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Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Johan W Joubert; Dolf Steyn

Assessment as the driver behind operationalising operations research teaching Dr. AB (Dolf) Steyn & Mr. JW (Johan) Joubert University of Pretoria Pretoria, South AfricaABSTRACT: Assessment is often viewed as a nasty afterthought to quantify learning. A cycleof action research and repeated adaptations to a semester project course at the University ofPretoria in South Africa indicate that the assessment process does, in fact, guide and enhance thelearning experience. This paper reports on a case where a project was used to address relevancyissues of industrial engineering practitioners of operations research. A

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeid Motavalli; Helen Zong; Farnaz Ganjeizadeh; David Bowen

I or STAT/ENGR 5601 Introductory Statistics and Probability for Science and Engineering Equivalent courses can be substituted for these prerequisites. Required Courses (32 Units) ENGR 5180 Product-Process Design ENGR 5200 Systems Simulation ENGR 5280 Design and Management of Human Work Systems ENGR 6200 Project Management ENGR 6300 Applied Quality Assurance ENGR 6400 Research Methods in Engineering Management FIN 6033 Graduate Introduction to Financial Decisions Page 10.457.5 MGMT 6130 Enterprise Planning and Control Proceedings of the 2005

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

standard testing and grading mechanisms. Few courses are offeredthat are at the discretion of the student to enhance their personal growth; therefore, there is littleemphasis placed on measuring the impact a course may have on a student’s cognitive orbehavioral growth. Wilde stated in 1983 that, “The route from school direct to university for anengineering degree without practical experience in the industrial environment does not give theyoung engineer the basic skills, knowledge or attitude required for a career in engineeringdesign.”1 A common practice in engineering curriculum at most higher education institutions isthe use of simulations or design projects to give students hands-on and real-world experiencewith the objective of not only

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hector Estrada

Society for Engineering Educationcalculation procedures rather than helping the students understand the nature and effect of theseloads on structures. The present project is intended to be responsive to this effort by usingcomputers to perform the tedious calculations. The main advantage of computers is their speedand consistency. The computer program was developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 because it is one ofthe most popular object-oriented programming languages and it allows the programmer to usemany of the features typically found in the Microsoft Windows graphical environment. Thisprogram was developed because there is no simple computer programs that isolate the wind loadproblem, though there are a number of “canned” programs that

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

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Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

importance of multidisciplinary problems in biomedical engineering. 9. To require the students to utilize skills gained through analytical and experimental exercises to conduct a semester long group design project investigating medical phenomena of their interest. 10. To encourage students to reflect upon their design process and identify areas of strength and weakness in order to prepare for subsequent design exercises.For this new version of the course, lecture and lab components have been blended into a weeklystructure which includes two-hour instructional sessions on Monday and Wednesday followed bya one-hour session on Friday. The course, which is team-taught by two faculty in order to assureadequate technical

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

together, so eventually will nations." Hence, it is necessary to increaseinternational collaboration and activities that promote greater interactions among students,faculty, and industries from different nations.This paper provides details of a new project that has been started at North Dakota StateUniversity (NDSU) to promote international collaboration and activities. In the future, NDSUplans to expand the number of disciplines and also open off-campuses in India, Dubai, and othercountries. Industrial partnerships are an important part of this project. An industrial advisoryboard has been set-up for the NDSU-India project, and senior officials from 3M, General Motors(GM), John Deere, and Microsoft have already agreed to serve on the board. Such

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry A. Barowski; James H. Cross II; David Umphress

thequality of our students’ software. We took a three-prong approach to adapting the certificationconcepts into the software engineering courses required of our Wireless Engineering majors:standards, tools, and certification. We chose to call our certification process AU OK, where AUstands for Auburn University and OK is a tribute to Nokia’s Nokia OK program, which inspiredthe project.4.1 StandardsWe adapted application standards for classroom use as examples of what is expected of industry-quality software. In particular, we drew heavily on the Java Verified test criteria12 andpredecessor documents from Nokia’s NOKIA OK process. References to procedures that were

