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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

-improvement processwas implemented to incorporate class dynamics into the teaching/learning process. The coursehas defined learning and teaching objectives within the constraints of a project-oriented course.The major objective of the course is effective integration of hardware and software in designingcomputer controlled processes and/or systems with the aid of sensors, transducers, dataacquisition board, and instrument control.IntroductionThe ability to conduct and design experiments is rated as one of the highest desirable technicalskills of engineering and engineering technology graduates1,2. Specifically, the survey indicatesthat employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysis andinterpretation; an ability to

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Morgera; Hanqi Zhuang

web server through either the Internet or a corporate intranet.We will discuss the feasibility of training an engineering student to be prepared for thedesign and implementation of web-based commercial/industrial applications bypresenting the curriculum development plan in the next section.B.2 Development planA course with a lab will be offered in the coming summer semester. The course has threecredits, two for lecture and one for lab experimentation. The lab portion of the courseconsists of seven experiments and a project. Each experiment requires approximatelytwo weeks of lab time. Students need to do some preparation before the lab and write areport upon completion of the lab.In terms of the lecture material, the course will address the

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Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Kenneth Quinn

Session 3248 An Academic Partnership with Industry: A Win-Win Situation Peter R. Schuyler, Kenneth Quinn University of Hartford / New Horizons CorporationAbstractTechnology is a rapidly changing field, it is monumental task for a college or university to keep pace with thesechanges. As corporate demand for specialized computer hardware and software training increases, it is becomingvery challenging to find and retain full time faculty to teach in these areas, and to effectively integrate rapidlychanging technology into our curricula. The University of Hartford’s S.I. Ward

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Abdullah Abonamah; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

(LOs) are the kernel of the courses and the curriculum. Allcourses in an Outcome-Based Educational model are designed to clearly show the experiencesthat students may draw upon to achieve a learning outcome3.The Zayed University OBE learning model1 is framed by three sets of Learning Outcomes two ofwhich are course embedded. In this paper, the focus is on the higher intellectual outcomes that arenot course embedded. They are called Zayed University Learning Outcomes (ZULOs). To fulfilltheir ZULO requirements, students compile evidence of their achievement in an electronicportfolio (e-portfolio), which is assessed by a faculty panel. A number of issues that are linked tothe use of the Outcome-Based Educational approach have been identified

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

Paper ASEE 2003-#3265, Mathematics Division “Introducing Special Interest Topics into an Engineering Analysis Course” Professor Frank Wicks Mechanical Engineering Department, Union College Abstract The Masters Degree program at Union College is primarily a part time program thatserves engineers who work in area industries. Until recently no math course was required.The justification was the sufficient math content is embedded in the required engineeringcourses. Recent adjustments in the curriculum have added an Engineering AnalysisCourse which focuses on applied engineering mathematics. Some special interest topics have

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Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala; Mary Clare Robbins

can be used to make course and program improvements.Model for AssessmentLast year, we presented a model for assessment that describes what data to gather, where toobtain the data, what criteria may be most appropriate when interpreting the data, how to use theresults to make improvements in program and how to document the process.1 The present paperillustrates how that model can be implemented to assess the E101 Introduction to Engineering andProblem -Solving course. The assessment model can be summarized into four major steps: Step 1: Defining program mission, objectives, and outcomes; Step 2: Developing an assessment plan to assess the program objectives and outcomes with linkages to curriculum issues and

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

awardscoveted by companies all over the world. The main focus here, is to documentsuccess in seven selected areas : leadership, strategic planning, customer’s marketfocus, information analysis, human resources, process management and business results.Following the footsteps of Dr. Deming’s teachings, the author re-visits the learningpyramid and examines Deming’s ‘14 Points for Management’ and their usefulnesswhile discussing an engineering subject matter. The author uses those principles ofTQM to investigating ways to promote good teaching and raises a number of issues aboutsupporting innovative and creative teaching methods in an institution of higher learning.Based on his classroom experiences, he concludes that a culture of creative changes

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

processes and outcomes by thevarious stakeholders, are powerful drivers for more fundamental research in engineeringeducation. The two are interconnected and both embed the idea of the need to know what worksand why and how practices can be continuously improved. While the obvious focus might be inmeasuring the implementation of new practices and systems, there is an underlying expectationthat fundamental and applied research will guide these reforms. The NSF Strategic Plan in 1995identified the integration of research and education as a core strategy and Fortenberry 7foreshadowed new programs from the NSF to support educational research in Science,Mathematics, Engineering and Technology disciplines, ranging from fundamental research, toapplied

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Ronald Bucinell

Session 2268 Statics as a Special Case of Dynamics, An Alternative Way of Teaching Mechanics Ronald B. Bucinell, Ann M. Anderson Union College Department of Mechanical Engineering Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractFor the past 8 years Union College has been teaching a course in the kinematics and kinetics ofparticles and rigid bodies. This course replaced the traditional statics and dynamics coursesequence that use to be taught to mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler

faculty and theIndustrial Advisory Board (IAB) on behalf of the then School of Engineering Technology andEngineering. The original curriculum did not require a student to declare a specialty area. Anine-semester-hour set of upper division engineering electives and an additional six semesterhours of technical electives were taken with the advice and consent of the School DegreesCommittee. With the urging of the IAB and strong support of the faculty and administration ofUT Martin, the specialty areas were added in 1999. Each area now consists of 24 hours of upperdivision coursework.A majority (65-70%) of the students choose the civil or mechanical specialty area as enteringfreshmen. An overwhelming majority has gravitated to these two specialties

