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Farrokh Attarzadeh

Introducing Electromechanical Folk Art In Engineering Technology Programs Farrokh Attarzadeh Engineering Technology Department University of Houston AbstractThis paper presents the preliminary steps taken to introduce a course in Electromechanical FolkArt. The paper discusses the introduction of the idea to senior students enrolled in the ComputerEngineering Technology Program at the University of Houston. The presentation included a 10-minute narrated slide show, highlighting the reasoning behind the proposed course, ademonstration of several

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Lloyd Heinze; James Gregory; John Rivera

Math Readiness: The Implications for Engineering Majors Lloyd Heinze, James Gregory, John Rivera College of Engineering Texas Tech University AbstractGood Math skills are essential to obtain academic success in engineering majors incollege. Timing of when these skills are developed, while not a requirement for success,is highly correlated with success in engineering programs.At Texas Tech University, Calculus III is a required course for all programs in theCollege of Engineering except for degrees in the Engineering Technology Department.Success of a “C” or better grade in Calculus III is usually associated

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Jeanne M. Gerlach; Bill D. Carroll

committee first met on July 31,2002 and will meet again in 2003. Once the draft standards have been completed they will begiven to SBEC for review and approval. Certification tests will then be developed withimplementation planned for fall 2005.Committee membership consisted of K-12 educators, engineering educators, and practicingengineers. The biggest hurdle faced by the committee was reaching a common understanding ofwhat engineering is and is not. The committee agreed that engineering is not the same asmathematics or science, not applied mathematics and science, and not technology. A consensuswas reached to use the engineering method, i.e., synthesis/design, as the basis of the standards.ABET EC2000 accreditation criteria also influence the

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Chu–Chen Chen; Chun Ling Huang

MASTER OF ENGINEERING IN BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS OPTION Chu–Chen (C. C.) Chen Chun Ling Huang Department of Mechanical Engineering Southern University and A&M College AbstractToday’s modern building technology encompasses a wide range of disciplines, and integrates thelatest engineering technology in design, energy conservation, and energy management. Currentcomputer technology, such as advanced building simulation software and direct digital controlsystems, offers the ability to operate facility systems more effectively. Energy educators, then,must develop

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Geoffrey Orsak; Betsy Willis

the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum, state-of-the-art technology, and best-in-class professional development for math andscience teachers.The Infinity Project curriculum teaches students firsthand how engineering touches everydayproducts. Students use math and science to create and design a variety of new technologiescentered around topics of interest to them, such as the Internet, cell phones, music, and video.The curriculum is delivered through an intimate connection of the textbook to hands-onexperiments and design projects. The year-long curriculum includes over 300

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

Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE, Indianapolis, Indiana.10. Barr, R., Krueger, T., Aanstoos, T., and Juricic, D. (2003). Engineering and Computer Graphics Workbook Using SolidWorks 2001Plus, Schroff Development Corporation, Mission, Kansas.11. Engineering Accreditation Commission (2002). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Baltimore, Maryland.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge the following corporations who contributed to this educational researchpaper:a. Ford Motor Company and Applied Materials for sponsorship of the Project Centered Engineering Education (PROCEED) grants to the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at

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Akanni Lawal; James M. Gregory; Lloyd Heinze

of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe course grew and was team-taught by James Gregory and Jean Ann Cantore. The courseevolved into a permanent junior level Agricultural Engineering class. Civil and otherengineering students began to also take the course as well as agricultural engineering students.Jean Ann Cantore and James Gregory converted their teaching notes into a formal textbook,Engineering Communications with Confidence and Reliability3. Technology changed from slidepresentations to PowerPoint presentations for oral technical presentations. These changes wereincluded in

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 4. Starks, S., Beruvides, M., et.al., 1994, “Restructuring the freshman year in engineering at UTEP”, Proceedings - Frontiers in Engineering Conference, San Jose, CA, Nov 2-6, pp 331-335. 5. Hoit, M., Ohland, M., 1995, “Implementing curriculum reform: A case history”, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28. 6. Van Treuen, K.W., Havener, A.G., 1998, “Teaching introductory engineering: A problem based learning experience”, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, Vol. 34, pp 1-6.BONNIE BOARDMANDr. Boardman is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at The University ofTexas at Arlington. Her primary research interests are in the

