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Alamgir Choudhury

process control.Realizing these objectives with the constraints involving student background, availabletime and facility is quite challenging. To achieve similar objectives in instrumentationarea, some institutions break up topics in series of course [4]. Considering allconstraints, at CCC, student diversity was found to be most challenging for thiscurriculum development.Modular curriculum and flexibility in class and laboratory exercises within the broad Page 5.368.3scope of the program objective accommodates well with a diverse student body. Thisadjustment in teaching can be implemented using student background data prior tobeginning of semester during

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Jeffrey B. Hargrove

MechatronicsLaboratory”, was submitted in 1996 and accepted for funding in June 1997. With the financialsupport of NSF, matched by Kettering University, two laboratories were developed: the“Mechatronics Laboratory – Hardware and Software Development Center” and the“Mechatronics Laboratory – Prototype Development Center”. Both of these labs were designedto function in ways to support the needs of students in the new mechatronics courses.The Hardware and Software Development Center serves to provide students with individual labstations for developing the electronics and controls of mechatronic devices. Laboratoryexperiences that are designed to teach students how to interface sensors and actuators tomicrocontrollers, and then further program the microcontroller

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W.D. Jemison; W. R. Haller; W. A. Hornfeck

experience with this printed circuitboard milling machine. Specifically, the paper will describe how the machine is beingused in a number of courses ranging from our first-year Introduction to Engineeringcourse, through sophomore and junior year laboratory projects, to our capstone seniordesign course. The integrated design process used by our students to design printedcircuit boards will be described and several representative designs will be discussed todemonstrate the level of design complexity that can be achieved using this technology.Finally, some initial assessment data regarding student reaction to the PCB millingmachine is provided.I. IntroductionVirtually all fundamental phenomena associated with the Electrical and ComputerEngineering

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Bernard Hoop; Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

classes were recently involved in the redesign of a university laboratory site tofulfill the requirements of an architectural based design project. This project is a workingexample of how an interdisciplinary relationship between the Physics Department and the Schoolof Engineering Technology provided an ideal opportunity to support the practical goals of boththe ACE (Academic Common Experience) and the industrial format. To provide real-lifeexperience, students benefited from visits to the site of the proposed physics laboratory and apresentation by the laboratory director. Following the industrial model, student developedpreliminary design drawings based on the architect’s existing multi-layered AutoCAD workingdrawings. These preliminary

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Augustus K. Uht

this by teaching students to make key hardware/software tradeoff designdecisions. This is achieved with the following ICED components: 1) a 2-3 year long projectspanning six or more hardware and software courses; 2) required coursework including advancedsoftware topics such as compiler design, as well as a full slate of hardware courses; 3) the use ofmodern commercial EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools2; and 4) custom hardware3 andsoftware to enhance the laboratory experience of the students. Page 5.654.1ICED was begun in 1997 with funding from the National Science Foundation. In 1999 furtherfunding was obtained from the Champlin

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Thomas Lombardo; Stephen R. Fleeman

admonish proponents with, "Youcan’t do labs, so it can’t be done". The authors, both practicing engineers in addition to servingas educators, would prefer to take a more open-minded view. Applying DE to a laboratory-based curriculum is challenging, but this is certainly not the first obstacle EET educators haveever faced. The authors envision a "hybrid" delivery method, where the lecture material iscompleted online, and the lab work is still done in the laboratory. (The intent here is to addressthe needs of the time-bound student rather than the place-bound student.)In this paper, we will explore the EET curriculum with respect to the national skill standards1developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)2. Each skill standard will be given

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Lisa A. Haston; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

requires cooperation and coordination with the faculty members teaching these other courses.• One way to increase the value of service courses is to have the department chairs and senior faculty members take turns teaching the course. Page 5.435.10• Support staff are crucial to reforming service courses. Laboratory technicians must coordinate their lab experiments with lectures. Time must be given to train teaching assistants in the manner the instructor desires.• Appointing a team of faculty to take charge of a service course is more likely to lead to institutionalized reforms than assigning a single faculty member to the task. However, this

