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

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

Page 8.34.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”challenges of the 21st century. Students need an interdisciplinary education in the basic sciences,the engineering sciences, and the information sciences, as well as an understanding of therelationships of these fields to nanotechnology. The interdisciplinary nature of nanotechnologyis both a benefit and a challenge as faculty balance between the breadth and depth of coursework in order to develop a technically-trained workforce.4,5The challenge of integrating nanotechnology into the curriculum is being met by a number ofcolleges and universities

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate the variablesaffecting their behavior. The Junior/Senior Clinic provides an opportunity for students toperform research projects related to drug delivery in a

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

inclusion in the TF program, their training, aswell as the curriculum completed by the first year students merit an update at this time.Recruitment:Technology has made the recruitment of TFs easier than it was ten years ago. Students areinformed of the opportunity to become a TF by the college's electronic list serv (FYI: For YourInformation). Minimum requirements include satisfactory GPA, prior successful experience withthe course, and interest in completing the required one credit seminar (ENES 388T Seminar inCollege Teaching). Applications are also provided online and ask students to provide adescription of their college activities including involvement in student organizations andprojects, relevant leadership, tutoring, or teaching experiences

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

engineering because it isclosely attached to the needs of humans in their daily lives. To others, it is an old fashioneddiscipline that does not belong in a modern engineering curriculum. Colleges, universities, andeducational institutions have debated the question of how to modify the civil engineeringcurriculum in ways that will increase its appeal to students. Some of these institutions went as faras debating the viability of existing civil engineering programs. Many of the factors that affect thedirection of civil engineering education are directly related to environmental, economical,political, social, and cultural issues. Civil engineering is a discipline that mirrors the societalconditions of a community and addresses these conditions in a

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

have been developed, tested and are beingdisseminated. The work was partially funded by an ATE/NSF grant ($1.8 million).II. An Applied Approach to Technical EducationOne of the newly adopted approaches in technical education to address the above-mentionedgrowing problems is the use of case studies. One may ask the following question here: Why usecase studies in technical education? And the answer is: because case studies have been proven tobe effective teaching tools in many fields ranging from business and finance to medical. Theyallow the student to use his/her critical thinking, problem solving, and logic reasoning abilities.Collaborative education and teamwork can be used effectively in case studies. Integrating thesciences

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

activitieson the students.The paper starts with a discussion on learning styles and how teamwork and multidisciplinaryprojects tie to theses learning styles. Then, multidisciplinary microrobotics projects are exploredincluding their organizational structure and their ties to the existing research. In section 4 theeffect of multidisciplinary microrobotics projects on research and teaching integration isdiscussed. Clubs and student organizations are presented in Section 5, specificallyMultidisciplinary Robotics Club. Section 6 presents the broader impact of these projects in termsof curriculum development, student population, and retention. Finally, the paper is summarizedand conclusion obtained from these projects and educational experiences in Section

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hank Javan; Mark Rajai

the 2-wattmeter method without evaluation of short and opencircuit parameters.Next to this section a brief discussion of power supplies such as discrete, integrated, andswitching power supplies with effect of filtering, load and source regulation is provided.Originally we performed an experiment with our existing power supply but since their outputimpedance fluctuated and satisfactory results were hard to obtain, we eliminated thisexperiment. Our first lab started with the use of function generator. After a completediscussions of methods of generating different waveforms such as sine wave, square wave, andsaw tooth waveforms, the frequency response of our function generator was measured andplotted in order to determine its bandwidth. We

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

for Engineering Education The program continued to evolve each semester, with the Writing Consultants becomingmore integrated into the team. In the summer of 2000, the EG 1004 Lab Manual was rewritten.Among other changes, instructional materials, developed by the Writing Consultants as handouts,were incorporated into the manual. Lab report guidelines were also included. These providedstudents with a detailed look at the correct structure of a lab report. Further information onproposal writing was included in an appendix. Each semester, modifications to the writing program were made. The writing consultantsbegan to grade all student writing for professional style and use of Standard English. This changesubstantially improved

