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Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

offered 14HP engines from its surplus inventory at aprice of $10 per horsepower. These brand new engines included an on-board starter/ignitionswitch, solid-state charging system, counterbalance shaft, integral fuel pump, and 2-gallon fueltank. Prototype work earlier in the year revealed that all of these additional features were worthyof serious consideration. The integral fuel pump, in particular, was necessary for inclusion of arotometer-type instantaneous fuel consumption display. It was installed after the fuel pumpusing automotive fuel lines, and placed next to the tachometer display. Additionally, the startingand counterbalance features made the overall system much less intimidating to some students,particularly women in the program

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

the way.V. The Proposal of the ProjectThe present proposal of an Engineering Program of SENAC School of Engineering andTechnology has emerged inserted in a context of international integration, of deep and radicalchanges in producing systems and society. To defeat the demand of a changing work market,more than ever it is necessary to have a constant modernization of a curriculum. Attempt to that ,the Telecommunication Engineering Program was elaborated so that it is possible any change inthe curriculum that is necessary to modernize the program 3.This Program contains in its curriculum what was named "free period". It is called so because itis a time when the students have to attend classes in the several other areas of knowledge in oneof the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

other tasks which leave them little time to do any productivedesign work. Because of these extra responsibilities, it is critical that the technologist andtechnician be well versed in these topics. Technologists will be immersed in the integration andrelationships of these topics. They will spend time creating geometry, managing databases,integrating systems, and exploring down-stream uses for the model. They will be immersed inlaboratory exercises to emphasize these topics throughout their formal education. Techniciansmay not cover the breadth of material that engineers and technologists deal with, but they willexplore, with a great deal of depth, several of the topics of the aforementioned curriculum model,such as geometry creation techniques

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Ossman

complicatedmatrix manipulations and integral calculations. II. Modeling SystemsThe course begins with modeling of several types of systems including electrical circuits,mechanical translational systems, motors, a robot gripper, an inverted pendulum on a cart, andpitch control for a helicopter using both differential equations and state variable models 2,3.Students have been exposed to system modeling using differential equations and transferfunctions in the pre-requisite courses, but state equations are an entirely new concept. In courseassignments and in lab, students build models of systems in SIMULINK using both transferfunction blocks and state space blocks in order to better understand the similarities between thesesystem models. In MATLAB

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

addressing a need in the industrial sector. It was arequirement that course related cooperative-work assignments play an integral role in this newcurriculum. The idea was to not only create a new curriculum of courses, but a “new” andmodern way of presenting the materials in these courses. This was the “birth” of the “Lecture-Laboratory” venue at Northeastern University. This venue allowed students to gain technicalexpertise via standard lectures along with “hands-on” experience during the same class period. Itcalled for the application of the “engineering team” design process to solve design andapplication problems.It was proposed that an Industrial Control Systems program be initiated as the first of theseexperimental courses. While clearly the

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

their abilities of applyingtheir skills in the global context with success.The courses last a period of four months each and the professionals are invited and hiredspecially for this program.. They can be a physician or mathematician or biologist or even apsychologist. There is also an evaluation of the student for each course and a minimum score topass to next year is required. At the end of the program the student will be a professional withfull formation in Electrical Engineer, with strong knowledge in bioengineering, and medicineand health, besides management, economy and law.VII. Evaluation of Student Knowledge AchievementThe main feedback to the necessary adjustments for the betterment of the curriculum and thecontent of every course is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

– we should not be focused on manual drawings but should be looking at how well students can visualize and create 3D models.Doug Baxter – if graphics is integrated across the curriculum when should you give a pre- and post-test and a knowledge/skills test?Development WorkAssuming that the Krueger test is available and that we can combine it with the Sorby test tocreate a bank of test questions, we will explore creation of a Web site that could randomly pick45 – 50 questions to be used as a pre- and post-test. The questions would be put into electronicform and would be checked against the current ANSI standards.Additional work will be done on questions for the skills/knowledge test. These will developedso that there are sets of multiple

