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Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

appeal to many who arethinking of a chief engineer career but are not yet ready to take the whole certificate.Similarly, the individual course modules that form the bulk of the certificate can be takenin any order or simply as single modules within a different training program. The first Page 9.1246.6complete delivery of the whole certificate has been scheduled throughout 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe approach taken to create this certificate has demonstrated the robustness of the 9

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Robbins; Rajapandian Ayyanar; Paul Imbertson; Ned Mohan; Ben Oni

described in the following sections.Learning-Outcome Based Course RestructuringThe learning outcome of each course is solid understanding of fundamentals in a way that makesthem relevant to current industrial practices and prepares students for a lifelong learningincluding graduate studies for a research-oriented career. In addition, we recognized that mostinterested undergraduate students take only one course in each of these areas. Perhaps, theyshould take only one course, thus allowing them to attend courses in complimentary fields suchas digital control, applications of digital signal processors, and so on to receive a broadereducation.In light of these objectives and constraints, we decided to offer only one course in each field atthe

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationRUSSEL C. JONES is a private consultant, working through World Expertise LLC to offer services inengineering education in the international arena. He has had a long career in education: faculty member atMIT, department chair in civil engineering at Ohio State University, dean of engineering at University ofMassachusetts, academic vice president at Boston University, and President at University of Delaware.BETHANY S. OBERST is James Madison Distinguished Professor at James Madison University inVirginia. She has served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and as Executive

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

work in the medical device industry or in service organizations can be exposed to awide range of career options before graduation.WorkshopsOne or more BME workshops are presented annually at LeTourneau University for students inthe concentration. These presentations are also open to other students, faculty, and the localmedical community. Experts from various disciplines related to BME present material used tosupplement the formal educational component of the program. Junior and senior level studentsparticipate in these workshops and complete additional assignments based on the material.Participation in at least two workshops is required for graduation.Generally, visiting scholars come from collaborating institutions which provide

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Mills; William Cleghorn

, American Society for Engineering Education”With an MMO funded project with industry, students in their final year can potentially achieve significantbenefits from real-life engineering experiences to enhance their experience, better preparing them for theirfuture careers. Additionally, in support of MMO Connections Program, the many industries, both small andlarge, have engineering problems which require solution within the time frame of a thesis project, therebyproviding both practical and useful training problems. The authors have been coordinators of this important program at the University of Toronto since itsinception in 1990. Over 150 students have participated at the University of Toronto. This representsapproximately 15 percent of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leotis Parrish; Devdas Pai

well as successful test-taking and situation-handlingtechniques. Our results have been very encouraging, and an unexpected additional benefitobserved is the increased confidence of SI leaders in their own knowledge and communicationsskills and an increased interest in exploring academia as a career option. Page 9.110.2Results Figures 1 and 2 provide the ethnic and gender breakdown of the 10 course sectionsserved by the program in the Fall 2002 semester. Ethnic minorities constitute a minimum of 80%of the classes and women a minimum of 20% of the classes. Table 1 and Figure 3 show thequantitative impact of the program on student

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenming Zhang

students so they canhave successful careers in bioprocess related industries, such as food, biochemical, andbiopharmaceutical. Unit Operations in Biological Systems Engineering (BSE 3524),hereafter referred to as “Unit Ops”, is offered to the students in the second semester oftheir junior year, and it consists of two 50-minute lectures and one 165-minute laboratorysession per week. This course is the first technical elective course for students electingthe Bioprocess Engineering option. Before taking this course, the students will havetaken the following courses: calculus, physics, freshman chemistry, mathematics,Biological Systems Engineering Laboratories (sophomore); Thermodynamics ofBiological Systems (first semester in junior year); and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

, it is criticalto get familiar with what the department expects at the beginning of their career. Nevertheless,the current system does not help to build upon the unique strength of individual faculty,contribute to department cohesiveness, or to fit current needs as evaluation strategy.The main elements for the evaluation process can be research, teaching, and service. In researchinstitutions, the emphasis is placed more on research than teaching. However, it is very importantto do a good job in teaching even in primarily research-focused institutions. An employee needsto find out what the chair expects from the faculty in these three areas. For research, areas ofnational presentations, proceedings, refereed and non-refereed journal articles

