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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

member with extensive experience ineducational leadership, the RAISE project aims to enhance science, technology, engineering, andmath (STEM) skills of high school students. Undergraduate and graduate students (RAISEfellows) have been placed in four NYC public high schools—George Westinghouse, MartaValle, Paul Robeson, and Seward Park—to implement the project’s goals. The primary objective of the project is to enhance student achievement in science ingeneral and prepare them to succeed on standardized exams, such as the Regents Exams ofPhysics and Living Environment [3]. The project is founded upon the philosophy that thedevelopment and delivery of an inspiring and engaging STEM curriculum, which integrates

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

significance of the Eastern E&D Department's EE Program derives from three interrelatedelements: • A special niche (in Washington State a high industrial demand for graduates, a small number of EE graduates, and an increasing pool of potential students) exists for employment of EE graduates in Washington State. • A best-practices approach integrating “experience-based learning,” defined as both service learning and industry collaboration, throughout the curriculum will be used and will serve as the cornerstone of the program. • The program will invite participation from a broad cross section of the communities Eastern serves, creating an opportunity to improve both workforce diversity and the number of

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Norma Mattei

Is Covering Ethics in an Analysis Class Effective? Norma Jean Mattei, Ph.D., P.E. University of New OrleansAbstractMost engineering educators will agree that engineering ethics is an important component of acomplete undergraduate engineering education. There are many approaches as to how to coverethics in an engineering curriculum. Some programs have elected to cover ethics in a requiredthree credit hour lecture course, sometimes taught by a philosophy department instructor. Manyothers have a piece-meal method of delivering ethics education to students. In this scenario, thestudents may have an introductory lecture as part of an intro to engineering class

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

. He is Founder and President of the Iowa State University chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World he worked to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. He is currently working for Opus West Construction Corporation as an Associate Project Manager in Pleasanton, California. MANI MINA is an adjunct assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and the director of Spacecraft Systems and Operation Laboratory (SSOL) at Iowa State University. He has been a recipient of several teaching and research awards. His research interests include physical layer measurements and testing, optical networking, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and innovative methods of teaching technology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

and design activities, versus the splitting of each course in at least two components. • The teaching of the course in an integrated class-studio-lab setup. • The keeping of one course at a level usually fit for electrical engineering students for all engineering students in the department.These choices spring from the philosophy and needs of the engineering education atElizabethtown College, where a broad curriculum is viewed as a major strength and small sizeclasses are usually offered. These choices are also compatible with the practical perspective ofhow many courses, overall, the department can teach with its current faculty

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2247 SIMULINK Laboratory Exercises In Communication Technology Jai P. Agrawal, Omer Farook and C.R. Sekhar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstract In this paper, we present simulation exercises with emphasis on learning to build blocksand subsystems and integrating them into a communication system. Through these exercises, thestudents learn to build communication subsystems from the basic building blocks that areavailable in the SIMULINK library. The subsystems are built as close approximation

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

A New Approach for an Undergraduate Mechanics of Materials Course that Integrates Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design Joseph J. Rencis, Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract This paper presents a description of a first undergraduate course in mechanics ofmaterials. Although many of the features of this course have been used by other faculty andpresented formally in textbooks, the authors believe they have united them in a way thatproduces a course that is unique and innovative. The title of the paper includes Theory,Analysis, Verification and Design to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

public domain, give the instructor a very flexible andextensive platform and a considerable gain in coverage and throughput. Similar benefits maybe derived from use of the spreadsheet environment. In this paper the two are integrated toform a platform that yields considerable perspective and insight into both the circuit domainand the device domain, whether as an educational platform or as an analysis platform. Page 10.186.2Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Simulation/spreadsheet utility applied

