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Session 2225 Teaching a Real-World Software Design Approach Within an Academic Environment Jeanne L. Murtagh, John A. Hamilton, Jr. Air Force Institute of Technology / Joint Forces Program OfficeAbstractIn this paper, we discuss how object-orientation and the industrial standard for softwaredevelopment, "Software Lifecycle Processes, IEEE/EIA 12207.0-1996" can be used to enhancethe students’ design experience in a 400-level course in a software engineering program.Although every phase of the software development lifecycle is important, we have found that thetwo lifecycle phases

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Wesley P. Lipschultz; Jean Landa Pytel; Jayne Klenner-Moore

project since each of the stories usedcame directly from real-life situations, as told by the people who lived them. This partnershipwith practicing engineers provided the program with a "real world" context. Experts provide aconnection between course-work and applications. The stories provided by the experts and thelink to the majors that they had selected as undergraduates helped to validate student choices inengineering. By carefully integrating the various sources of information in one program, oneresource became available to students to answer questions about major selection. In addition,working with information provided by practitioners provided realistic structure for theapplication of learning theory.Bibliography1. Jonassen, D.H. In

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

metal parts and an ability to understand and interpret the results. This course will use automotive and other real-world industrial applications to extend fundamentals introduced in Manufacturing Processes, Engineering Materials, Solid Mechanics, and CAE to perform virtual simulation of sheet metal parts. Other topics such as rolling, forging and extrusion will also be discussed. Modeling and meshing issues in FEM will also be covered. Deformation behavior of axisymmetric and nonsymmetrical sheet metal parts will be discussed. CAE tools such as I-DEAS, DYNAFORM and Quikstamp will be used to perform the modeling and analysis

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Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

evaluate the students’perceptions of this initiative, a survey of the students in our SPC course was conducted inthe fall of 1999. The first four questions asked the students to read a statement andrespond on a five-point Likert-type scale (defined by Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Page 5.330.4Agree or Disagree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree). The four statements were:• Compared to traditional textbook examples and faculty lectures, your experience from this initiative has given you a more thorough understanding of the scope of a real-world application.• Compared to traditional textbook examples and faculty lectures, your experience from this

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Thomas Lombardo; Stephen R. Fleeman

the standard against which DE is to be measured.Now, consider an online "lecture", which is typically delivered via the World Wide Web. Thereare two advantages to this. First, delivery is asynchronous, so the student can view the lecturewhenever it is convenient, and as many times as necessary. Second, if properly designed, itallows the student to choose the order in which material is presented. For example, somestudents prefer theory before application. Others prefer application before theory3. A well-designed web-based lecture can have links to both theory and application, side by side, and the Page 5.620.2student can select the order. A

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Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

graduate course in the subject (item 19), with the EE majors reporting an understandably stronger interest (3.95) than the EET majors (3.50). This latter result is not surprising.• Items 21 and 22 demonstrates that the EET students found the course a little more challenging than the EE students, but neither found the course more challenging that other senior level courses in their respective majors.• Items 24 and 25 demonstrate that the teams functioned well that both majors contributed to team success. VII. Discussions and ConclusionAs shown in the assessment data, students have found the course motivating and exciting, andthey feel that the course prepares them for the real world of engineering

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Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

DesignThe final course goal that was implemented for the Fall 1999 Introductory Engineeringcourse was to increase the design emphasis. To complement the design aspects of itsSenior Projects course, LSSU aimed to add a design component to the IntroductoryEngineering course, recognizing the following:7 Design should simulate open-ended real world problems Introductory design activity provides students good career decision-making skills early Design activity provides beginning students high motivation and favorable impressions about engineering Creativity and the design process need to be developed early Students need to become accustomed to poorly defined realistic problems versus the single-problem, single

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Robert J. Hofinger

another, and arrive at a “real world”application. This way, students will gain experience in seeing how a complicated design is builtup of many simple circuits. A set of laboratory courses, which are presently used in theElectrical Engineering Technology program at the Purdue University School of Technology siteat Columbus, will be presented to show how this has been achieved.IntroductionMany incoming students in the Purdue Statewide Technology program come to us withouthaving any experience with electrical or electronic pieces of equipment. They have spent moretime with interactive video, educational rock, and VCRs and minimal time with erector sets,with lawn mower engines, with the use of tools, and with the exploration of the fundamentals

