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John T. Welch; John Durkin; James E. Grover; Douglas Smith

ourcurrent program, future enhancements to the program, and lessons learned along the way.1. IntroductionAt the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Akron, we have recentlylaunched a new degree program in computer engineering. The first class of new freshmen wasadmitted to the program in the fall of 1997, and within one year we experienced a 100%increase in enrollment in the department.The program was developed in response to the needs of both students and their futureemployers. Although we offered many elective courses in computer engineering areas, we feltthat many students were looking to other institutions that offered a specific computerengineering degree program. We considered offering a combined electrical and

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Alan K. Karplus

products.Equipment:1. Collect fifteen three and one half inch long rubber “elastic” bands of 1/8 inch width, 0.034 inches thickness, and referred to as 33 rubber bands. These fifteen bands are required to build four group members: A) two bands each cut and tied with square knots at the cut ends to create a single 4 inch loop (this is equivalent to an uncut band in starting length), B) two bands each cut and tied with square knots at the cut ends to create a single 6 inch loop, C) four bands each cut and tied with square knots at the cut ends to create a single 12 inch loop, and D) six bands each cut and tied with square knots at the cut ends to create a single 18 inch loop. Then clearly designate the group as Group 33. Without the designator

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E. Dendy, Jr. Sloan; Anthony E. Vigil; Ronald Miller

process design analysis. Demonstrate the ability to complete a design project to the satisfaction of an external client. Be able to apply appropriate tools and skills (e.g. computer software, teaming, oral and written communications, etc.) for completing a project. Page 4.471.2Teaching Troubleshooting in the Design ClassroomThe goal of introducing troubleshooting exercises in the design course was to: 1) providestudents with a structured problem-solving strategy they could use after graduation, and 2) tofamiliarize students with detail troubleshooting information for important

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Arnold F. Johnson

3.66 Debriefing session after the lab 3.45 Meeting with the instructor prior to the development of lab activities 3.41When rating the effectiveness of how the fifteen different dimensions of the lab course helped inmeeting the needs of the student as a learner, the students rated the following as the top fiveitems on a 4 point Likert scale (4 most effective, 1 least effective): Amount you learned as a result of being part of the lead-team 3.79 Opportunity to engage in teamwork 3.45 Taking on the role of teacher as part of the lab 3.41 Currency (being up-to-date) of

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M. R. Smith

instructor. This paper discusses several process management techniques thestudent can use to track their own progress through any course. The techniques also providefeedback to the instructor in terms of class understanding. Tools for handling the processmanagement techniques are illustrated.1. IntroductionLast year I had the worse evaluation and student rapport in 20 years of teaching. Discussionswith a teaching psychologist suggested that the problems stemmed from an inability to conveyand manage my expectations to a large class. Three issues complicated these problems. The firstfactor is my style of teaching. With a background as an “experimental physicist” I teach all mycourses with a hands-on approach using extensive design component in

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Robert Waters

and former colleagues in industry. As a result of the contacts ofdoctoral students, we have developed strategic alliances with two major corporations in the area,and expect to develop others.Elements of the new paradigm include: [1] Viewing engineering management as a field of practice rather than as an academic discipline, and providing an interdisciplinary approach to the education, [2] Focusing the mission of the Department on providing education for engineers and scientists to assume or enhance leadership roles in their organizations, [3] Taking a non-traditional approach to the sources, support and use of doctoral students, [4] Continuously adapting the curriculum to current needs in the Washington

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Gregg L. Fiegel

engineering program at Cal Poly required extensive research, carefulplanning, and hard work. In general, five steps were taken during the development of thegeotechnical engineering program: (1) Research the profession, (2) Develop a curriculum, Page 4.475.3(3) Generate support, (4) Acquire equipment and supplies, and (5) Teach and evaluate.3.1. Research the ProfessionFocused research is required prior to the development, modification, or refinement of a programcurriculum. This research helps in establishing program goals and objectives which, in turn, helpto define the topics that should be focused on in the different courses of the curriculum

