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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr

Session 2793 What Does It Take To Make K-12 Engineering Education Sustainable? Martha N Cyr Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155IntroductionIn the past decade there has been significant increase in the commitment of engineering schools,departments, and individuals to support engineering learning in the K-12 environment. As in anygood engineering project, there is more than one solution. Looking across the spectrum, a widevariety of types of these K-12 outreach programs exist, ranging from single day student basedexperiences to professional

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Mayo; Eric Hansberry

, the field has grown steadily with theindustrialization of society. Major mechanical drawing methods include detail and assemblydrawings. Methods of pictorial representation include orthographic, axonometric and obliquedrawing with associated details, sections and developments. In a maritime project, a mechanicalengineer would design and solve problems relating to ship propulsion, (engines) piping,ventilation, winches, cranes, elevators and many other mechanical based designs.Electrical and electronic graphics represent the largest of engineering disciplines, surpassing allothers in the 1970s. This is the newest form or dialect of engineering graphics with most of itsgrowth occurring in the twentieth century. Electrical and electronic graphics

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2000 Annual Conference

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Ed Gohmann

Session 3548 Opportunities to Teach Teamwork, Collaboration, and Interpersonal Communications in Mechanical Engineering Technology Courses Ed Gohmann Purdue University School of Technology at New AlbanyEmployers of Engineering Technology graduates look for experience working together in teams,ability to collaborate on projects and the ability to effectively communicate technical matter inboth oral and written forms. Opportunities to expose the students to these areas abound in the sixassociate degree MET courses taught by the author. Three of these courses have labs where

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas J. Webster; Karen Haberstroh

Session 2309 A Biomedical Engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at Purdue University Karen M. Haberstroh, and Thomas J. Webster Department of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1296IntroductionA recent study by the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that highest need for engineers inthe next decade will be in the biomedical sector, with 33% more jobs projected by the year20081. Clearly, programs are needed to increase the number of qualified and diverseengineers trained in biological sciences and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Stevenson

Session 2793 Batch Grading of Excel Homework Assignments Dennis R. Stevenson, P.E. Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-ParksideThis is a report of a design project to incorporate automated grading of Excel homeworkassignments in an engineering economy course. The instructional faculty wished to (1) reducethe amount of time spent on grading and at the same time (2) improve the quality of grading and(3) reduce the lag time in providing feedback of results to students.A grading system, somewhat unimaginatively named Grader4, has been used for

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion

relatively consistent with only minor changes. This consistency cannot besaid for the focus and content of the laboratories. Initially, the weekly laboratory assignmentswhere used to reinforce specific VHDL features or hardware principles and then were followedby a multi-week quarter ending project. This bottom-up approach was met with limited success. Page 7.787.61 For the record, Xilinx’s Foundation Series version 3.1 is currently being used. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationMany

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Duff

subject semesters. Much of thestructure of the course as it was to be taught in the Internet version was incorporated into those twosemesters of the traditionally taught course. The essential characteristics of learning elements such asquizzes, homework, exams and group projects, were then carried over into the Internet version. As aresult, a number of specific comparisons could be credibly made between the traditionally taught courseand the Internet taught course.Some features incorporated into the Internet course are 1) that both quizzes and homework are nowautomatically graded so that immediate feedback is provided to the student, 2) some course materialhas been animated and student group projects are presented to the rest of the class on the

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Session 3130 Development of a Problem Test Bank for Linear Circuits and Its Implications for Improving Learning and the Assessment of Student Learning Charles F. Yokomoto, Maher E. Rizkalla Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringI. IntroductionIn this paper, we describe an on-going project that is taking place in our departmentwhose goals are to establish some uniformity in the assessment of student learning acrosssections in our introductory linear circuit analysis course, to promote an understanding inthe culture of our department of the different levels of cognitive

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationpredecessors did, their experiences for the most part are limited to those of an "end user," and nota "developer." Therefore, the concept of programming is foreign to many of them.(ii) It is well understood that a programming language cannot be learned by just reading a text-book or listening to class lectures. One needs to read the textbook, attend lectures, and more im-portantly, practice the subject matter by writing programs. This is the justification for addinglaboratory modules to programming courses.An improvement to the lecture technique of teaching programming courses is to run the sampleprograms in the classroom and show the results via projection display equipment. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

. International Experiences 10 Tours Begin 10a. Library Skills 10b. Student Panel 11a. Ethics 11b. Registration Review (Registration begins this week) 12 Fall Break – students work on projects, classes do not meet 13a. Units and Dimensions 13b. Estimation of Answers 14 Thanksgiving—students work on projects, classes do not meet 15a. Minidesign #3 Demonstration in Class 15b. Course Evaluation 16 Grade review, meetings with instructor Page

