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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

that constitute the technical core of the safetyand fire protection academic program. Simulation principles used in specific courses and itsapplication are described to illustrate the value of computer simulations in studentunderstanding of critical variables during fires.Integration of the program into the existing department curriculum was also an importantconsideration. The department offers three other engineering technology programs in fieldsthat are related to safety and fire protection. Courses from these programs were incorporatedinto the curriculum and enhanced with additional safety and fire protection considerations.Figure 1 shows students doing research on the effect of ambient temperature on the vitalfunctions of an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Pawley

to address the content ofengineering courses, which has changed only superficially. This is despite considerabletheoretical and practical critiques of science and engineering practice in academia that have beenmade by feminist researchers and educators. This paper introduces the field of feminist sciencestudies to engineering educators, discusses various explicitly feminist approaches to changingcontent in engineering, and challenges engineering educators to consider what a “feministengineering classroom” might consist of with respect to content.IntroductionUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison professor Caitilyn Allen is an unusual hybrid – jointlyappointed in plant pathology and women's studies, she blends these two apparently disparatefields

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jonathan Wickert; Jack Beuth

Web-Based Computer-Aided Engineering Tutorials Across the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Jonathan Wickert and Jack Beuth Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PAIntroductionA skill in demand for graduating engineering students is the ability to combine computationaltools, intuition, and fundamentals effectively. Those factors are arguably more critical now thanpreviously because today’s engineers are often expected to make significant design decisionsbefore any product testing can be done. This reality of industrial practice, where

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

the hopefor a favorable engineering job market four years later. If potential students understand that theiroptions include fields such as law, business, medicine, and education, the possibility of adownturn in the need for entry-level engineers will seem less ominous.4. What Constitutes a Computer Engineering Education?In developing an ECE curriculum the logical starting point would be the typical curricula forelectrical engineering and computer engineering majors. It is interesting to note that, to theauthors’ knowledge, nothing which could be referred to as an “EE Model Curriculum” exists.There is, however, an emerging model curriculum for computer engineering. The draftACM/IEEE model Computer Engineering curriculum6 presents a detailed

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

amuch larger scale, into the three-credit capstone course. The result of which was to allowstudents the opportunity to integrate what they have learned into practice by starting andoperating a simulated, or in some case, an actual, viable business. Based on theuniqueness of the approach by the faculty in the department and the desire tocontinuously improve the quality of education, the designed capstone curriculum musthave the following three distinctive characteristics: 1. That the curriculum ensures integration of all major courses in the program in the capstone course. Page 9.301.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

Portfolios and Digital Archiving: In an effort to eliminate problems that occurredusing the paper portfolios, electronic portfolios (E-portfolios) began to be utilized in fall 2001.Webpage authoring and construction of an online E-portfolio page accessible from a studentsWWW homepage is now an embedded part of the curriculum. Table 2 contains a list of therequired posts that are to be placed online prior to the end of the semester. This list representsthe minimum required E-portfolio content that is used in the assessment process and studentsmay supplement this material with other documents and from other courses, as many do.However, past experience has shown that by the time assessment was performed, many E-portfolios were either not assessable

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammed Zainulabeddin; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session No: 3550 Electrical And Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum From The System Design’s Perspective Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Essaid Bouktache, Ashfaq Ahmed Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323 Mohamed Zainulabeddin Electronics Corporation of India Limited, ECIL Post, Hyderabad - 500 062, IndiaAbstractTraditionally Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) curriculum startwith two courses in digital switching theory, one addresses combinational logic and theother

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Session 1793 An Example of Course and Program Outcome Assessment Amir Karimi, Keith Clutter, and Alberto Arroyo College of Engineering The University of Texas at San AntonioAbstractThis paper describes a process for systematic evaluation and updating of the undergraduateeducational objectives and outcomes of the engineering programs at the University of Texas atSan Antonio (UTSA). It describes a set of assessment tools, which includes surveyquestionnaires, test results, and interviews. The course objectives are defined and evaluated foreach subject in the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

. Severallaboratory experiments pertaining to sequencer functions are assigned to the students during thecourse of an academic quarter. Student feedbacks have been very positive for integrating theirknowledge gained during the classroom lectures in the laboratory. Page 9.1357.9 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Programmable Logic Controllers; Principles and Applications, By John Webb and Ronald Reis, Fifth Edition, 2003, Published by Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.2

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

processes. But doesthis force a decreased emphasis on chemical processes and continuous processes? Feedback fromalumni and from industry continues to indicate the need for an even greater emphasis on writtenand oral communication skills, as well as the ability to function well in teams and inmultidisciplinary environments. But does this require less emphasis on engineeringfundamentals? Students often have difficulty synthesizing material from various courses. Candesign content be introduced throughout the curriculum to help resolve this without adverseeffects? These are the types of issues that must be addressed by all departments when theyundergo their periodic program reviews.The chemical engineering department at New Jersey Institute of

