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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Salehpour; Vijay Subramanian

Session 2660 An Overview of the Mentoring Experience under the Preparing Future Faculty Program Vijay Subramanian, Amir Salehpour University of CincinnatiAbstract:The Preparing Future Faculty is a well-established program across the United States; andpresents a novel approach to graduate education. The program typically involves two or threequarters/semesters of classes on various aspects of faculty development, and onequarter/semester of mentorship program. Institution clusters are developed so that doctoralstudents in Research I institutions get a

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrea Baruzzi; Theresa M Calcagno

Using Electronic Resource Guides to Enhance Information Literacy Skills Andrea Baruzzi, George Mason University Theresa Calcagno, George Mason University Session 2: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationAbstractThe importance of teaching information literacy skills to college students cannot beoverstressed. Due to the explosion of electronic information resources, it is critical thatengineering and science students learn key research skills that help them locate, evaluate andutilize information effectively, efficiently and ethically. Such skills will help them becomeinformed students and

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ETD

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of North Texas; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology, Graduate Studies

Communications and in MechanicalEngineering Technology and share a common technical core in project management and inadvanced mathematics. The core control curriculum in the SCT track enables students to masterestablished system simulation and control technology implementation using classical and moderndesign and analysis techniques. Elective courses are offered in complementary fields so thatstudents select an industrial application of interest. Other electives may be chosen from anindustry-skills set to sharpen business-related competencies. The program includes a master’sthesis or a master’s project option. Table A-1 in Appendix A lists a recommended sequence ofcourses to complete the program in four semesters:  Semester 1: the seminar serves to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

S P Maj; D Veal

the abstractions used in this modelare independent of technical detail and can therefore accommodate rapid changes intechnology.1. IntroductionReports such as the 1991 ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 1 provide the foundations ofcomputer science curriculum world wide and set benchmarks for accreditation byprofessional bodies. Within Western Australia an exploratory market audit was conducted ofa wide range of industrial and commercial companies. This was complemented by a further Page 5.111.1detailed analysis of the IT department of a statewide rail company. From this survey a set ofguidelines were developed for the type of skills expected of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald V. Richardson

Session 2633 MOTOR EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT EXPERIMENTS Donald V. Richardson, Emeritus Waterbury State Technical College, Connecticut___________________________________________________________________________ABSTRACTThis paper describes experiments developed while teaching in the former WaterburyState Technical College. It show how all experiments, however performed, have thesame seven fundamental steps. Two things are demonstrated: That original work canbe done in a two year school, and to both encourage teachers and professors and ex-plain how original experiments can be performed.These DC motor experiments, scaled

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

“design” mean in an engineering context? What are the qualifications of a designer?Can design be taught? And if so, who can teach it? These questions will be addressed in theparagraphs that follow.Definitions plus Relevant Thoughts and Processes: Engineering design as stated by Dym et alin 2005 is “a systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate, and specifyconcepts for devices, systems or processes whose form and function achieve clients’ objectivesor users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints”(1). This definition presents designas a thoughtful process that depends on systematic, intelligent generation of design concepts andthe specifications that make it possible to realize these concepts(2).Sheppard’s

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

material covers the following topics:1. Introduction (1 week). a. Types of embedded applications, including a simple mixed-signal embedded design as an illustrative example. b. Importance of performance requirements for design. c. Summary of mixed-signal embedded architectures. d. Top-down design flow (Design refinement. Performance modeling. Testing).2. Mixed-signal embedded SoC architectures (3 weeks) a. Mixed-signal SoC architectures. b. Microcontroller core. Instruction set. c. Memory system. d. Interrupts. e. I/Os. ISR and drivers.3. Digital subsystem (3 weeks) a. Principles of RTL (Register Transfer Level) design. b. Basic digital building blocks (timers, counters, CRC generator). c. Dynamic

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Profession andEducation chaired by Professor Johnson2 .The two semester-long materials science subject was taught to second year undergraduates inBuilding, Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses. The relative high pass and low attritionrates in this subject ensured its victim-hood subject when it was swapped in 2003 in thecourse curricula with a less performing first year subject. In 2006 the subject becameProblem-based learning (PBL) designated and was transferred back to the second year level.PBL designation significantly altered the course delivery. Initially the subject organizationwhich consisted of 2 hours of lectures for 2semesters supplemented by 1 hour tutorial perweek in the first semester and a 2 hour laboratory session per fortnight in

