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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

economic.In addition to helping meet Criterion Four objectives, the Handbook is designed to servean important integrative role, by showing students how the ABET considerations relate tothe traditional technical components of the curriculum, and at the same time how theyrelate to the liberal education of the engineer.The Handbook is designed to be used throughout the four-year curriculum. Facultyassign a reading from one of the chapters and then give an assignment that follows fromthe reading. By the time the students reaches the senior design project he or she is readyto seriously address the ABET considerations. Moreover, the student has had the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

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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

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Adams; Vance Poteat

, using a freewarecompiler and low-cost programming boards. This new sophomore sequence was presented at ameeting of the Advisory Board, which includes representatives from Lucent, Raytheon, andAnalogic Devices among others, and was greeted enthusiastically as being aligned with industryneeds. The first run of the Embedded Controller class was in spring of 2003, and received goodreviews from students. Further advantages of the new sequence include: better preparation forpossible co-op work in the junior year, more options in the Senior Design Project, ability tobetter understand routers and switches presented in Data Networking, and ability to take part inthe measurement/control portion of departmental Power Quality and Energy

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A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

thegraduate students were research assistants on projects with flow visualization equipment whichwere made available to their teammates. For example, one of the students had access to a largeflume and a laser induced fluorescence system in the Civil Engineering department. Anotherstudent was studying flame treatment of plastic films with a large color schlieren system, and athird was interested in the aerodynamics of Olympic ski jumping, as part of a project to designnew hills. Art students made sophisticated photographic equipment available to their teams,although there was still a pressing need for digital cameras and printers. (Digital photographywas favored by the engineering students for the relatively low cost of processing). The course

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

/administrator. Although each makes a different salary, assuming that an averagesalary using the chart below (Langham, 1994) might be between $50,000 and $75,000 showshow quickly hidden costs add up. At an average salary of $50,000, the cost of a two-hourmeeting is $400. When the average salary climbs to $75,000, a two-hour meeting of four peoplecosts $600.00. So, for 30 weeks of 2-hour meetings the hidden cost ranges from $12,000 to$18,000. Add to this the fact that several faculty received release time to take on the project andit was necessary to hire adjunct faculty for courses, and that many more meetings were held byothers, it is easy to see how the hidden costs can build.Average Annual Salary Hourly Cost of Meeting$75,000 $150 $300

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TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

founded upon a projects-based environment with four-year integratedcurricula. The programs in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering are due to producetheir first cohorts in May 2004. Owing to the “youth” of these programs, new approaches indelivering an undergraduate engineering education can be taken. This has been done with theintent of addressing many of the pitfalls often reported in both the open literature and in theacademic grapevine. This paper discusses the materials science and manufacturing componentof the mechanical engineering program. The objective is to highlight the differences inapproaches taken to deliver the educational component while commenting on their effectiveness.How the materials component of the program is

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

is being taught to what is being shown in the course syllabus and theuniversity catalog.In my teaching of the course on Current Topics in Construction at our institution, thissenior level course which is a senior level seminar-cum-capstone course, the descriptionof the course has been given a broad description: “Study of selected topics, such asunderground construction, underpinning, formwork and other project supportrequirements; evaluation and review of current practices in construction. The courseincludes study and research in a specific area that combines major elements fromprevious construction engineering technology courses culminating in an integratingexperience through individual and/or group projects, technical reports and

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Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

, using the JiTT approach. Airresources lab activities include an air resources allowance-trading auction, the determination ofthe ventilation rate of a student chosen enclosed space using a CO2 meter, and the measurementof CO levels from the campus fleet of vehicles. The curriculum development project is partiallyfunded by a NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Grant Award0127139. The curriculum that is available for download athttp://www.humboldt.edu/~eae1/CCLI02/ includes reading assignments, online quizzes,laboratory activities and selected portions of PowerPoint presentations.Course DescriptionEngineering 115: Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering is a requiredintroductory course for both Environmental

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

Session 2530 Designing Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for Middle School Students Larry G. Richards1, Hilary Bart-Smith, Gabriel Laufer, Joseph A.C. Humphrey, Randy Bell, and Robert Tai University of VirginiaAbstractThe University of Virginia has undertaken a major project to design, implement, test, anddistribute Engineering Teaching Kits (ETKs) for use in middle school science and mathcourses. A new senior design course sequence for fourth year Mechanical Engineersallowed 30 students to

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

telecommunications. Inorder to complete the degree, students must choose a concentration in one of twocurrently available high-demand IT knowledge areas: Graphics and Data Presentation orInformation Security and Network Administration. Each concentration includes a six-hourcapstone design project. Graduates from this program will fill an important niche in the ITjob market that lies between those who graduate with IT business skills (from ourManagement Information Systems (DMIS program)) and those technical experts whograduate with degrees from existing technical areas such as computer science, computerengineering, and electrical engineering. Page 8.662.2The BS-IT