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

computer laboratory sessions usedto present these select MATLAB commands, and the class room materials are presentedaccording to schedule such that the virtual laboratory work is integrated for studentexperience of these subject materials.During the first semester, the classroom materials and the MATLAB laboratory exerciseswere out of synchronization. This synchronization is now achieved in the subsequentsemesters of the offering. Until now, it has been offered for four semesters including thecurrent 2005 spring semester.The testing of understanding of the control materials with the introduction of thelaboratory exercises showed an improvement among students’ understanding of thesubject materials. There is definitely a success in the use of above

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Session Number 2548 Robots and Microprocessors: Increasing Student Interest in Introductory Programming Gregory M. Dick University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownBackgroundInstruction in computer programming has been a required component of the EngineeringTechnology curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) since itsinception in the early 1970s. In the 1970’s the programming language was FORTRANand the primary goals of the course were to give the students a firm grounding in thebasics of: problem solving algorithm development program design

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

laboratory is configured for a minimum of six teaching stations.The laboratory has proven its value in providing a transition from fundamentalexperiments and demonstrations to an actual process tool, e.g. oxide etcher. Along withPCC’s MT 223 Vacuum Systems course, these courses cover the two most importantenabling technologies in the manufacture of integrated circuits.Over the past three years, graduates of PCC’s Microelectronics Technology program Page 10.774.6have continued to be hired by Intel Corporation, Oregon’s largest high-tech employer. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

related fields, computerengineering and computer science. Each of these fields now enjoys a mature curriculum, withbaccalaureate degrees offered at a large number of institutions. In the U.S. in 2004 there were173 ABET-accredited computer engineering and related baccalaureate programs5, and 206ABET-accredited computer science baccalaureate programs4. (Computer Science programs wereinitially accredited starting in 1986 by the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board; ABET andCSAB “integrated” in 2002, with CSAB now existing as the lead professional society forcomputing and software engineering programs.) The early growth of both these programs,however, was at a slow rate:• From 1971 to 1979, the number of ABET-accredited computer engineering and

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

educational side, it was easy to integrate the course projects into our classes because ofour previous commitment to include service learning as part of the curriculum. The servicelearning projects also provide the students an appreciation for the importance of being part oftheir community, which they will hopefully continue throughout their professional careers.However, except for the student interns, one shortcoming was that the course projects were notdone by multidiscipline teams. Each project was worked on either by art, architect, orengineering students who were enrolled in that particular class. These projects were done inparallel with very little integration. The only integration was when the art and architecturestudents met together and the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bryant

Microprocessors and Computers are inlarge part applications of electronic signal processing. It can be reasonably stated thatsignal processing is the common link between nearly all of the major technical courses ina contemporary Electrical or Electronic Engineering curriculum. Integrating Traditional Circuit Analysis and Circuit Analysis Emphasizing Signal Processing ConceptsAn example of integrating traditional circuit analysis and a signal processing approachcan be illustrated in the use of the voltage divider rule. A traditional circuit analysiscourse typically demonstrates how the voltage divider rule can be used to determine thevoltage at any point in a series configuration as illustrated in Figure 3

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Moslehpour

Education Annual Conference, & Exposition Copyright, © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 3. NI ELVIS UnitNI ELVIS comes with an interface cable to a VISA data acquisition card that must be installed ina PC running a development version of LabVIEW. NI ELVIS units are supplied with a suite ofvirtual instrument panels (VIPs) that must be loaded into LabVIEW. To simplify the userinterface, we integrated all of the VIPs onto one browser window. Using bookmarks, we wereable to switch from one instrument to another. Figure 4 shows a screen shot of the oscilloscopeVIP. Figure 4. NI ELVIS Oscilloscope Virtual Instrument PanelThe NI ELVIS unit was located in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

enhance the educational value for the student an 8 lab sequence that culminates withthe completion of a project was developed. Each lab develops one important module of the overallproject. The final lab would integrates each module into a complete system for final verification andvalidation.To implement the display project and expose the student to leading edge technology, a new platformwas selected. Over the summer of 2003 many FPGA platforms were analyzed and the Avnet Spartan IIEXC2S200E platform was selected as shown in Figure 1.(1) The board was designed by Avnets DesignServices division.The second part of the platform development was to integrate a color display with the FPGA platform.The goal was to expose students to a quarter VGA TFT

