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Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donna Whiting; Marion Usselman

National. (1998)Gender Equity Activities· Famous Women and Men InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 80· Is my classroom equitable? A self-awareness reflection.· Growing up the opposite sex. A self-awareness reflection.· Gender and Science Inventory Weinburgh, M.H., Franklin, B. & Franklin, C. (1994) 8 Included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 78· Accomplished Women in Science and Mathematics. InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 83· What is your Gender Awareness Quotient (GAQ)? Adapted from Sadker, M., Sadker, D. & Kaser, J. (1985) 9, included in the InGEAR Professional Development Manual, (1999) pg. 84· The Equitable School Walk. Source: Nation’s

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Stan Napper; Melvin Corley

; Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” B. Development of Assessment methods to analyze our performance (Mechanical Engineering examples)The Mechanical Engineering Program Educational Objectives were achieved through a combination ofinputs. The most important of these are the undergraduate course curriculum and student advising, sinceevery student is affected by these two. (Other inputs, such as participation in student societies,competitions, research projects, etc., may involve only a subset of the student body, but they give anoverall tone and level of achievement which affects the entire program.) The undergraduate coursecurriculum is certainly the most

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Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King; Joan Walker

in secondary school physics. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(4), 315-333.10. Wallace, J. D., & Mintzes, J. J. (1990). The concept map as a research tool: Exploring conceptual change in biology. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 27(10), 1033-1052.11. Jonassen, D. H., Reeves, T. C., Hong, N., Harvey, D., & Peters, K. (1997). Concept mapping as cognitive learning and assessment tools. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 8(3/4), 289-308.12. Chi, M. T. H., Glaser, R. & Farr, M. J. (1988). The nature of expertise. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.13. Novak, J. D., & Gowin, D. B. (1984). Learning how to learn. New York: Cambridge University Press.14. Stevens, R. H., Lopo, A. C., &

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Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wheeldon; Glenn Wrate

, the EET student was evaluated consistent with the goals and objectives of theEET Program. (The instructor for the course sequence teaches in both the EE and EETprograms, so he is familiar with the requirements of both programs.)ConclusionsThe authors feel that courses of this nature have a future in curricula, even with the pressures toreduce credits. Student enrollment in these courses remains constant. The job market forstudents as interns and graduates as full-time employees is still very good. Designers of buildingelectrical power systems have been in short supply for some time now. With the elimination ofelectrical power courses in most EE curricula, this trend will likely continue.Bibliography 1. Bohmann, L. J., Mork, B. A., and

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

presentation · Timeliness · Knowledge test (for · Quantity of the results declarative and procedural · Skills mastery knowledge) · External assessment · Concept map · Vee diagram · Case studies Behavior (B) · Behaviors identified with · Direct observations (as a team) each of the construct · Interview

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Duarte; Brian Butz

in differentapproaches/strategies to using the software: (a) cognitive style (b) spatial ability, and (c) learningstyle. Each of these can be assessed by paper and pencil instruments that will be administered to1 A learning objective is a basic concept that forms an essential body of knowledge in the area being studied. For Page 7.721.6example, within electrical engineering, the understanding of Kirchoff’s voltage (KVL) and current laws (KCL) isessential to understanding the foundation of circuit theory and KCL/KVL is designated a learning objective. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Amy Gross; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Session 1320 A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Teaching at Kansas State University M. Mizuno1, D. Lenhert2, M. Neilsen1, G. Singh1, N. Zhang3, and A. Gross4 1 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University (KSU) { masaaki, neilsen, singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 3 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, KSU, zhangn@ksu.edu* 4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, Kansas

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian; Andrew Blauch

Page 7.86.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationserves as a foundation for the upper level engineering courses by providing the basicunderstanding, programming skills, and interfacing ability necessary in order to work withmicroprocessor-based systems.Bibliography1. O. Fucik, B. Wilamowski, and M. McKenna, “Laboratory for the Introductory Digital Course,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico.2. G. Foster, “Laboratory Design Projects for a Freshman Digital Electronics Course,” Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference and