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe; Stacy Klein-Gardner

ofthe semester. The general module is taught in the context of data management/analysis usingdifferent software packages. Based on these skills, discipline-specific modules were created foreach engineering major offered at the Vanderbilt School of Engineering (VUSE). The studentproficiencies at the end of module 1 form the foundation in the development of the subsequentmodules and are based on the problem-solving methodology in a discipline-specificenvironment. Thus, the second half of the semester consists of two self-selected four-week,discipline-specific modules focused on a current event or area of research. Each discipline-specific module is designed in the context of problem based learning with a fundamental set ofcriteria and

Conference Session

Design of Laboratory Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, to encourage students to thinkcritically about the concepts and their application. To make this approach possible, the exerciseswere grounded in real-world examples rather than abstract problem statements, allowing studentsto derive relevant system parameters directly and logically from the challenge set before them.2. Hardware-based Signals & Systems Laboratory2.1 Physical Laboratory EnvironsThe laboratory has 12 stations each composed of 1) a PC with a microphone, speakers, andheadphones and 2) test and measurement equipment, including a function generator, a digitaloscilloscope, a multimeter, and a power supply. For our purposes, it was important to select aDSP board that could easily interface with MATLAB and SIMULINK to minimize the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Parsons

our existing courses were changed to include biology. Thecurrent curriculum is given in Table 1. Some of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering(BAE) and engineering science electives by concentration area are given in Table 2. In addition,the students select from an approved list of courses of biological sciences for each concentrationarea. The remaining elective courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences areas are selectedfrom approved lists to meet the university’s general education requirements.Table 1. Biological Engineering Curriculum (128 credit hours). FRESHMAN YEARFall Semester Credits Spring Semester

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology; Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

Professor Farrukh Zia earned his Master’s and PhD in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1988 and 1996, respectively. Before he joined the CET/EMT department of New York City College of Technology in 2002, he worked for Lucent Technologies in New Jersey as a member of the technical staff. Professor Zia’s PhD research work was related to the applications of neural networks and fuzzy logic in controlling robotic systems. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Online Hands-on Embedded System Project in Virtual Classroom Yu Wang, Benito Mendoza, Farrukh Zia Computer Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

for SCL practices implemented for teaching subjects – fromlanguages to science to engineering (or technical) education. At our university, SCL practices havebeen introduced in two departments – Computer Science and Applied Engineering. This paper willcover the details of advanced SCL practices in the Applied Engineering department in thefollowing graduate programs – MS Engineering Management (Online and Onsite), MSSustainability Management (Online and Onsite) and MS Environmental Engineering (Onsite).Although each of the above programs addresses different majors, the SCL techniques or practiceswere similar and to some extent tailored to the courses in each program. The general theme being:facilitate high levels of student engagement and

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Burton Dorsey, Washington MESA; Elizabeth Apple Meza, University of Washington; Phyllis G. Harvey-Buschel, Washington MESA

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

in each state. Initial Research into the MCCP model The program has shown some impressive success in early evaluations. In Washington, researchers from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WASBCTC) compared MESA students to all STEM graduates in the community college system and found MESA graduates were more diverse (Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Math Engineering Science Achievement, November, 2016). They were more likely to be first generation college students (47 percent compared to 43 percent), and they were 7more likely to be women (30 percent compared

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

continuously tuned to keep them current withtechnology, tools, and teaching methods, and to keep them correlated with each other. In theIntel Curriculum project, we have documented the 16 courses shown in the prerequisite tree ofFig. 2; these are the courses considered most relevant to the graduate and undergraduate VLSIprogram. It will be noted that some of these courses fall into the basic EE and CE courserequirements (Fig. 1), and others are from the core undergraduate courses (Table 1), Page 9.1408.5undergraduate technical electives (Table 2), or required, kernel and recommended graduatecourses (Tables 3-5). The full content of these courses

