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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

Science and Software Engineeringat the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. His research interests include software processimprovement, software tools for student advising, and software methodologies. Dr. Bagert is a registeredProfessional Engineer in software engineering in the state of Texas. Contact him at Don.Bagert@rose-hulman.edu.STEPHEN V. CHENOWETHSteve Chenoweth is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-HulmanInstitute, following a career at NCR Corporation and at Bell Laboratories. His research interests include softwarearchitecture and requirements, software processes, artificial intelligence, and alternatives to pedagogy. Contact himat Steve.Chenoweth@rose-hulman.edu

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

suchexperience. By this method, we were able to interview practitioners in manufacturing, service,transportation and government organizations. Interviewees hailed from relatively smallmanufacturing organizations (approximately $6 million in annual sales), to some of the largestand well known (UPS, FEDEX), and most respected engineering companies (e.g., Bechtel, Intel,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Hewlett Packard) in the world.As a group, our interviewees averaged 17.9 years supervising engineers working in teams andparticipated in an average of 68 teams each. They served as leaders or supervisors for 22% ofthe those teams, and served as non-supervisory team members on the remaining 78%.Interviews were conducted either at the interviewees

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

connectors, and 1 BNC connector Page 10.938.4 • LCD module and 8-pin keyboard interfaces “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • COM port with selectable RS232, Background Debug Module (BDM), and Monitor Mode (MON08) interfaces • MON08 interface for programming and debugging HC08 MCUs • BDM pod for programming and debugging HCS12 / HCS08 MCUs • Compatible with National Instruments Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), which is a LabVIEW

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

the students.Although the authors have limited experience with these product design case studies, it isapparent that sometimes information needed at the smaller scales may not be readily availablefrom the usual sources. For example, it is often difficult to extract useful scientific/engineeringdata from the patent literature, while books and journal articles may not be specific enough for agiven product. Solutions to these types of problems include: going into the laboratory andmaking measurements, teaming-up with a researcher in the area who is willing to lend expertise Page 10.637.2to the problem, and creative extrapolation of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Michael Urynowicz; Jerry Hamann

The Static Stability Factor – A Dynamic Introduction to Engineering Thomas V. Edgar, Michael A. Urynowicz and Jerry C. Hamann University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 80271AbstractMost students want to become engineers so they can design and build things. An introductorycourse in engineering should pique those interests and provide information and activities whichshow the breadth of the field of engineering. This paper presents a series of laboratory activitiesbased on the Static Stability Factor (SSF), used in vehicle design to determine under whatconditions a vehicle will spinout or rollover.The

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

construction and/or repair of the component. End of the semester projectassessments have indicated the collaborative service-learning projects to provide a positivelearning experience for students from both courses. Based on the results of evaluations andthrough conversations with the students, the service-learning projects have achieved both thecourse specific and non-course specific educational goals. As expected, the instructors continueto modify the project and its requirements in an effort to further enhance the educationalopportunity for students.Since the Fall semester of 2002, the Introduction to Materials Laboratory Class has beeninvolved with a service-learning project through the ETHOS program. This project supports thework of the service

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Construction Management Technology, ElectricalPower, Information Systems Technology, Consumer Science and Merchandising, Logistics, andTechnology Leadership and Supervision. In addition, UH is recognized as the most ethnicallydiverse major research university with no single majority group in its student body. Thus, thestudent population served is heterogeneous with respect to a number of factors including priorcomputer experience. IST faculty members have chosen to use a variety of technologies thatsupport collaboration with students in the course. Technologies used with students include e-mailand discussion boards through the centralized interface provided by WebCT, Web logs, ad-hocnetworking using Tablet PCs in a Mobile Learning Laboratory, and

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

engineering students: 1) increase the numbers of entering freshmen andtransfer students, and 2) increase retention of currently-enrolled students. The topic of this paper is Page 10.563.1primarily associated with retention of sophomore engineering students. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

. Another important use of simulations in education is to facilitate efforts at whathas become known as “bridging the gap” between academics of profession and practiceof that profession. Simulations are ideal for connecting factual knowledge, principles, andskills to their application within a profession. Simulations help students with anopportunity for decision making, and for evaluating the consequences of their decisionsthat no textbook or laboratory can. [12]IV. Incorporating Lean Training in Senior Electives The training program and simulation activity has been tested in the ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing course (MET-445) this year. The goal of this course is to

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

based loosely upon the following model programs. Attracting Women into Engineering Summer Workshop, Rowan University College of Engineering [1] Outreach Activities by Benet Laboratories, U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Watervliet, New York [2] IBM Excite Camp at Purdue University [3]Since then, the program has steadily grown in recognition among middle school girls and hightech employers, successfully improving the quality of its native Hawaiian and ethnic minorityapplicants each year, as well as the creativity and educational value of its program activities andmentor presentations.Program ApproachHawaii public schools traditionally rank poorly in math and

