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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

Session 1532 A New J oint Electr ical Engineer ing Pr ogr am Kenneth A. Bur bank †, Geor ge W. DeSain †, Far id M. Tr anjan ‡ † Wester n Car olina Univer sity / ‡Univer sity of Nor th Car olina at Char lotteAbstr act:Regional economic development is a key focus for Federal and state legislators as well as theGeneral Administration of the University of North Carolina (UNC) system. Western CarolinaUniversity (WCU) and UNC-Charlotte, both constituent universities of the UNC system, areresponding to this challenge by creating a joint electrical engineering program in Western NorthCarolina. The

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Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Parten

Session 1824 Embedded Microprocessors in a Project Laboratory Micheal Parten Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionElectrical and Computer Engineering students have a need to be able to design and build systemswith embedded microprocessors. They also need to be able to become familiar with differentprocessors. There are many different ways to teach microprocessors and their applications. AtTexas Tech University this goal is accomplished through a number of laboratories and courses.Students first

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cooley; Terrence O'Connor

Session Number 1547 Development of a 10 RPM Engine as an Instructional Tool Tim Cooley, Terry O’Connor Purdue University Thermodynamics can be a difficult topic for students to visualize. The interactionsbetween pressure, temperature, and volume in gases cannot be seen directly, and realistic devicesthat can help are not readily available. With the help of the National Science Foundation, theauthors are developing a small, table-top engine system specifically designed to operate at 30RPM in a typical classroom setting. Under these conditions the system is being

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Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Clough

1601 Toward a Kinder, Gentler ABET David E. Clough Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0424AbstractThe thesis of this presentation is that the ABET 2000 process is beset with problems in designand execution that will inevitably lead to significant change within the next few years. ABET2000, however well intended, is entirely too burdensome for the benefits it delivers, and itsburdens are well beyond the constraints placed on an

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeff Frolik

Session 1526 A Comprehensive, Laboratory-Enhanced Communications Curriculum Jeff Frolik University of VermontIntroduction Over the past decade, the field of wireless communications has come into its own and isposed to become a ubiquitous technology with the recent arrival of 3G cellular, wireless localarea networks and wireless sensor networks. As such, today’s graduating electrical engineersneed marketable skills which are typically not developed in undergraduate curricula. This paperpresents ongoing activities at the University of Vermont (UVM) which

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TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Rider

Session 1166 A Unique, Undergraduate PLC Course Michael J. Rider, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Department Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractThis paper briefly describes the PLC course (ME-429) taught at Ohio Northern University as anundergraduate technical elective. In this course the students, working in groups of two, purchasefrom a storeroom all Siemens /Simatic TI /Direct Logic PLC modules necessary to assembletheir PLC. Each group assembles and wires their PLC under instructor supervision. During thefirst two weeks, they design

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Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

Session 3464 Student Response to a General Education Course on Materials M. Grant Norton, David F. Bahr School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-2920AbstractThis paper describes the response that students have had to our general education course onmaterials. The course is now in its fourth year and we have been able to collect data from studentsurveys distributed at the end of each semester. Also included are details of some of theresources that we have found particularly useful in teaching this course.IntroductionTo

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State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Pierre Larochelle; John Engblom; Hector Gutierrez

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Walker; Annu Prabhakar; George Suckarieh

Implementing a Web-Based Knowledge Base for a construction company: Industry-Academia Collaboration George Suckarieh, Annu Prabhakar, Tim Walker University of CincinnatiAbstractKnowledge Bases (KB) that capture and leverage the knowledge and experiences ofemployees are popular in many industries. However, in the construction industry,knowledge base implementation has been limited to some applications at the design stageor to project databases during the construction stage. This paper describes a project forimplementing a web based knowledge base to help a company transfer constructionknowledge from experienced professionals in the field to

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Coyne

Session 1520 A Role for Simulink™ in a Continuous-Time Signals and Systems Course Paul J. Coyne, Jr. Loyola College in Maryland Department of Engineering ScienceAbstract Simulink™, which runs on the MATLAB™ engine, can be introduced in a course onContinuous-Time Signals and Systems. Graphical concepts similar to textbook block diagramexamples can easily be illustrated without referring to any underlying of the computationalconcepts. Early on in a course on Continuous-Time Signals and Systems, students

