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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education8. References 1. Dekker, D.L. “Engineering design processes, problem solving and creativity,” Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 1 , 1-4 Nov 1995, pp. 3a5.16 -3a5.19 vol.1 2. Yokomoto, C.F,; Voltmer, D.R,; Ware, R.” Incorporating the “aha!” experience into the classroom and laboratory,” Proceedings to Twenty-Third Annual Frontiers in Education Conference 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', 1993., 6-9 Nov 1993, pp. 200 -203 3. Dewey, John, How We Think. New York: Prometheus Books. 1991. 4. Dewey, John. Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1938. 5. Dewey, John. Democracy and

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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Robert Ettema; James Stoner; Forrest Holly; Wilfrid Nixon

BSfrom Stanford University in 1968, an MS from the University of Washington in 1969, and a PhD fromColorado State University in 1975, all in Civil Engineering - Hydraulics.JAMES STONERJames Stoner is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban and RegionalPlanning at the University of Iowa. He has previously served as Associate Director of the Center forComputer Aided Design and Director of the Iowa Driving Simulation Laboratory. Dr. Stoner received hisPh.D. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University. Page 8.45.14 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

New Mexico Mechanical Engineeringdepartment. There the students met Professor Tran and some of his graduate students. Thestudents had a chance to see what academic engineering is like, see the laboratory and the rapidprototyping machines that would build their designs. There was an added bonus; the studentsvisited the University Science and Engineering Library (Centennial Science and EngineeringLibrary). To introduce the students to the library, they conducted a small treasure hunt lookingfor the oldest journal they could find as well as a journal that had articles about topics of interestfor them. Never having seen a technical library before, the students were fascinated.The students’ final designs were realized using the University’s fused

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Special Topics

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Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

communicationwithin engineering classrooms and laboratories. The traditional methods of research inengineering education include quasi-experimental and experimental approaches usingquantitative data, Likert scales, and course evaluations. However, these methods do not lendthemselves to studying the detailed communication patterns and other complex humaninteractions among students. Therefore, the engineering education community needs to includeadditional researchers with the knowledge and skills required and/or needs to begin learningadditional research methods to further our collective understanding.Visual Communication A qualitative analysis of references to visual communication leads to several observationsand recommendations. First, all of the

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Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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Craig Quadrato

to thecourse. Finally, and perhaps the most convenient way to add realism to a course, is to do somehands-on laboratory work. At fist this conjures up visions of high-tech lab equipment with allthe associated support staff and knowledge to run the lab. While we used such facilities andprofessional help in our course, there are also opportunities to turn any classroom into alaboratory. In-class demonstrations mentioned earlier could be turned into in-class labs if somemethod of predicting the demonstrated behavior can be shown. There are also computersimulations that can be used as the demonstration. Predicting behavior resulting from asimulation can at least verify to a student that in-class methods are supported by the creators

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Sastry Vedula

development of the state of the art powerelectronics laboratory at Iowa State University .S. S. VenkataHe received the Ph.D. degree form the University of South Carolina in 1971. He held various teaching positions atWest Virginia University as well as at University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Presently, he is a Professor &Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. He isFellow of IEEE, USA and the co- author of a book entitled: Introduction to Electric Energy Devices . Page 7.565.16 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Educat ion Annual

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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Val Stamboltsian; Robert Dennis; Khy Huang

. ix, 265.6. Markham, K.M., J.J. Mintzes, and M.G. Jones, The concept map as a research and evaluation tool: Further evidence of validity. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1994. 31(1): p. 91-101.7. Markow, P.G. and R.A. Lonning, Usefulness of concept maps in college chemistry laboratories: Students' perceptions and effects on achievement. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1998. 35(9): p. 1015-1029.8. Novak, J.D., Concept mapping: A strategy for organizing knowledge, in Learning science in the schools: Research reforming practice., S.M. Glynn and R. Duit, Editors. 1995, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc: Hillsdale, NJ, US. p. 229-245.9. Novak, J.D., Learning, creating, and using knowledge