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

admission to full major status, a student must have: 3 • An average grade of at least 3.0 and a minimum grade of C- in all of the following classes: o Math 1210/1220 or 1210/1250 o Physics 2210 o Computer Science 2010/2020 o Electrical Engineering 1000/1020 o University English Writing requirements • A cumulative grade point average of 2.3 or higherTo summarize, total credits required to graduate with a Computer Engineering degree is 123 atUU which consists of 18 hours of General Education, 8 math and science courses, 23 computerengineering courses plus six technical electives.Brigham Young UniversityThe BS degree in Computer Engineering was

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Martha J. Molander; Josh Corra; Bethany Konz; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller; Abdeldjelil Belarbi

Session 1073 Interdisciplinary Graduate Experience: Lessons Learned Steve E. Watkins, Vicki M. Eller, Josh Corra, Martha J. Molander, Bethany Konz, Richard H. Hall, K. Chandrashekhara, Abdeldjelil Belarbi University of Missouri-RollaAbstract Engineers interact in the workplace with technical peers in other disciplines at all stagesof design, development, and application. Awareness of the constraints and needs of the otherdisciplines can be key in many situations. Such interdisciplinary activity and the associatedcommunication are facilitated if the all participants have

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Bonnie Osif; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

/ Penn State/ Penn StateRecent trends in education have included learning strategies that employ complex, often multi-disciplinary, problems as centerpieces. They are then employed as beacons toward which coursetopics, concepts, or solution methods are directed. Generally, the learning strategies can becategorized as case-based, problem-based, or inquiry-based. These three new approaches tend torely on the use of technical papers or briefs, whether electronic or printed, to support and drive thediscussion of the topic. As a result, the traditional role of the lecturer, moving sequentially throughchapters in a textbook, has been challenged. However, the qualities that make for an effectivetraditional lecture are also present in these new

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Jain

Session 2260 Implementing International Engineering Programs Ravi Jain University of CincinnatiMany engineering colleges are augmenting traditional rigorous technical training with educationrelated to: foreign languages, study of other cultures and internship or living experiences abroad.These programs are often referred to as International Engineering Programs. A research studyconducted indicates that at least 23 universities in the U.S. and Canada have significantinternational engineering

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Cotae, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Lily Kemathe, University of the District of Columbia; Suresh Regmi, University of the District of Columbia; Kamden Patrice Kouam, The University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Columbia as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include multiple access, modulation and coding, mobile communications, and digital communication systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in these areas and four books. Dr. Cotae serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters, EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, Elsevier International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering (JCEE), and he has been on the Technical Program Committee and Session chair of the IEEE Conferences GLOBECOM (2003-2009), VTC Spring 2005, 2006 and ICC 2005-2009. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of ASEE, member of HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) and SIAM. He is

Conference Session

Real World Applications

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Fuehne; David Lenart

analyze the boiler to determine its efficiency.One group is asked to study alternative fuels to compare with natural gas and while theother group determines the effect of utilizing an economizer to pre-heat the water.These projects address several program outcomes including teamwork, written and oralcommunications and ethics as well as the thermodynamic technical content.IntroductionThermodynamics is admittedly a challenging science for both students and teachers.Concepts including entropy, enthalpy and internal energy are difficult to learn. Realworld applications are valuable in assisting students in identifying thermodynamics atwork in their world. For this reason, the authors, in a partnership described in moredetail in a previous work 1

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefan Bartels; Holger Dahms; John Gassert; Jens Thiedke; Owe Petersen

Session 3560 EAC Accreditation of an Integrated Bi-directional International Engineering Exchange Program Owe Petersen, John Gassert / Stefan Bartels, Holger Dahms, Jens Thiedke Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA / Fachhochschule Lübeck, GermanyAbstractThe Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has partnered with the Fachhochschule Lübeck(FHL), University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany to establish a unique bi-directionalinternational student exchange program that is totally integrated into the curricula of eachinstitution. Students from both MSOE and the FHL have a common junior year

