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Paul Ruchhoeft

Introducing Emerging Technology into the Engineering Curriculum Through Capstone Projects Paul Ruchhoeft Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard Bannerot, Ross Kastor, and Gangbing Song Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractIn the one semester, three engineering department, capstone design course taught in theCullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, multidisciplinary teamswork on design projects provided by local industry and the faculty. A rich source of gooddesign problems associated with

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Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan; Ms. Faye Moore,; Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick

ASEE-GSW2004-030The Texas Eta Chapter of Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society: Building A Sense of Pride in Engineering Technology Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan, Senior, CPET Ms. Faye Moore, Senior, CPET Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick, Faculty Advisor Department of Engineering Technology College of Engineering Prairie View A&M University ABSTRACTStudents and Faculty from the Engineering Technology (ET) department are members ofthe Texas Eta Chapter at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). The founders

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Lenore L. Dai

053 Incorporating Six Sigma in Engineering Education Lenore L. Dai Chemical Engineering Department Texas Tech University Abstract Six Sigma is a buzz term in today’s technology and business world. The Six Sigmaapproach combines elements from several quality movements with advanced statisticalmethodology. It is a comprehensive tool combining business concepts with technical skills andleadership skills. Six Sigma has been successfully applied to manufacturing, to research anddevelopment, and to business and financial services. Recently, there has been great interest

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; M. M. Holt; R. H. Cox

Science, Engineering and TechnologyDevelopment4 made the following statement: As we enter the twenty-first century, U. S. jobs are growing most rapidly in areas that require knowledge and skills stemming from a strong grasp of science, engineering, and technology. In some quarters – primarily information technology – business leaders are warning of a critical shortage in skilled American workers that is threatening their ability to compete in the global marketplace. Yet, if women, under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities were represented in the U. S. science, engineering, and technology (SET) workforce in parity with their percentages in the total workforce population, this shortage could largely be

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M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram

technology department to stimulate learning process, promote team work,and develop interdependence among their peers. Engineering Technology Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3107

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

the case with universities offering predominantly undergraduate programsin engineering with a limited number of faculty. Robotics and mechatronics are amongthe frontier areas of electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering. Project-basedlearning experiences for undergraduate students in these disciplines can provide valuablereal-world problem solving experience, expose them to new or established courses thatstudents are not formally being taught, serve community outreach, and potentiallyproduce innovative technologies and products for entrepreneurship by graduates. Thispaper discusses the project-based learning experiences of the author's undergraduateengineering students at the University of Michigan-Flint, in the fields of robotics

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H. Dwayne Jerro; Chun-Ling Huang; Nikhil Gupta; Patrick Mensah; Ajay Aripirala

problem solvingconcept mapping is a promising method that can be utilized in mechanical engineeringcourses. The possibility of using modern technology such as computers and softwaretools to make the problem solving process interactive can lead to effective way ofmechanical engineering education.In the present study a thermodynamics course taught at Southern University is taken upfor study. A scheme of making the instructional scheme more interactive is proposed.The solution is cost effective and requires only some commonly used software tools.This scheme allows students to visualize and solve problems of thermodynamics in aninteractive manner. Data on the students’ performance at each step of the problem solvingprocess can be collected and stored

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H. R. Myler

Education Pipeline: Deploying The InfinityProject Statewide. This grant enabled the department to join ten other universities (Baylor,Prairie View A&M, Rice, Southern Methodist, St. Mary's, Texas A&M, University of Texas atArlington, Austin, El Paso and San Antonio) in a consortium to implement various aspects of theInfinity Project2, a program developed to generate interest in K-12 and early college studentsin math and science-based engineering and technology. The project is an educationinitiative that helps educators deliver a maximum of engineering exposure with aminimum of training, expense and time. A key element of the Infinity Project is the useof Digital Signal Processing (DSP) hardware and a graphical software developmentsystem in

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Kenneth Van Treuren

,” Proceedings of 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.5. Pintar, A. J., Aller, B. M., Rogers, T. N., Schulz, K. H., and Shonnard, D. R., 1999, “Developing an Assessment Plan to Meet ABET 2000,” Proceedings of 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.6. Land, R., and Hager, W., 2002, “Pilot Survey: Graduate Satisfaction with ET Education at Penn State,” Proceedings of 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.7. Gomez-Rivas, A., and Pincus, G., 2003, “Integration of Class and Laboratory in Engineering Technology,” Proceedings of 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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John R. Chandler; John Rivera; A. Dean Fontenot

010 Creating the Engineering Bug in Elementary and Junior High School Students: Texas Tech University’s Engineering Outreach Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D.; John Rivera; and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityThrough Texas Tech University (TTU) College of Engineering (COE) Outreach efforts,local schools are participating in science and engineering projects as part of the TechUniversity Pre-college Engineering Academy Program©. The Center for Partnerships inScience and Technology and the College of Engineering have established a means forgetting fourth through ninth-graders excited about science, engineering, and

