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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gordon Silverman

Session 2793 Integrating Business Concepts into ECE Design Courses: An Alternate Approach Henry Chaya, FSC, Associate Professor Gordon Silverman, Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College, Riverdale, New YorkAbstractTo prepare students for the 21st century global environment, Consultor groups and ABET haveencouraged engineering schools to make provision for leadership development within theirprograms. The model envisioned by the corporate/industrial community would aim to

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Miroslav Velev

processors: 1) asingle-issue pipelined DLX44; 2) a version with exceptions and branch prediction; and 3) a dual-issue superscalar DLX. The last project was motivated by commercial dual-issue superscalar pro-cessors, such as the Intel Pentium45, the Alpha 2106446, the IDT RISCore500047, the PowerPC440 Core48, the Motorola MC 6806049, the Motorola MPC 856049, and the MIPS III used in theEmotion Engine chip of the Sony Playstation 244. The integration of formal verification into an existing computer architecture course was madepossible by a recently developed tool flow, consisting of the term-level symbolic simulatorTLSim50, the decision procedure EVC50–53, and an efficient Boolean Satisfiability (SAT)checker, such as Chaff54, 55 or BerkMin56. The

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

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Helen Qammr; H. Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway

future curricular and instructional decisions.Based on the reflective journals, teamwork is a social environment in which to learnengineering content and skills; however, the participants did not engage in metacognition.The authors suggest that future VITDP include structures to facilitate synergy andparticipants need instruction in reflection and metacognition as learning tools.I. IntroductionThe Vertically Integrated (by class rank) Team Design Project (VITDP) is an engineeringdesign curricular and instructional project for the National Science Foundation-fundedBridges for Engineering Education (BEE) project at The University of Akron. Thecurricular focal point of this project is engineering teamwork. Instruction is accomplishedby having the

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Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Kuhl; Matthew Marshall; Andres Carrano

Session 2357 DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND INTEGRATION OF AN EXPERIENTIAL ASSEMBLY SYSTEM ENGINEERING LABORATORY MODULE Andres L. Carrano, Michael E. Kuhl, Matthew M. Marshall Industrial & Systems Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Techno logy Rochester, NY 14623 USAAbstractCurriculum integration and multidisciplinary studies have become key issues in improvingengineering education. This paper presents the design and implementation of laboratory materialthat integrates three traditionally

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Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

Session 1153 Leveraging What Freshmen Don’t Know: Product Development in an Integrated Business and Engineering Freshman Workshop Todd A. Watkins, John B. Ochs, and Drew M. Snyder College of Business & Economics/ Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics/ Department of Art & Architecture Lehigh UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses one part of our attempts at Lehigh University to put active, inquiry-based,collaborative, multidisciplinary

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

industries developed basic knowledge of theprocesses as well as manufacturing logistics, which was followed by expanding electronicindustry and factory automation. By the mid 80s, investment in automation and total qualitymanagement began to show considerable promise. Rise in computer industry led to enormousgrowth in both hardware and software. Through the use of computer technology, flexibleautomation integrates product, process and management information into a single interactiveframework, which reduces the number of operations. By late nineties, Internet basedmanufacturing was the natural extension of these paradigms, where an enterprise could respondto delivery, quality and variety. The new generation of manufacturing companies are

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Freddie Frazier; Kelvin Kirby

) disciplines.PVAMU received a $3.8M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) tosignificantly increase the enrollment and success of under-represented students in SMETdisciplines. Studies have proven that students with high academic achievement inmathematics also attain high academic achievements throughout their course of study. Inmost SMET disciplines, mathematics is a key point of origin. Students must beproficient in mathematics before advancing to an in depth course of study in science,engineering or technology. Curriculum reform in mathematics is ongoing to ensure thecourse content is appropriate in various prerequisite courses. The endeavor is nearcompletion and the basic issue still remains - How do we continue to enhance teacherand student