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Winston F. Erevelles

the original project definition. Working in 4 teams - each of whichhad 2-3 students at its core, this diverse body of students was completely responsible for alltechnical aspects of the project, communications, project management, teamwork/conflictresolution, and procurement issues.What was noteworthy about this approach was the iterative nature of taught theory, library andvendor research, laboratory experimentation for the feasibility of ideas, and the ultimateimplementation in the project. The delivery of the course in the project format placedsignificant demands on all concerned (students and faculty) in terms of the time and effortnecessary to participate or teach in an effective manner. However student evaluations andcomments made

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Zenaida Otero Keil; Robert P. Hesketh

. Thetheoretical presentations combined with examples and class problem-solving andillustrative laboratory experiences made this a positive and enjoyable course for studentsand the instructor. The course is a good vehicle for attracting new students to chemicalengineering graduate programs, providing a service course to the University, andproviding a team-teaching opportunity between chemistry and chemical engineeringdepartments. Page 5.130.4

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Rebecca K. Toghiani; Donald O. Hill; Craig Wierenga; Hossein Toghiani

point for the secondarycontroller is computed using the 0-100 % output from the primary controller and a scaled linearequation relating these two quantities. This linear equation must also be determined byexperiment. Tuning of the response from the cascade controller requires tuning of each loop.The secondary control loop is tuned first, operating in local mode, and then the primary controlloop is tuned with the inner loop operating in remote mode. Once tuning is completed, students Page 5.276.5examine the response of the system to changes in set-point and in load.Conclusions The establishment of a teaching laboratory focused on process

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James C. Hermanson; David J. Olinger

experimental lab prior to class, and wheeledinto a demonstration-teaching area at the front of the lecture hall for use in integrated classexercises during class. A video camera is also provided in the multi-media lecture hall so that thereal-time demonstrations can be projected onto the large video screen for better viewing bystudents. The experimental laboratory contains the same utilities as the multi-media lecture hall,allowing for laboratory sessions by students on the same experimental apparatus outside of class.The in-class demonstrations are one way to help fill the gap between teaching resources andspecific learning needs.9 Experiments are conducted both to illustrate important concepts in thecourse, and to make the most effective use of one

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Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

relate the physics of a problem to the analytical tools used to develop engineering solutions than when the majority of the students were “tinkers.”• Laboratory content, which demonstrates physical principles, of most curricula has diminished or been eliminated.• Students’ ability to synthesize information from different courses or fields is weak.• Interest in thermal/fluid systems has diminished.• Many universities are seeking to improve the overall learning environment for their students and to use faculty time more efficiently.One approach at Rensselaer to reinvigorate the teaching of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, andheat transfer has been to rethink completely what we wish to achieve with these courses and, fromthis

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S P Maj; D Veal

-196, (1992).11. R. A. Pilgrim, Design and construction of the very simple computer (VSC): a laboratory project forundergraduate computer architecture courses, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 25, 151-154, (1993).12. B. C. Parker and P. G. Drexel, A System-Based Sequence of Closed Labs for Computer SystemsOrganization, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 28, 53-57, (1996).13. P. S. Coe, L. M. Williams, and R. N. Ibbett, An Interactive Environment for the Teaching of ComputerArchitecture,” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 28, 33-35, (1996).14. B. L. Barnett III, A Visual Simulator for a Simple Machine and Assembly Language, ACM SIGCSEBulletin, vol. 27, 233-237, (1995).15. D. Finkel and S. Chandra, NetCp - A Project Environment for an Undergraduate Computer Networks

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Frances S. Johnson; Carlos C. Sun; Anthony J. Marchese; Heidi L. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Roberta Harvey; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

Across the Curriculum (WAC) program was being developed in order toformalize writing instruction in the disciplines and move it beyond the traditionalcomposition courses. This particular writing consultant arrangement had, however, beendeveloped independently by the chemical engineering department and had in fact been inplace since the 1960s. Under this arrangement, a writing consultant from the Englishdepartment--usually a graduate teaching assistant--was hired to assist with grading reportsand tutoring students for the junior-level laboratory course. The English teacher wasoriginally called an "English grader" and was asked to assign a partial grade to each reportbased on its grammatical and mechanical correctness. More recently, the English

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Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

Session 3575 New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith Purdue UniversityAbstractThree new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry toacademia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and thebalancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrialexperiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentationsto academic teaching