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

seem to indicate an increasing need for moretechnicians to install, maintain, service and repair this equipment. Why has the need fortechnician level personnel continued to decline?According to the National Science Board, the number of associate degrees earned inengineering technology dropped from more that 52,000 in 1981 to 33,000 in 1997, a 36%decline1. Across the United States, many schools have quietly dropped their electronictechnology programs for lack of student interest or local industry need. While there areno formal statistics maintained on the number of electronic programs, it is estimated thatthere are approximately 1000 AAS electronic technology programs in the US and thatover 20 programs have been discontinued in the past ten

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

my interest level in Mechanics of Materials 3.14AVERAGE OF THE 11 QUESTIONS 2.845. ConclusionsIncorporating active learning techniques into the engineering curriculum increases the level ofstudent learning and comprehension, as outlined in several learning theories. Active learningmethods are especially critical in the development of cognitive skills used in synthesizingsolutions to open-ended design problems. Development of such skills should not begin at the endof a student’s engineering curriculum (in a senior capstone design course, for example); rather,such skills must be developed throughout the curriculum. Several examples of integrating

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kau Teng Lim; David Beams

MADCAT.MADCAT was formally integrated into the curriculum of EENG3304 in spring, 2003. It wasintroduced with a lecture describing its capabilities and covering the mechanics of its use for dcbias-point and dc-sweep analyses. Students were also given a written tutorial describing themethodology used by MADCAT to construct and solve its matrix equations. An assignmentwas given in which students were to analyze two dc circuits with MADCAT and to construct thematrix equations of one simple circuit. It appeared that all students were able to construct thecircuit files and obtain solutions with MADCAT, but only three of seven students were able tosolve the matrix-construction problem. An additional lecture was presented to reinforce thewritten tutorial on

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from University ofOklahoma in 1981, 1984 and 1989 respectively. Her current interests are in computer architecture, digital design,and computer interfacing.REZA SANATI MEHRIZY is an associate professor of the Computing and Networking Sciences Dept. at UtahValley State College, Orem, Utah. He received his MS and PhD in Computer Science from University ofOklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. His research focuses on diverse areas such as: Database Design, Data Structures,Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing . Page 8.694.5Proceedings of the 2003 American

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

successful when it isincorporated in the classroom (4).We propose that this (potential) deficiency may be overcome by incorporation of projects thatteam work is an integral part of them. In fact, such an approach has been successfullyimplemented in the engineering programs at The College of New Jersey. Starting from their firstsemester, and throughout their sophomore, junior and senior years, students are involved withprojects that involve them with group activities. They are assigned to teams of two, three, fouror more students depending on the nature of the project/activity at hand.The first discussions of group dynamics, of team development, and the interdependence of teammembers is held in the first engineering course in the first semester

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

Education, November 1994, San Jose, Calif. 6. M. E. Parten, "Progressive Design for Instrumentation Development in Project Laboratories," 1993 ASEE Gulf- Southwest Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 1-2, 1993. 7. M. E. Parten, "Digital Signal Processing in a Junior Electrical Engineering Design Laboratory,” Proceedings of ASEE 1992 Annual Conference, Toledo, Ohio, June 1992. 8. M. E. Parten, "Design and Research in Project Laboratories,” Proceedings of Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Engineering Foundation Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 1992. 9. M. E. Parten, "Design in the Electrical Engineering Laboratory," 1988 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhukar Vable

from the prevalent practice of teach-ing engineering in an apprentice mode by practicing engineers with students taking no formalcourses in mathematics and sciences. We see that since inception of formal engineering educa-tion, the engineering education community has struggled with the delineation of science, engi-neering, and vocational-technical education.As elaborated in sections 3 and 5, the evolutionary forces in engineering education is towardgreater generalization in basic engineering courses as it permits teaching of a greater amount ofknowledge in a compact form. Without such generalization the problems of already overburdenedengineering curriculum and the growing graduation time would become a lot worse. The abstrac-tion that occurs