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

Operating Memorandum (DPOM) 5-4: Curricular Developmentand Change provides procedures to implement changes to the curriculum at the USMA.Implementation of curricular changes requires recommendation by the Curriculum Committee tothe General Committee for approval. Impacts on other programs and resource requirements arekey factors in whether the mechanical engineering program receives approval to integrate itscourses. Addition of an Introduction to Engineering course requires a change to all engineeringcurriculums. Redesign of the mechanical engineering curriculum to integrate courses and to offer newelectives most likely would have to be achievable within the limitations of the current facultystructure, laboratory space, and technician

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Fredrick Cowan; Alan Gravitt; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

support from NSF Project Number DGE-0086420. Many thanks tothe administration, faculty, and students at Westlake High School. The cost of computer timewas underwritten by the Systems Realization Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.REFERENCES1. Borning, A., 1977, “ThingLab – An Object-Oriented System for Building Simulations Using Constraints,” IJCAI, Vol. 1, pp. 497-498.2. Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J., and Glaser, R., 1981, “Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices,” Cognitive Science, Vol. 5, pp. 121-152.3. diSessa, A. A., 1988, “Knowledge in Pieces,” Constructivism in the Computer Age, (Forman, G., and Pufall, P. B., eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 49-70.4

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Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eck Doerry

.Tiffin, J. and Rajasingham, L. (1995). In search of the virtual class, Routledge Publishers, London.Acknowledgements.We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the NSF (Grant #EEC-9725036), which provided the funding for the initial phases of this work. The NAU College ofEngineering and, in particular, the Dept. of Computer Science also provided critical funds to bringthe project out of the laboratory and to full release. Bill Busby and Daniel Wallace contributedmuch work to the user studies and early implementation, respectively. Page 8.260.15Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education

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Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stuart Walesh

outcome. 2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data. (ABET b) Commentary: Civil engineers frequently design and conduct field and laboratory studies, gather data and then analyze and interpret the results. Be able to do this in at least one of the major recognized civil engineering areas. Examples are traffic, geotechnical, and water quality investigations. 3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. (ABET c) Commentary: Important design or design procurement elements are bidding versus quality-based engineer

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

Educationa project called the Virtual Laboratory” (VL) was initiated four years ago to bring newtools to the theoretical mechanics classroom that better illustrate how the mathematicalformalisms used in continuum mechanics, elasticity, and strength of materials model thedeformation of materials. In other words, the VL project primary goal is not that of de-scribing real materials, but that of illustrating how a material is forced to behave whendescribed by a given mathematical model. Therefore, in a way, the VL project intends toplace the material characterization problem “on its head,” that is, to make students bet-ter modelers by making them pay attention to what the mathematical language they endup using is actually allowing them to say. The main

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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Diane Muratore; Jeannette Russ

the semester. Another example involves a biomedicalengineering laboratory course taught by one of the authors, in which she devoted one full classperiod to a discussion of current events. Students selected a topic of choice from the BMEnetwebsite news page and gave a report to the class on the particular engineering development theyhad researched. These successful experiments not only stimulated student interest, but they alsogave the students practical experience in finding information for themselves – an idea closelyrelated to the ABET directive of promoting life-long learning.Another form of supplementing the text during your lecture is to provide the students withrelevant handouts. For example, if you are presenting a long list of

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What Makes Them Continue?

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Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

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Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Russell Mills; Tonya Emerson

both to the primary goal of student learning and to thesecondary objective of a competitive entry. CSU, Chico acquired the prerequisite testingequipment over several years, beginning with a year when we hosted the regional competition.Some portion of the fundraising for the regional conference was used to augment existinglaboratory facilities with equipment applicable to testing of the steel bridge entries. Thisequipment, including electronic instrumentation and automated data acquisition, is now readilyavailable to our students for physical testing of bridge concepts. These developments have notonly enhanced participation in the bridge contest but have also provided improvements to thestructures laboratory applicable to a variety of

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

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Donna Riley

Number Spring 2002Group Project 10 Textbook 13Group Test 5 More conceptual emphasis 7Accessibility of Professor 5 More applications/examples/demos 6Change to Circle/Class Dynamics 5 Concept tests 2Thermodynamics to Life 4 Final weighted too high 2History of Science components 4 Professor not organized 2No laboratory

