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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

fourteen courses over the course ofthree academic years and have tracked correlation between student self-assessment andinstructor assigned grades over this period. Because of the small class sizes at our institution,these results should not yet be considered to be statistically significant, but rather as preliminaryindicators. For each class, the instructor calculates the student grades prior to reading the studentself-assessment report. These grades are based on the usual averaging of points earned in thesemester’s assignments using a four point scale (i.e. A = 4.0, B=3.0, etc.). These instructor Page 9.585.2 Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Evans; Ronald Welch

B=53, E=4, Modified Hardening B=53 E=16 Modified Hardening 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Axial Strain (%) Figure 9. Comparative plots of laboratory test results and ABAQUS FEM results.Once the constitutive model parameters were judged to provide a reasonable prediction of thesoil’s behavior, more sophisticated finite element models were run in ABAQUS to predict thebehavior of the wheeled vehicles as

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur initial step has been to design the program and conduct a formal study of how twoindependent groups experienced the program. We are currently using the data to gain insight onthe impact of the program and learn how to improve it. In this paper, we will a) describe theprogram and concurrent research study, b) present case studies for a sample of the participants,with a focus on characterizing their experiences, and c) identify implications for continuousimprovement.Background and Motivation for Focusing on Engineering Graduate StudentsThere are strong reasons to focus on helping graduate students become more effective educators.Here we

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

to address the requirementsof a new electronics curriculum: 1) ECET 154 Analog Electronics 2) ECET 356 Digital ElectronicsECET 154 educates the students on the system level input-output characteristics of electroniccomponents and subsystems. ECET 154 provides the background in electronics for higher-levelcourses in computer, communication, networking and process control. ECET 154 is a requiredcourse in all options of ECET. Objectives of ECET 154 are to learn (a) the operational amplifierdevice and applications, (b) the design of power supply circuits, (c) the design of power andtuned amplifiers, (d) the analog signal processing circuits and (d) the use of a simulation toolsuch as MULTISIM. Topics cover the operational

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

Page 9.262.91. Shirley, D. (1999). Women in Engineering: Focus on Success. The Bridge, vol 60, no.2, pp. 7-14.2. Silverman, S. and Pritchard, A. M. (1996). Building Their Future: Girls and Technology Education inConnecticut, Journal of Technology Education. Volume 7, number 2. Digital Library and Archives,http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournlas/JTE/v7n2/silverman.jte-v7n2.html, accessed December 19, 2003.3. Widnall, S.E. (2000). Digits of Pi: barriers and enablers for women in engineering. The Bridge, vol 30, no. 3&4,pp.14-18.4. Whitehead, J.M. (1996). Sex stereotypes, gender identity and subject choice at A-level. Educational Research, 38,147-160.5. Welty, K., and Puck, B. (2001). Modeling Athena: Preparing young women for citizenship and

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karl Stevens; Sharon Schlossberg; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

participants focused upon junior-levelundergraduates in engineering and computer science. Students in this group have reasonableopportunity to complete their degree requirements during their two years of participation in theproject. The idea was that students would engage in two years of full-time academic studies anda summer internship, while participating in STEP.NSF required that project participants be United States citizens, nationals, or aliens admitted asrefugees; that they be eligible for U.S. Department of Education Pell Grants (this definition offinancial need later was relaxed by NSF); and that they be enrolled as full-time students. Ourrequirements were that candidates for STEP have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0/4.0 and a gradeof B or

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mara Wasburn

Session 3192 Developing an Integrated Freshman Seminar for Women in Technology: An Innovative University-Corporate Partnership Model Mara H. Wasburn, Susan G. Miller Purdue UniversityAbstractAccording to a recent report by the National Council for Research on Women, at least half of theavailable science, engineering and technology talent pool will be women. Therefore, it becomesimperative to retain more women in these disciplines. Increasingly, companies and corporationsare seeking to diversify those areas of their workforce that are predominantly male. In 2002