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

The Convergent Classroom for Best Practice Pedagogy in Chemical Engineering Education David L. Cocke, John L. Gossage, Emrah Alicli, Beytullah Misirli and Kuyen Li Department of Chemical Engineering Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710 AbstractEvolving from an NSF supported activity to combine problem-based learning with moderncomputer based modeling and simulation is the convergent classroom that optimizes convergenttechnologies, content and best practice pedagogy. Convergent technologies involve computerbased hardware and software, wireless networking

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Geoffrey Orsak; Betsy Willis

. Developed by a team ofuniversity professors, high school teachers, working engineers, and leading researchers, theInfinity Project puts engineering in the hands of high school students in a fun, cost-effective,hands-on curriculum. The Infinity Project provides a complete turnkey solution including world-class curriculum, state-of-the-art technology, and best-in-class professional development formath and science teachers. A business model was adopted that requires schools to make timeand monetary investments, thereby helping to insure rigorous assessment. The curriculum iscurrently taught in high schools across the nation and is making a big impact – nearly 100% ofparticipating students would recommend the course to a friend, over 50% of

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Khosrow Behbehani; Kevin D. Nelson; Robert C. Eberhart

A Biomedical Engineering Graduate Industrial Internship Program: Structure, Implementation, and Evaluation Khosrow Behbehani, Kevin D. Nelson, and Robert C. Eberhart Joint Biomedical Engineering Program The University of Texas at Arlington and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas AbstractA graduate industrial internship program is described that has been implemented in the jointgraduate biomedical engineering program of the University of Texas at Arlington and theUniversity of Texas Medical Center at Dallas for over a decade. Graduate students who complete9 or more credit

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William E. Simon; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21202, December 26, 2000.3. “Curricular Analysis in the Assessment of Program Outcomes for ABET Criteria EC-2000,” by William E. Simon and T. L. Chambers, 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Paper IIC3, Lafayette, LA, March 20-22, 2002.WILLIAM E. SIMONDr. Simon currently serves as Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University ofLouisiana at Lafayette. His research interests are in the aerospace and thermal science areas, including fuel cells,conventional and state-of-the art heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, multidiscipline advanced developmenttechnology management, and large project management. Dr. Simon is a

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Mohammed E. Haque

 2003, American Society for Engineering Education An Example of ANN and GA’s ApplicationDuring the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in interest in information systemtechnology17, 18 and the application of soft computing techniques to engineering and constructiontechnology. Information technologies are used in various disciplines to address issues such asinformation processing, data mining, knowledge modeling, etc. Its final goal is to providenecessary aid to professionals during decision-making process. Design professionals are oftenconfronted with soft data, which they somehow need to interpret and finally integrate intodesign. The architectural task is one such example having linguistic qualities as priory

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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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Chun-Ling Huang

Self-efficacy in the Prediction of Academic Performance of Engineering Students Chun-Ling Huang Mechanical Engineering Department Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 AbstractAs a result of the eruption of technological advances, careers in the fields of engineeringhave become areas of high employment opportunities and this trend is expected to remainstrong in the future (National Center for Educational Statistics, 1996). Engineering skillsare now considered basic tools for acquiring knowledge, managing systems, and solvingcomplex problems in our society. The influence of

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Ali Abolmaali

engineering fields is that the courses are theory-based, which areperceived by students as simply being “boring”. Today’s engineering students must have fullaccess to emerging technologies to be fully prepared to contribute to their respective fields.Computer animation of complex behavior of engineering components and systems willundoubtedly help students understanding. This paper presents the initial development of Web-based structural engineering virtualexperiments (VE) for structural engineering courses, in general, and partially restrained steelconnections (PRC), in particular. This was done by developing procedures to link finite elementcodes for mesh preprocessor of PRC to the Web, including their interactive and three-dimensional

