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Programming for Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christian Hipp, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina

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Computers in Education

engineering curriculum both challenges and reinforces students’ priorassumptions.The surveys attempted to measure students’ previous experiences with computers and theirassumptions about how to use them, what students thought computers did well, and when,whether, and why they trusted the results provided by computers. The first two tables displayresults about their computer experience for STEM applications and more generally. The finaltables of questions sought to determine the assumptions students have about the ways computersare used and the kind of problems they can solve and to establish the extent to which studentsplace unreasonable trust in computer-generated solutions. TABLE 1. HOURS/WEEK OF COMPUTER USE1. On average

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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International

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Camille George, University of St. Thomas; Elise Amel, University of Saint Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of Saint Thomas

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

teachers.IntroductionEducators are increasingly aware of the importance of introducing contemporary and globalissues in undergraduate curriculum. Liberal arts programs usually consider contemporary issuesfrom many angles: social, political, ethical, organizational and personal. However, liberal artscourses rarely consider how engineering accomplishments affect society. One can argue that theaverage engineering major knows more about the humanities than the average humanities majorknows about engineering. However, in our technology-driven society, everyone needs to knowmore about engineering, especially its limitations.1 Many engineering advances have had an Page

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lionel Craddock, Bluefield State College; Daphne Rainey, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Susan Faulkner, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College; Martha Eborall, Bluefield State College; Lewis Foster, Bluefield State College; Stephen Cammer, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Betsy Tretola, Virginia Tech; Bruno Sobral, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Oswald Crasta, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 12.479.5close contact with VBI researchers throughout the course. Near the end of the course, BSCstudents made a visit to the VBI facilities for a tour and discussion of course progress. Thus, theproject required team collaboration and consultation between and BSC faculty and VBIresearchers. For delivery of the learning modules BSC emphasized: (1) introduction to thescenario, (2) introduction to the multiple disciplines, (3) development of strategies, and (4)implementations and conclusions. The first two steps were conducted in the classroom andonline, while the last two were conducted jointly between BSC and VBI. At VBI the CI- TEAMprovided hands-on workshops for BSC faculty and allowed for student discussions with expertsin the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Rajadas, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University

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Engineering Technology

in delivering engineering technologyeducation.The MMET department offers two ABET accredited degrees at the baccalaureate level:Manufacturing Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology. The fourconcentration areas within the Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum are aeronautical,automation, automotive and mechanical. For the aeronautical concentration, the curriculumincludes a course in Wind Tunnel Design and Testing. The course outcomes include thefollowing: 1. A basic understanding of how a wind tunnel operates. 2. Familiarity with wind tunnel measurement systems such as pitot-static probes, pressure transducers, manometers, thermocouples etc

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Riddell, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University; Paris von Lockette, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

discuss how CEE students at Rowan University are taughtdesign in a multidisciplinary, PBL environment, and to discuss how mechanics andcommunication are integrated into the design projects. Sophomore Engineering Clinic Iand II (SEC I and SEC II) are the innovations that allow this to be accomplished. SEC Iand SEC II afford the CEE students at Rowan University an integrated courseworkexperience for 1) learning and reinforcing material that is directly covered the CEEcurriculum, 2) gaining familiarity with material that is not explicitly covered in the CEEcurriculum, 3) developing formal communication skills, 4) developing into designers, and5) acquiring the so-called “soft skills” reflected in ABET 2000 A-K criteria.Sophomore curriculum for CEE

Conference Session

New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

benefits. A summary of the scoresfrom the exit quiz is shown in the table below. A detailed tabulation is presented in Appendix G. Raw score Score % n n% 7 100 19 35 6 85 14 26 5 71 10 19 4 Fail 8 15 3 Fail 2 6Table 1: Ranked results from ‘Quiz’, Part I of ‘Exit Survey’At least two of the graduating participants have received job offers in clinical research withbiomedical companies, and attribute their success in obtaining that job to their participation

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Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

professional staff at the Archer Center for StudentLeadership Development, the two 1-credit experiences (Professional Development I—PD-1and Professional Development III—PD-3, respectively) have become an indispensable part ofthe engineering educational experience of our students. A third part of this experience(Professional Development II—PD-2) is taught independently by faculty from the School ofHumanities and Social Sciences. Development began in the mid 1990s, and starting with theClass of 2001, these courses have been taken by all engineering students. The present paperdescribes our experiences in developing this experience and incorporating it into the curriculum,the assessment process that has been used to redesign the curricular content on a

