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Session 1-2 Ethical Issues Related to Engineering Service Learning William Jordan Mechanical Engineering Baylor University bill_jordan@baylor.edu AbstractService learning within engineering education is increasing in amount andvisibility. The rapid growth of Engineers without Borders (workinginternationally), and the EPICS program (working domestically), demonstrate thistrend.There has been much work dealing with the legitimacy of service learning inengineering education. However, there has been less work

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Mohan A. Ketkar; Nripendra N. Sarker

Session 15-4 DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE CRITERIA AND MEASURES FOR ASSESSING PROGRAM OUTCOMES IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS Mohan A. Ketkar and Nripendra N. Sarker Engineering Technology Department Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, TX 77446 AbstractIn the advent of EC 2000, Engineering Technology programs have grappled with methods forassessing the ABET outcomes, especially those skills which are not taught in the traditionaltechnology courses. This

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Jerry K. Keska

Session XXX 2-2 The Integration of Physical Experimentation Based on NI ELVIS System into an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program Jerry K. Keska Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70506 AbstractThis paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed

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Victor Gallardo; Mequanint Moges; Enrique Barbieri; Aymara Boggiano; Carlos Ramirez

Session 4-2 Development and Assessment of Online Modules for Hybrid Orientation Program Victor Gallardo, Mequanint Moges, Enrique Barbieri Engineering Technology Department University of Houston Aymara Boggiano, Carlos Ramirez Hispanic Studies Department University of Houston AbstractCurrent and future teaching methodologies rely on the careful use of technology in education as wellas in offering training opportunities

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Debra Pearson

programs allow students not only to significantly improvetheir engineering skills, but also to acquire soft skills and—in the case of work abroad students—topractice solving engineering problems in another culture. From improving retention in engineeringto having programs that attract top student talent, work-integrated opportunities positively impacteveryone involved in the partnership.Work-integrated programs include, but are not limited to: • Traditional cooperative education programs requiring three or more work semesters, which alternate with school semesters (Issues to consider: Are work terms required or optional? Will students pay tuition during work terms? Will top administrators support the effort? How will co-op

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programs. Two programs with the title General Engineering and onewith Engineering (General) are cited here as General Engineering. There are 11 programs withthe title Engineering Science or Engineering Sciences. There are 19 programs labeledEngineering Physics (including one labeled as Physics – Engineering Physics option). Fiveprograms included in this ABET listing and grouped below as Other MultidisciplinaryEngineering programs have the names of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering andPublic Policy, Fluid and Thermal Engineering Science, Integrated Engineering, and a variationon Mechanical Engineering. In summary, the subsequent information in this paper relates to thefollowing programs: 34 Engineering programs

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Cheryl L. Willis

the Goods-producing industries separated from the Service-providingindustries. Both the engineering services industries and the computer related industries that are of importance tomost STEM programs are located in the super-sector “Professional and Business Services,” and more specifically,“Sector 54 Professional, Scientific, And Technical-Services.” Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1. NAICS Major Industry Sectors with Aggregation TitlesGoods-Producing Natural resources and mining Sector 11 (Agriculture, forestry

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Mohammed E. Haque; Pallab Dasgupta

conceptualization.1Like most other game engines, the technology is encapsulated in a binary runtime library, while thegame related parts of the Unreal games are available as source code in a scripting language calledUnrealScript. The novel approach of Epic Games is that they released the Unreal Engine 2 Runtimefree for non-commercial and educational use. The runtime even includes the map editor UnrealEdand header files for C++ programmers. Beginners do find lots of technical documents and evenvideo tutorial that teach level design, script programming and much more.2The use of a game engine based collaborative virtual environment has enabled the development ofsoftware to support architectural design education.4 The focus of Moloney & Harvey’s4 paper

