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Thomas Mertz

team experience. 5. My previous team experience was of no use to me in this class. 1.54Bibliography[1] ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,Effective for Evaluations During the 2003-2004 Accreditation Cycle, [2] Felder, R. and Brent, R., “Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls and Payoffs,” ERICDocument Reproduction Service Report ED-377038, October 1994, .[3] Felder, R. and Brent, R., “Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering Criteria,” Journalof Engineering Education, January 2003, pp. 7–25.[4] Felder, R. and Brent, R., “Effective Strategies for Cooperative Learning,” Journal of Cooperation

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Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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Jammie Hoskin; Brad Wambeke; Ronald Welch

example of a Page 9.309.1typical student homework problem as well as student assessment data demonstrating the “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference& Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”effectiveness of the methodology in promoting better understanding of: (1) the DirectStiffness Method itself; (2) the relationship between the Direct Stiffness Method andclassical structural analysis techniques like Slope Deflection and Moment Distribution.I. IntroductionAlthough a computer will undoubtedly provide results much faster than performing oneof the

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

fromthe fellows, the teachers, and the fellow’s advisors is evaluated. Results indicate that bothapproaches are effective in improving the fellows’ teaching abilities. There is also someindication that the elementary school-based program may have been slightly more effective.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Information Technology received an award from the NationalScience Foundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program tosupport fellowships and associated training that will enable graduate students in engineering toserve as resources in K-12 schools1. The University of South Carolina is one of over 100institutions funded by NSF through this program. Some of these awards have been described 2-6and have provided

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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Jay Adams; Faramarz Mossayebi

Session # 3432 Hands on Experiments to Instill a Desire to Learn and Appreciate Digital Signal Processing J. Adams and F. Mossayebi Electrical and Computer Engineering Youngstown State UniversityIntroduction The field of digital signal processing (DSP) is rapidly changing as newdevelopment software along with advancements in hardware technologies has enabled theadaptation of these processors in diverse fields. Today DSP processors, specializedsingle board computers that are designed to efficiently handle computationally intensivesignal processing algorithms, can be found in

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Tyson Hall; David Anderson

technology, students can be given the opportunity to design cus-tom hardware implementations [8]. In addition, FPGAs can synthesize microprocessor coresallowing students to investigate the trade–offs between hardware and software implementa-tions. Page 9.908.1 This system provides a purely digital prototyping and testing platform for implementing Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationa wide variety of DSP systems. Field–programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used tosynthesize the DSP hardware, which

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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Timothy Skvarenina

Session 2533 Incorporating ABET “Soft Skills” into Energy Conversion Courses Timothy L. Skvarenina School of Technology, Purdue UniversityAbstractBoth the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the Technology Accreditation Commission(TAC) of ABET have adopted outcome-based evaluation criteria. The EAC began the process withearly visits in 1997. TAC began later with the adoption of its Technology Criteria 2000, or TC2K, andconducted its pilot visits in 2001, with full implementation in 2004. In both

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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Jason Keith

Session 1475Teaching vs. Research: Perspectives from a 4th Year Assistant Professor Jason M. Keith Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThis paper describes the experiences of a chemical engineering assistant professor overthe first four years of his academic career, particularly the balance of teaching, research,service, and outside life. The paper will describe the following topics: ‚" tips for success in the classroom, in the lab, and at home ‚" things that went wrong

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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Richard Felder

. Weimer, J.L. Parrett, and M. Kerns, How am I Teaching? Madison, WI, Magna Publications, 1988. 3. D.P. Hoyt and W.H. Pallett, “Appraising Teaching Effectiveness: Beyond Student Ratings,” IDEA Paper No. 36, Kansas State University Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, , November 1999. 4. National Research Council, Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Washington, DC, National Academies Press, 2003. 5. R.M. Felder and R. Brent, “How to Evaluate Teaching,” Chem. Engr. Education, in press (2004). 6. W.E. Cashin, “Student Ratings of Teaching: The Research Revisited,” IDEA Paper No. 32, Kansas State University Center for Faculty Evaluation and

