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Newly Developed Engineering Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

core curriculum for one semester. Thecourse will hopefully continue to evolve and the authors intend to use this forum in the futureto discuss the results.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank the College of Science and Technology at Georgia SouthernUniversity for award of a sustainability grant which made this project possible.Bibliography1. Shrivastava, P, The role of corporations in achieving ecological sustainability, Academy of Management Review:19952. Pezzey, J, Sustainable Development Concepts: An economic analysis, World Bank,:19923. Barbier, E, The concept of sustainable economic development, Environmental Conservation: 1987.4. Hart, S.L, Beyond Greening: Strategies for a sustainable world, Harvard Business Review

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianbiao Pan, California Polytechnic State University; Albert Liddicoat, California Polytechnic State University; James Harris, California Polytechnic State University; Linda Shepherd, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

skills, project management, engineering ethics and other relatedskills.1, 2 This paper focuses on the assessment of the curriculum improvement from these threenew courses.Various methods have been reported in the engineering education literature to assess theeffectiveness of the curriculum improvement. Dempsey et al. 3 presented using senior mini-projects instead of traditional senior capstone projects in electrical and computer engineeringcurriculum assessment. Ricks et al. 4 used student perceptions of their abilities and quantitativemeasures of student performance using both written assignments and laboratory assignments toevaluate the effective of a new embedded systems curriculum. Gannod et al. 5 described the gapanalysis and its impact on

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Patrick Gardner, Western Carolina University

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Electrical and Computer

, all student teams are required to present their projects for evaluation. Theschedule and timeline are checked to ensure a well distributed effort. Visuals as well as oraldelivery are required and evaluated for each member of the teams. Project documentationincluding requirement matrix, market analysis, AOA, FMEA, and the actual design files and testresults are maintained by each project team. Over the past three years sixty students havefollowed the senior capstone course sequence and six patentable products have been created. Inthe current class, about fifty students from all three concentrations: Engineering Technology(ET), Electrical Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and Electrical Engineering (EE) areparticipating in total of 15

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Hyman, University of Missouri; Jim Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. New York(Nov. 2007), Baltimore, Md. (http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/E001%2008-09%20EAC%20Criteria%2012-04--07.pdf).6. R. H. Todd, et. al., A survey of capstone engineering courses in North America. J. Engng. Ed. 84, 165-174(1995).7. B. Hyman, Using capstone projects to simulate professional design experiences. Resource Guide to Innovation inEngineering Design Education, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York (1993).8. A. J. Dutson, et. al., A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstonecourses. J. Engng. Ed. 86, 17-28 (1997).9. R. L. Miller and B. M. Olds, A model curriculum

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Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; William Danley, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-1975: EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF NSF WEB-BASEDTECHNOLOGY PROJECTS IN CURRICULUM, COURSE, AND LABORATORYDEVELOPMENT FOR FIRST TIME NEW ABET ACCREDITATIONRichard Chiou, Drexel UniversityWilliam Danley, Drexel University Page 15.550.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Experience in Implementation of NSF Web-based Technology Projects in Curriculum, Course, and Laboratory Development for First Time ABET AccreditationAbstractThe new Applied Engineering Technology Program at Drexel University received a first-timeprogram accreditation from the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of theAccreditation Board for

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-1383: AN INDUSTRY-SPONSORED CAPSTONE PROJECT: A STORYOF SUCCESSKhalid Al-Olimat, Ohio Northern University Page 15.155.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Industry—Sponsored Capstone Project: A Story of SuccessAbstractThis paper presents a capstone project that has been sponsored by American Electric Power(AEP). AEP, like other companies, relies on shippers to move equipment long distances.Sometimes during these trips, the shipped object is damaged, causing financial losses. AEPrequested a device which monitors when and where damages occur. A device was designedwhich gives AEP this capability. Since the duration of a shipment may be up to two

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industry Needs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

involving Macomb CommunityCollege and the Division of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University. The projectincludes developing a hybrid electric vehicle curriculum and integrating it with the existingApplied Science program in Automotive Technology23, 24 Page 15.476.5Three course experiences on instrumentation, electric vehicles and project activities werereported by Rizkalla25, 26, 27 Laio28 reported on the development of a Virtual Hybrid ElectricVehicle Simulator using LabVIEW that enhanced Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) training andeducation. Winstead29 presented outcomes of a project conducted to convert a stock ToyotaPrius to a plug-in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. Dr. Yao joined East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Page