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John Wiggins

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Eric N. Wiebe; Theodore Branoff

methods ofcapturing concepts represented in reading materials, lectures, and physical models. Thenew generation of constraint-based modelers provides a dynamic, 3-D environment whereboth size and geometric form constraints can be demonstrated and explored directly. Thispaper will present examples of exercises that can be used in an engineering design graphicscourse to demonstrate both the concepts of GD&T and good design practice. The examplesinclude: 1) The relationship of datums in the 3-D modeling environment to the theoreticaldatums used in GD&T. 2) The transformation of implicit feature constraints in the 3-Dmodel to explicit GD&T constraints. 3) How constraint modification in the model can beused to explore maximum and least

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Stephanie Cauble; Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

entirepopulation of women BAE faculty, rather than a select sample. Those who did notreceive the email survey were sent a hard copy of the survey. Reminders were sentperiodically over email. All results were recorded in an Excel file. Thirty-two responseswere received for an overall return rate of 53 percent.III. Results & DiscussionDemographicsEighty-six percent of the respondents are tenure-track professors. Figure 1 shows thetitles and ages of the respondents. Professional Title Respondents’ Ages 46-50 51-55 Full 5% 1

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Hakan B. Gürocak

bothanalog and digital control systems, as well as their actual physical implementation in a singlecourse. Consequently, the total credit requirement for the degree is not increased yet thestudents graduate with a working knowledge of both analog and digital control systems.Course ContentME 375 Manufacturing Control Systems course is a three semester-credit course with two hoursof lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. The course was offered for the first time inSpring 1998 in the Manufacturing Engineering program at Washington State University inVancouver. The course content (Table 1) has been carefully organized to reflect the basicconcepts, namely, dynamic system specifications, stability, concept of feedback and dynamiccompensation

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Flora McMartin

. Page 4.112.2 OVER I:\Submission\ASEE-393.docPreliminary ResultsThe principle finding from the preliminary results was that there was unacceptably lowvariation among scores. Preliminary findings indicated that:• On as scale of 1 to 4, over 90 percent of the items were rated at the highest level (4).• The correlation between related items intended to measure the same constructs were difficult to interpret given the low variation of ratings, but were generally in the expected direction.• Students were asked to distribute a hundred points among the members of the group as a measure of each individual’s contribution to the

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Anton Pintar

ABET; the AIChE Program Criteria inEC2000 require a working knowledge of the safety aspects of chemical processes.There are three ways of incorporating chemical process safety into the chemical engineeringcurriculum: (1) a course or courses devoted to process safety, (2) integration of chemicalprocess safety into existing courses and (3) a combination of the two approaches.Having a separate course in chemical process safety puts process safety in a prominentposition in the curriculum, forces the students to focus on process safety, and is the best way todeal with certain safety topics such as toxicology, industrial hygiene, dispersion models anddesign of relief systems. However, the students may compartmentalize safety and treat it as atopic

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Nathan W. Scott; M. A. Mannan; H. P. Lee; Brian J. Stone; A. Y. C. Nee

dynamics. The dynamics course has 52 lectures (over 26 weeks) andcovers material from rectilinear motion to forces in mechanisms. Historically this has beenregarded as the hardest first year unit but the introduction of computer based teaching and otherinitiatives [1-6] has seen a significant change in attitude and greatly increased pass rates.It is also relevant to provide some information on the two lecturers involved. Dr H P Lee(NUS) obtained a BA in Engineering Tripos from Cambridge University in 1982. He joined theNational University of Singapore as a Senior Tutor in 1985 and left for further Study inStanford University in 1986. He obtained his MSc and PhD from Stanford University in 1987and 1991 respectively. He resumed his teaching career

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David Phillips; C. Richard Helps

using most of the features available inmicrocontrollers. The unit interfaces to sensors, actuators, LCD displays and serial ports usingdifferent microcontroller architectures. The final data acquisition system can then be used forlater classes or projects or reprogrammed for other applications.1. Embedded Microcontrollers are an Important Topic in EET programsEmbedded controllers are found in many modern products ranging through consumerelectronics, cars, industrial control, medical systems and communication. They serve as theprimary intelligence for many products or as simple intelligent interfaces between systems.Microcontrollers are even replacing simple mechanical switches in many systems. A recentsurvey1 indicated that for every 75 million

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Glenn Blackwell

Functional Tests Incoming Parts Testing Figure 1. Overall electronic test scheme.In applying this scheme within a freshman EET projects course, the students are provided acircuit board and parts kit for a triple-output power supply. They then check the bare board fortrace continuity, shorts between traces, and proper drilled-hole count prior to assembly. In asimilar fashion they check the parts which can be tested with an ohmmeter, such as resistorvalues, diode verification, and ability of capacitors to accept a charge.Generally, ICT has two parts, tests performed before power is applied, and tests