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Pradeep K. Bhattacharya; Jiecai Luo

andevaluation mechanisms are based. After the start of digital divide period, new interactivedigital media are diffusing in rapidly, even in low income groups, inculcating a youth-mediaculture that is gate crashing into schools and educators like a huge tsunami, producinginconsistent student performance across the U.S. making engineering education lag behindthose of other countries. On an ethical level an American engineer is intimately involved ingrowing global US relations – and in reaching agreements between U.S. and other countriesproducing enormous outsourcing contracts. It is a good question, as to how do one feel thatthese challenges have to be answered in the right perspective to accomplish amicable resultsfor the society in the time of

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Jiecai Luo; Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

9969, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 bhattach@engr.subr.edu AbstractEngineering Mathematics Course at Electrical Engineering Department of Southern University is afundamental core engineering course. This core course is taught in a way that shows how theengineering problems in the real world are related to the mathematic problems and how to solvethese related engineering problems by adopting different mathematical tools, which is one of thegreatest strengths of SU's EE curriculum- and having emphasis on fundamentals about how theyapply to real-world problems. There always are very many types of mathematical topics to becovered in this

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Benjamin S. Kelley; Adam P. Ecklund; Aaron Dabney

preparing for entering engineering students, there is a strong needand motivation to retain them until graduation.13 Retention efforts including learningcommunities,14, 15 interest groups,16 first year experiences,17 undergraduate research,18 and peerpairing19 are among the many student-retention improvement projects under investigation. Evenwith these very fine programs, student retention in engineering and computer science programsremains a great challenge.Student retention, quality of student learning, and student engagement have long been a priority atBaylor University.20 Recent initiatives in the School of Engineering and Computer Science includenumerous related facets.21 For example, the Engineering and Computer Science Living-LearningCenter

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Chad E. Kennedy

demand for customerservice skills in medical device manufacture’s field engineers and service engineers. To meet thesedemands in an already crowded set of teaching objectives within a BMET bachelors program, aninteractive role-playing approach was taken to maximize the group learning process. Scenarios arecreated for the students to confront real life difficult situations from varied vantage points. Withinthis safe environment, difficult questions are answered, conflict resolution is addressed andresolutions through compromise are made. The culminating response by the students was anincreased understanding of competing motivations and appreciation of the clinical institutional rolesthat can affect the decision making process

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Carol Costello; August Allo

& II. These courses are geared to simulate the experience of engineers inan industrial setting while maintaining an entrepreneurial atmosphere.The curriculum for the Design courses covers the progression from design conception tothe creation of working prototypes. The program addresses the need for professionalquality enhancement of communication skills consisting of scientific writing,presentations, and interpersonal skills, including working in teams. The classes Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationpreceding the design class do not focus on simulating an

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E. H. Shaban

design. This is a verygeneral and introductory course that offers no mathematical difficulty to the student.Most of the electrical engineering programs have electives within the electrical engineeringdepartment. In some cases one elective is chosen from outside the electrical engineering programbut in a closely related field in computer engineering or computer science. The student canchoose the telecommunication as a major or minor. At LSU the student is required to enroll in atleast two consecutive electives courses with a considerable design contents in the courses. By thetime the student has taken both electives and sometime a third elective in communication, he hasestablished a strong background in communication. This strong preparation with

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Miguel A. Ramos; Enrique Barbieri

Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education2. Brian Sturhan, Lee Howard, Brian Meixell, Juan Montelongo, Manmeet B. Patil,Farrokh Attarzadeh, “Endless Coffee Pot,” Technology Interface, Volume 8, no. 1, Fall2007, http://technologyinterface.nmsu.edu/Fall07/ (Last accessed on 02/08/2008).3. Attarzadeh, Farrokh, “Innovations in Laboratory Development for ComputerEngineering Technology Programs,” IJME (International Journal of ModernEngineering, Volume 7, No 2, Spring 2007,http://www.ijme.us/issues/spring2007/sl2007paper1attrasheh.pdf, (Last accessed on02/08/2008).4. Boodram, P., Brown, T. R., McNeilly, R. A., Mohammed, M., Mahesh, R., andAttarzadeh, F., “High Temperature Automobile Protection System,” ASEE-CoEDJournal, VOL. XVI, No. 4