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Gorka; Reza Kamali; Jacob Miller; Han Reichgelt; Eydie Lawson; Barry Lunt; Joseph Ekstrom

members from any academic programs, and is particularly interested inincluding members from IT programs across the nation and eventually the world. Participationon any of the committees is open to all SIGITE members.REFERENCES1. Dalkey, N. & O. Helmer, “The Use of Experts for the Estimation of Bombing Requirements: A Project Delphi Experiment”, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1951.2. Brown, B., “Delphi Process: A Methodology Used for the Elicitation of Opinions of Experts”, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1968.3. Dalkey, N., “Delphi:, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1967.4. Dalkey, N., “The Delphi Method: An Experimental Study of Group Opinion”, Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corp., 1969.5. Dalkey, N., et al., “The Delphi Method III: Use of Self

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Lin

, applications, and information. The four distinct forms of integration and examplesreported in [1] include a) Portals integration - the shallowest form of integration, which brings potentially dissimilar applications together in a single Web-based portal entry point. b) Business-process integration - a form of integration that coordinates business processes across applications and around enterprise boundaries. One good example is a supply chain management system. It is observed that Web services [3] using XML-based protocols such SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) [4], WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) [5], and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) [6] and their derivatives are becoming

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaston N'Guerekata; Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

. At the end of the course the participants also responded toopen-ended questions. The project team met regularly during the semester and used the analyzeddata for continuous course improvement. Assessment techniques that were utilized in the course include technological competenceand use, performance tasks, portfolios, reflective journals, teacher observation, and student self-assessment. Rubrics were developed and used for some exams. Rubrics or criteria for judgmentpromote learning by offering clear performance targets to students for agreed-upon standards.Table 2 provides the rubric that was used for Task B on one of the examinations. Note that byspecifically indicating the elements used in evaluating a student’s work and stating

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Limberis; Bijan Sepahpour

LabVIEW data acquisition not only made the job of recording data easier,but a much higher precision was obtained.IV- MATHEMATICAL MODELINGTo better appreciate the complexity of the potential behavior of the system (to be designed),mathematical models were generated, examined and used as a visual platform to decide on thedegree of modularity of the apparatus. Further, they serve as indicators by which a laboratorycoordinator/instructor may make more informed decisions about the time for conducting theexperiment/demonstration. These models are presented in Appendix “B” both in the time (t)and (S) domains.V- DESIGN OF THE COMPONENTS AND SUBSYSTEMS OF THE APPARATUSThe proposed Modular Lumped Mass System is composed of the following major

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Pgm Obj 3 Pgm Obj 4 Pgm Obj 5 ABET Criteria: A) Apply knowledge of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering X X B) Ability to design and conduct experiments; Analyze and interpret data X C) Design system, component, or process to meet needs X X D) Function on multi-disciplinary teams

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

opportunities and challenges for both the students and their facultyadvisors.Course ContentDuring CS407A, each project team must: (a) evaluate their project to determine what needs to bedone in order to reach a successful completion prior to graduation the following spring, (b)solicit and record specific project requirements from their client, (c) organize their project teamto effectively and efficiently complete the project prior to graduation, (d) schedule all projectrequirements, (e) identify technological skills that are required to complete their project, (f)identify which technological skills they need to learn, (g) complete a technology prototypedemonstration, (h) complete a requirements design document, (i) complete a detailed softwaredesign

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Reilly; Surya Mallapragada; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz; Balaji Narasimhan

biomaterials.The bioinformatics module is composed of four sub-modules, each of equal length: 1) Anexperimental investigation of the properties (optimal temperature and pH, effect of substrateconcentration on activity) of a hydrolytic enzyme; 2) computation-based multi-sequencealignment of the amino acid sequences of the different forms of the enzyme produced bydifferent organisms; 3) construction of a phylogenetic tree of the different enzyme forms bycomputation; and 4) computational automated docking of different substrates in the enzymeactive site. The student teams in the course studied either b-glucosidase or glucoamylase.Results: Learning JournalsEach of the three modules shared common problem-solving course learning outcomes. Throughthese courses

