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to embark upon development of an integrated set of material for the course(s) inclassical control systems. Our engineering background predisposed us to design these Page 4.414.1courses using what we knew of what was available about how students learn and theirvarious learning styles. In other words, as engineers we wanted to base the design of thelessons on the best available design principles in this area. There is a large amount of pedagogical research that supports differentapproaches to course organization and presentation of material. We were particularlyfamiliar with the Kolb cycle (1,2,3,4), and decided to base the design of the

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.Bibliography (note URLs and CD-ROM section follows normal reference section)1. Abbanat, R., Gramoll, K., Craig, J., “Use of Multimedia Development Software for Engineering Courseware,” Proceeding of the ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 1217-1222, 1994.2. ABET accreditation document for ABET 2000, www.abet.org/eac/eac2000.htm3. Aglan, H.A., Ali, S.F., “Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 327-330, Oct., 1996.4. Armacost, R. L., Mullens, M. A., “Teaching Concurrent Engineering at the University of Central Florida,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 389-394, Oct., 1995.5. Behr, Richard A., “Computer Simulations Versus Real Experiments in a Portable

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Curriculum Delivery. More informationon these Focus Areas, as well as the coalition itself, can be found on the Web athttp://www.succeed.vt.edu/ .The goal of the Technology-Based Curriculum Delivery (TBCD) focus team, the workingcommittee for this Focus Area, is to support the effective use of technology in enhancing thelearning and teaching environment in the coalition’s colleges of engineering. In preparation forachieving this goal, the TBCD focus team plans to offer a series of workshops targeted atintroducing various technologies and building skills in faculty members to facilitate technologyincorporation. In order to provide the appropriate training, at the appropriate level of expertise,the team must undertake an assessment to determine the

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Session 3233 The Use of a Semester Long Theme Problem in a Senior Level Thermal Engineering Course Laura J. Genik, Craig W. Somerton University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityAbstractFormerly, a senior level capstone course in thermal engineering (ME 411 Applied ThermalScience) was a required part of the curriculum in mechanical engineering at Michigan StateUniversity. The intent of the course was to culminate several aspects of thermodynamics andheat transfer together in a single course with an emphasis on the design component of the topics.Among the topics covered

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in Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 1984.21. Bordman, S., Hasan, I., and Tedesco, B., "An Assessment of Teaching Strategies of an Integrated Model for Management and Economics Instruction for Engineers," Proceedings 1987 ASEE Annual Conference, Page 4.88.8 Milwaukee, WI, June 1997, Session 2642.22. Thomas, C.R., "Exploratory studies of psychological type and engineering students: Three brief reports," Journal of Psychological Type, Vol. 19, 1990, pp. 42-48.23. Yokomoto, C.F. and Ware, R., "Individual Differences in Cognitive Tasks," Proc. 1984 Frontiers in Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 1984.24

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interfaces that comprise water resource issues and emphasize the necessity of integrating the expertise of these disciplines into successful avenues for the identification and evaluation of problems and implementation of solutions”,will be met through the exposure to outside teaching of various physical, chemical and biologicalperspectives. As the engineering student is taughted to “think like an engineer” during his/herundergraduate course work, there can be no better means for obtaining a multi-disciplinaryperspective of water resources than by going outside the box of engineering and learning fromthe experts themselves in those disciplines.Objective 2, “to develop, through an interdisciplinary capstone project, rudimentary

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). Page 4.316.155. Walker, J., “The Amature Scientist: Looking into the ways of water striders, the insects that walk (andrun) on water”, Sci. Amer., 349, pp897-899, (1983).6. Tucker, V. A., “Wave-making by whirligig beetles (Gyrindae), Science, 166, pp897-899, (1969).7. Sheppard, S.D., Mechanical Dissection: An Experience in How Things Work. ProceedingsEngineering Education Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Jan 6-10,1992, Santa Barbara, CA (1992).8. Petrosky H: Invention by Design: How Engineers get from Thought to Thing. Harvard UniversityPress, 242 pp, (1996)ALFRED J. BEDARD JR.Al Bedard is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also asupervisory physicist with the Environmental Technology Laboratory

