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International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

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Waddah Akili

languageTable 2. Simplified Breakdown of Primary School Curriculum in the Arab Gulf States Page 8.887.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • Courses’ contents are old material, often irrelevant, and improperly sequenced • Poor text books • Insufficient recitation and lab periods • Very little, if any, hands-on laboratory experiments • Technical terms, symbols, and notations should be presented in English, side by side with Arabic • No help sessions on regular

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

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Radhika Kotha

our own research andapply our own problem solving skills to the objective of designing a thermally comfortable, aestheticallybeautiful house which would function with a very low expenditure of energy.What is even more exciting is the prospect of actually building a Natural House. That would be theculmination of a long and rich educational experience. After doing the calculations and the mathematicalmodeling we plan to do a computer simulation of the house under various environmental conditions. Thenext step will be to build a working scale model for laboratory testing under actual outdoor conditions.The design can then be modified and improved as needed.The last step, which we are eagerly looking forward to, is the construction of a small

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Primus Tillman

education need to develop asymbiotic partnership relationship that benefits both.When streaming media solutions are applied to the challenges of making high quality educationmore affordable and available to consumers, everyone benefits: Business and industry,telecommunications, science and medicine, and education all share in the benefits of faster andbetter information delivery methods. Unlike several years ago, when computer learning waslimited to classrooms and computer labs, students no long have to rely on attending lectures,taking copious notes, participating in classroom exercises and laboratory experiments, handing inpapers, or other activities requiring their physical presence. Educators no longer have to rely onphysical classrooms

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2001 Annual Conference

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Clare Cook

advantages anddisadvantages of each operating environment and the issues of loading an operating system.Linear interface and calibration can be examined with the temperature sensor circuitry. Finally,loading a web server and writing scripts to access the server can provide many experiences withInternet enabled designs. This project alone could provide many laboratory experiences for acourse in embedded computer systems. Work is currently under way at to incorporate laboratoryexercises from this project into the embedded computer systems course taught in the ComputerNetworks and Systems program at Ferris State University. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

operation, students must integrate knowledgeof optical spectrum and R-G center concepts with PN junction characteristics. 3.7 Applications of Photodevices to Electronic ProductsFinally, applications in modern communication networks using optical fibers, solar cells to powerhand-held calculators, battery chargers, and communications are covered. 3.8 Computer Simulation (2 weeks)Students are given a tutorial on the use of the Purdue University PUNCH semiconductor Hub andthe software supported by the Hub. Accessed through the Internet, this hub is a set of network-based laboratories that provide toolkits of programs for various fields. Students, researchers andengineers can access software, use software tools, view results, and download

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2001 Annual Conference

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Brenda Martin; J. P. Mohsen

portable enough to move from one classroom to anotherrelatively easily.II. Product DevelopmentThe driving force behind the development of the Design of Structures system was educators whowere looking for a comprehensive, compact, and easy-to-use system that would enable them todemonstrate the concepts being taught. Many instructors rely only on paper, overheadprojectors, or at best computer simulations to drive home their lessons. Of course, universitieshave at their disposal the large test equipment in their materials laboratories, but nothing that issmall enough to use in the classroom.This feedback from educators started our own research into the educational requirements of civilengineering. While we conducted extensive research on the basic

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Bunnell; Bill Knowlton; Amy Moll

, CO and Hewlett Packard Laboratory inPalo Alto, CA. His research interests are in reliability physics and materials characterization of semiconductormaterials. Dr. Knowlton received his B.S in 1992., M.S. in 1995, and Ph.D. in 1998, in Materials Science andEngineering from the University of California at Berkeley.References1. 2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs; Section II.P.3, Page 242. Ibid. Criterion 3. Page 32 and “Program Criteria for Materials ... Programs” Page 443. Society of Manufacturing Engineers; Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I Report 1997 SME Education Foundation4. Dick, W. And Carey, L.; The Systematic Design of Instruction 4th edition 1996 Harper Collins5

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Jamie Workman

more of a question of do they realizethere is science, engineering and technology behind these commodities?The course was designed to offer a wide variety of technological disciplines from the availableprograms and laboratories at our school rather than focusing on one area. Each day, a new topicwas presented and various activities were employed. Day one, we introduced some basic physicsprinciples and performed related experiments. Marshmallow Towers challenged the students tocreate a skyscraper from marshmallows and tooth picks, and the team with the tallest tower wona prize. After the adventure, the discussion revolved around statics, strength of materials,moments of inertia, gravity, and of course eating marshmallows.Day two consisted of

