Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

adding any additional courses to expand coverage of the BOKvery difficult. The West Point paradox is that while this broad-based curriculum probably makesUSMA more compliant with the BOK, the inflexibility of the core curriculum and the paucity ofcourses allocated to the major will make any necessary changes more difficult to implement.V. How USMA is the Same… and DifferentIn many respects, the USMA CE curriculum is indistinguishable from any other school in thecountry. Students start with the standard regimen of calculus-based math (four semesters),chemistry (two semesters) and physics (two semesters). Basic engineering theory is providedthrough Statics, Dynamics, Fluids, and Mechanics of Materials. The program requires coursesand a laboratory

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

member who is an engineering educator, the “home time” willexperience some intrusion. When that household has two engineering educators, the family willhave to make frequent adjustments and “home time” will be under full-fledged assault. Whenthat household has two engineering educators in the same department, personal time is oftenoverwhelmed by the professional. Make that two “new” engineering educators in the samedepartment. “Help us, Kemo Sabe”. The problem is not that two educators in the samedepartment work more or harder. The problem is that both careers and their associated issues areso intertwined, it is hard to “get away from work”. Two research programs. Two sets ofgraduate students. Two laboratories. And often one name. “Why are there

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shauna Rae

Design. McGraw-Hill. 2000. 3. Chang, M. “Teaching top-down design using VHDL and CPLD.” Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference. 1996. 4. Chu, P.P. “A Small, Effective VHDL Subset for the Digital Systems Course.” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2004. 5. Electronics Workbench. www.electronicsworkbench.com. 6. Floyd, T.L. Digital Fundamentals with VHDL. Pearson Education. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 2003. 7. Fucik, O., Wilamowski, B. M. and McKenna, M. “Laboratory for the Introductory Digital Course,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. 2000. 8. Greco, J. “Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in Digital

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

design experience ofbuilding an autonomous robot proved successful in the first version of the course, wefound that the time and frustration involved in programming autonomous robotsprevented students from being exposed to a wider array of engineering problems andskills. Through the development of wireless communication and tele-operationlaboratory modules, we hope to shift the focus away from the programming complexitiesinvolved in an autonomous robot competition and towards the robotic system itself,allowing students to more fundamentally explore both component and system issues. Atthe component level, students in the second course are more substantively exposed toelectronics and modeling while the coupling of the new laboratory modules with

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

Design Projectsand Laboratory Exercises To Increase Retention”, Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition,Salt Lake City, Utah3. Mountain, Jeffery R., “Method and Experimental Based Design: An approach to Freshman And SophomoreEngineering Design Projects”, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NewMexico.4. Anneburg, Lisa, Roger Ferguson, “Freshman Engineering Course Utilizing a 3 D Modeling Tool”, Proceedings ofthe 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico.5. Zang, Paul H., Dale Eddy, and Judson Singer, “Implementing 3-D Modeling for Engineering Freshman”,Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.6. Tromans, G. P., Workshop: “Rapid

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

Fall 2003, students enrolled in ENGR 101, “Introduction to Engineering & Technology,”designed and built instructional devices to support hands-on learning of electromagnetism atWoodward Elementary School. ENGR 101 students initially engaged in laboratory exploratory“play” to learn about the electromagnetic phenomena. They then performed a web-basedliterature search to identify a design team’s top three choices of activities for a design project andthe associated science benchmarks, from which one activity would be selected for the team todesign and build an instructional device to support the activity. The design specifications for theactivity and instructional device included the following: must illustrate a set of concepts or oneconcept