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeong-Hoon Kim; Julian Kang; Byeong-Cheol Lho

Session 1121 Development of Web-based Interactive 4D Block-Tower Model for Construction Planning and Scheduling Education Julian H. Kang*, Byeong-Cheol Lho**, Jeong-Hoon Kim** *Texas A&M University / **Sangji UniversityFor construction projects implemented in a congested area, the ability to understand spatialrelationship between structures is expected to play an important role in construction planning andscheduling. However, students can hardly understand the time-space relationship at the job siteusing a CPM network or a bar chart. Research shows that visual representation of

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

through a mockpublic meeting, the other is through personal testimony. Both have proven to be interesting tostudents and effective in revealing the subtleties of compromising situations that arise inengineering practice. The dual goals of exposing students to the ASCE Code of Ethics andapplying the Code to an ethical situation are being accomplished based upon assessment resultsfrom the RosE-portfolio, the system set up for documenting student learning outcomes.The two methods we have used to inject enthusiasm and relevance into the topic of professionalethics are proven teaching techniques. One method is the mock public meeting. A student team,working on one of our senior design projects, is instructed to hold a public meeting. Their role isto

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

the following design constraints and criteria:Design Constraints The mechanical breadboard will be • Affordable • Compact and portable • Versatile • Comprehensive • Easy to build from standard parts at local hardware storesDesign Criteria • Costs under $50. • Has the size of the laptop computer. • Is able to quickly provide basic 2 and 3-D demonstrations of various concepts of Statics o Reactive force o Normal force o Pin support o Fixed support o Moment o Projection of force and moment on specified axis o Frictional force On the verge of tipping and sliding o Balance of forces and equilibrium o Transmissibility of

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

product. To betterprepare engineering students for the current workplace, which is distributed and global, aneducation environment imitating design of products in a distributed and collaborativeenvironment is essential. The main focus of this paper is to present an infrastructure forengineering design education for distributed collaborative design and analysis. In the InternetDesign Studio each student is provided with a virtual design studio space for each project, thesedesign studio spaces contain design tools, applications, software, and theoretical materials tofacilitate design and analysis. Conceptually the studio can be thought of as a collection of roomsthat contain different design tools. A student enters these rooms and grabs appropriate

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

students cameup with a variety of designs. These designs were converted to digital drawings by a graduatestudent. Their second project was to design a nose cone that could fit on a model rocket. On thelast class day there was a contest to see whose model rocket design would go the highest.This concept was also introduced to 7th and 8th grade students who attended a series of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.808.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”math/science/engineering summer camps. For this age group the system was

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Fodor; Ramakrishna Gottipati; Janos Grantner

Engineering of Western Michigan University with the help of aDURIP grant by the Department of Defense [6] and generous donations by ABBAutomation Technology Products. This new lab is to support research, the developmentof advanced courses, and graduate projects in the area of intelligent controls for large,complex hybrid systems. One of the targeted applications is the supervisory level offlatness control for cold rolling mills. Contemporary industrial control systems are designed using Object Oriented methodsand software agents. It si required that the system should reach its goals even whenunexpected events occur in an uncertain environment. The current research focus is onfault detection and automated recovery from faults. A fuzzy automaton has

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

has sponsored the project. BioVentures has provided allmaterials and support while a combination of graduate and undergraduate student team fromMTSU built the system and tested it. The team was supervised by a team of faculty from both theengineering technology and biology departments as well as biotech engineers from BioVentures.These collaborative efforts have resulted in a very positive and promising experience for allparties involved. A brief account of this experience and its outcomes, especially on theengineering technology students, will be presented.I. IntroductionMicroarrays are an orderly arrangement of DNA samples spotted onto glass slides or nylonmembranes. Each spot is typically a sequence of DNA representing a distinct gene. To