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International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

system are both easily observable and related to fluid mechanics. Effective use of these phenomena as demonstrations would bring a lively atmosphere in the classroom and help inspire students to learn the subject. (4) Homework or projects. Some blood problems are suitable for more in-depth study and can thus be used as homework or projects in the course. In our classroom experience, we noticed how merely mentioning such topics immediately captured the student’s attention and galvanized their interest unlike anything we had seen before. Working through this type of projects would provide a deeper insight to some key concepts in fluid mechanics.III. ImplementationThe plan mentioned above was implemented in the fall semester

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

creation of a modernteaching laboratory, curriculum design, and growth in faculty and students.The new MS program follows the structure of our existing MSEE and MSCE degrees, andrequires little additional university investment. Specific course offerings will be described, alongwith their laboratory components and the set-up of the Photonics Instructional Laboratory.Curricular overlap with senior electives and with graduate students from other disciplines will alsobe presented. Connections for research and entrepreneurship in photonics have been created,allowing students to undertake MS thesis work, MS projects, or prepare for Ph.D. level study.Recent connections to distance learning will be described.This paper also will describe the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

the issues associated with conducting and managing a large design project.In addition, design is now commonly considered to be a topic that permeates all of mechanicalengineering. Therefore, in a capstone design project, the topics may just as easily involve thethermal sciences as the mechanical sciences. Because of this, a larger percentage of a given facultyare likely to teach the capstone design course than any other course. Because of the variation in thetypes of faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course, it is important to have clearguidelines on the details of the topics that need to be taught.To help faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course for the first time and to provideuniform coverage of the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mark Rajai; Mel Mendelson

Session 2793 Inter-University Team Collaboration to Design and Market a New Product Mark Rajai, Mel Mendelson East Tennessee State University/Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a joint effort between engineering students from East Tennessee StateUniversity and business students from Loyola Marymount University to design and market asophisticated global monitoring system to monitor location of children, Alzheimer patients andother valuable items. This project was funded by grant from NCIIA and was part of a two-capstone courses developed to introduce engineering students and business

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Garner; David Metz; Willie Ofosu

Page 6.671.1correct diagnosis. This paper discusses a laboratory experiment used to supplement aProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office and SETCE of Penn State University.lecture on extracting useful information from a pulse amplitude modulated signal. Thisexercise was used in a telecommunications technology class.Applications of Pulse Modulation TechniquesBoth analog and digital signals can be transmitted over long distances. In transmittinganalog signal over a long distance, amplifiers are used at intermediary points. Theamplifiers amplify the signal as well as the noise

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael T. Gibbons, American Society for Engineering Education; Elizabeth T. Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Norman L. Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering (Washington)

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Two Year College Division

the number ofdegree recipients in engineering and engineering technology (e/et) at the associate’s degree level,but because many programs of study that prepare community college students to transfer to abaccalaureate e/et program do not require the student to attain an associate’s degree as anintermediate step, there are not reliable data on either the number of community college studentswho intend to transfer to baccalaureate e/et programs or the number who successfully make thetransition. This project seeks to fill that gap in the data.IntroductionTaking full advantage of community colleges as sources of science and engineering majors is acritical component of U.S. science and technology policy. Within the baccalaureate engineeringand

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Endowment for the Humanities, and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, and he has published widely in engineering education literature. His research interests include measuring and repairing engineering student misconceptions in thermal and transport science. Page 25.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering Curriculum – Year 1Overview and ObjectivesWe report on the progress of the first year of a CCLI Type 2 project. The goal of this project is tocreate a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Steven O'Halloran, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

use of flexible, affordable, and accessible data acquisition platforms,undergraduate students are becoming more and more familiar with the design of experiments andthe topics associated with data collection. For this study a self-guided tutorial was developed tointroduce the topics of data acquisition. Students at various stages of their undergraduatecurriculum are asked to work through the tutorial. This tutorial is also used in conjunction with across-curricular project involving numerical simulation and experimental validation of heattransfer topics of conduction and convection. Students were surveyed, both prior to and shortlyafter the tutorial, to determine the perceived value of the exercise in the context of theireducation and future

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy M. Hodges P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University

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Mechanical Engineering

intent of exposingstudents to graduate work in engineering. The Undergrad Only College and a Grad Institutionpartnered to create and jointly fund summer research projects for the Undergrad Only Collegesstudents. The students propose a research project that is jointly mentored by a Grad Institutionfaculty member and a faculty member at the home Undergrad Only College. After the projectswere selected, the student spends the summer at the Grad Institution conducting a study orexperimental work to complete the research project. The program broadens the researchopportunities for the undergraduate student by enabling the student to go to the Grad Institutionand interact with graduate faculty and students.The initiative is to promote and instill a

Conference Session

ETD Design II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford; Claudio Campana, University of Hartford

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Engineering Technology

body. This topical area provides an ongoing thesis topic for graduate engineering students at the masterslevel.IntroductionNon-contact methods are generally based on projecting energy waves to the surface and capturing the reflected ortransmitted energy. Computer Tomography, Microwave Radars and Ultrasonic Waves are non-optical methods thatare very common in measurement and inspection. Computer tomography is useful to examine internal cavities thatcannot be seen from outside, on the other hand, accuracy with these systems is dependable on material densities thatmay be a problem for different types of materials. Microwave and ultrasonic methods are reflection based methodsthat typically measure the distance by calculating the time between

