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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

. The manual unifies the curriculum and makes the course easier to teach andadminister, especially for new instructors. It was recently modified to reflect changes in thecourse as we moved to an open-source assembler.Laboratory programming assignments are given electronically, typically once per week, over thecourse of ten weeks. Students spend four hours in scheduled sessions per week, but are given theoption of working in the laboratory during other times as well. Assignments vary in difficultyand complexity, from basic exercises in efficiency in MIPS to programming intricate routines tohandle external and internal interrupts with the Microkits. Each assignment also presentsstudents with opportunities to excel by electively choosing to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Keith B. Lodge

The programming of a microcontroller as an integral part of process control for undergraduate chemical engineersKeith B. Lodge*Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, the University of Minnesota Duluth,1303 Ordean Court, Duluth, Minnesota 55812-3025AbstractNew funding in our College of Science and Engineering has become available for the enhancement ofcourses with computer technology. I took this opportunity to try an experiment in the teaching of processcontrol to chemical engineers. Inexpensive and reliable microcontrollers are now commonplace. I amusing the Basic Stamp, Parallax Inc., with the intention of getting the students to build and tune their ownliquid-level loops. This experiment was

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael Leasure

situationequipment being implemented. and to bring that level of insight to our students.The impact of this equipment and curriculum on the The other consideration that has become a concern withstudent's depth of knowledge has been very positive. Not my colleagues and I is recurrent training. This equipmentonly are students now more familiar with data acquisition is used in one unit of instruction in each semester. This isengineering as a discipline, they are able to converse not enough time for the instructor to remain current. Ifintelligently with industry personnel regarding engine something malfunctions, or an upgrade to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Torvi

in the design of building systems to have a working knowledge offire protection engineering, so that they can develop effective systems for smoke control inbuildings.In order to integrate fire protection engineering within the mechanical engineering curriculum,several challenges need to be overcome. This paper will focus on how these challenges wereaddressed in a fire protection engineering technical elective currently offered in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan. The paper will first briefly describethe extent of fire protection engineering courses in Canada, along with the development of thiscourse. The content of this course and the challenges to offering it at this university are thendescribed

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

several corecourses in electrical and mechanical engineering, as well as a laboratory course in weldingprinciples and manufacturing operations. Biomedical engineering is being developed as a fifthconcentration, built upon the common core.Part of our approach to the BME concentration includes a special integration of curriculum. Theconcept of curricular integration has been occurring at all levels of education, from primarygrades through graduate school. In the spirit of past academic emphases on “writing across thecurriculum,” “ethics across the curriculum,” “computers across the curriculum,” and “designacross the curriculum,” the approach we have taken is that of introducing “biomedicalengineering across the curriculum.” Specialized materials

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

;· Teach students to apply engineering principles in the life and medical sciences;· Develop their critical problem solving skills in bioengineering;· Develop their ability to communicate effectively and participate in interdisciplinary teams;· Expose students to a broad education that prepares them for diverse careers.Graduates will be prepared to pursue further education in graduate school or medical school orbegin a career in the biotechnology industry.Bioengineering students follow the typical engineering curriculum during their freshman yearwith two semesters of calculus, two semesters of general chemistry, an introductoryprogramming course and two semesters of physics. The introduction of the students to thefundamentals of life sciences

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Smith; Anneliese Watt; Caroline Carvill; Julia Williams

synthesizing what they learn. Perhaps ask students to summarize the day’s classdiscussion or pose a question about a topic they didn’t fully understand. The important thing isthat students see that you value writing and that it is an important component in their engineeringdiscipline.The same message, that you value good writing, will be evident to your students in how youevaluate their work. Rather than separating a student’s grade into two parts—one grade fortechnical content, one for writing—you can show students that writing is integral tocommunicating technical information by tying writing to content. Technical professors play anintegral role in establishing the importance of writing campus-wide. Subtle lessons about therole of writing can easily

