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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

REU Site in Structural Engineering are to:1. Introduce students to research and inspire them to continue with research in theirundergraduate studies, and to consider continuing their education with a Master’s degreeincluding a thesis.2. Identify and prepare promising students for doctoral research.3. Enhance student understanding of the relationship between research and engineeringpractice.4. Provide students with the experience of successfully completing a research project.5. Promote awareness of the importance of ethical conduct for practicing engineers andresearchers.The objectives will not change with the change in focus of the site, but the examples,cases, and projects will.RecruitingOver the past seven years, the UAB REU Site in

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Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

Alabama atBirmingham (UAB)1, 4. The cases discussed included the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (figure 1) andthe Kansas City Hyatt Regency (figure 2).Developing the CasesThis method, of course, depends on the availability of cases. Three of the best books of cases areby Kaminetsky5, Levy and Salvadori6, and Feld and Carper7. An extensive bibliography isprovided in reference 1.Although a lot of failure information is available, much of it has not been written in a formatsuitable for engineering educators.Fortunately, the author has been ableto use undergraduate researchassistants during the summersupported by the National ScienceFoundation through the UAB ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates(REU) Site in Structural Engineeringsince 1999. Each year, the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Norb Delatte

profession – the Quebec Bridge, the Kansas City Hyatt Regency, and others• With appropriate course materials, these cases can be integrated into a number of civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses• Most faculty do not have the time to develop case studies themselves, and would welcome a web-based source of case materials. Survey respondents asked in particular for a thorough online bibliography.In response to the survey results, the National Science Foundation has funded a researchproject at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) entitled “Developing CaseStudies in Failures and Ethics for Engineering Educators,” as project number DUE0127419. The two-year project began 1 March 2002. The project is being carried outwith the

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Leonard

Royreport curricula did not acquire significant engineering training. Buzacott suggested somepossible avenues of reform/reconstruction of industrial engineering academic programs,including (1) reduction in theoretical research and focus on applications, (2) rapid response toinnovation, and (3) faculties consisting of more smaller cohesive groups of specialists.Even with the soul-searching discussions precipitated by the Buzacott article, and manysubsequent years of rapid technological advance in the design of production and service deliverysystems and engineering pedagogy, the industrial engineering academic community continues tostructure almost all of the bachelor's degree industrial engineering curricula consistent with theRoy report

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

and the student body. This assessment-improvement feedback processflowchart is shown in Figure 1. This process substantially reduces the assessment-improvement- Page 8.204.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationverification turn-around time (i.e., improves bandwidth), making it easier to evaluate theeffectiveness of teaching or curriculum changes on the learning experience. The process alsoaddresses the problem of varying class dynamics since changes in course curriculum or theteaching style

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Oerther

-level course offered to both seniors and graduate students.Enrollment is not limited to only civil and environmental engineering students, and weencourage the participation of students from engineering, the life sciences, and medicine.“Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering,” has been supported by funding from theNational Science Foundation to Professor Daniel B. Oerther (DUE-0127279). The purpose ofthe NSF support included the purchase of additional laboratory equipment and the furtherdevelopment of a digital lab manual distributed to students via DVD-ROM.The success of “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering,” has been documentedpreviously in a number of refereed publication (1, 2, 3, 4). Rather than repeat the details

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Daniel Oerther

environmental microbiologywithin our graduate and undergraduate environmental engineering curricula. For the past threeyears, we taught a novel course entitled, “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering.”Course evaluations over the past three years suggested that the course was successful forprimarily two reasons, namely: (1) the course employed a problem-based learning approach tounderlie all learning activities; and (2) experiments were conducted by student teams facilitatinginterpersonal communication as a primary means of learning from peers. This paper outlines thespecific experimental procedures employed in the laboratory, as well as evaluates the results ofstudent input from assessment tools including: one-on-one interviews with the