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

students are successful in developing these skills. It is also necessary to assess theresults and progress of students as they move through the curriculum. These outcomes can bedifficult to precisely define and therefore assess, and in an effort to expend appropriate resourcesfor this task the ME faculty anticipate efficiencies from agreed-upon descriptions andmeasurement tools across the curriculum.2 Finally, the opportunity exists to make adjustmentsalong the students’ development path. Instead of observing a shortcoming in professional skillsin a senior year capstone course, measured results in the earlier years can allow timelycorrections to be made. This allows for the capstone course to be a truly integrative experienceinstead of last minute

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

students are allowed to select a research topic from alist of electrical and computer engineering buzz-words. In Lab 4, student teams are givenunique design challenges. As part of the design deliverables each team presents itsdesign and the challenges associated with it to the rest of the teams expanding both theirown presentation skills and the other teams’ technical knowledge simultaneouslyThe changes in the lab sequence were both motivated and constrained by the transitionfrom quarters to semesters. Preserving the integrity of student transition plans required aphased roll out of the new curriculum over two years. Each year’s curriculum wasdeployed behind an advancing group of students who were completing their degrees.Academic year 2000 – 2001

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

. servants whose Christian faith leads them to an engineering career of action and involvement, to personal piety, integrity, and social responsibility. Page 9.198.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5.2 Strong Liberal ArtsCalvin College has extensive general education requirements, taken by all students. It includesat least 23 courses with 68 credits over a broad range of human knowledge. It is not possible forthose students in the professional programs to take the

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

SESSION 3625 INTEGRATION OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING INTO A FRESHMAN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE Sohail Anwar, Todd Batzel, Ed Sell The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractEngineering Design and Graphics 100 (ED&G 100) is a project-based introduction toengineering design course for all freshman baccalaureate engineering students at the AltoonaCollege of the Pennsylvania State University. In this three credit-hour course, an engineeringapproach to problem solving is taught with an emphasis on team work, communication(graphical, oral, and written), creativity, ingenuity

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

employed to create simple one- andtwo-dimensional distributed hydrologic models. This can easily be integrated into a first-yearhydrology course and may allow for a better understanding of distributed problem solvingtechniques in later undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering coursework.Objectives This paper presents the development of an instructional framework to assess student (learner)understanding of basic spatially distributed data sets and modeling within an undergraduatebiological and agricultural engineering course at Texas A&M University. The instructionalframework presented is contained within six core domains, which may be categoricallysummarized as: 1. Learning Challenge and Learning Objectives 2. Authentic

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

" Session 3453 Service-learning, which integrates community service with academic learning, has thepotential to integrate many of these aspects in the curriculum. The pedagogy is consistent withthe literature on recruitment and retention of women in science and engineering with its socialcontext; emphasis on general educational goals including communication; employment ofcooperative and interdisciplinary approaches; and problems with a “holistic, global scope”(Noddings, 1992; Rosser, 1990; Rosser, 1995). Matyas and Malcolm (1991) and Oakes,Gamoran, and Page (1992) suggest that many of the same factors are relevant for attracting andretaining minorities. In a UCLA study of retention of engineers in general, it is suggested thatone factor

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

Session 3157 Using a Communication Lab to Integrate Workplace Communication into Senior Design* Judith Shaul Norback, Joel S. Sokol, Garlie A. Forehand, Beverly Sutley-Fish School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractRecently engineering students whose training has traditionally focused on preparing them for thetechnical aspect of the workplace are receiving more instruction in communication. SeniorDesign courses offer an excellent

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma; Cheng Lin

1793 Session Enhancing MET Curriculum with Applied Research Experience for Faculty - Parametric Study of Water Jet Cutting (WJC) Processes – A Case Study Alok K. Verma, Cheng Y. Lin Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Carl J. Voglewede, Mike E. Tall Technology Development and Integration Branch NASA Langley Research CenterAbstract In today’s global competitive environment, the engineering technology curriculum must adoptand

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

, software, and firmware aspects of microcomputers are covered in detail. RIT: (B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology) There is an increasing requirement in industry for graduates with an in-depth knowledge of both hardware and software design and development. The program bridges the gap between hardware and software by providing a solid foundation in both and tying the disciplines together with a curriculum that has intensive classroom and laboratory components. From a software perspective, students are provided with a strong background in leading edge development using programming languages that are fully entrenched in industry. Students learn industry standard approaches to application software development as well as state-of

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Baumann

section,which was easily filled.New activities introduced into the classroom could be classified into three categories:informative, instructional, and support services. Informative elements included a generalengineering technology curriculum review, a welcome and membership invitation by studentleaders of the technical student organizations on campus, and a session with the Career Servicesorganization. Instructional workshops were given on required academic integrity, proper timemanagement, and the role of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in design team buildingand team dynamics. Several student support services of the university were introducedspecifically those of The Learning Center and those offered by Prevention and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

market share, and improved profitability.According to a report by the Conference Board, a business membership organization, “Amajority of large U.S. firms have used the criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National QualityAward for self-improvement, and the evidence suggests a long-term link between use of theBaldrige criteria and improved business performance.”Integration of the Baldrige Criteria Performance Excellence into the Capstone DesignExperience:Initial discussions between the RICPE and the SECCM focused on whether or not integration ofthe Baldrige National Quality Program into the senior capstone design curriculum wasappropriate and would enhance the design experience. Two factors tilted the decision in favor ofintegration. First, the

