Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Kim, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

-credential can be an attractive goal for potential part-time students when the RFcurriculum is a track in a professional development program for even wider participation in theRF micro-credential. Micro-credential program is not a complete track in a major. Thus, it iseasier to implement a micro-credential program in an engineering technology curriculum withone of the learning outcomes being proficiency in practical skills used in the industry. For this,RF engineering micro-credential is an ideal area in electrical engineering technology toimplement the micro-credential. The micro-credential in RF engineering can be designed tomeet specific qualifications demanded by RF engineering industry.Micro-Credential – Industry collaborationOne of the key

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Khoa Ngac, George Mason University; Mihai Boicu, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Consensus Building Method for Expert Crowdsourcing of Curriculum Topics Brian K. Ngac, PhD Mihai Boicu, PhD Instructional Faculty Associate Professor Costello College of Business College of Engineering and Computing George Mason University George Mason UniversityAbstractState of the art curriculum development efforts today are generally undertaken by solely facultymembers of the program. However, in our previous work [anonymized citation], we showedhow expert crowdsourcing combined with the application of a consensus building method canbe used to perform curriculum development asynchronously with a larger group

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Hamad Alajeel, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

situations also improves, which is importantto developing students’ problem-solving repertoire. One study found that the general learningenvironment is also enhanced whereby instructors’ close interaction with students allow them tobetter pinpoint where weaknesses in student learning of course content lie [7]. Other benefits of oral assessments are that they may better reflect professional situationsthat students will encounter after graduating, such as job interviews where they must verballycommunicate ideas [4]. In this sense, oral exams may add depth to the range of communicationskills acquired by undergraduates [3]. They can also provide the opportunity for increasedinclusivity in the assessment process. A study showed that students with

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

research labs. Student response to this approach to teaching Bioelectricityat the senior level of our undergraduate curriculum was very favorable in a first offering lastyear. This paper provides a summary of the course structure, content, projects and evaluation ofassessment results from the first offering of this course with discussion also of additional projecttopics incorporated into the second offering.BackgroundCourses in Bioelectricity or Bioelectric Phenomena can be taught as early as the freshman orsophomore years in some undergraduate curricula. More commonly, such courses areconsidered specialized subject matter at the junior or senior level, or are delivered as graduateclasses. A survey of the now archived on-line Biomedical

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Aston, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

text for the course.4. Can you use it as a supplement in more basic courses? If so state which courses.(a) No. There is only 1 class that goes into this topic at present. (b) Possibly in parts butnot likely in whole. (c) Yes (d) Perhaps, but this is not being considered at present. (e)Not applicable (f) Yes I will be using it as a "supplement" in the Medical Instrumentationcourse (g) not yet (h) Possibly, but we offer no such courses at this time (i) Yes. MedicalImaging course (j) I do believe our curriculum would.5. Are there any topics you feel should be added?(a) Can't really answer this (b) More information on nuclear isotopes and more info onsolid state detectors might be nice. (c) Some new and exotic techniques. Optical imaging,Thermal

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Border

introduction of WAAS. In today’s world increased resolutiontechniques that yield high precision remain of great interest for specific tasks such as surveying,navigation and other exacting work. Additional methods used in these applications includeprecise differential GPS5 (PDGPS) and Realtime Kinematic6 (RTK).IV. GPS Receiver HardwareComponent-based (rather than stand alone systems) consumer grade GPS receiver hardwarevaries along two primary development axes: (1) the electronics and firmware used for generatinglocation estimation and (2) the user I/O interface technology. Due to the popularity of GPS,developments along both axes are quite active.There are a number of semiconductor companies that fabricate GPS receiver chipsets, theseinclude SiRF

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

from the Advanced TechnologicalEducation Program at the National Science Foundation, has addressed this need bydeveloping technician-level educational materials, prototyping a teaching laboratory forplasma-aided manufacturing, and training community college faculty.[1] This paperprovides a summary of PCC’s three-year development and implementation effort.IntroductionThe lack of instructional materials is a major deterrent in developing and implementing atechnician-level course in RF plasma processing at the community college level. Asearch of the literature produced only graduate-level textbooks.[2,3]Equipment needed to implement a teaching laboratory to support a technician-levelcourse was also lacking. Equipment to support simple plasma

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Benjamin Brannaka

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Electricity/Electronics. 2001 ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings. June 2001, Albuquerque, NM.2. Grinberg, I. “Power Systems Curriculum and Course Structure in Electrical Engineering Technology Program”,2001 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. June 2001, Albuquerque, NM.3. Hess, H. Practical Classroom Demonstrations of Power Quality Issues. 1998 ASEE Annual ConferenceProceedings. June 1998, Seattle, WA.4. M. Rabiee. Electric Power Distribution Model. 1998 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. June, 1998, Seattle,WA.WALTER BANZHAFWalter Banzhaf, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hartford, is a registered professionalengineer. Now in his 28th year of teaching EET, he specializes in RF communications, antennas, fiber optics, linear