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

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Engineering Technology

Page 12.44.2course with basic exposure to manual machining. Hardware familiarization takes place duringweeks 4-10 of the classes.Integration (CAD/CAM and CNC): The integration of software and hardware is introducedduring weeks 6-10 and in parallel to hardware familiarization. During this period, studentsdownloading the programs into the CNC machine controller, verifying the cutting toolpath on themachine's monitor, modifying the programs on site or at their computer stations, and setting upthe machine for cutting operations (Fig.1). Tooling selection Design idea Machining condition Program

Conference Session

Outreach Projects and General Energy Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Cummins; Timothy Schriefer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Patrick Kelley, Carnegie Mellon University; Mallika Ramaswamy, Rochester Institute of Technology; Nicholas Ryczko, Pratt & Whitney

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, and technology, but do not have familiarity with the material4. During the2005-06 academic year, a team of Multidisciplinary Senior Design (MSD) students set out todesign, build, and test a series of hands-on activities intended to increase awareness of andinterest in engineering as a field of study. These activities all centered on a theme of howengineering work can be related to energy and the environment. During the 2006-07 academicyear, a second team of Software Engineering students is working to design an interactive Page 12.1505.3companion website to the TEAK activities.The objectives of the TEAK project are as follows:1. Encourage middle

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Clint Cole; Mircea Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania

Page 12.544.2final phase of the competition and judge the students’ projects. Fig.1 Winners of the Digilent Design Competition, first edition contest at TUCN, ROInspired by this successful experience, the first author of this paper decided to organize such acompetition at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, and asked Digilent, Inc for logisticsupport.Organizing the Competition, First Edition at RHITThe competition is sponsored by Digilent, Inc., which produces state of the art FPGA boards.The emphasis of the competition is on conceptual design, implementation and validation of theprojects using FPGA boards and Verilog as HDL2.Due to the specificity of the school, mainly dedicated to undergraduate education, the contest isopen to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Wang, University of Nevada-Reno; Jeffrey LaCombe, University of Nevada-Reno; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada-Reno

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Computers in Education

duringthe spring 2006 semester in order to assess student learning. The new hardware will beintroduced for the first time in the spring 2007 semester. The concept inventories included bothROBOLAB (graphical) and pseudo-code (text-based) questions. The pseudo-code componentwas deemed important in order to quantify the student’s ability to transfer knowledge betweendomains. The key concepts included in the inventory were: goto’s, conditionals, loops, nestedstructures, variables, functions/arguments, and subroutines/subprograms.1. BackgroundThere is a vast history of using LEGO® bricks in education. Projects that use the RCXprogrammable brick have included a wide variety of projects and courses ranging from robotcompetitions1-3 to laboratory

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Joanne DeGroat, Ohio State University; Aurenice Oliveira

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Engineering Technology

increasing at a fast rate. To respond to the industry needs of FPGA designers,universities are updating their curriculum with courses in FPGA logic design. As a result, theSchool of Technology at Michigan Technological University is stepping up to this challenge byintroducing the FPGA design course.The new course will be the third in series of digital logic design, it introduces the students totechniques needed for the design of very-large scale digital systems, including computers basicbuilding block. The paper discusses the goals of this course and relates the goals to industry needs ofhighly trained FPGA designers.1 IntroductionThe applications utilizing FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) as a design medium arepredominant [1]. FPGAs have been

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Walters, Pennsylvania State University; Prasad Marugabandhu, MAGLEV, Inc.; Bryan Bond, MAGLEV, Inc.

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Manufacturing

theCommunity College of Allegheny County. Those with the appropriate background will be able totest out of the first three semesters. The schedule of courses for the first three semesters is asfollows:First Semester Introduction to Parametric Modeling (3 credits) Introduction to Electronics (3 credits) Engineering Seminar (1 credit) Mathematics for the Technologies 1 (4 credits) Technical Physics 1 (3 credits) Technical Computing (3 credits) Total Credits 17Second Semester Introduction to Chemistry (4 credits) English Composition 1

Conference Session

Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M Feinauer, University of Kentucky; Bruce Walcott, University of Kentucky

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

12.824.2execution will be presented.CurriculumThe students that participate in the Engineering Summer Program are thrust into a week-longitinerary that consumes their time from 7 am until 10 pm each day with activities that aredesigned to achieve the objectives previously mentioned in the introduction. A more detaileddescription of the core program objectives is provided in Table 1. A general description of thedaily activities is provided below. Following each description, the outcomes from Table 1 thatrelate to the activity are listed.Team building exercises – The Engineering Summer Program participants represent the top,rising high school seniors from around the state. They have diverse geographic, educational,ethnic, and family backgrounds. The students