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

. 4148–4151, May 2002. Paper 4024 (invited).[6] C. H. G. Wright, T. B. Welch, D. M. Etter, and M. G. Morrow, “Teaching DSP: Bridging the gap from theory to real-time hardware,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., vol. XIII, pp. 14–26, July 2003.[7] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Experiences in offering a DSP-based com- munication laboratory,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 3rd IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, (Taos, NM (USA)), Aug. 2004.[8] Texas Instruments, Inc., “C6713 DSK,” 2004. http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/ print/tmdsdsk6713.html.MICHAEL G. MORROW, P.E., is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer En-gineering at the University of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COURSE FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri – Rolla, MO 65409, USA gkumar@ieee.orgAbstractThis paper presents the design, implementation and experiences of a new three hourexperimental course taught for a joint undergraduate and graduate class at the University ofMissouri-Rolla, USA. This course is unique in the sense that it covers the four main paradigmsof Computational Intelligence (CI) and their

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

", Engineering Education, Dec. 1982, pp. 221-226TIMOTHY C. SCOTT is Associate Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Mechanical andAerospace Engineering at the University of VirginiaKEVIN L. KNIGHT is Senior Electronics Technician in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringat the University of Virginia Page 9.1397.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

located inDenton, Texas. During this time it was possible to expand the program to include a Bachelor’sdegree Electronics Engineering Technology , a Master’s Degree in Engineering Technology, anda Masters degree in Business Administration. The program is entirely supported by the utilityand no state funds are involved in the program. The program has strong competition from non-accredited degree granting institutions. Methods of delivery vary with the course of instruction.For laboratory courses, the instructor will generally travel from campus to deliver the material atthe site; for lecture only courses, videoconference is frequently used. Efforts are underway toimport additional courses from other universities at the time of this writing.II

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

laboratories. He served asassociate dean for six years and as department chair for twelve years.He is the author of three textbooks, all published by the Prentice Hall Publishing Company, aunit of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.1, 2, 3 His first book waspublished in 1972 and he has continued to generate new books and new editions since that time.The books are designed for undergraduate courses that emphasize the application of theprinciples of mechanical design.Design of Machine Elements SoftwareEach copy of the new 4th edition of Machine Elements in Mechanical Design includes a CD-ROM containing MDESIGN, an extensive set of 28 calculation modules developed by theGerman company, TEDATA. Derived from the very

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

LearningThe CourseHow well the stated course objectives were fulfilled 4.25 (4) 4.50 (4)Quality of the course media (videos, CD-ROM, print material, etc) 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4)Effectiveness of course materials (textbook, handouts, videos, etc) inhelping you learn 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4)Value of the course assignments (homework, laboratory work, papers,etc) in helping you learn the course content 4.50 (4) 4.50 (4) Page 9.860.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

research. Another important factor in the rate ofacceleration has been a reward system to encourage success in basic scientific discovery and thepublishing of these discoveries in journals and proceedings.While the pursuit of basic research is vitally important to our nation in maintaining a competitiveadvantage in developing innovative technology, we must not forget the important role of otheravenues of discovery. Moving scientific innovation from the laboratory to production requiresan ambitious agenda for applied engineering and technological research as well as a reward Page 9.823.2system to encourage its development

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

Pincus, G., “Control and Signal Processing in a StructuralLaboratory,” Proc. of International Conference on Engineering Education, July 21-25, 2003, Valencia,Spain.[4] Ogata, K., Modern Control Engineering, (4th Ed.), Prentice Hall, 2001.Biographical InformationWEINING FENGWeining Feng, PhD, is Associate Professor of Process Control and Instrumentation in the EngineeringTechnology Department, University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. Feng received a Ph.D. from theDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, in 1990. She is incharge developing UHD’s Control and Instrumentation laboratories and serves as director of the ProcessControl and Instrumentation program.ALBERTO GOMEZ-RIVASAlberto Gomez-Rivas is

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. C. York; Tamara Knott

, Virginia Tech website (http://www.enge.vt.edu/) 2. The Frith Freshman Design Laboratory (http://www.enge.vt.edu/lab.html) Page 10.1184.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographiesSTEVEN C. YORKSteve York is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He received hisPhD in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is one of the course-coordinators for the second semesterfreshman engineering design course.TAMARA W. KNOTTTamara Knott is an