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ahmed Elsawy; Ismail Fidan

usually required to take a course in manufacturing processesand computer numerical control (CNC). The underlying philosophy of these courses is tointroduce students to the basic processes that are potentially used in engineeringpractices. Approximately one quarter of the courses is devoted to machining processes.Besides the lectures, students use CAD/CAM simulation packages, namely GibbsCAM,EdgeCAM, CNCez, and Mastercam, before their machining practices. In this study, anintuitive knowledge-based graphical user interface program has been developed to aid thelectures and laboratory activities. The main objective of the KBT is to help studentscomprehend and visualize the basics of machining. A knowledge-based system refers toan intuitive computer

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2001 Annual Conference

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Joanne Lax

© 2001, American Society for Engineering Eductaionthree years students spend in ECE, a representative writing assignment will be collected, so theportfolios can document any changes in writing over time. In the sophomore year, the writingsample comes from EE 208, Electronic Devices and Design Laboratory; in the senior year thepaper comes from EE 402, Design Projects, or EPICS (“Engineering Projects in CommunityService”). Also in the senior year, a post-test writing sample will be collected in order todocument the students’ anticipated improvement in written communication.By means of the writing samples, the portfolios, and the on-site availability of a communicationsspecialist, who also gives guest lectures on communications topics in various

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rockland

websiteprovided a background in Hematopathology. Students were given this website as a homeworkassignment the week prior to classroom discussions on blood analyzers.Perhaps the most comprehensive website for clinical chemistry can be found at a websiteentitled Clinical Laboratory Science Internet Resources©, which was developed by Louis B.Caruana, Ph.D. - http://members.tripod.com/~LouCaru/index-5.html#Education. There are over200 links relating to organizations and information on areas such as hematology, immunology,lab management and microbiology. While there were no assignments from this website, itprovided one student with a starting point for a term presentation assignment (this was requiredof all students

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2001 Annual Conference

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Hilda Black; Jenna Carpenter

courses.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech has replaced the traditionalcurriculum for freshman and sophomores engineering majors with an integrated curriculumwhich incorporates mathematics, engineering and science. The curriculum integrates topicsacross the disciplines and incorporates active/cooperative learning, various technologies,freshman and sophomore design projects, and hands-on-laboratories. During the freshman year, Page 6.452.1the mathematics portion of the integrated curriculum focuses on differential and some integral“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Joshua Talbert; Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

(PNGV) which is a joint effort by the national laboratories and the automobile companies to combine theirexpertise and technologies to produce a 70 mpg family vehicle. A proposed vehicle will be an engine and electrichybrid fuel using advanced materials, aerodynamic drag reduction, tires, computers and storage technologies. REASONS FOR SKEPTICISM There are multiple constituencies that are excited about the hybrid vehicle. One is the technology drivenconsumer who once bought the biggest muscle car desires to be first to have the newest product. Another is theaffluent environmentally conscience consumer who feels a social responsibility to buy a “Green or EnvironmentallyFriendly” product. Also the national labs that have

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Nohemi Rubio; Lourdes Sanchez-Contreras; Connie Della-Piana

Evaluation for the Model Institutions for Excellence. She received a B.A inPsychology and a second B.A. in Public Relations at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is pursuing a master’sdegree in the Public Administration in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso.Lourdes Sanchez -Contreras is a coordinator for the Research Experience (REU) for Undergraduates program underthe Model Institutions for Excellence at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is actively involved in working withundergraduate research students. Her main objective is to involve and make students aware of the educationalopportunities that exist in research at other universities and research laboratories. She is also in charge of

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert D. Knecht

, and an ability to adapt to the changing demands of the next century1, 2, 3. Manyschools have adapted their curriculum to include engineering design courses that focus upon thedevelopment of these important skills and that include industrial partners in the curriculumdesign effort 4, 5, 6. Aaron Collins7 received a grant from the National Science Foundation toinstrument a laboratory for a four-year design sequence at Mercer University. Their curriculaserved as an example of the organizational advantages of a four-year sequence by developingprocess skills as students developed their technical skills. This sequence used data collectionand processing as a basis for enhancing students’ engineering design skills. The School of CivilEngineering and