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Computer Engineering at the University ofCalgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He received his M.Sc. in Electronics from the Technical University in Sofia,Bulgaria in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canadain 1994. Martin teaches fourth-year technical elective courses from the regular electrical engineering curriculum atthe University of Calgary, entitled Electronics for Instrumentation and Digital Integrated Electronics. Recently he hasbeen awarded the University of Calgary Student Union Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Mintchev is a registeredProfessional Electrical Engineer in Alberta and is actively involved in joint research in the local industry.BRENT J. MAUNDYBrent J. Maundy is

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important learner centered lesson plans as a simulation of the actual learningmilestones.Learner Centered Education and Personal GrowthThinkers associated with personal growth share the belief that tends to focus on theindividual more than curriculum per se. An orientation to personal growth is closelyassociated with what Elias and Merriam (1980) call ‘humanism’. Humans have the ability to Page 4.261.1choose; choice implies that learners are responsible for their own actions. The objective ofreaching out is to assist learners in making choices that maximizes their human potential.Since learners are responsible for their own action, they should control

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rated the lectures which contained hands-on content. S-type students were more favorable to the hands-on content than were N-type students and K-type students were more favorable to this hands-on content thenwere their Non-K-type counterparts. Although certain “types” responded to the hands-oncontent more favorably then others, overall it is shown that the addition of the hands-onexperiences significantly improves design courses.This work has been partially sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Page 4.284.216. REFERENCES1. Aglan, H.A., Ali, S.F., “Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform,” Journal of

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isrequired to write an individual report. The report must include data sheets for the diode usedand the LM317 voltage regulator. Each student is required to obtain the data sheets from theworld-wide-web. At this point in the semester each student is required to complete an individualtwo-hour lab practical which requires the design and lab performance analysis of a DC voltageregulated power supply. This supports another curriculum thread of an emphasis on studentteam learning and individual student assessment.Zero and Span Signal Conditioner Design The curriculum introducing the bipolar junction transistor, transistor amplifiers andoperational amplifiers follows a traditional sequence. However, a lab design project is includedat the conclusion

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needs.” As a result, a coalition of five tow-year technical colleges inTennessee with representatives from four-year universities, secondary schools, business andindustry, and government institutions in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and Alabama wasformed in order to plan a solution. A grant proposal, titled “Tennessee Exemplary Faculty forAdvanced Technology Education,” was prepared, submitted, and ultimately funded by NSF fortwo years at a budget of $449,594. The primary objective of which is: developing a group offaculty who will provide leadership in curriculum development in emerging technology fields,such as telecommunication, by: 1. Understanding curriculum development techniques and practices. 2. Gaining an appreciation and

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outcomes areto be integrated effectively. This is true for both vertical integration within a program andhorizontal integration across all the institution’s engineering programs. If faculty cannot makethe connections across courses, it will be difficult to transfer knowledge, behavior and attitudesacross the curriculum [19]. Second, to properly recast each outcome into measurabledescriptions that will result in usable assessment results requires sufficient expertise, resources,and time. This often cumbersome and difficult task for many engineering faculty is only oneinitial step in the overall preparation for the new accreditation.A Working Definition. Based on the preceding discussion, an operational definition of studentlearning outcomes

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particular field. This workshopgives faculty experience in many emerging process science and engineering areas. This isaccomplished through lectures, hands-on experiments, industry experts, and interactivedemonstrations. Through industry involvement, faculty are given an initial networking base forprocess engineering. Participants will be required to use the given methodology to integrate Page 4.392.1novel processing into their curricula and develop an action plan for their home institution. Thisstate-of-the-art workshop in process engineering will facilitate the integration of engineeringpractice into the undergraduate curriculum. The

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) 16 (AVG) OUTCOMES Chart 3Chart 3 provides an overview of student perception regarding the quantity of opportunities toengage in skills associated with each of the 16 Program Outcomes, as provided by their EEcourses. Again, when used with data from the database records, this data provides importantfeedback that can indicate any deficiencies within the program. Again, not surprisingly, thestudents felt that their EE curriculum provided the most opportunities to engage in theapplication of math, science, and engineering (Outcome #1), and to identify, formulate, and solveengineering

