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Chi-Wook Lee

Session 2322 University/Industry Partnership: Customized Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Program For Non-Electrical Engineers at Delco Electronics Chi-Wook Lee Department of Mechanical Engineering University of the PacificAbstractEngineering curriculum must stay abreast with changes taking place throughout industry in theway products are designed, developed, and manufactured. As technology advances, new andmore challenging problems force manufacturing companies to adapt and overcome obstacles inorder

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T. T. Maxwell; J. C. Jones; D. L. Vines; M. E. Parten

projects.ReferencesParten, M.E., "Project Management in the Laboratory," Proceedings of ASEE 1995 Annual Conference, Anaheim, Calif., June 1995, pp.1119-1123.Parten, M.E., "A Different Approach to Engineering Laboratory Instruction," Proceedings Frontiers in Education, November 1994, San Jose, Calif., pp 528-532.Parten, M.E., "Progressive Design for Instrumentation Development in Project Laboratories," 1993 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 1-2, 1993, pp. 55.Parten, M.E., "Design and Research in Project Laboratories," Proceedings of Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Engineering Foundation Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 1992, pp.261-266.Parten, M.E., "Design in the Electrical Engineering

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

) related fields of study - Control Engineering and Robotics and Electrical (Power)Engineering – can be summarized as follows 13:• approximately 3350 (approximately 3300 for Electrical Engineering and approximately 3400 for Control Engineering and Robotics) hours of scheduled classes (contact hours) – lectures, tutorials, group laboratory and supervised project sessions; in addition, an equivalent of about 400 contact hours should lead to the master's thesis; (for a 10-semester program with a 15-week semester, this requirement translates into about 25 contact hours per week);• not less than 40% of all scheduled classes should be practice-oriented activities (tutorials, laboratory and project sessions);• the curriculum should

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

Page 4.246.1the majority of students that select and stay in engineering are those who fit the culture.Table 1. Changes in the Characteristics of the IME curriculum during the 90’sCharacteristics at the Start of the 90’s Characteristics at the End of the 90’s1. Exclusively lecture format Active learning exercises, collaborative learning2. Structured laboratory exercises Guided design laboratories3. Design primarily confined to senior design Design projects integrated at all levels project4. Isolated courses focused on specific topics Topical material integrated into advanced courses5. Single

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Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

Table 1. Freshman Year Course Sequence. Fall Quarter Winter Quarter Spring Quarter ENGR 120, 2hr, [EJMN], [FL], ENGR 121, 2hr, [EJMN], [Ei], ENGR 122, 2hr, [EJMN], engineering profession, study, [FL], problem solving, technical [Ei], basic mechanics, teaming, problem solving skills reports, design project electricity, energy, design project Elective, 3 or 4hr, typically Math I, 3hr, [St], single Math II, 3hr, [St], single combined precalculus algebra variable differential calculus variable integral

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

, w her e appropriate Electrical systems IN T EG R AT ED EN G IN EER IN G SC IENC E D ISC IPL IN AR Y E N G IN EER IN G H UM AN IT IES AN D SO C IAL SC IEN C E SFreshman DesignThe sequence starts with a one-credit course, Engineering Design 1, taken by entering Freshmen. This is a key change to the curriculum and reflects the success of other schools2 inimplementing first semester design as well as our previous experience with teaching design toFreshmen in the second semester. Starting the Design Spine from "day one" provides avaluable, early hands-on design experience to give both balance and context for what studentstypically perceive as the rather abstract nature of

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Omar Barkat

engineeringdegree. University-Industry partnerships, faculty point of views and impacts, and institutioninvolvement and its resources implications are presented.This paper is organized in a way the reader would understand the engineering curriculum andthe important role the final year engineering project plays in the education of Algerian engineers.Section 2 gives some understanding about the engineering curriculum. Section 3 details theengineering thesis process, the project coordination, and the project evaluation. Discussions onfaculty impact, benefits and institution involvement are presented in section 4. Conclusions arefound in section 5.2. Engineering CurriculumThe main University offering engineering degrees is the “Universite des Sciences et de