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Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

cooperativegroup project in which teams of students work together over the Internet; and vi) a hypertextglossary that can be accessed by clicking on the word to be defined or by moving to the glossaryweb page.IntroductionOverview of the evolution of the Internet. If you are looking for the date that the Internet Page 4.483.1started, you would probably choose December of 1969 when computers at UCLA, Stanford* Author to whom correspondence should be sentResearch Institute, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah wereconnected under support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency. 1 In the following years,Universities were

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Matthew Y. Lee; Jiang Li

and examsto students in order to enhance student’s understanding of their learning and to obtain importantfeedback information from students at the same time. During a lecture, students take class notesand ask questions. Such a pattern obviously has some problems. For instance, the one-hourlecture may be too short to solve student’s problems or to answer student’s questions. Theavailability or accessibility of an instructor after lecture hours is one of important key issues inteaching of engineering courses. Today, with help of high technology of telecommunication, theteaching of engineering courses can be improved greatly with many ways. Teachingengineering courses through the Internet is one of them (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).The Internet is a

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Michael L. Marcus

analyzer from industry. This exercise will utilize the methodsactually used by a project team from a Biomedical Instrumentation Corporation in which both engineersand technicians from various disciplines participated.The steps involved will consist of the following: 1. Determine the nature of the problem and create specifications. 2. Brainstorming to compile a list of possible solutions. 3. Select three best possible solutions. 4. Sketch one of the solutions. 5. Suggest ways to test solutions.This method can be used in any number of technology courses and will help the student preparefor problem solving and working in a team environment.IntroductionThe following is a method of problem solving used by project teams in industry. It

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Peter Avitabile

to Explain Difficult TopicsSeveral examples are illustrated below to show the use of graphics and multimedia to explainsome of the more difficult topics for the undergraduate engineer. Some of this material can befound on the UML-MACL web page cited in Reference [1]. Some of this material has beenextracted from the series of articles entitled "Modal Space - In Our Own Little World" that iscurrently under continued development. These articles are also published in ExperimentalTechniques magazine (by the Society for Experimental Mechanics) entitled "Modal Space -Back to Basics" [2-10].These articles were originally developed to address the practicing engineer who may not havehad formal training delving into modal analysis. These engineers need

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Sal Arnaldo

. and Vincent B. Pizziconi, “Increasing Student Awareness of Ethical, Social, Legal, andEconomic Implications of Technology’’, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No.1, ASEE, January 1998,pp.35-45.4. Hoit, Marc I. and Matthew W. Ohland, “The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to Engineering Courseon Improving Retention,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 87, No.1, ASEE, January 1998, pp.79-85.5. Linton, Darrell G., “English, Ethics, and Engineering Design in Computer Applications Assignments,”Engineering Education, ASEE, Washington D.C., May/June 1991, p.434-435.6. Morgan, R., P. Reid, and W. Wulf, “The Changing Nature of Engineering,” ASEE PRISM, Washington DC,May-June 1998, pp.13-17.7. Self, Donnie J. and Elizabeth M

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Walter J., III Gomes; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

filter implementationaffect filter performance, without the need for tedious programming of the TMS320C31.1. INTRODUCTIONModern software tools such as MATLAB greatly facilitate the professor's ability to demonstratethe concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) in class, and to assign realistic projects toreinforce these concepts.1-3 An increasing number of DSP textbooks are becoming availablewhich take advantage of this ability,4-8 and a growing trend is for DSP concepts to be introducedearlier in the curriculum.9 These concepts can be further reinforced, and greater interestgenerated by the students, if they can be easily implemented in real-time on modern DSPhardware.10 Affordable hardware is now available to schools: Texas Instruments, for

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Marjorie Skubic

balanced teams. That is, an effort is made to assignteam members together with different engineering backgrounds and complimentary skills.Students are allowed to request team members, but the final team assignments are made by theinstructor.The first three projects provide incremental progress towards the ultimate goal of building amulti-sensor robot. The project assignments include general guidelines only and encouragecreativity in both functionality and design. Students are also encouraged to reach for their limits,taking risks in their robot design. Figure 1 shows the grading criteria for receiving an A for theproject. (See the course webpage for the complete grading guidelines.2) 1. The project shows creativity and substantial effort