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

manufacturing curriculum has beenestablished in the literature. The development of a dedicated software program that teachesmodular fixturing for manufacturing tooling applications has value for the engineeringtechnology and industrial technology educator. The complex components used in toolingapplications and the subtle differentiation of application make it important to use graphical userinterface teaching tools. ToolTRAIN© software was developed to address this need.In a limited case study involving students in Manufacturing Engineering Technology andIndustrial Technology programs at three institutions, the results indicate students liked andwould use this type of teaching tool if it were made available. To verify the software graphicalinterface was

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

majority of thesetopics to a single semester, but also to adapt a rapid digital system design process for smoothermigration toward the next level of the course. To do so, we have started to develop a customizedprocessor platform for our classroom instruction, instead of using commercial platforms [4], suchas FPGA-based platforms along with configurable processor cores [5]. Since reusing existingdesigns is one of the keys for the rapid design process, we have taught both VHDL and VerilogHDL as primary implementation languages. In this paper, we will discuss the development ofthis new course including course objectives, organization and evaluation.Pros and Cons of Current Digital Design Practices in the ClassroomWhat is the difference between the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

field of ergonomics and an introduction to indus-trial safety and health. The course is intended to make students aware of the fundamental issuesin ergonomic design and industrial safety and health, and make them aware of the resources thatexist in those areas. An outline of the course topics is provided in Table 2. The course is notintended to be the first course in an ergonomics or human factors curriculum, so it does not gointo great depth in any of the areas, especially topics on the human physiology. The course has amidterm and a final, but the at the heart of the class and student learning are six open-ended as-signments that allow students to apply some of the ideas from ergonomics and explore issuessurrounding OSHA in more depth. These

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

)microcontrollers.To meet the demands of this new trend we have decided to teach the Microchip 8-bit PICmicrocontrollers. However, before making this transition several factors such astextbook, hardware and software tools must be specified to implement the course in a realworking environment.In an effort to teach students the PIC microcontroller, the Electronics EngineeringTechnology Department has developed a course in which emphasis is directed towardsthe PIC microcontroller in addition to the traditional concepts of the MC68HC11. Thispaper will discuss the course outline, laboratory equipment, and embedded designexample with the PIC18F452 microcontroller.IntroductionElectronics Engineering Technology and Computer Science Technology curricula eachrequires

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

here is how such IC’s can be used to supplement traditional EET Analog Labs. Three major players in programmable switched capacitance are Cypress MicroSystems, Anadigm and Lattice Semiconductors. Cypress PSoC is a micro- controller connected to an array of digital and analog switched capacitance blocks. Anadigm produces a Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA). Anadigm FPAA requires a micro-controller or FPGA to initialize and control the device via a SPI interface. Lattice Semiconductors is a competitor to Anadigm. Circuits for all three development environments can be designed graphically before the lab to further save time. This paper will report on the utilization of three development

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

education and be reinforced often, with assignments ofincreasing complexity. Consequently, six modules, which are placed throughout the students’time in our department (Sophomore through Senior year), were developed and will be described.These modules build upon one another and are discipline/course integrated.Student OutcomesIn the mid 1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) adopted anew set of criteria for the evaluation of engineering programs in the United States. These newcriteria formalized the concepts of continuous curriculum improvement and outcomes-basededucation in engineering. Since the adoption of these new criteria, engineering programs acrossthe US, including Villanova, have been re-evaluating their

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

Universitycommunity, greater Hartford area, and other academic institutions that are pursuing similargoals.Assessment of the Bloomfield Center Study found that the student interns gained a lot by havinga multidiscipline project experience, but that the course projects were not integrated designexperiences. Because of the curriculum issues that must first be resolved and the new crosslisted courses that need to be created, foundation funding opportunities are also beinginvestigated to fund the curriculum development needed to bring the multidiscipline designexperience into the classroom. Having already brought service learning into the classroom, thenext goal is to have multidiscipline design projects as part of the curriculum.The final step is to establish

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

, supplement the standard Mechanical Engineering Technology curriculum at MTSU by: • Attracting new and undeclared students to the Engineering Technology Department and the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) concentration • Increasing retention rates among first year MET students • Challenging those students to apply their classroom skills in designing and building vehicles for national and international competitions • Encouraging independent research into specific problems associated with vehicle design and construction • Fostering effective communication, leadership, and project management skillsIntroductionThe Engineering Technology Department

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

various evaluative instruments are presented along with adiscussion of some of the practical issues associated with creating and maintaining this particularinstructional delivery system. A brief background on the development of the courses ispresented along with a sampling of comments from student evaluations of the courses.BackgroundThe Bachelor of University Studies (BUS) degree originally was offered as an area ofconcentration within the University of Tennessee at Martin’s School of Arts and Sciences. As aresult of reorganization of the academic units in 2000, this program was developed into anindependent degree program under the direction of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor of AcademicAffairs. The BUS is an individualized degree program. It was