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Robert Lindsay Wells; Alan Morris; Christine E. Hailey

difference between two-yearand four-year pre-engineering programs. Beginning students at both types of institution wouldbenefit greatly from a curriculum that is of consistent academic content and caliber. References1. George, M.D., (1996) "Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology," http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/documents/review/96139/start.htm (15 Dec, 2002).2. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, (2002), "Engineering Field of Study," http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/Ctc/ip/core11_00/EngineeringFOS.htm (7 Jan, 2003).3. National Science Foundation, (2002) "Land of Plenty: Diversity as America's Competitive Edge in Science

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

, “Integration of Computational Tools in Engineering Thermodynamics Curriculum,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 16-19, 2002, on CD-ROM.3. Southern University and A&M College, 2002, Catalog 2002-2004, Vol. 79, No. 1, August 2002, Baton Rouge, LA, p. 273.4. URL: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~chem130a/sauer/outline/firstlaw.html5. Lee, R., Huang, C., Cho, E., Yousuf, A., 2003, “Radar Performance Analysis System & Engineering Technology,” ASEE 2003 Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, June 22-25, 2003. (Accepted)6. Hanselman, D., Littlefield, B., 2001, Mastering MATLAB® A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, Prentice Hall, Inc.,7. URL: http://users.edte.utwente.nl

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Kuldeep S. Rawat; Gholam H. Massiha

Designing Telemetric Data Acquisition System For Clinical Studies Kuldeep S. Rawat, and Gholam H. Massiha Department of Industrial Technology University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractThis paper presents a systematic approach to design a PC-based telemetric data acquisitionsystem for clinical studies. This involves understanding signal characteristics, signal pick-updevices, mechanism to transfer signal telemetrically, and other data acquisition hardwarecomponents. Most of the clinical studies involve capturing and processing biological signals likecough, sneeze, snore, and pain. A PC

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Ken Van Treuren

taken. The students,in teams of two, then modeled the system in the software of choice (EES, MathCAD, Matlab,EXCEL, PARA and PERF) in an attempt to match the manufacturer’s specifications. Thisapplications laboratory required students to research the parameters necessary to model thisengine that were not part of the data set provided by the manufacturer. The research andmodeling encompassed areas such as technology level, efficiencies, fuel consumption, andperformance. The end result was a two-page report containing the students’ calculationscomparing the performance of the engine with the manufacturer’s specifications. Supportinggraphs and figures were included as appendices. The same type laboratory could be adapted forco-generation gas

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Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon

. Therefore, it isemphatically not a violation of engineering ethics to offer bids for engineering services“in any amount,” high or low. The only question in this context is whether it is within themandate of the university and beneficial to the overall community to do so.Resolution of Difficult Issues Through MEPoLAt UL Lafayette, many of the difficult issues discussed above were resolved through themediation of the Manufacturing Partnership of Louisiana (MEPoL)14, a State ofLouisiana and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded outreachprogram housed at the university. MEPoL’s mission is to provide low-cost assistance tomanufacturing companies in the state, in an effort to bolster that segment of the state andnational economy

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Justin Hussey; Tyler Summers; Tyler Smith; Andre P. Mazzoleni

Development of a Tethered Satellite System Experiment for Creating Artificial Gravity aboard NASA’s KC-135 Justin Hussey, Tyler Summers, Tyler Smith, and Andre P. Mazzoleni Department of Engineering Texas Christian University AbstractThe Human Exploration and Development of Space will involve prolonged exposure in humansto a microgravity environment; this can lead to significant loss of bone and muscle mass,particularly for missions requiring travel times of several months or more, such as on a trip toMars. One possible remedy for this situation is to use a spent booster as a “counter-weight

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Daniel Waters; Armando Mora; Lizette Zounon; J. Carter Matheney Tiernan

. RationaleAs with many other engineering disciplines, computer science has the quality of being “a lotharder than it looks” to many incoming students. Thus, retaining students in computer scienceand engineering majors is an on-going concern. Further, fewer students in the major meansfewer graduates in the discipline and fewer qualified citizens to be employed in critical technicalareas. In Texas, the high technology industries, though suffering just now from the economicdownturn, in general cannot find enough local engineering graduates to fill their needs. This iseven more acute in those industries which may have sensitive national security functions andwhich thus are not open to international graduates from Texas universities. To address this issue

