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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

independent of all other departments. The other approach is tooffer an interdisciplinary freshman engineering course common for all engineering studentsregardless of department. In order to take advantage of the benefits of each approach a newfreshman course has been developed at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Thedevelopmental process from problem identification to final course description will be discussed.Also discussed will be the advantages of the newly developed course as compared to the otherstructures. Departmental Specific Freshman CoursesThis section discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each department within the Collegeof Engineering (COE) having its own distinct freshman engineering course. One

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Jeanne M. Gerlach; Bill D. Carroll

science and engineering will bring a new population ofindividuals into the teaching profession. Further, colleges of engineering have the largestenrollment of students who have an interest and aptitude for mathematics and physical science.Therefore, creating this certification will advance the study of higher mathematics and science inpublic schools; teachers will be prepared in the content area in which they are teaching.The recruitment of students will occur through Colleges of Engineering in collaboration withColleges of Education. Engineering students who have completed at least one-half theirengineering training, but who do not wish to pursue a career in engineering will be potential Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf

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David L. Cocke; John L. Gossage; Emrah Alicli; Beytullah Misirli; Kuyen Li

engineering education in engineering education utilizes three interdependent processes: curriculum, content and pedagogy. Curriculumand content are responsible for making available the three main pillars of process chemicalengineering: design, control and optimization. Curriculum, content and BPP are beingrevolutionized by the new computation, information and communication technologies that areconverging in the classroom. These are creating fundamental changes in content platforms,pedagogical processes, learning management and assessment & evaluation - the four basic areasof classroom practice as seen in Figure 1. Each of these areas encompasses a number ofimportant elements

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Mohammed E. Haque

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Civil/Construction/Architectural Engineering Education Mohammed E. Haque Department of Construction Science Texas A&M University Vikram Karandikar Department of Construction Science Texas A&M University AbstractIt is increasingly important to go beyond traditional departmental course curriculum boundariesfor some areas of science and engineering education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one suchfield; its

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A. C. Rogers; Amir Karimi

Educationeleven different experiments involving the three modes of heat transfer, fluid statics anddynamics, thermodynamics, open channel and pipe network fluid dynamics, wind tunnelaerodynamics, internal combustion engines (Otto cycle), and steam power plants plus a numberof other experiments. Each student through this phase of the program has to participate in thetesting, to process all the data, and to submit a separate and final report on each of the elevenexperiments.This “up front” approach of students having to conduct numerous thermal fluids types ofexperiments immediately prior to conducting projects involving the design, construction, andactivation of their own devices or systems provides an overall wealth of experience needed byeach and every

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Tariq A. Khraishi

A First Attempt at Introducing Problem-Based Learning in an Engineering Dynamics Course Tariq A. Khraishi Mechanical Engineering Department The University of New Mexico AbstractThe engineering education literature, and other literature, is rich with references to theimportance of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in enhancing the educational experience ofundergraduate students. In particular, PBL is supposed to strengthen concept learning instudents. Such belief motivated the author to experiment with PBL in a required Dynamics classin the mechanical engineering

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Ali Abolmaali

introductory static/dynamics, and mechanics of materials, while, the virtual connectiontest specimens are proposed to be incorporated as virtual laboratory in undergraduate andgraduate structural analysis and design courses. References1 Barrows, H.S., and Tamblyn, R.M., (1980), “Problem-based learning: an approach to medical education.” New York: Springer.2 Kerr, A.D., and Pipes, R.B., (1987), “Why We Need Hands-on Engineering Education.” The Journal of Technology Review, Vol. 90, No. 7, p. 38.3 Boud, D., and Feletti, G. Eds., (1992), “The challenge of problem-based learning.” London: Kogan Page.4 Gardner, H., (1999), “Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the

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H. Dwayne Jerro; Chun-Ling Huang; Patrick Mensah

problem. Because of the design and structure of this map, it is hoped that thestudent will be able to qualitatively and quantitatively grasp the linkages between thefundamental concepts presented in the course, as well as appropriately apply them in the analysisof engineering systems. References1. Cengel, Y. A., Boles, M. A., 2002, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, pp. 97-98. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education2. Aung, K., 2002