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

field, yet undergraduate engineering students in civil and environmental engineering arerarely exposed to digital imaging through their coursework. The College of Engineering atRowan University received funding from NSF to integrate digital imaging technology (DIT) inour undergraduate engineering curriculum. Faculty from all engineering disciplines withexpertise in DIT participated in this exciting project to develop hands-on experiments forundergraduate engineering students. Experiments developed were such that all engineeringdisciplines would benefit from the endeavor. Certain digital imaging experiments havegenerated a lot of excitement in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program as many ofthe laboratory experiments are extremely

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Goodmann

more theoretically-oriented engineering curriculum. Ideally, a technologyDSP course would include laboratory exercises which allow the student to experience the resultsof various digital signal processing functions by seeing or hearing them. Furthermore, some ofthe lab exercises should require the student to develop code which executes in realtime, to buildan awareness of hardware limitations and the need to write efficient code. These objectivessuggest the use of DSP hardware, such as the DSP evaluation modules which are available fromDSP manufacturers (Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, etc.). That approach means buyingmultiple copies of hardware which can only be used for the DSP class, and which may representa significant investment. The

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

survey of the typical college student showed that they love video images. It could be a videoclip captured with a digital camera, a digital video playing on their laptop, or digital images capturedwith their camera phone. This paper reviews and discusses how an FPGA platform was selected andintegrated with a QVGA(320x240) color display. It details how an eight lab sequence was developed toallow the students to accomplish a project goal of playing a video image sequence on the QVGAdisplay. This paper also illustrates how additional ABET outcomes such as applied technical problemsolving, technical writing, configuration management, team dynamics, communications, and ethics wereintegrated into the course content.IntroductionRochester Institute of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Soundararajan; S. Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

Session 3548 A WEB-BASED APPROACH TO AUTOMATED INSPECTION AND QUALITY CONTROL OF MANUFACTURED PARTS Immanuel Edinbarough, Manian Ramkumar, Karthik Soundararajan The University of Texas at Brownsville/Rochester Institute of Technology/Alliance Automation SystemsAbstractThis paper presents an approach for the automated inspection and quality control ofmanufactured parts from a remote site. A web-based control system was developed to establishcommunication among the various components of the experimental manufacturing cell,consisting of an IBM 7535 robot, a measuring station and a part feed station

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Cronin

text, so that the displacement values at each node can be calculated by multiplyingthe applied force matrix by the inverted stiffness matrix of the machine part 2-4. The bi-axialstresses of a rectangular plate can be solved for by using this model. Other stress distributionscan be solved for by applying particular forces at the unconstrained nodes. The author does notsuggest that a modest computer program, such as the one described herein, would be a practicalalternative to using currently available finite element codes for the stress analysis of mechanicalparts being developed for production and subsequent use. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

, discusses the development and implementation of the three courses, anddescribes the laboratory being developed with state-of-the-art instruments to support thesequence. The laboratory provides several capabilities, including internet-basedexperimentation, data acquisition, process variable measurements, control systemmodeling and design, sensor technology applications, and signal processing.IntroductionAt Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, we are in the final phases of implementing aB.S. degree program in Control Systems Engineering Technology (CSET). The CSETcurriculum has a three-course sequence consisting of Principles of Measurements,Control Systems I, and Control Systems II. The purpose of this sequence is to producegraduates that have a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

theircurrent positions as engineering/technical professionals and the factors that are influencing theirlevel of job satisfaction.During the fall of 2001, a questionnaire was sent to all of the members in the Engineering DesignGraphics Division of the America Society for Engineering Education living in the United Statesand Canada. The questionnaire was designed to look at job satisfaction and to identifymotivational factors that influence educators’ perception of their work environment(s). Theinstrument, originally developed and validated by Mottaz in 1981, was design to measure theintrinsic and extrinsic variables associated with job satisfaction. 1 Questions in the survey looked atjob responsibilities, salary, supervision, autonomy, promotion, co

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hartono Sumali

one of its periodic curriculum reviews. In that review, its alumni in engineering andmanagement professions expressed that ABE graduates needed better skills in measurementinstrumentation and data acquisition. As a response to the alumni feedback, and to the emergingfield of precision agriculture, the Department started a course entitled Instrumentation and DataAcquisition in the fall semester of 1998. The course contents were selected from topicsrecommended by engineers practicing in industry, taking into consideration the materialsoffered in similar courses at other universities 1. In 2000, the Department further refined thecourse contents to ensure compliance with the ABET 2000 criteria, which stressed an assessmentof the course based on

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alain Desrochers

Session 1338 An algorithm based approach for the apprenticeship of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software Professor Alain Desrochers Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada E-mail : alain.desrochers@gme.usherb.caIntroductionContemporary CAD systems are increasingly becoming easier to learn, simpler to use and moreproductive. Several reasons can be accounted for this. Among those are the development