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Harold Smith; Madan Dubey; Pradeep Bhattacharya

Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21202, December 26, 2000.3. “Curricular Analysis in the Assessment of Program Outcomes for ABET Criteria EC-2000,” by William E. Simon and T. L. Chambers, 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Paper IIC3, Lafayette, LA, March 20-22, 2002.WILLIAM E. SIMONDr. Simon currently serves as Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University ofLouisiana at Lafayette. His research interests are in the aerospace and thermal science areas, including fuel cells,conventional and state-of-the art heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, multidiscipline advanced developmenttechnology management, and large project management. Dr. Simon is a

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Alfred J. Jayachandran; Edward S. Kolesar

Design and Operation of a MEMS Microengine Fabricated from Asymmetrical Polysilicon Surface Micromachined Electrothermal Microactuators Alfred J. Jayachandran and Edward S. Kolesar* Department of Engineering Texas Christian University Tucker Technology Center TCU Box 298640 2840 Bowie Street, Fort Worth, TX 76129 USA e-mail: e.kolesar@tcu.edu*Faculty Research Mentor AbstractSeveral electrically-driven microactuators have been

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Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

Developing a Nano-electronic fabrication Laboratory to enthuse Entrepreneurship Pradeep K. Bhattacharya, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern University, Baton Rouge, La-70813 bhattach@engr.subr.edu Abstract Manifestations of the famous bathtub curve effect have shown that in the field ofelectronics, miniaturization makes the cost of electronic technology reduce dramatically. In thefirst few years, on the introduction of a new technology, it costs more than usual till when it getsinto a manufacturing phase, and after that

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Edward S. Kolesar; Matthew D. Ruff

Three-Dimensional Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Structures Assembled from Polysilicon Surface Micromachined Elements Containing Continuous Hinges and Microrivets Matthew D. Ruff and Edward S. Kolesar* Department of Engineering Texas Christian University Tucker Technology Center TCU Box 298640 2840 Bowie Street, Fort Worth, TX 76129 USA PH: 817-257-6226 FAX: 817-257-7704 e-mail: e.kolesar@tcu.edu*Faculty Research Mentor

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor

and C. D. Sorensen, “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 1, 1997, pp. 17-28.2. J. E. Frechleton, and W. W. Walter, “Constructing Prototypes in a College-Wide Capstone Design Course,” Proceedings, Advances in Capstone Education Conference, Brigham Young University, 1994, pp. 177-180.3. R. H. Todd, C. D. Sorensen, and S. P. Magleby, “Designing a Senior Capstone Course to Satisfy Industrial Customers,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 2, 1993, pp. 92-100.4. W. K. Durfee, “Engineering Education Gets Real,” Technology Review, vol. 97, no. 2, 1994, pp. 42-52.5. R. C. Born, “A Capstone Design Experience for

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Pauline Melgoza

faculty. Librarians can assist the faculty toidentify useful sources, and suggest ways to incorporate them into the classroom and keep themabreast of the rapidly changing library environment. Since on-line resources change frequentlylibrarians can be valuable resources to instructors. IntroductionTechnology is a boon for educators, freeing them to focus on teaching. In the past teachingfaculty spent countless hours writing and organizing documentation. Currently instructors cansimply edit last semester’s or last year’s syllabi for this semester. Many engineering faculty areputting their syllabi on-line to facilitate access. Libraries, just like technology, can offer facultymethods to enrich course content

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

that the Group A average score was 42.1 and the Group B average score was 39.1. Amaximum achievable score was 50. The standard deviation for Group A was 7.6 and for Groupwas 9.4. It should also be noted that the lowest performing student (low score of 18) was inGroup B. It is possible that the Group B (trial) students expected the technology of the websiteto do more of the homework for them, and that the traditional Group A results were more in linewith the expectations of the homework grading rubric. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education