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

correctly perceiving theirexpectations despite their repetitive efforts to convey these expectations. This study used bothquantitative and qualitative methods to understand both sides - the instructor’s expectations ofstudents and the students’ perceptions of the instructor’s expectations -in an open-ended, student-centered classroom. Four students and the instructor were interviewed throughout an upper-division undergraduate mechanical engineering course. This paper describes the research methodsand preliminary results from this study. With the increasing integration of project-centeredpractices in the engineering classroom, the results of this study are anticipated to be beneficial toother instructors who are trying to transition students from

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tanya Capers; Kofi Nyarko; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

electromagnetics and provide conceptualviews that offer insight into the behavior of their associated fields. In this paper, we will explainthe design and features of this tool and discuss the use of a low-cost semi-immersive VR systemdesigned to provide a group-learning environment. This paper will also quantify the applicationof VR to engineering education by determining its significance and relative efficacy to studentachievement. In preliminary subjective tests, students found that the application was very usefulin that it provided an overall context on an otherwise difficult and frustrating subject. Also,preliminary analytical results of the integration of the EM-Viz tool into the course revealed thatthere was significant increase in student

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

field of study which applies calculus within its curriculum.A curriculum must be more than the sum of the courses a student takes to earn a degree.Students must integrate a wide range of knowledge to maximize the value of aneducation. In engineering, integrating mathematics with science and engineering coursesis key to producing top quality graduates. There are an increasing number of integratedcurricula, where instruction in chemistry and physics is tied to instruction in calculus (La.Tech, Texas A&M, others).2 Other faculty have developed multimedia modules to tieengineering to topics in calculus (N.C. A&T, Dartmouth, N.C. State, others).3 Theeffectiveness of these approaches is still under study, but expectations are high that

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

some areas of engineering education for a while2 , but it has only been recently that educators have begun to investigate how the newerconstraint-based modeling tools bring a new set of possibilities to instruction 3. Even morerecently, researchers have looked more holistically at how these constraint-based tools can beeffectively integrated into a modern engineering graphics curriculum 1, 4, 5. In looking at thecurricular implications of these tools, it becomes important to identify what are the core conceptsand abilities we intend for students to gain from an introductory course in engineering graphics.The knowledge and abilities gained have to be relevant both in the short term for further coursesthey will be taking in school and in the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Oelschlegel; Rafic Bachnak

thermocouple to switch the heater on andoff with a solid state relay. The process variable is transmitted through a data acquisitionsystem to a PC for storage and further analysis. This project provides valuable hands-onexperience in control loop tuning and produces reasonably accurate results. The papershows the design schematic and presents results.IntroductionPID control allows a system to accurately adjust for load or setpoint changes.Implementing a PID controller, however, requires that it be ‘tuned” or adjusted for thesystem for which it is installed [1, 2]. This tuning process requires the user to understandthe type of algorithm utilized by the controller.The Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) curriculum at Texas A&M-CorpusChristi

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

, leading to the creation of new applications for new and existing technology; patents and licenses. 2. Scholarship of integration, bringing and connecting knowledge together from various sources in the field as in course and curriculum improvements and innovations, developing measures to increase the relevance of ET curriculum to industry, writing of undergraduate text books and book chapters. 3. Scholarship of application through consulting activities, leading to improved processes, practices, programs and products in industry. Page 8.1162.5 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elise Barrella; Keith Buffinton

programs also offeropportunities for coops, internships, and undergraduate research. Two such degree programs areoffered at the United States Military Academy and at Stanford University.The USMA offers an undergraduate engineering management major that is available in differentengineering disciplines, such as an EM major with a civil engineering concentration. Beyond theengineering curriculum, the program offers courses like Leadership Theory and Development,Human Resource Management, Financial Accounting, and Decision Analysis. Also, an optionalsummer internship program called Advanced Individual Academic Development (AIAD) givescadets the opportunity to work on projects for real army clients.3Stanford University offers Bachelor of Science