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Ralph Dusseau; Carlos C. Sun; Kauser Jahan

Session ____ OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT CLINIC Carlos Sun1, Kauser Jahan1, and Ralph Dusseau1 1. Faculty of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701Abstract - Many areas in Civil Engineering often deal with large-scale and system-level projects.These projects cannot be packaged into a "canned" laboratory for educational instruction.Consequently, a real-world field experiment is a logical way of executing such a project. Thispaper describes an on-going real-world clinic laboratory that addresses both technical and non-technical issues. The real-world clinic involves the development of open spaces

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Craig Gunn

extracurricular activity that focuses on design.Since the retention of students in any engineering program may revolve around their abilities tosee relevance in the courses they are taking, it is imperative that courses clearly show therelationship between what is being taught and future application. Freshmen, especially, aresearching for paths to follow and answers to a myriad of questions that are posed in the first daysof their college or university careers. The introduction of teamworking activities in design insome form in every course provides a means to draw correlation between technical knowledgeand the real world and the importance of those teamworking skills in that pursuit.One of the things that we can focus on is the definition of design. In

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

to guide½ the analysis that the readers and student groups must conduct; An instructor’s guide—to provide comprehensive support for the teacher through instructional strategies, possible solutions, alternative problems to solve, and tailored support material based upon the content areas and the intended student level of the problem and material contained in the case.More recently, the teams agreed to adopt an additional checklist required for the model casesbeing developed in order to increase quality, consistency, and appropriateness for technologyeducation. These include: student objectives, assessment tools and techniques, “Real-world”business applications, a mathematics component, a science component, technical writing and

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Joel R. Weinstein

Session 2559 Abstract: Simulating Industry in the Classroom Joel Weinstein Northeastern UniversityOverview:One of the underlying themes that distinguishes engineering technology from other technicaldisciplines is the real-world industrial nature and influence over the entire educationalexperience. While co-op and vacation work activities certainly help to reinforce the industrial“flavor,” they are not part of the daily academic regimen.To provide the industrial experience in classroom activities, we have developed a softwareproject-based course that simulates industry

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Qiuli Sun; Kevin Stubblefield; Kurt Gramoll

beneficial to the students. In this paper, the idea of presenting 3D objects on theInternet and interactively changing them on the Internet is presented.Internet-based TechnologiesThere are many Internet technologies available in the market that can be used to developInternet-based applications. The most popular are Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript, Java, Shockwave, Virtual RealityModeling Language (VRML), Streaming Video Technology, Active Server Pages (ASP),Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl), and databases. In this project, HTML,JavaScript, VRML, Shockwave and Perl were chosen to develop the internet-basedmultimedia modules and the virtual world. These technologies were chosen because they

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Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

, applications of GIS technology have increased considerably, as a widergroup of agencies and managers adopt the technology. International agencies such as the UnitedNations and the World Bank are utilizing the GIS to manage economic development, naturalresources, and the ecosystems in various parts of the globe. In the United States, severalagencies of the Federal government are currently using the technology to manage resources,support and monitor the impact of policies, and enforce environmental regulations. At the Stateand local government levels, GIS is being used for disaster evacuation planning, coastal resourcemanagement, emergency response, to model and sustain growth, plan and manage resources,plan economic development, and support land

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and their teachers. Theprogram is designed to address each one of the above mentioned skills.A major problem that currently exists in the schools in the United States is the lack ofappropriate methods and tools which should be used to motivate students to explore careers inscience and engineering (Anwar, 1998). In most of the schools, excellence in mathematics isregarded as a key to success in science and engineering. Students are taught numerousmathematical concepts without teaching them how these concepts are put into application in thereal world. Many math teachers are unfortunately unaware of how engineers and scientists usemathematics to solve real-world problems (Mowzoon, White, Blaisdell, and Rowland, 1999). Byinfusing science and