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

” towards most engineering degrees. Before the switch, graphicscourses were required for students in mechanical, civil, environmental, biomedical, mining, andmaterials engineering. Students in electrical, chemical, geological, and computer engineering hadno graphics requirement prior to 2000. In developing the two core first-year engineering courses,compromises on all sides were required. The graphics content for some programs was necessarilyreduced while the content for others increased significantly. Another feature of the new programwas that the graphics content was integrated throughout the first-year courses instead of existingas a stand-alone topic in the curriculum. This paper will discuss the graphics content in the first-year engineering

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

animations maybe a fairly easy task for an experienced MATLAB user but it is not so simple to do forstudents learning dynamics/kinematics for the first time. Therefore the homeworkassignments do not require students to write programs for animations. Typically studentswho take advanced level courses in engineering seem to appreciate the capabilities ofMATLAB and continue to use it in those courses for modeling, computation, andvisualization.4. ConclusionsMATLAB has been used as a problem-solving tool in mechanics and structural analysisclasses. It has also been used to a limited extend for animations involving dynamics ofparticles and machinery systems. The integration of MATLAB into these courses was areasonably small effort compared to the huge

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Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

numbers,words, pictures and computer programs, engineers are able to identify patternsin the forces of Nature and predict the behavior of those forces. Engineering isunique in that its practitioners must master all of these modes of representationand use them together in problem-solving design. For engineering education, the idea of representation constitutes asignificant opportunity at creating an overarching framework. For decades,students have taken a variety of courses in the engineering curriculum and weengineering educators have not offered them an explanation as to how all thesepieces fit together. By introducing the idea that engineering is about usingrepresentations to make sense of the world, we provide the student with

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Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Deran Hanesian

topics taughtin high school science and are the basis for the design of an industrial plant. Also, thematerials are meant to fit the instructional classroom needs of high school teachers byaddressing the state content standards. The adoption, adaptation and where necessary thedevelopment of appropriate pre-engineering curriculum for use in high school scienceclassrooms is being accompanied by sustained, long-term teacher training and support.Summer institutes, with hands-on workshops are designed to familiarize the teachers with thecurriculum and the associated pedagogy. Evaluation includes the teacher training, and theimplementation of the curriculum materials.Introduction and BackgroundThe number of students selecting engineering is declining

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Garth Thomas

Session 2793 Applying Engineering Software Tools Throughout the Curriculum Garth E. Thomas Jr. Chemical Engineering Department West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136AbstractThere is no aspect of modern engineering practice that does not make use of computer-basedtools. This has created an expectation that graduates from engineering programs will have strongcomputing skills. Graduates can be provided with these skills by integrating the application ofsoftware tools throughout the engineering

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

to old traditional pedagogy and methodologies thatwere aimed more at delivery than they were at learning. Another overarching goal was to create acoordinated curriculum that facilitated the success of our students rather impede their progresswith built-in snares that filtered out qualified students. After two years of meetings, seminars, andworkshops, forty faculty came to 93% consensus of a new curriculum that was focused on acoordinated curriculum, an integrated analog electronics course series utilizing helical or spiraleducation, innovative pedagogy to stimulate and excite the learner, and teaching techniques toengage the learner as an active learner. Helical or spiral education is an educational technique orcurriculum structure that

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

require 128 semester hours. • There shall be a set of common core courses that enables students to enroll in engineering with an undeclared major and to change majors without loss of credit through the end of the third semester. • To ensure education beyond technology, provide flexibility for students to develop thematic options, and complement the technical content of the curriculum, all programs shall have a pool of 36 semester hours of elective courses. The student’s portfolio and plan of study guide the selection of appropriate electives. The electives are used to fulfill two College Page 8.45.2

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Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