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fred Driscoll

Session 1471 A Nontraditional Approach: Creating, Implementing and Overseeing A Multidisciplinary Electromechanical Engineering Program Frederick Driscoll, Robert Villanucci Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the design, development, and oversight of a five year dual-disciplineprogram in Electromechanical Engineering (ELME) at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Itbegins with the basic rationale behind the decision to design an interdisciplinary engineeringprogram at the undergraduate level, and continues with a history of the program as it developedand

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Kozak

Session 3649 Creating Spreadsheet Software as a Team to Solve a Complex Laboratory Experiment Michael J Kozak Purdue University School of TechnologyAbstract This paper describes the author’s experience using a student-team approach to creating amulti-layered spreadsheet to analyze a complex lab experiment. Each student was given aportion of the lab to solve by creating a sheet in a workbook. Each student’s sheet is thenhyperlinked to the other sheets resulting in a workbook. The workbook directs subsequent labstudents through the steps

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

Session 1793 A Case Study: Development of a Practice Oriented Engineering Program with Implications for Regional Economic Development Paul Kauffmann Ralph Rogers Phil Lunsford East Carolina University, Greenville, NCIntroductionThis paper describes an engineering program planned for implementation at East CarolinaUniversity in fall 2004. The program presents a unique design synthesis of concentration areasrequired to enhance regional economic development and the best practices

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Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 2277 Fifteen Years Experience In Delivering A Nuclear Engineering Technology Program To A Nuclear Utility Site By Mitty C. Plummer, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle and Roman Stemprok University of North TexasI. Introduction.The University of North Texas, Department of Engineering Technology has delivered a NuclearEngineering Technology program which leads to a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear EngineeringTechnology to a nuclear power plant site 92 miles from the main campus, which is

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Heer

A Custom Microcontroller System used as a platform for learning in ECE Adriaan Smit, Donald Heer, Roger Traylor, Terri S. FiezAbstract: TekBots™ is a program that was started at Oregon State University in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department to develop Platforms for Learning™.The program is designed to assist, re-enforce and accelerate the learning process byintegrating knowledge across many different courses. For each course the TekBotplatform is used to closely tie the course material to ‘real’ engineering hardware. Withthese hands on materials, the students can attach a real meaning to many of theseemingly ambiguous topics learned in lecture. The TekBots platform is composed

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

A Self Assessment of Computer Science Education in a Chemical Engineering Curriculum William Josephson, K.C. Kwon & Nader Vahdat Chemical Engineering Department / CEAPS Tuskegee University Tuskegee, Alabama 36088AbstractThe Department of Chemical Engineering at Tuskegee University (T.U.) regularly reviews itsundergraduate curriculum to ensure that it fulfills the department’s objective of providinggraduates with the skills necessary to begin a career in chemical engineering. Department facultyrecently assessed the status of computer science education within the curriculum

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Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Osman Akan; Fredrick McKenzie; Sushil Chaturvedi

Session 2426 MAPPING OF THERMO-FLUIDS LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS INTO WEB-BASED EXPERIMENTS S. K. Chaturvedi, R. McKenzie, O. A. Akan and A. Priyadershini College of Engineering and Technology Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529Abstract A methodology is being developed for transforming physical experiments from theundergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory into a web-based virtual experiments. Importantcharacteristics of physical experiments are identified in order to preserve them in physical tovirtual domain mapping. Several commercially available

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Roylance

Session 2164 A Distance Learning Subject in Polymer Engineering David Roylance Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139AbstractThe Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT has for many years offered agraduate subject in Mechanical Properties of Polymers, which includes such topics as rubberelasticity, anisotropic elasticity, mechanics of composites, viscoelasticity, yield and fracture. Inrecent years this subject has made increasing use of web-based delivery, which offers a

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gordon Parker; Paula Zenner

Session 2166 Development of a Remote Systems and Controls Laboratory G.G. Parker, M.J. Agostini, M.N. Devarakonda and P.F. Zenner Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics (MEEM) Michigan Technological University (MTU)AbstractThe Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity has developed a remote version of a required undergraduate laboratory that is apractical and relevant component of an engineer’s education. The purpose is to provide acombined mechanical engineering laboratory experience that reinforces the traditional

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eugene Rutz

Session 2222 Using a Blended Format for Professional Development Courses Eugene Rutz College of Engineering University of CincinnatiIntroductionThe University of Cincinnati provides a graduate certificate in computer science for continuingengineering education. The program is designed for degreed engineers who 1) need computerscience and information technologies skills for their current jobs and / or 2) individuals who wishto obtain a masters degree in CS but who do not have an undergraduate degree in that field

