as a medium intended forproduction that is difficult to use in the early stages of the design process where the priority iscreativity rather than precision [1, 2, 3]. New applications intended to function specifically for digital sketching and conceptualdesign environment are now available. While the potential for conceptual design software toprovide a link between conceptual design stages of the design process and the CAD applicationsused for production documents may be particularly relevant for professionals, it is increasinglyrelevant to educators as well. Criticism directed towards architecture schools for

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

students demonstrate the skills and knowledge defined by the statecontent standards. Documentation of achievement includes:1) Standards-based lesson plans.2) Documentation in which the instructor analyze the student work for evidence of achievement.Completed rubrics assessing individual student’s performance in group activity work andportfolio sampling of the work done by the students in class are also included.However, our recent studies as well as studies reported elsewhere point to the need forinterventions that can overcome obstacles that exist on a continuing basis. For example,interventions by universities must take into account what occurs during the year atschools and at home. Resent research on students’ career decision-making behavior

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

design and to assess the progress of student capabilities through the curriculum. Theintegrated structure of the Professional Component courses provides a framework for buildingupon previous coursework, assessing student progress often, and more quickly adjusting coursecoverage based on prior assessments to effectively assure that graduates of the program arecapable of practicing as engineers upon graduation.1. IntroductionThe Professional Component as defined by EAC of ABET Criterion 4 has two major areas. Thefirst area, Curricular Content, deals with whether the program provides the students with course-specific content in the areas of mathematics, basic science, engineering science, and GeneralEducation. The second area, Extra-Curricular

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turpin

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Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

Exploration class at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and we have used the computerprogram for two years (2002-2003) in a Site Investigation class at the Colorado School of Mines,impacting over 140 students. Students have overwhelmingly supported the use of simulatedinvestigations, and they recognize the value of integrating their knowledge and applying it tosolve complex, open-ended problems. [1] As one of several methods to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, we created an open-ended assessment test to gauge an individual’s abilities to plan and carry out a site investigation.Because the test also requests information on educational background and work experience, it is

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heresh Shahani; Harish Pallila; Musoke Sendaula; Saroj Biswas

researchseeks an architecture that can be used by an instructor to make an online learning system for acourse the instructor wants to teach in classroom or online, rather than developing an in-depthtutoring system for any specific course. The Intelligent Interactive Tutoring System Shellintegrates mathematical tools and an expert-system-type logical analysis/synthesis tool in a web-based environment. The IITS consists of several components including an instructor interface, astudent interface, a student model, a student log, a reasoning system, and a mathematical toolinterface module, and guides the student through a monitored problem solving session.1. IntroductionStudents need academic support outside the classroom, which may be provided by a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

propagates from the left to the right in the network shown inFigure 1. The signals coming out of the output layer nodes are used to make a variety ofdecisions.For example, if pixel values of a camera image are the input signals entering the inputlayer, the output layer values can indicate the identity of an object shown in the cameraimage. If sensor values of a machine are used as the input signals, appropriate controlsignals correspond to the outputs of the neural network. If combinational logic states areused as the input signals, the neural network can model desired logic function to produceappropriate output logic states. The math involved in modeling neurons and generatingoutputs for various network configurations is readily available in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robbie Goins; Kiel Locklear; Gregory Watkins; Chad Spivey

continues flying today in support of the Reduced Gravity StudentFlight Opportunities Program (Figure 1). Figure 1 – KC-135A AircraftTo generate the reduced gravity environment, the KC-135A flies parabolic curves thatproduce altered gravity for periods of 20 to 25 seconds (Figure 2). The parabolas can bevaried to produce zero gravity, lunar (1/6) gravity, Martian (1/3) gravity, or nearly anyother desired gravitational force. Approximately 80,000 parabolas have been flown insupport of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and Space Stationprograms.Student Flight Opportunities ProgramHouston s Johnson Space Center sponsors the Reduced Gravity Student FlightOpportunities Program. Universities throughout the

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Engineering and Technology (ABET) outcomes: 1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering 2. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data 3. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs 4. An ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams 5. An ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems 6. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 7. An ability to communicate effectively 8. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context 9. A recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in, life-long learning

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenming Zhang

– introduction and theory; ‚" Crystallization – case study; ‚" Membrane separations; ‚" Membrane separations; ‚" Membrane separations – gas permeation, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, and microfiltration. The comparison of the course content before and after modification is illustratedin Figure 1. The topics with the most significant increase in coverage are Crystallizationand Membrane Separations. Crystallization was not included before modification, andthe coverage for Membrane Separation is increased from two to six class periods. On theother hand, Mechanical Separation and Transportation were eliminated. The reasons forthe changes are explained below