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Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

developed, as per ABET 2000 criteria number 3, and theassessment strategy to evaluate student performance. Teaching and learning activities aredesigned to provide the student with the content knowledge as well the opportunities to developthe proposed skills. Therefore, traditional lectures are complemented with in-classdemonstrations, laboratory experiences, consultations, field trips, and oral presentations andwritten reports. Students will be required to work in teams in projects and other activities. Alearning style profile on the student population will be used in designing course activities topromote learning. In addition, a portfolio will be used to document the student learning process.PaSCoR faculty have been exposed to this new ABET 2000

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Kevin M. Nickels

Session 2793 Do’s and Don’ts of Introducing Active Learning Techniques Kevin Nickels Trinity UniversityAbstractEach year at ASEE we hear of all sorts of wonderful active learning techniques that engineeringeducators are using to involve their students in the classroom. This paper relates the experiencesof one new engineering educator in trying out some active learning techniques in his classroom. As with other teaching techniques, instructors must carefully evaluate active learning tech-niques not only for pedagogic soundness but also for fit with their

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Oguz A. Soysal

Demonstrations 0% 44%Figure 2 Survey results.The survey clearly shows that the majority of engineering and physics students feel that theylearn better by laboratory experiments. They generally prefer classroom activities such as livedemonstrations, discussions, and team works to slide-shows, passive lectures, and readingassignments.Word-processing and computer based presentation tools have significantly changed classicalteaching tools. It is now much easier to prepare extensive written documents to hand out, and usecolorful and animated slide presentations instead of the conventional blackboard "chalk-and-talk" style teaching. Furthermore, many instructors prepare web

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Patricia B Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

establishment in 1997, we have focused onmodifying components of a nationally recognized teaching development program, the College ofEngineering TA Development Program, to strengthen a younger program, UndergraduateCooperative Learning Facilitator Training.Since its inception in 1987, the College of Engineering’s TA Development Program has evolvedinto a mandatory, interactive training program. New graduate engineering teaching assistantsare led by their more experienced peers, TA Fellows. The corresponding undergraduate programbegan in 1993 and focused on cooperative learning in math, physics, chemistry and engineeringdesign. Trained undergraduate facilitators teach their peers in small team-based workshops. Tostreamline and augment training of both

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

Page 5.713.1testing numerous prototypes at various stages of the engineering design. There is growing demandfor engineers trained in this area, as many companies engaged in metal forming research are turningtowards virtual forming. Kettering University recently funded a grant proposal to procure ahydraulic press that has adaptive controls allowing experiments in non-circular forming andparametric studies that will facilitate the creation of real forming models for subsequent simulation.Another grant proposal is in preparation stage requesting funds to procure a dedicated high-speedcomputer server and terminals to support the virtual forming laboratory. As mentioned before, theobjective of this paper is to share ideas on the philosophy of

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Jerome Tapper

will have no reasonnot to want to donate to you. The big moment has now arrived. Tell them that in addition to yourconsulting work, you teach at XYX college and are starting a new and innovative laboratory inthe area of “name your lab’s area”. This laboratory will use state-of-the-art equipment such asthe type that this company manufactures. Explain that you are currently partnering with industryto build this laboratory and have been considerably successful with other similar companies thusfar.You must now demonstrate great excitement about the prospect of using equipment from thisvendor’s company. You must then explain how a donation will benefit their company. This isthe most important part of your dialog, since now that this company

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

effective teaching of membrane processes is an important issue to be addressed by theacademic community. Leading-edge industries are using membrane technology for new gains.Educational initiatives are crucial to the continued technical growth and wide-scale commercializationof membrane processes. This project seeks an innovative use of membrane technology, building on thepioneering work of the lead author, who developed membrane experiments in a conventional chemicalengineering laboratory setting [Sla94, Sla93, Sla92, Sla89, Sla87]. At Rowan University, the co-PI’swill integrate membrane technology throughout the engineering curriculum and involve student teamsin a unique multidisciplinary laboratory project experience – the clinics. Background

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Shahnam Navaee

Engineering in collaboration with Armstrong Atlantic State University, GeorgiaSouthern University, and Savannah State University. In the summer of 1999 with the fundsfrom Georgia Tech, the computer laboratories and teachable lecture room facilities at GeorgiaSouthern University were updated and equipped with computer projection systems, Elmo units,SMART BOARDS and other instructional technology equipment to meet the demands of theGTREP program. The paper presented discusses the methodologies currently utilized in theseimproved facilities to enhance the teaching effectiveness of the instructors and the coursecomprehension of the students.During the fall semester of 1999, these methodologies were employed to provide instructions fora total of about two