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Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

system identification throughimplementation and tuning of a PD controller. This design project has been integrated into thejunior level curriculum in the Systems Engineering department at the United States NavalAcademy.1. IntroductionIt is well known that classroom discussion of the theory of control can be greatly enhancedthrough appropriate experimental investigations. Students unable to grasp the concepts offeedback and system response through lectures are often more receptive to hands-ondemonstrations and investigations. Further, many topics relating to the process of system designare difficult at best to teach in a lecture format. It is extremely challenging to motivate in theclassroom the difficulties of real implementation of control

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Tom Christensen; R. M. Seymour; Kim McKeage; Deborah Skinner; Darrell Donahue

students use Total Quality Management and integrated product design withproject management software.9 At Western Washington University, the Engineering TechnologyDepartment has made alliances with the Colleges of Business and Economics and of Arts andSciences for the development of multidisciplinary teams to work on design projects. They haveintegrated concurrent engineering principles throughout their curriculum. 10 The Departments ofChemical and Materials Engineering and Electrical Engineering at San Jose State Universityworked with science disciplines to develop an interdisciplinary course in semiconductorprocessing. The team approach for this course is set in a context of a start-up company cultureand allows students to be actively engaged in

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Christopher Ibeh

” type instructions are satisfied that it is an effectivemethod. Paulsen et al cite students’ satisfaction as an indication of higher level of teaching andlearning. This paper describes one approach that incorporates the term project in undergraduatecourses, and explores the role of the term project concept in critical thinking, creativity,performance, communication, and teamwork skills.IV. The Term (Project) Paper ProcessThe term paper process begins on the first class meeting of the semester. Each student receives acurrent copy of the course syllabus with the lecture and laboratory sections contents andrequirements. The first page of the syllabus has the course evaluation (Table I). The studentsare apprised of the term paper as a requirement

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Francis Wang; El-Hadi M. Aggoune

example, Appendix A shows theassessment plan for the Electrical Engineering program. In this plan, the student portfolio is usedto address ABET’s requirements which in turn address the fourth program objective as follows: Page 4.96.14. Provide an education A. Maintain EAC of ABET a. Conduct periodic reviews recognized within the accreditation. of the program (curriculum, profession. faculty, facilities, administration, etc.) to

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Sanjeeve Sharma; Robert Thompson; Akihiko Kumagai; Aju Mathew; S. A. Chickamenahalli

), electrical and computer (ECE) engineering and computer science departments.Over the past two years, this project had active involvement of at least ten undergraduate ET Page 4.596.4students including minority and women and ECE students and four graduate students. The Two boundary lines making up a course Screen vertical center line Outside boundary of captured image Centroid of two lines Camera

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; Chih-Ping Yeh; Bonnie Shelnut

organization that serves the Detroitcommunity. The Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) is Focus:Hope’s multi-level trainingfacility. Greenfield Coalition was conceived to develop an innovative manufacturing technologyand engineering curriculum. The electric machines course introduces industrial electric power sources and industrialapplications of motors, generators, and transformers to associate level manufacturing engineeringand technology students. The course is developed from an industrial electric systems perspectiverather than from an electric circuit perspective. The goal of writing this paper is to partially enable future developers of CBI material,especially in mathematically intensive courses, to understand the dimensions

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acquiring these skills. The survey asks the students to ratethese three items for each of the EE classes they are taking that semester. The importance ofdistinguishing both quantity and quality of opportunity from level of achievement has previouslybeen addressed by Enbody.12 However, since some of the outcomes may be met by activityoutside of Electrical Engineering, the survey also asks them to evaluate all of their non-EEclasses, and the unique VMI co-curriculum system during the semester. This need to includesuch external factors, such as service courses and co-curricular activities in the assessmentprocess has also been addressed at other institutions.8,13 A copy of the VMI ElectricalEngineering Semester Survey is included as Appendix A.One of

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William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

4.324.2emphasize an analytical approach.5 The underlying assumption seems to be that students wouldlearn the necessary thinking skills for creativity, teamwork, and communication if they participatein a semester- or year-long design project or if the curriculum contained a certain number of hoursof design content. The end result is that industry has been spending millions of dollars teachingtheir employees the foundational skills (such as creative thinking and teaming) needed for innova-tive conceptual design and problem solving in a global context.Our vision was to address this need by teaching these skills explicitly and then integrating themexplicitly into the design process. Our aim was to demonstrate how creative problem solving,teamwork, and

