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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

for Engineering Education The Cardiac Modelbox has the applets for cardiac electrophysiology and these applets arefor (1) a rabbit sinoatrial node cell model (Demir et al, 1994) (as seen in Figure 1), (2) a guinea pig ventricular cell model (Luo and Rudy, 1991), (3) a rabbit atrial cell model (Lindblad et al, 1997), (4) a human atrial cell model (Nygren et al, 1998), (5) a dog ventricular cell model (Winslow et al 1999), (6) a bullfrog atrial cell model (Rasmusson et al 1990), (7) a frog ventricular cell model (Riemer et al 1999), and (8) a rat ventricular cell model (Pandit et al, 2001). Currently, the applets in the Neuron Modelbox are for (1

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sangsoo Ryu; M.H. Kim; Julian H. Kang; Spyros A. Kinnas

as the convergence of interactive multimedia course materials with context-sensitivecollaborative environments is developed based on the Internet technology12. E-textbook, e-classroom, and e-tutoring have become an issue in recent education research.3) Web-based simulationErnest Page summarizes five areas of focus regarding potential impacts of web technologies onsimulation: (1) simulation as hypermedia, (2) simulation research methodology, (3) Web-basedaccess to simulation programs, (4) distributed modeling and simulation, and (5) simulation of theWWW13. Regarding the first area, he writes: The availability of simulation as a desktop,browser-based commodity has the potential to significantly alter current teaching and trainingmethodologies

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

datahas a number of implications for engineering education for it shows to non-engineers alternativecareer paths into engineering, reveals the value of non-engineering knowledge and skills in thesolution of technical problems, and sheds light into the limitations of the educational engineeringpipeline as a metaphor of engineering education. Page 8.284.1 1 Session 2322IntroductionIn the United States, most corporate employers of engineers require a bachelor’s degree inengineering from ABET accredited institution for

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

majoring in agriculturalengineering or agricultural systems technology: the ABE learning community, which is createdby having students co-enroll for specially selected linked courses, and the ABE living learningcommunity, a reserved portion of a specific residence hall. Other features of the ABE learningcommunity include peer mentors and tutors, faculty-student dinners, and student service learningopportunities. The ABE Learning Community has been described in detail in previouslypublished papers.1, 2, 3We see the ABE Learning Community as key to helping us achieve the intended studentoutcomes of our programs. These outcomes were developed to meet the ABET Criteria 2000.ABET Criterion 3, Program Outcomes and Assessment, states, “Engineering

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

18 distinct phases.The control unit can uniquely determine the next phase from the current phase. Although thissystem supports only the most basic CPU functionality and lacks many features found in modernCPUs (such as multiple addressing modes, variable-length instructions, and exception handling),it can be effectively used to illustrate a variety of fundamental computing concepts. Among theseare the fetch-decode-execute cycle, sequential execution, conditional and unconditionalbranching, and iteration.1 IntroductionThe quality of education in science and technology for all undergraduates is becoming an area ofincreasing concern [1]. In the United States, the National Science Foundation is requesting thatScience, Math, Technology and

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

State University (MSU) recognizedthe need for restructuring its curriculum in part to modernize its undergraduate program andincrease enrollment which had begun to decline rapidly since 1990 following nearly a decade ofsteady growth as indicated in Fig. 1. This decline in enrollment was in most part a reflection ofcareer opportunities available to ASE graduates and was not necessarily unique to MSU. In fact,Mississippi State University is on par with the national average* in the percentage of enteringfreshmen choosing ASE as a major (1.8% compared to national average5 of 1.6%), thepercentage of engineering BS degrees awarded to ASE majors (2.25% compared to the nationalaverage6 of 2.2%), and has exceeded the national average in recent years in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Glenn Lipscomb

nitrogen production from air. Potential software and hardwareapproaches to remote experimentation are summarized. The implementation of each experimentin a Windows 2000 environment is presented – detailed equipment lists and costs are provided.Several options for providing video and audio signals were evaluated including: (1)RealNetworks streaming media, (2) NetMeeting, (3) Polycom ViewStation FX, and (4) PolycomViaVideo Desktop System. Each offers different combinations of video quality, latency, andcost. The impact of the video/audio signal on the educational effectiveness of the experiment isdiscussed.Preliminary evaluations of the learning effectiveness of these experiments are presented.Learning, attitudes, and collaboration of students who

