Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Ziegler, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Computers in Education

disciplines.Introduction:Engineering students are typically hands-on visually oriented learners. The extraordinary valueof providing a visual component to teaching and learning is well documented. Many topics inengineering curricula rely on visual components to help convey concepts that are difficult todescribe in purely text-based form. Adding animation to visual components only serves toenhance the learning experience even further. Bringing animation to raw data plotted in acolorful three-dimensional graph brings life to otherwise static numerical information.Simulation and animation can be utilized by an instructor to illustrate concepts in a classroomsetting or by students to solve problems in a laboratory setting.The use of animation provides a method to model and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Kimfong Lei, Purdue University; Lisette Reyes, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University

felt confident on the project at the end. Newteam members said they could continue on the project. Team members indicated they gainedtechnical and non-technical skills, such as teamwork, communication, and etc. Furthermore,they expressed that they learned about others’ disciplines by sharing one another’s work, andby cross-teaching one another during the meetings.Tools: The team mostly used phones and email to communicate. Overall the team useddifferent engineering equipment and components as necessary. The mechanical engineersrelied on the Machine Shop in the Mechanical Engineering department to building hardware.Computer Graphics were done with AutoCAD. The team liked their work environment,especially the off-campus laboratory which provided

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-2283: MIGRATION FROM A LEADERSHIP HONORS PROGRAM TOAN ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP MINORGregory Tonkay, Lehigh University Gregory L. Tonkay, Ph.D. is an associate professor and associate chairperson of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the Electronics Manufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s common freshman year and the department’s degree programs and minors.E. Zimmers, Lehigh University Emory W.Zimmers Jr. Ph.D is professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of Enterprise Systems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynn Fujioka, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board

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Women in Engineering

comments from students: “I learned from my mentor that anyone, including women, can succeed to a high level position in any profession that is dominated by males. She use herself as an example and she inspired me.” "I once went to my mentor’s laboratory where she set aside most of her day to show me how to run one of her college labs. It was so amazing to actually perform experiments I read about in my biology class. My mentor also answered a ton of questions that aren’t related to biology; I can tell her about anything.” “…It really helps to have someone older than me to assist with future planning. This program (gave) me opportunities that many students will not be able to receive. I (felt

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Audra Morse, Texas Tech University; Heyward Ramsey, Texas Tech University; W. Andrew Jackson, Texas Tech University

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Environmental Engineering

the StudentsIn addition to benefiting the degree program, the hybrid course provides value-added to thestudents. The course provides basic information students should know to perform laboratoryresearch. For example, students learn about microcosm studies, column studies, bacterial samplecollection and handling, which are all factors that can improve the success of laboratory projects.By tailoring the microbiology topics to environmental engineering, the hybrid class ultimatelyadds to the students’ knowledge and provides skills that will enhance research productivity.Graduating ENVE students’ response to ABET 2000 Criterion 8 Outcomes, specifically theunderstanding and proficiency in science and math are presented in Table 1. The inclusion of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Eastlake, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Magdy Attia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

Pressure Compressor (HPC), main combustion chamber, and High Pressure Turbine(HPT). Furthermore, the benefits of having a common core as they relate to cost savings in terms Page 12.599.7of development, operation, and maintenance are well outlined. Skira5, covered the cost reduction Figure 3. General Electric CF6-6 high-bypass turbofan engine located in the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the Aerospace Engineering Dept. at Embry-Riddle Aero. Universityefforts that are currently ongoing in commercial, and government institutions. One such effort,receiving much notoriety, is Integrated, High-Performance Turbine Engine Technology, orIHPTET. This is

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Onyancha, University of New Hampshire; Erick Towle, University of New Hampshire; Brad Kinsey, University of New Hampshire

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Engineering Design Graphics

) test, which was developed to assess the selfconfidence of students related to spatial tasks, see Kinsey et al11 for details. These web-basedtests consisted of three dimensional representations of different objects in both solid and nohidden line representations. The web-based software recorded the radio button the studentselected for each of the test questions. To ensure anonymity, an encrypted universityidentification code was used as opposed to the student’s name for data analysis purposes. The tests were administered to 86 freshmen mechanical engineering students in CEPSwho were enrolled in ME 441 Engineering Graphics during the fall semester of 2006. Thiscourse consisted of three 1-hour lectures and a one 2-hour laboratory meeting