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

reviews? • What impact did the camp activities have on the performance of the participants as they return to their secondary school, form both the student and parent perspectives? • What impact did the camp activities have on the higher education and career plans of the participants? • What were the demographic characteristics of students enrolled in each type of activity and how do they compare with demographic characteristics of students in the department as a whole?Specific Evaluation ResultsGeneral TrendsOverall these programs coincided with a rise in our new student and continuing studentpopulations as compared from Fall 2004 thru Fall 2006, as indicated in Table 1, as well as aconcurrent rise in the

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Walesh, S. G. Walesh Consulting; Michael Chajes, University of Delaware; David Mongan, Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani

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Civil Engineering

prepare them for theconference. This includes an annotated bibliography, a refined version of which is Appendix A.The TC researched and discussed the meaning of vision. Some vision definitions discoveredduring this process are: • “A mental model of a future state of a process, a group, or an organization.”1 • “A cognitive image of the future which is positive enough to members so as to be motivating and elaborate enough to provide direction for future planning and goal setting.”2 • “A mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses” “…produced by the imagination.”3 • “An image (not just an idea) of an attractive (compelling) future state unique to a group

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Bob Nelson, University of Utah

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

teami For an exception, see Seat, E. and Lord, S. M., “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Page 12.564.2Interaction Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, Oct. 1999, pp. 385-390.pedagogy) is that students find themselves in patterns of unproductive team communication thatcan lead to conflicts. What is more, they may be ill-equipped to manage or resolve thoseresulting conflicts, and thus find themselves inadequately prepared to handle team issues in theworkplace.1-2The Department of Mechanical Engineering at a large Western University recently adopted aformalized, integrated communication and engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janell Armstrong, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

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Information Systems

cleardistinction between the different technologies. The learning objectives of such a course modulewould include the following:1) Understanding the key concepts of each technology2) Understanding the application domains of each technology3) Being able to differentiate between the application domains for each technologyThese objectives need to be incorporated into a complete computer technology educationalsystem. Students learning these technologies need a background in basic computer architectures,basic networking, and some skills in configuring networks. At this stage of market acceptance ofthese technologies they could be used as an optional module in an existing networking orembedded systems course or could be expanded into a complete elective course

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; James Helbling, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Darin Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Mischa Kim, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

/Project Lifecycle /1/. Since the curriculum leads into the Page 12.575.2capstone design sequence, a schematic displaying the different project phases with its corresponding classes is shown in the following table /Table 1/. It is clear that credit hour constraints make it difficult to take all in depth classes before the actual design sequence starts. The simulation concept understanding and simulation building process is shown in the last row. FORMULATIONPhases Pre-Phase A Phase A Phase B Advanced Studies Preliminary Analysis

Conference Session

FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Molly Littleton, Signal Centers

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First-Year Programs

Junior – Interdisciplinary Design and Industrial Partners (3 hrs) Sophomore – Design and small mechanical/structural applications (1 hr) Freshman – Introduction to Design (3 hrs)Figure 1.0: The Design Curriculum at UTCThe goal of the design curriculum is to graduate students who understand and can apply thesteps of the design process to various interdisciplinary and discipline-based applications. Thefirst step toward meeting this goal is to introduce the steps of the design process in UTC’s 3credit hour freshman level course Introduction to Engineering Design (IED). The design processemphasized at UTC is shown in Figure 2.0.The freshman IED course

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Andrew Arnott, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Technology

significant advantage over object-oriented languages, such as Java, in that it allows for aninterpreted mode. Code can be edited directly on the target system over an ftp link and then runusing the ‘irb’ interpreter. The tedious steps of compiling and porting from the developmentsystem to the target system step can be eliminated, allowing for much quicker developmentcycles.The Development ProjectThe class project requires that students design and build a small autonomous robot. A typicaldesign from a previous class is shown below Page 12.1572.6Figure 1 Miniature autonomous robot, showing overall structure and camera. The computer platform is visible

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby Crawford, USMA; Tony Jones, USMA