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran; Chad Marcum

. The results from this project identify and document four key categories, namelyinteraction, navigation, fidelity, and components of education. Each of these key categories isfurther divided into sub-categories that provide the needed guidelines to develop educationalmaterials using virtual environments. It is the intent and desired impact of this paper to establishcriteria for virtual environments for education, which will enrich collaboration and knowledge ofthis technological resource for educational facilities. This is important because with the ever-increasing technological advancements available in most universities, virtual environments couldhelp education to reach new heights1. IntroductionEducational communities are facing many

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mel Mendelson

integrated and facilitated by the materials science faculty member. Thecourse focused on three applications: micro-arrays, micro-fluidics and nanostructures. Thestudents were grouped into multidisciplinary teams for study groups and a class project. Theexamples of our assessment methods (both formative and summative) are in accordance withABET’s requirements.I. IntroductionNanotechnology has been predicted to contribute $1 trillion per year to the global economy andto require 2 million new workers by 2015 [1, 2]. These new workers will have to bescientifically literate in nanotechnology. In order for this to happen, U.S. universities will haveto offer undergraduate courses in nanotechnology. However, few, universities offerundergraduate courses in

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

, American Society for Engineering Educationinvolves students in real-world projects and problem solving from the freshman through the senioryear1-2. This interdisciplinary experience enables students to work on exciting and cutting edgeapplications of the very technologies they learn about in the rest of the engineering curriculum andsee how those technologies improve life for business and people. In this project, a group of utilitycompanies and their hardware suppliers requested that Rowan engineers develop a low cost,hand-held device that would assist them in the management of their field assets. As utilities mergeand the electrical infrastructure changes to meet ever-growing customer electrical demand keepingtrack of the location and maintenance

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Alsaialy; Dalia Tawy; Thomas Schubert; Susan Lord

Instruments.1 It has become a vital tool forengineers and scientists in research throughout academia, industry, and government labs. Mostsignificant to this project is its ability to be used to create an instrument control interface at auser-appropriate level. Thus, LabVIEW is an excellent candidate for creating a user-friendlyinterface for the Tektronix 370. Two USD EE faculty members were motivated to develop suchan interface to alleviate the observed laboratory bottleneck and enhance the utilization of themore complex curve tracer. Fortunately, several USD Electrical Engineering students hadpreviously developed expertise in LabVIEW while working on interfacing projects 2,3. Two ofthese students and the two faculty members thus formed a team to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Smolleck

Page 9.1044.2 Students in the program have been exposed to a range of projects, as indicated inSection 4 below. The continued development of the undergraduate course laboratory has Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbeen the most emphasized of these projects in terms of numbers of students and resourceexpenditure. A key challenge in the continued development of the mentoring program hasbeen to provide challenging on-campus opportunities for the students in a way thatsupports their academic endeavors. Students have worked with faculty and advancedgraduate students on their research

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

board isECE 375 Project programmed to be a remote and another AVR board is used as aRemotely Operated Vehicle receiver on a TekBot. All the knowledge gained through the quarter isCombine past knowledge and needed to do this lab. All the previous labs have sections of code thatingenuity to create this final can be reused during this lab.group project. Table 1: The labs used in the Computer Architecture Course Table 1 shows all of the labs used in the Computer Architecture and Assembly Programming course at Oregon State University. The labs begin by assuming that most students will have some basic programming experience in a higher-level language but no experience in assembly level

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

designed allowingfor a great deal of flexibility. The material covered can in many cases even be somewhat tailoredto the particular class’s interests. In reality, no two classes are ever quite the same.Course AssignmentsThis is a writing intensive course requiring that five written projects be completed. The studentsare challenged to respond to technical and historical scenarios by writing a three to five page essay Page 9.30.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsupporting their conclusions