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Elvia Martin Del Campo; Ariana Arciero; Patricia Nava; Rosa Gomez

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering”opportunities. Last year, the students actively participated in two outreach activities: (1)Expanding Your Horizons Conference for Girls in Science, Engineering, Math and Technologyand (2) Girl Power.The Expanding Your Horizons Conference was a day-long conference held on the UTEP campusfor eighth grade girls from area middle schools. Women professionals in the fields of science,engineering, math and technology facilitated hands-on workshops for the eighth graders.Students in the WiSE program planned the opening ceremonies and served as group leaders toguide the eighth graders from workshop to workshop. Throughout the day, they interacted withthe girls to give them information about what majoring

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

and improving graphics in the lecturepresentations, and annotating the lecture notes by inserting hyperlinks to other Web documents.Students generally found these exercises beneficial to their learning experience, and they haveprovided resources that can be used to improve the course. In fact, with such a system, largeclasses are actually a blessing, since they produce better and more copious educational materialsto be used in subsequent semesters.1. Peer Review in the ClassroomPeer review is a concept that has served the academic community well for several generations.Thus, it is not surprising that it has found its way into the classroom. Dozens of studies report ondifferent aspects of peer review, peer assessment, and peer grading in an

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Liapi

excellent skills in advanced computer visualization and kinematic simulationprocedures. Course evaluations have been consistently excellent (3.8 out of 4, on the Page 8.741.3average). Examples of student projects are illustrated in figures 1 -4.Educational objectives and benefits to the students and programThe educational objectives and benefits offered by the introduction of a deployablestructure project are discussed in the following sections:a) Enhance students’ skills in the geometric conception and visualization of structuresThe integration of new research on deployable structures in the curriculum builds on theauthor’s ongoing effort to include a

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Parent

the letters of recommendation and grantamounts received.It has also been reported that junior faculty should receive letters of recommendationfrom their industrial contacts.9 Recognizing that industrial contacts may not be familiarwith the tenure and promotion process, one has to make sure that the letter supports yourcase in terms that committee members not familiar with industry can understand.9 Thismay sound obvious, but things that are important to company management (for examplereturn on investment) might not be understood by a promotion and tenure board. My ownletters of recommendation from Cadence Design Systems, which were very positive,needed to be rewritten (see Table 1). For example, I was rated very high in terms ofleadership

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Belle Upadhyaya

material. The development anddemonstration of the web-based teaching material is focused on one of the modules usedin the college-wide course entitled Introduction to Maintenance Engineering. Themodule incorporates interactive course material, examples, PowerPoint slides, and videoclips of rotating machinery in operation.1. IntroductionIntroduction to Maintenance Engineering is one of the courses that was developedunder a National Science Foundation Combined Research Curriculum Development (NSF-CRCD) project at The University of Tennessee. This is presented as a distance educationcourse and consists of twelve modules. The course presents the principles of variousmaintenance technologies as they are practiced by the U.S. industry. The module

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

LabVIEW software for control and data acquisition.Background EET 371 Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control is a junior-senior level coursein the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, IUPUI. The purpose ofthe course is to introduce ECET majors to automation concepts and control and instrumentationequipment and software. Emphasis of the course is on integration of hardware and software systems. It focuses ona major laboratory project to implement a model automated-assembly-line-style test system foran FM circuit board. (Figure 1) To update the course to provide for more experience with state-of-the-art technology,machine vision has been added and control of a Rhino Selective Compliance Assembly

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

manufacturing engineering is conditioned on thedegree to which students have genuinely absorbed and "own" the ideas of elementary Statics.Statics instruction has been reasonably successful in teaching students to use the derivedequations and to manipulate quantities mathematically. Students generally learn to solve problemsin which the modeling is largely implied by standard symbols in problem diagrams. However,where Statics is finally relevant to engineering practice, instruction has been notably unsuccessful.Many faculty are disappointed with the extent to which students are able to use Statics in theanalysis and design of real systems and structures which they confront in their subsequenteducation [1, 2], and later in their professional careers.In

