Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Moran

communication projects and a relevance to theirfuture careers is considered important for student success in technical communication courses.10Some problemsBringing troubleshooting and other types of fault identification/isolation procedures into theclassroom is not an easy task. Most students have a writing background of essays, letters andreports that has concentrated on producing linear narratives. Most technical writing exercisescontinue this, asking students to write physical descriptions, process descriptions, reports usingthe IMRAD format, and instructions following a numbered step pattern that provides a sense ofthe beginning (step 1), middle and end (last step).Troubleshooting procedures ask the student develop an information product that may

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

engineering software is to have them check their classical solutions(i.e., homework) with appropriate software. Another instructional method is to have them useengineering software for class projects. This is particularly apropos in the capstone designexperience.What Does the Educational Literature Say?Now let’s go to the recent educational literature to briefly examine if there is support for all threeteaching themes. First, let’s examine the importance of introducing students to theory (basicprinciples). Clearly the definition of “engineering” rests on obtaining specialized knowledge inscience and mathematics, as well as the engineering sciences.2 The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) also supports this concept. Indeed

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Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

‚ What the beginner needs to learn at once regarding relationships with colleagues and outsider ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: individual behavior and technique 3 ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: managing design and development projects ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: on organizational structures 4 ‚ Relating chiefly to engineering managers: what all managers owe their employees ‚ Professional and personal considerations: laws of personal character and personality 5

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Bai; Saroj Biswas

SourceForge.net. Available on-line: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpesp/, accessed August 2003.LI BAIDr. Li Bai is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia. Hisprimary area of research are computer security, signal processing, and statistical analysis.SAROJ BISWASDr. Saroj Biswas is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University. His areas ofresearch include control systems, neural networks, and stochastic systems. Page 9.959.11 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

andrelative conceptual simplicity, it has been difficult to present electronic neural networksin a form convenient for the university classroom or electronics laboratory setting. In thispaper we describe an approach for implementing a neural network though which manymajor analog and digital MOSFET circuit concepts can be illustrated and demonstrated.This approach is amenable to realization in discrete electronic modules through whichassociated laboratory exercises and design projects may be created. Furthermore, thesame concepts can be extended into Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where thelimitations of component count and performance can be overcome and addressed to a fargreater degree.IntroductionThe fundamental motivation to study neural

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yen Shi Gillian Hoe; Seth Townsend; Ryan Kon; Robert Allen; Richard Boyer; Peter Goldwine; Mathew Kung; Mary McDonald; Laura Sprowls; Gary Tong; Artin Shoukas; Ankit Tejani; Elizabeth Johnson

baseline levels, and modeled this as an exponential decay. Other teams normalized observed responses to baseline or maximum values. Upperclassman students presented the results and fielded questions from faculty and team leaders. 2) A foamcore ‘competition’ was used to introduce the design process to undergraduate students. Students engineered and constructed devices that would transport a ping pong ball around the four sides of a square at least four meters in length using limited materials. Scaled drawings with tolerances were created for each device prior to construction, and material properties were tested. The project culminated in a ‘competition’ in which students displayed and used their devices

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

Page 9.1401.7MC68HC11 microcontroller. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReferences 1. Carroll, C. R., R. Alba-Flores, F. Rios-Gutierrez, “New Life for the MC68HC11 Evaluation Board,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada (2002). 2. Spasov, Peter, Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002. 3. Internet web page defining composite video signal, www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/pic/howto.php.BiographyCHRISTOPHER R. CARROLLChristopher R. Carroll received a Bachelor of Engineering Science from Georgia Tech

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

then insert the translated versions. Much work was left tobe done, however, and I recommend that developers plan for display text and languagetranslation from the start and follow the rule to "keep code and data (i.e., display text) separate"in projects. The Portuguese translation was followed by a Spanish translation. Currently, theSpanish version of the Lab is downloaded at roughly the same rate as the English version.Over 8,700 people downloaded the Lab from 96 countries in the first three years of downloadlogging (through April 2003). We have heard from students and instructors using the Lab incourses in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Turkey,and the U.S

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Kresta; Alan Nelson

reflect.Sensing Like concrete data, well defined Identify key words and classes methods, explicit expectations. of problems. Introduce innovation in small steps to build confidence.Intuitive Interested in relationships between Use open ended questions, ideas, easily bored by repetition, relate course material to other drawn to open ended projects and courses, emphasize ways to innovation

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

only: • CNS 4260 Digital Simulations • CNS 4380 Adv/High-performance Computer Architecture • CNS 489R Undergraduate Research Project • EENG 2750 Circuit Theory • EENG 2740 Digital Design I • EENG 3740 Digital Design II • EENG 3750 Signals & Systems I • EENG 3770 Signals & Systems IIComputer Engineering area of specialty takes a minimum of 15 credits from the following:(minimum of 6 credits must be EENG) • EENG 4750 Digital Signal Processing • EENG 4760 Semiconductor Devices • EENG 4730 Embedded Systems • CNS 3400 Software Engineering • CNS 3520 Database Theory