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

more desirable. The way the research problem is presented tothe students could make a difference. For an example, consider a research project that involvesstereo vision. One could make students take this project as a laboratory experiment; study themethods of constructing three-dimensional data from two images of an object from two differentpoints of views. The same project would be more attractive to the students as a reverseengineering problem; construction of three-dimensional images of existing engineeringstructures for detecting deformations. We do not wish to undermine the importance of basicscientific and mathematical research. For the future mathematicians and the scientists we shouldprovide necessary nourishment. We will discuss a

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

Autonomous Navigation System Design for a Smart Robotic Rover Yi Cheng, Kathleen Hayden, Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Tim Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona1. IntroductionIn response to the NASA Research Announcement of 2002, California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) submitted a proposal for the “Partnership Awards for theIntegration of Research into Undergraduate Education” (PAIR) program. The purpose of thePAIR program is to integrate cutting-edge NASA-related research into the undergraduatecurriculum. Cal Poly Pomona proposed to incorporate the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL)robotic technology research into

Conference Session

Federated Searching

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Schlembach; William Mischo

; Exposition Copyright @2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimplemented a number of vendor-based metasearch systems utilizing broadcast-searchtechniques over the major A & I Services and OPACs.8 These systems are offered withinintegrated library systems often in conjunction with local link servers. These metasearch systemsutilize Z39.50, HTTP “screen-scraping”, and XML gateway broadcast search techniques. Thesestandard techniques are utilized in vendor cross-database search systems and in other custommetasearch applications. Most articles on metasearching describe vendor systems or report oncustom library applications, such as SearchLight in the California Digital Library and FlashPointat the Los Alamos Laboratory

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

between the concepts beingtaught and their actual application. Apprentices can visualize tri-dimensional objects throughdifferent angles at the environment of 3D navigation. Finally, the visual interactive modelswill assist students consolidate their basic understanding of the subject matter taught, since itallows them change input parameters of structural engineering problems and see theconsequences in the results of the process.The IDEASimulator is the presentation module for structural analysis. The relationshipbetween a simulator and a laboratory is extremely important for the basic understanding ofstructural behavior and modeling.The IDEALive module is in the early stages. It will be an audio and video server, in whichfilms, lectures and

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

present in class for all common lectures. Individual members usually will have responsibility for different sections of the course and may meet once a week separately with their sections for recitation or laboratory experience. They give common examinations and jointly grade and perform all evaluation activities.4. Benefits and Challenges of Team Teaching in the ISAT Pr ogr amAs eluded earlier, the ISAT program demanded a paradigm shift in the approach to teachingof science and technology principles. The interdisciplinary nature of the program demandedsome form of team teaching. Success of the program so far has invariably depended oneffective teaming of faculty. Team teaching in the ISAT program benefited both

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpart of these assignments, just as they would be with flow nets. Any class or laboratory timesaved by eliminating flow net drawing techniques might be useful for more thoroughlydiscussing remediation measures for seepage problems and filter design.Slope Stability Hand Calculations, Charts and Computers. In many cases introductorygeotechnical courses will barely cover slope stability in great detail, if at all. Elective coursesmay provide ample coverage at the undergraduate level. At other institutions, some coverage ofslope stability must be included in introductory courses. Discussion of types of slopemovements, infinite slope problems and an introduction to the variety of slope stability

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

curriculum in the Indian subcontinent countries is also very rigidwhich does not satisfy the needs for different categories of students. At the same time the setlaboratory experiments instead of open-ended project type laboratories do not enhance thelearning process. So the international accreditation, which makes the curriculum mutuallybeneficial to all party concerned, must be developed.A win-win co-operative agreement between the college of engineering and technology at OldDominion University and Rajagiri College under Mohatma Gandhi University, Cochin, India toflourish global engineering education has paid off. Rajagiri is benefited being able to begin anaccredited engineering program whereas Old Dominion University is benefited by attracting

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

of the most important features of hands-onactivities. The opportunity to fail in the discovery, hands-on approach is a powerful learningtool. Many facts in science and engineering can only be understood by hands-on projects.Hands-on projects that result in practical applications have the added benefit of demonstratingthe importance and value of science and mathematics. Figure 1 Learning Pyramid, National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine, 1998 Page 9.244.3 "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”product assemblies. The project provides students with direct feedback on their designdecisions. The author and colleague will continue to develop the techniques and lesson plansprovided by the master’s candidates to improve the Engineering Design Graphics I course atWestern Washington University.Bibliography1 H.C. “Skip” Smith, The Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics, (New York: Tab Books, a division of McGraw-Hill,1992), 80-83.2 Bill Gunston, The Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875 - 1995, (Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1995), 511-521.3 Diane Beaudoin and David Ollis, “A Product and Process Engineering Laboratory for Freshmen,” Journal ofEngineering Education 84, no. 3 (July 1995