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

faculty from both USF Colleges of BusinessAdministration and Engineering. Students and faculty investigators develop the critical skillsnecessary to evaluate the intellectual property portfolios of USF faculty investigators as well asthe skills necessary to work effectively in interdisciplinary student team environments. Workingin cross-disciplinary teams, graduate students develop: 1) evaluations of the strengths of the USFinvestigator’s intellectual property portfolios, 2) competitive analyses of products and/or servicescurrently in the marketplace and 3) strategic alternatives for commercializing the USFinvestigator’s technologies.As a result of the implementation of this new curriculum into graduate programs at USF over thepast 5 years, 125

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cajetan Akujuobi

new systems that are being implemented today. As the designs become morecomplex, the ability to test these fast and high resolution ADCs becomes even moreimportant. LabView allows the test engineer to interact with the device under test (DUT)through means of data acquisition and instrument control. Developing custom tests inLabView can result in reduced test time, which in turn will help reduce costs in testing.A linearity test will be presented for testing ADC static parameters in LabView, whichinclude Differential Non-Linearity (DNL) and Integral Non-Linearity (INL).1. IntroductionThere are various methods of finding the code edges of an ADC such as binary searchmethods that are good for production testing of circuits that are essentially

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

traces its roots to concept papers developed within the NSF Division ofUndergraduate Education (DUE) in late 1995. Earlier that year NSF had launched theinteragency Digital Libraries Research Initiative (DLI), and DUE staff saw an opportunity toapply these emerging research findings to the creation of a national digital resource for STEMeducation. While the initial motivation focused on enabling systematic access to NSF-supportededucational materials at the undergraduate level, the scope quickly expanded to embrace a largerset of learning resources addressing all educational levels. Over the period of several years aseries of workshops explored this idea further with findings documented in various reports andmonographs 1-9. These efforts

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Feodor Vainstein; Mark Rajai

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yen Shi Gillian Hoe; Seth Townsend; Ryan Kon; Robert Allen; Richard Boyer; Peter Goldwine; Mathew Kung; Mary McDonald; Laura Sprowls; Gary Tong; Artin Shoukas; Ankit Tejani; Elizabeth Johnson

involvingbiomedical engineering design. One of our goals in these courses is to introduce biomedicalmeasurement and experimentation to freshman. Another goal is to empower upperclassmen tobe creative in proposing and designing experiments. As a result, a number of team-orientedactivities take place in the fall semester, including the following: 1) An experimental protocol was designed with upperclassmen guidance to evaluate the cardiovascular alterations induced during exercise. Flexibility was given to students when designing protocols to promote creative thinking. Teams devised protocols investigating heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure. Some teams quantified the recovery time taken for each measurement to return to

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

interviews of faculty who have designedand delivered online courses and from administrators who manage online services for theUniversity. I. Level 1 Online course a. Description: Low-end solution. Only requires use of a Course Management System like OnCourse or Blackboard. Exploits tools such as chats, forums, and e-mail. Primarily uses static course content. b. Cost to Develop: If campus already has a Course Management System, then cost to develop/convert course material is relatively small. Typical course conversion effort for a single Web-based course is 200-250 hours. Typical course development effort for a new Web-based course is

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

purposes. Not all students willcontinue in their study of fluids, but may instead become more open to an aesthetic appreciationof, and motivation for, other fields of science and engineering. Such a personal motivation maylead to life-long learning12, an elusive ABET goal.Course Structure The flow visualization course was offered in Spring 2003 to a group of mixedengineering and fine arts photography majors, and was co-taught by Professors Hertzberg andSweetman. Of 42 students approximately 1/3 were fine arts students and 2/3 engineers. Of theengineers, 40% were graduate students, and the rest were seniors. These ratios werepredetermined by enrollment limits

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

boards are used to makemeasurements. An introduction to signal processing is conducted using analog-digitalelectronic trainers.1 Students learn or reinforce necessary electronic knowledge and skillrequired to use computers for experiment control. This includes using canned programsfor DACS, as well as development of DACS programs from scratch in the LabVIEWprogramming environment. Using the signal generators built into the electronic modules,and peripheral digital storage oscilloscopes2 interfaced to each computer, signals ofvarying frequency, magnitude, and offset are examined. The digital oscilloscope displaysand plots of samples recorded with the data acquisition card both show aliasing if thesampling interval and rate are not appropriate—the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

,agreed to work together by teaming the School of Business and Economics’ senior coursein Operations Management (BUS4644) with the Electrical Engineering Department’sjunior Engineering Design Course (EE3730). Don Bowie had been encouraged by thedepartment chair, Dr. Anthony Donaldson, to innovate on the course content with respectto cross disciplinary interaction, in keeping with the ABET related goals. Don and Jimdecided to implement their plan via three key activities of (1) exchanging professors asguest lecturers, (2) participating in joint workshops, and (3) having student teams becomeintimately involved with each other’s class projects. It was hoped that these activitiesshared by engineering and business students would expose them to the