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natalia Litchinitser, SUNY at Buffalo; Albert H. Titus, SUNY at Buffalo; Alexander N. Cartwright, SUNY at Buffalo; Vladimir V. Mitin, SUNY at Buffalo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

diodes, lasers, and display systems. Inaddition, it has been essential in the development of new imaging techniques for biomedicalresearch, as well as in the development of new fabrication methodologies for electronics. Todate, these remarkable contributions to engineering have largely been ignored in theundergraduate curriculum in electrical engineering.Here, we present our efforts to develop educational modules for nanophotonics with an emphasison how the resulting technologies apply to sustainability and quality of life via devices based onnanostructures: e.g., solar cells, high efficiency lighting, environmental sensing, and other lowerpower optoelectronic devices. Specifically, in this project, we are developing nanophotonicsKnowledge

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Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

one in a suite of eight exercises being developed by the authors which are intended to helpteach core principles in the thermal and fluid sciences through the use of everyday devices.These include a hair dryer, a bicycle pump, a blender, a computer power supply, a toaster,straight and stepped tanks, and a pipe section with a change of area. The project was firstintroduced at the 2007 ASEE national convention in a paper presented in the DELOS division1.Papers are available describing some of the other exercises2,3,4. This paper focuses on thecomputer power supply exercise.The performance of a fan follows a characteristic curve, known as a fan curve, which is specificto that particular fan design. Coad5 describes fan curves as “probably the

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

R.A.Shaffer. Re-inventing the electrical machines curriculum. IEEE Page 15.1351.12Transactions on Education, 41(2):92–100, May 1998.5. Thomas W. Gedra. Computer-aided instrumentation in OSU’s machines lab. In Proceedings ofthe Frontiers of Power Conference, pages VIII.1–VIII.5, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK,October 1997.6. Thomas W. Gedra. Virtual instrumentation in an undergraduate electrical machines lab. InProceedings of the Midwest Section ASEE Conference, Columbia, MO, April 19977. G. Faraco and L. Gabriele, Using LabVIEW for applying mathematical models in representingphenomena, Computers & Education, Volume 49, Issue 3, November

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering and at the undergraduate level, but was taught in elective courses or not covered in the curriculum, ≠ 3 = undergraduate level knowledge outside electrical engineering (i.e. mechanical systems), or knowledge typically taught at the graduate level in the discipline. ≠ 4 = advanced knowledge outside the discipline. 5. Whether or not a project required special fabrication or test and measurement techniques covered the procedural or tacit knowledge dimensions of knowledge. Again a four point scale was used with: ≠ 1 = skills students had been taught in undergraduate classes for which they had ready access to equipment, ≠ 2 = skills and equipment that were available in the department

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Roemer, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Debra Mascaro, University of Utah

AC 2010-1903: A SPIRAL LEARNING CURRICULUM IN MECHANICALENGINEERINGRobert Roemer, University of Utah Robert B. Roemer is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He teaches courses in engineering design, and is interested in integrating the use of design projects and active learning throughout the curriculum to improve engineering education.Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah Stacy J. Morris Bamberg is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. She received her S.B. and S.M. in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Program Development and Pipelines for Recruitment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaby Mohammed, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi; Ramesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Jihad Albayyari, Indiana-Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineering technology curriculum. Based on thesurvey manufacturing ET curriculum was developed that provides a foundation in sciencescomplemented by general technical courses in mechanical and industrial engineering disciplines.The general technical courses, focusing on the practical application of engineering knowledge,include the subject areas of engineering graphics, engineering materials and mechanics,hydraulics and pneumatics, CAD/CAM, geometric tolerancing, design and engineeringeconomics. The manufacturing-specific courses cover subjects in manufacturing processes,CNC, quality assurance, facilities layout, material science, design for manufacturing, and leanmanufacturing.INTRODUCTIONDevelopment of the proposed MFET (Manufacturing Engineering

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and at the Center on Education and Work. He uses experimental and discourse-based research methods to understand the cognitive, social and embodied nature of STEM learning and instruction. He is currently co-principal investigator of the AWAKEN project in engineering education, along with Professors Sandra Shaw Courter and L. Allen Phelps.Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin Benjamin Stein is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where his work is in hyperspectral laser design. Before returning to school, he worked as a math instructor at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University and an electronics design engineer at ASML. These experiences as an

