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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok

Page 8.627.13 active area Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEducational Relevance of the Sound Cancellation ProjectThe educational relevance of this project relates to two required classes in Electrical EngineeringTechnology at the University of North Texas. Introduction to Microprocessors (ELET 2750)emphasizes the fundamentals of microprocessor hardware and assembly language interactions.The class uses the microprocessor to control external systems and devices. The project benefitedfrom this class in the

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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AHAMAD FARHOUD

Session 2648 A Versatile Experiment in Electrical Engineering Technology Ahmad M. Farhoud Engineering Technology Department University of ToledoAbstract An experiment used to implement multi-electrical course knowledge is described. Theexperiment is an automatic control system in nature with ties to electronics, digital system andcomputer hardware and software. The idea is to design and build a simple temperature controlsystem, to maintain the temperature inside an enclosed box within a specific user selected range.The

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ron Krahe; David Loker

Session 2648 Visual C++ Applications in an EET Curriculum David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, Visual C++ applications are presented that utilize the Microsoft Visual Studio .NetIntegrated Development Environment (IDE). The Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)Baccalaureate program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, continues to expand to includecomputer technology elective courses. One of the courses proposed is an EET course in Windowssoftware development. This is consistent with a goal within

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

LabVIEW software for control and data acquisition.Background EET 371 Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control is a junior-senior level coursein the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, IUPUI. The purpose ofthe course is to introduce ECET majors to automation concepts and control and instrumentationequipment and software. Emphasis of the course is on integration of hardware and software systems. It focuses ona major laboratory project to implement a model automated-assembly-line-style test system foran FM circuit board. (Figure 1) To update the course to provide for more experience with state-of-the-art technology,machine vision has been added and control of a Rhino Selective Compliance Assembly

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Salahuddin Qazi

Institute ofTechnology (SUNYIT), Utica, New York. The first course deals with the basics of fiberoptics and contains a structured lab of eight experiments while the second coursesincludes advance topics and experiments in optical communications, and a project. Thepaper also discusses the development of experimental facilities used in support of thesecourses. The implementation of these courses has made our curriculum current, andhelped the students to enhance their career options in the current technologicalenvironment.IntroductionOptical communication is a technology of transmitting information in the form of lightby way of optical fibers or free space as a medium. Over the last two decades the lowcost of optical fibers, enormous capacity and

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Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Juliano; Ronald Rockland; George Gonzalez; Joel Bloom

included, there were only five new skill set categories added during yearstwo through four. For example, during the second year when the Chemical Engineering,Chemistry and Environmental Science career cluster was developed, most of the skill setcategories crossed multi-disciplines within engineering, science and technology and onlychemistry was added. A complete listing of all the skill set categories, subcategories andcorresponding New Jersey Core Content Curriculum Standards is available through BergenAcademy on the Tech-Prep Website. (http://www.bergen.org/EST)Each of the partner schools was given the skill set, and the creation of a particular projectinvolved marking the specific skills that were covered. The individual projects covered a

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Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

° • Operate in multi-disciplinary teams • Troubleshoot and design • Be effective project managers • Understand limitations Classroom for Clarification WEB To prepare for class Laboratory Project Exploration Figure 1 Execution Figure 1 Microelectronics Curriculum Delivery Format at Arizona State University EastThe content delivery plan that is being tested in the microelectronics curriculum is ahybrid model that consists of a

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Englebert; Tom Owen; Stephen Kuyath

reach.Conversion to Web-Based Instruction:In 1995, the UNC Charlotte Provost decided to implement a Pilot Project in Distance Education.The Electrical Engineering Technology program was selected by the Deans Council as one ofthose to be offered. The Pilot Program used 2-Way Interactive Television and was started in thefall of 1997 with about 71 students. Due to the technology limitations of the NC InformationHighway and other delivery methods, the ET Department proposed and received permission tochange to Web-Based delivery for the second group to be admitted.The rationale used to convert from face-to-face or 2-Way Interactive Television instruction toWeb-based instruction was to provide a means for graduates of AAS programs throughout theentire state of