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

today’s technology, utilizing and integratingcomputers within the control loop is essential. An innovative feedback control laboratory has been developed in the department ofengineering technology at University of Central Florida to fill this need. The laboratory isequipped with some of the most frequently used control systems in engineering and industry. It isdesigned to bridge the gap between theory and real-life problems, and to give the studentsvaluable hands-on experience to help them better prepared for their careers. A number ofpractical feedback control system experiments are being developed that will allow students anopportunity to develop appropriate transfer functions and control programs for closed-loopsystem with a computer in

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

industry in the SiliconValley in California. Professor Agrawal is the Founder Advisor to Agni Networks Inc., San Jose, California. Hisexpertise includes optical networking at Physical and Data link layers, optical and WDM interface, SONET andGigabit Ethernet and analog electronic systems. He is the author of a Textbook in Power Electronics, published byPrentice-Hall. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several researchpapers in IEEE journals and conferences.ESSAID BOUKTACHE is a member of the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at PurdueUniversity Calumet. Dr. Bouktache received his MS and Ph. D in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio StateUniversity in 1980 and 1985

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Eschenbach

large pieceof equipment seemed to make the first year female engineering students comfortable as well.K-12 Outreach ActivitiesAs part of the grant requirement, HSU SWE madeeight outreach visits with the flume during the 2000-2001 academic year. The SWE President VicePresident insured the success of this portion of theproject. Over the course of the year, the flume wastaken to the local indoor shopping mall; two middleschools; one high school; the elementary school forthe Hoopa Native American reservation; the highschool and community college career fair; a workshopfor junior high school girls; a SWE organized icecream social for science fair attendees and lastly, theflume was presented to the Redwood DiscoveryMuseum. Over 750 children

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

. Page 9.1166.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationReference[1] Benjamin C. Kuo, Farid Golnaraghi, "Automatic Control Systems",John Wiley & Sons; 8th edition Sep. 2002[2] Katsuhiko Ogata, "Modern Control Engineering (4th Edition)", Prentice Hall; 4th edition, Nov. 2001[3] http://www.coe.neu.edu/set/listserv.htmlDugan UmDugan Um achieved his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Wisconsin atMadison. After his dissertation, he joined Caterpillar Inc as a research engineer. After about 4years of industrial experience he started teaching career in the Texas State University at

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

participate in a multidisciplinary program focused on promoting careers inmass transport. Participating students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) improved and acquired skillsin areas such as software development, distributed computing, embedded systems, machinevision, image processing, and multimedia. The program complements UPRM’s ECE curriculumby combining a year-long development experience with participation in workshops, publicpresentations and report writing.As a way of illustration, this article presents two projects being developed by ECE students aspart of UPR/MIT/Tren Urbano Professional Development (TUPD) program, which is brieflyoverviewed first. The first

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hoskin; Ronald Welch

together a project from ground zero to the preliminary design. It was perfectly tailored for what I need to learn.• Students can make a difference.• We have the knowledge to solve real-world problems.• I know more than I thought I did about engineering and the problem solving methodology.• I learned that there is much more to civil engineering than what I have learned in formal training.• Working on an ambiguous project is more time consuming than other projects here.• How to think outside of the box.• That real-world problems require in-depth thinking and problem solving and that the skills I have learned earlier in my student career are actually applicable

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janak Dave; Thomas Boronkay

Shafts received her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the Universityof Cincinnati in June 2002. She had been working at the Nursing Home throughout her college career. Shecontinues to work there while finalizing her future plans. Page 8.267.7“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit; Richard M. Felder; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

students in the regular freshmanengineering course, including nine African-American students. (Most of the other African-American students in the freshman class were in a separate program designed specifically forminorities.)The data compiled included the following:• pre-admission data (predicted grade-point average, SAT scores).• responses to the Pittsburgh Freshman Engineering Attitude Survey (beginning and end of the fall semester, and for IMPEC only, end of the second semester). An instrument developed at the University of Pittsburgh that assesses attitudes toward engineering as a curriculum and career, self-reported confidence levels in core freshman-year subjects, and in the post-survey, attitudes toward the freshman year