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

Certification standard7. Hence, this certification is approved and honored by the NSAand the DoD. This makes JMU students more marketable because the NSA hires employeeswith this certificate at a grade higher than the ones who do not have the certificate.Certificate requirements: 1) CS major 2) The Introductory Information Security course 3) Internetworking course 4) One of the following courses a. Network Applications Development b. Network Analysis and Design Page 9.273.6 c. Selected Topics in Information SecurityProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Research Experiences program for Undergraduates in an Historically Black college and University. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein1 , Pamela Leigh-Mack2 , Bert Davy1 .and John Wheatland 3 1 Department of Civil Engineering and 2 Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, 3 Dean’s Office, School of Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore Maryland.AbstractInvolving undergraduate students in research has been recognized as a method ofdeveloping the intellectual capacity of undergraduate student. This paper reportsoperation, achievements and challenges of a Science Engineering and Mathematics(SEM) Summer Research Training program, which has been in operation for

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

file2 are introduced, theability to represent file2 in terms of strings from file1 is reduced, leading to a larger file size forfile12.gz.One can judge the similarity of file1 and file2 by looking at the sizes of file1.gz, file2.gz, andfile12.gz. The smaller file12.gz is relative to file1.gz and file2.gz , the more similar the files are.However, some method is needed to normalize the file size comparison so that we can rank allpairings of students in terms of the similarity of their submitted source code. Metrics A and B(metricA and metricB) were created for this purpose. Both metrics are designed to give a valueof 0 if file1 and file2 have nothing in common, and a value of 1 if file and file2 are identical.The first metric we considered

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alam

engineering program involves identification of the constituents of theprogram, followed by formulation of a set of basic program objectives by all of the majorconstituents. The complete list of constituents may be fairly long but the principal ones can beidentified fairly easily. These include the student body; the faculty; alumni and industrialpartners, particularly at the local and regional levels. These various constituencies should, inconcert, formulate a relatively short set of basic objectives consistent with: a. the mission of the institution; b. the stated long-term goals of any larger academic unit to which the program belongs (in our case the College of Engineering); c. the eleven learning objectives of ABET’s EC2000

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

directly into any AC outlet and supplies 12 VAC at 1 Amp to the Pandora box. The internal circuitry of the Pandora box converts this power into the +/- 5V DC at a 500 mA maximum (more than sufficient for sophomore and junior circuit experiments) to be used by the student and also the power supplies (+12V DC, -12V DC, and 3.3V DC) necessary to operate the other circuits internal to the box. b. The function generator. The function generator provides signals as inputs to the student’s circuit board. The signal types include sine or cosine, square, and triangular signals. Note that a DC signal is already available via the power supply. The signal frequencies are selectable from 10 Hz to 1 MHz. The signal

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

Session 1392 Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE): Summer Research Teams—Faculty and Students Benefiting from Role Model Hierarchies Paige E. Smith, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt, Kristen E. Vogt & Dr. Linda C. Schmidt University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractResearch Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE): Summer Research Teams (SRT) isdesigned to use the research environment as a means of attracting and maintaining studentinterest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Fisher

Session 1793 Learning by Teaching in Engineering Technology Education Rex N. Fisher Brigham Young University – IdahoAbstractEngineering technology professors usually receive little or no training in effective teachingmethods. Most of them teach the same, ineffective way they were taught—by lecturing. Thispaper examines a method that can be used to actively engage students in their own learning:“learning by teaching.” A sophomore-level electronics engineering technology course wasconducted so that most of the material was taught by the students themselves. They presentedthe material and evaluated each other’s mastery

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

topics are: a) Why teams in Engineering: An introduction tothe need of teamwork in engineering classroom; b) Definition and differences betweenteam and group; c) Effective teams: Team effectiveness - results; d) The process of teamdevelopment; e) Team development barriers; f) Characteristics of effective teaming; andg) Team, group and individual approaches: When to use them. Each of these topics isdeveloped in more detail and presented in the lesson design forms. 3) Specifying learning methods and media: The instructional methods to useduring the training are designed following the approach know, do and reflect. Thisapproach is based on the premise that people learn by doing but also will be creative byreflecting 44. According to York