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Yves Hascoet; Benoit Furet; Marek Balazinski

applications toeffectively learn the concepts taught in our design and manufacturing curriculum. For theteaching of Design, CAD systems are currently used in courses and exercises. Students arerequired to complete practical projects either on their own or in teams. We think that working inteams prepares them well for their future positions in an organization.Team members are not always seated in close proximity. Presentation tools such as CADdrawing files, animations and simulations must work hand in hand with transmission tools suchas E-mail, ftp, visio-communication and exchange files. Integration of these technolog ies toallow for development activities among team members located at a distance from one anotherwithout need for displacement was one

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

paper describes some of the lessons learned during 6 years of continuously improving theIntegrated Product and Process Design program at the University of Florida. The program hasprovided an enriching experience for both the students and the faculty participants. Theparticipating industry sponsors have benefited from early access to potential new hires, anopportunity to participate actively in the transition of students to professionals, and interactionwith a talented and diverse faculty body.Future growth opportunities include the development of a graduate version of the course and theintegration of entrepreneurship within the curriculum. These avenues will require creativeapproaches to handle faculty and student incentives, intellectual

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edmund Tsang

. Page 7.702.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile the senior capstone design course may be a natural place to incorporate service-learning,this project as well as others identified in the bibliography section demonstrate that the service -learning pedagogy can be integrated into any engineering curriculum to meet both instructionneeds and community needs.* The work presented in this paper was performed by the author while he was an associateprofessor of mechanical engineering at University of South Alabama.Figure 1. Die plate for stamping College of Engineering Open House Commemorative

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Hudson

particularly interesting to study.This paper will begin by reviewing the computer integration process in the MSU Collegeof Engineering (COE). Policies set by the ME Department and issues encountered withimplementing the laptop requirement into the entire ME curriculum at MSU will then beaddressed. Finally, special emphasis will be placed on the challenges associated with Page 7.796.1implementation in a lower level course such as Thermodynamics I. The paper will “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”particularly

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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia M. Secola; James A. Middleton; Donovan Evans; Dale R. Baker; Bettie Smiley; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Page 7.688.1* Partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number 9710554. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationimporting employees from overseas. 3 The reasons for this disparity are myriad, including lack ofintegration of concepts, little tie to the lives of students in the US curriculum, inadequate teacherknowledge of fundamental ideas that under gird mathematics and science fields, and generalattitudes about what science, mathematics, and engineering are, and who becomes involved inthem.4 These reasons alone suggest that an integrated, application-based

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bruce Berdanier

Session 1351 Use of Watersheds and The TMDL Process as Tools for Curriculum Development and the Introduction of Research Concepts in an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Course Dr. Bruce W. Berdanier, PE, PS Ohio Northern University, Ada, OhioAbstractCE 426, Environmental Engineering II, has been developed as an Environmental Engineeringanalysis course at Ohio Northern University (ONU). This course is offered in the spring quarterand is typically the final Environmental Engineering course taken by senior Civil Engineeringstudents as an elective course

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

, rather than self-awareness about learning on the part of thestudent.Our “portfolio” approach begins with the collection of assignments in core courses that arerequired for industrial engineering majors. At WPI, each student also completes a senior designproject that is the equivalent of three courses. Because the project is such an extensive andcritical part of the WPI curriculum, we have had a peer review system in place for project reviewfor many years. The current “portfolio” approach extends this peer review of senior projects toinclude the collected course assignments. In addition to meeting course objectives, theassignments typically address outcomes that may not be demonstrated in the senior project, suchas an understanding of global

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

and its potential contributions to design excellence areexamined. The concepts of “favorite”, “best in class”, “quintessential” and “designexcellence” are compared and defined. Questions about whether we live in a “claptrap”world are considered.Topics such as “S-Curve” analysis, closed versus open systems and technology pushversus market pull are blended with critiques of DFM/A and QFD to attempt methods ofunderstanding product development methodologies. Ethics in design forms an essentialfinal point of discussion.This paper outlines the course and illustrates its unique nature. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A R Zaghloul

education.Instructional laboratory work is an integral part of electrical engineering education. Overthe last century, electrical engineering educators gradually moved toward a balancebetween theoretical and lab skills, with more emphasis on theoretical (cognitive) skills.Electrical engineering technology educators reached a different balance, with increasedemphasis on lab (psychomotor) skills. In either case, the instructional lab plays animportant educational role.Doing the lab work, from the student point of view, is time consuming with less creditgiven (one credit hour for every three clock hour work.) Accordingly, the student aspiresfor a very efficient lab experience. What he goes through is some times a very lengthyand very exhaustive, marathon type