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Sohail Anwar

undergraduate research program on the academicprogress of the participating minority students is described.Bibliography1. Chickamenahalli, S.A., C. Barker, and A. Khodor. 1998. “Effective Research Experience of ElectricalEngineering Technology Students.” Proceedings of the 1998 Frontiers in Education Conference, Tempe, Vol.III, pp.1123-1126. Page 5.455.62. Madler, R.A. 1998. “Genesis of an Undergraduate Research Experience.” Proceedings of the 1998 Frontiers inEducation Conference, Tempe, Vol.III, pp. 1127.3. Kitto, K. 1998. “Innovative Research and Laboratory Experiences for Undergraduate Students.” Proceedings ofthe 1998 Frontiers in

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Paul I-Hai Lin; Hal Broberg

with basic instruction inanalog and digital circuit analysis with hands-on laboratory work required. It alsointroduces the fundamentals of computer use, programming, and application using wordprocessors, spreadsheets, and high and low level computer languages. The specializationcourses provide more in-depth knowledge about computer networking and the requisitehardware and software. The other required courses are needed in order for the students tohave sufficient mathematical and communication skills, and knowledge of the industrialenvironment to contribute effectively in the workplace. Table 3. The A.S. Degree Credit Hour Distribution Core: 26 credit hours 3 EET/CS 114 Intro to

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ed Gohmann

thebeginning some are a reluctant to participate but as they work together through out the years theybecome more comfortable communicating with their fellow students until at the end they arealmost enthusiastic in doing so. They readily work together with little supervision. Quite often noone leader appears but all work together as a group.Bibliography1. Lewis,Philip et al. “Assessing Teaming Skills Acquisition on Undergraduate Project Teams” Journal of Engineering Education 87 no2 (April 1998): 149-552. Rockland,Ronald H. “Enhancing Communication Skills in a Laboratory Course through Computer Application Training” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 28-July1,1998 Seattle, WA. Available: CD-ROMEd GohmannEd Gohmann is an Associate Professor

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Sally J. Steadman; Bruce R. Dewey; David Whitman

graduate of Iowa State University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1959, and M.S. in NuclearEngineering, 1964) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1967). In 1982, hemoved to UW. He has worked as a consultant and research collaborator for Union Carbide, Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, General Electric, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Pafec, Ltd. His research interests are in finiteelement analysis, ultrasonic wave phenomena, solid modeling and computer graphics. He is author of the text,Computer Graphics for Engineers and is a member of ASME, ASEE, Sigma Xi, and IEEE Computer Society. Page

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Jianxin Tang

- Page 5.519.69950306.Fig.6. Input and output of the FIR lowpass filter Fig.7. Input and output of the FIR comb filterFig.8. Input and output of the FIR averaging filter Page 5.519.7Bibliography1. Orfanidis, S. Introduction to Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, 1996.2.Chassaing, R. Digital Signal Processing, Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK, Wiley, 1999.3. Ziemer, R., Tranter, W., & Fannin, D., Signals and Systems Continuous and Discrete, Prentice-Hall, 1998.4. Etter, D., Engineering Problem Solving with MATLAB, Prentice-Hall, 1997.JIANXIN TANGJianxin Tang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Alfred University. Dr. Tang received a B.S. degreein

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Angie Hill Price

by John H. Falk et al, ISBN:1556523483Usborne Book of Science Activities by K. Woodward and Helen Edom, ISBN:0746006985References1. National Science Board. (1998). Science and Engineering Indicator – 1998,Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.2. Speece, M.W. (1999). Using New Laboratory Equipment for Geoscience Technical Outreach. Journal of Geoscience Education, 47, (4), p.321-324.3. Childress, J.O. (1997). Teaching Moves to the TenureTrack. Geotimes, 42, p.6-7.4. Hunter, D.A., Bosh. A.S., et al. (1999). An Astronomy Outreach Program For Navajo and Hopi Schools. Mercury, 28, (3), p.18-23.5. Huntzel, W.J., Achor, D.P., et al. (1997). Sharpening Pencils and Young Minds. Proceedings 1997