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Pat Ackerman; Kathy Brockway; Raju Dandu; Pedro Leite; Jimmy Splichal

a five-year agreement to provide after-school seminars for at-risk5th-8th grade students. The overarching objectives of the after-school seminars were to introducethe middle school students to the technology programs offered by the College of Technology andAviation, to provide opportunities for college students and middle school students to interact,and to create a desire for middle school-aged students to further their education after leaving thepublic school system.Faculty from the Department of Engineering Technology; Department of Aviation; and theDepartment of Arts, Sciences, and Business (within the College of Technology and Aviation)voluntarily created nine-week modules built around their interests and specialties. The

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Suryaprasad Jayadevappa; Ravi Shankar

anduse of system level description languages.The technology roadmap from the semiconductor industry and a Dataquest marketanalysis of the EDA (engineering design automation) industry shows that the primarygrowth in the EDA industry will come from ESL (electronic system level) tools. Similarto the digital design tools of the 1990s, the current and future ESL tools will drive the jobmarket in the SoC (system-on-a-chip) domain over the next decade. A major contenderfor a unifying language at this level is SystemC. SystemC is based on the C++ languageand has constructs to support hardware modeling. The language supports multiple levelsof abstraction, a common environment for design and verification, and hardware-softwareco-design. Currently the

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Graduate Student Experiences

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Timothy Hancock; John Norton

program.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Deans Stella Pang and James Bean in the college of engineeringfor their support of the GSM program. In addition, the authors would like to thank JenniferKarlin (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology) and Chris O’Neal (University ofMichigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching) for the hard work they put intoorganizing the program for several semesters and for providing the numerical data presented inthe paper.Bibliography1. Bartlett, T., “The First Thing About Teaching,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 5, Issue 5, September 26, 2003, p. A10.2. Wankat, P. C., “Educating Engineering Professors in Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 88, No. 4, 1999, pp. 471-475.3

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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Phillip Cornwell

of Technology. He received hisPh.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and his present interests include structural dynamics, structural healthmonitoring, and undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Cornwell has received an SAE Ralph R. Teetor Page 9.794.11Educational Award in 1992, and the Dean’s Outstanding Teacher award at Rose-Hulman in 2000. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

U.S. Department of Education grant that supported this work. Dr. Philpot is theauthor of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials.RICHARD H. HALLDr. Richard H. Hall is an Associate Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree inExperimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is co-director of UMR's Laboratory for InformationTechnology Evaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web-based learningtechnologies.RALPH E. FLORIDr. Ralph E. Flori was educated as a petroleum engineer (UM-Rolla Ph.D. ‘87). As an associate professor in theBasic Engineering

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 586 -- 591, June 1991. Page 9.1330.7RANDY P. BROUSSARDRandy P. Broussard received a BS in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 1986, an MS incomputer engineering from Florida Institute of Technology in 1991, and a PhD in electrical engineering fromthe Air Force Institute of Technology in 1997. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department ofSystems Engineering at the United States Naval Academy where he teaches computer engineering, computervision, and control systems. His research includes the areas of automatic target recognition, neural networks,computer

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Course Development and Services

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Marc Hoit

Session 2158 Sur vey Builder : A Tool to Suppor t Assessment Mar c Hoit 1, Rick Sayer s2, Bill Lewis2, Akhil Kar ker a 2, Nar en Kamat 2 1 -Associate Dean, College of Engineer ing, Academic Affair s/ 2 -Car eer Resour ce Center Univer sity of Flor ida, Gainesville, FLAssessment is a critical component of all educational programs. The need to develop andadminister surveys to a wide variety of audiences is one of the standard techniques used in allassessment programs. One of the major

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Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

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Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