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Scott, Seattle Pacific University; Hannah Azevedo, Seattle Pacific University

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Two Year College Division

the scholarship recipients have continued to progresssatisfactorily towards completion of their electrical engineering degrees. Page 15.460.2IntroductionOur engineering program at Seattle Pacific University aims to address the increasing technicalneeds of our country (Grose, 2006, NSB 2004), including the greater Seattle community, byspecifically increasing the number of community college transfer students in our engineeringprogram, a potentially untapped resource (Anderson-Rowland et al. 2004). The National ScienceFoundation has supported this effort through a grant in its S-STEM program. The goal of thegrant, Engaging the Community to Achieve

Conference Session

Robotics Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

each year, soit is possible to start the unified sequence at the beginning or middle of the 2nd year, or at thebeginning of the 3rd year. It is considered essential that all Robotics Engineering majorscomplete all four core courses before beginning a Capstone Design project in their 4th year.While this may appear to lack flexibility, it is currently considered essential to the underlyingphilosophy of the Robotics Engineering program as each course builds directly on the precedingcourse – reinforcing and extending robotics concepts in the true sense of a spiral curriculum. Sofar, our experience has indicated that by tightly integrating the electrical, mechanical andcomputer concepts in each course in a way that shows students how each concept

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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College-Industry Partnerships

, ≠ include “uncertainty” and its implications in engineering analysis courses, Page 15.999.5 ≠ consider offering technical electives, in this domain, and let “uncertainty” be a central theme, ≠ make use of modern computational tools to support probabilistic thinking.Such curriculum changes may fall short of meeting set goals without adequate research aimed atcontinued improvements in probabilistic and statistical thinking for civil engineering in generaland the design component in particular.3) Estimation: A main challenge of a project design is the number of variables and theirinteractions during the design process. Often, the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2010-108: A LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS COURSE WITH EMPHASIS ONEMBEDDED CONTROLChiu Choi, University of North Florida Page 15.48.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Linear Control Systems Course with Emphasis on Embedded Control Chiu H. Choi Department of Electrical Engineering University of North FloridaAbstractThis paper describes the embedded control courseware and its benefits in our linear controlsystems course. The embedded control courseware consists of a set of lab experiments thatteaches the students how to

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huanmei Wu, IUPUI

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

multidisciplinary projects.Bibliography1. R Miller and B Olds, A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design,Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 311—316, 1994.2. Paul W. Holley and Christian Dagg, Development of Expanded Multidisciplinary Collaborative ExperiencesAcross Construction and Design Curricula, International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 1550-3984, Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 91 – 1113. Dutson, A. J., et al. "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-OrientedCapstone Courses," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 1, 1997, pp. 17--28.4. Todd, R. H., et al. "A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America," Journal of

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Liberal Education

thirty years later, the then President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers E.J. Midwinter said of his approach to the curriculum that it was based on generalizedsystems and “It suggests common ground between engineering and most otherdisciplines. That engineering, science and law share common ground comes as nosurprise but what about engineering and the liberal arts or the social sciences? Yet manyof engineering’s greatest failures have come from the failure to take into account thehuman dimension.” 11While there may be common ground between engineering and law the two subjectsapproach “evidence” in different ways as American engineering educator Woodson madeclear in his treatise on engineering design.12 (See exhibit 1). To all intent and

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ECE consist of several studio and project labs and the curriculum is developed withthe intent of incorporating multidisciplinary courses with a modern approach to teaching communication,basic science, and mathematics skills. As students can now own portable versions of a laboratory stationin the form of computer attachments small enough to carry in their backpacks7 the choice of the labequipment was the use of traditional laboratory stations with stand-alone instruments along with sets ofcomputer-based measurement equipment8. One of the ECE faculty is currently based in the Physicsdepartment teaching courses related to electrical engineering. The inherited Electronics course and labwere in need of significant restructuring. The goal of this

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso

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First-Year Programs

200911. Herniter, M.E., D.R. Scott, and R. Pangasa. Teaching programming skills with MATLAB. 2001. Albuquerque, NM, United states: American Society for Engineering Education.12. Huet, I., et al. New challenges in teaching introductory programming courses: a case study. in Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004. 34th Annual. 2004.13. Attia, J.O. Increasing electrical and computer engineering enrollment: A multi-faceted approach. 2007. Milwaukee, WI, United states: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.14. he Infinity Project: Engineering education for today's classroom. 2010 [cited 2010; Available from: http://www.infinity-project.org/.15. Fish, S. Thoughts about the Best Introductory Language. 2006