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

2221 Developing a European Master in Construction IT E. Dado1, R. Beheshti21) Assistant Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Designand Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands.E-mail address: e.dado@ct.tudelft.nl / 2) Associate Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences, Design and Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1,2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail address: r.beheshti@ct.tudelft.nl1

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Steven Barrett

2004-569 Real-Time Operating Systems: A Visual Simulator Steven F. Barrett1 , Daniel J. Pack2 , Charles Straley1 , Lew Sircin1 , George Janack1 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wyoming 2 Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Abstract A Real-Time Operating System, or RTOS, is an operating environment wheremultiple events

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Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

2004-601 A Real-Time Course for Computer Engineers Anthony Richardson, Dick Blandford University of EvansvilleAbstractComputer Engineers work in that area that lies between the electronic hardware domain of theElectrical Engineers and the organized formal software systems of the Computer Scientist.Much of this work involves both hardware and software that is synchronized in time to eventsoutside of the system being designed. Such systems are commonly referred to as "real-timesystems".In many computer engineering programs, real-time concepts are sprinkled

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

Session 1661 Technology 21 – A Course on Technology for Non-Technologists Albert J. Rosa, Paul K. Predecki, George Edwards University of Denver, Department of EngineeringAbstractThere is a need to prepare non-technologists to assume senior management, political and otherleadership roles in a highly technological world. Many non-technical college students have afear and distrust of learning things mathematical, scientific or technical. At the University ofDenver we have created a successful three-quarter long course called Technology 21 that hasbeen offered for fourteen years to non-engineering and non-science students as a means to meettheir

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

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Arvid Andersen

Session 3160 STUDENT BASED LEARNING IN A MULTI CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT Arvid Andersen Department of Export Engineering, Copenhagen University College of Engineering, DenmarkBackgroundConsiderations of student based teaching and learning programmes must inevitablyconcentrate on the two questions of fundamental importance to the student, namely who isresponsible for your learning and who owns your time? In discussions with colleagues atengineering conferences about the learning and teaching methods used on the EuropeanProject Semester (EPS) and when

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Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Felder

Session 3530 A PROTOCOL FOR PEER REVIEW OF TEACHING Rebecca Brent/Richard M. Felder Education Designs, Inc./North Carolina State UniversityAbstractA peer review protocol that serves both formative and summative functions has beenimplemented at North Carolina State University. For summative evaluation, two or morereviewers use standardized checklists to independently rate instructional materials (syllabus,learning objectives, assignments, tests, and other items) and at least two class observations, andthen reconcile their ratings. For formative evaluation, only one rater completes the forms

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mya Poe; Dennis Freeman

Session 1793 Integrating Technical Writing into a Large Lecture Course Mya Poe* and Dennis M. Freeman+,# *Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies / +Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / #Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractTechnical writing was incorporated as an integral part of a large lecture, undergraduate subject inbiomedical engineering. The writing component was

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Session #2586 The Formation of a National Telecommunications Collaboration: Critical Issues in the Development of Partnerships By Gary J. Mullett NCTT Co-Director, Springfield Technical Community College Springfield, Massachusetts1. OverviewThe National Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT), an NSF sponsoredAdvanced Technical Education (ATE) National Resource Center located at SpringfieldTechnical Community College in Springfield, MA has entered into a new phase of its evolution.As a national resource center, NCTT is undertaking the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

Session 1526 Initial Steps in Establishing a Community to Develop Engineering Courseware Joseph G. Tront1 Brandon Muramatsu2 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 2 University of California, Berkeley, CAAbstractEducational courseware modules are beginning to find broader use supplementing traditionalengineering lectures as well as distance learning classes. Developing high quality materialrequires a considerable amount of effort compelling faculty to share modules

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

A Web Oriented Reinforced Concrete Design Course José M. Calixto, Gláucia N. Almeida, Elizabeth V. Maia, Frederico Rodrigues School of Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), BrazilIntroductionIn the last decades, there has been a worldwide revolution on the concepts and techniques ofeducation. New tools have been developed which primary rule is to aid the student’s learningprocess. The basic idea behind this revolution is not discard the traditional classroomteaching method, but to create complementary alternatives, which will aid teachers enhancethe student’s performance. In this scenario, the use of computers has become an attractivealternative for the development of learning environments. The