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

-view bias25. extend initial synthesis, when possible, at a higher level of abstraction to construct new hypotheses that may require additional information26. draw conclusions based upon information gatheredProject PlanThe major issues facing any educator when developing new instructional modules are when andhow to teach the material and how to assess what has been done. These issues are addressed inthis project plan.Place in CurriculumInformation literacy skills can be taught in a for-credit library course, or through variousassignments integrated throughout the curriculum. The literature supports the latter approach.Dupuis (1997) states that “most librarians agreed that broad information literacy skills are besttaught within the academic

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

outreach.ConclusionsThis DIT project allows Rowan engineering faculty and students to integrate new technologyinto the current engineering courses. The project has allowed the development of digitalimaging curriculum and a digital imaging laboratory/studio to facilitate the use of DIT inteaching and learning activities for undergraduate engineering students. K-12 outreach has alsobeen an exciting component of the DIT project. The colors and numbers module is very wellreceived by middle school girls. Currently two more modules are still being developed in thearea of nanotechnology and thermodynamics. The web is being used to disseminate informationand allowing other institutions to adopt the developed experiments

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

integratedapproach is required. Such integration has typically been achieved by injecting engineeringapplication into the freshman calculus sequence, sometimes in concert with a freshmanengineering course. While integrating engineering application into the freshman calculus sequence is a stepin the right direction, it is proposed herein that a more radical approach is required, involving alarge-scale restructuring of the engineering curriculum. The WSU model begins with the development of a freshman-level engineeringmathematics course (EGR 101). Taught by engineering faculty, the course includes lecture,laboratory and recitation components. Using an application-oriented, hands-on approach, EGR

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

” and Markovian techniquesare seen throughout this earlier textbook. While the authors may be dinosaurs clinging to thepast, the importance of integrating Markov Chains into an M&S course cannot be overlooked. Infact, there are at least nine simulation programs in use that are based on Markov principles:CARE III (Computer Aided Reliability Estimation), CARE RBD Markov Model, CARMS(Computer-Aided Rate Modeling and Simulation), CARSA (Computer Aided Redundant SystemReliability Analysis), MARKOV1 (Decision Systems Associates), MKV, PC Availability(Markov), RAP (Reliability and Availability Program), and SURE (Semi-Markov UnreliabilityRange Evaluator). While the programmers of these simulation tools understand Markovprinciples, they did not

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Benjamin Brannaka

active components such asdiodes, operational amplifiers, transistors, and their applications. Thus, the associated laboratoryis an integral part of the student’s learning process. With this said, the ENTC 350 lab consists often two-hour experiments and two four-hour (two weeks) experiments. Unfortunately, two hoursis a relatively short amount of time for students to perform complex lab experiments. For example, in one of the lab experiments the students investigate active filters. Thestudents have two two-hour lab sessions to complete this experiment. This includes designingseveral filter variations, simulating them in PSpice, implementing them on a breadboard,debugging them, and finally testing them and playing “what-if” scenarios by

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McDonald

in 1988 and which has been used as the basis fornumerous small changes in a variety of programs at that institution. Brodeur (2002) outlined aportfolio-based assessment program that was developed for evaluating outcomes of a revisedcurriculum of the Aeronautics and Astronautics engineering program at MIT.A number of authors have proposed and used portfolios to assess student progress in singlecourses and to assess achievement of specific outcomes across subsets of courses in engineeringprograms. Gunn, et al. (1997) describe how a portfolio was used to assess the effectiveness of a Page 10.1392.1first year integrated curriculum. In