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

, while at the same time exposingthem to applications from science and engineering. The objective of such exposure throughoutthe curriculum is to catch the interest of students at an early stage, and thus encourage them topursue those career paths.The project uses web-based modules to meet three goals. One is to increase interest in computerscience and engineering at the lower level courses for majors and non-majors. A second goal isto improve retention by offering support for upper level courses. The third goal is to providesupport to the partnership project with TTU and TI. While some modules are course specific,1 Supported in part by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF DUE #9972494) and Technology Workforce Development GrantProgram

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E. H. Shaban

Session 004 Integrated Circuits Design Course to Satisfy ABET Design Requirements in Electrical Engineering E. H. Shaban Electrical Engineering Department Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 70813 AbstractAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires that electricalengineering graduates must be able to solve open ended theoretical problems and providepractical design engineering solutions for projects utilizing the knowledge they gainedfrom the

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Brian Nutter; Tanja Karp; Sunanda Mitra

teachlast year. He is affiliated with TTU’s Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (CVIAL). Hisresearch includes Superresolution and Autostereoscopy.TANJA KARPDr. Karp received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering (M.S.E.E.) and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.)from Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1995 and1996, she spent two months as a Visiting Researcher at the Signal Processing Department of ENST, Paris,France, and at the Mutirate Signal Processing Group, University of Wisconsin at Madison, respectively,working on modulated filter banks. In 1997 she joined the Institute of Computer Engineering at MannheimUniversity, Germany, as a Senior Research and Teaching Associate. From

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William E. Simon; Terrence L. Chambers

truly be a win-win situation for students, employers and the dedicated faculty who mustcarry the burden of ensuring continuous improvement in engineering education. References1. “Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in the United States,” ABET Criteria EC-2000, Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21202, December 26, 2000.2. “Assessment and Measurement Innovations for Continuous Improvement in Engineering Education,” by William E. Simon and T. L. Chambers, 2002 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Paper IIC2, Lafayette, LA, March 20-22, 2002.3. “Continuous Improvement of the Assessment and Measurement

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Mario G. Beruvides; Terry R. Collins; Elliot J. Montes

. Kocaoglu, D.F. (1994). "Technology management: Educational trends," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 347-349. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 3. Gorman, M.E. (2002). “Turning Students into Professionals: Types of Knowledge and ABET Engineering Criteria”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol 91, no.2, July, pp. 327-332. 4. Collins, T.R. & Youngblood, A.D. (2002). “Engineering Management Program Re-evaluation”, Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual

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Luciana R. Barroso; Jim Morgan

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationfor principal stresses); and in structural analysis (stiffness matrices). The eigenanalysis materialeven ties back to their math course! The ABET outcomes 3 of the course also are enhanced viathese connections. References1. Childs, Dara W., “Developing A New Differential-Equation-Based Dynamics/Vibration Course”, ASEE Gulf- Southwest Section 2001 ANNUAL CONFERENCE "Changing the Engineering Profession" March 28-30, 2001, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX2. Childs, D.W., Dynamics in Engineering Practice, 5th Edition, printed by John Wiley Custom Services, 2004 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Guidelines for

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

, June 28-July 1. 3. Engineering Accreditation Commission, 2001, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Accreditation Board for Engineering and 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

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Lloyd Heinze; James Gregory

066 2nd ABET 2K Visit < 2 Years Away Lloyd Heinze & James GregoryAbstractTexas Tech University’s College of Engineering is in the planning stages for its secondABET 2000 program review scheduled during the fall of 2005. Do to the nature of thecontinuous (or at least semi annual) process, this is much easier that in the past just lookat everything once every six years. The college’s fourteen degree plans: ChemicalEngineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, ConstructionEngineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology,Engineering Physics, Environmental Engineering, Industrial

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Farrokh Attarzadeh

Session 024 A Blend of Face-to-Face and Online Delivery Method for Advanced C++ Programming Farrokh Attarzadeh Attarzadeh, Farrokh [FAttarzadeh@Central.UH.EDU] Department of Engineering Technology University of Houston AbstractPresently the University of Houston (UH) offers many courses, through the office ofEducational Technology and Outreach (ETO) initiative, in four structured formatsreferred to as Face-to-Face, Instructional Television, Online, and Videotape. Each ofthese formats has its own

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Keyonn L. Pope

the theoretical knowledge of the designer as this is aprerequisite for a successful design career. Through the use of CMOS technology simplelogic gates can be designed and used to build complex circuits.This is a student paper.Biography:Keyonn L. Pope is a senior, electrical engineering major at Southern University andA&M College located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Rafic Bachnak; Korinne Caruso; cody ross

-on laboratory activities,and science and technology exhibits1 [9]. Specifically, the program involves attracting11th grade students to attend a two-week Science and Technology workshop. Theworkshop is designed to introduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and1 This project is funded in part by the CSREES-USDA, award # 2002-38422-12160 “Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”agriculture, expose them to college life, involve them in hands-on activities, andencourage them to pursue science and engineering careers. Students are recruited toparticipate in a follow-up

