Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

thecourse, but in the context of a real-world application such as the design of a simple power supplyor electronic control system, they can be made to understand the importance of those learningobjectives in relation to a larger system. The learning will take on real meaning, and as a result,students will be better able to apply their knowledge to similar future real-world applications.Adopting a systems-level approach to engineering technician education is a natural catalyst forhelping faculty move towards a more interdisciplinary curriculum. For example, when presentingstudents in an electric circuits course with specific systems-level applications (e.g., an industrialrobot), other aspects of the system such as motor control software, printed

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joerg Mossbrucker

A Forward Looking Digital Curriculum In Electrical Engineering Joerg Mossbrucker Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WIAbstractThis paper describes the new digital track in the Electrical Engineering program atthe Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). It uses a combined top-downbottom-up approach. Students are exposed to a number of programminglanguages on embedded systems in three courses starting in the Freshmen year.Digital logic design ranging from simple gate logic to complex programmablelogic devices is covered in two courses. In addition, a sixth

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

profoundsocial impacts.The overachieving goal of any engineering solution is the improvement of quality of life.Alleviating technical problems at the cost of creating new social problems does not constitutegood engineering. A sustainable design approach must focus on minimizing negative socialimpacts to allow a solution to be effective throughout its useful life. Engineers trained with anemphasis on sustainability in design will approach problem solving with non-technicalconstraints, like social engineering at the forefront of their design.Integrating sustainable design concepts into engineering education allows engineering students todevelop skills that extend beyond the scope of a traditional engineering curriculum by adding aglobal perspective. Using

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

Students Are Leaving Engineering Curriculums; Can Our Educational Approach Stop This? Tonya Emerson, Michael Ward College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management California State University, ChicoAbstractRetention rates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors have been aserious concern nationwide for many years. The Consortium for Student Retention DataExchange’s 2002-2003 STEM Retention Report provides sobering data on our national retentionrates. The report shows that retention rates at Carnegie-Masters type institutions for incomingfirst-year students in STEM majors that continue and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

the design process. Also in many cases, students, through working on projects,often perceive the relevance of mathematics and science and see how what they have learned inthese courses might be applicable to their current project. Another, less frequently usedalternative is a first-year course built around discipline, laboratory-based learning experiences[10]. The goal of this alternative is to help first-year students better understand the nature of thedifferent engineering disciplines through carefully crafted experiential learning experiences.Given that one of the challenges faced by the first-year engineering curricula at TAMU was thelack of understanding of engineering practice, EAPO selected the project-based approach. Thedesign

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

Piloting a Balanced Curriculum in Electrical Engineering— Introduction to Robotics Gregory L. Plett and Michael D. Ciletti Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsAbstractRecent papers have reported that engineering students perceive and assimilate academic contentin different ways. A variety of theories have been developed to try to understand this phenome-non better so that instructional methods may be developed to reach all students. One well-knowninstrument used to assess learning styles is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) [Myers80],which can be used to classify

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

, and A. Abonamah, “A novel outcome-based educational model and its effect on student learning: curriculum development and assessment”, Journal of Information Technology Education, Special Issue on Information Technology in the Assessment Process of Student Learning, Vol. 2, pp. 203-214, 2003.8. F. Zeng, A New Approach to Integrate Computer Technology Certification into Computer Information System Programs, Annual ASEE Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, Session 2558, 2004. http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2004-1708_Final.pdf9. Diane Zak, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Course Technology, 2002 ISBN 0-619- 01662-0.10. Evangelos Petroutsos, Visual basic .NET, Cybex, 2002, ISBN: 0-7821-2877-711. Shelly Cashman

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

over quite a few years for the purpose ofaddressing various problems as they arose. However, that approach has its limits as ourconstituencies’ needs change. In addition to solving the intended problem modifications often Page 10.132.1introduced difficulties. Examples are: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Changing from requiring an elementary introduction to computers plus a single C programming course to requiring two programming courses in C/C++. The two new courses were