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reflect work in one class, one subjectarea, or an entire curriculum. Drawings, designs, projects, video or audio presentations, andwritten material can be combined to create a robust picture of a student or a program. A goodportfolio tells a story of a student’s success, documents the learning which came from mistakes,provides reflection on both subject matter and self, and integrates these into a whole which readseasily. Page 4.422.2There are many ways to structure a portfolio assessment, and many uses for the result. TheMarch 1996 issue of ASEE Prism highlights five programs which use portfolios in a math,science, or engineering curriculum5

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academic processes they callfor, presents a model established at Loyola Marymount University which integrates theseprocesses into a system for continuous improvement, comments on quality teaching andcontinuous improvement, and reviews some lessons learned from early attempts to implementEC 2000.I. GlossaryProcesses: Linked, interactive sets of activities which, taken together, comprise a system of continuous program development, assessment and improvement.Program Constituency: A group of people with common expectations of an educational program.Constituencies’ Needs: Benefits which a program’s constituencies expect to realize in return for

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project. Horizontal integration effortsinvolve courses that are placed in the same year of a curriculum. Most efforts here haveinvolved courses in science and math at the freshman level. An example of horizontalintegration is “IMPEC: An Integrated First-Year Engineering Curriculum” conducted atNorth Carolina State University. In that effort, linkages between mathematics, physics,chemistry and engineering have been conveyed to the student via courses that integratethe subject matter at the freshman level.This project addresses vertical integration among topics in mathematics and engineeringcourses at freshman and sophomore levels. Specifically, development of examples thataddress applications of engineering in a form and format that is suitable

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Raymond Berg; Homayun K. Navaz; Brenda S. Henderson

transfer have been conducted atKettering with open-ended CFD design synthesis and modeling projects, including industrysponsor participation. The thrust of this pilot program was improving the competitiveness of thestudents and their employers through virtual design and optimization. Kettering has alsodeveloped an elective course in applied CFD involving student research, as discussed by Navazand Henderson(2). Kettering has been implementing the integration of research experience in theundergraduate curriculum as called for by the National Science Foundation(3). In addition, theASEE’s “Green Report”(4) stressed the need for industry participation in the educational process

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John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

Session 2520 International Robotics Design Competitions: Potential and Pitfalls Cherrice Traver, John M. Spinelli Union CollegeAbstractThe role of international design competitions in an Engineering Curriculum isinvestigated using a case study involving participation by 9 Union College students in anautonomous robot competition in France. As part of their degree requirements, all UnionEngineering majors are required to have an international experience. Participation in the1998 E=M6 Robot Soccer competition in France, and subsequent study of Frenchengineering education, was used by some to fulfill this

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Juan Andrade; Ana Cabrales; Veronica Martinez; Sheng-Jen Hsieh

was used as input to the icon-based program. The motor then moved the crane tothe appropriate storage cell. This action resulted in status changes in one or more limit switches.Status changes in the limit switches then triggered output from the ladder diagram. This actionresulted in reversal of the motor and return of the crane to its home position. This process wouldthen continue as new parts arrived to be deposited into the ASRS. Two different models weredeveloped successfully for a student semester project.Benefits of this approach to integrating manufacturing system design within a class curriculum aremany. First, the project challenged students to go beyond what they had already learned.Second, this exercise helped students to integrate

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Robert Vance; Gloria Elliott; Craig W. Somerton

StateUniversity where during our transition from a quarter program to a semester program theinstrumentation course was eliminated with the understanding that instrumentation associatedwith a technical area, for example thermocouples with heat transfer and pressure transducers withfluid mechanics, would be integrated into appropriate technical laboratory course. A downside tothis approach is that several of the standard topics covered in an instrumentation course could beleft out in the cold. In particular, the teaching of the experiment design is a prime candidate forthis type of neglect. With the coming of Engineering Criteria 2000 and its specification inCriterion 3 that “engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have ... an ability

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Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

have been designed to academicallyprepare training professionals to meet industry’s requirements for technical instructors who canidentify performance requirements and interventions directly linked to the operational andbusiness goals of an organization. Each curriculum was designed to address the keycompetencies identified by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and theU.S. Department of Labor.1 In addition to the ASTD research, the American Petroleum Institute(API) and the National Environmental Training Association (NETA) recently developed trainercompetency recommendations.2 The SET WTD program blends these sets of nationallyrecognized standards for training professionals.Within the undergraduate WTD program, students