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Thomas M. Jacobius; Gerard Voland

• Opportunities for Innovation in Assistive Technology • Heat-Driven Refrigeration for Developing Countries • The IIT Invention Center TeamII. Lessons Learned Page 5.183.2 Through the IPRO Program we have learned a number of important lessons aboutensuring successful academic-industrial partnerships in project-based education. These includethe following critical elements that should be embedded within such partnerships: • All participants should enhance the traditional undergraduate curriculum by addressing real-world issues and problems in the proposed projects, and by working closely with the student teams in carefully

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Mihir K. Das

the campus, as it has been recognized as a GE (General Education) course.II. Course ObjectivesThere are three objectives of the course as described below. Upon successful completion ofthe course, the student will be able: 1. To understand the TQM and Continuous Improvement concepts and their applications. 2. To apply the TQM tools and Continuous Improvement methodologies to real-life problems. 3. To appreciate the global competitiveness issues, such as quality, Page 5.599.1 productivity, cost and customer satisfaction.III. Performance Criteria (PC) and

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Marty Bowe; John Feland; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

of multimediamodules. Three enhanced learning modules were used, all of the same format, and weredeveloped to focus only on one or two fundamental concepts for each topic. The moduleshighlight conceptual material in the following three areas: 1) torsion; 2) bending; and 3)combined loading. The modules contained visualization components in the context of a real-world application. Table 1 provides an overview of the modules’ content. TABLE 1. OVERVIEW OF ENHANCED LEARNING MODULES Real-World Multimedia Module Specific Concepts Example Visualization - Stress

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

for future implementation.1. Filters2. Modulators3. Modem4. Equalizers5. Echo Cancellation6. Image EnhancementIV. Results and Resources UsedThe introductions of DSP-based experiments were implemented as a part of threecommunication courses listed above. The experiments were part of the hands-on component ofthe courses. It was exciting for the students to see the functions and applications of a real –timeprogrammable digital signal processor and how it can be programmed.The two books 6,7 dealing with digital signal processing using TMS320 C3x were found to beuseful sources for developing experiments and lab assignments. The book6 by Rulph Chassainglists additional support tools, which are freely available or can be downloaded from

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from any one page. Again, a small triangular icon appears next to the currentbranch, available choices are in bold blue, and those unavailable from the current page aregrayed-out (as all are in this view). “Concepts” are main topics, usually those that appear on theside navbar. “Discover” pages lead to questions or exercises that allow the student to explore anew area with information acquired from the “Concepts” pages. “Applications” are current usesof the topic in real-world situations. “Collaboration” supplies challenges that must be solvedwith a partner or by discussion between groups, perhaps with instructor guidance. “Practice”contains problems that the student must answer to allow the professor to assess the learning thathas taken place

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Joseph H. Nevin; John L. Bellando

Session 2326 Multimedia Oscilloscope Training Program John Bellando, Joseph H. Nevin College of Engineering University of CincinnatiAbstractInnovations in multimedia technology have expanded the realm of instruction from the staticworld of printed manuals to the dynamic world of computer-enhanced training. Utilizinggraphics, animation, text, sound, and interaction techniques, developers are able to createtutorials, demonstrations and teaching aids, which are both visually pleasing and informative.Instrumentation manuals are particularly

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

applicationsto real world experiences.This course provides an exciting, motivational learning environment in which students perceivethe world’s underlying science and mathematics principles that promote an understanding ofthe physical world. This is done within the context of a collaborative learning environment.Students enrolled in this course are instructed and assessed through a hands on/minds-onstudent-centered constructivist approach. Education majors are immersed in a holistic andinterdisciplinary approach to problem solving and application through engineering, science,mathematics, and technology, which they in turn will be able to model for their future students.The topic of properties of matter is explored through a variety of activities

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G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

as possible a variety of applications in business and government, while enabling them to develop specialized expertise in areas of greatest interest to them. The course has a very strong practical focus which emphasis’s learning by doing. Students are required to carry out a lot of practical development of real systems for real-life clients to reinforce the theory covered in formal lectures and tutorials’’ 4The aim behind this course is to produce graduates that will work in both thepublic and private sectors developing computer-based multi-media systems,products and services. Students will gain experience in a wide variety ofindustry-standard tools and