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Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

Computing Facilities:Appropriate programming languages and support software should be available to support theneeds of a modern curriculum.3, 4, 5Systems that are representative of modern, state-of-the-practice computing facilities should beavailable.3, 4, 5Adequate computer network connectivity should be available to faculty and students.3, 4, 5IV: Discussion of Influence of Offering of Distance Learning Courses on ABET criteriaAccording to the ABET criteria summarized in section III.A.1, an engineering technologygraduate must have a high degree of specialization and be able to solve practical problems. To beable to achieve these requirements, laboratory usage must be an integral part of any engineeringtechnology curriculum.The ABET criteria

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

Integration of Research,Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are building alearning community of faculty, staff, and students who can respond to this kind of need.Because links with similar projects in the Netherlands and New Zealand were germane to theinvestigation, project results can inform similar efforts in other countries to augment engineeringcurricula.IntroductionIn an effort to cultivate an organizational culture that supports performance improvement andinnovative stakeholder collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR)and other natural resources agencies worldwide are exploring organizational change approaches.The University of Wisconsin, Engineering Professional Development (EPD

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Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

Session 1653 2nd and 3rd Order Refinements/Improvements to an Experiential Design and Introduction to Engineering Course for First-Year Students Sandra Shaw Courter and Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT A three-credit course for first-year students with the objective of providing anauthentic engineering design experience and an introduction to engineering has been inplace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. From the inception, the coursehas been centered on real projects the students carry out in collaboration with bona fideclients. During

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

Page 8.914.5The curriculum has been designed with participation from all partners to include threemajor components: 1. General education component 2. Math, science, engineering science and information technology component 3. Manufacturing engineering componentStudents from high schools are expected to have the necessary preparation to handlefreshman courses in the curriculum, especially math, science and computer skills.Community college students are expected to have completed General Education courses inaddition to the math and basic science courses. An introductory course in InformationTechnology was integrated into the curricula offered at participating high schools andcommunity colleges.Manufacturing Engineering courses

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

possible labs/experiences, the students once again went back to thecurrent curriculum, this time examining its overlying structure. The curriculum is devised in sucha manor that for the first two years students take core-engineering courses and in the junior yearthey start taking civil engineering courses. The students were looking for a ways to integrate thenew “Hands on” course into the curriculum. The difficulty they encountered was coordinating thelabs in such a manor that the material would be covered in the corresponding introductory coursebefore the students were presented with a lab. Several options were developed. These includedoptions in which the “Hands on Experience” was comprised of two courses offered in the junioryear, to an option

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engineering courses are given as electives in the senior year the student is veryunfamiliar with this material.The electrochemical engineering course developed a Rowan University has been designed tointroduce various topics of electrochemical engineering through an integration of experiments,projects, homework and lectures.Current Electrochemical Engineering Education within Chemical EngineeringIn many cases aspects of electrochemical engineering have been regulated to subsections ofstandard texts such as in Perry’s 7th Edition of the Chemical Engineering Handbook. Arelatively small section on fuels cells under the title, Electrochemical Energy Conversion (6

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thyagarajan Srinivasan

Session 2793 A Freshman Course in Computer Applications Jamal A. Ghorieshi1, Thyagarajan Srinivasan1, Brian E. Whitman2 Division of Engineering1/GeoEnvironmental Sciences and Engineering Department 2, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre PA.AbstractThis paper describes a new course designed for engineering freshmen to be taken in the secondsemester of their curriculum. The intent of the course is to enhance the engineering student’sproblem solving skills and to expose the students to the various branches of engineering. Itreplaces a traditional programming course involving the C or C++ programming

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

programs integrated well with the curriculum and presented theory andanalysis methods similar to those used in most statics classes.Very few of the programs supported the constructivist-like activities that were identified by bothlearning theory and instructor interviews as being extremely important. Many of the programssimply presented theory and examples but did not allow students to experiment. At the oppositeend of the spectrum are the programs that did allow students to adjust parameters on models orproblems but presented no theory to students; these programs are mainly analysis tools.Software SelectionIn the middle of this spectrum is Multimedia Engineering Statics (MES). Although MES did notmeet all of the evaluation criteria, it was the

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

certain aspects of chemical engineering majors. Forexample, the Unit Operation Laboratory (UOL) is one key place where students areheavily exposed to work that strongly depends on teams and, consequently, theassessment must be performed in a fashion that captures this mode of instruction. Theinstructor, here, needs to be skilled in assessing teamwork and in avoiding to let studentspass the course without reaching minimum standards. Therefore, the assessment ofteamwork has been around the curriculum for a number of years. However, because ofthe lack of integrating between the UOL and the “classroom instruction,” the situation inother non-lab oriented courses is not the same. In fact, there is a misconception (in manyfaculty) that team-based