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

learning. More specifically, in the required sophomore course (Problem Solving) the emphasis is on self assessment, problem solving, creativity and self confidence. In the two junior courses (Process model formulation and solution and Simulation, modeling and problem solving) the emphasis is on problem solving, team skills, conflict resolution and lifelong learning. In the senior course (Engineering economics and problem solving) the focus is on chairperson, lifelong learning, trouble shooting and defining and solving open-ended problems. Self assessment is an integral part of all of these courses. Workshops are used in these courses to develop the target skills, although small group, self directed, self assessed problem-based learning, PBL, is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

students with the necessaryfundamentals to be able to solve technical problems for industry and society thoroughlyengaging students in this process.The SET curriculum design was prepared, reviewed, and approved by the faculty of the ETMDand Computer Science (CS) Departments and by the University’s undergraduate affairs council.Curricular goals identified by the Advisory Board with members from both local and regionalindustries were also incorporated in the design. These included integrating new learningstrategies and problem solving techniques, obtaining active local and regional industryparticipation in the program, and creating a recruitment and retention plan for underrepresentedstudents.Specific accomplishments included: • Formation of an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers have laboratory exercises as integral part ofthe course. Some other courses, such as heat transfer and thermodynamics, would benefit from alaboratory where key principles can be demonstrated. We plan to build a process bench wheremany of the above mentioned experiments may be conducted and principles demonstrated.Additionally, the program as a whole would benefit from an installation where a series ofequipment are interconnected as one sees in an industrial situation. An integrated set up wouldalso provide the students an opportunity to combine a variety of lessons they learn in seeminglyunconnected courses. Engineering Technology students in various courses are helping in designand construction of parts of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Kowalski; Paul Santi

Exploration class at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and we have used the computerprogram for two years (2002-2003) in a Site Investigation class at the Colorado School of Mines,impacting over 140 students. Students have overwhelmingly supported the use of simulatedinvestigations, and they recognize the value of integrating their knowledge and applying it tosolve complex, open-ended problems. [1] As one of several methods to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, we created an open-ended assessment test to gauge an individual’s abilities to plan and carry out a site investigation.Because the test also requests information on educational background and work experience, it is

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

design is based upon the special mathematics background, most IT/computerrecommended computing curriculum by IEEE Computer science departments in major universities offer the courseSociety/ACM Task Force, also referred to as CC2001. A for graduate students. However, we have designed theset of lab activity experiments have been presented that course to be offered for junior/senior level undergraduatecan be adopted very easily in a traditional fifteen week IT students [4].semester offering. Unlike the IT program at UAE University, most CS programs require

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

freq response function is shown in Fig. 8. For this example, thediscrete frequency response will be sampled at 100 Hz intervals over the valid frequencyrange with an 8 KHz sampling frequency. 30 ms of data will be measured for each samplefrequency, and as in the previous examples, 17 bits of resolution is selected by using a scalingfactor of 65535. The output of this function is plotted in Fig. 4b along with the theoreticalfrequency response generated in Matlab.4.2 FPGA InterfaceOn the FPGA side, five drop–in VHDL modules provide the complete interface to the USBport and the Matlab toolbox described in the previous section. As shown in Fig. 8, thelow–level USB module communicates directly with the Philips PDIUSBD12 integrated chip,which

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

likelihood of theirsuccess in a conventional programming class in a future semester. Equally significant, the coursemaintains student participation in the technical curriculum and will therefore be likely toimprove student retention. Other students seeking Matlab instruction, additional problem-solvingdevelopment, or an introduction to elementary game programming are also invited to enroll. Thecourse has also been accepted as a technical elective for non-engineering majors but is notapplicable toward the college’s Engineering Technology or Engineering Science degrees.The structure, curriculum, and class project used in the initial offering of the course are presentedin this paper. The real centerpiece of the course was a collaborative class project

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

selecting a project in the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringprevious section, as well as issues students may confront that have an ethical dimension. Ingeneral, we rely on the ethical training our students have received as part of the engineeringcurriculum30 and supply an additional reading specifically on engineering professionalismoverseas.31 Other course readings described above also ask many questions related toengineering ethics that are discussed and integrated into student writing assignments over thecourse of the semester.There is a

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

Session 2142 KEY ELEMENTS IN DEVELOPING AN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT P. B. Ravikumar Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WIAbstractThe University of Wisconsin - Platteville offers a completely online Master of Engineeringprogram. The curriculum consists of core courses, technical emphasis courses, and electivecourses. The curriculum is enhanced consistently through improvements in existing courses andthe introduction of