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Travis Harrington; Keith Coleman; J. Douglas Sterrett; Robert LeMaster

industrial organizations.The Center gives faculty members in the Department of Engineering an opportunity to conductapplied research that is supported with undergraduate engineering students. The students areactively involved with projects that tie their coursework to the real world, and the center providesa necessary service to regional government and industrial organizations. The concept for thecenter began in the summer of 1999 when an Energy Management Administrator with theDepartment of Finance & Administration [1], contacted the School of Engineering. TheDepartment of Finance & Administration was looking for a resource that would provide the statewith independent third-party analysis and verification of new energy management

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala; Mary Clare Robbins

can be used to make course and program improvements.Model for AssessmentLast year, we presented a model for assessment that describes what data to gather, where toobtain the data, what criteria may be most appropriate when interpreting the data, how to use theresults to make improvements in program and how to document the process.1 The present paperillustrates how that model can be implemented to assess the E101 Introduction to Engineering andProblem -Solving course. The assessment model can be summarized into four major steps: Step 1: Defining program mission, objectives, and outcomes; Step 2: Developing an assessment plan to assess the program objectives and outcomes with linkages to curriculum issues and

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Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robin Qiu; Ying Tang

discussed are analyzed. A result of the experiment is given.1. IntroductionDifferent from most full-time college students, professionals are usually of different course expectations,work experience, and even totally different education backgrounds when they register a course for a highdegree in a part-time based professional study institution. This is especially true for a computer-relateddegree course (e.g. “Software Design Methods” for M.S. in Information Sciences). The significantdifference among students’ profiles makes teaching very challenging. For instance, if an illustrativeexample in a class requires a lot of background knowledge in a specific field while the majority of theclass lacks the background, as a result, the example might not be

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rudolph Eggert

, should they betaught? How (pedagogical methods) should they be taught? And lastly, how should we measurethe outcomes. These issues are not new. Participants of the 1996 NSF Strategic PlanningWorkshop (NSF 1) concluded that the three most important design education needs were: 1. Create teachable principles of design process, methods, and tools. 2. Devise innovative pedagogical methods for engineering design, and 3. Measure effectiveness, correctness, and relevance of teaching methods. Page 8.496.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Russell

professional level in the future will be beyond the scope of atraditional 4-year bachelor’s degree and required practical experience. While ASCE recognizesthat implementation of Policy Statement 465 will not occur overnight, this policy has thepotential to transform the practice of civil engineering, and positively influence the safety,quality, efficiency, and sustainability of the built environment in the 21st Century. The purposeof this paper is to describe the master plan for implementing ASCE Policy Statement 465.Background: Motivation For ChangeThe policy is forward- looking and addresses the following six issues. 1. Education for a Complex Future—Today’s world is fundamentally challenging the waycivil engineering is practiced. Complexity

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson

Creation of an Introduction to Engineering Course based on the “Civil City” Concept Philip J. Parker 1 and Max L. Anderson2 Session #27931 IntroductionThe freshman year for an engineering student is critical to the retention of that student. Thetypical first-year engineering curriculum in the US contains a rigorous workload of science andmathematics courses, along with two or three courses in the humanities. Often, the onlyexposure to engineering that students obtain in this first year is in an introductory engineeringcourse. We have developed an introductory engineering course that effectively engages the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Philip Parker; Max Anderson

Creation of a Project-Based Introduction to Engineering Course Philip J. Parker 1 and Max L. Anderson2 Session #15261 IntroductionThe freshman year for an engineering student is critical to the retention of that student. Thetypical first-year engineering curriculum in the US contains a rigorous workload of science andmathematics courses, along with two or three courses in the humanities. Often, the onlyexposure to engineering that students obtain in this first year is in an introductory engineeringcourse. We have developed an introductory engineering course that effectively engages the first-year

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jucain Butler

analysis [1] to evaluate student progress. With a properly designed web-based evaluationtool, it should be possible not only to measure if students have acquired simple skills, but also tofollow students through their work on complex problems to see if the path to a solution makessense. In doing this, the instructor can evaluate and even quantitatively measure, the degree towhich students have mastered the process of solving, e.g., design problems that requireintegration of understanding and knowledge by the student.The ”deliverables” of this project will be complete plans, materials and purchased equipment list Page 8.144.1for a ~0.5 l