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Recayi Pecen

Manitoba HVDC Research Center will beused as a digital simulation tool in both courses. Two example cases are simulated, and theresults are reported in this study. The first one is a power system fault study, which includesgenerator, transformers, transmission lines, circuit breakers, and three separate loads includingone 500 HP induction motor. The second case study is an AC/DC power system interactionbased on a proposed 1000 MW High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission line betweenWyoming and California in order to export Wyoming’s rich electrical power resources.Key Words: Power Systems, Curriculum Development, Digital Simulation, and StabilityAnalysis.I. IntroductionAlthough electrical power engineering education continues to be a

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goal is theintegration of process safety into all aspects of the chemical engineering curriculum. Integratingchemical process safety into existing chemical engineering courses has the advantage ofexposing the students to chemical process safety “in context”. The unit operations laboratoryand the process design courses are two ideal settings for exposing the students to process safety Page 4.479.2as they will encounter it in their future careers. Instructional materials have already beendeveloped by SACHE to make this easier to accomplish (Bethea, 1991; Crowl, Pintar, et al.,1994; Barna, Caspary, et al., 1995). There are SACHE instructional

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

implemented.Feedback on both the presentations of the module and its impact on student’s learning issought, and will be used for improvement of the presentations of the modules. Workcurrently in progress is also briefly mentioned.References[1] Hebrank, J., “Early design experiences: a manual for addressing design early in the engineeringcurriculum,” SUCCEED Early Design Project, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,North Carolina State University, May, 1995[2] Schimmel, K., D. Chynoweth, A. Teixeria, E. Yeagers, and M. Sauders, “Introducing biology intoengineering curricula,” Resource 3 (2) (1996), pp.12-14[3] Burniston, E.E., R. Felder, et al, “An integrated first-year engineering curriculum at North CarolinaState University,” Proceedings of

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Russell Dean; Charles F. Yokomoto

andinterpret findings, and (5) make appropriate changes in the curriculum. Notice that it tells youwhat to do without telling you how to do it.The process by Rogers and Sando in column one of Table 1 is the counterpart to the process byBanta. It is a detailed process as shown by the number of cells that are filled. It is a specificprocess for a specific organization, and it may not suit your organization. The value of thisprocess is that it is a good tutorial on the elements chosen by the organization for its process.The process by McGourty, et al., in column two of Table 1 is similar in its generality to theBanta process, and its best use is that of a tutorial of the general process. While it conveysbasically the same information as the Banta process

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Rhonda Moore; Ray Bachnak

the capabilities required for a specific design. Assuming complex projects, thenthe EDA system should be able to: • Perform electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing simulation in a concurrent design environment. • Perform system level design and simulation including virtual prototyping, hardware/software co-design, and high-level synthesis. • Support rapid prototyping. • Perform mixed-signal (analog and digital) design and simulation. • Analyze various design levels, from gates to whole systems. Page 4.225.2 • Provide a centralized database of files.Industry Design TrendsMany companies, including

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Brian Butz

is noted for its ability tojudge, track and record. The expert system development software (called a shell) is CLIPS 37 asoftware package developed by the National Aeronautics Space Administration.5. The expert system The IMITS project concentrates on parts of three electrical engineering undergraduatecourses. Two of the courses, Electrical Engineering Science I and II, are typical sophomore levelcircuits courses taken by electrical engineering undergraduates. The material covered consistsof DC, AC, and transient analysis as well as frequency response and Laplace transforms. Thethird course is a junior level classical control course taken be electrical engineeringundergraduates. Within the interactive multimedia presentations there

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Suzanne Mildren; Karen Whelan

statedobjective of the UB undergraduate program of achieving a range of graduate attributesincluding the ability to work in a team.Formal cooperative learning as outlined by Johnson, et al in [7] relates most closely to theteamwork based around task focus that was such a large part of this project. However even thisstructure is only discussed in terms of organised class sessions [7]. At UB instead we have Page 4.54.2developed a range of activities that can last from a one hour class session up to a ten weekassessment task incorporating the teamwork paradigm.In an organisational context, teamwork skills development is seen as vital to the process