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Om Agrawal; Fred Fontaine

Engineering Education.number of electrical engineering students, including a significant number of students in theirsophomore year, elect to take an upper level course in linear algebra.Linear algebra is very useful for required electrical engineering courses including: digitalsignal processing, control systems, communication theory. It is relevant for a number ofelective courses as well, including: digital video, adaptive filters, and wavelets. The course onlinear algebra treats vector spaces over arbitrary fields including finite fields. The latter isneeded in communication coding. Moreover, infinite dimensional linear spaces (Hilbert space)are considered because of their relevance to signal processing and communications.A second elective course

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

Session 3215 Incorporating Earth Systems Engineering Concepts throughout the Civil Engineering Degree to create the Engineer of the 21 st Century Angela R. Bielefeldt, Bernard Amadei, R. Scott Summers University of Colorado, Dept. Civil, Environmental, & Arch. EngineeringAbstractWe propose to integrate Earth Systems Engineering (ESE) into Civil Engineering (CVEN)curriculum at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) by including ESE concepts in existingcourses. This will include every year of the B.S. degree and cross all of the sub-disciplines. Theinitiative emphasizes the role of civil, environmental and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Resnick

] notes, that most engineers receive just one service course wherein theylearn the syntax of a language.This limited and language-centric education results in today’s engineer, someone who can causea program to print “Hello World”, count to ten in a loop, and sum the elements of an array, butwho does not know when to use an array or what to put into the array to solve a problem.There are two problems: one is the single course limitation, and the second is the content. Piper, Page 10.1235.1Castle, Fuller and Awyzio [3] address the second problem by proposing a hybrid approach to thecore curriculum for the University of Wollongong, which

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

emergencyrepair of ruptured natural gas pipelines. University application of this interest includes instruction in thefollowing courses: Machine Design, Statics and Dynamics, Intro. to Design and Intro. to Product Design aswell as student Capstone Design Projects. He is also the Faculty Advisor for the Student’s Mini-Bajavehicle competition. He and his colleagues have instituted a Capstone Senior Design Project course forengineering technology students that includes an integrated group of Computer, Electrical and MechanicalEngineering Technology students. He has also structured an Intro. to Product Design course for non-engineering majors as part of the University’s new School of Technological Entrepreneurship .In 2002 Prof. Di Bella was awarded the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

modular fixturing components and samples of fixture configurationdesigns, therefore setup planning and fixture planning are not currently addressed inToolTRAIN© courseware. The implementation unit in ToolTRAIN© contains five projects basedon different part geometry (see Table 1). The use of animation series in the implementation unitis very helpful for student learning especially when several modular fixture components aremoved into a final configuration. Figure 4 shows an example screen of the implementation unit.Quiz UnitAssessment of student knowledge and its congruence with stated objectives is an integral part ofcourseware development7. Therefore, the last teaching unit in ToolTRAIN© is a quiz wherestudents test their knowledge through

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

execution of the project, while the instructor had supervisory andmonitoring roles. This approach enhanced the learning process. This paper outlined theelements of this approach, and it explained its effectiveness. Other instructors who teachsimilar or other engineering technology courses are encouraged to use this approach.However, they have to be aware of its limitations.Bibliography1. Ogot, M., Elliot, G., and Glumac, N., An Assessment of In-Person and Remotely Operated Laboratory, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 57-63, January 2003.2. Foulds, R., Bergen, M., and Mantilla, B., Integrated Biomedical Engineering Education Using Studio-Based Learning, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 22

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry A. Barowski; James H. Cross II; David Umphress

the end of the first two courses, and a more prominent role in the last two courses.4.2 ToolsAlthough we wish our students to have an exposure to real-world standards, we recognize thatwe have an obligation to make sure that experience is presented in a pedagogically-soundfashion. We use a particular software development environment, jGRASP, across our computerscience, software engineering, and, now, wireless engineering, programs. jGRASP has beendemonstrated to be an effective tool for teaching13 and learning14, as indicated by its current userbase and its inclusion in a number of Java text books. As jGRASP is the intellectual property ofAuburn University, we had the ability to tightly integrate