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Jack Crotty; Chong Chen

low in cost, easy to build, and easy to install. Based on the commandsreceived, the microcontroller will control other equipment or contact a computer linked to themicrocontroller. The entire system has been built and tested in the laboratory. It performed allthe functions expected.Bibliography Page 5.523.71. David Stamper: “Local Area Networks”, second edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.2. Michael Kheir: “The M68HC11 Microcontroller, Application in Control, Instrumentation, and Communication”, Prentice-Hall, 1997.3. Michael L. Gurrie and Patrick J. O’Connor: “Voice/data telecommunications systems”, Prentice Hall, 1986.4. “HT9170 DTMF Receiver

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Hakan Gurocak

. Page 5.534.7Reference[1] Ullman, D. G., The Mechanical Design Process, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1997.HAKAN GUROCAK is Assistant Professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Hereceived his Ph.D. from Washington State University at Pullman in 1993. His research interests are robotics,automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted delivery of laboratory courses at remote sites and haptic interfaces forvirtual reality. Page 5.534.8

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Brandon Ian Reed

students the CNC lathe in the Department’s laboratory. A data projector was used to show a large screen version of the process on a wall in the classroom. CNC code generated by one of the members of the class was used to control the CNC lathe. This was done with cognisance taken of the principles put forward by Allsop [3

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Hugh Jack

engineering students are taught control of continuous systems using linear controltheory. These courses often include topics such as step response and design of lead/lag control-lers. In terms of the pedagogy, linear controls are less desirable for the mechanical engineeringstudents because they are very difficult to implement in actual designs. The linear approachmakes more sense for electrical engineering students who are familiar with the mathematicaltools, and can implement the control system easily with common electronic components.This paper will describe a course, EGR 450 - Manufacturing Control Systems. The courseincludes lectures, laboratories and a project. This course uses rigorous design techniques and the-oretical methods to teach

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

,these courses require the students to work in smallteams to complete the project.For example, students taking the reinforced concretedesign course in the civil engineering specialty arerequired as part of the course laboratory to design aconcrete structure to meet a set of performancerequirements, including various loads and loadconditions, maximum cross sectional area,reinforcement constraints, and the code requirementsof the American Concrete Institute9. Students mustmake written requests to deviate from any code Figure 6. Concrete structure designed andrequirement. After determining the required mix and tested in Reinforced Concrete Coursereinforcement to carry the loads, each team mustbuild, cure, and test

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

in Table 1. Table 1: Average BME REU End-of-the-Summer Survey Results Survey Question Score Professional Development 4.7 Personal Development 4.9 Specific Research Advisor 4.7 Specific Research Project 4.6 Laboratory Facilities 4.4 Clinical Tours/Exposure 4.9 Industrial Tours/Exposure 4.3 Academic Exposure 4.8 Diversity in Program 4.7 Poster Presentation 4.8

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edgar Blevins

Operations Management · Total Quality Management· Engineering Management Laboratory · Engineering Management· Engineering Management Design Project · Project Management United States Military Academy Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering ManagementEM Focused Courses:· Human Resources Management · Introduction to Systems Design for· Introduction to Engineering Design and Engineering Managers Systems Management · Project Management· Professional Engineering Seminar · Production Operations and Management· Systems Design and Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Bennett; Elizabeth Orwin

for Engineering Educationexperience with the engineering design process and to stimulate the development of engineeringskills. The course that we created consisted of a series of short lectures on the design process aswell as group activities and exercises to further illustrate these topics. We had a shortintroductory simple design exercise and covered reverse engineering, project management and thedesign process. Mini-projects in class served to illustrate the main points of the design process.Students were also given a logbook in which to record any notes from the class or any ideas thatthey might have in order to prepare them for the idea of keeping a laboratory notebook for thepurpose of patent rights. In addition, students were formed

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Jeffrey Schiano; Claudia Mincemoyer

to maintain a laboratory notebook and will challenge youths by requiring themto perform simple experiments in order to answer questions. The projects also introduce designconcepts, for example, how to systematically vary a parameter to achieve a desired performance underspecified constraints. Each project emphasizes a particular area of technology so that youths can makea connection between their project and a specific electrical technology area.We have just recently started our project and are in the process of generating the project web page andpreparing for a training session for CE educators in March 2001. The first author is working with alocal 4-H club this spring to determine if the projects are of a suitable level and are of interest