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Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Robert Bowman

curriculum in the winter quarter 2002-2003with ten sections of sixteen students. The following topics will be addressed in this paper: • Background and motivation for the development of the course • Primary and philosophical objectives for the course development • Course structure and implementation • Assessment strategy for measuring the impact of the courseBackground and MotivationRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university that offers a five-year, ABETaccredited, program in Electrical Engineering. The first two years of the program are similar tomany college programs and are rich in mathematics and the physical sciences. The last threeyears of the program consists of six quarters of academic work

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ken Burbank

Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2001. 6. W. D. Stanley, Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits, 3rd Edition. New York: Merrill, 1994. 7. R. W. Goody, OrCAD PSpice for Windows, Volume III: Digital and Data Communications, 3rd Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2001.KENNETH BURBANK is an Associate Professor and Director of Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology at Western Carolina University. Dr. Burbank is active with IEEE, SME, and TAC of ABET, and strivesto bring practical engineering activities into the classroom. His current project is the development of a photonicsprogram within the ECET curriculum

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Biswajit Ray

testing them separately before putting them together. Improvingstudent competence in this area will be incorporated at the next offering of this course. On thepositive note, project-oriented nature of the course was much appreciated by the students.Overall, the experience has been very rewarding and challenging. More assessment data need tobe gathered to ensure that the stated learning and teaching objectives are metBibliography1. J. D. Lang et al., “Industry expectations of new engineers: A survey to assist curriculum designers,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 43-51, Jan 1999.2. R. J. Robinson and J. Wellin, “Introducing Data Acquisition and Experimental Techniques to Mechanical Engineering Students in the Freshmen Year

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno; Abul Azad; Radha Balamuralikrishna

under the auspices of thedepartment of technology provides for two areas of specialization, Electrical EngineeringTechnology (EET) and Manufacturing Engineering technology (MET). The department alsooffers a degree in the industrial technology track. In the year 2002, the University’s Committeefor the Improvement of Undergraduate Education supported the authors’ joint proposal tochallenge engineering and industrial technology students enrolled in three different courses tocomplete an interdisciplinary project towards part-fulfillment of their course requirements. Thispaper presents a comprehensive view of this case study highlighting the relevance of the project,logistics, and outcomes both from the perspective of students and the authors. This

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Vijay Vaidyanathan; Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

Session xxxx INTRODUCTION OF PLM CONCEPTS IN A GRADUATE INSTRUMENTATION COURSE Vijay Vaidyanathan, Roman Stemprok, Preethi Nagarajan University of North TexasAbstractProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a vital component of a company’s function as it goesthrough various rites in passage from idea conception to development and finally to producttransition. The Electronics Engineering Technology program at UNT offers undergraduate as wellas graduate degrees in electronics. A graduate course in instrumentation design is offered as partof the core curriculum. It was decided

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

a solid foundation in mathematics, science, and electrical orsoftware engineering fundamentals to introduce wireless communications theories,devices, circuits, systems, networks, standards, management, and applications. Designexperience is interwoven throughout the curriculum by introducing basic design conceptsearly, emphasizing hands-on design experiences in the laboratories, including effectiveuse of computers and other modern engineering tools, and culminating with a capstonedesign project in the senior year. In addition to its technical aspects, the curriculumemphasizes oral and written communication skills, the importance of business, economic,social and global forces on engineering, appreciation of the need to maintain the

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education • the evaluation of the wireless 802.11b infrastructure’s ability to support real-time control and full-motion video while the platform roamed from access point to access point. Beginning with the very first semester, student feedback was extremely positiveconcerning the new laboratories and course project. However, to remedy several student-identified mechanical and electrical problems with the technology, the mechanics of theplatform were redesigned over the winter break and two second generation MPII mobileplatforms, each with a common suite of hardware, were designed. At the onset of theSpring 2002 semester

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Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Ochoa

microcontrollers have similar architectures, instruction sets, and addressing modes.The 6805 microcontroller design is a semester long project. A modular design approach isfollowed. Students design each microcontroller subsystem separately and then, at the end of thesemester, the individual components are integrated. The subsystem designs include: abidirectional parallel port, a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART), anaddressing unit, a data unit, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and a central processing unit (CPU)controller. One at a time, each subsystem is designed, implemented and tested in a simulationenvironment, and then implemented in a programmable logic device (PLD). Once all thesubsystems are completed, the students integrate them