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nathan Chao

web delivery of meaningful hands on experiences for science, technology, andengineering laboratory courses. The three most widely used educational strategies for delivering laboratory experiencesall have substantial drawbacks. 1. The traditional method requires students to perform mandated laboratory assignments in campus laboratories, where traditional laboratory instruments and facilities require costly startup, maintenance and setup costs. 2. Another approach allows remote users to control instruments connected to a host instrument-server. A major deficiency of this remote approach is that it deprives students of hands-on wiring or setting up their own experiments. Also, with this approach, each

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program to enhance the instructionalcapabilities of two required courses in the Manufacturing Engineering curriculum: the above-mentioned course in Digital Electronics, and a new course to be developed in Control Systemsand Instrumentation (MFGE 4376). Because of the timing of the grant, we have planned theenhancement of Digital Electronics to take place in two steps, coinciding with the course offeringsfor Fall 2002 and Fall 2003. What follows is a report on the rationale and implementation of the“step-1” enhancements in Fall 2002. We conclude this paper with a description of plans for thestep-2 enhancement of Digital Electronics and for the first offering of Control Systems andInstrumentation.Digital Electronics

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Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dhirendra Bhattarai; Christopher Ibeh

materialselection be accorded priority and more attention in engineering technology and SMETcurricula and education.1. IntroductionOne of the current trends in the industry is the focus on “costs” as one of the dominantdesign factors or criteria (1)(2)(3). Materials costs account for majority of the developmentand production costs; it is not uncommon for materials costs to account for more thanfifty percent of development and production costs. Materials costs is typically about 50%in the ship building industry, and about 60% in the aerospace industry, and 70% in theautomotive industry (2)(3)(4)(5). The implication of this is that materials selection is criticalin any design or production process. Incorrect materials selection can result in

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Powers

Engineering Education Session ???? (paper – 2003-369)The development of the curricula required many compromises. Our program emphasized theprocess of doing science, whereas the textbook and the majority of the state science exam requireknowledge of specific science content. Thus, it was critically important that our program fits theneeds and covers content required within the state mandated core curricula. In each curriculum,we took a problem solving approach. For the middle school level, we broke the problem solvingapproach into four basic steps as illustrated in Figure 1. Figure 1: Year-long problem solving process used in the

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Blace Albert; Wayne Whiteman

a sense of the overallobjectives of the potential course. This graphical overview illustrates how well the topics ofdynamics, vibrations, and controls can be integrated. Page 8.729.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Background and RationaleIn a book now out of print, Vibration Control (McGraw-Hill, 1958), John N. MacDuff and JohnR. Curreri integrated, to an extent, vibration topics, “concerned with controlling the dynamicdeflection and stress in mechanical systems,”1 with feedback

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Fred Weber; John Prados

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationnew material to the course since many engineering courses are already overloaded. Instead, thisshould be viewed as extra time to reinforce concepts and skills already included in the course.Figure 1 shows a picture of the current home page for the learning modules. The seven buttons(Modules, Notes, Video, Demo, Practice, Quiz, and Help) navigate to a particular section of thesite. If a type of content is unavailable for a particular module, the corresponding button is“dimmed.” Figure 1: Web Site “Home Page” (http://www.che.utk.edu:/200/cheonline/)The “Modules” button returned to

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kander

sectors include biotechnology, energy, environment, engineeringmanufacturing, information/knowledge management, telecommunications, and health systems. ISAT has grown from an enrollment of 62 students in its first freshman class (1993), tograduating over 200 seniors in 2002. A listing of selected milestone events in the evolution of theISAT program is shown in Table I. As can be seen from this table, ISAT has, by all measures,demonstrated a successful implementation of the original program vision.1, 2 Page 8.126.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Kuyath