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Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

patentedinventions are not conceived by trained engineers? In Canadian French there is even a specialword for such person, “patenteux” 9. Patenteux stands for: creator, innovative problem solver,inventor and artist 9, 8. Based on 10 years of unpublished surveys of engineering technologystudents at sophomore through senior level engineering technology courses at CentralConnecticut State University (CCSU), the students express strong preference for repetitivelearning based on practical examples. That fact alone clearly indicates a preference for multiplesmall projects rather than one complex and time consuming project. The flow of teachingactivities described in this paper reflects experiences gathered in teaching Design forManufacturing senior level course

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greta Zenner; Amy Payne; Aura Gimm; Wendy Crone

, present andreceive feedback on their ideas, conduct experiments, build hands-on models, and createinstructional materials to explain nanotechnology and related science concepts. Duringprofessional development, interns learn about creating classroom activities, techniques forpresenting to non-technical audiences, and strategies for assessing their materials; and work ontheir skills in teamwork, project design, leadership, and science communication. In addition tovisiting middle-school classrooms, interns participate in on- and off-campus informal scienceeducation events where they present to wider audiences ranging from science teachers, tomembers of the adult lay public, to groups of middle-school-age children. In this paper, wediscuss the

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Session 1330 Piaget and Engineering Education Lawrence J. Genalo, Denise A. Schmidt, Melanie Schiltz Iowa State UniversityAbstractThomas Edison was a noted engineer while Jean Piaget made his fame in children’s educationalpsychology. Piaget’s “cognitive constructivism” has been adopted in many early childhoodprograms, but it also applies to engineering education and its “hands-on” approach, especially inlaboratories and project-based courses. The direction of education dramatically shifted whenJean Piaget developed a child-centered developmental learning theory. According to his

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

thepast five years. The retention problem is evident in engineering disciplines at many universitiesnationwide and efforts have been focused on enriching the freshmen programs with hands-onexperiences.4-7 Electrical engineering programs have reported remarkable success byintroducing courses in the freshmen year that emphasize hands-on experience.4,5,8Some electrical engineering students at RIT are focused and highly motivated. Many of thesestudents benefited from engineering career development opportunities available in high schools,such as Project Lead-the-Way9, enabling them to make informed career choices. Previouspractical experience in electronics is also highly correlated to student success at RIT. Ininterviews with first year, Dean’s List

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

, determination of the shortest linear distance between lines and planes,and parallelism and perpendicularity of such geometric entities such as lines and planes were top-ics in the course. Other course topics included intersections between two planes and between asolid and a plane as well as pattern developments of solids. Isometric projection was introducedso that students could make pictorial sketches of three-dimensional objects. Approximately one-seventh of the course was devoted to learning Pro/Engineer to develop a computer model of athree-dimensional object. Students spent most of the time in this class using drawing instrumentsincluding triangles, dividers, compasses, and protractors. Scales, lettering, and geometric con-structions using

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

Active Learning in Distance EducationThis paper focuses on three senior elective courses that are a part of the Civil EngineeringTechnology (CET) program at ODU. These courses were offered in the distance educationsetting using varied lecture formats via synchronous video technology. This paper discusses theimplementation of active learning in these distance education classes and the impact of thechanges on student rapport in the courses.CET 460 Construction Cost Estimating, CET 465 Construction Project Management, and ENMA401 Project Management are senior electives that are applied to the CET Degree at ODU. Eachcourse is offered on TELETECHNET (TTN), Old Dominion University’s distance learningnetwork. A traditional lecture format was used

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Schwesig

with these challenges, several European researchinitiatives are trying to update the content of curricula responding to industrial needs. Thispaper first presents the findings of the EU-IST research project BRIDGES by discussing andcomparing e--business trends and challenges in the EU and the USA. Then, challenges foreducation in E-Business are elaborated. Those challenges are picked up by the EU-IST/ IMSproject GEM in order to create a new curriculum for a master degree in ManufacturingStrategy. It will cover technology and business topics and especially consider digital business.Finally, an initial concept of a short course covering essential aspects of production based ondigital business is discussed.IntroductionE-business has brought up

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Kaminski

is one quarter less than two years old and is on track for meeting studentenrollment goals as indicated in the table below. At present, our student population is 38 studentsafter 1-2/3 quarters. To date only 2 students have graduated from the MSET program but at theconclusion of the spring, 2002 quarter, 14 students are anticipated to graduate. Projected Versus Actual Student Enrollment in Puget Sound Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 __________________________________________ Projected 28 40 55 60 Actual 14 38 - -Need for ProgramThe need for a

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

in engineeringbegan declining in 1987 and has continued to stay at about the same level through much of the1990s. The total number of graduates from engineering programs is not expected to increasesignificantly over the projection period.”14 In the year 2000 an estimated 400,000 engineering jobswere unfilled; projections indicate that number will grow to 1.75 million by 2008.15 In recognitionof this growing problem, the American Society for Engineering Education has a web site for K-12SMET education that can be viewed at www.asee.org/K-12smet_ed/.Taken together these projections suggest a strong need for high quality, standards-based science,mathematics, and technology learning environments for K-12 students. Engineering contexts forscience