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John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

appropriatetechnology movement in shaping our purpose and the role of service-learning in shaping ourprogram. The paper concludes with the case study of an international service-learning project ofMessiah College Engineering.I. Responsible EngineeringPersons outside of the profession, and sometimes engineers themselves, do not understand thenature of engineering work very well. Ron Howard’s film about the troubled Apollo 13 moonshot depicts the response of engineers to crises. In one scene, the astronauts’ lives are injeopardy as carbon dioxide accumulates in a disabled spacecraft. Ground crew engineersworking under severe time constraints, and using only those supplies available to the astronauts,must make square filtration canisters work in round

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Sandra Courter; Ruthie Lyle; Ranil Wickramasinghe; Lisa Schaefer; Kevin Nickels; Jodi Reeves; David Noyce; Annie Pearce

the ratings assigned by the rest of your team, will be used to calculate grades for each member of your team. Do not rate yourself. Figure 2. Directions for and example of team self-evaluation matrix.Student motivation and attentiveness is enhanced by the opportunity to apply group projectmaterial to a real-world problem. If students can see the utility of a particular technique ortheory, it may help them to assimilate that material more effectively. For example, thetransportation curriculum at the University of Massachusetts incorporates many real-worldgroup projects, ranging from field studies such as traffic counts and signalized intersectionanalysis, to work with local and state agencies. Students get the

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Bruce P. Johnson

Session 2632 Enhancing Senior/Graduate Education through Inter-University Course Sharing Dr. Bruce P. Johnson Electrical Engineering Department (260) University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 89557AbstractThe Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is aparticipant in WestVEC, a consortium of western universities experimenting with sharingsenior/graduate courses in electrical engineering. Current WestVEC participants includethe University of Idaho, Idaho State University, Boise State University, Utah StateUniversity, the University of Utah

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Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

content modification. Barrow and Fullingargue for introducing vectors and line integrals in the first calculus course along with thederivatives. Simcalc curriculum supports accumulation and integrals before rates and derivatives.The IMPEC (Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Chemistry) curriculum (Felderet al.5) points out the compartmentalized nature of the science, mathematics, and engineeringcourses. In this regard Townsend et al.6 have also noted the impracticality of introducingEngineering/Science word problems and explaining them in a short period. In the IMPEC Page 4.511.1curriculum elements of engineering design and

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licensing. Even if there areno problems with using the development tools, a Web-based testing system could complement thetools by providing more comprehensive feedback and possibly unique displays of the code’sbehavior.Bibliography1. See http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~linder/Courses/EE4713/labs/ (use social security number 111223333 to experi-ment with the assignments).2. A. Yoshikawa, M. Shintani, and Y. Ohba, “Intelligent Tutoring System for Electric Circuit Exercising,” IEEETransactions on Education, vol. 35, pp. 222-225, August 1992.3. E. Kashy et al., “CAPA—An integrated computer-assisted personalized assignment system,” American Journal ofPhysics, vol. 61, pp. 1124-1130, December 1993.4. B. Oakley, “A Virtual Classroom Approach to Teaching

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techniques and relatedinstructional courseware provide an efficient teaching tool to achieve this goal. Second phase ofthe curriculum includes advanced thermal classes such as Propulsion, Advanced Heat Transfer,Aerodynamics, Thermal-Fluid Design, Senior Design Project, etc. These courses are intended tofurther enhance the student's understanding of the concept of design and provide practicalexperience in a laboratory environment. The TFSL course involves engineering laboratorymeasurements in fluid and thermal applications, including basic concepts of experiments,measurement devices and their performance characteristics; measurement of fluid and thermalproperties, including pressure, velocity, and temperature; calibration procedures; design

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Sameer Hamoush; Jason Lockhart; Catherine E. Brawner; John Chen; Mike Ellis

active learning, addresses the various learningstyles of students, and is more accessible to students via the Internet or on portable media, eithersynchronously or asynchronously [1, 2, 3]. While examples of successful technology-basedlearning environments aimed at specific courses or topics abound, a large proportion of faculty Page 4.502.1simply do not have the skills needed to undertake the development of such projects, or even toborrow and revise them for their own use.The Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED), anNSF-sponsored engineering education coalition composed of the engineering colleges of