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Stewart; Carole Goodson; Susan Miertschin; Luces Faulkenberry

data for analysis and application;thus, it is critical to be knowledgeable of these when undertaking a program evaluation project.Knowledge of standards and guidelines does not automatically create an assessment system.Critical elements remain to be developed including specific goals for the assessment system,specific and reliable and valid ways to measure indicators of those goals, and a manageableprocess for the execution of the evaluation.The project described herein was grounded upon substantial contributions in the fields ofassessment and evaluation and the development of system elements based on feedback. Theeditorial work of Bransford, Brown, and Cocking in How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School[7], for example, added much

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

: class grades and possibly attendance. Thisis easily managed with a simple spreadsheet. In classes where team projects are anticipated it isbeneficial to assign team numbers and document the information on the roster. A simple, self-explanatory example of a blank form is given in Figure 1 below.ID# Team Last Name AKA First Name HOMEWORK LAB / FIELD EXERCISE EXAMS PROJ OTHER SUMMARY Projected Grade

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

trained and instructed by faculty mentors on NASA-sponsored Page 9.781.1 1research projects during 8 weeks in the summer. Students were encouraged to pursue advancedtechnical careers via professional development and mentoring activities.NASA PAIR PROGRAM GOALS AND OBJECTIVESGoals:1. To increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and women in MSET disciplines2. To foster the integration of NASA-sponsored research into undergraduate education and promote undergraduate research training3. To increase quality of graduates through enhancement of core courses with research-based learning

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

unfortunate, as thesetools may in many cases be of even more value in those courses.This paper will discuss the use of a variety of online tools in the teaching of the requiredgraduate course in chemical engineering thermodynamics at New Jersey Institute of Technology.The tools include electronic lecture notes, online quizzes, web-based bulletin boards, electronicsubmission and grading of projects and papers, and online monitoring of course grades by thestudents. Use of these tools can help students whose learning style may not be well suited to thetraditional lecture format. Many of these tools are also helpful in dealing with the diversity ofbackgrounds found in core graduate courses. Some differences are due to the educationalbackground of the

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Erbe; F. Wilhelm Bruns

Session 3120 Distributed Real and Virtual Learning Environment for Mechatronics F. Wilhelm Bruns, Heinz-Hermann Erbe ARTEC Center for Work, Environment, Technology Bremen University/ Institute of Professional Education Technische Universität BerlinAbstract:A European project DERIVE developed a learning environment where on-site and remotecomponents merge into a cooperative learning process. The envisaged system allows to worktogether with complex real and virtual systems, consisting of parts which may be

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

Session 3549 Using the PC Parallel Port in Digital Systems Lab Exercises Cecil E. Beeson, P.E., Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati ClermontIntroductionThis paper will describe a multi-phase project to utilize the functionality and accessibility of thePC parallel port to augment traditional college electronics lab exercises. The opportunity forstudents to use the ubiquitous PC to exercise and control digital circuits designed in a college labcan be a valuable learning experience.At Clermont students are introduced to PC fundamentals early in their college studies. As

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhixue Wang; Guangpi Lai; Feiyue Wang; A. Terry Bahill; Jeff Goldberg

Distance learning has been greatly enhanced through the use of the Internet. In Arizona, ajoint effort has been made by the three state universities to offer a Master of EngineeringDegree primarily through Internet and video distance learning. However, engineering coursesoften use hands-on laboratory projects with actual physical systems as an integral part of thecurriculum and learning process. It is difficult to include these labs in web-based instructionunless one uses simulations or virtual experiments. This paper presents the development ofweb-based lab projects with actual hardware for courses in linear systems and systems control.Students download control programs to the equipment. Sensor data and a streaming video ofthe ongoing equipment

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Session #2360 International Development Partnership with Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in Pollution Prevention Keith A. Schimmel, Shamsuddin Ilias, Franklin G. King/A.K.M. Abdul QuaderNorth Carolina A&T State University/Bangladesh University of Engineering & TechnologyAbstractThe Chemical Engineering Departments at North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&TSU)and Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) have collaborated in a USAIDlinkage program to enhance the pollution prevention activities in Bangladesh through jointcurriculum development and research project