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

goals of this project are to: (1) Create a culture of acceptance and value of community and international service activities at CSM. We anticipate that the first result of this project will be an enhanced appreciation of the value and importance of the participation of engineers in community and international service, and expect that pre and post attitudes surveys of students and faculty will reveal a significantly meaningful change in their perceptions. (2) Increase the number of CSM engineering graduates that enter occupations that have a community or international service emphasis. The measurement of this goal will involve a longitudinal study of student placement. Our goal is to increase

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

past 5 to 10 years. The causes of these changes have not been scientifically quantified to ourknowledge, but examining the trends in use of the Internet and electronic media providesindicators about the environments that students are now using to obtain information and to learn.We cannot be left behind and we have no choice but to interact with our learners and to sortthrough the options for the most effective methods for teaching. In fact, we have a newresponsibility to use new methods to enhance the learning process, to make instruction more timeefficient for students and teachers, and to be more available to our learners.The model of perceptual biases developed by Bandler and Grinder [1] holds that in our culturewe receive and process

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

safeguard the overall public welfareby becoming involved in the public policy arena.Categories of public policies and the stages of public policy development were discussed. It wasexplained that the primary emphasis for the course would be on distributive, regulatory, self-regulatory , and redistributive policies rather than on procedural or symbolic policies.Experiences with concerns about air pollution leading to the first Clean Air Act were related tothe five stages of public policy development defined in the textbook (Public Policymaking – An Page 8.1130.5Introduction, James E. Anderson, ISBN0-395-96104-1). It was noted that the primary focus

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Georg Mauer

Session 2125 Hands-On Robot Design in an Introductory Engineering Course Georg Mauer Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Nevada, Las VegasAbstract Our course ‘Introduction to Engineering Design’ is aimed at freshmen students enteringMechanical and Aerospace engineering. The course is structured as a 2-credit lecture coupledwith a 1-credit design laboratory. While the lecture presents an overview of the profession,engineering design and methods, small student teams conduct a structured hands-on designproject in the lab. Each team

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

Page 8.1047.1classes in crossover activities, although no social studies classroom teachers are formal partneringteachers. The project runs from June 1 to May 31 of the following year, allowing consistentProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcontact between graduate fellows, classroom teachers, and program Page 8.1047.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationadministration. Partner districts for this

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Bradley Golish; Phil Weilerstein; Harvey Wolfe

, tenof these individuals could not fully complete the survey; consequently, the usable response ratewas 43.5%. Due to the fact that several of the PIs had received multiple NCIIA grants, there werea total of 102 surveys returned. Whether the non-responders (52.3%) had conducted any type ofassessment of their E-teams is unknown at this point. Page 8.1171.2Tables 1 and 2 2 give the response rates to the survey with regards to the award year anddiscipline. Each table shows the number of individuals who completed the survey along with thetotal number of individuals who were contacted. As expected the response rate for grantsawarded in more recent

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

QuantitativeApproach as a text. Students were required to implement three projects simulating variousaspects of a microarchitecture (cache, branch predictor, dynamic instruction scheduler). Thenthey engaged in an experimental analysis to find the best configuration in a design space. Theywere encouraged to pair-program, and data were gathered on their experience.1. IntroductionPair programming is one of the twelve practices of Extreme Programming (XP), which is thebest known of the “agile” software-development methodologies that have gained widespreadattention in recent years. Agile methodologies attempt to mitigate some of the up-front designcosts of heavyweight methodologies, which expend a lot of effort on design before code iswritten, and to adapt more