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charlie Edmonson, University of Dayton; Donna Summers, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

anexample of a project used in IET-418 Cost estimating. Student teams must take theproject from the proposal stage to completion of the project goals. The projectconstitutes a major portion of the course grade. It is important for the instructor toreceive feedback on how well each student performed as a team member. Some studentsbecome “social loafers” who try to let other team members do all the work. Each studentis asked to evaluate their contribution as well as each team member’s contribution to theproject. This is done several times during the semester and the feedback is used, in part,in determining individual grades.IET 230L Work Measurement LabThis laboratory course requires students to work together in teams to perform severalwork

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Michael Kerley, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jerome Paris, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Janet Bodner, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

course or its equivalent. ManyTeaching Assistants work in laboratories or do grading of papers; the course also discussesinterpersonal skills. For international students, ESL courses can be taken simultaneously withthis course. The course is continually updated by its instructor to keep pace with the improvinglanguage skills of new doctoral students and changes in technology. The course covers issues ofacademic integrity, professional behavior, e-mail protocol, meetings leadership and participationskills and others that all contribute to both professional and instructional effectiveness.EvaluationAll instructors, including Teaching Assistants are regularly evaluated at NJIT, through acarefully monitored and student-controlled process

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Scientific Literature and Data: Proliferation, Storage, and Open Access

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries

even different versions.Issues surrounding data disseminationYet this data is valuable to scientific research. Or is it? How useful is data if it can’t beaccessed and disseminated? Not only must the data be made available, it must bedescribed in such a way that its contents and structure are apparent to the user. Currently,laboratory data is frequently stored on researcher PCs, lab servers or communalrepositories (in the form of reports) like arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). Institutional repositorieslike DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) and Eprints (http://www.eprints.org) are bettersuited to traditional, discrete publications than data sets. Metadata descriptors may help auser understand the contents of a data set, but researchers frequently don’t

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Construction

high early strength additive. The forms weresecured to a lift that was 24 hours old and one below it was placed 72 hours earlier. A day hadbeen lost due to rain in the contractor’s work schedule. When the formwork failed, it broughtdown all the fresh concrete and most of the day-old lift below it. The three-day-old ring stayedintact. The weather had been cold and rainy but during the week prior to the failure, temperatureswere in 60s during the day and in the 30s at night.5The probable cause was the green concrete. According to one electrician on the job, “Theyjacked that up on green concrete.” However, the testing laboratory results showed that concretecylinders did not show any unusual results. Since the workers were paid for a full day’s

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wei Zhang

the learning outcome ofthe introductory computer architecture course.References[1] David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy. Computer organization and design, thehardware/software interface. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005.[2] Homepage of SPIM simulator. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html[3] Sally L. Wood, Chris Dick. Concepts of parallelism in an introductory computerarchitecture course with FPGA laboratories. In Proc. of the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference, 2004.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 10[4] N. Calazans, F. G. Moraes and C. Marcon. Teaching computer

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

network architectures and protocolsthat have not been used together very often. New and usually expensive equipment may not beavailable in our laboratories to test these new technologies. Thus, we are taking advantage of ourcommunication networks modeling and simulation course to teach new technologies andprotocols and test their integration.As an example of this approach, this paper presents a course project that our junior studentsperformed. The goal of this project was to evaluate voice over IP (VoIP) over 802.11 wirelesslocal area network (WLANs). As discussed in [1], “both IP voice and 802.11 WLANs are newtechnologies, and so the base of practical experience in merging the two is small.” Voice over IPapplications are real-time applications

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

nanotechnology and nanocomposites in industry and society, developmentof simple, cost-effective laboratory experiments (teachers), enhancement of research anddevelopment skills, and development of entrepreneurial skills.Several undergraduate and graduate students are sponsored year-long by CNCMM, andare required to participate in CNCMM’s research, education, ethics, entrepreneurship,assessment and dissemination (RE3AD) program[26]. ConclusionsCNCMM is a viable research and education unit at Pittsburg State University that ispositioned to enhance Kansas’ relatively new nanocomposites industry by establishing anexcellent research and education center for nanocomposites and multifunctional materialswith focus on naval

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

ArcMap, students began work on an atmospheric dispersion project.There were two objectives for the project: (1) enable students to visualize the cause and effectrelationships inherent in the Gaussian plume model (what happens when we increase stability, forexample); and (2) familiarize students with the use of information technology, particularly networks, tosolve a problem. The project consisted of both an individual and group component. The individualcomponent focused on objective one, while the group portion was oriented on both objectives. Studentsconducted the project during work periods in our department’s Geospatial Sciences Laboratory, whichcontains twenty networked workstations loaded with Matlab and ArcMap. In the individual