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

into the Mechanical World"at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville for middle school teachers. Page 5.557.1Objectives of the WorkshopThe primary objective of the workshop is to develop and implement an application-orientedpedagogical approach to support pre-secondary mathematics and science education. The specificobjectives are: Ä to offer teachers a framework for developing problem solving skills required, such as critical thinking, communication, analysis, and teamwork), Ä to deepen and enrich teachers’ understanding of mathematics and science subjects, Ä to introduce active teaching and learning methods to pre

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Jack M. Winters; Binh Q. Tran

utilization. For biomedical engineering education, the authors believe the capabilityof performing real-time audio, video, and application sharing present tremendous possibilities forinteractive learning.References1. Morse LC. Using interactive strategies in distance learning. ASEE ConferenceProceedings. 1998;Session 3147.2. Morse LC. Using the Internet for an engineering management course. . ASEE ConferenceProceedings; 1999.3. Martin B, Moskal P, Foshee N, Morse L. So you want to develop a distance educationcourse? ASEE Prism. 1997:18-22.4. Tran BQ, Krainak DM, Winters JM. Performance evaluation of commercial POTs-basedvideoconferencing systems. . Washington, D.C.:Tech Report HCTR-11v1, The CatholicUniversity of America; 1999:1-14.5

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, andimportance of accurate determination of parameters of soil on which the foundation rests.Since foundation design is usually a difficult task which requires great factor of safety in real-world application, certain degree of tolerance is allowed in this project. The grading criteriapermits some acceptable degree of discrepancy then compares the actual and predicted failureloads. If the actual failure load matches, or lies within the allowable discrepancy, the predictedfailure load, the student team gets full credit in the project. Partial credits are awarded based onthe degree of agreement between the actual and predicted failure loads. Column (superstructure) Soil

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, enabling an easier transition from theoryto practice for the student. This greatly facilitates a student’s ability to apply signal processingconcepts to real-world DSP hardware such as the widely-used Texas Instruments TMS320Cseries of fixed-point and floating-point DSP microprocessors. In particular, the sptool program issupplied with the latest release of the latest Signal Processing Toolbox (version 4.3). The StudentVersion of MATLAB (release 11) does not come with the Signal Processing Toolbox; however,students may purchase this and other toolboxes at a very reasonable price. This program providesan excellent interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for designing both FIR and IIR digitalfilters.13 The sptool program also allows interactive

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products. The great debt owed to engineers,and thus engineering education, is that the world has become largely manageable —indeed civilized — in ways for which we are all thankful.There is, however, a curious dichotomy that pertains to engineering and the civilizationit has improved; indeed, an ironic split. For, while engineering has to be a disciplinethat is linear to the core, the civilization itself — Western civilization, for now — hasbecome postmodern, and postmodernism is least of all linear.Philosophically, postmodernism is a sense of groundlessness underlying the refutationof traditional systems of interpretation, especially those of the Western consciousness.It is a view that emphasizes the temporal sweep of appearance without a fixed

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important result from this project is that link budget, signal to noise ratioand bit error rate analysis will be predicted a priori in a classroom environment, thenmeasured in the real world. This exercise allows the students to ask "what-if questions", thenseek out solutions. The project involves knowledge in the following areas: • antenna design, Page 5.381.6 • electromagnetics, and • tracking and pointing algorithms of the outgoing RF beam to an orbiting satelliteIn the second project, the students work together as a team to determine the feasibility of asatellite communication device for a given application. Engineering tradeoffs need

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outside the classroom help students develop a sense of real world standards for this type of work? • Will there be opportunities for regular assessment of student work through a range of methods.The CourseAt the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, project based learning has been incorporated into atraditional Industrial Engineering course, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (SQC), IE421/821. IE 421/821 is a cross-listed undergraduate/graduate course typically taken by juniorand senior Industrial and Mechanical Engineering students. It is a required course for IEstudents and a technical elective for