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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

• The MOS transistor with considerations for short channel devices, secondary effects such as mobility saturation with the electric field and degradation with the temperatures, hot electrons, electromigration, and aluminum spikes.• Simple logic circuits with CMOS technology with the use of Pspice simulation to study the circuit performance.• Introduction to IC fabrication, layout and design rules.• Use of L-Edit on PCs, and Mentor Graphics on HP/Sparc workstations• Project. A typical project is an 8-bit shift register in a 40 pin package.Part II: Printed Circuit Board AssembliesThe basic challenge in the remaining 10 weeks of the course is to teach students enough aboutmanufacturing technology, circuit board layout

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Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

the freshman andsophomore levels stress teamwork, implementation of engineering principles into practice, oralcommunication, and written communication [1][2]. In the freshman year, the theme of the fallsemester is measurements [3], while the theme of the spring semester is competitive assessment(the topic of this paper). Comprehensive one semester and two semester projects at the juniorand senior levels (more discipline specific) give the students exposure to the nature of scientificresearch and provide the initial maturity to appreciate how research is carried out. Althoughmany schools have recognized the need to integrate design into the freshman year [4][5], mosttraditional programs offer only a senior capstone design course and ignore the

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Brian K. Jennison; Glenn S. Kohne

capstone design coursedo students attempt to combine materials treated in diverse courses in a coherent manner to solve asignificant design problem. This paper describes a two-semester senior-level ElectricalEngineering course in communication electronics that combines a systems-level treatment ofcommunications theory with practical electronic circuit implementations of these systems. Whilemost Electrical Engineering programs have courses in electronics as well as a course incommunications theory, seldom are the two subjects jointly treated. The electronics coursestypically describe the construction and behavior of amplifiers, filters, and oscillators but littleattention is given to realistic applications of these devices. Similarly, a typical

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

in the Portlandmetropolitan area. Companies in this sector have been at the forefront of incorporating qualitymanagement principles in their organizations and many are active participants on the MECOPboard. These organizations have been a tremendous resource in providing guest lecturers and awide array of complex, real-world student projects. Local experts have taught key sections in ourelectronics manufacturing, facilities and project management courses and have assisted studentsin the development of meaningful capstone design projects. Through all of this, IME faculty andstudents obtain valuable exposure to industrial practice.Faculty Receptive to Ideas While necessary and valuable, exposure to new ideas is not enough. An

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Gary Grossman; Steve Wells; Michihiro Nishi

committees atODU and KIT working together, the primary effort coming from ODU. It was decided to holdthe design competition over a five week period in July and August when students from bothinstitutions were between semesters. It was also decided that there would be four teams, eachwith one Japanese engineering student and one ODU engineering student, each student beingselected by his or her institution. Each team would have one student with an electricalbackground and one with a mechanical background. The design competition would not be a“heads on” vehicle competition, but would involve an electro-mechanical design project that theteams could design and build in five weeks and have their solutions judged. It was also felt thatthe design of

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Maurice Bluestein

Session 3548 A New Air Conditioning Trainer for a Technology Laboratory Maurice Bluestein Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractThis paper describes the features and usage of a self-contained mobile air conditioning trainer. Thisdevice resulted from a senior project carried out in the Mechanical Engineering Technologydepartment at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Two students created thespecifications and experiments for the equipment which was fabricated at the Carrier Corporationin Indianapolis, Indiana. The trainer includes a condenser, evaporator

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Rama K. Vedachalam; George L. Engel

and not necessary for inclusion in an introductory course onVLSI. The capstone exercise of the course was a team-based design project which will bediscussed in a later section of this paper.III. Laboratory ExercisesDuring the first three weeks of lab, students were given a tutorial describing how to use MentorGraphics' Design Architect (DA) for schematic entry, Quicksim for functional simulation, andAccusim for electrical simulation of a 2-input NAND gate. They were then asked to design a 3-input NOR gate by themselves and to simulate the design. This presented little problems for themajority of students since they were familiar with DA, Quicksim, and Accusim from previouscourses and only had to deal with the fact that they were now working

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Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

training in Section III. Thequestionnaires and dialogues are described in Section IV, as well as the team ground rules thatevolve from the dialogues. The role and impact of the dialogues in the team building training arediscussed in Section V, followed by the summary.II. Overview of the Projects LaboratoryThe Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory is a required capstone subject taken by juniors andseniors who work in teams and gain hands-on experience in experiments that integrate materialfrom their earlier subjects. The structure of the course is summarized in Figure 1. Each teamworks on a single, real-world problem (sponsored by an industrial company) with the help of an

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Philip Doepker

in the profession. The measurement criteria forinput from the industrial advisory committee proves to be somewhat elusive. Should themeasurement criteria state that 60% of the committee should agree with…? Up until now itremains without a quantitative measure and only identifies that the industrial advisory committeewill agree that…In the mechanical design laboratory (capstone course) students are required to provide oral aswell as written presentations. A survey of the corporate sponsors provides feedback indicatingthat the goals of the project were met or nearly met. The appropriateness of the oral and writtenreports when compared to industry standards is also determined. Continuous communicationbetween student teams and industry mentors