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Robinson; Fred Denny

group has a presence in Washington and developsmaterials describing policy positions and legislative proposals. The effective interest groups havebecome masters of the seven second soundbyte, and employ highly educated teams of policyanalysts to do extensive research, use focus groups, and craft messages with the proper “spin.”To function in our modern society it has become necessary to understand the meaning andconnotation of the terms shown here in quotation marks.We not only live in an age of increasing political sophistication, we also live in an age ofincreasing technological sophistication. About thirty years ago Gordon E. Moore made the, atthat time, startling prediction that the number of transistors per integrated circuit would

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 2602 Experiential Learning in Aircraft Structures Masoud Rais-Rohani Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA design-build-test project is used as means of providing an academic-based, industry-focusedexperiential learning opportunity for students in a senior-level aircraft structures course taught inthe Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. Initiated as a paperdesign project in 1998, the project has rapidly evolved into a comprehensive learning experiencewith prototype development and testing as its two major elements

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Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

that it has merited its own category in the Digest.In reviewing the past three years of the Digest we can see evidence of a substantialamount of rash behavior related to technology, with decisions being made quickly, only tobe retracted in the light of the inexorable forces of reality, profitability, feasibility,readiness and politics. While we learned long ago that technology hardware was notcheap, it has taken a bit longer to accept that integration of technology into teaching,learning, research and life is neither cheap nor easy.Technology’s potential for increasing access to higher education was immediately evidentand is now visible throughout the world. An African Virtual University is up and running(Digest 6 May 2002). Japan, Thailand

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

objectives can be accomplished by developing a curriculum for engineering and science atthe university. The proposed draft for the curriculum is found below. An important part of theprogram will give the students the opportunity to do field work. While important in anycurriculum, the field work is particularly encouraged by national leaders and technical leaders inUganda10, 11. First Year Fundamentals of Engineering/Scientific Mathematics First Semester Technical Writing for Engineering and Science Introduction to Chemistry First Year Second Geometry I Semester Organic Chemistry I Historical

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

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach

the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Database theory is taught in many computer courses now; having a computer curriculum simplyrequires this knowledge, as can be seen in both technology and computer science programs atPurdue University. This is because most client-server systems integrate database managementsystems, thus requiring knowledge of those systems as well. Typical 3-tier architectures for webdevelopment have a user interface component, a business logic component, and a databasemanagement system6. The web development curriculum in Computer Graphics Technology(CGT) structures itself around this type of

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Colbeck.2 In this report, she notes that one of the key factors indetermining whether or not team training is integrated into an institution's curriculum is whetherthe locus of decision-making about teaching and curricular issues is top-down fromadministrators or bottom-up from faculty.Implementing BESTEAMS type training involves convincing faculty and administrators to devoteclass time to new material, and energy to learning the material themselves as a prerequisite toconveying it to students. Successful implementation may depend on convincing the right peoplein a given engineering school – those who are influential because of position or reputation – thattraining in teamwork will benefit their students and, by extension, their school. The four

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Beckry Abdel-Magid; Yunsheng Xu

of open endedproblems, communication skills and preparation for professional developmentand lifelong learning.While some engineering schools are revamping their whole programs to includethese topics [5], other programs are using simple mechanisms such as requiredor elective courses to integrate these topics in the traditional curriculum. Twocourse that are used to introduce undergraduate research and lifelong learningskills to engineering students are discussed in this paper. The first is a requiredone-credit engineering seminar course, and the second is an electiveindependent study course.Elements of Research and Lifelong Learning SkillsResearch experience is very valuable to undergraduate engineering students. Itprovides them with an

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

courses assist thedevelopment of student creativity, use of open-ended problems, development and use of moderndesign theory and methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specifications,consideration of alternative solutions, and feasibility considerations. A capstone design sequenceat the senior level provides an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge gainedthroughout the curriculum to the development of an instructor-approved project.Starting in Fall of 1998, ME 4811-ME Design Project Planning was added to the list of requiredcourses, creating a capstone design sequence, thereby providing additional time to be devoted to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

lifelong learning. Threeapproaches for bringing forensics and failure case studies into the civil engineering curriculumare available. These are stand-alone forensic engineering or failure case study courses, capstonedesign projects, and integration of case studies into the curriculum. Since it is not practical toadd another required course to the crowded civil engineering curriculum, the latter approach willbe more practical for most undergraduate programs. Some cases have been developed and usedin courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and the University of Alabama atBirmingham (UAB), as well as at other institutions. Currently an NSF-funded research project isunderway at UAB to develop and disseminate case study materials. Under

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

Galileo Project, is an extension of the university’s already-successful da Vinci Project, now entering its fourth year. This paper describes the goals andobjectives of the program and documents progress made during the first nine months.IntroductionThe University of Connecticut School of Engineering, in partnership with the UCONN NeagSchool of Education, selected local school districts, the Greater Hartford Academy for Math andScience, and local industry, received an award from the National Science Foundation’s GraduateTeaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program1 to develop and implement an innovative,comprehensive, affordable, and accessible program to integrate engineering into the secondaryschool curriculum. This program, called the