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

philosophy of integrating the life sciences with engineering topical material,undergraduate BME programs include courses in mathematics, the physical and life sciences,engineering sciences (e.g. electric circuits, heat transfer) and a group of specialty BME courses.The latter may include biomechanics, biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, biotransport processes,BME laboratory and a senior design experience among other areas.Not surprisingly, as students at major universities become knowledgeable of the existence of anundergraduate BME program (e.g. via catalog or web site review), they consider the utility of aninterdisciplinary degree in BME for the pursuit of careers other than the traditional set listedabove. In particular, it has been common for

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

Session 2630 A Conceptual Framework for Progressively Developing Students' Team and Problem Solving Skills Across the Curriculum Michael Prince, Michael Hanyak, Brian Hoyt, Daniel C. Hyde, E.J. Mastascusa, William Snyder, T. Michael Toole, Mathew Higgins, Steve Shooter, Marie Wagner, Margot Vigeant, Maurice Aburdene Bucknell UniversityAbstractProject Catalyst is an NSF-funded initiative to promote systemic change in engineeringeducation by utilizing proven instructional design techniques, transforming the classroom into anactive

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity. He received the BS degree in EE from Damascus University, Syria and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in EEfrom Tennessee Technological University. He is the current team leader of the Nashville Tech. team and activelyengaged in curriculum development for technology education. He has written and co-authored several case studies.He is also conducting research in the area of mass spectrometry, power electronics, lasers, and instrumentation. Page 7.354.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Steven Parks; Krisnamurthy Jayaraman; Edward Evans; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Charles Petty; Andre Benard

University,and the University of Tulsa. The objective of the project is to develop a new curriculum for teachingundergraduate and graduate students multiphase computational fluid dynamics for advanced design.The impact of multiphase flow research on solving practical engineering problems is an integral partof the learning experience. Industrial participants in the project provide specific design problemsrelated to emerging technologies. Students are taught the fundamentals of computational fluiddynamics (CFD) during a one-week workshop. This is followed by an Internet course on multiphasetransport phenomena. The students work in teams on CFD design problems with a faculty andindustrial mentor. The salient results of this NSF/CRCD project are

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Andrew Kline

curriculum. Typically, the design course is designated ascommunication-intensive; such is the case with the design course reviewed here. Other non-technical issues these courses often address are engineering professionalism, awareness of socialissues, engineering ethics, and global awareness. Addressing these topics in design projects withknowledge of industry needs and opportunities for direct application in corporate settingsprovides motivation, reinforces learning, and demonstrates the integration of these crucial issueswithin genuine professional practice.In capstone design courses, communication activities are usually presented in some industry-likescenario. While this may provide a more interesting context within which students

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Walker; Chang Kim; Caye Drapcho

environment for modeling and solving scientific and engineering problemsbased on partial differential equations (PDEs). FEMLAB integrates computation, visualization,and programming in an easy-to-use environment. FEMLAB frequently uses MATLAB’s syntaxand data structures. One benefit of this integration is that you can save and export FEMLABmodels as MATLAB programs that run directly in that environment, which allows the freedomto combine FEM-based modeling, simulation, analysis with other engineering algorithms.Application of FEM to Biological Engineering Problems – Student Project An ion exchange model with linear driving force was developed to describe colorremoval from a biological mixture using ion exchange resins. Color removal in ion

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myron (Ron) Britton

University of Manitoba. Since thenadditional Chairs have been announced, with an ultimate target of 16 programs in universitiesacross Canada.Definition of Design EngineeringIn the Guide for Applicants issued by NSERC, Design Engineering is defined as; “. . . the enabler of innovation. It is the activity that creates the concepts and designs, and develops the new and improved products, processes and technologies that are needed in industry and in other sectors of the economy.”The Guide goes further to note that; “Design engineering is concerned with the design and development of new and improved products, processes and technologies that satisfy specified requirements in an effective and efficient manner.”Given

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

strongfoundation of interdisciplinary concepts supported in a learning community of students andfaculty members. An Integrated Interdisciplinary Program (IIP) that includes electronics,mathematics, writing/reading, and computing skills was designed and implemented in theenvironment of a learning community that emphasized collaborative learning and team work.This program, which is known as the Foundations of Technology Program [NSF Award: DUE99-50019 Advanced Technology Education], is truly an integrated curriculum since the studentsexperience it as a single entity and not as a group of separate experiences. The integration ofcourses and the environment of a learning community has had a dramatic positive impact onretention, which has already increased