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

Online Technology Career Preparation Course Paul A. De Nu and Connie Sketch Cincinnati State Technical and Community CollegeCincinnati State Technical and Community College is a comprehensive community college withan enrollment of approximately 8500 students. Students attending Cincinnati State are providedan education that features a combination of theory and practice, delivered via appropriateclassroom, laboratory, and cooperative education experiences. Cooperative education isconsidered an integral part of the learning experience at the college. Cincinnati State’scommitment to co-op is demonstrated in part by the large number of student placements eachyear. The

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Technology Programs at CMUThe engineering technology programs at Central Michigan University (CMU) are designed toprepare students who aspire to careers in electronic, manufacturing, or mechanical areas7. Eachmajor requires a minimum of 24 semester credits in mathematics and science, 21 credits intechnology core that emphasizes hands-on laboratories, 21 credits in technology specializationthat emphasizes engineering science and design, and 9 credits in technical electives that studentscan use to strengthen their technical backgrounds in one of the areas.The students who wish to pursue one of the ET majors must be first admitted into the university.A typical student who receives a general admission would have a high-school GPA of 3.3 and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

Educationpostsecondary educators, government and processional associations will be available. Pleasevisit the website, www.neteconline.org, frequently to find out more information and to getinvolved!Bibliographic Information1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1993. Enriching the Undergraduate Laboratory Experience: 1992Undergraduate Program Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard Hughes Medical Institute.2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1994. Institutional Strategies for Enhancing Undergraduate ScienceEducation: 1993 Undergraduate Program Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute.3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 1995. Expanding the Role of Science Departments: 1994 UndergraduateProgram Directors Meeting. Chevy Chase, MD: Howard

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

Engineering Education (ASEE), Teacher of the Year award from the NDSU College ofEngineering and Architecture’s, and the Faculty Lectureship Award at NDSU. Earlier, he was named “The 1997North Dakota Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation and has received the Peltier Award for InnovativeTeaching from NDSU in 2000. He has also received the HP Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction in1999. Dr. Mehta and his colleagues have received the best paper/presentation awards from the ASEE in 2001, 1999,and 1995. Dr. Mehta received the Carnot Award for the best teacher of the year, four times, from the students of PiTau Sigma Society.Kathy Enger is a social sciences librarian at NDSU. She has a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering and the College of Engineering for fabrication of test specimens andcalibration of the different instruments to be used. This included laboratories on the maincampus of the University of Cincinnati, as well as the Large-Scale Structural Test Facilitylocated at Center Hill, about two miles from the main campus. The remaining weeks of theresearch project dealt with analysis of moment-rotation results from previous experimentaltesting1, 2, as well as designing, fabricating and erecting the test set-up for full-scale testing of T-stub connections subjected to cyclic loading. Though specimens for four tests were designed andfabricated, but due to time limitation only one test was conducted at

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

conducting measurements of both components atdifferent temperatures. The British Pendulum Tester was used in a laboratory setup to measurethe two components of friction on test briquettes. To simulate the polishing of pavement surfaces Page 9.809.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationas a result of repeated application of wheel passes; the briquettes were subjected to cycles ofmechanical polishing using aluminum grit and a drill press equipped with a rubber-polishingdisc.Briquettes representing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

thatis done the weight is shown. The experiment continues interactively with the student placing thewet soil in an oven and is completed when the student calculates the water content and thenanswers a quiz to test short-term knowledge retention. The student can then select a differentsoil and repeat the experiment to compare the water retention capacity of different soil types. Anexperiment on a single soil type as described above will take about 24 hours in a physical lab buton the computer its takes less than 5 minutes and the student obtains all the required knowledge.A physical experiment can then be conducted for the student to get the feel of a real soil andoperating in a physical lab if laboratory facilities are available