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

discussed including thetechnical, management, mentoring and window of student creativity.IntroductionCapstone project is a unique educational tool where at that level, senior students have developedboth the technical and the management skills and they are ready to be challenged with an open-ended problem. However, guidance is still an important part of this educational environment. Itcompletes the process by opening the right doors for the students to apply the correct planning,designing, building and testing procedure for a successful project. Dusing et al1 discussed the useof design review meetings to guide the students before major steps of the project. In this meeting,the students defend their technical decision and are challenged by a couple

Conference Session

Communication in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cherian Mathews, University of the Pacific

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Design in Engineering Education

at Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Page 15.1312.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using a Design Course to Augment Program Curriculum and Foster Development of Professional SkillsAbstractThis paper describes the structure of a recently reorganized senior design project coursesequence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of the Pacific.The paper focuses on the first course in a two course senior project sequence, a course that wasrecently reorganized with a view to improve student design and professional skills. Previously

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; christopher conley, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Steven Hart, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

broaden the spectrum of electives available, three new electives(CE478 Structural Mechanics; CE490 Protective Design; CE495 Transportation) have beendeveloped and will be offered to students starting in the spring term of 2010. CE471 Timber andMasonry will be discontinued since coverage of those two building materials is now includedwithin the steel course, CE404, and the concrete course, CE483.What about ABET?Whenever making changes to an ABET accredited curriculum, it is vital to ensure that the resultsatisfies the requirements established in Criterion 1 through 9. In order to demonstrate that credithours were satisfied in each category (Engineering Topics, ET; Math & Basic Science, M&BS),a spreadsheet was developed listing credit hour

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University; Srinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

developer can select a processor that best fits hisapplication without paying overhead or sacrificing performance. After building his own versionof the configurable processor, the developer adds the hardware components of his design asperipheral devices surrounding the processor but on the same chip. The software part of thedesign runs on the processor itself. This important design concept can be easily introduced at theundergraduate level by using the teaching plan described in this paper.There is a continuous expansion of the scope of electrical and computer engineering in thetechnology-oriented world. This requires the curriculum committees to look at a more efficientand effective means of covering these topics within a four-year undergraduate

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

. In Proc. ofSIGSCE, 1998.[23] D. Delaney and G. G. Mitchell. PBL applied to software engineering group projects. In Proc. ofInternational Conference on Information and Communication in Education, 2002.[24] J. C. Perrenet, P. Bouhuijs and J. Smits. The suitability of problem-based learning for engineeringeducation: theory and practice. In Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000.[25] D. E. Knuth. Computer programming as an art. Communication of the ACM, Vol 17, Number 12, Page 15.983.11December 1974.[26] A. Ellis et al. Resources, tools, and techniques for problem based learning in computing. In AnnualJoint Conference

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Laboratory Development in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R.F. William Hollender, Montana State University; James Becker, Montana State University

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Electrical and Computer

. An outline of how the Dopplermodule is being used in the spring 2010 offering of an advanced analog electronics course isprovided and finally a few remarks are made as to how the work will be carried forward in futureofferings. Page 15.399.4Modification of Lecture Content For Fall 2009The implementation of a radar project into an undergraduate course has been described byothers. Specifically, Jensen et al.3 had students design a standard microstrip divider and a patchantenna array and used these components to realize a Doppler radar. They found that typically,students “are enthused about their useful system,” and go on to state that, “these

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergey Makarov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Reinhold Ludwig, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. It is interesting to note that only after it was established in mechanical engineering wasit ultimately adopted by electrical engineers; they subsequently applied it to an "ideal gas" of freecharge carriers in semiconductors. As a result, mechanical engineers are convinced by theinstructor to have a better understanding of this concept as it is inherently a mechanical entity.With this encouraging introduction we can now present the classical Boltzmann distributionfollowing the kinetic theory: the number of particles per unit volume having kinetic thermalenergy greater than or equal to ET ~ m T / 2 at temperature T and at any location x is given by  E p ( x)  p 0 exp  T