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Donna Carlon

team-related roles assumed by the male and female members of the teams. An initial smallsample study of six teams confirmed some of our expectations and expanded others. As expected,the male members of the teams concentrated on task functions. Female team members focused onboth task and team functions, thereby providing a more integrated approach to the engineeringdesign process. Because of the small sample size, we draw no conclusions. But these resultspoint clearly to the need for expanded study of the teamwork model.Introduction and Overview of Our Study The benefits of teamwork are widely recognized in both academic and industryenvironments. Research has shown that the success of student teams relies not only on theindividual

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

Integrating Modeling and Numerical Analysis into Systems-Level Design Joseph C. Musto and Vincent C. Prantil Mechanical Engineering Department Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe development of systems-level design experiences is a challenge in the design of an undergraduateMechanical Engineering curriculum. One key challenge is the coupling of the more analyticalcoursework component of the curriculum with creative design experiences. Traditional capstonedesign experiences involve a great deal of creative design, prototyping, debugging, and testing, butare sometimes weak in the use of mathematical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Smaili

, engineers face ongoing challenges to produce complexengineering systems with a high-level of performance, reliability, value and price. The ability ofengineers to persevere in this highly competitive atmosphere hinges on their ability to integrate anumber of technologies. Mechatronics provides the answer to this challenge and serve to bestaccomplish this integration from the earliest stages of the design process. As entrepreneurialventures play important role in economic growth in the era of globalization, mechanicalengineers equipped with skills in mechatronics and embedded systems are more likely to engagein such ventures. This paper presents a model for integrating mechatronics education intoMechanical Engineering curriculum. A strong component

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

and the NationalInstitutes of Health in recent years 4, the research will soon make bio-based process engineeringcommon practice and will be required for all chemical engineering students. The interfacebetween biology/biochemistry and chemical engineering requires little additional basic science,but exposure of students to these topics may open up doors to achieve new products such asbetter sensing devices for poison monitors, optimizing fermentation and cellular bioreactors, andcreation of environmentally-sound energy alternatives. The biochemical engineering class, at its simplest, introduces concepts related tobiochemistry and brings together much of the chemical engineering curriculum so that studentscan see an important

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Bernhardt; Paul Imhoff; Michael Pearlman; Diane Kukich; Darren O'Neill; Michael Chajes

) began collaborating with the Business andTechnical Writing Program of the English Department to determine how to enhance writtencommunication within the civil and environmental engineering curricula. The effort resulted inidentification of a two-pronged approach: (1) a general attempt to integrate writing into thecurriculum during all four years of study; and (2) a specific effort to make the advancedtechnical writing course more discipline-relevant by piloting a case-based version tailored tocivil engineers. The remainder of this paper provides an overview of these two complementaryapproaches to improving the ability of engineering students to communicate effectively.Integration of Writing Into Engineering CurriculaAt UD, students in CEE may

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Lugowski

Session 1449 Development of a Competency-Based Introductory Course in Fluid Power Jan T. Lugowski Purdue UniversityAbstractA project to develop a novel curriculum for the associate degree in manufacturing engineeringtechnology has been funded by the National Science Foundation. The Sinclair CommunityCollege in Dayton, OH, coordinates the development work of the course. The focus of thecurriculum development process is to create an industry-driven, competency-based, modularlystructured, and integrated curriculum.One of the last modules to be developed is the fluid power module

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

in a metacognitive process about their learning strategies. At the beginning of thesemester, texts on learning strategies, reading, concept mapping, emotional competencies, changeand stress were distributed to each student and discussed in the classroom. We emphasized theimportance for students not only to monitor their performance during the semester but also to lookback on their learning strategies and, if necessary, to improve them. To that end, we askedstudents to periodically write in a personal learning journal their thoughts about their learningstrategies. As an incentive, we told them that, as one of their final exams, they would have towrite a 7 to 10-page essay about their learning strategies. They were also informed that they

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gadalla

Page 7.95.7Fig 3 The Proposed Program of Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing Technology at Kean University Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education5. ConclusionIn this a paper a systematic methodology is proposed when designing an i ndustrial Technologyprogram. The curriculum design reflects the three main constituents of a technical program:(Science, Application and Hands-on). It is believed that following this approach will maximizethe output of the Industrial Technology graduates and improve his/her competitive edge in thejob market.6. References1. Nait web site [http