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

paper presents a new model for designing a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program inengineering. The paper recognizes that changes in the global economy require a new approachfor producing Ph.D. graduates in engineering. Today, some major U.S. companies are beginningto realize that they can get top-flight research scientists offshore to solve their research problemsat substantially low costs. Compounding such problems is the lack of state budgets for fundingnew engineering programs in the emerging disciplines. Consequently, a critical need exists toaddress these critical issues facing the U.S. Ph.D. programs in engineering. The paper first givesan overview of the critical problems facing the U.S. engineering education, and then uses thedesign

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Josef Rojter

that was required in the workplace but not acquired in education.Johnson, Solomon and Florman noted that engineering graduates lackedcultural awareness and diversity needed for an effective engineering practiceand the enhancement of the profession [6][19][[20]. The acquisition through education of humanities and social sciencescannot be regarded just as an extension of knowledge capital. It providesprofessional engineers with means of new way of critical thinking and inquiry.Hudson in a study of humanities and engineering graduates found thathumanities students had highly developed divergent thinking skills whereasengineering graduates were more convergent thinkers121]. Divergent thinkerswere more effective in conceptualizing an issue into

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

Ignite: A New Paradigm for Curriculum Design and Deployment In Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Education C. Hal Aikens, Denise F. Jackson University of Tennessee – KnoxvilleAbstractThis paper describes a process for achieving major reforms to the undergraduate industrialengineering curriculum at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville (UTK). The work describedhas been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has as its main goal thedevelopment of a new paradigm for baccalaureate engineering education. The model underdevelopment in UTK’s Department of Industrial and Information Engineering is called Igniteand will build on seven years of

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

Taiwanese businessmen have recentlyindicated that they intend to send their children to IIIST.Higher education opportunities in China have attracted universities in many foreigncountries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain, Singapore, Japan, etc. To datethere are very few American universities operating programs in China, though manystudents wish to study at American schools. Consequently, there should be goodopportunities for the future development of the PSU-IIIST program.MARCIA FISCHER is Assistant Dean for Enrollment and Outreach at Portland State University’s MaseehCollege of Engineering and Computer Science. Previously she was Director of Academic Services at OregonGraduate Institute of Science and Technology. She is an ASEE

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jared Odom; Saeed Foroudastan

environmentally-positive implications, but also has financial gain.Engineering applicationsThe skills taught throughout the field of engineering cover an expansive ground. It is in thisarena that new technologies like desalination can be adopted and applied toward solutions ofenvironmental degradation. The balance of dwindling water resources and our ever-growingpopulation can be maintained through a collaboration of efforts exhibited by individuals of todayand tomorrow. Students of engineering can find prospects with this technology due to itsmultidisciplinary approach, whereby interests in other subjects such as chemistry and geologycan attain new measures of accomplishment. Besides the classroom, an understanding globalcommunity to share ideas

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

allows students topursue various areas of interest and undertake multidisciplinary projects, must be balancedagainst a rigorous foundation. Emphasis on project work, applications and professional practicemust be balanced against developing strong theoretical and analytical skills.This paper describes the new curriculum, the principles underlying it and the plan for itsdeployment. Although in many respects the Cooper Union is a unique institution, it is hoped thatour approach can provide a roadmap for curricular innovations in other engineering schools.An Overview of Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union.The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a small school located in lowerManhattan, with total enrollment in the range

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Session 1150 Teaching Engineering Fundamentals with a Project-Based Learning Approach B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstract Recruiting and retaining students in the Engineering Technology area has been a majorchallenge to many of us in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies (ETIS)Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). In the Fall of 2004 the authoroffered ET 1840 – Engineering Fundamentals and teaching this class was a lot of fun. Topicssuch as total quality, engineering design