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chu Chen Chen

2001. 8. Ginsberg, M., “New Directions in Federal Energy Management”, 17th World Energy Engineering Congress, pp. 555-562. 9. Lobash, M., “Finding a Space in a Facility Career.” Building Operating Management, February 2003. 10. Moriarta, Courtney, “The Next Generation of Energy Efficiency Professionals.” State Energy Program, Rebuild America Conference, July 29-August 1, 2002. 11. Mumma, Stanley A., “HVAC: The Next Generation”, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, January 2003. 12. The International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol, http://pmvp.org.CHU-CHEN (C.C.) CHENDr. Chen is an Endowed Professor in Construction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Kasra; Joe Iannelli; Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

coordinationto a lead faculty member. Often, this assignment is not viewed as career-enhancing and thusappointment is often made by the department head sometimes on a semi-voluntary basis. In anycase, in order to be effective as an overall ABET review coordinator, the selected individualmust be willing to devote a substantial portion of his or her time for several months and must bea "detail person" who can give attention to the many facets of the preparation process. Thecoordinator must also be thoroughly knowledgeable of ABET 2000 requirements in order toguide the activities of other program faculty. Additionally, the coordinator should anticipatemotivating and encouraging the other faculty members to keep the project on schedule. In ourcase, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

sense, theCAMS course acts as a “pathfinder” course, since it sets the stage for all the succeedingchemical engineering courses that the students will see in their academic careers.At the other end of their undergraduate academic career, the students encounter the senior-level Advanced Analysis (AA) class, in which problem-based learning is used to tietogether all of the material that the students have learned in all of their chemicalengineering courses between CAMS and AA.Two additional topics are covered during the second part of the semester of CAMS. Thesolution methods employed by the simulation packages are discussed in a general way, sothat the students can understand how the packages work (and, occasionally, don’t work)[Felder and

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorraine Stanton; David Murphy

Society for Engineering Educationoffer a degree in Fire Safety Engineering Technology. Of these, only a few institutions offer firesafety engineering classes via the web. A 2000 survey of metropolitan fire departments by Sturtevant indicates thatapproximately three-quarters of fire service professionals currently possess some type of 2-yeardegree, and that less than 25% of the same group has a four-year degree1. However, many ofthese professionals feel the pressure to obtain a four-year degree in order to increase theiropportunities for career advancement. For instance, Deputy Chief Hannan of the Charlotte FireDepartment has stipulated that a four year degree is mandatory beginning 2005 for advancementto a chief officer2.Distance Education

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

which students will have high motivation. They are described as follows2: 1. Enthusiasm: Teachers in these classes have high energy levels, and their interest in and enjoyment of the subject matter are obvious. As the students often put it “how can teachers expect us to be interested in a topic if they don’t seem interested in it” 2. Relevance: The students see course material as relevant, applicable, and important. They can relate it to their experiences and career goals. Teachers often make this relevance explicit to students through explanation and examples. 3. Organization: Teachers of these classes do not “wing it”. Their classes are organized, and their

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

students each assemble an electrical circuit analog of the same system. With the models,they make measurements of pressure and flow for both healthy cardiovascular parameters andfor several common diseases.Introduction – We developed our two freshman biomedical engineering courses around three goals: 1) tointroduce beginning students to our Department and the field in general; 2) to teach basicconcepts and principles that underlie several specialties in biomedical engineering; and 3) tochallenge the students with real-world problems, giving them a chance to assess their interest andskill level early in their academic careers. The purpose of this paper is to describe how weaddressed these goals in the first-semester's class by incorporating

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

focused.Program Participants (Students)ADMI program participants represent a wide range of industry sectors and large corporationsthrough to smaller companies. They typically carry position titles such as "Project Engineer","Design Engineer", "Maintenance Engineer", "Development Engineer" and various"Manager" titles. As well, a small portion of program participants hold senior positions (VicePresident, President, etc.) in their companies or run smaller entrepreneurial businesses.Most students indicate that they are involved in the program to develop enhanced skills tofurther their career opportunities as well as to pursue academic and professional interests andto develop enhanced professional and industry engineering credentials.Most participants receive