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke

the course assisted them in obtaining theemployment.Design and manufacturing CAN be taught in the same course to first year students withsubstantial planning and dedication by a dedicated faculty.Acknowledgement:Credit must go to fellow faculty members who made large contributions to this class. Theseinclude Manufacturing Engineering professors Lucy Siu-Bik King for coordinating theinterdisciplinary faculty, and B. Lee Tuttle for managing the manufacturing laboratories;Mechanical Engineering professors Henry Kowalski and Gary Hammond for conceptualizing thereverse engineering of the electro-mechanical animals; and Electrical and ComputerEngineering professor James McDonald for aiding in the design of the Robobug.WILLIAM J. RIFFE – Professor

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New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

describes courses in general education and mathematics that can be taken at localcommunity colleges. The “B” part describes those courses provided by ODU throughTELETECHNET. I. GET Lower-Division Courses(These requirements may be met fully or partially through completion of an associate in appliedscience degree in a technology related field at an accredited community college. Specificprograms should be reviewed with the program director for articulation. ) Credits1. Technical Base 32The lower-division technical base reflects elective and major area credits earned throughAAS

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

pulley.Overall Lever and Pulley AssessmentsStudents in all three conditions were given paper-and-pencil pre and post-tests on the simplemachines concepts addressed in the class (see Appendix A and B). Both the pre and post-testswere intentionally created to contain identical items. The strength of identical pre and post-testsis that the items are matched so that one can clearly measure improvement across items. Studentsare asked the exact same questions so we can assume equivalence in terms of interpretation anddifficulty.Questions on the overall lever and pulley tests were based on items from the Test of MechanicalComprehension14, literature on mechanical reasoning15, state standards on simple machines, andthe objectives of the curriculum. Each item on

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Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Harris

Tester (BERT). The first two were designedfor Sun Microsystems clinic teams and the third was for an Aerospace Corporation clinic team.Each of the chips has been fabricated through the MOSIS service 3 and plots are shown in Fig. 1.Figure 1: (a) Pin Electronics (b) Asynchronous FIFO (c) Bit Error Rate TesterThe first Sun Microsystems clinic team built a functional chip tester. A previous clinic team hadtried constructing a tester controlling 256 pins of a device under test at variable voltage levelsusing off-the-shelf comparators and CMOS switches as level converters; this solution consumeda vast amount of board space. The current clinic team chose to use a custom chip designed bythe freshmen and built pin electronics

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ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

the oldparadigm. Homework assignments that were once relegated to a printed sheet are translated tothe Internet context via the use of the testing facilities of the course management software.Often, the result of skill-based endeavors can be illustrated with written answers. Whereinformation-based classes can often take advantage of computer-graded multiple-choicequestions, skills may be assessed using short answer questions. For example, a short answer canbe “-2.875 volts”, “X=!A&B&!D”, “MOVE.B D0,-(A7)”, etc. The skills represented in theseexamples include electronic circuit design, logical circuit design, and assembly language

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Smaili

the input to a ram variable that keeps the current location ofthe elevator. The result of this comparison is used to define the direction of elevator travel, eitherup or down. The elevator starts to move in the proper direction until the destination floor-switchis closed, signaling the arrival of the elevator to the desired floor.The thermistor used as a temperature sensor is interface to the A/D converter via pin PE1 of portE of the 68HC11. The thermistor signal is filtered, amplified, and then subtracted from an offsetso as the output falls within the full scale of the A/D converter, which is 0 to 5 V. The A/Dconverter is scanned continuously and the result is written to port B where it is retrieved by thePC and displayed on a terminal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

the Center forResearch on Education in Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (CRESMET) and TheCenter for Learning and Teaching Excellence (CLTE) at Arizona State University. The projectwas funded by the National Science Foundation b and highlights the success of FoundationCoalition engineering education reform activities on multiple campuses. The participatingfaculty represent the disciplines of Chemical and Materials, Environmental and GeodeticScience, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Mechanical, Industrial, Civil, and ElectricalEngineering, and come from the campuses of Arizona State University, Ohio State University,a Foundation Coalition members are: Arizona State University; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Texas A&M

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Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

