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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Kulkarni; Chung Leung

approximation coefficients (from application of the low-pass filter) ofthe transform. The multi-resolution theory is ‘per se’ defined only for one-dimensional signals.Since still images are two-dimensional discrete signals, our current research is restricted toseparable filters. The successive convolution of filter and signal in both dimensions opens to twopotential iterations: standard and non-standard decomposition. Since we are dealing with non-standard decomposition strategies, it iterates only the purely low-pass filtered approximationswhile leaving the mixed terms unchanged.Bi-orthogonal FiltersWith orthogonal filters, the wavelet transform can be viewed as projecting the input signal onto aset of orthogonal basis function. However, the standard

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

Page 9.40.2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering 270: Applications of CAD and RP for Biomedical EngineeringThe enormous potential of being able to scan existing objects, including complex organicfeatures, modify them or create new designs using CAD technology, and “print” a functional partis self-evident to anyone who has seen the equipment in operation. We have found that RP holdsextraordinary fascination to students and industrial visitors of all backgrounds, capturing theimagination and providing a strong attraction into the fields of science, engineering andtechnology. Rapid Prototyping provides an attractive environment for multi-disciplinaryactivities and projects, crossing

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Holling

Page 8.510.3their perspective in the fields of study that they have chosen. Industry, on the other hand, demands graduateswho can quickly jump in and become productive and that possess both a research and an applied focus.20 At firstglance the Technologist will have an advantage due to the fact that the Engineering Technology education placesmore emphasis on current, existing technologies and skills.However, two trends are emerging in Engineering Education: - the requirement by industry for advanced degrees;21 - project and team based learning.22During the past 15 years, a trend has emerged that industry is increasingly demanding higher levels of educationand the requirement that engineers have completed a Masters Degree is relatively

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Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski

, motors,connecting wires and a programmable remote control system. The teams use these materials todesign and construct robotic devices that accomplish a simulated maritime mission. The kit ofparts is reusable each year and requires little machine-shop work to create machines, therebymaking this project ideal for repeated use. The experience is modeled on the capstone designactivity and contains many attributes of the final design experience. The U.S. Coast GuardAcademy has been the only program using this commercially available kit of parts and hasworked with the vendors to improve the system as a tool for engineering design education.IntroductionProviding engineering undergraduates with a sound introduction to the fundamental tools forsuccess

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

make decisions that affect them for the rest oftheir lives; selecting the college they wish to attend and choosing the field of study theywant to pursue. It is anticipated that this innovative approach, focusing on the 11th grade,can serve as a model for other Hispanic-Serving Institutions and for future nationalefforts. One of our goals is to make the activities undertaken by this project an integralpart of the recruiting and training efforts and expand them to reach a larger geographicalarea and a higher number of underrepresented students.The Role of TechnologyThe food industry has made great strides in using technologically sophisticatedequipment. Technology has resulted, among other things, in greater diversity of foodproducts and a more

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

Session 2148 – Building Bridges with Community Colleges Building Bridges to Engineering Careers for Underserved Students Ray J. Walter Waukesha County Technical Collegeabstract A project with Waukesha County Technical College, Marquette University, and other partners,funded by a Congressional Award, increases the number of underserved individuals completing adegree to enter rewarding engineering careers. This model program removes barriers throughcollaborative linkages with secondary and post-secondary institutions, businesses, andcommunity, minority, and professional organizations to recruit

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”relating to structural as well as foundation systems, applied computer methods, andawareness of integrated applications of the project are included in the curriculum. In fact,the current curriculum is so robust and relevant that SDCET currently has a 100% jobplacement for all graduates for the last seven years. Graduates can look forward toserving in various positions of leadership and responsibility dealing with structural designand construction of building, bridges, or other similar public or commercial private sectorprojects. Graduates may also see opportunities working for government agenciesincluding construction of state or

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

features are common to all design but some are specific to foundationengineering practice. The discipline-specific features are associated with the sitecharacterization requirements of foundation engineering.Preparing the studentsThe specific discussion of ethics was not done up front. Instead, the topic was introduced as itnaturally occurred in the design process. The setting for the instruction was largely role playing.The students were told at the first class meeting that they have been hired out of college into ourgeotechnical design firm. They were new project engineers and I was their supervisoryprofessional engineer. The students have had a soil mechanics course as a prerequisite and wereenrolled in a concrete design course during this

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

University. Bothconventional and alternative energy resources are covered in the course. Design aspects ofenergy conversion devices such as gas turbines and photovoltaic cells and contemporary topicssuch as distributed power generation, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), and environmentalimpacts caused by energy generation and consumption are introduced in the course. The paperprovides the contents of the course in details: textbooks, reference materials, course topics, webresources, computational tools, exams, and group projects. The results of the course outcomeassessment based on student surveys are also provided.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

THEO MARYONOVICH; Chris Netherton; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1292 Computer-Assisted GOAL-Oriented Walking Robot Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Theo Maryonovich and Chris Netherton Purdue University Calumet Hammond, IN 46323AbstractThe paper discusses a senior design project which was implemented during a two-semestercourse, Senior Design. These two courses are the capstone courses in ElectricalEngineering Technology curriculum offered in seventh and eighth semester. This projectand similar projects provides the student a unique opportunity to design and integrate theknowledge and

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

this trend have been described in Suh’s Principles of Design1 and Hazelrigg’sIntroduction to Systems Engineering2, among others.There has been a growing trend to re-examine what skills are taught in a design class. Thistrend is driven primarily by industry’s need for project management and design decision-making skills, in addition to analytical skills.3Another skill set which has been disappearing is design by analogy. Emphasis is placed ondeveloping novelty in design (the “new and different”). In fact, a “new and different”design requires complete validation, which is more expensive than modifying an existingdesign to achieve new objectives. The costs of validation and reduction to practice mustbe considered in the decision to develop a new

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Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

onfundamental and applied multidisciplinary research in pollution prevention. Pollutionprevention is a key element of new EPA initiatives to protect our children's health and topromote environmental justice and urban environmental quality. Selected students fromall over the USA work closely with engineering faculty on funded research projects inengineering that encourage pollution prevention and sustainable development. Thiseight-week program exposes students not only to the values of research experiences buthelps them reinforce and build other important skills such as communication, social andleadership. The ultimate objective is to provide the REU participants with an enrichingresearch experience that will encourage them to pursue graduate

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

a wide range of partners including industry,Professional Institutions and other Universities. The course delivery involves new methods ofteaching, learning and communications that range from text-based to internet-based. There is astrong emphasis on employment-based project work.The paper will also cover:• The key features of course and curriculum development and the role of partnerships• The most effective methods of teaching, learning and communication Page 7.1181.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

when compared to students learning in traditional learningenvironments.1,2 These methods incorporate technologies such as wireless keypads that activelyengage students during the lecture. The benefits of collaborative methods where students workon projects together is dependent upon the group dynamics.3,4 According to Darlin andMcShannon3, traditional methods were successful for those students who generally aresuccessful in engineering while the success for high-risk students increased when the interactionlearning was conducted with the faculty member. Students can increase their problem solvingand critical thinking skills when given an opportunity to witness how an expert approaches andsolves a problem.5 Learning these skills requires a

Conference Session

Using Web-Based Engineering Information

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole Clark; David Radcliffe

, practitioners and other professionals working in theareas of sustainability and engineering. It is a collaborative project, lead by the University ofQueensland. The Sustainability Knowledge Network and its previous incarnation, TheAustralasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL), is part of a wider movement in Australiawhich has focused on developing discipline -specific, subject gateways in order to assist with thedelivery and dissemination of academic information. In Australia, this movement is coordinatedby the Australian Subject Gateways Forum. Subject gateways grew out of initiatives undertakenin the United Kingdom, such as the eLib program.1Subject gateways perform an important role as a “middle-ware” agent. They sit between the userand the Web

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

profiles in the fin to both analytical and numerical (finitedifference) solutions. This kind of experience enhances the understanding of the transfer ofthermal energy by undergraduate mechanical engineering students and exposes them to severalimportant concepts in heat transfer.I. IntroductionThe Design-Build-Test (DBT) concept has, recently, been used in undergraduate engineeringlaboratories [1, 2] and also in capstone senior design projects in which students design, develop,build, and test [3]. Traditional undergraduate heat transfer laboratories in mechanical engineeringexpose the students to heat transfer concepts presented in lecture classes, but do not provide themwith design experiences similar to what they might face as thermal

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Cilliers

Engineering at theUniversity of Pretoria over the period 1998 to 2000. The experiment was conducted bymeans of a new course called Technological Innovation. The motivation for the teachingmodel used in the course is founded on research done earlier in the same department on thedeterminants of creative design in Electronic Engineering students1,2. The earlier researchdemonstrated the correlation between the students' own perception of their extrovertivenessand their ability to come up with innovative product ideas. The methodology used in the firstyear course which is the topic of this paper focused on group projects, the use of the NeddHerrmann four quadrant brain model and the various mindsets of the creative problem solvingheuristic of Lumsdaine3

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2001 Annual Conference

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Charles Knight

over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimentation concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory includes experiments related to refrigeration,heat exchangers, thermal conduction

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

curriculafor Biological Systems Engineering and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University,linking freshman and sophomore engineering science courses to junior and senior-level coursesthrough common design concepts and projects. Students work in small groups to design andconduct experiments over the course of the semester. Students are introduced to thesetechniques through hands-on investigation of engineering concepts, involving processes assimple as wiring of motors, assembling and testing pumping arrays, and measuringpotentiometric gradients, to processes as complex as designing and programming analog anddigital systems. Students communicate the results of their work in weekly laboratory reports. Afaculty member with expertise in that

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

, qualitative assessment strategies have been implemented throughfocus groups convened at the end of the freshman year experience and through analyses oftargeted journal assignments.The freshman design project is the cornerstone of what we now call tDEC and its impact must bevalidated to justify the effort expended by students and faculty from all the disciplines involved.The Drexel Engineering Curriculum (tDEC) freshman design program involves about 550students working on 116 teams ranging in size of from 2 to 6 members. Each team has a designproject and a technical advisor from the College of Engineering faculty. Since engineering facultyfrom every department are involved, there is a need for uniformity in grading standards. Theassessment forms that

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2000 Annual Conference

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Yann Guezennec; Stephen Yurkovich; Gregory Washington; Giorgio Rizzoni

research in engineering education. Some of the more specificoutcomes of the curriculum development proposed here are listed below.1. Collaborative learning environment: In the proposed design courses the students will be Page 5.635.1 assigned to small teams. Each team includes mechanical and electrical engineers. The projects are structured so each member of the group is responsible for some instruction in the context of the project..2. Interaction with industry and other government agencies: a further objective of this proposal is to serve as a catalyst for interaction among university, industrial and government

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford R. Goodwin; R. Andrew Schaffer

researchand practitioner feedback as vital and relevant for entry-level managers in a variety ofindustrial settings. As you will notice, these are very applied and hands-on topics, quitedifferent from the theoretical and functional approach taken by traditional businessschools (i.e., a mix of accounting, finance, human resources, economics, strategy,marketing, etc.).For the remaining 15 hours in OLS, students choose from the following:OLS 110 Supervisory Leadership: Story Problems (Web-based)OLS 328 Introduction to International ManagementOLS 368 Personnel LawOLS 373 Case Studies in LeadershipOLS 375 Training MethodsOLS 377 Project ManagementOLS 383 Human Resource ManagementOLS 399 Special Research

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2000 Annual Conference

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

-making process relies on the analysis of information about majors,knowledge of themselves, and the requirements of the majors. In the past, students needed togather such information from several resources that may not have been located in the samebuilding, or even on the same campus. This project brought together diverse and widespreadresources required to make decisions into one interactive program that is available online, ondemand.II. Goals and ObjectivesThe goal of the project was to help students find an appropriate major in engineering. This wasaccomplished by helping them build individual mental models (internal mental picture) of whatcan be done in each of the different engineering fields and match the models to what theydiscover about

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell A. Aubrey

calculations required tomeasure speed and width of various objects. A second option with this application is to delay theexercise until op-amps and comparators have been covered. In this scenario additional studenttasks can be included such as calculating trip points, designing the time base and makingnumerous other calculations.A third application currently under consideration for this exercise is to use it in the fourthsemester electronic projects course as a start up project with planned guidance. In this case,block diagrams would be provided with suggested solutions from time to time to make sure thatthe project teams succeed in getting a working design in a one to three week period. This wouldprovide early positive design experiences and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Hoop; Eric W. Hansberry; Gerard Voland

Session 1380 Student-Centered Science Activities in Lay Science Disciplines1 Bernard Hoop, Eric W. Hansberry Northeastern University / Gerard Voland Illinois Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the spirit of Northeastern University’s (NU) Academic Common Experience andIllinois Institute of Technology’s Interprofessional Projects, we present examples ofcross-disciplinary science activities intended to broaden and enrich the value of learningexperiences of undergraduate lay science students. At NU

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

often broken down into smaller parts, and the students perform these as wellas many other mini-experiments, which are normally not taught in the traditional mode. Thestudents are also encouraged to devise ways of improving the experiment to enhance itsusefulness in exhibiting the physical principles. In addition, students are often offered extracredit projects where their task is to design an experiment, identify the proper tools, anddescribe how the proposed experiment will help in the understanding of the related principles.The classes meet for two “periods” at a time, to allow students to finish the class activities forthe day. Needless to say, the majority of the students have found this method very effective inunderstanding some of the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

importance of team work Ø Solve a problem Ø Understand the importance of ethics in engineering.These specific project objectives were designed to meet the following goals: Ø Increase participant knowledge of and exposure to engineering as a possible career by involving the students in hands-on workshops while letting them experience university life. Ø Contribute to students’ confidence in their ability to make career decisions by enhancing their understanding of the engineering profession.Selection ProcessEXITE! was a nonresidential camp with participants recruited locally. The application forms andrelated information were sent to directors of local elementary and middle schools. The directorswere responsible for informing the

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

College of Engineering. Thisdesignation elevates the class to the status of counting toward a student’s engineering degree, insome cases. Enrollment for the spring semester 2002 is forty students, with many students on aburgeoning waiting list. This enrollment change requires, for all practical purposes, the class to betaught in a more traditional manner; with fifteen students it could be taught in the form of anengineering seminar with individual projects. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is best described by itsISO 14040 definition: 11 LCA is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product by: · Compiling an inventory of relevant inputs and outputs of a product system

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Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh

of 3 faculty members traveled with 26students; in 2001, I was the sole faculty member with 13 students. My program, EPICS, orEngineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence, is a two-semester course required of allstudents at CSM. The first-year course is EPICS I, the sophomore year, EPICS II. Page 7.1093.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOur courses are interdisciplinary and project based. Students work in teams of 4-6 to solvecliented technical problems, improve communication

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2001 Annual Conference

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

code are similar to HTML:a. Identify and start the scripting language: For server: For client: d. For client scripts, use Examples are derived in class, run on the laptop, and shown using an overhead projector. Students can see thedevelopment of programs, and the architecture becomes manageable. The students are encouraged to run the manyexamples, modify them, and extend them.The following sets of examples are easily derived on the projected laptop, and executed so students may observehow ASP works.1. HELLO WORLD EXAMPLE using server VB ScriptThis example displays the header “Exciting World of ASP Development!”, displays the time of display, and displaysseven lines of “Hello world!” in each line.Hello World, Active Server Page