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Richard Shiavi

real effects upon a signal. He is finally required toimplement the learned procedure on a signal from a data base of actual measurements.A. Example In studying the calculation of the frequency content of deterministic signals, one must usethe discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The theoretical result is given and then the result of theDFT is presented. In the notebook is also shown the MATLAB script used to do the analysis.Shown below are the script and the result of the application of the DFT to a truncated "sincfunction".clear; close all; format compact; whitebg(’w’)syms tf0 = 0.5; %Hzft = ’sin(2*pi*0.5*t)/(2*pi*0.5*t)’; % SINC FUNCTION% an indeterminate value exists at the peak of the waveformfigure (1)subplot(1,2,1); ezplot(ft,[-5 5

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Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

overalllearning in the statics class as either “very good” or “good” as compared to other classes.IntroductionPatricia Cross, a leading educator, recently indicated in her keynote address at the AmericanAssociation of Higher Education’s (AAHE’s) 1998 National Conference that, “We have moreinformation about learning available to us than ever before in the history of the world.” HerbertSimon, a Nobel Laureate, in his plenary session at the 1997 Frontiers in Education Conferencesaid, “Knowledge about human learning processes has developed to the point where we can dobetter.” Smith and Waller (1997)19, in their summary about effective teaching and learning,succinctly compare old and new paradigms for college teaching (Table 1). Current literature,including

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Kurt C. Gramoll

realistichomework problems, homework sessions, tutorial sessions, project labs, and the like. The resultis engineering graduates with impressive analytical skills, but little or no understanding of howto apply them in an effective manner to solve problems! Multimedia and network based mediatechnologies have the potential to provide a means for dealing with these issues in a dynamic,provocative and likely cost-effective manner that not only will increase the effectiveness of theeducational program but will also increase the quality of the resulting students [1, 2].However, electronic media has it own set of problems and difficulties. Foremost is the time andeffort needed to develop and implement electronic media. Similar to authoring a textbook, thecore

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Sammie Giles; Mark Pickett; Doug Oliver

Session 1380Teaching Teachers to Teach Math & Science via Engineering Activities at The University of Toledo (T4MSIE) Mark Pickett, Doughs Oliver and Sammie Giles College of Engineering, University of Toledo 1. INTRODUCTIONOne of the common threads of many of the reform efforts in secondary mathematicsand science education involves an emphasis on ‘hands on’ team projects for scienceand the use of ‘real-world,’ yet simple applications for mathematics. In the opinionof the authors, engineers have a great deal to offer

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Sohail Anwar; Paula Ford

the United States requiring accreditation-seekingprograms to demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to communicate effectively. Theintegration of written, oral, and visual communications into engineering/engineering technologycourses is important because 1) the ability to communicate effectively is crucial to the success ofengineering/engineering technology graduates in their careers and 2) language is a powerful toolfor learning. An effective instructional model for teaching communications toengineering/engineering technology students may include 1) Writing and speaking assignmentsdesigned to promote active learning and collaborative problem solving. 2) Communications inworkplace settings. Examples of such forms of communications

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Jianping Yue

, while some others had.Since CAD has become a necessary skill for engineering technology majors, it should beincluded in a required graphics or drafting course if not as a stand-alone required course. Thecombined graphics and CAD course has the advantage of balancing theory and practice. It canbe a lecture and laboratory course in which students not only learn drafting theory andtechniques, but also practice CAD skills. One of the new approaches is to include CAD in afreshman design course which teaches fundamentals of engineering design, engineeringgraphics, and oral and written communication skills 1.In the past decades, developments in computer hardware and software have caused aninformation revolution and made significant changes in our

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William F. Reeve

checksheet and constructs a Pareto chart to identify the more important faults. The results from all ofthe teams are compiled and the students actively participate in the dialog that ensues to suggestseveral possible causes for the failures observed. Those who have had industrial experiencefrequently provide anecdotes that enhance this learning activity. The following list contains asample of the questions that typically are raised: 1. Is this a new problem, a recurring one, or one that was thought to have been solved but has returned? 2. If this is a new problem, what has changed recently that might be a contributing factor to the problem? 3. If this is an old problem, what was done previously to correct the