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

acquired data for laterprocessing. The implementation of a digital video camera that offers real time images onthe published front panel was also described. Employing the video camera to monitorexperiments enhances the learning process. In the current experiment, for example,students can actually see the LED in the lab turning on when the measured temperaturegoes over a high temperature limit. The system is functional using either Netscape orInternet Explorer.AcknowledgementThis project is funded in part by the Air Force Research Office, award # F49620-01-1-0557. References[1] I. Gustavsson, “A remote laboratory for electrical experiments,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

laboratory exposures at best pedantic and at worstexercises that abrogate the fundamental purpose of laboratory-based learning experiences. Suchtreatments obfuscate critical information, and perpetuate erroneous mindsets as there are few, ifany, processes or applications operating at elevated temperatures where thermal gradients are absentand where heating and cooling rates are not critical.Well-developed and well-conceived laboratories are a key component in student learning,underpin subsequent independent project based learning and support the development ofengineering judgment. Laboratories provide alternative means of developing understanding forthe ever-increasing variety of learning styles represented in our classrooms. The contrast

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Humann

Industrial Design Clinic in Mechanical and Materials Engineering. The Clinic has processedover 70 different industrial projects, with sponsorship form a diverse range of industries of all sizes-from the verylarge like the Boeing Co. to small start-up firms. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, most notablybeing declared a Marion Smith Finalist.M. GRANT NORTON is Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Chair of theMaterials Science Program. He has won several awards for teaching including the ASEE Outstanding Teaching Page 9.210.12Award for the Pacific Northwest in 1996. Dr. Norton

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales

Selecting an Appropriate Statistical Test for Research Conducted in Engineering/Graphics Education: A Process Alice Y. Scales, Julie H. Petlick North Carolina State UniversityAbstractIndividuals in institutions of higher education who are involved in research on teachingengineering graphics, and other projects, are frequently confounded by the process of selectingthe appropriate statistical test to analyze the data they collect. Research studies are usually only aportion of faculty member's work, and they generally only have taken one or two requiredcourses in statistics during their graduate work. For these reasons, they either have to consultwith a

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

, where aworkday is defined as eight person-hours of effort, development costs per LoC are computedassuming a hourly rate of $75/hour, and a code quality measure is computed as number ofidentified defects per thousand LoC. Data collection is facilitated by forms for recording timespent in each activity, recording details of defects found, and summarizing inspection findings.A spreadsheet is provided to compute all measures by individual, team, and design task.Example data collection forms and spreadsheets can be obtained by contacting the author.2.3 Use with Design Project in [1]At several points during the semester, design teams are required to forward their measures datato the instructor. Individual and team data is disseminated to the class

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Matthew Sanders

associate professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering program atKettering University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and both BS and MS from Indiana State Page 9.1384.8University. He led the Industrial Engineering Program assessment activities for 2003 ABET visit. His interest is insystems management and systems design and has extensive consulting experience in cost related projects. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

import/export: Data should be able to be imported to, or exported from, the system in a variety of standard formats. 7. Report archive: All reports generated by the system should be archived and accessible for future use.A number of different technologies were considered for development in light of thesespecifications, including use of “platform neutral” languages such as Java (Sun Microsystems),or a completely web-based application utilizing PHP (open source) or .net (Microsoft) scriptscoupled with a database. Given resource constraints for this project, the most efficient solutionwas to implement the VOS Data Manager in Excel macros utilizing the Visual Basic forApplications (“VBA” - Microsoft) language. While this choice did not

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education.computer-based tools become an important means of enhancing student learning and they havebeen taken advantage of in this course.In addition to its simulation capabilities, Excel’s computational power was also used extensivelyboth for straight instruction, and to help demonstrate solution procedures. Consider for examplethe issue of determining the internal rate of return (IRR) on an investment. The IRR is defined asthe interest rate for which the Net Present Worth (NPW) of a project is zero. When done byhand, determining the IRR value is a tedious task requiring an iterative computation of NPWvalues at different interest rates until an interest rate is found for which the NPW value is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilkat S. Soysal; Oguz Soysal

been offering four-year Electrical Engineeringprogram since 1997 in collaboration with University of Maryland College Park (UMCP).All introductory courses, upper division labs, and project courses are delivered by FSUfaculty in traditional format. Most of the upper level classes are offered by UMCPDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering via Interactive Video Network(IVN). Following the ABET Accreditation Committee visit in fall 2002, the “FrostburgCollaborative Electrical Engineering Program” has been accredited as a separate programof the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering.Students are initially admitted to FSU through the regular admission process. If they areinterested in electrical engineering, they declare