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chintan Parekh; Anthony Warren; Elizabeth Kisenwether

-Pull Technology Commercialization. The course was developed inconjunction with the Penn State Technology Transfer Office. The goal of the course is to helpimprove the lower-than-desired return on investment on university research leading tocommercialized products/services. The technology commercialization process is complex: a) the creators of technology rarely have insight into the markets for their inventions, are often not interested in the details of commercialization, can be secretive, and often tend to move on to the next discovery or invention rather than take the intellectual property protection steps of provisional patents. b) the business and financial communities often do not take the time, or have the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

mounted on a common supportthat rotates in the vertical plane. The plexiglass cylinders contain inserts at each end that releasethe spheres along the cylinder centerline. Figure 2. Remote experiment design: a) the setup in the standby position; b) the setup position during measurements.Web-enabled platform configurationThe configuration of the experimental setup is shown in Figure 3. It consists of a Windows®PC, embedded controller, and the relays and switches that control the motor that rotates thecylinder platform. The firmware on the embedded controller has a simple command-lineinterface, and can be accessed via a terminal emulator. One can type in commands such as “+”for Nudge CW, “-“ for Nudge CCW, and so on

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

Application”[8]. It is worth considering their definition,which goes as follows: Faculty engaged in Professional Application use their academic training and experience to serve the public and contribute to the CSU Monterey Bay vision. The diversity of external needs, as well as faculty training and experience, leads to many different forms of Professional Application; however, the Professional Application activities share all of the following distinguishing characteristics: a. They contribute to the public welfare or the common good; b. They call upon faculty members’ academic and/or professional expertise; c. They directly address or respond to real-world needs; and d. They support the CSU

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2147 Academic Quality Management C. R. Sekhar, O. Farook and Jai. P. Agrawal, E.Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis Paper describes the implementation and outcome results of an Academic QualityManagement (AQM) program and one of the tools used in three of the courses taught in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Purdue UniversityCalumet, Hammond, IN. A number of papers have been presented at the ASEE and otherprofessional society meetings on the subject of

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

Session 2004-911 Linking Courses and Essential Experiences in an Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Curriculum Michael A. Butkus*, Marie C. Johnson, and Jason C. Lynch Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996* corresponding author, (845) 938 –2820 (p), (845) 938 – 3339 (f), Michael.Butkus@usma.eduAbstract Many undergraduate engineering curricula develop introductory level knowledge ofcommon engineering processes by using highly constrained problems, which call for a single“right” answer. This teaching

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

observations and possible uses.Directions:Discuss with the children ahead of time different methods of grouping materials/objects (weight,hardness, texture, strength). Discuss the differences between natural and human-made materials,and living and non-living materials.Have the students break into groups (two is the best), and get the blindfolds. 1. Blindfold partner A. Partner B picks up one of the bags of materials/objects. 2. Partner A reaches into the bag and selects one of the material samples. 3. Partner A holds the material sample and thoroughly examines it by touch and describes the object to the partner. 4. Partner B records the observations/data on the worksheet provided 5. After partner A has selected and described five

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Huddleston

to associate a spreadsheet cell location with each ofthe equations that must be satisfied. For example in the EXCEL formula sheet depicted in Figure2, cells C12, C13, and C16 correspond to equations 6, 7, and 4, respectively. Page 9.319.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education A B C D E F 1 Pipe Upstream Node Downstream Diameter Length

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

2001-2002 2002-2003 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 a b c d e f g h i j k Outcomes Figure 1: Direct measurements of program outcomes through course assessment Page 9.702.2Figure 1 shows the average ratings from the instructors’ evaluation of senior level coursesoffered by the Mechanical Engineering Program for the last three academic years. Note that