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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

has always believed in a strong role for the industrial advisory committeeand has had one in place since the inception of the program more than 30 year ago. The marksof the advisory committee are exceedingly prevalent throughout our curriculum and program.The advisory committee has been evaluating student work in the form of capstone projects fromthe seniors for more than 2 decades now. We saw the constituent input mandates contained inTC2K as an opportunity to strengthen this already active group’s role within our program. Thepolicy and procedures document referred to earlier addresses this by including a sectionspecifically documenting the role of the advisory committee. That section is included below.“Policy and Procedures for EET

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Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lerzan Özkale; Fatma Küskü; Gülsün Saglamer

Üniversitelerinde Kadınların Konumu” (Position of Womenin Turkish Universities between 1980-1990), Unpublished project, in Zengin- Arslan (2002).[18] Sağlamer, G (2003) “Türkiye’de Kadın Hakları ve Yüksek Ögretim’de Kadın” (Women Rights and Women inHigher Education in Turkey), Speech delivered at Rotary Club’s 8 March Celebration, İstanbul.[19] Sağlamer, G (2000b) Women in Higher Education with Special Reference to Technology & Science : Turkish Case,June 20, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.[20] Abacıoğlu, Asuman, http://listweb.bilkent.edu.tr/kadin/2000/Mar/0047.html.LERZAN ÖZKALE, Ph.D., is Professor at the Department of Management Engineering, Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Turkey. Her research focuses mainly on topics related to Integration

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IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

. L. Hammond, H. O. Merriman, and M. M. Provus. Educational evaluation and decisions making. Gall, M. D., W. Borg, and J. P. Gall. 1996. Educational research: An introduction. 6th ed. New York: Longman Publishers. First published by Itaaska, IL: Peacock, 1971.7 Frechtling, J. A. 1993. User-friendly handbook for project evaluation in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.8 Frechtling, J. and L. Sharp. 1997. User-friendly handbook for mixed methods evaluation. Arlington, Virginia: National Science Foundation.9 McGourty, J., C. Sebastian, and W. Swart. 1998. Developing a comprehensive assessment program for engineering education. Journal of

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abrar Khan; Shuhui Li

the significance of LabView and NI ELVISvirtual instruments as replacements of traditional instruments, and to understand the basic NI Page 9.409.3LabView and graphical programming concepts. This would develop students’ interests and Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationconfidence and give them a clearer understanding to use LabView and NI ELVIS formeasurement, analysis, and design of various electric and electronic circuits as well as moreadvanced design projects.3.1. Comparing

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Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

during World War II with design anddevelopment of weapons like the atomic bomb and radar defense systems, engineering came tobe more and more like applied physics. The Russian launch of Sputnik in December 1957accelerated the movement of the engineering curriculum toward applied physics. Until the mid1970s, few engineering programs contained any design projects and social courses in writing(composition) were confined to successfully passing, or having waived based on some “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering EducationIntroductionWith the implementation of a new major in biomedical engineering at Bucknell University,faculty from the biomedical engineering program have become an integral part of theintroductory engineering course required of all first-year engineers. This course, ENGR 100Exploring Engineering, is designed to provide the students with an introduction to Bucknell’s sixengineering disciplines as well as overarching concepts such as engineering design, ethics andteamwork. This is accomplished by dividing the course into 4 components includinga group design project assessing wheelchair accessibility on campus, two student-chosen topicalseminars and the reading and analysis of engineering related books. As the topical seminars

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

; advertisements that do not put minority groups in a constraining, biased or abusive Page 9.1085.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineeringsituation; divulgation of contributions to candidates in election campaigns; releasing workersduring work-hours to social actions; maintenance of literacy programs for employees andtheir families; maintenance of learning programs for young people; maintenance of a goodservice for consumer assistance; projects of environmental conservation in public areas; and,finally

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jammie Hoskin; Brad Wambeke; Ronald Welch

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Gaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Biloxi, Mississippi, November 6-9, 1999.10. Duff, J.M. (1990). Teaching engineering graphics as a body of knowledge. Proceedings of the 44th Midyear Conference of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Tempe, Arizona, 1990.11. Cumberland, R. R. (2001). The foundation of a progressive engineering graphics curriculum: A directed project report. Unpublished masters thesis, Purdue University, West Lafayette.12. Gredler, M. E. (2001). Information Processing Theories. In Learning and instruction: Theory in to practice (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice-Hall. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

. 4 7. Turning Consulting Activities into Scholarship : Present or publish in a practice-based publication or at a conference on the following: -- something useful and/or new and innovative in your consulting practice -- consulting case studies -- consulting applications -- monitoring of existing or developing technologies -- integration of practice into the classroom: documenting how technical aspects of consulting practice are integrated or incorporated into the curriculum -- documenting how professional issues facing industry and the profession are incorporated into the curriculum 8. Publish or present on Independent study projects with students 9. Publish or present on your leadership and service experiences with professional societies