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

systems used in the productionof cores and molds.The purpose of this project was to develop a process control tool for measuring thermaldistortion in chemically bonded sand systems. The objectives of this study were: 1) to develop athermal distortion tester (TDT) for use with the disc transverse specimen (DTS), and 2) to definethe protocol to follow in order to acquire useful information relating to thermal distortionproperties of chemically bonded sands.BackgroundIn 1966, the British Cast Iron Research Association (BCIRA) developed a Hot Distortion Testerfor Quality Control in Production of Chemically Bonded Sands.3 The heat source for this tester isa gas burner with no direct control over heat input. The open flame interacting with

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Choate

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationROBERT CHOATERobert Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering at WKU,including the Sophomore Design, Junior Design and the ME Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior toteaching at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing and verifying thermalmanagement solutions for telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment. Page 9.116.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

beingawarded a research project. The recent requests have been for more test time, preferred seating,note taking assistants or give your notes to the student, and etc. Even though this is a seriousproblem, the university has not offered any training on how to handle the special needs or heldbrainstorming sessions for possible solutions, but gives orders as to what you must do. This hascreated poor attitudes towards the administration and reinforces concerns about the typicaladministrative approach, which is not to solve the problem but to fix the problem. Universities want to increase tuition revenues, so more efforts are being made on theretention of students. One policy, which now is no longer in effect, was to send a facultymember a notice

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

domains areinterchangeable. In other words an image can be represented in the time and frequency domain.MATLABThis package, Matrices Laboratory, is a versatile package that performs a multitude ofmathematical calculations involving matrices. This software is used in modeling signal processingsystems and control systems and has toolboxes for image processing, neural networks andcommunication applications. This package is structured like C++, and provides functions forevery process. These functions can be called in the program to achieve the end that is expected ofthe process. The main functions that MATLAB provides in the accomplishment of this project areFFT, FFTSHIFT and IFFT. These functions help in transforming an image between the timedomain

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

MS inApplied Physics at the University of Massachusetts in 1989, and his Ph.D. in the Electrical, Computer and SystemsEngineering Department at Boston University in 1995. He joined the University of Puerto Rico in 1998, where he hasbeen teaching undergraduate courses in electronics. He is currently involved in projects in the areas of micro-sensors,machine vision, and digital watermarking. Page 8.1222.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

topic rather than“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”the memorization of facts or routine algorithmic equation solving. FCI results, which are beingused to measure the performance of students in physics classes with different teaching methods,has initiated changes in teaching methodology and stimulated healthy debate on best teachingpractices.In the past three years, a project to develop and test assessment tools for engineering sciencecourses called “Engineering Concept Inventories” has been initiated by Evans4 through the NSF-sponsored Foundation Coalition. Under this program an early version of a Materials

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walden Rio

sending of faculty members to MSOE. The College of Engineeringof Central Philippine University, would like to dedicate this paper to Dr. Ted Robles andMilwaukee School of Engineering for the unselfish efforts of helping a third world countryengineering school have its faculty exposed to a modern technology.Bibliographical Information1. Memorandum of Understanding, Central Philippine University and Milwaukee School of Engineering.2. Department of Science and Technology/Engineering and Science Education Project, Report on International Travel, 1998 Page 8.767.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition,Copyright 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

industries considering moving to Florida. To support the workforce capacityaspect of this mission, the FHTCC developed the Tech 4 Educational Consortium to focus onworkforce development for these high technology industries. This Consortium is made up ofrepresentatives from the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida,community colleges from across the region, Career Connections Initiatives, the state's Welfare toWork program and area high tech companies. This group meets quarterly at various locationsacross the state. The original “chip camp” and the upcoming “Tech Camps” have been one of theconsortium’s major projects since its inception.Tech 4 also works on the development of degrees and programs designed to train local

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

, it will serveas an introduction to the materials included in the module and will reinforce the lessons andexamples presented there.Module OrganizationFor each module a project manager is chosen to guide the development process and keep theteam focussed on priorities. This leader is responsible for the module organization and compilesthe materials developed by the team members and groups into the module architecture. A key tothe success of the HSTI modules is the module architecture. The module must be user friendlyenough that the educator feels comfortable with it, while at the same time, it must have adelivery method that connects with the students.To accomplish the former goal, the module is compiled on a CD-ROM using standard

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Smerdon

Foundation has analyzed the dynamics of the U.S. Page 8.234.1engineering workforce. This covers all engineers, not just civil engineers. This Engineering Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWorkforce Project involves four NSF Directorates: (a) Engineering; (b) Social, Behavioral, andEconomic Sciences; (c) Education and Human Resources; and (d) Computer and InformationSciences and Engineering (2). Some interesting facts emerge which suggests that engineering isan activity that may be quite different

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

this collection of data is that much more workneeds to be done in order to do any accurate statistical analysis. Some of the questions in thesurvey need to be rewritten to make them more conducive to the collection of pertinent data.Also, the method used for compiling the results needs to be further developed so that more andbetter comparisons can be made.As mentioned in the abstract, the original intention of this project included exit interviews withgraduating seniors and alumni. This was not accomplished at this time and should be looked at aswell. Separate questionnaires will need to be written for both the seniors and the alumni.Bibliography