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S. Andrew Hale; Roger Rohrbach; Larry Stikeleather; John Parsons; James Young; Susan M. Blanchard

Engineering at NC State Universitychanged from offering a Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) degree withconcentrations in Biological, Environmental/Soil and Water, Food, and Power and Machinery,which was ABET-accredited under the guidelines for agricultural engineering programs, to adegree in Biological Engineering (BE) that followed the ABET guidelines for biologicalengineering. The revised curriculum offered students a choice of four concentration areas:Agricultural, Biomedical, Bioprocess, and Environmental Engineering. The revised degreeprogram reflected the facultyÀs vision that biological engineering will play an important role inengineering activities in the 21 st century and was also a response to declining enrollments thatbegan in

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Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

could be used for continuousretraining of the industrial workforce in the rapidly changing economic landscape. An Internet“continuing education” course can be easily integrated into the normal work schedule, helpingthe students to realize how the material they are learning is relevant to their job. In addition,accelerated high school students could use the Internet to take college courses to enhance thehigh school curriculum, cooperative education students could take courses while they are onwork assignments, etc.A course delivered entirely on the Internet can be at least as effective as a traditional “lecture”course if it is properly designed. The features offered in a multimedia computing setting can beused to create a highly effective

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simulations and animationwhich interact with an external controller via the computer's IO port. The students designdifferent problems in which the controller receives information about the state of the system andsends the control signals to the virtual experiment software application. The students can solvethese control problems using software solutions, e.g., via a microcontroller, andhardware/firmware solutions via Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The courses that canuse this teaching tool include design with microcontroller and digital systems (FPGA) design.I. IntroductionEmbedded systems design and top-down digital design (using hardware description language anddesign automation tools) are gaining popularity (and becoming necessary) in the

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system. With this modification alone, 11 semester-credit-hours wereadministratively removed from the curriculum. The revisions of the old curricula started at thebeginning of the 1996-1997 academic year, and had to be ready for implementation in the fall of1998.The CET faculty was charged to make changes to the curriculum that satisfy the requirements ofthe Board of Regents, while maintaining the quality of the program that meets the needs of theindustry. In order to achieve that goal, a survey was prepared and presented to the IndustryAdvisory Committee. The results of this survey showed that approximately 80% of thecommittee’s members expect that the graduates of the CET program should be knowledgeable inthe following areas of environmental

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schoolsduring the year. In addition, these individuals are responsible for advocating systems change inscience and mathematics instruction. Based on emerging views of pedagogy in these areas,program representatives advocate hands-on, experiential-based, integrated activities in science andmathematics. In addition, a concept-heavy approach is emphasized in contrast with the traditionalread-test, facts-based approach.Teachers draw from their own area of expertise and then add adaptives and introduce NativeAmerican culture. Goals of the DREAMS program are as follows: 1) to increase professional,parent, and student awareness of the options available to Native Americans with disabilities in themathematics and science fields; 2) to enhance curriculum, hands

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. Page 4.277.1Global Congress DiscussionsEffective Teaching Methods - Several papers presented at the Global Congress stressedthe need for ongoing innovation in teaching and learning methodologies in engineeringeducation. It was noted in discussion that there needs to be variety and balance inteaching methods, and that technologies appropriate to the subject matter should beutilized. Laboratory development was stressed as a very important component ofengineering education, and the integration of lectures with laboratory experiences andproject work was identified as an ideal scenario.It was noted that often the laboratory facilities available for engineering educationbecome obsolete, when compared with the current state-of-the-art in industry

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. Mooreadvocated a laboratory-centered curriculum, as well as student active learning, a flexiblecurriculum, and a course better integrated with other disciplines.30 Although project-basedlaboratory instruction tends to be an integral part of many engineering programs, it has been usedless systematically in chemistry, particularly in General Chemistry. A literature search ofChemical Abstracts uncovered many descriptions of “project laboratories” concerning isolatedtopics, but individual work rather than collaboration was the norm and interdisciplinary focuswas lacking. More activity along this line is also evident in recent NSF proposal awards.31-34Objectives of the Chemprojects CurriculumThe Chemprojects curriculum has technical and pedagogical