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Ronald E. Barr; Thomas J. Krueger; Ted A Aanstoos

freshman “Engineering Design and Graphics” curriculum has evolved to a new era in which3-D geometric computer models, and the design applications of the digital database, are thecenter of instruction. Table 1 lists a sequence of engineering graphics learning modules thatsystematically introduce the students to this new engineering design and graphics paradigm.This modular sequence was fully implemented in the Fall 2002 semester in all sections of theengineering graphics course at the University of Texas at Austin. This paper has presentedexample student exercises that underscore this concurrent engineering approach to designeducation. The ten exercises also seem to prepare the students well for later team projects, suchas project PROCEED, which

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Shantanu Bhattacharya; Jordan M. Berg; Darryl James

cream mixing with coffee to dust whirling in the wakeof a passing car. It is possible to increase species and momentum transport across an interfacewithout turbulence, by the use of large velocity gradients, leading to layers with high shear rates(consider for example the classic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability [6]). None of the students in theclass were aware of this phenomenon, which we attribute in part to the emphasis on integralanalysis in the standard fluid dynamics course; shear is inherently a local phenomenon.In accordance with its importance, turbulence receives a lot of attention in the standardMechanical Engineering curriculum. Traditional one-semester undergraduate fluid mechanicscourses, as taught in most typical Mechanical

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Richard Bannerot

and design faculty would benefit greatly from a gooddose of creative design as practiced by our colleagues in the Arts. The paper will provideevidence of how two aspects of “creativity” are missing from most engineering students. IntroductionWith some exceptions, engineering design as we know it today is a relatively recentmanifestation of the evolutionary development of the current highly science-basedengineering curriculum. In many ways today’s engineering technology programs mirrorthe pre-1950’s engineering programs and today’s engineering programs appear, in somerespects, to be programs in applied physics. So how did we get to this point?The myth is that the Manhatten Project, one of the most

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Gholam H. Massiha

begun to proliferate in industry,so have the demands on the level of sophistication of their performance. Careful attention tosafety planning has been required because; these industrial tools present many of the samehazards as conventional machine tools. Thus, engineers working in the areas of robotics musthave a well-structured understanding of robotic systems. Model driven simulation is a valuabletool for helping in this aspect. RoboCell simulation software is one such model driven simulationprogram. Simulation is a powerful tool, but robotics research should be conducted on robots. Inthis paper we provide a brief approach to learning technical aspects of industrial robots throughuse of an educational robot and RoboCell simulation software

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor

created a new course number ECE4334 and joined the existing INDE/MECE 4334 capstone design course, required of allstudents in the Departments and Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.This paper describes the changes that have occurred in the new combined courseECE/INDE/MECE 4334, the interdisciplinary capstone course for three departments andprovides a description of projects from spring, 2002. IntroductionThe capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at theUniversity of Houston has proven to be one of the Department’s most successful courses.In one form or other it has been around since the early 1960’s. It has existed (untilrecently), more or less, in its present

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Ronald E. Barr; Marcus G. Marcus G.; Anthony Petrosino; Lawrence D. Abraham; Tejas Karande; Bijal Patel

. Upon graduation, Dr.Petrosino moved to The University of Wisconsin as a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow through theCognitive Studies in Educational Practice (CSEP) Program. While in Wisconsin, Dr. Petrosino was acontributing member to the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement inMathematics and Science (NCISLA). His research interests include the design of classroom learningenvironments, children's experimentation strategies and application of modern learning theory tobiomedical engineering education.Dr. Lawrence D. Abraham is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in theDepartments of Kinesiology & Health Education and Curriculum & Instruction. He presently serves aschair of Curriculum &

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Ifte Choudhury; Ricardo E. Rocha; Richard Burt

writing in the discipline (WID) 2.This method of writing allows students to become accustomed to the style of writingassociated with their disciplines and immerses them in the professional dialogue of theirfield 2.Writing across the curriculum at its onset uses the approach that every teacher, instructoror professor should become aware and should introduce into his respective classroom andcurriculum, the requirement of student participation by writing 6.Writing across the curriculum is a theory of writing rested on the basis of deemingwriting as a revised process, not a consecutively manufactured product. Other theoreticalcomponents of writing across the curriculum can be summarized as follows: 1. An interdisciplinary dialogue on writing that