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Session 1692 The Mechatronics Road Show: Building on Success in Mechatronics Curriculum Development Sandra A. Yost, Daniel D. Maggio Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ College of Engineering and Science University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MichiganAbstract:This paper describes a progression of successful pre-college programs that have grown from acomprehensive mechatronics curriculum development project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

”, IEEE Visualization ’97 Late Breaking Hot Topics Proceedings, Oct. 22-24, 1997, pp.13-2010. Nelson King, “Alibre Design 1.0”, PC Magazine, July 11, 2000, pp. 195.11. Qiuli Sun, and Kurt Gramoll, “Internet-based Simulation and Virtual City for Engineering Education”, 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2000Biographical informationDr. Zahed Siddique is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Product and Process Design Laboratory atUniversity of Oklahoma. His research focuses on product family design, CAD/CAM, design collaboration andengineering design education. Dr. Siddique received his B.Sc., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering fromGeorgia Institute of Technology

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

technology equipment. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationJOEL LENOIRJoel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamicsystems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at MichelinResearch and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design andmanufacturing firms.KEVIN SCHMALTZKevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including theFreshman Experience course, Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Rand; Don Bowie; Donald Peter; Anthony Donaldson

to prepare their business counterparts to make the same kind of presentation on oneof their projects or some technical principle of electrical engineering. These experiences providepowerful ”hands-on” venues in which students from differing disciplines are exposed to thediverse vocabularies and modes of thinking representative of actual professional workingenvironments . This paper provides the basic classroom/workshop/laboratory activities that wereundertaken, an indication of the educational experiences involved, a sampling of student verbalfeedback, and future expansion considerations for this multidisciplinary interaction.Intr oduction: Industr ial InvolvementSince it’s inception in 1985, Seattle Pacific University’s (SPU) Electrical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

activities are structured with each student having a distinctcontent specialty or interest and having specific assigned roles in accordance with cooperativelearning theory 12. In addition, individual grades to promote accountability and group grades topromote interdependence are combined as per components-of-cooperative learning theory 13.Several exercises and discussions are typically included on the nature and group dynamics ofengineering teams. These initial team homework and laboratory assignments give the studentsconsiderable experience with their teams and interdisciplinary interaction before the finalprojects. The final project is a Problem-based-Learning-type project in which a multifaceted,non-unique technical solution is required and

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Damian Watkins; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

Australian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 1995. 3. Shuman, Larry, Cheryl Delaney, Harvey Wolfe, Alejandro Scalise & Mary Besterfield-Sacre, (1999) Engineering Attrition: Student Characteristics and Educational Initiatives, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC. June 20-23, 1999. 4. Amigud, Yevgen, Archer, Geoffrey, Smith, Janelle, et. Al. “Assessing the quality of web-enabled laboratories in undergraduate education”, 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, Mass.November 6-9, 2002. 5. Marzano, Robert J., Pickering, Debra, and McTighe, Jay, Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model, Association for

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

Mathematics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 123-150, 1985. [3] Haemmerlie, F.M. and Montgomery, R.L., Goldberg revisited: Pro-female evaluation bias and changed attitudes towards women by engineering students, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, vol. 6(2), 179-194, 1991. [4] Ziemer, Katherine S., “A Unique Approach to Preparing Middle School Educators for the Massachusetts Engineering Framework Requirements,” ASEE Regional Meeting, May 3, 2003. [5] Branden, C. and J. Tooze, Introduction to Protein Structure, 2nd ed. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, New York, 1999. [6] Green Fluorescent Protein Chromatography Kit, Biotechnology Explorer, Quick Guide, Bio-rad Laboratories

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

constructive feedback.Third, actual workplace documents are provided in class and on a website so students can studyactual examples of communication in their fields. Each document is accompanied bycontextualizing information that explains the situation requiring the communication, anddescribes the position and experience of the author. Also, the document type and common usesare described.Fourth, the course is fully supported by the laboratory resources, including the assistance of thestaff and the guided use of video technology. Each student presentation is video-recorded andevaluated by lab staff and the instructor. Lab staff members provide one-on-one consultation.The fifth strategy is the development of a web-based system. This site provides

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

be projected Page 9.1347.6onto the computer screens of all conference participants. This would allow for various users to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationremotely access and participate in laboratory demonstration or sessions at a remote site. Humannature dictates that the audience in a room tends to look at whoever is talking - so this is a logicalfeature. However, this feature does not allow for multiple people talking at the same time, aswould be the case in an animated discussion

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

, communications, etc. in the form of a course. Teaching these skills in isolation of theprofessional practice of engineering has been shown to be a less-than-ideal approach. In contrast,the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has chosen to develop an approach in which these skills are developed in the studentsthrough the use of problem-based learning (PBL) experiences infused throughout the curriculum.Separate problem-based learning courses are positioned in the first and second years. PBLexperiences are incorporated into instructional laboratories associated with third-year systemsphysiology and biomedical sensors courses. The curriculum culminates with a two-semestersenior design course sequence