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

that willbuild bridges between the rapidly advancing modern technologies and the traditionallyrigid curricula.1. IntroductionA distributed system is a collection of autonomous computers linked by a network andsupported by software that enables the collection to operate as an integrated facility [14].A course in distributed systems covers the design principles, the architecture, thecomponents, services, and the issues in concurrency, transactions and security, client-server models, and integration models and other related material. This course is typically Page 8.94.2offered as an upper division (senior level) undergraduate course at some schools

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

Army Engineer Association (AEA). • Knowledge of the profession and exposure to engineering practitioners through lunchtime seminars featuring prominent engineers both in and out of the Army. • Field trips to project sites such as Big Dig in Boston, NYC Port Authority and Woodrow Wilson Bridge/I-495 interchange in D.C. • Lunch and dinner seminars that support the CE curriculum by welcoming CE new majors to the program, present avail opportunities for Advanced Individual Academic Development (AIAD), and advertise the available independent study projects for the year. AIADs are the USMA equivalent of a co-op program where students spend three weeks in an Army lab or Army Corps of Engineers District

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King

theprogram at North Carolina A&T, the POs are achieved using contributions from each of thecourses in the curriculum. Each of the chemical engineering courses has a course-assessmentcommittee that is responsible for developing and reviewing the set of learning objectives (LOs)for the course. The course instructor is responsible to design the course, teach the course, assessthe student learning, assess the achievement of the LOs and write an assessment report to thecourse committee. The course-assessment committee is also responsible for reviewing theinstructor’s assessment that the course objectives were or were not met. The program outcomesassessment evaluates the LOs in the entire program to ensure that the POs are met.To ensure the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nestor; David Rich

themechanics of simple layout reinforces their intuitive understanding of transistor operationand circuit design. The material taught in this course also allows senior-level coursesinvolving integrated circuit design to start at a higher level and cover more advancedmaterial4. Finally, the experience with analog and mixed-signal design offered by thissequence gives students a competitive edge in their search for employment or graduatestudy.This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides an overview of the revised coursesand the material covered in the lecture part of the course. Section 3 discusses thelaboratory experiments performed in the courses, while Section 4 discusses the juniorcapstone design project. Section 5 concludes the paper.2

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

of utilizing the design project as a capstoneexperience, the Honors Design Course at RIT is focused on freshman, to foster passion forproduct development as early as possible in the undergraduate learning experience. During thisinaugural year, students have targeted the handicapped population, consistent with service-learning objectives for the Honors Program as well as the students’ collective desire to use theirengineering skills to improve quality of life. This paper will provide the framework and detailssurrounding the Honors Design Course in the context of the overall Honors Program at RIT.1. IntroductionProduct design courses have become an integral part of the undergraduate engineeringexperience. Last year’s ASEE Conference, for

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Alan Rudnitsky; Borjana Mikic

artscollege. Moreover women have not been adequately represented in the field of engineering andthe program at Smith College will help remedy this. The engineering program’s goal is toeducate engineers who are adaptable to the rapidly changing demands of society; preparing themto lead society toward an equitable and sustainable future.1 The engineering faculty membersrealize that establishing this program and achieving these ambitious goals will require substantialinnovations in pedagogy and curriculum. This paper describes some of the pedagogicalapproaches that are being put into place. The creation of this pedagogy is a work in progress.All the pedagogical innovations share several goals and chief among these is that the learning bemeaningful

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Non-Technical Majors

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Sokol

the class will have about thirtystudents.Future ActivitiesApprovals for the courses in Electronics For Criminal Justice (ADMJ 432) and ComputerSecurity For Criminal Justice (ADMJ 433) should be completed by the spring of 2003,before the ASEE 2003 meeting. They will be part of a curriculum in Private Security atPenn State Fayette. Students will be advised to take IST 110 in the fall 2003 semester andthe computer security course will be offered in the following spring 2004 semester.It is not surprising that an engineer has developed a set of criminal justice courses withinthe nature of the multidisciplinary environment at Penn State Fayette. Since Penn StateFayette is a small campus, creative curriculum integration is more feasible than at