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Hamid Majlesein; Sujeet Bhatte; Zhengmao Ye

The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationInstead of having to divide the entire network into zones and have the overhead of maintaining andupdating the relevant information related to it, we simply maintain the basic structure of the area ofoperation at the controller node. This information basically includes dimensions of the said area ofoperation. In the kind of applications [1] that employ the Data Funneling algorithm this will notchange in most cases. When we need to gather data related to a part of the network, we simplyprovide the relative coordinates of a cuboid which will cover that region. Zone Nodes

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Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright ©2008, American Society for Engineering Educationand employers have utilized their skills within a variety of engineering related tasks.Now however, more and more engineering disciplines are seeing the benefits ofproviding their students with applied hands-on manufacturing skill development labs.Most engineering programs have some type of undergraduate fabrication facilities/labsavailable that could or are being used to develop these courses. The “Learning Factory”at Penn State University’s mechanical engineering department is one facility withestablished comprehensive opportunities and facilities for practiced-based learning ofdesign, manufacturing, and product realization8. This

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Farrokh Attarzadeh; Enrique Barbieri; Ankur Shukla; Prafulla Kesari

Session 4-3 The Role of the Teaching Assistants in a Senior Level Computer Engineering Technology Capstone Class Farrokh Attarzadeh, Enrique Barbieri, Ankur Shukla, Prafulla Kesari Engineering Technology Department University of Houston AbstractThe paper describes the role of the Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the capstone class in theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) program in the Engineering TechnologyDepartment, College of Technology (CoT) at the University of Houston. The TAsrecruited are required to have the knowledge and

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Zhengmao Ye; Habib P. Mohamadian

, EAEC, PFL), and with sole authorships in IEEE Transactions and SAE Transactions as well.HABIB P. MOHAMADIANDr. Mohamadian currently serves as the Professor and Dean of College of Engineering at Southern University andA & M College. The Dean oversees the College's strategic planning, program development, academic affairs,government/industry relations, and research initiatives. Dr. Mohamadian’s research interests include diverse areas ofMechanical Engineering. Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education

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Nripendra Sarker; Cajetan M Akujuobi

Session umber 8-3 Establishing Multiple Assessment Methods for Accreditation ripendra Sarker and Cajetan M Akujuobi Department of Engineering Technology Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, TX 77446 AbstractProgram Outcome (Criterion 3) is one of the eight Criteria used by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) in assessing the quality of a program. The objective of thiscriterion is to assess the professional attainment of graduates over several years

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Kristi J. Shryock; Helen L. Reed

hopefully learn more about utilizingassessment methods effectively in their individual program. BackgroundFounded in 1932 under the name Engineers' Council for Professional Development, ABET(formerly Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredits post-secondarydegree-granting programs. Many people interpret this to mean that ABET accredits departments,colleges, or even courses. In reality, ABET accredits programs, and your accreditation workshould reflect the program as a whole.Some programs treat the six-year time lag between visits with the following timeline: - Year 1 – Celebrate success of previous ABET visit. - Years 2-4 – Feel that ABET is a long time away

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Susan M. Bogus; Kerry J. Howe

purpose of the capstone courseis to require students to integrate the knowledge they have gained from their undergraduatecurriculum into solving a real-life problem. One challenge at the University of New Mexico isproviding this experience to students while satisfying the accreditation requirements for threeseparate undergraduate degree programs. Starting fall 2007, a new design-build approach wasimplemented in the capstone course that teams students from all three undergraduate degreeprograms to solve real-life engineering and construction problems. This innovative design-buildapproach provided additional education for the students, but also required assessment ofaccreditation criteria for two different accreditation agencies (ABET and ACCE

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Arup K. Maji

graduates in India can now be absorbed in a variety of IT-related degree programs. Since the availability and quality of high-school education has not increasedin the same proportion, the ability of other fields of engineering to attract good students has droppedsignificantly. This also has implication on the US job market, which for decades benefited from adiverse pool of engineering graduate students from India. Today, such students are in general onlyavailable in Information Technology fields. Lucrative job offers at home prevent them from lookingabroad for higher education or employment. The University of New Mexico is looking in othercountries as potential sources of good graduate students. Education reform often precedes economicreform by