Conference Session

Integrating Math and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marie Vanisko; John Scharf

undergraduates and formulate mathematicscurricula that are tailored to the needs of other disciplines. One of the goals of Project InterMathis to engage in curricular and cultural reform through the development and use of studentprojects that integrate topics from mathematics with those from partner disciplines includingengineering and science. In addition to developing and using such student projects (calledInterdisciplinary Lively Applications Projects or ILAPS), we have also designed andimplemented a new and innovative mathematics curriculum. The features of this curriculuminclude: 1) an integration of mathematical topics especially in the first two years, 2) a focus onmathematical applications from a wide variety of disciplines, 3) extensive use of

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Obenchain; Keith Bearden; Dan Diaz; Brian Self

additional advantage is the potential for an undergraduate publication, which is Page 7.104.7also beneficial to faculty members who devote most of their time to teaching. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences1. Haag, S.G., Rhoads, T.R. (1998) Assessing the effectiveness of integrated freshmen curricula inengineering. Proceedings of the 1998 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Nov 1998,Tempe, AZ, p. 998.2. Karunamoorthy, S., Ravindra, K. (1998) Integrated curriculum design in

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

Session 2366 Integration of Design in the First Course in Fluid Mechanics: Experience and Evaluation. Josué Njock Libii Engineering Department Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499 USA Abstract For more than ten years, design has been integrated into the first course in fluid mechanics in our department. This concept is a part of an educational philosophy that distributes design experience across the curriculum before it culminates into two capstone-design courses in the senior year

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Simon Ang; Fred Barlow; Alan Mantooth; Sean Mulvenon

. Fig. 1 shows the flow of the mixed-signal/telecomm modeling and simulation course. Thecourse begins with the basic flow of an analog circuit simulator - what it accepts as input, what itproduces as output, and what happens in between. Next, the solution algorithms are examined.This includes such things as Modified Nodal Analysis, LU decomposition, sparse matrixalgorithms, Newton-Raphson iterative techniques, and numerical integration. Convergenceissues and simulation accuracy will be explored. Next, the analogous information to the analogalgorithms in part I will be explored for digital simulation. The basics of logic simulation will becovered. Event queues and event-driven simulation techniques are described. Then, mixed-signal(i.e., analog

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Wood

,communications, and technology) pre-engineering technology curriculum component (called"Technology Gateway") for under-prepared entering students and a three-semester series of corecourses ("Engineering Technology Core" or "ET Core") integrating mathematics, physics,communications, and engineering technology content. 5 In the ET Core, 16 workplace scenariosthat relate to the six major physics/technical areas (electrical, mechanical, materials, thermal,fluids, and optics) were developed to provide students foundational technical skills that they willneed in their engineering technology majors. The problem-based learning (PBL) process hasproved to be an effective teaching and learning approach that has dramatically increased studentretention. 6, 7When a

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Neal

university IT programs.3 Curriculum OverviewThe Web-Net Tech Certificate Program consists of five required courses and an optionalinternship. The courses are:CS 211 Computer Networks and Internetworks: A study of how computer networks andinternets operate, from the lowest level of data transmission and wiring to the highest level ofapplication software communication over the network infrastructure. Topics will includeexploration of networks and their management in the web environment, the OSI model, data andpacket transmission, topologies, hardware, client -server systems, internetworks, simulation andmanagement tools, e-commerce, and security. Prerequisite: C or C++ programming knowledge,or CS121 Computer Science I, or permission of the