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Malicky

, women's self-efficacy washigher than men's for 2 skills: organizing work and time spent on homework (again, arguably"effort"). For the other 8 self-efficacy measures, women and men rated themselves quite similarly.Among this sample of SME students, the largest differences were seen for engineering students,with moderate to large effect sizes favoring men for laboratory skills, test taking abilities, andability to think through problems.Leslie17 analyzed students in the CIRP database (not only SME) and found gender and racialdifferences for SME self-efficacy. At entry to college, students who self-rated their SMEpreparation as "better than most" (p. 256) had race x gender characteristics as shown in Table 1.Whether White, Black, or Hispanic, women

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A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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Guido Lopez

, PA.[12] Serway, R. 1992. “Physics for Scientists and Engineers” Saunders Golden Sunbusrt Series. Saunders CollegePublishing. Philadelphia, PA.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.Guido W. Lopez.Guido Lopez is a Faculty member of the School of Engineering Technology at Northeastern University, Boston. Heteaches Introductory Physics for Engineers, Thermofluids Science, Instrumentation, Laboratory Experimentation,Technology and Design. Before joining NU’s faculty, he served as Department Head of the Engineering Math andScience Division at Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH. He has taught engineering and science subjects at theNational Polytechnic School in Quito, Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire, The Lowell Institute ofTechnology at Northeastern

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Earley; Dave Lennig; Dave Campbell; Suguna Bommaraju

high school students. The college students are responsible for their well-being and Page 8.7.8Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationfor training them according to the guidelines set by the school district.All individuals are advised to follow safety measures while working in the laboratory. Safetyconsiderations such as wearing of safety glasses must be adhered to at all times and a mentor mustbe with the students when operating machinery.Group discussions were held to brainstorm ideas and solutions for the project

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Doanh Van

/2002/11/21/rtr802801.html, 21 Nov 200220. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Why Is Energy Efficiency Important?”,http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/eeimportant.html21. U.S. Department of Energy, “International Energy Outlook 2002”, DOE/EIA-0484 (2002),http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/tbl_a8.html22. http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/petroleum/LongTermOilSupplyPresentation.pptAbout the AuthorDOANH VAN is Associate Professor & Chair of the Engineering department at Union University. Prior to joiningUnion, Dr. Van served as Sr. Manager of Energy and Environmental Affairs for Pfizer, Inc. with global corporateresponsibilities. He is both a mechanical and environmental engin eer with advanced academic training in both.He has over 20 years of

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; William LeBold; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie

successful. Onemechanism used in the large (1400 students) first semester computer course is a mid-semesterevaluation. The students are asked to evaluate their graduate and undergraduate teachingassistants, the course coordination, and the effectiveness of the student teaming experience.Results are returned to the Director of Laboratory Instruction. In this way, teaching assistantsissues are dealt with in a timely manner and corrected mid-semester.Another mechanism that has proven effective in the large-classes is the use of class-representatives. One student is chosen from each recitation or lab division. The representativesmeet with the lecture instructor once a week to provide feedback from the lab section on the

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Berrisford Boothe; Todd Watkins; John Ochs

financial resources and logistics needed to complete project on time and on budget.This is being accomplished with excellent support staff.Project and Program Staff SupportTo date the iP3 Program has developed funding for staff to support the e-teams. The staffincludes a program director, an outreach manager, a program manager and an academic associateto coordinate students, faculty, sponsors and facilities. Various laboratories funded and operatedby departments, institutes and centers house the technologies needed by the teams to createsuccessful prototypes. E-teams are funded to pay for the use of these facilities. E-teams arefunded to purchase the various devices, subsystems and components needed to complete theirprojects. Staff support the

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James Ladesic

-Prescott faculty involvement was, in part, accomplished usingDistance Learning Technology (DLT) between our two campuses. In this way allinvolved had opportunities to learn how to use this technology, in addition to thefocus technologies of the program, and to assess how it may be employedbetween our student groups for interactive design projects or in offering morecourses via DLT in the future. This experience also proved helpful in identifyingfuture improvements for our engineering laboratories on the two campuses toinclude DLT capabilities.A second workshop was conducted in August to review each module developed.Participants provided comments and constructive feedback. During the Augustmeeting each participant was asked to show, in written