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother.4 The RCS addresses the development of communications abilities in a system ofdistributed cognition.Survey results of RCS participants are presented to provide an example of a way to incorporatecomplex systems study into the existing undergraduate engineering curriculum. Complexsystems study is defined as a new field of science that studies the collective behavior of a systemand how this system interacts with its environment. Complex systems study is laying thefoundation for a revolution of all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacklyn Wheeler; Carolyn Parker; Julia Ross; Taryn Bayles

maximize student interest and understanding. Data will becollected to evaluate how interactive, authentic, problem-solving simulations impact andfacilitate student learning. In-service training with the curriculum for Technology Educationteachers will be provided prior to classroom use. In addition, a specific objective of the projectis to increase the involvement of women and other underrepresented groups in engineering andtechnology by providing female and minority role models in the classroom and developing casestudies that encourage interest and participation by all groups. Therefore, interest in andawareness of engineering and technology-based careers will also be assessed prior to and afterexposure to the new curricula.The first module

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

specializations are computerscience, software engineering, networking, and computer engineering. In this curriculum, thestudents matriculate into the CNS department after successfully completing the requirements of30 hours of core courses common to all computer science students. The students continue takingcore courses until the first semester of their junior year, when they begin choosing their electivesfrom different specialization areas.Digital logic design courses are fundamental core requirements in both computer engineering aswell as computer science departments, in which students get their first exposure to hardwaredesign. It is important that the content of such courses reflect the current design styles used inindustry.This paper describes a

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

E-mail: fnaja@ce.ufl.edu And Alex E. S. Green Graduate Research Professor Emeritus ICAAS, CLEAN COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY (CCTL) College of Engineering, University of Florida Weill Hall Rm 577 PO Box 116550, Gainesville, Florida 32611-6580 Phone: (352)392-2001 E-mail: aesgreen@ufl.edu Natural gas prices have increased significantly in the past four years. Natural gasaccounts for almost a quarter of the United States’ energy consumption. The increase in naturalgas prices may create an economic problem in the U.S. economy and the university’s budgetdeficits. The

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

the College of Engineering. This redesign resulted in changes tocourse curriculum and coordination and hiring/management of faculty.The increased focus on educational research has had multiple effects on EngE1024, including theincorporation of outcomes of ongoing research projects, such as the incorporation of electronicportfolios for assessment and reflection purposes originated from an NSF Bridges to EngineeringEducation grant and use of a ‘spiral curriculum’ approach from an NSF Department-levelReform grant.The change in paradigm resulted in significant personnel changes. For the first time, thedepartment hired graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants to aid in course developmentand implementation. Also, to provide faculty time to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

can be adifficult task. Mathcad provides a general template for an engineer to perform a wide variety ofdesign tasks. The format of the program lends itself to civil engineering based its ability toperform design work with the same application that serves as a report for review. By eliminatingthe report generation phase of the process, engineers can quickly go from design to submittal andincrease profitability. Development of standardized, reviewable documents can mitigate risk.Both of these qualities have appeal for the new civil engineer.A comprehensive, organized approach encompassing many courses can present Mathcad as auseful tool for their future careers. In addition, consistent exposure to the program supports thematerial presented in

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

focus on requirement 3(g) [1]. Other approaches to engineering education haveincluded interdisciplinary course development [2]. The use of capstone courses haslikewise become a popular medium for integrating business principles into theengineering curriculum [3]. What is missing, however, is a systematic approach tocovering the basics of business education for aerospace engineering students.Process As a part of the Boeing Corporation Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program(Welliver), faculty members are encouraged to submit proposals for an eight-weeksummer program. The proposals are generally technical in nature with the facultymember desiring to learn more about specific components or systems within the Boeing