Session 2253 A Multidisciplinary Course Sequence for First-Year Engineering Students Jay B. Brockman, Thomas E. Fuja, Stephen M. Batill University of Notre DameAbstractThe University of Notre Dame has developed a new first year engineering program, and centralto that program is a two-course sequence entitled “Introduction to Engineering Systems.” Thesecourses use a sequence of team-based, multidisciplinary projects to introduce students to theengineering profession and to assist them in developing fundamental problem-solving skillscommon to all engineering

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Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

Session 1560 Paper Planes: Developing Teamwork Awareness with a Manufacturing Simulation J.P. O'Connell, M.A. Shields, M.M. Mehalik, R. Jacques* University of VirginiaAbstractWe find that many students who enter UVa have not been involved in activities which requirelarger teams to function, to adjust their structure for improved efficiency and success, and toassess individual roles in the context of goal-oriented teamwork. This may be common in otheruniversities as well. Yet, this experience is most important for engineering graduates to haveworked and achieved in for

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Zern; Richard Grabiec

, “Toward a Conceptualization of Mentoring.” Journal ofTeacher Education, 39 (1), 1988, 38-4210) G. L. Kramer, B. Shynoweth, J. Jensen, and L. Taylor, “Developmental AcademicAdvising: A Taxonomy of Services,” Journal of the National Association of StudentPersonnel Administrators, 1987, 24 (4), 23-3111) L. A. Maverick, Vocational Guidance of College Students. Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press, 1926About the AuthorsRICHARD A. GRABIECRichard A. Grabiec is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering at Western NewEngland College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Grabiec received his Ph.D., M.S.I.E.,and B.S.I.E. at the University of Massachusetts.THEODORE R. ZERNTheodore R. Zern is Dean of Freshman and Transfer Students at Western New

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

2227 A GERMAN-US FACULTY/INTERN EXCHANGE PROGRAM IN BIOTECHNOLOGY J. Collins1, T. Giorgio1, P. King1, J. Alley1, H. Lauten 1,4, P. Winter2, A. Appenzeller2, J. Scriven 3, R. Jonas3, C. Berger4, P. Eichelmann4, H-J. Jacobsen5, B. Huchzermeyer5 1 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN/2Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany/ 3National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany/ 4Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Hannover, Germany/5University of Hannover, Hannover, GermanyABSTRACTA

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Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Risa Robinson

techniques, project management and critical thinking skills necessary tosolve real world problems.References1. Kline, R. A., and Egle, D.M., 1995, “Creativity and the Undergraduate Laboratory Experience,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 11, Nos. 4 and 5, pp 264-268.2. Lang, J., Cruse, S., McVey, F., McMasters, J., “Industry Expectations of New Engineers: A Survey to Assist Curriculum Designers”, Journal of Engineering Education, Jan 1999, pp. 43-51.3. Sharp, J. E., “Combining Kolb Learning Styles and Writing to Learn in Engineering Classes”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1997, pp. 93-101.4. Bidanda, B. and Billo, R. E., “On the Use of Students for Developing Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Rothberg; Phil Barker; Aruna Palipana; Fiona Lamb

2002 A merican Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Aspects for EvaluationAn extensive list of aspects of software that would be of interest in the evaluation of CBLsoftware has been generated. These aspects are important factors or information for anacademic tutor considering using CBL resources or expecting to enhance an application ofCBL. Review Case Study Aspects of Evaluation E-E Qu P-EQu Int Obs F/b Wrap-up 4b: Evaluating the package: Is the material written in a third party authoring package? Is CBL package

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The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christopher Brazel

Session 3613 Integrating Team Laboratory Experiments Into a Senior Biochemical Engineering Course Christopher S. Brazel Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0203Abstract A laboratory supplement to a senior biochemical engineering course was developed toimprove teaming skills and expose chemical engineering students to nontraditional industries,such as food, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, and bioprocessing. This

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Teaching Tools for Humanities and Ethics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Edward Gehringer

and Eric Lichtblau, Times Staff Writers, Washington[5] New York Times, March 24, 2000, Friday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Page 1; Column 6; National Desk,1627 words, “Justice Officials Begin an Inquiry into White House,” by David Johnston and Marc Lacey[6] Washington Post, March 24, 2000, Friday, Final Edition, A Section; Pg. A01, 1170 words, “White House IsProbed On E-Mails; Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Investigation,” John F. Harris; Lorraine Adams.[7] CNN.com, March 24, 2000, http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/03/24/whitehouse.email/, “WhiteHouse: Gore's e-mail system had separate, longer glitch,” by Amy Paulsen.[8] Newsday, April 9, 2000, p. B-15, “White House e-scandal: You've got incriminating mail,” Clive Thompson.[9