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Marwan Al-Haik; Zayd Leseman; Claudia Luhrs; Mahmoud Reda Taha

Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) andMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). This course is highly multi-disciplinary due to the cross-listing of the course with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum (ECE 519).What makes this approach unique is that: while familiarizing student with nanotechnology, it willnot strain the general outline of classical materials science course for being introduced as a set ofseparate modules. Moreover the proposed integration of nanotechnology into materials science corecourses and interdepartmental technical electives will readily provide students with differentbackgrounds from crosscutting programs (mechanical and civil engineering) with nanotechnologyexperience that is naturally interdisciplinary

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Steve Menhart

theDepartment of Engineering Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is noexception. Programmable logic was first introduced to this course in the late 1990’s, with thehardware consisting of simple Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) and Complex PLDs(CPLDs). VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) wasselected as the programming language. This worked well, with students programming theirchips and incorporating them in circuits. The course was upgraded several years ago to useAltera chips and the Quartus II development platform, because the software from Cypresssemiconductor, which was used previously, no longer had the desired level of support.Microcontrollers are typically not included in a digital systems

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Mohamad H. Ahmadian

part of their instructions are convinced that critical thinking provides a greaterchallenge that encourages students to work more critically and creatively1.Industry wants students from engineering and engineering technology programs to be proficientin problem solving skills. While problem solving provides a key element in engineeringtraining, students need to be taught how to approach the concept of problem solving. Theconcept of problem solving can be supported if the approach to problem solving is centered onthe pedagogy of Critical Thinking.In the book “Design Tools for Engineering Teams”2, the following is given for problem-solvingsteps:A team must share a common thought process for effectively finding solutions to problems.While there

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Matthew Moreno; Amador Salazar; Rafael Gijon; Sangita Prajapati; Farrokh Attarzadeh; Mayuri Mahajan; Aditya Gupta; Prafulla Kesari

graduating in May 2008, is to pursue a career in hardwaredevelopment and control systems.FARROKH ATTARZADEHDr. Attarzadeh is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College ofTechnology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming, operating systems, digitallogic, and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Technology Program. He Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationhas developed a concept referred to as EMFA (Electromechanical Folk Art) as a vehicle to attract youngstudents to the STEM

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Ronald E. Barr; J.P. Mohsen; Jane M. Fraser; Amir Karimi; Nelson A. Macken; John A. Stratton; John J. Uhran, Jr.; Sandra A. Yost

√ √ √ √ 4 C Teaching25. What was the Influence of Recent NSF Coalitions on √ 1 D Engineering Education Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education 26. Track the Development and Success of New Engineering √ √ 2 E Education Programs 27. Engage Research Faculty in Undergraduate Teaching √ √ 2 A 28. Teach Lifelong Learning

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Titilope Z. Alagun; Dr. Shahryar Darayan

Battery Figure 2. A Fully Automated Prototype Chicken Farm Unit Figure 3. Simple Diagram of Automated Egg Conveyor and Separator Unit Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education Part I – Software Program in C LanguageThe software program for the chicken farm unit is divided into three codes. The operatorof the chicken house sets the required conditions for each program. 1. Relay.Exe: This program uses ‘int main (int argc, char *argv[])’ command to read the argument in the DOS prompt. This program converts a two digit hex number

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Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-specific Career Fair, and other ECS-targeted activities, with other improvements and services on the horizon. IntroductionThe undergraduate enrollment of Baylor University is nearly 12,000 students. Many of thesestudents choose to major in the liberal arts, resulting in a vibrant campus life with a diversity ofperforming and visual arts attractions. Baylor also has a well established reputation of excellence inmedicine, and as such, pre-medicine is the most often intended field of study among first-yearstudents. Baylor too has a nearly 100-year-old history of offering academic programs in business,which comprises the second largest academic unit with over 3,000