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

The Future.” 14. Wolf, J., “Sustainability of Global and Domestic Growth in the Ethanol Industry.”First Year StudentsA mandatory course for first year engineering students is now in the fifth year of offering.19 Engineering5, Introduction to Engineering Practice, involves weekly 50 minute lectures and laboratory projectexperiences in two different departments of the seven at Lehigh. These project experiences are variouslystructured, or left open to inspire student creativity within specific departmental equipment and laboratoryconstraints. The catalog states: First year practical engineering experience; introduction to concepts,methods and principles of engineering practice. Problem solving, design, project planning,communication

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

reasonable limit(about 25 students), class size does not have a great effect on project based learning. It seems to becomean issue beyond 25 students or at a lower number when the subject matter is of a more highly technicalnature. Number of students is, of course, of paramount nature when the team assignments requirestechnical equipment such as a laboratory class. Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6Secondly, student maturity plays a role in project and experiential learning. Freshman, right out of highschool, are used

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dale Bremmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, sequencing activities (including online quizzes and other forms of assessment). They can also enable a peer-review feature so that students can electronically critique each other’s work. Especially innovative for middle school, teachers can create virtual student groups that can work together outside the classroom.The PRISM team has been highly selective in the types of materials we have indexed toacademic standards. The bulk of our offerings are non-textual IT resources that mirror thedigital tools used in the modern practice of STEM in the workplace. The majority of ourresources are interactive simulations, cognitive skills games, visualizations, cognition mappingapplications, modeling packages, virtual laboratories and

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

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International

maintenance andindustrial management. Curricular structure is strongly based on Mathematics and Physics.The adequacy of the course revealed the need to reinforce practical knowledge application, tointensify the use of problem based learning, to design new laboratorial strategies, to promoteteam work and to develop the fundamental skills in engineering formation.The new course design also resulted from the analysis of similar courses in referencecountries in engineering, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, France,Swiss, Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It was compared mainly in terms of duration,curricular plans, credit system units and strategies adopted. The new Mechanical Engineeringdegree is comparable in structure with the

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Summer Dann Johnson; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University; Brenda Nixon, Louisiana State University; Daivon Craft, Louisiana State University; Cheryle Peters, Louisiana State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

broadening the impact of the program. The Summer Experience for High School Students and Teachers pilot program consistedof 11 high school students, one mathematics teacher and two science teachers performingresearch in nine STEM related university laboratories. The high school students were required towork on a STEM focused research project for a minimum of five weeks; teachers worked in theirassigned labs for six weeks. All participants in the program worked directly under thementorship of faculty researchers and graduate students. A full listing of the SEHS participants,their assigned labs, the associated partner and the research project titles is presented in AppendixI and II. A natural collaboration among the SEHS, the

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

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Electrical and Computer

Logic Laboratory and Programming

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Webb, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; George Slack, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

received his BS and MS degress in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jeff has also worked for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Southco, Pall Filtration, and as a Teaching Assistant at RIT. His thesis and duties at RIT focused mainly in the area of Robotics. He can be reached at coolwebb@gmail.com.Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology MARK SMITH is Director of the Multidisciplinary Design (MSD), Product Development (MPD), and Manufacturing Leadership (MML) programs at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to joining RIT, he spent nearly 20 years in medical electronics R&D. Mr. Smith has an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Hawkes, WiSE / University of Southern California; Jean Morrison, University of Southern California; Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California

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Women in Engineering

12.1487.112. Undergraduate Research Fellowships (original program, 2001)Up to fifteen fellowships are granted each year in both the USC College and in the USCViterbi School of Engineering to support summer and academic year research. The goal is tofamiliarize students with laboratory research and link them with a mentor early on. It ishoped that through the experience of first-hand research at the undergraduate level, thechances will increase that students will choose to pursue a graduate degree in science orengineering. Student recipients of the fellowship are expected to work on their researchproject at least 12 hours per week during the academic semester in which they receive theaward ($2,500). For the summer, the expectation is about 300 hours or