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Lin; Richard Pfile

rapidly toadapt their curriculum to better match the needs of our information-based economy. Anew program in Computer Engineering Technology (CpET) was recently approved atIUPUI to be offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology (ECET). In the design of this new program, we studied and assessed variousvendor-sponsored certification programs and professional registration examinations. Inthis study, we identified skill-sets necessary for several generally recognized job roles incomputer networking, programming and telecommunications. We further classified andextracted exam questions into sets of high-level principles and analytical concepts basedon these different job roles. In this paper, course objectives developed

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Alok Verma

program of study and work experience. Prior to joining TheApprentice School in 1985, Jim was an Assistant Professor, School of Education and Psychology, at NorthCarolina State University. Jim also served as curriculum consultant to the Saudi Technical DevelopmentProject for Saudi Aramco and was special projects director for the National Association for Industry-Education Cooperation. Jim earned an undergraduate degree from Middle Tennessee State University, amaster’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a doctorate from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Page 8.422.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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George Yang

produced by over 50 manufacturers. In our 2 and 4 credit-hours courses for manufacturing and electronic engineering technology students, relaycircuits, fundamentals of sensors, and electrical controls are explained first. Then, thePLCs, from hardware structures, installation, wiring, to ladder logic programming areelucidated. Experience in teaching two different groups of students with differentacademic background and preparation are presented. Approaches taken in each class arediscussed. Introduction Manufacturing systems were controlled by electromechanical devices, such asrelays, solenoid valves, and actuators, before the digital electronics came on the scene.Nearly all controllers were permanently hard

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Stanley; Paul Kauffmann; Gary Crossman

approach has worked well formore than two decades, but a new approach based on future evolutionary trends, will bepursued.III. The Projected Mathematics ParadigmThe freshman sequence in Precalculus, consisting of standard algebra and trigonometry,will be retained since it provides a solid basis for the curriculum. However, instead of thetwo three-credit courses in Introductory Calculus, students take one four-credit course inCalculus and Analytical Geometry, which is the same as taken by engineering majors.This will ease the change of majors from engineering to engineering technology, or vice-versa, within the College of Engineering and Technology (COET). Our evaluation ofstudent performance suggests that engineering technology students at this

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sivakum Venkatanarayanan; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

. John Robertson, Lakshmi Munukutla and Richard Newman, “Delivery of a common microelectronics technology curriculum at several degree levels”. Proceedings of the 2002 American Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 5. Project funded by the National Science Foundation grant # 202444.BiosJOHN ROBERTSON is a professor at ASU’s East campus in Mesa, Arizona. From 1993 to 2001, he helda number of senior R & D positions in Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. His earlier academicexperience was as Lothian Professor of Microelectronics in Edinburgh University, UK where he managed anational research center with interests in process control and the global economics of

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Cooley

first summarizes the design and behavior of the TCS/computer that makesstraightforward and inexpensive exploration of a desktop computer’s thermal behavior possible.It then proposes a pedagogical approach to the exploration of thermal systems such as this thatwould be appropriate in a 2-year engineering technology program.TCS/Computer DesignTo present a viable computer project to a class for laboratory-based analysis, the computer shouldbe both generic and inexpensive. An older system of modest speed and capability was selected.This system began its life as a basic circa mid-1990s desktop IBM clone containing a 166megahertz Pentium 1 processor, 2.8 GB hard drive, Verge video card, 12X CD drive, and a250W power supply. Software consisted of the

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Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Andrew Rose

of their discipline, butalso should provide opportunities to develop a sense of awareness regarding the social andeconomic implications of a variety of civil engineering projects. ABET1 recognizes this need andrequires engineering technology programs to include such issues in the curriculum.Professional issues can be incorporated into the engineering technology curriculum. One examplewould be to include social and economic impacts as part of new or revised courses dealing withsustainable development. 2 Another possibility exists in programs offering courses utilizing service-learning with community-based design projects.3 To fully realize the benefits of service-learning,a structured reflection component should be used to consider the social