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Susan Powers

Clarkson Project-Based Learning Partnership ProgramAt the beginning of the year, the students were posed with a problem statement: Too much solidwaste generated in the school cafeteria is sent to a landfill. Wording of the problem we posedwas critical in order to guide the students in the direction we wanted to go. Composting becamean obvious solution for biodegradable wastes, while non-biodegradable materials wereincorporated into concrete. These solutions provided the students with an understanding thatthey can reduce solid waste, as well as providing a topic that can be integrated into their requiredcore curriculum. Over the course of the year, the students learned about solid waste, the scienceof composting and concrete, built and used compost

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Hofinger

Session 2147 Developing Communication Effectiveness in a Freshman Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum Robert J. Hofinger Purdue University, Columbus, INAbstractThe ability to communicate effectively is expected of all college graduates. The ability to presenttechnical concepts and write good reports distinguishes an outstanding technologist from anaverage one. Feedback from our industrial board indicated that writing should form an integralpart of an electrical engineering technologist’s education. The goal of graduating electricalengineering technologists

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

Session 2366 PROCEED: A Department-Wide Curriculum Reform Initiative in Project-Centered Education Philip S. Schmidt and Joseph J. Beaman Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin has undertaken amajor curriculum reform effort entitled PROCEED, an acronym for Project-Centered Education.The strategic objectives of PROCEED are: (1) to strengthen our students’ understanding offundamental engineering theory by continuously tying it

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Walter Massie

of the 5-year engineeringcurriculum in that year. Originally, the course was quite isolated (relative to other offshoreengineering courses) in the second semester of the third of the five curriculum years.The Delft University of Technology recently adopted a 3 + 2 BSc - MSc curriculum structurewith English-language MSc curricula. Along with this, OE has become purely a MSccurriculum since the Fall of 2002. An early form of this curriculum was described by Massieand Vugts (2001) 1. The curriculum has continued to evolve since that paper was written; somedetails of the discussion below will be effectuated only in the coming academic year as thisevolution continues. In spite of this on-going and gradual process, the basic objectives of

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Freeman; Arturo Fuentes; Stephen Crown

Asynchronous Computer Based Training as a Means of Integrating the Use of Engineering Software into the Curriculum Stephen W. Crown Robert A. Freeman Arturo Fuentes Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas – Pan AmericanAbstract: The continuous growth in the use of engineering software in the practice ofengineering has impacted engineering education. Graduates are increasingly expected to befamiliar with several engineering software packages. Although the use of engineering softwarehas allowed for the removal of some course

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Davis; Melissa Dark

spectrum.Students need to understand the notion of “no such thing as absolutely secure”.There are also personal characteristics associated with being an IA professional that studentsshould understand so they can self-assess whether or not they will be satisfied with a career in IA.Such characteristics include: detail-oriented, high level of self-discipline, voluntary paranoia. Toaddress how to integrate detail-orientation into the undergraduate curriculum, we can look atother disciplines where attention to detail is also paramount. Finally, at the undergraduate level, itwas assumed that students graduating from programs that include these topics are expected to gointo the following types of careers: Low Level IT Engineer, System Administrator with

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

Java Virtual Machine, Proceedings of the thirty second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education, 2001, pp. 194–198.[2] Tanenbaum, A. Structured Computer Organization, 1999. Prentice-Hall, pp. 483-488.[3] Computing Curricula 1991, Report of the CM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force (1991) Available WWW. http://www.computer.org/education/cc1991/.[4] Computing Curricula 2001, Report of the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula (2000). Available WWW. http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/report/index.html .[5] Than, Soe, Development and Use of an Assembler in Computer Systems Course, JCSC, May 2001, pp 145- 152.[6] The Case for and Against Assembly Language, http://wheelie.tees.ac.uk/users/a.clements/CaseFor.htm[7

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Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

; Manufacturing Engineering andBusiness Department.References1. Felder, Richard, Bernold, L., Burniston, E., Dail, P. and Gastineau, J., 1996 “Team-Teaching in an Integrated Freshman Engineering Curriculum”, Proc. 1996 ASEE Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 1996, session 1261, http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/PCEP/impec/ASEE-P1.htm2. Goff, Richard, Vernon, Mitzi, 2001, “Using LEGO RCX Bricks as the Platform for Interdisciplinary Design Projects”, Proc. 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2001, session 34253. Matsuishi, Masakatsu, Takemata, Kazuya, Furukawa, Tetsuro, Matsumoto, Shigeo, 2002, “Introductory Design Project in Engineering Design Course to Freshmen at Kanazawa Institute of Technology”, Proc. 2002 ASEE