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant tothe evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this project will develop and integrate applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. The engineer must also be skilled in characterizationtechniques and physical property testing of

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International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberto Montoya

.The Accreditation model adopted evaluates the program’s quality through factors that groupelements or characteristics it should have. These characteristics are dimensions of quality and areevaluated through variables, which are their attributes or manifestations, and more specificallythrough indicators both quantitative and qualitative. The factors this model takes into account are:1. Institutional Mission and ObjectivesIt includes quality characteristics that refer to institutional mission, purpose, goals and objectives,to the educational project, to the formation of an academic community, to the institution’s internaland external interactions and to institutional strategies to maintain an appropriate environment.There are 10 characteristics

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Rich; James Baish

andTechnology. Here the students have a shared living and learning experience with like-minded students. Designing People focuses less on the artifacts of design and more onthe people who do design and how society is affected by technological decisions madeduring the design process.In both courses, students learn by doing. Since design is primarily an action or process,and less so a subject for passive reflection, we frequently engage students in studio-style,creative projects. By involving students in design projects, they learn the challenges andjoys of design first hand. Our goal is to have the students appreciate that technology isnot a mysterious force over which nobody has any control, but rather can be the productof their own minds and hands. We

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

Session 2633 Power Electronic Converter for Double Duty in Design and Analysis Courses Herbert L. Hess Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Idaho, Moscow, IdahoAbstract A power electronics project offers a productive and inspiring environment for a capstonedesign project. Students design and build five different power electronic converters. Theseconverters must perform as specified, have readily identifiable topology and components, and bereliable and easy to use. Design process and the development

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

LasLeñas in June of 1992. The plan proposed by the education ministries of the four Countriesdemands the application of a harmonic education system so that the instruction is equivalent inthe four Countries. Taking into account this and other aspects of this new world the EngineeringFacultyof University Center of Lusiada has elaborated an Engineering Course, which propose isbasically the adoption of some subjects of Humanities and Social Sciences, among others. Thechosen subjects are Philosophy, Human Resource, Development of Projects, Assisted TrainingPeriod, Management Strategies and since 1999 the subject Sociology was included to enrich thecourse principally because it is a Science that shows and discuss the main aspects of men life inSociety

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. DeVries; Douglas C. Stahl

showed that there have been several significant projects that bringstructural experiments into the classroom. None that we are aware of, however, attempts toexpand this idea across the curriculum; they are all directed at individual courses. The majorityfocus on structural design in a generic sense or on structural analysis, whereas the StructuralEngineering Workshop focuses on the behavior of real structural components to failure. The“Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory” at University of Colorado5 upends the idea ofbringing physical models into the classroom. The building itself is instrumented, so studentscould conceivably experiment with occupant-induced loadings or see interesting data when thewind off the Front Range is unusually

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas M. Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

holistic,systems approach. The first step using a systems approach to problem solving is problem formulation andneeds analysis. Nonpoint pollution must be identified in relation to the types of topography,economy, and possible pollutant producers. A hog farm in Iowa surrounded by acres of corn willhave entirely different solution needs than an apple orchard in Washington State of the samedimensions. The critical area must be defined since the viability of a project is defined in terms Page 5.64.6of the entire watershed and not any single source of contamination. At the heart of this isextensive research and documentation of water quality

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

discusses the events and experiences associated with thedevelopment and initial conduct of this sequence of C++ programming courses. Itdetails how the courses were designed to assist ET students to better succeed in higherlevel courses taken later in their program sequence. Foundation elements of thesecourses include C++ procedural and object oriented grammar and syntax, programmingstructures and data structures. The paper illustrates how secondary elements of atechnical programming course can be selected so as to additionally promote andencourage student learning of techniques for applied technical problem solving, technicalwriting, software engineering, project management, team dynamics and ethics.IntroductionComputer Programming skills are an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Thompson

civil engineering sub-disciplines of structural, geotechnical, environmental, water resources and transportationengineering. A different faculty member began each unit with an overview of his or her area ofexpertise. A guest speaker from private consulting, government or industry followed this generaloverview by providing students with examples of typical projects and work environments. Thethird phase of each unit involved a hands-on laboratory, computer activity or site visit, whichalso had the purpose of instilling excitement for civil engineering. This paper will report on theassessment of these activities, which included using the West Point Bridge Design program aswell as a unique water system layout project. The paper highlights other

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

collectdata about the selected EM programs. The following questions were considered for this report:· Who is the target audience and what criteria should they meet? Some programs allowed admission to students just finishing a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering while others required a minimum number of years of industry experience. Also, some programs required a degree in engineering while others were more flexible allowing persons with a degree in math or hard science acceptance into an MSEM program.· How many hours are typical for this type of program? The number of hours required varied slightly and sometimes depended on if a thesis was being incorporated into a person’s degree.· Should a thesis or capstone project be required