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Bryan Magary; William Peterson

engineering curriculums as represented by the inclusion of the topic in theFundamentals of Engineering Examination.A review of the current/recent text books we considered typical of those used in undergraduate(and graduate) engineering economy course show the use of the tables mentioned above as themethod used to introduce the student to the topic and as the method used to present theapplication of the theory to practice for the students. These texts do include the use ofspreadsheets as another method for solving problems but typically after presenting the tablebased method. The text books used in this review were: • Engineering Economic Analysis, Ninth Edition, by Donald G. Nenan, Ted Eschenbach, and Jerome Lavelle, 20042 • Engineering

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

, attributes that would constitute a good course, and a goodinstructor. Mapping these attributes to established pedagogies, coupled with continuousassessment and refinement ensures that there is not a mismatch between the student and facultyexpectations. The approach was successfully implemented in a first-year engineering designcourse that had previously undergone a major revision in course content and delivery, resultingin very poor student evaluations at semester’s end and general student dissatisfaction.Maintaining the new content, the QFD-based approach was able to significantly increase studentsatisfaction.1.0 Objectives The quality of a course should be judged by the extent to which the learning objectivesare realized and the value the

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Session 1357 Engineering Problem Solving in Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform Sigurdur Olafsson, Veronica Dark, John Jackman, Frank Peters, and Sarah Ryan Iowa State UniversityAbstractProblem solving is a major focus of the engineering profession, and upon graduation newengineers are faced with increasingly complex problems. Yet, existing engineering educationpractices often fall short in preparing students to tackle complex engineering problems that maybe ambiguous, open-ended and ill-structured. In this paper, we describe a newly developedlearning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

of these items on theenvironment. To those of us active in the engineering profession, this is not a new concept. Partand parcel of the design process is an analysis of overall product cost, which normally involveswaste disposal and/or reclamation. This perhaps more traditional approach to the environmentalimpact of an engineering design is being supplanted by an approach that is less dependent oncosts -- green engineering. Green engineering, in short, involves analyzing the environmentalimpact of the designed product throughout the product/process life. Not only are the rawmaterials analyzed, but also the impact of the product’s use, any by-products or waste streamsgenerated, and the disposal/reclamation cost. A separate branch of ‘green

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Boehm; Brackley Frayer; Joe Aldridge

Establishing an Entertainment Engineering Curriculum Robert F. Boehm Mechanical Engineering Department and Joe Aldridge and Brackley Frayer Theatre Department University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154AbstractA new, multidisciplinary program in Entertainment Engineering and Design is being establishedat the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The name of the program could be defined in a numberof ways because few programs of this type exist and the field is so broad. Our

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

those opportunities. However, the thesisof this paper is that existing long-term trends are poorly understood and that, like the generalwho prepares to fight future wars based upon the last war, programs and students prepare for thefuture based on an extrapolation of the past. In a somewhat static environment the latter can be asuccessful strategy, but in the current much more dynamic environment being proactive is arequirement. Things have changed and they have changed in fundamental, often unexpected,ways. Exhortations to “do things better” and simplistic improvements of past approaches will beinadequate in the future. Objectives in Engineering Curriculum Development Some specific objectives of an engineering curriculum that address

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fike

Teaching Telecommunications Fundamentals – A Networking Approach John L. Fike, P.E. Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionAs with many topics in a rapidly changing technical world, an introductory course intelecommunications and networking presents a challenge to curriculum developers. How doesone teach fundamentals, such as frequency, bandwidth, and multiplexing, which change slowlyand do not always appear important to the students? How does one teach contemporarynetworking topics in a way that is interesting to the “techies” while not losing the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Approaches to Undergraduate Instruction in Computer Security Luiz Felipe Perrone†, Maurice Aburdene‡, and Xiannong Meng† † Dept. of Computer Science / ‡Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Bucknell UniversityAbstractAlthough economies of scale have turned the networked computer into a commodity, its usabilityat large is determined by the levels of security and privacy the technology can offer. Thisphenomenon has created a new landscape in which the demand for trained professionals incomputer security is extremely high. Colleges and universities are still adapting to this realityand different approaches to computer security instruction are being used throughout