Conference Session

New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

Session 2247 Delivery of a common microelectronics technology curriculum at several degree levels John Robertson, Lakshmi Munukutla and Richard Newman College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University East Mesa, Arizona, 85212AbstractIn an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing company, the workforce has many skill andeducation levels but everyone has to work together and communicate effectively oncomplex technology issues. The microelectronics technology curriculum at ASU hastherefore taken on the same challenge - to present a

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

1. Cluster Structure for First-Year Engineering Curriculum at Texas A&Maccommodate the diverse needs of its entering students.Student TeamsThere are several reasons for using student teams as an integral part of the class. First,employers are requesting engineering graduates with improved skills and more experience inworking within a team structure. Industry changed to team decisions because of the ir experiencethat more creative solutions to problems occurred in a team environment. Second, engineeringprograms applying for accreditation under Engineering Criteria 2000 of the Accreditation Boardof Engineering and Technology (ABET) are asked to demonstrate that their graduates have “anability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.” 7

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Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

characteristics of currentcollege PLC laboratories are compared with the characteristics of industrial uses of PLCs.The status of college laboratories was determined by feedback to a web-based survey,and representatives of major PLC vendors provided the industry data. While there areexceptions, many college PLC laboratories exhibit the following characteristics: · PLCs are not integrated with other industrial machines, and students receive a limited exposure to the problems associated with the integration of the PLC in an industrial machine control environment. · PLCs are present in most technology program laboratories, but engineering curriculums still offer little PLC exposure to their students. · Two or more PLC vendors

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin

muchcomputational work. Students can avoid making mistakes when using calculators and,therefore, increase their interest in taking such a course. Spreadsheet programs areespecially effective in obtaining alternate solutions, which are commonly seen in machinedesign. Although students may have to spend a lot of time in creating a new file, theprogram usually can be easily modified to solve different problems under the same topic.Bibliography 1. Spotts, M.F. & Shoup, T.E., Design of Machine Elements, Prentice Hall, 7 th Edition, 1995. 2. Shigley, J.E., & Mischke, C.R. Mechanical Engineering Design, McGraw Hill, 6th Edition, 2001. 3. Wilson, R.E, Computer Integrated MACHINE DESIGN, Prentice Hall, 1997. 4. Norton, R.L, MAHCINE DESIGN – An

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

Session 1338 Process Education in Computer Graphics David R. Forsman, Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstract:Changes in the student culture have dictated that we need to change our approach to teaching.These changes have made it necessary for us to reevaluate our teaching methods and how wepresent material to our students. Because we desire to improve our students’ performance andfind a way to have the student be more prepared for class we decided to apply a processeducation approach to our instruction. Process education is “an educational

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

entrepreneurs, students and instructors,creating an environment where people can talk about success, failures and opportunities. 3. Stimulate the integration between the University and the technology basedIndustry. 4. Create a database that group information about science, technology andentrepreneurship. 5. Establish the connections between the students involved in the program withBusiness Incubators, Science and Technology Parks, and Industry. 6. Stimulate leadership and innovation. SEP Entrepreneurs Database Business Incubators

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

Session 1625 Taking CAD Integration to the Next Level B. A. Harding, W. K. Szaroletta, M. M. Tomovic Purdue University, West Lafayette, IndianaAbstract:A year ago “Using 3D CAD as a tool to integrate topics across the curriculum” was presented atthis forum. 1 That paper discussed the ambitious goal of integrating a 3D CAD tool, primarilyIronCAD™ 2, across the curriculum. Integration is continuing, beginning in the freshman year,through the undergraduate program, and into the graduate program. The major challengepresented in the reference paper was to encourage both students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

modeling with FEA and rapid prototypinghas been demonstrated to be effective by several authors [2-7]. Since these activities typicallyspan several courses in an engineering curriculum, a promising approach for integrating theseactivities is through the use of teams of students from different courses. Several studies [8,9]have shown that team-based projects enhance learning of engineering concepts and help studentsdevelop essential teaming skills.This paper summarizes an initial attempt to integrate CAD, FEA and prototyping activities into Page 7.714.1three courses through the use of interdisciplinary teams. Two separate projects were performed