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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cooley

Session # 2647 Design and Use of a Standalone TCS/Computer System For Teaching Thermal Behavior Tim Cooley Purdue University, School of TechnologyWhile the modern desktop computer used by students today is a valuable analytical andcomputational tool, it is rarely studied in the classroom as a thermal system. In order toeffectively study such a potentially complex system however, there are difficulties that must beovercome. The most tangible difficulty concerns the cost and complexity of instrumenting andcontrolling the computer while still retaining its

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Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Josh Lemke; Jeremy Saunier; Jeff Haar; Adam Smith; John Estell

Session 1420 GlucoMon: A Glucose Monitoring System for the Handspring Visor PDA John K. Estell, Jeff Haar, Josh Lemke, Jeremy Saunier, Adam Smith Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department Ohio Northern UniversityIntroductionOver 17 million individuals in the United States are affected with diabetes. While incurable,diabetes is manageable with proper monitoring. Currently, monitoring is performed through useof stand-alone blood glucose meters that allows a diabetic to monitor blood sugar levels on aperiodic basis; the meter readings are either recorded into a log book or

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Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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Charles McIntyre

Session 1122 A PROGRAM FOR FACULTY PEER REVIEW OF TEACHING AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Charles McIntyre, Sudhir Mehta, Tim Sellnow North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionNorth Dakota State University has recently created the Peer Review of Teaching (PRT) Programwhich seeks to promote student-centered learning through the use of cooperative peer review teams topromote enhanced teaching methods, techniques, and strategies. The PRT project is a faculty-driveninitiative intended to offer individual faculty added feedback related to instruction. Faculty memberswork

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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Charles McIntyre

Session 1621 DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-USE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM/LABORATORY Charles McIntyre and Gary Smith Civil Engineering and Construction North Dakota State UniversityIntroduction and OverviewEngineering education requires a combination of classroom training, hands-on experience, andindustry participation. In addition, students must become fairly well versed in the use of thetechnological tools of the trade. In order to accomplish these goals, engineering programs mustdevelop

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Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robin Qiu; Ying Tang

Session 3622 Real Life Object-oriented Design Examples for a Class of Professionals Robin Qiu Ying Tang Dept. of Information Sciences Dept. of Electrical and Computer Pennsylvania State University Engineering Malvern, PA 19355 Rowan University Email: robinqiu@psu.edu Glassboro, NJ 08028 Email

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

Session 1526 Digital and Control Labs for a New Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum Karl D. Stephan and Vedaraman Sriraman Department of Technology Southwest Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666 Abstract: We present work in progress which describes the development or redesign oftwo courses in the manufacturing engineering curriculum which was founded at Southwest TexasState University in the fall of 2000. Digital electronics

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Industrial Collaborations

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Peter Schuyler; Kenneth Quinn

Session 3248 An Academic Partnership with Industry: A Win-Win Situation Peter R. Schuyler, Kenneth Quinn University of Hartford / New Horizons CorporationAbstractTechnology is a rapidly changing field, it is monumental task for a college or university to keep pace with thesechanges. As corporate demand for specialized computer hardware and software training increases, it is becomingvery challenging to find and retain full time faculty to teach in these areas, and to effectively integrate rapidlychanging technology into our curricula. The University of Hartford’s S.I. Ward

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Technological Literacy for Non-Technical Majors

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Sokol

Session 1661 A Course In Computer Security For Criminal Justice Majors John Sokol General Engineering Penn State Fayette Uniontown, PA 15601IntroductionComputers have grown as a crime factor in the worlds of both public security and privatesecurity. In recent remarks, John Ashcroft, Attorney General, stated: “Although there areno exact figures on the costs of cybercrime in America, estimates run into the billions ofdollars each year. And unlike more traditional

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

Session 2366 PROCEED: A Department-Wide Curriculum Reform Initiative in Project-Centered Education Philip S. Schmidt and Joseph J. Beaman Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin has undertaken amajor curriculum reform effort entitled PROCEED, an acronym for Project-Centered Education.The strategic objectives of PROCEED are: (1) to strengthen our students’ understanding offundamental engineering theory by continuously tying it

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Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

Session 1620Developing Feedback-Control Prototypes using a Real-Time Simulink Environment Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier, Richard T. O’Brien, Jr. U.S. Naval Academy 118 Maryland Ave (Stop 14A) Annapolis, MD 21402An effective undergraduate controls curriculum will have strongly coupled laboratory andclassroom components. It is important that the students experience the application of theclassroom theory. Mathwork’s Simulink environment is ideal for teaching modeling andsimulation of feedback control systems. However, with the addition of a few blocks from