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New Engineering Educators

completes its four-year academic program. Within this program,students are free to select one of a number of academic majors, many of which fall in therealm of the liberal arts. Because of the stress on breadth of the experience, those studentsdesiring to major in a non-engineering discipline are required to take, as a minimum, asequence of three courses from one of the engineering programs. They may select fromChemical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Nuclear, or Systems(Management) Engineering. Table 1 depicts the courses included in the MechanicalEngineering (ME) sequence. Table 1. Mechanical Engineering Three-Course Sequence Course Content

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Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rungun Nathan, Villanova University

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Mechanics

needs of a varied student population in any given classroom.Introduction"Three principles from brain research: emotional safety, appropriate challenges, and selfconstructed meaning suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to classroom instruction isineffective for most students and harmful to some." 1 Still classroom teaching/instructionat most colleges and universities is carried out with the one-size-fits-all approach. Whilemost school districts in the United States of America implement DI in their publicschools that will address students with diverse needs, abilities, strengths, experiences andinterests in order to best support their learning, most colleges do not adopt this technique.So what is differentiated instruction? According to

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Williamson; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

lower levels are required for studentsuccess at higher levels; however, engineering students typically have varying degrees of Page 12.412.3abilities in all six levels. The six levels, their corresponding demonstrable skills, and verbs thatcan be used to form learning objectives are presented in Table 1:Table 1. Levels in Bloom’s taxonomy of learningLevel Skills VerbsLower level cognitive domain:Knowledge The student can recall information. arrange, define, duplicate, Ability to recall facts, definition, jargon , label, list, memorize

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

flourish. The longer range goals of this Collaborative are to serve as a model thatcan be replicated in other technological sectors and to serve as a platform for the economicdevelopment in Western North Carolina.BackgroundThe Western North Carolina region is made up by the 23 western-most counties of NorthCarolina (shown in red in figure 1). This region is larger than eight U.S. states and isapproximately the size of Maryland. The demographics of the region are largely rural with arural population of almost 60% as compared to the entire state ratio of 39.8% (North Carolinaranks the highest in ruralpopulation among thetwenty most populousU.S. states). As areference the highestpercentage of ruralpopulation in any U.S.state is 61.8% 16. Thus,Western

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Barker, Regis University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

!∀∀# ∃ % & ∋( ∃ ) + , % + + % & − %& . % & ∋/ 0 ) 1 2 ∋3 ) 1 2 ∋4( ) 1 + 2% + + + %( + % 5 + 1 6# 7∀ !7 7∀2 , + %0 0 !∀∀6 ∋ )6 8 % + 69#:!% + ; ∋ < ) + %&

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Cheng, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kathleen Hayden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

of operations:generate, capture and pulse-width-modulation (PWM). Our students were able toimplement a PWM controller, or an input capture function to measure the period orfrequency of an input signal and generate real-time interrupts.We used the book [1] to provide reading material for the SHC. We discussed the typicaldesign flow of SHC: partitioning, scheduling and implementation. Among the three co-design classifications: SHC of embedded systems, SHC of instruction set processors, andSHC of reconfigurable systems, we studied only the SHC of the embedded systems. Weused several embedded systems as case studies: a car dashboard system, a real-timespectrum analyzer using FFT calculations, MP-3 encoding and decoding, and MPEGencoding and

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Eric Haffner, Western New England College; Anne Kaboray, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.; Carol Hasenjager, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.

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Biomedical

cornerstone of engineering education is design education. Accredited programs are required toprovide a capstone design experience in which students integrate knowledge gained from theircoursework. For many engineering programs, design education begins in the freshman yearwhere students are introduced to the design process.1, 2, 3, 4 Following this freshman experience,many students are not required to implement the design process in a systematic fashion until theyperform their capstone project . Integration of design across the curriculum is challenging sincethe outcomes of most lecture courses rely predominately on mastery of subject matter.Both freshman and capstone design courses for biomedical engineering students often involvethe design of

Conference Session

Developing Programs for Adult Learners

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons; Ray Jones, The Citadel

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Continuing Professional Development

bachelor and nine master-level project management degrees in 1994, whereas by 2006, morethan 284 degree programs at 235 worldwide institutions existed. The GAC states that the“programs have broadened to be part of degree offerings in business, management, construction,engineering, and architecture.” This interdisciplinary focus is a core element of many programs.Thinking globally, but acting locally, The Citadel School of Engineering listened to constituentinput concerning the need for graduate level education programs in the Charleston, SC area andestablished a graduate certificate program in Technical Project Management (TPM). Theobjectives of this program 1) delivered a knowledge and performance-based curriculum focusedon the knowledge, skills