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Mohammed E. Haque; Murtuza Aluminiumwalla

impossible to rely on site visits.Considerable pedagogical advantages can be achieved by the integration of the informationtechnology (IT) and various visualization techniques in teaching engineering technology.Although the classroom environment in Engineering and Construction Science is highlystructured by the instructor, teaching students to be critical thinkers is essential in the virtualclassroom of the future. The objective of this research was to develop a virtual walk-throughmodel of a reinforced concrete building construction. The techniques that were used in thisresearch employed a generic programming architecture and visualization media, which werediscipline independent, and can be adapted to any other technology education domain

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Donald J. Bagert; Stephen V. Chenoweth

Session XXXX Giving Students Experience in Dealing with Clients In a Course on Requirements Donald J. Bagert, Stephen V. Chenoweth Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology AbstractThis paper examines the role of student-client interaction in a junior-level SoftwareRequirements and Specification course taught at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Thiscourse is required of both Computer Science and Software Engineering majors. The term projectfor the

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Puneet Bhatia; Dr. Terrence. L Chambers

improvements inproduction processes.In Stage II, process plans can be stored electronically once it was created in Stage I.Manufacturers can retrieve it, modify it for a new plan and print the plan. Table driven costand standard estimating systems were other capabilities of this stage. Typical process plan isa single common process for the part family, substituting planning of individual processesfor every part separately. Part family, for which the typical plan is established, belongs to the Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationparts technological type. Fig. 2

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Mohammed E. Haque; Salim Saherwala

materials include timber, plywood, and hardboard. Some of themost commonly used timber for concrete formwork are Douglas fir-larch, Douglas fir-South,Hem-fir, Spruce-pine-fir, and Southern pine. Plywood is commonly used for sheathing or liningforms because it gives smooth concrete surfaces.As technology rapidly changes, the importance of educating and training diverse populations ofcivil/construction engineering/science students becomes more critical. With the advances ininformation technology (IT) over the last decade, the traditional teaching format of having anindividual lecture to an audience has been supplemented, and in some cases, replaced by therapid development and implementation of new distance learning methods. Classroom use of ITfor

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Mark Hamner; M. M. Holt; Ebony McGee; Diana Dickey-Davis

addition, the typical small class size provides an encouragingenvironment in which struggling students may feel more comfortable asking for help.Indeed, despite the struggle science majors might encounter with their curriculum andmaintaining their overall GPA, at TWU underrepresented minority participation in thesciences is nearly 40% of all science majors. References[1] National Science Foundation, Computer-Aided Science Policy Analysis and Research (WebCASPAR Database), www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/srsdata.htm.[2] American Association of Engineering Societies, Engineering and Technology Enrollments, 2001, Engineering Workforce Commission 2001 – 2002.[3] Frenkel, K.A., “Women

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Julian H. Kang; Narendra Nigudkar

, Graphics Press, Cheshire.6. Giovianni, J. (1994). “Renaissance Models at the National Gallery.” Architecture: Incorporating Architectural Technology, Vol. 83(11), American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., 28-29.7. Collier, E. and Fischer, M. (1995). “Four-Dimensional Modeling in Design and Construction.” Technical Report, No. 101, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford.8. Mahoney, J.J., Tatum, C.B., and Kishi, K. (1990). “Construction Site Applications of CAD,” Technical Report, No. 36, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University

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Stephan Wright; Amit Thakkar

mentoringprogram. Introduction The mission of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is topromote the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, andapplying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for thebenefit of humanity and the profession. In accordance with this mission, the IEEEMentoring Office program was conceived in the spring of 2002 by members of the UTA-IEEE Student Branch and IEEE faculty advisor Dr. Wei Jen Lee. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Ahmed Musa; Virgilio Gonzalez

Engineering Educationcommunication engineers capable of new ideas and implementing systems that arefeasible to maintain and operate is more relevant than ever. Often electrical engineeringcurriculums offer students one or two theoretical communication courses; however this isnot enough to train communications engineers in the proper background of the newertechnologies. The traditional courses and laboratories are focused on the foundations ofcommunications theory. The equipment needed to implement laboratories with thenewest technologies is expensive and changes constantly. This makes it difficult tocontinuously upgrade such laboratories. Consequently, employing a computer basedlaboratory with different software packages dedicated for communication

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Mr. Marcus Johnson; Dr. Mohan Ketkar

Session xxxxFormulation and computation of the direction of an optical source using multiple detectors Mr. Marcus Johnson, Dr. Mohan Ketkar Department of Engineering Technology College of Engineering Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, TX 77446 AbstractDetection of optical source and its direction is necessary in applications such as solarpanel alignment systems, object-tracking systems, and in robotic control. A simplesystem of three directional optical