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Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lee Greguske; Justin Reese; Frederik Betz; Chad Weis; Michael Swedish; Glenn Wrate

Session 3233 Design, Construction, and Commissioning of a 60-kW Microturbine Demonstration Facility Glenn Wrate, Michael Swedish, Frederik Betz, Justin Reese, Chad Weis, and Lee Greguske Milwaukee School of Engineering / Focus on EnergyAbstractA joint project between the Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy program, the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE), City of Milwaukee, and We Energies to develop a 60-kW microturbinedemonstration facility is described. All the salient mechanical and electrical data (speed, torque,voltage, current, etc.) from

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 1547 Development of a Web-Enhanced Live Interactive Television Course Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractA variety of social, economic and technological factors are converging to create increaseddemand for long distance education. This demand for distance education is in turn transforminghow knowledge is delivered to students. New technologies are emerging to help address thisneed. From the instructor’s perspective, this presents a challenge. Not only does the instructorneed to learn how to use the new technologies, the

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Dantzler; Kevin Whitaker; Jim Richardson

Session Number 1430 Development Of A Diversity Comfort Inventory for Engineering Students John Dantzler, James Richardson, Kevin Whitaker The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487Abstract One of the goals of a new freshman engineering program at the University of Alabama wasto increase the value of diversity among students. The Team Identification Comfort LevelInventory (TICLE) was developed to assess an engineering student’s comfort with serving ondiverse engineering related teams in contrast with the student’s comfort level with

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdolmajid Lababpour

A Survey of Biotechnology Education in Schools of Iran Abdolmajid Lababpour, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan/Technical and Vocational Education Bureau, Tehran, IranIntroduction Nowadays, biotechnology techniques with their dramatic effects and high benefits for humanhealth, protection of the environment and decreasing pollution, for preparing food, new products andopening up new ways of doing scientific research, have stirred the interest of groups of people such asresearchers, producers and consumers, economists, politicians, and legislators. Investment, marketingand research, becomes more attractive as there is increased possibility

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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Carolyn Hogan; Barbara Goldberg

Session 1153 Faculty and Peer Mentors within a Critical Thinking Class Barbara M. I. Goldberg, Ph.D., Carolyn Hogan, M.A. DeVry College of Technology, North Brunswick, NJAbstractThis paper presents a retention initiative designed to create a stronger learning community amongfirst term students through the linking of both faculty and peer mentors with Critical Thinking(COLL) classes and to increase the number of students progressing to the third term with theoverall goal of increasing completion rates at the DeVry College of Technology, North Brunswickcampus. The study focused on nontraditional

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerrolyn Hebert; Dawn McKinney

Session 2793 The Creation of a Partnership to Guide the CIS Curriculum Michael Doran, Jerrolyn Hebert, Haukur Ragnarsson, Gene Simmons, Joshua Harrison, Neil Henderson, Douglas Phillips, Mike Trippi University of South Alabama / Accelerated Technologies Division of Mentor GraphicsAbstractThe computing industry is in a constant state of evolution. Technological changes are slow to bemerged into the college curriculum. In many cases, faculty members at universities suffer from alack of industry contact, which hinders this integration of new technology. In addition, to

Conference Session

Student Issues - Present & Post Graduate

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2003 Annual Conference

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Coral Nocton; Ismail Fidan

Session 1148 How to create a World Class Professional Student Chapter Ismail Fidan1, Coral Nocton2 1 SME Student Chapter Advisor, 2SME Student Chapter President College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505-5003AbstractThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has awarded Tennessee Tech’s student chapterthe organization’s 2002 Outstanding Chapter Award for Overall Excellence out of hundreds ofchapters nationwide and internationally. According to SME, this award was based on thefollowing factors: • Outstanding Recruitment Efforts

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Gustavo Bolaños

Session 2793 TEACHING STRATEGIES AND INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION IN A PROCESS DESIGN COURSE Gustavo Bolaños School of Chemical Engineering Universidad del Valle P.O. Box 25360 Cali, COLOMBIA gbolano@mafalda.univalle.edu.co ABSTRACTThe teaching strategy for a process design course at Universidad del Valle, one of the mosttraditional schools of Chemical Engineering in Colombia, is presented. The strategy is

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Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jerry Samples

Session 2475 Simple Advice: Get a Mentor and Learn to Teach Jerry W. Samples University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractNew faculty members, especially those in their first tenure stream assignment, enter the processneeding assistance in the development of research plans, professional development plans andteaching methods. Most have been exposed to the rigors of tenure and the demands of theposition; it is not until they are in the tenure race that they find it to be “difficult”.The “difficulty” of the process can be partially alleviated by developing a positive