Engineering Educator in 2003. He is the author orcoauthor on more than twenty-five journal articles or technical publications.Lori Mann Bruce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MississippiState University, where she is also affiliated with the Remote Sensing Technology Center and Geospatial ResourcesInstitute. Dr. Bruce is a senior member of IEEE, as well as a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, andTau Beta Pi. Page 9.900.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American

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IS and IT Education

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Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

perspective.In the 2002-2003 academic year, the School of Information Technology and Engineering atGeorge Mason University (GMU) launched an undergraduate bachelor’s degree in InformationTechnology (BSIT). This degree program, headed by an Assistant Dean, is already showinggreat promise, enrolling over 600 students. The challenge to produce security engineers in anundergraduate program further motivated GMU to incorporate a comprehensive securitycurriculum through new IT Security courses into its BS program especially in the Security andNetworking concentration (80% of students in the BSIT have formally declared for this option asof fall 2003). Since the Virginia Community College System already had a Network Securitycertificate program in place for

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ERM Potpourri

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Glenn Ellis; Baaba Andam

fairs.DISCUSSIONAlthough this paper describes how the curriculum can be implemented as a full-year course, theunits and activities are modular and can thus be used in a variety of classroom settings. Forexample, a course in robotics could include the machine consciousness unit. In Andam et al.11we describe how elements of the Turing test curriculum were used in a workshop to help preparepre-service middle and high school teachers to integrate technology and engineering into theirfuture classrooms. The workshop was required of all Smith College education graduate studentsand thus was populated by students with varying content specializations. In the workshop thestudents first worked through the Turing test activities themselves, and then they used theactivities to

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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Michael Kozak

equation in the spreadsheets. The spreadsheet was created duringa two hour lab session with all lab students present and working together to foster the ability towork in a team. Each student was required to understand how their portion related to the otherstudents’ work. This further enhanced this team building exercise. The spreadsheetdevelopment also helped fulfill a requirement to use computer skills as a component of the class.The lab was comprised of sophomore mechanical engineering technology students.Introduction The author had developed a lab for a sophomore level class involving heat transfer. Thelab analysis was fairly complex and involved thirteen steps and calculations. Students wereusually able to perform the analysis by

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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Gary Boucher; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

School of Computer Science and Louisiana State University in Engineering Shreveport Utah Valley State College Shreveport, LA 71115 Orem, Utah 84058Abstract Since our schools do not offer an engineering program, we teach robotic technology withinour computer science curriculum. In the process of teaching robotics technology to students at agraduate or undergraduate level, it becomes necessary to synchronize more than one robotic armfor the purpose of demonstrating the interaction between robots commonly found in industrialsettings. There are several approaches to doing this. The simplest approach is to connect the

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

Alberta in 2001 after receiving his Ph.D. fromMichigan Technological University and Bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota (Duluth). His teachingactivities currently include thermodynamics, heat transfer, and reactor design and kinetics.SUZANNE M. KRESTA is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Universityof Alberta. She joined the faculty in 1992, has won several teaching awards, served as Associate Chair (ChemicalEngineering) and Associate Chair (Graduate), and developed the New Faculty Forums program. Her teachinginterests include fluid mechanics, mixing, process analysis, and design

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

Java applet technology to create a GUI that runs on a remoteweb-client PC. This GUI allows remote clients using any Java compatible web browser tointeract with our experimental test-bed. The GUI consists of a Java applet, which incorporatesthe functionality of three applet libraries. The first applet library provides functionality for a Page 9.799.12horizontal slider bar. This object is dragged left or right to command the DC motor angular “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”position between

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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James Zhang

Session 2548 A Systems Approach to Teaching “Introduction to Electronic Communications” for ECET Students James Z. Zhang, Kenneth Burbank, Robert Adams Department of Engineering Technology, Western Carolina University Abstract Traditional electronic communications course in ECET covers a wide range of topics incommunications theory, with the focus on different modulation schemes and the respectivereceivers’ baseband structures and performances. However, it is often found that students donot necessarily grasp the essence of a communications system from a