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Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

airplane, a model train anda wind tunnel make heavy use of data-acquisition systems, programs written and developed inLabVIEW and MATLAB, and modern communication protocols such as RS485. The entireinterface is through virtual instrumentation, and the lab is also being given the capability of remoteaccess to the students. There are other indirect advantages of this approach in terms of financialeconomy and faculty professional development. This project has been funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) and has resulted in the development of the Integrated SystemsEngineering Laboratory (ISEL) that houses vertically integrated laboratory exercises for twelvecourses from three different curricula.1. IntroductionMost universities have limited

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Thomas Zickel; Russell A. Aubrey

currently in use. The first is a three-stage transistor amplifier circuit with movable jumpersto configure it into different circuits. The second is a two stage Op-Amp board that allowsstandard components to be easily configured into Op-Amp circuits for use in the laboratory.These instructional tools provide an opportunity to introduce graphical problem-solvingtechniques and team concepts into practical student laboratory experiencesThis paper describes the circuit boards, the methodology involved in their design and adescription of the layout and construction. Laboratory problem solving applications andsimulation projects based on these boards are described, and laboratory scenarios are presented.IntroductionElectronic troubleshooting is a skill

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Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

be available. These methods allow us to probe into areasand tease out problems that may exist and may help to define a problem for future quantitativestudy. They also allow us to understand why projects succeed or fail in certain environments. Inthis paper we offer a model that uses qualitative assessment techniques to support the Checkstage of the PDCA model in a program with undergraduate engineering curriculum renewal as itsgoal. This 10-step process includes site visits, participant review, and an ongoing formalfeedback process about improvements that can be made based on the collected data. The modelis intended to provide a framework to others who may be in a position to evaluate a group ofprograms such as a coalition of institutions or

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1999 Annual Conference

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

be carried out. There is not a single “right answer” that will serve all organizations, butthere may be a “best answer” for a particular organization. For example, some may choose touse the capstone design process as their primary focus of their assessment process, while othersmay use the Fundamentals of Engineering examination, an in-house developed comprehensiveexamination, a set of core courses, or a portfolio of artifacts. The complexity caused by thisrange of choices is compounded by the multiplicity of ways of judging the artifacts, which mayrange from objective scoring schemes to subjective scoring schemes such as rubrics. Thedevelopment of scoring rubrics can also compound the complexity because of the possibility ofusing holistic

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Howard I. Epstein

increasingly forced into satisfying certain ABETcategories. For instance, many schools, under ABET scrutiny, were shown to be lacking inengineering design credits. Most institutions, so identified, changed their programs byeliminating free electives in favor of electives or required courses having design content. Manyschools added a capstone design course.Simultaneously, internal pressure was often exerted from the rest of the university on theengineering curriculum. The national thinking in education, at all levels, was moving toward Page 4.450.2ever-increasing core requirements in response to, "why isn't Johnny learning ________ (fill inthe blank)?" At

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W.V. Wilding; J.N. Harb; Ronald E. Terry; W.C. Hecker

curriculumEnvironmental 1 ChE 170: Introduction; Yes B Grade in courselaws & ChE 451: Formal instruction Yes AregulationsCapstone design 2 ChE 451: Design project Yes C Grade on projectwith safety/environmentalconsiderationsThe information summarized in Table 4 for Attribute 7 is the result of much discussion and Page 4.379.8several iterations. Note that a mastery level of 3 was assigned for HAZCOM training, meaningthat our students will be required to pass the HAZCOM test as a condition for graduation.HAZCOM training has not been generally required of our students to

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John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

of teachers’ and curriculum designers’ failure to involve students inscholary projects “that would allow them to act as though they were colleagues.” 3 He notes that“much of the written work students do is test-taking, report or summary…” The class requiresthe students to utilize the services provided by the University’s Writing Center for the firstexperiment; students that demonstrate a real writing deficiency are sent there more oftenIn aneffort to produce professional quality reports, students are required to use the word processing,graphical presentation, and spreadsheet skills developed in a prerequisite course. Even thoughthey have obtained the necessary theoretical, computational, and presentational tools fromprevious courses, this is

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Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

Page 4.50.4extensive technical knowledge into a capstone design project. In terms of student learningoutcomes, how does faculty define appropriate levels of mastery from lower to upper divisioncurricula? At the program level, the curriculum will truly become integrated as a result offocusing on student learning outcomes. For example, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology,the departmental faculty were asked to review ABET-related learning outcomes and prioritizethem across the curriculum [21]. The result clearly demonstrated that the conceptualization ofspecific learning outcomes changed over the course of the curriculum.The focus on learning outcomes reinforces the need for cross-discipline and cross-institutionalcollaboration. Not only

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Robert Borchert; David Yates; Daniel Jensen

ensure accuracy ofthis particular result.Overall, we believe that the project provided a solid foundation in terms of development ofcontent and assessment strategies. Significantly more work needs to be done in order to obtainmodules and assessment results which have been definitively shown to enhance studentslearning. Continuation of this work is planned. Others are welcome to use our modules orassessment results in any way they feel is appropriate. To obtain these resources, simply contactone of the authors. Page 4.186.18This work has been partly sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and by NSFunder contract DUE-9751315