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

Incorporating Leadership Training in a Sophomore Engineering Design Course Linda McCloskey Jane Reel Christine Allard Director Lecturer Lecturer Archer Center for Student Leadership Development Deborah A. Kaminski Associate Professor Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590Abstract A novel course module to develop the interpersonal skills of engineering studentsis integrated into a sophomore design course. The module

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Britt; Dr. Tom Eppes

Session 3448 Audio Technology as a Gateway to Engineering Professor Timothy Britt, Dr. Tom Eppes Ward College, University of HartfordAbstractThe B.S. Audio Engineering Technology (AET) program at Ward College (University ofHartford) is attracting a great deal of interest by young people looking to enter the audio andmusic industry1. It has also turned into an excellent gateway for students to enter a variety ofother engineering programs.Many students initially attracted by the audio and music areas, become interested in the broaderstudy of electronics as a discipline. Each semester

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Ellis

Session No. 2366 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING IN A SENIOR PROJECT COURSE Michael W. Ellis Department of Mechanical Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24060 ABSTRACT Multi-disciplinary team projects provide students with an opportunity to expand not only theirknowledge, but also their approach to design. This paper reviews teaching and student learningin a multi-disciplinary senior

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Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Gassert

Session 2609 A Four-Year Biomedical Engineering Design Curriculum Assessment and Improvement John D. Gassert, Ph.D., P.E. Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstract The MSOE BE faculty members believe that design cannot be taught in just one year.Learning design takes practice and time. They believe that the best approach for educatingstudents in the practice of design is through a four-year design curriculum. The 2002 enteringfreshman class marks the beginning of the tenth offering of the four-year design curriculum. Theassessment

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tricia Berry

Session 2793 WE@UT – A Residential Recruitment Program for Women in Engineering Tricia S. Berry The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering at The University of Texas (WE@UT) program, a two-day in-depthresidential program, is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through hands-on, technology-based team projects so well informedand solid educational and career decisions are made. The objectives of this program are (1) toencourage young women to explore engineering as a career

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Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session 2560 Internationalization of High Education: A New Option for Engineering Education Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstractThird Millennium has started and has brought a new political and social world order that hasnever happened before in human history. As one of the deep consequences of that, for society isthe emerging of different paradigms for education in all levels. For high education the necessarychanges are even more immediate although it is not an easy task. Superior education

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Matt Mangum; Gary Daniels; Mary Crawford

Session 1432 Web-based Interactive EE Lesson Development: A Modular Approach R. Gary Daniels, Mary Crawford, Matt Mangum The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThis presentation discusses the development of Web-based lessons on the basics ofelectronic circuit design and theory. Gary Daniels, adjunct assistant professor inElectrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, partneredwith the College of Engineering’s Faculty Innovation Center to develop a series ofinteractive lessons targeting freshmen in the ECE program. With nearly 2000

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Heather Cooper

Session 3648 Development of a Heat Transfer Module for Design Courses John C. Anderson, Heather L. Cooper Purdue UniversityAbstractDue to time constraints and the lack of available educational materials, students in engineeringand engineering technology often do not get an opportunity to work actual design problems inheat transfer. This is especially true for those students taking concentrations in machine designand manufacturing. Upon graduation they are frequently faced with heat transfer issues, wherethey must find usable data and make educated decisions.Capstone or

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Quimby

Session 3215 The Value of Student Chapters: A Difference in Perspective By T. Bartlett Quimby, P.E., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, University of Alaska Anchorage Civil EngineeringAbstractStudent chapters of professional organizations offer a variety of opportunities for students and theprograms that support them. The level of activity of these organizations varies drastically fromcampus to campus. It is felt that the level of activity is directly related to the perceived value ofthe organizations. In an effort to determine the perceptions concerning the value of AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

Session 1526 Benefits of a Hands-On Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering Frank L. Severance, Maria Suchowski, and Damon A. Miller Western Michigan UniversityAbstractThis paper presents qualitative and quantitative assessment and evaluation results for anintroduction to electrical and computer engineering (ECE) course sponsored by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF)1. This class is centered on construction of a walking robot 2. Initialresults suggest that the following course goals are being met: (1) improving student design andproblem

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Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lisa Kilmer-Doty

Session #2665 Fostering a Relationship between Computer Animation and Middle School Math Students Lisa A. Kilmer University of Central FloridaAbstract This paper documents an outreach program from a university-level computer animationprogram to students within a middle school math class. Students were introduced to the conceptof 2D and 3D space during the first class meeting using a variety of inexpensive props andappropriate brainteasers. The second meeting consisted of the students using basic geometricshapes to create computer-animated