: (1)development of new curriculum; (2) improvement to existing curriculum; or (3) research thatinforms curriculum or teaching at the local (course, department, college, university) level. Thisproject focused on the improvement to existing curriculum by developing a web-based course forJava programming.The Engineering Technology Department at UNC Charlotte is a 2+2 program serving AASgraduates from ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditedengineering technology programs in the southeast United States. For many of these graduates,traveling to UNC Charlotte to continue their education at the bachelor’s level is not a realisticoption. The development of a web-based distance education program has provided an

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

is an effort of business, industry,government, and the educational community in the Charlotte Region to promote a spirit ofcooperation and collaboration for the development of a highly skilled Information Technologyworkforce. Twelve counties and nine community colleges in North Carolina and three countiesand one community college in South Carolina have joined forces for this project: The membercounties are shown below.Objectives: The goals of this project were: 1. Research the current and future Information Technology training needs of business and industry in the Charlotte Region, 2. Using the results of this research, develop a set of "Skills Standards" required by business and industry for specific

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Englebert; Tom Owen; Stephen Kuyath

© 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBackground:Thirty-seven of North Carolina’s fifty-nine technical and community colleges currently offer theAssociate in Applied Science Degree (AAS) program in Electronics Engineering Technology(EET) and five additional community colleges will begin offering the Associate in AppliedScience Degree (AAS) program in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) in the near future.The approximate location of these community colleges is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1: Approximate Location of Community Colleges in NCUntil Fall 2000, prospective students in the state of North Carolina interested in pursuingeducation beyond the two-year degree in the electrical or computer engineering technology fieldsfound their

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

USING THE MATLAB COMMUNICATIONS TOOLBOX 1 TO LOOK AT CYCLIC CODING Wm. Hugh Blanton East Tennessee State UniversityABSTRACTIn wireless digital communications, the designer is constantly trying to minimize the probability ofbit error rates within certain constraints, most notably signal power limits. One method ofcompensating for bit errors is the use of error control coding that provides sufficient structure tothe signal to provide the location of the error. Error control coding requires circuits capable ofperforming matrix multiplication and comparing the result of various binary numbers. Althoughthe concepts are relatively simple, the

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Deran Hanesian

and engineering degrees continueto decline nationwide. The Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach Program (PrE-IOP)seeks to enlarge the future pool of qualified high-tech workers, including those who havebeen historically underrepresented (minorities and women). This is being accomplishedthrough two components:1) The implementation of pre-engineering curriculum in middle and high schools.2) A comprehensive information campaign about the rewards of engineering and technology professions.A chemical engineering curriculum module has been designed to create connections betweenthe science used in engineering applications in the modern workplace and the high schoolscience classroom. Chemical engineering concepts are selected that support the

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Sluss

Protocol (IP), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Optical, Wireless, and Legacy. Each island is designed as an entity in its own right, but also provides the interconnection capability with any combination of other islands to create a fully functional end-to-end networking environment. This paper describes the architecture of the Interoperability Lab, as well as how it will impact the education of our students.1. IntroductionThe education of engineering students in the area of telecommunications systems is of growingimportance as society becomes increasingly dependent on telecommunications technologies andservices. Despite its beginnings from electrical engineering and the broader base of

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NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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J Hines; Fred Weber; John Prados; Kurt Gramoll

requiredprerequisite classes to start their junior year. This causes the student’s average graduation timeto increase by two semesters. A partnership between UT and the University of Oklahoma aredeveloping three common prerequisite engineering courses to be delivered over the Internet toCommunity College students to alleviate this unnecessary delay.1. IntroductionIn recent years, pre-engineering programs have been developed across America in CommunityColleges, Junior Colleges and Liberal Arts Colleges. These institutions prepare students fortransfer to engineering degree programs in the 320 or so U.S. four-year universities withaccredited engineering programs. This transfer is usually accomplished after the sophomore yearand is often facilitated by an

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ahmet Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

Session: 1532 SENIOR PROJECT DESIGN METHODOLOGY Ali Sekmen1, Ismail Fidan2, and Ahmet Koku3 1 Department of Computer Science Tennessee State University Nashville, TN 2 Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Technology Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN 3 Department of Electrical