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Smith

scholarship.SummaryThis project has developed and conducted a prototype course that demonstratesthe integration of software simulation and physical measurements into theexperimental curriculum. That is, verifying the correctness of simulation resultsis an important step in the problem solving procedure. The subject matteraddressed in the course is software lighting design coupled with photometricmeasurements. This involved three computer networked laboratories at Cal PolyPomona University. The capability was also developed to allow remote accessand interactive participation by other universities via the Internet. A follow upactivity is anticipated to demonstrate the remote conduct of experiments by oneuniversity in another university’s laboratory

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Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

process or sequence of processes for producing a part as well as select the most appropriate methods for determining machining conditions. (Estimated to be available by 01/31/03) Machining Processes II This secondary course in machining focuses on the analysis of machining processes. Also in this course, students learn about machining with abrasive wheels, with single-point tools and on CNC machining centers. (Estimated to be available by 01/31/03) Manufacturing Processes I This course introduces a number of processes used to manufacture products. It integrates an understanding of process technology, materials selection, and design intent. (Estimated to be available by 08/31/03) Manufacturing Systems II Beyond the core principles of

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Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Emily Mowry

Session 2209 CREATION OF A BIOETHICS COURSE FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM E. Mowry, J. Collins, S. Brophy Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235Abstract “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have…an understanding ofprofessional and ethical responsibility….1” To address this need, we are creating anundergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) ethics course, which serves to raise awareness instudents and better prepare them for careers in medicine, research, and engineering. Theprinciples and methodologies of

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

Session 2558 Experiences Using Undergraduate Students to Develop Information Technology Course Curriculum Stephen R. Renshaw, Aaron Dockter, C. Richard G. Helps, Joseph J. Ekstrom Information Technology, Brigham Young UniversityAbstractUndergraduate students have been used to help develop the course curriculum in variousInformation Technology courses ranging from beginning digital electronics to networking. Thisdevelopment has taken various forms including directed production of lab modules, production ofsupplemental material, and researching an in-depth subject then teaching it to peers.The

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Blace Albert; Wayne Whiteman

compartmentalization. This paper presents a proposedoutline of an integrated two-semester course sequence in dynamic systems, vibration, and controlat the junior or senior level of the undergraduate experience. Selected topics could also bearranged to provide a one-semester course. Prerequisites for this proposed offering include abasic knowledge of linear algebra and calculus through differential equations, statics, dynamics,mechanics of materials, and basic electrical circuit theory and analysis. A graphical overview, ormind map, of the course is provided along with a detailed description of the various topicscovered and the sequencing of the material.IntroductionThis paper addresses the need for integrating topics within the mechanical

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Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Brumm; Larry F. Hanneman; Brian Steward; Steven Mickelson

in our own Page 8.1247.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”situation, for our own students?” A broad range of educators need to struggle with suchquestions in order to advance an effective critique and continuing development of what to teachand how. As faculty and staff take professional responsibility for student learning, they also takeresponsibility for curriculum. In a curriculum that focuses on student learning outcomes,thinking through the curriculum is a continuing, essential activity, where educators

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Peretti; James Spivey; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

Page 8.744.4Conclusion Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSince appearing in the ABET required competencies several years ago, fragments of teaming, writing, andspeaking education have been distributed, sometimes haphazardly, across the core courses in engineeringdepartments nationwide. Searching for an alternative method of integrating these new competencies, ateam of researchers at North Carolina State University has constructed a junior-level discipline-specificteaming, writing, and speaking (TWS) module and consultation series. Material for this program isavailable on the web: http://www2