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mauricio A. Colombo; Maria R Hernández; Jorge E. Gatica

programs are preferable (Harb et al., 1997). This decision seems todepend in general of two factors: the instructor, and the course main topic.Despite the technical advances in operating systems, and the development of graphical user interfacesthat simplify the use of complex simulation packages, the controversy is still unresolved. Thetechnological advances in new or alternative processes to deal with new financial, technical,environmental, and/or social issues impose new demands on instructors and course curricula. Indeed,while the total credits to obtain a Chemical Engineering degree has remained practically constant, asteadily increasing demand for supplementary material has been observed in courses coveringfundamental Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

10) Each group identified a set of 15 problems not solved by current products. The 15 were then assigned rankings of novelty, easy of development, size of market, and technical complexity. The summary and a spreadsheet were submitted. Page 12.71.6 3. (Oct 10) The team selected one problem to solve in consultation with the instructor. Current solutions to the problem were investigated. This included identifying currently available prod- ucts and patents. 4. (Oct 17) A brainstorming session was used to generate design concepts to solve the prob- lem. At least 5 concepts were considered and one was chosen. These were submitted

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tim Brower, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

systems engineering process within capstone design projects to develop program outcomes in students,” FIE 2003, 33rd Annual, Vol. 3, pp. S2B-18-23, Nov. 2003. 4. Martin, G.., “Systems Engineering Capstone Experience at the United States Military Academy,” Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2006. 5. Erwin, B. “K-12 Education and Systems Engineering: A New Perspective,” Session 1280, Proceedings of the 1998 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 28-July 1, 1998. 6. Tidwell, J., Director, Industry and Community Education Programs, Arizona

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; James Heisler, Hope College; Thomas Ludwig, Hope College; Roger Nemeth, Hope College; James Piers, Hope College; Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Some Recommendations for U.S.A. Faculty on Teaching Liberal Education Courses in JapanAbstractThis work presents a summary of practical information for faculty from United Statesinstitutions of higher education planning on teaching liberal education courses in Japan.These recommendations are based on the experience of the authors in teaching sociology,history, economics, psychology, and general education classes, at both a US liberal artscollege and at a medium sized comprehensive university in Tokyo, Japan. For facultyparticipating in an exchange program, a key element is successful adaptation of existingfamiliar course materials for use in a different institution and

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Monte; Gretchen Hein

wherever feasible. After the second semester, MTU students areready to begin taking courses directly related to their engineering program of choice.Table 1: Typical First Year Engineering Courses for Students that are Calculus Ready First Semester Cr Second Semester Cr Calculus I* 4-5 Calculus II* 4 Engineering I* 3 Engineering II* 3 Physics Lab I* 1 Physics I* 3 Chemistry I 4 Other 1-4 General Education 3 General Education 4* Co-requisite courses for

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

Session 1153 A Freshman Design Experience Using RPT Robert Crockett, Martin Koch, Dan Walsh California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoIntroductionCalifornia Polytechnic State University has an earned reputation as a proponent of the hands-on,laboratory-based, learn-by-doing approach to education. We have also won a reputation as acollege whose students are steeped in open-ended problems and underpinned by anunderstanding of design and the process of design. Design exposures for General Engineeringstudents start in the second quarter of the freshman year. This early exposure

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Session 2548 The Evolution of an EET Program’s Introductory Course in Electricity/Electronics Walter Banzhaf, Aaron Gold Ward College of Technology, University of HartfordIntroductionA new course (EL 110) was developed in 1999 for first-semester students entering our four-yearbaccalaureate programs in electronic and audio engineering technology. In recent years we hadnoticed that very few of our entering students had experience with technical aspects of electricityand electronics, and we realized that students found the traditional first-semester DC

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ioannis Miaoulis; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

main sub formats.The first format includes the teacher presenting the science aspects and the fellow the technologyaspect. This model may be assumed to occur in the fellow instruction model, but it does not. Theteachers who have the fellow instruct the majority of the lessons generally do not feel comfortablewith the science material either and prefer to have someone else present all the information.When the fellow presents the technological information, the teacher does tend to absorb some ofthe material. In multiple sessions of the same class the teacher will often begin to incorporatesome of the technological material into their introduction.This leads into the second type of teacher/fellow interaction in which the teacher and the