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Lichtenstein, Stanford University; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Colorado School of Mines; Tori Bailey, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

laboratory course in which he repeatedly enrolled, building Lego cranes to lift andmove loads and completing other open-ended problems. But it was a voluntary activity as partof a high school English course that helped to cement his love for engineering. As a sophomore, Page 12.1277.8Joe worked with a friend to build a trebuchet that was twelve-feet high and could catapult a one-gallon bottle of water the length of a football field. He even moved the trebuchet to MT tocontinue tinkering with it, and housed it in the garage of his apartment building, while his vehiclesat in the driveway, exposed to the elements. Additionally, as a hobby, Joe began

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Adrienne Smith, Springfield Technical Community College

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Engineering Technology

microcontrollers,instrumentation and data acquisition, photonics, sensors, power supplies, programming,computer applications, and both wired and wireless networking with familiarity with the higherlayers of the OSI model included. A graduate of an electronics technology program should beadept at understanding how all of these topics are utilized in the operation and control of modernelectronic systems. Furthermore, students should be given experience, through laboratory workand projects, dealing with real-world electronics systems. This aspect of the ET program shouldstart in the first semester and continue throughout the program culminating with a capstonesenior project of the student’s own design. The curricula must keep the students interested

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean Kampe, Virginia Tech; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Tech; Matthew Stimpson, Virginia Tech; Brad Matanin, Virginia Tech; Amanda Martin, Virginia Tech; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

outcomes (e.g., diversity6). Perhaps one of the best testimonies to theformidable hold that learning communities, and living-learning communities in particular, haveestablished in the reform of higher education is the Academic Village which is slated to open infall 2007 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. The Village is a new facility thatis to function as residential space for engineering students (~250) and faculty, and also is tocontain College of Engineering faculty offices, classrooms, and laboratory space, and universitydining facilities.7, 8 The current prevalence of “living learning communities” is easily madeevident with a Google search on that combination of words, which pulls up a huge number oflinks to college campus

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Jacob Tsao, San Jose State University

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International

Research Board and several National Laboratories, as well as the informationprovided by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy.Based on information in the “Energy 101” section of the EIA website 8, students learned that theproven conventional oil reserve in the US is approximately 22 billion barrels—about a 1000-daysupply based on the U.S. daily consumption of approximately 21 million barrels. The U.S.situation of supply and demand coupled with the environmental impact of burning fossil fuel ona global scale makes students keenly aware of the challenges in front of them. One Civil andEnvironmental Engineering professor who had conducted research on the coal usage in China leda very enthusiastic discussion on

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ozgur Eris, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Camelia Rosca, Boston College; Larry Ludlow, Boston College; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Krista Donaldson, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

] .66 Laboratories .59 13c. Overall Satisfaction with Collegiate Experience n/a Rate the overall quality of your collegiate experience so far n/a[1] From the Pittsburgh survey (with permission)[2] From the Pittsburgh survey, and modified slightly (with permission)[3] From the CIRP survey, and modified slightly (with permission)[4] From the YFYC 2003 survey (with permission)[5] From the YFYC 2003 survey, and modified slightly (with permission)III. Survey AdministrationThe PIE Survey has been administered longitudinally to a cohort of 160 students, 40 at each ofthe four CAEE campuses, beginning during their first year in college. All

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Hagenberger, Valparaiso University; Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University

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Engineering Management

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005).28. W. H. Shaw, “Collaboration: The Key to Preparing Engineering Managers,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (1999).29. G. Nelson, “Developing Engineers With An Entrepreneurial Spirit,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2006).30. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2002.31. R. H. King, T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mario Blanco, California Institute of Technology; Kenneth Pickar, California Institute of Technology; Luz Marina Delgado, GEMA; Oscar Arce, Universidad Rafael Landivar; Jeff Kranski, California Institute of Technology; Francoise Herrera, Universidad Rafael Landivar; Charles MacVean, Universidad Rafael Landivar

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Design in Engineering Education

havecollaborated with the Media Laboratories at Caltech and Universidad Rafael Landivar to resolvethe critical technical and course scheduling problems. Through the use of streaming video andoff-line teleconferencing we were able to lecture during the 2006 fall quarter even though theacademic calendars at both institutions differ by a few weeks in their start date. The full coursewas made available on line for later viewing by the students in Guatemala with just a few daysdelay after the lecture was taught at Caltech.2.2 Introducing e-Teams (Fall 2006)From our 2005 experience with “proxy engineering”, it was clear we had to consider variousissues: • Cultural and Language barriers • Differing University cultures driven by different