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

biological inputs, initialtemperature, and the spinning speed of the impeller. Again, the engineering models simulate thefermentation process so students can practice varying chemical and biological inputs and controllingprocess parameters without the expense of doing so with real equipment.The VR environment used at the Indian Hills Community College is a 2.7 meters wide by 2.1 meters tallsingle-wall, rear-projected system driven by an SGI Octane 2T M, Figure 3 (a). It is a passive stereosystem that utilizes a Christie-Digital Mirage 2000T M projector with a Stereo Graphics projector Z-screenTM. The navigation for these VR environments is accomplished using a tracking wand, so theposition and orientation of the wand is always known, allowing it be

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

which department do you currently teach? AOSS AERO BME ChE CEE EECS ENGIN IOE MSE ME NAME NERS FE PharmE PIM Other 4. Which of the following describe your current duties as a GSI (check as many as apply): hold office hours attend class teach a lab teach a discussion section give lectures grade homework or papers grade exams grade labs or projects hold review sessions email with students maintain website other

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

layer. Manycases are tested concluding that the adaptive fuzzy topologies are efficiently reducing the effectof external disturbances such as load changes and input voltage changes, on different types ofDC/DC converters. A commensurate number of components is designed and built. The components are testedindividually and in various combinations of hardware and software segments. The entire systemwill be fully tested. The other work to be completed includes the integration of the full systemand the start of the implementation stage of the project. Two categories of tests, namely, loadregulation, and line regulation will be carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposedcontrol system.References 1. J

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

has 13 core credits.The senior year includes a substantial design project, typically involving team participation, aswell as senior courses providing an in-depth treatment of digital logic and systems theory.In order to validate the number of core computer science credits required for the CpE program,the present authors carried out an e-mail survey of peer institutions, the results of which areillustrated in Fig. 2. Page 9.832.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.) (q) quantify and justify the financial impact of product and process 2. To improve the level of achievement of the following Program Outcomes. development and improvement (Note: Letters correlate with POs in ABET Self-Study Document.) (r) organize and use a project implementation plan None --- 1st year committed to defining current state of achievement of POs. (s) facilitate multidisciplinary group to accomplish q & r

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Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

help fill in the gaps and blind spots of the team’s mental model of thetechnology. Pacey gets at this idea of adjusting the model through interaction: “…although ideasmay arise in all sorts of ways that may be described as intuitive or participatory, there is alwaysan obligation to translate them into more rigorous, often mathematical formulations, so thatothers may understand and check them, and explore their precise implications.”226. Bias in the Design ProcessLet us now explore the means by which bias may be introduced during each stage of the designprocess. Engineering design projects typically begin with a problem specification phase. Theconstraints, requirements, and specifications of the design are elicited from the customer

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

, and Inc. National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. "Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Re: Nos. 02-241, 02-516, Barbara Grutter V. Lee Ballinger & Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher V. Lee Ballinger."Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Available at http://www.umich.edu/%7Eurel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus-ussc/um/MITfinal-both.doc36. Denison University. "Improving The Economics Curriculum With Laboratory Experiments." Lessons Learned From FIPSE Projects II. Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1993.37. Sullivan, W. G

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAn important observation is that our educational approach should not be “classical methods ormodern methods”, as there is a role for both, along with basic theory, principles, and equations,and other educational resources such as case studies and descriptive texts on general designconsiderations, project performance, and failure analyses. The challenge is how to makeoptimum use of this increasing rich mixture of educational resources to best prepare ourgraduates to effectively function in the computer/software intensive design environment so thatthey will consistently produce

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Higby; Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

to bothoperating systems on identical hardware specifications.Mail throughput is collected using the mail benchmark Postal (version 0.62), downloaded fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/postal/. Postal floods the specified server with SMTP messages ofrandom content and length, according to given parameters such as thread count, throughputthrottle, and connections. For the purpose of testing, Postal was run using unthrottledthroughput, a configuration of one message per connection, and variable thread counts.All performance tests are automated through configuration of the Cron Daemon in Linux andScheduled Tasks in Microsoft Server 2003. Each test spans 30 minutes, allowing for throughputand availability information to be collected. Server

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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

(two or three days on a Sun enterprise 450) for 50 to 100 student submissions, thesearch window (range of possible relative file offsets) was constrained to as little as 100characters. Pre-filtering of the files, similar to the tokenization described above, was used toreduce the size of the files to be compared. However, restricting the search window reduced theinstances of plagiarism that could be detected.ResultsInitial testing was done using student source code samples from a simplified I2C bus interfacedesign project during spring 2003. I2C is an industry standard synchronous serial bus interfaceused in a wide range of consumer electronic products. Transformations were applied to thesource code samples in order to observe the behavior of

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Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Brougham; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina