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Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamad Albadr, Riyadh College of Technology

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Engineering Technology

Engineering External FactorsWhile these changes in health care are occurring, there are other external factors that will alsoaffect the Biomedical engineering field: A. Internationalization of science and technology.The science and technology used in health care are universal. Coupled with globalmanufacturing and international companies, it is clear that science and technology areworldwide in application. B. Integration of Technology. The examples provided by some of the preceding authors, it is evident that health caretechnology is sophisticated and cross-disciplinary. The application of communications theoryto improving the accuracy and speed of DNA sequencing is such an example. In addition,devices are increasingly interdependent and

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hillary Hart, University of Texas-Austin; Christy Moore, University of Texas-Austin

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Educational Research and Methods

on the undergraduate modules.Literature Review – Engineering Research EthicsThe research on engineering ethics education has focused, largely, on the undergraduatecurriculum.1,2,3,4 For instance, in 1989, faculty and practitioners participated in an NSF-sponsored workshop at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in 1989 to examine howtopics of professional responsibility can best be introduced into the undergraduate engineeringcurriculum.4 The workshop identified and examined limitations on integrating these topics intothe classroom, including lack of faculty exposure to the topics, lack of faculty time to introducethe topic into the classroom, lack of space in the curriculum, and lack of support material. In thelast 16 years, driven

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi, Hilda dos S. Alves COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractThe real challenge for all the Engineering Schools lately is to form the professional to act in thenew work market. Nevertheless many Institutions have been searching hard for the best way todo so. Some of them have promoted new kind of curriculum more flexible and more adequate tothe new student. One question remains: How to prepare the engineer for professional life? Forsome it is the internship that will provide the student the taste of what is to be an engineer. InCivil Engineer, the best way is also the internship at the building site if the choice of the studentis to make constructions. For Civil

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

differential equations of a system, to find the a system’sresponse to a particular input, to model sampled-data systems, to convert continuous-timesystems to discrete-time systems and vice versa, and to design proportional, integral, andderivative (PID) controller for a system and use it to obtain a desired response. Student also usebuilt-in functions, the response analysis GUI (the LTI viewer), and the interactive design tools ofthe Control System toolbox to analyze the response of a controlled system to pulse, step, andarbitrary inputs, and to view the root locus and the Bode plot of a system.In the introduction to computer-aided designs class and laboratory (ECE 480/483) students learna) the hardware description language (VHDL) and use it

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Cerry Klein, University of Missouri; Michael Hosokawa, University of Missouri; Karen Cox, University of Missouri; Beilei Zhang, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

the basis of an integrated curriculum. • From a learning perspective, the framework will help the students to develop a coherent view of the subject area, and better understand how the multitude of individual concepts and techniques fits into the overall picture - what functions and analytical techniques are involved, where they belong and how they should be applied in a practical situation. Page 12.396.13Therefore, the approach provides a rational foundation of the subject area and, in the long-term,help to establish Healthcare Systems Engineering as a scientific discipline.Currently in the University of Missouri

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Yahong Rosa Zheng; Sarat K. Chitneni; Daryl G. Beetner

andoutput audio signals are compared to demonstrate the functionalities of the filters as well as thebasic DSP theory such as A/D converter, D/A converter, digital filtering, and frequency analysis.Our design also makes use of DSP Builder and the IP (Intellectual Property) cores providedoriginally for Altera’s Stratix II and migrate them onto Cyclone II. This approach saves us fromwriting VHDL/Verilog codes for DSP functions from scratch and speeds up the designconsiderably.The designed experiments can be used either in an upper undergraduate level electronics orembedded systems course or in a stand-alone DSP course for both EE and CmpE. This approachoffers excellent integration of the DSP component with other components of the curriculum

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Graham Walker

An Experimental Process Course Graham Walker Mechanical engineering department Manhattan College1 Introduction In many industrial environments today an engineer is expected to perform tests or simpleexperiments. This will become ever truer in the future as more and more design is done offshore andoutsourced to countries such as India and China. Consequently, it will become even more important forfuture engineering graduates to be familiar with testing and experimental procedures. A typical engineering curriculum has a number of laboratory courses distributed throughout itsfour years

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Benjamin Redekop

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

be found in bringing in a new course into analready packed curriculum. A new course, IME540 Environmentally Conscious Designand Manufacturing, will be offered for both undergraduates and graduate students as anengineering elective across all disciplines in the university and will reside within theIndustrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department. In an attempt to reach as manystudents as possible, the course is being offered with minimal prerequisites and will beteam-taught by faculty from various disciplines including Business, Liberal Studies,Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry.The multidisciplinary faculty group will have completed two offerings of IME540 as asenior engineering elective course by the time this paper is presented at

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong 'Jeffrey' Nie; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

FPGA in EET programs isto integrate HDL and FPGA into all digital hardware design courses, from entry level toadvanced level, rather than open an independent course.I. IntroductionDigital hardware design has been considered as core education contents for ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET) programs for more than two decades. As a result, a whole set ofmethodologies, such as truth table, canonical sum-of-products expressions, and Karnaugh mapsfor combinational circuit, and finite state machine, state diagram, state table, and stateassignment for sequential circuit, have been well-developed to analyze and design digitalcircuits1. However, because the complexity to design a digital circuit increases exponentiallywith the number of gates used

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Jon Whited, St. Jude Medical; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

experience provideopportunities to further integrate the public and private sectors.ConclusionIn summary, in cooperative education, several basic needs of industry, students, faculty and theuniversity are met. Nascent engineers get an opportunity to gain professional work experience,earn money and embellish their classroom learning with practical on-the-job training, makeprofessional contacts, affirm and develop informed career goals, build confidence and developthe traits ABET sees as critical to become an empowered global engineer. Faculty members areprovided the opportunity to expand their pool of colleagues, match their expertise to industrialneeds, be informed of industrial needs and develop capabilities which will allow them to interactwith

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80 Chi STDEV Figure 6. Exit Level Performance MSDMThe MSDM indicates that “Integrity” (D3), “Ability to working with others” (E1)“Attendance” (K4) are the definite strong suits of the exit population. “Sets Goal”(J3)”Gives Direction” (F1), “Motivates Others” (F2) and “Conflict Management”(F3) represent the least stable characteristics of the curriculum. The weakness of“Project Management “(J1) could indicate that the curriculum lacks in projectoriented pedagogy at this level. “Punctuality” (K5) is an outlier. The average ofK5 is relatively good, but the individual diversity is bothersome. Some engineersare punctual

Conference Session

Computer and Information Technology-Related Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duane Fairfax, USMA; Kevin Huggins, USMA; Bryan Goda, USMA

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

goal supports the USMA’s mission of producingArmy Officers who can respond effectively to technological changes in the defense of ournation.Courses augmented with IT can be daunting for cadets who lack the experience and confidencelevel to succeed in the course. As a result, these types of courses are avoided by cadets if at allpossible. This is not an option for an aspiring officer who will lead the soldiers of tomorrow on adigitized battlefield. Since 1990, cadets have been issued a computer which has played a centralrole in bringing the power of IT to all graduates of the Military Academy. Integration of IT inthe curriculum begins early with every cadet receiving a laptop computer. An integratedsoftware package is included to support any

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Celina Bochis, University of Alabama; Steven Hsia, University of Alabama; Pauline Johnson, University of Alabama; Karen Boykin, University of Alabama; Sandra Wood, University of Alabama; Larry Bowen, University of Alabama; Kevin Whitaker, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

community service project led by professional engineers. In Page 12.907.8addition, the incorporated fun learning experiences, teambuilding and social activities help avoidsummer burn-out and encourage participation and bonding. Math classes are taught in blocks inthe mornings only. The afternoons are allocated by rotation to Living-Labs, Calculus Lab, andCommunity Service Project. One day per week is reserved for the learning experience throughthe field trips. Social activities and/or math tutoring are available in the evenings.Math Class The E-MAP program offers an alternative curriculum for pre

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Patricia L. Fox; D. Jan Cowan; Stephen P. Hundley

Create, Innovate, and Educate: Integrating Sustainability into Engineering Education Patricia L. Fox, D. Jan Cowan, Stephen P. Hundley Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)AbstractThis paper highlights an international, interdisciplinary course that seeks to integratesustainability into the engineering education curriculum through a course entitled GO GREEN(Green Organizations: Global Responsibility for Environmental and Economic Necessity). Thiscourse helps to create new knowledge for students by stressing the interconnected aspects offinancial, social, and environmental

Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Barnett, Saint Louis University; Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

addressprogram level outcomes, and various other enhancements and refinements. However, theimmersion experience remains an integral component of the course and is highly regarded byalumni as a valuable experience that provided a strong foundation for their next career step. Tobetter prepare students for joining a faculty laboratory, the students are normally required to jointhe lab prior to their senior year in order to facilitate the development of multi-year projects andto improve their overall experience during the senior year.This paper discusses the current status of the senior projects sequence and the developmentprocess following the initial student involvement in the lab to their project culmination. Resultsrelated to various measures of student

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology; Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology; Andrew Carpenter, Oregon Institute of Technology; Brant Hempel, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1053: A CAPSTONE ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS PROJECT FORELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY MAJORSDavid Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology DAVID N. POCOCK is an Associate Professor and is the Curriculum Coordinator and head of the Analog Block of the Electronics Engineering Technology department at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, OR. His main research interests are semiconductor device modeling, infrared focal plane arrays, nuclear radiation effects, and web-based real electronics labs for distance education.Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology KEVIN MCCULLOUGH is a Senior at Oregon Institute of Technology in the Electronics Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

from the lecture component. While ourscheduling of studio time is like that of a laboratory, the studio format is actually quite differentfrom laboratory format in several ways. In particular, for an introductory microprocessorscourse, studio provides an effective means to get students active early in the semester. Insummary, we find that studio format helps greatly in teaching introductory microprocessor topicsand we are continuing to refine our use of studio format in this course.IntroductionDuring the fall 2002 semester a change in the electrical engineering curriculum required us toincrease the content in our introductory microprocessor course. The course is a requirement forall of our electrical engineering and computer engineering

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College; Sean Maw, Mount Royal College

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-3028: ENGINEERING DESIGN AND COMMUNICATIONS: SUCCESSESAND FAILURES OF AN EVOLVING FIRST-YEAR COURSEJanice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College JANICE MILLER-YOUNG is a P.Eng. with a background in mechanical engineering and a PhD in biomechanics. She has worked in the oil industry, has consulted for sports equipment companies and academics on biomechanics research, and has been teaching engineering design for three years. She also incorporates writing-across-the curriculum and inquiry-based learning concepts in more traditional courses such as statics and dynamics.Sean Maw, Mount Royal College Sean Maw has a PhD in Neuroscience (University of Alberta) and a BASc/MASc in Systems

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-1659: DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF INSTRUCTORS’DESIGN LEARNING PHILOSOPHIES IN A SERVICE-LEARNING CONTEXTCarla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University WILLIAM C. OAKES is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Purdue University and the Interim-Director of the EPICS Program. He is a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paris von Lockette, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of the integrated design and communication pedagogy of the course. In addition to engineering communication, her areas of interest and expertise include interdisciplinary learning, collaborative learning and teamwork, meta-cognitive learning, information literacy, and student learning outcomes assessment. Page 12.406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Converging-Diverging Design Strategies in a Sophomore Level Design Sequence: Review of an Electromechanical ProjectAbstractAt our university Sophomore Clinics I and II are part of an eight-semester design sequence inwhich

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jonathan Stolk, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

already overcrowded curriculum. This paper presents thegoals, design approach, implementation, and selected outcomes of one integrated project-basedcourse (using Paul Revere and other case studies to integrate materials science with the history oftechnology) and uses it to discuss the advantages of disciplinary integration, particularly withrespect to improved student self-direction and contextual understanding. Assessmentsadministered during and after class suggest that this integrated course successfully engenderedhigh student motivation along with an increase in student aptitudes over the course of thesemester without a corresponding loss of discipline-specific knowledge. The implementation ofthis integrated course and the evaluation of its

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Experimental Systems through Student Projects to Enhance the Automation Curriculum in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program.AbstractThe use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in industry is on therapid increase, especially with developments of modular instruments and sensors that are easilycontrolled through Ethernet or other industry network standards. The need for skilled personnelto implement and utilize these systems is also increasing. Courses which incorporate SCADAapplications are offered widely across the nation and in many colleges. These courses ofteninclude theory and laboratory component in which students learn how to implement and programthese systems. By providing an

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

corporate partners and sponsors to deliver an engineering degree that enablesdiverse technically oriented middle management staff to advance in their abilities to lead andmanage the enterprise.Suggestions to provide such managers with standard master of business administration degreeswere met with skepticism and doubt. Leaders of technology centric corporations wereunconvinced that the standard MBA curriculum included the competencies they were seeking todevelop. For example, one corporate partner mentioned that the MBA would not help the salesand marketing people better communicate with engineers and other technical staff. They wantedan engineering based degree that would provide engineers and non-engineers alike with a highlevel understanding of

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

Management from The University of Alabama Huntsville. Page 12.1368.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Project Management with International CollaborationAbstractGlobal project management is a natural context for training engineering students to meetchallenges of the global economy. This paper describes the methods employed in an innovativeproject management course integrating lecture seminars with international engineeringcounterpart faculty in China, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. The US’s East CarolinaUniversity’s engineering program entered into reciprocal agreements with the Czech TechnicalUniversity

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ozgur Erol, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

2005confirmed this trend. The use of BPR as a management tool was reported to have gone downfrom 69 percent in 1995 to 38 percent in 2000, and revived again to 61 percent in 20041.The concept of reengineering traces its origins back to management theories developed as earlyas the nineteenth century. BPR integrates methods from total quality management, technologyand innovation management, strategic planning, systems engineering, and organizational design4.The Stevens EM program has been offering courses related to these topics and integrating BPRin the curriculum was only natural. It aimed to provide our students an understanding of theBPR as a concept, learning of the tools and techniques and the ability to find similarities anddifferences between

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

√ √ √ √ √A general impression after this extensive search was that it is very difficult to find a book thatfits into an integrated curriculum that uses the course as a prerequisite to subsequentconcentration courses. The Cogdell book (#2 in the list) appeared to be an ideal choice for ourprogram in terms of topic coverage, but the course instructor wanted to have more supportingresources. The Rozzni book (#3) was adopted for our course because it had a comprehensivelist of topics that best suited the requirements for the course and the engineering program at thetime. This book, however, can benefit from more careful editing efforts to reduce the number oftypographical errors.F. Laboratory activitiesThe purpose of the laboratory activities are to

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Peterson, Arizona State University; Jane Humble, Arizona State University

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Engineering Management

27 Portland State University 59 28 Florida Institute of Technology 572. Web-sites for each program were accessed in November/December, 2006 or in January 2007. Based on the data found on the websites, a table was constructed classifying each required course into topic classes based on (a) the course title and (b) a review of the catalog listing for the course in most cases. The classification was done by the author, an engineering management educator for the past 13 years with an additional 18 years as a practicing engineering manager. The classification system was not predetermined but driven by data with new topic classifications added as needed to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

, 5and other programs. The framework for deploying student problems, called the Problem Set Manager,allows faculty to devise problems that underscore foundational design and programming concepts andthen develop an XML-based file that includes the problem context, example input and output and a set ofspecified inputs and expected outputs. These problems are exposed via the network and cadets can testtheir programs against these specified test cases to determine if they have arrived at a solution thatproduces the correct output. While the Problem Set Manager is integrated into the IT105 Editor, it canalso be run as a separate module in conjunction with alternative IDEs. The most significant applicationin this project is the IT105 Editor. This

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Svec, South Dakota State University; Harriet Svec, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

-design addresses the ethos of the college and department, the program goalsand objectives, and the criteria and guidelines for the MNET Programs under ABET/TAC. Thedecision to rejuvenate the curriculum in the (GE255) Survey of Machine Tool Applicationscourse was not taken lightly. The objectives and outcomes of the project were scrupulouslyreviewed as part of a larger picture of curriculum redesign prior to the ABET/TAC application. Page 12.1204.4ABET/TAC Goals and Objectives:The ABET/TAC guideline found in the Criteria for Accrediting Engineering TechnologyProgram that most appropriately describes the curriculum in GE255. (Outcome a).An integral

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Page 12.1381.2to understand the developmental model adopted by the industrial engineering faculty.Developmental TheoryA growing body of research suggests that in order to help students develop more complexthinking skills one needs to provide a curriculum that is challenging while simultaneouslyproviding the foundational support necessary for student success. While some researchers focuson an adaptive curriculum based on a student’s learning preference curve or typology3,4, otherssuggest that a curriculum focused on the social aspects of student learning may be moreproductive5-8. Still others suggest that focusing on students’ intellectual development can lead tosignificant learning gains9,10. The Industrial Engineering program seeks to