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

engineering students,and they select a major at the end of the freshman year. The first year curriculum is essentiallyidentical for all students and the Division of Engineering Fundamentals serves as their home.The Division’s 13 faculty teach the two first-year engineering classes (EF1015 and EF1016) anda variety of sophomore level programming and graphics classes. EF1015 and EF1016 are both 2credit hour courses typically offered in the fall and spring, respectively. In addition to teaching,EF faculty are the advisors of the 1200+ first year students.BackgroundUntil the fall of 2001, EF1015 topics included ethics, the engineering profession, problemsolving, programming with MatLab, statics; material balance; electricity; and energy.Traditional EF1016

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ronna Turner; Greg Salamo

with anever-increasing scope of technical knowledge while also being asked to train them inmanagement related skills that have not been part of a traditional curriculum. All of this must beaccomplished without any increase in academic hours required for degree completion, resultingin a boundary condition type problem that defies traditional academic approaches to a solution.The University of Arkansas defined in 1998 an experimental education approach to this problemin a newly defined interdisciplinary technology graduate program in Microelectronics-Photonics(microEP). This solution fosters management skills development without intruding on theacademic hours needed for academic courses in technology. The simple, yet profound, heart ofthis

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

and studied widely and became one of the very few who have been able toarticulate a convincing, original systems theory of human society. Today, the association ofbiological evolution with societal evolution by analogy is well established but Boulding’sambition was greater. He went beyond analogy to build a theory that integrated physical,* Two reviewers of this paper questioned its relevance to engineering management education andpractice. It is an attempt to use advances in evolutionary biology and paleontology, as interpretedby Kenneth Boulding, to provide a framework for examining strategic issues confronted bytechnical managers. In my view, the subject is relevant.Another reviewer maintained that my "premise that '… formal strategic

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

. These include: 1) active project-based learning inside and outside of the classroom, 2) increased student-teacher dialog, 3) horizontal and vertical integration of subject matter, 4) introduction of mathematical and scientific concepts in the context of engineering, and 5) the broad use of information technology.The causes of and proposed solutions to the dissatisfaction with the exposure to chemistry andother scientific disciplines for engineering students, without assigning blame, requires anexamination of the differences between a scientist and an engineer. A scientist is one whodiscovers new principles of nature through a systematic system of observation, experimentation,and study. An engineer puts the

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

dean of engineering formed an ad-hoc committee on thecommon curriculum. While there seemed to be a shared opinion that the current coursewas unsatisfactory, there was no consensus as to the direction in which the course shouldbe taken. The ad-hoc committee commissioned a survey of the engineering faculty whichfocused on three areas: A) What should be the educational objectives of this course, B)What specific course content should be included, and C) How should the college allocateteaching resources to implement this course? The results of this survey were assembled ina report, which was distributed to the faculty. This process facilitated the formation of ashared vision as to the intent and delivery of the course.Due in part to the support by

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

understanding of concepts. 6-7 Therefore,it is necessary to create for students an authentic context of activities and applications in whichlearning can occur.In the process of reforming the aerospace engineering curriculum, we believed that we needed todevelop a multi-year, team-based capstone design course with CDIO experiences. Thedepartment has two other required capstone courses. One is a two-semester laboratory course inwhich teams of two or three students conduct experimental research projects. The other is adesign course in which groups of 15 to 25 students work together on a paper design of a large-scale complex aerospace system. They differ from the CDIO Capstone Course in that thelaboratory course focuses on experimental research rather than

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahadur Khan Khpolwak; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthe typical salary for a government employee is about $15 per month, while an engineer caneasily make $150 per month working for an NGO.II. CrriculumThe faculty of Engineering in Herat is following the same curriculum that was designed for theFaculty of Engineering in Kabul in 1972. The only difference is the addition of some non-technical subjects and offering of a five-year program in four years.The ministry of Higher Education in Afghanistan recognizes the program and the President ofHerat University signs on the diplomas. The curriculum in its current form is too heavy and somecourses are not offered in the right sequence. In order to