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

Agree agree a) Helping someone else cheat is not as bad as cheating myself 16.5 30.6 16.2 32.6 4.1 b) It is my responsibility to prevent cheating 20.1 32.7 26.8 16.8 3.5 c) It is the instructor’s responsibility to prevent cheating 2.1 8.2 11.5 53.5 24.7 d) It is the institutions responsibility to prevent cheating 2.4 11.5 14.2 49.6 22.4 e) Cheating is a necessary part of life

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Malgorzata Zywno

Switched Replications experiment, and it used existing Page 7.1205.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education(intact) groups. A quasi-experimental design was assumed. However, because the students wereoriginally randomly assigned into their sections upon registering at the university, the design wasin fact close to a random experiment. During the two-week experiment, both instructors (referredto as Instructor A and Instructor B) covered the same lecture material and the same applicationexamples

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peter Boyle

the problem, along with the computer code, nomenclature and pseudographics protocol ofAppendices A and B.Position, Fig. 2. The locus of joint B is circular and vertical with the coordinates (XA,ZA)defined by the crank angle q. The joint A moves in a horizontal circular path, centre D, with aradius equal to the length of the output link AD. Also joint A must have a location on thesurface of a sphere, centered at B, with a radius equal to the length of the coupler link AB. The Page 7.781.2unknown coordinates (XA,YA) are found by the simultaneous solution of the appropriate"Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Benjamin L. Sill; Elizabeth R. Crockett; Matthew Ohland

) are shown below. The course is not offered in the spring semester. Table 1. Fall 2000 Course Schedule for Clemson’s Introduction to Engineering Week, Class Topic (2 classes/week, labeled a & b) 1a. Syllabus review (half week) 2a. Clemson computer system (half class gets this) 2b. Overview of engineering majors at Clemson University assign teams (half of class gets this) / Minidesign #1 assigned 3 Learning Styles Inventory (night – 1 class, 2 hours) 3a. Teams and Team Skills 3b. Intro to General Engineering 4 Begin Departmental Presentations 4a. Biosystems

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ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nathaniel Whitmal

required e lective courses rose from50% to 80% over a four-year period. For this reason, DSP-oriented labs and senior designcourses have become very popular in recent years. A number of these courses focus onprogramming of DSP chips: typical examples are given in [2,3,4,5,6,7,8].This paper describes the implementation and assessment of a DSP-based laboratory course that istailored to the particular needs of students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In 1970,WPI developed a unique outcome-oriented, project-based engineering curriculum, referred tolocally as the WPI Plan [9]. The WPI Plan is distinguished by several features: · Courses are offered in four seven-week terms, identified by the letters A, B, C, and D. Students

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid Al-Olimat

functiondivergence as illustrated by the example below. This function inputs four arguments. The firstthree are the vector component while the fourth argument is the type of that vector. By inputtingthe vector type only one function call was needed to perform the divergence operation for threedifferent coordinate spaces.Example: Switchyard Programmingfunction div = divergence(A,B,C,type)switch typecase 'cartesian' %The Cartesian coordinate system divergence is performed here %Computes the first derivative of each unit vector in terms ofthat variable A = diff(A,sym('x')); B = diff(B,sym('y')); C = diff(C,sym('z'));case 'cylindrical' %The Cylindrical coordinate system divergence is performedhere %Computes the first derivative of each unit

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Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

7.141.5 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationoutcomes (A-K) and the additional program-specific educational outcomes (L-S). The markedboxes indicate a “high” or “very high” correlation between the student learning objective and theABET/ME outcome. Refer to Appendix A for a text description of the A-S outcomes.Table 1. Correspondence between the capstone student learning objectives and ABET/ME program educational outcomes (A - S). Program Outcomes: ABET’s EC 2000 Outcomes (A – K) and Additional M. E. Dept. Outcomes (L-S) Student Objectives A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S 1 x x x x x x x x x