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

. Severallaboratory experiments pertaining to sequencer functions are assigned to the students during thecourse of an academic quarter. Student feedbacks have been very positive for integrating theirknowledge gained during the classroom lectures in the laboratory. Page 9.1357.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Programmable Logic Controllers; Principles and Applications, By John Webb and Ronald Reis, Fifth Edition, 2003, Published by Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.2

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

set at the early stages of theprogram will help the students to achieve their educational goals and personal achievements.With this in mind in fall 2000, three courses were identified to implement a testing sequencewe called the “ten minute quiz”. The courses areECET-100 ECET seminarECET-102 Electrical Circuit-1ECET-152 Electrical Circuit-ll.All the three courses are required for the program.Concept based objectives were written for all the courses and is used by the faculty whoteaches the courses. The grading criteria included the following.Homework 5%10 Minute Quiz 25%Tests (3) 30%Final (Comprehensive) 15%And the Laboratory 25%At the beginning of every class a ten minutes quiz was given to the students based on theconcepts that was taught

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

) laboratory at James Madison University as part Page 9.671.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof an integrated security solution for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)system. [6] CSA goes beyond traditional endpoint security solutions “by identifying andpreventing malicious behavior before it can occur, thereby removing potential known andunknown security risks that threaten enterprise networks and applications.” [7] Specificinnovative features of CSA include: ‚ Proactive defense

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

without an accompanying lab.Course 2, with its emphasis on microfabrication was designed to have a weekly lab that wasdirectly coupled to the lectures. Course 3, with its emphasis on characterization, was designed toinclude lab exercises that demonstrate and provide exposure to fundamental characterizationtechnologies and practices. Certainly another constraint in developing lab activities is thephysical resources of the microsystems laboratory. The lab facility has many of the morecommon processes used in microfabrication and, as a result, lab activities are based around thosecommon processes. Given the nature of the microsystems area, each course was designed to bemultidisciplinary and to be open to students from all areas of engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

chairperson of the Industrial and SystemsEngineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the ElectronicsManufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s commonfreshman year and the department’s new Information and Systems Engineering degree program.EMORY W. ZIMMERS, JR, Ph.D. is Professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of the EnterpriseSystems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible for more than 200 funded research andtechnology transfer projects with over 115 industry and academic partners. He has authored or co-authored one textand over 180 technical reports and publications. He is a Fellow of SME and IIE technical

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Session 3270 Developing an Appreciation for Careers in Research Through the Texas Research Experience Program Andrea M. Ogilvie The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Texas Research Experience (TREX) Program at The University of Texas at Austin hasproduced valuable research opportunities during the academic year for more than 280undergraduate minority engineering students. TREX provides students with a uniqueopportunity to establish strong links with faculty, gain hands-on laboratory experience, anddevelop an appreciation for research careers

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

Engineering. Presently, Dr. Lucas is on sabbatical at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC.TIMOTHY A. JOHNSON, PH.D. Timothy A. Johnson holds a BS Ed (1972) in education from Illinois State University, an MS (1976) in natural science from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. (1983) in BME from UNC-Chapel Hill. Research interests include cardiovascular electrophysiology, sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition, processing and display. As an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, he teaches linear controls and directs BME laboratory rotations.STEPHEN B. KNISLEY, PH.D. Stephen B. Kindly, graduate of Duke University (BSE 1973) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 1988) is currently an

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

Session 1332participating company. A total of 22 projects are being supported during the 2002-2003academic year with grants of up to $3000.Overall BenefitsThe IAP program is a catalytic force that promotes closer ties with the production world andstrengthens industry-university collaboration. Extensions to the basic IAP format are notuncommon and have generated improvement of laboratory facilities through company donatedequipment, joint faculty-industry proposal writing, faculty summer internships, and theenrichment of the university curriculum through the creation of new courses. In one specificinstance a company follows up the IAP experience with COOP employment that normally takesplace during the summer and semester following participation in