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Julia Morse; Jung Oh

portfolios. Recent searches for faculty in engineering technology and mathematicspositions at Kansas State University yielded few applications which incorporated evidences ofteaching performance beyond statements of classes taught and possibly statements of teachingphilosophy.Lack of historical use and examples of teaching portfolios has been partially responsible for alack of adoption. Others resist consideration of a practice which seems to be yet anotherpaperwork burden. However, the teaching portfolio should not be viewed as a rigid documentrequirement, but rather as a flexible opportunity for summarizing and documenting teachingeither for performance evaluation or for teaching improvement. Material and structure can beselectively adapted and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Paul Hallacher

, optoelectronics, and others. Second are industries that have been newly createdby this technology, such the MEMs, NEMs, nanobiotechnology, and nanoelectronicsstart-ups. A third driving sector is composed of existing major industries that previouslyhave never used micro- and nanotechnology but are now actively embracing it (Siegel,1999). Among these are giants such as the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, andeven more traditional industries like clay and glass. Workers with skills in micro- and nanofabrication are needed at all levels. At themore advanced levels (engineers and above), workers are needed with specialized skills.At the technician level, however, where the majority of new nanofabrication jobs will be,a generic skill set is

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

) and the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the AccreditationBoard of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) [1,2]. Designing curricula and courses thatutilize these modern tools without short-changing coverage of classical engineering theory canbe a delicate balance. Consider the use of finite element analysis (FEA) software. In the1970’s and early 1980’s, most courses in FEA courses were taught at the graduate level, withheavy emphasis on theory. Later in the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, FEA classes were added atthe undergraduate level, as use of the tool became more widespread in industry. Becausecommercial FEA programs were complex to learn and use, it was difficult to combine significanttheory with instruction in how to use a

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Kris G. Mattila; Dennis Johnson

Otter River Partnership and Project Kris G. Mattila 1, and Dennis Johnson 21 Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University,Houghton, Michigan 49931; PH (906) 487-2523; mattila@mtu.edu2 Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Studies, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA16652, JOHNSON@juniata.eduAbstract In 1999, an unusual partnership approach to river rehabilitation was instituted onMichigan’s Otter River. Three organizations: the Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps, theMichigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan Technological University cametogether to work jointly on improving the Otter River’s fish habitat and reducing sediment

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Charles McIntyre; Hung Nguyen

Senior Design Project Delivery via Student Generated Web Sites - "Lessons Learned" Charles McIntyre and Hung Nguyen North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format (CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineering andconstruction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. In order toprovide students with the “real world” experience

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

undergraduate engineers to design thecomplex circuits that will ultimately be a part of smart communications systems on a single chip.These new technologies are also excellent motivational tools to help students put theoreticalconcepts into a current context. This is especially true in required undergraduate courses likeelectromagnetics (EM) that are heavily mathematics based.The integration of contemporary topics into EM courses is fundamentally different than the useof multimedia assets that help students visualize EM concepts that are quite mathematicallycomplex [1-3]. Contemporary topics that faculty introduce are frequently based on theirresearch or consulting activities. Increasingly, undergraduate students are involved in researchunder the

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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Martha Garcia-Saenz

Finance”. Irwin, Chicago.2 De Neufville, R. Applied Systems Analysis: Engineering Planning and Technology Management, 1990. Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Company, US.3 Black F. and M. Sholes “The pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities” Journal of Political Economy,1973.Vol. 81, May-Jun pp. 637-54.4 Trigeorgis, L. “Real Options: Managerial Flexibility and Strategy in resource Allocation” 1998 MITPress,.Cambridge, MA5 Samuelson, P. “Rational Theory of Warrant Price”. Industrial Management Review. 1967 6:13,19676 Copeland, T. and V. Antikarov “Real Options: Apractitioner’s Guide”, 2001.Texere, New York, NY. Page 9.214.13