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

results.Disadvantages of using the FE exam include its: • long time constant for measuring response to changes (1-4 years depending in which year a student took a course), • design of measuring minimal technical competencies based on learning objectives determined from national surveying, • variable student motivation for taking the exam8, • not being taken by all students in a program, and • fixed exam date falling before some topics are covered in a course a student is currently taking.These disadvantages of using the FE exam for assessment point to the advantages of adepartment developed instrument. A department core competency exam can provide bothsummative and formative assessment data so that it may serve longitudinal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

are integrating with thedatabase finds course Websites by searching a filtered set of educational domains forsites containing keywords characteristic of course material in the target discipline. Wepresent preliminary results of using this search engine.1. IntroductionWith the advent of the World-Wide Web in the early ’90s, instructors began to placecourse material on line. In 1995, academic attendees from the International Symposiumon Computer Architecture indicated great interest in developing a Website of reusablecourse materials. By 1997, approximately half of the object-technology (OT) instructorsattending a workshop organized by the first author had developed course Websites.Contributions were sought, and approximately 500 problems were

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

applications that we developed to be used inthe iPAQ handheld computer. In order use and develop the applications for this package,we tried to make use of all the software tools already available in the iPAQ’s Microsoft®Windows for Pocket PC operating system [2]. These tools include: iPAQ image viewer,Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Internet Explorer, Presentation Player, Sound recorder, etc. In Fig. 1 we show the File Manager main menu that displays all the applications anddirectories available for the students, as can be seen, the hand held PC is a great place tostore class information and reference documents. Fig. 1. - Software Utilities Fig 2. - AND Gate Information The iPAQ is very handy while students are working on their

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

difficult for theinstructor to engage student into exploring problems, because they did not fully understand thecircuit in the first place.Figure 1. Students in MET 334 Advanced Fluid Power look at their first circuit built on a new test standAnother way to promote students' involvement in the fluid power area is to use computersoftware to teach concepts that traditionally are difficult for students to grasp. It is difficult for ateacher to present a fluid power circuit in action by only using a chalkboard, or overhead.Computer software can do a better job much easier. First experiences with such software are verysatisfying both for students and instructors. It's like switching overnight from a slide-rule to

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Li; Jiang Li

the reach of laboratory facilities, addconvenience, and integrate with the wired network. In the present paper, the design of thewireless networking system is discussed from two perspectives: 1) the hardware necessary inwireless networking, 2) the software necessary in wireless networking. An effort is made in thispaper to illustrate the utility of a wireless network in teaching engineering. It is clear that thisconvenient and powerful implement will aid teaching, research, as well as learning Geomechanicsor Engineering Mechanics by removing previously restrictive boundaries of physically linkednetworks.I. IntroductionWith the advancement of computer technologies, the personal computer has become integratedinto nearly ever aspect of our lives

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

and manufacture a hydraulic gear pump that could be used in MET Fluid PowerLaboratory for demonstration purposes. Existing Danfoss 36194-136 365A DL gear pump wasselected for the project, see Fig. 1. Students could use parts from this pump to avoidmanufacturing all of the necessary components. The major part to be manufactured was the pumphousing, consisting of two halves bolted together. The housing was to be made out of clear epoxyresin, so that the internal parts of the pump could be seen.Our MET stereolithography (SLA) rapid prototyping machine uses epoxy resin, which ishardened by a laser, layer by layer. The thickness of one layer is 0.006 in. The resolution of thelaser is about 0.002 in. Students had to create a solid model of the pump

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Wolfe

sets.The course requires teams to develop a product and move through all of the steps towardslaunching a company culminating in a prototype, a business plan, an executive summary,and a presentation suitable for obtaining venture capital. Evaluation comments by thestudents identified a number of significant issues. These include:1. The heterogeneity of students: Students included full time undergraduate students,full time U.S. educated graduate students, full time foreign educated graduate students,and part time graduate students working full time. This mix is exacerbated by the differentacademic backgrounds, time constraints of the student groups, and diversity. Thechallenge is how to put together teams that get along, have different talents, and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

. Page 8.1243.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”I. IntroductionColleges and universities design their General Education Curriculums to create in students acommitment to learning over the course of a lifetime. Union College, for instance, has “designed ageneral education curriculum that (1) seeks to open students’ eyes and whet their appetites formore learning and (2) directs them toward acquiring the kinds of skills and knowledge appropriatefor Americans living in the twenty-first century.”The following is a presentation of the components of the General Education Curriculum at UnionCollege. These