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Thomas Edgar; John Wood; John Fowler; Hong Xiao; Fabian Lopez; Dave Hata; Bassam Matar

students felt comfortable working within the assigned teams,actively participating in team activities. They felt that communication between team memberswas effective and perceived team members as being supportive. In general, they thought thelaboratory activity enhanced their understanding. However, engineering students felt that astronger chemistry background would have better prepared them for the laboratory exercise.Likewise, TVI technician students felt comfortable working in teams, and similarly, they felt thattheir chemistry and math background was marginally adequate. Both groups found the CD-ROM easy to use although some students asked for better navigational aids. The technicianstudents rated the visual aids, simulations, and exercises as

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Narayanan Komerath

are assigned to studentson their level of mastery of each step. Often there is little opportunity to revisit the concept:students often abandon those learning steps where they “performed poorly”.If students could see errors, revisit concepts and correct their understanding of how to applythem, learning would be reinforced. This process occurs in a relatively informal way when newstudents join a research group, and come up to the leading edge of a technical field. In the caseof new graduate students, it may be argued that their excellent undergraduate backgroundenables them to grasp the research literature rapidly. However, experience at our laboratory hasshown that such learning works very well with students at all levels, and indeed this

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2001 Annual Conference

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Devdas Shetty

substitution of one material for another, are what we may expect on a larger andlarger scale.Micro miniaturization has been going on in the electronics industry side-by-side withminiaturization of mechanical products. Micro-electromechanical systems are now being madein laboratories and finding applications in markets in manufacturing, bioengineering andmedicine. From microns for typical parts of machinery, we are now down to parts measured infractions of microns. And already, in the distance, "nano technology" provides measure inbillionths of a meter, literally the molecular level. These are products and processes that emulatethe mechanisms of biological life.The importance of managing the design process, i.e., of not letting things just happen, is

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Gary Fetter; M.P. Sharma

. Interaction with resources--individual students or groups collaborating with the same or similar tools as those used by the professionals, for example word processors, electronic libraries, laboratories or studios. 3. Interaction with experts--students conversing with the instructor, other students or content experts in real time. 4. Interaction through electronically or digitally sharing the results of newly formed knowledge over periods of days or hours.The course was divided into eight units with each unit basically representing a chapter of thetextbook. Various content components were organized using the WebCT path editor toolcreating opportunities for students to interact with course

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2001 Annual Conference

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William Frey; Jose Cruz

design project. They use an issue into full-blown ethical matrix and empirical dilemmas. methods to uncover embedded ethical issues. Decision- The ability to integrate The Ethics Using a case or scenario that Making (not just apply) ethical Laboratory presents a real world decision- (Designing) considerations into a making situation, students use decision or design such a seven-step model to resolve that the considerations the case by

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Matthew Morley; Jody Redepenning; Bruce Dvorak

freshmansequence (with Chemistry 113) for physical science and chemical engineering majors. Thecourse is focused on chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, ionic solution equilibria, introductorythermodynamics, and the chemistry of selected elements. Chemistry 116, “QuantitativeChemistry Laboratory,” is a two-credit course that is taken in parallel with Chemistry 114. Thecourse serves as an introduction to quantitative analytical methods, especially acid-base andredox titimetry, gravimetry, use of pH meter, separations, and analytical spectrophotometry.Description of CIVE/BSEN 326 All Civil Engineers are required to take the 3-credit hour Civil Engineering (CIVE) 326(Introduction to Environmental Engineering) course. CIVE 326 is cross-listed as

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William C. Beston; Sharon B. Fellows; Richard Culver

but has been used in both Statics and Dynamics as well.Engineering Design III at BCC is a one-credit, three-hour laboratory format class offered intraditional and ASL mode. The course is a required core curriculum course usually taken in the1st semester of the 2nd year. Although formal instruction is presented on the “design process”using a traditional design text, most of the class focuses on two class projects that requireconsiderable development of SDL skills to be completed successfully. Although, the topics forthe projects vary, the overall themes require a “paper” application of the design process to abiological science field and a “working model” that requires an integrated application ofelectrical/mechanical systems at the appropriate