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Haberly; Iskandar Hack

student version of the softwareincludes a schematic editor and design entry, waveform editor for design entry, AlteraHardware Description Language design (AHDL) Entry, and the industry standard VHDL(VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) Hardware Description Language) designentry. Thus this system can be used to teach all of the major design techniques used inmodern digital circuit design. The hardware portion of the development system includes anin-circuit programmable Altera CPLD on a printed circuit board (PCB) with adequatespace on the breadboard area for students to development their own projects. Theprogramming is done using a standard PC parallel port; thus there is no need for anyadditional programming hardware. Also mounted on the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Devin Shunk; William Duff

of thestructure of the course, as it was to be taught in the Internet version, such as the projects, quizzes,homework and exams, were established a year ahead and their essential characteristics werecarried into the Internet version. As a result, a number of specific comparisons may be crediblymade between the traditionally taught course and the Internet taught course. This paper presentsthese comparative analyses and the related statistics for student performance.Some of the features of this course that were made practical by its Internet structure include • both quizzes and homework designed so that they can be taken on the Internet, automatically graded and feedback provided immediately to the student • a number of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert B. Grubbs; Michael R. Kozak

, indicate a near drasticshortage of Engineering Technology faculty for four-year colleges and universities. As a result,some institutions are "solving" this problem by requiring only a masters degree - knowing thatmost individuals who posses only a masters degree have not completed a thesis - and, in manysituations, are expecting these people to compete in a university’s research-dominatedenvironment. For those graduates that enter or remain in industry, degree requirements that arebased solely on completion of courses without the requirement for the student to conduct andreport on a meaningful applications-oriented project may result in graduates that are notrepresentative of the mission of engineering technology. A possible solution is to require

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald N. Merino

to insure the integrity and effectiveness of the engineering curricula on a continuous basis.Distributed grading is a direct quantitative linkage between typical assessment methods (exams,projects, etc.) and the educational objectives. Stevens believes that in conducting assessments it iscrucial for improvements to begin with full utilization of current examinations, projects and otheractivities. Distributed grading distributes current aggregate grades as well as the Grade PointAverage over the curricular objectives and allows for a quantitative expression of the emphasis givento the objectives across the curriculum (DeLancey, 1998, 1999).To make this work at the course level requires a series of problems, exams, projects, etc

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathias J. Sutton; Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap

and have responsibilities that prevent them from attending graduate school in residence full time. - The students’ graduate program is most often financially supported and highly encouraged by their employers. Employers are highly interested in the practical application of the their students’ education to their respective jobs. - The faculty have a clear preference for face-to-face interaction with their graduate students in order to better assess their progress and to ensure a rich dialogue with and among the students and to better direct the capstone research project. - The faculty have mixed feelings about using web-based instructional tools. Many are interested and willing to learn how to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Augustus K. Uht

Sessions 1526 & 2526 The URI Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum: Progress Report Augustus K. Uht University of Rhode IslandAbstractThe University of Rhode Island started the ICED curriculum in the Fall of 1997. The key featureof ICED is a substantial 2-3 year long project tying together important but normally disjointcomputer engineering concepts across the major. The students learn how to make criticalhardware/software tradeoffs with long-term implications. Courses in processor design, compilerdesign and networks are required, and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Nosenchuck

is given in Figure 2. The first half of the semesterculminates in a first design project, which is selected to apply analysis and simulation methodsand design procedures, while providing a moderate challenge to students as they first begin toexercise their creative and engineering skills. For the past several years, a so-called ‘Heavilift’crane has been assigned. Students are given several pounds of aluminum and plastic, a fixed Page 3.303.2vertical steel I-beam, motor transmission, and cable. They must then design a high strength-to- Multiply-Disciplined Team Integrated Product Team Makeup

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

engineering education that enhances classroomteaching in terms of relevance and what is taught and how it is taught. A good teacher is often themost active researcher. Further it is the integration of research into teaching which is being adoptedby increasing number of educators. It is claimed by these educators that incorporating researchexamples into their courses and curricula and collaborating with students on research projects resultinto better research. In addition, the students gain important insight into engineering and scienceconcepts as applied to real life problems [2].Research is traditionally conducted by the engineering faculty at the universities with graduateprograms who can bring research grants and use graduate students to help

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Digendra K. Das; Atlas Hsie; Salahuddin Qazi

students on a cohort basis. Two three-creditcourses are offered per semester and there is a project required as the culmination of the programin lieu of a thesis. The three-credit project may be completed concurrently with the course workor may occur after the tenth course is taken. Classes meet on Saturdays for three and half-hoursover a 12-week semester. The following courses constitute our current offering [2].MAT 500 Topics in Applied MathematicsMST 502 Advanced Engineering EconomicsMST 503 Special topics in Advanced TechnologyMST 520 Network and Multimedia Systems Page 3.89.2 2MST 521 Computer and