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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Francis Di Bella

Session 1447 Mechanical Engineering Technology Division: “Integrating Culture as well as Engineering Instruction in Capstone Project and Machine Design Courses” Francis A. Di Bella, PE (617 373 5240; fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Technology Northeastern University; Boston, MAC.P. Snow’s famous 1959 Rede Lecture on the clash of the “Two Cultures”: Art andScience continues to reverberate in the halls of science and engineering education. Snow’slecture brought to the surface what seemed apparent to most

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Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Ellis

. I. INTRODUCTION Capstone courses in which students participate in a design project are an accepted part of theengineering curriculum at most schools1. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering atVirginia Tech, the capstone experience is a two semester sequence of courses in which studentsdesign and implement a product or engineered system. The first course in the sequence,ME4015, introduces the product development process and stresses concept development andpreliminary design. The subsequent course, ME4016, focuses on detail design, implementation,and testing. The courses are taught in multiple sections with each section assigned a specificteam project. Enrollment in each section ranges from 5 to 30 students depending on the scope ofthe

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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joan Burtner

include real world contentin the following upper-level courses: ISE 402 (the use of commercially-available software tools),ISE 327 (company interviews and the Ford/Firestone case study), ISE 424 (hands-on manufacturinglaboratory), ISE 412 (interface and work space design projects), and ISE 487/488 (industry-relatedsenior design projects).II. The Lower-Level Industrial Engineering CurriculumMercer University offers an ABET-accredited BSE degree, with specializations in electrical,mechanical, industrial, biomedical, environmental and computer engineering. During their first twoyears of college, all BSE students who follow the standard curriculum must complete college levelmath courses (Calculus, Differential Equations, and Engineering Statistics

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

solving skills; (2) motivating students and fostering confidence; (3) instilling anappreciation for the importance of prerequisite courses; (4) developing effective team players;(5) improving basic instrumentation and construction skills needed for the practice of ECE; (6)developing a physical intuition for electrical and mechanical systems; (7) clarifying careerchoices by learning if ECE is a good fit; (8) making students feel like part of the ECEdepartment; and (9) forming long-lasting peer support structures. Assessment results alsoreinforce the benefits of close instructor involvement, hands-on learning, and project-basedcourses. Additional details of the course are provided.NoteThis paper is based upon work supported by the National Science

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Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Wilson; Kim Needy; Karen Bursic

forstudents pursuing a Bachelors degree in Engineering Technology for the Mechanical, Civil andElectrical disciplines. Three sections of ET 1103 are offered each calendar year with enrollmentsof approximately 30 students each.These courses (IE 1040 and ET 1103) are for the most part taught in isolation of other courses inwhich the concepts can (and should) be applied (such as senior design “capstone” courses). Theauthors have made strides to more fully integrate engineering economic analysis into the IndustrialEngineering curriculum in the senior design course. However, more can be done to integrate itfurther within the Industrial Engineering curriculum as well as within the other engineeringdisciplines.Project DescriptionThe project contains three

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Brian West

, the teamwork skills shall be handled via laboratory experimentsand projects in Digital Logic, Discrete Electronic Devices, Integrated Circuits, Signals andSystems, and Electrical Power. At least one formal report shall be required in the last 4aforementioned classes, and a PowerPoint presentation shall be required in Electrical Power.In conclusionProgram changes, such as the USI change from ET to BSE, are fraught with difficulties. Someoneonce said that an opportunity is a difficulty turned inside out. This transition has allowed USIengineering faculty to correct some problems that had developed over the years, such as coursesequence problems. This change also “shook up” the curriculum - pruning the program enhancesthe experience for the

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Miroslav Velev

Session 1532 Integrating Formal Verification into an Advanced Computer Architecture Course Miroslav N. Velev mvelev@ece.gatech.edu School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. Abstract. The paper presents a sequence of three projects on design and formal verification of pipelined and superscalar processors. The projects were integrated—by means of lectures and pre- paratory homework exercises