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Patrick A. Tebbe; Christa Weisbrook

new educationalsoftware for use in thermodynamics and fluid-related disciplines. In the past, educationalsoftware has been created for use as teaching aids, design tools, and even electronic textbooks.Where this project differs is in its emphasis on integration into the existing thermodynamicscurriculum while simultaneously allowing improvement in teaching methods. Factorsinfluencing the improvement of any course include a clear determination of course objectivesand evaluative procedures. Comparison of the teaching and learning styles is another factor.Research shows that traditional teaching methods for thermodynamics leave gaps in theeducational landscape. Whereas some software is designed independent of theseconsiderations, the goal of

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Ralph Carestia; J. Robert Burger; Doug Lynn

Graduate and Professional Programs (An Overview 2000) obtained entries from 127institutions, each advertising their graduate programs in the area of Computer Engineering.Within this category, only 23% offer a master’s as their highest available degree. Of these, mere 1,2handfuls offer the Master of Science degree pertaining to Computer Engineering Technology .Why so few?It is partly because teaching is very different from research. Many believe that the quality of 3research is a standard indicator of the quality of a graduate school . In other words, under thisapproach, if you want quality

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

Jordan) have been significantly involved in this process. This effort has beenrecognized through recent funding of a state equipment grant for an instructional laboratory anda large grant of over $600,000 from NSF for institutionalizing our reform efforts in the COES.The education faculty assists the collaboration by combining the strength of their knowledge ofthe teaching/learning process with the COES’s "hands-on" approach to teaching engineeringscience principles. Our course brings a tremendous opportunity for secondary and elementaryeducation majors to see science "jump from the page" through challenges to their priorconceptions, interactive discovery of new ideas, and a synthesis of a stronger foundation ofknowledge.V. AssessmentOne

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Raul Ordonez; Harriet Benavidez; Anthony J. Marchese; James A. Newell; John L. Schmalzel; Beena Sukumaran; Ravi Ramachandran; Julie Haynes

laboratory experiments, realworld design projects and research. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency inthe technical principles, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communicationskills and the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. In the sophomore year,communication (written and oral) and design (semester long multidisciplinary design project) areintegrated. The course is team-taught by faculty from the College of Communication and theCollege of Engineering. Students pick one of two design projects. The first is to design and build aguitar effects pedal. The second involves an economic and engineering analysis of the design andoperation of a baseball stadium.Introduction In 1992

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Lloyd Barrett; Edward Young; David E. Klett; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

. It shouldbe noted that these are nascent programs at these three institutions. Prior to 1998 and theinception of ICAR, none of the three schools offered motorsports courses or laboratories otherthan participation in the SAE sponsored vehicle design competitions including Mini Baja andFormula SAE.II. The University of Virginia Motorsports Engineering ProgramII.1. OverviewThe University of Virginia started its motorsports engineering program in the spring of 1998.The primary goals of the program are to provide a forum to teach engineering fundamentals; Page 5.369.1to provide a focus area for technical elective courses; to increase the range of

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Gerard N. Foster

. Pp.742.2. Horton, I. (1999). Beginning Java 2. Birmingham, UK: Wrox Press. Pp. 1110.3. Van der Linden, P. (1999). Just Java 2. Palo Alto, CA: Sun Microsystems Press. Pp. 775.GERARD N. FOSTERGerard (Jerry) Foster is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Purdue University, School ofTechnology at Kokomo, Indiana. He supervises and teaches the digital, microcontroller and digital signalprocessing sequence of courses. His other interests are in the areas of design, laboratory projects, multimedia, C++and Java. Professor Foster is current chairman of the Information Systems Division. Page 5.217.7

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Steven Mickelson

Session 2608 Retention of Freshman Agricultural Engineering Students Through an Experiential Lab Course Steven K. Mickelson Iowa State UniversityAbstractRetention of freshman agricultural engineering (AE) students has been a struggle at Iowa StateUniversity (ISU) in past years. This has been attributed to the lack of interaction of the freshmenstudents with faculty, upperclassmen in AE, and meaningful exposure to the field of AE duringtheir first two semesters. A laboratory-based, team orientated, and hands-on course wasdeveloped to help address