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

and technical colleges.Complementing these programs, 2+2+2 nanofabrication education pathways have beenestablished linking 41 secondary-level Career and Technical Institutes to communitycollege associate degree programs and baccalaureate programs. To promote the 2+2+2pathways, the NMT Partnership offers enormously popular summer Nanotech Camps formiddle and high school students (grades seven and above) at the Penn StateNanofabrication Facility. To date, 479 students have attended Nanotech Camps. Inaddition, intensive, three-day professional development workshops for educators andindustry personnel have been offered continuously at the Penn State NanofabricationFacility since 1999. To date 270 Pennsylvania educators and 275 industry

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Rates,” NACME Research Letter, Vo. 2 (2), 1991. 6. Snyder, N., and Bowman, B., “Improving the Pre-Engineering Education of Low-Income Minority Youth: Lessons from a Demonstration Project,” ASME Tech. Soc. Publ., Vol. 2, 1-6, 1989. 7. Baker, G., “Pre-College Preparation of Minority Students for Careers in Engineering,” Trans. of the American Nuclear Soc., Vol. 46, 35-36, 1984. 8. Das, M., “Novel Summer Camp for the Underrepresented Minority High School Students,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., Washington, D.C., 1997. 9. Engineering Institutions Ranked by Minority Retention Rates and Relative Retention Index, NACME Research Letter, Vol. 4, 1997. 10.Bibliographical InformationKeshav S. Varde is a Professor of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

, 1997.Biographical DataSLADE GELLIN received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977. Since that time he has spent his career inboth industry and academia developing engineering software. He is currently an assistant professor of mechanicalengineering technology.ANTHONY HOTCHKISS received his Ph.D. from Southampton University, England in 1977. He has worked inthe aerospace and computer industries before entering academia in 1987. He has more than 100 publications inCAD/CAM/CAE, and is currently a professor of industrial technology at Buffalo State College. Page 8.55.8 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

demonstrating the relevance of their science and math education to futurecareers. The prizes they earn by correctly answering questions give them a taste of the materialrewards that may be earned though an engineering career. Above all, this activity ensures thatparticipants have a good time as they are exposed to engineering concepts a direct andentertaining way. The student and faculty involvement in the development of the software usedin this outreach, the forums in which it has been used, and the responses of participants aredescribed. Applications of the software in chemical engineering courses are considered.Different modes of question writing are also discussed, including application of the lower levelsof Bloom’s Taxonomy.I. IntroductionOne of

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Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

great benefit for applied disciplines and technologies suchas Geomatics. The Adjunct faculty member of Geomatics in our department is in continuouscontact with providers of equipment and services in the field. These providers are interested inpresenting their products to students. Figure 4 shows the representative of a manufacturer ofrobotic equipment used in Geomatics explaining the characteristics and operation of the robots toone of the many women students in Structural Analysis and Design.Adjunct faculty teaching engineering technology at the University of Houston-Downtown areprofessional engineers successful in their careers and willing to share with students professionalexperiences accumulated over many years of practice. Most students at

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

arevery different; they are computer literate, mature, and prefer to integrate their studieswith work and family to achieve their career goals.Today, almost every higher education institution is engaged in educational programcontent delivery over the web at some level. However, the survey conducted for thispaper only includes those institutions that are engaged in distance delivery of laboratorycourses (Table 1). Table 1 Institution Course MIT Microelectronics WebLab. Rochester Institute of Technology On-campus laboratory. University of North Texas Circuits laboratory accessible by

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

of cost pressure has been asubstantial reduction in the internal training capacity of most US companies.Arizona has a large semiconductor industry with Intel, Motorola, STM, Microchip, TI,Medtronic, ON Semiconductor and ASML as the leaders. Total employment exceeds25,000 and more than half have some level of technical qualification. However, with anew technology generation every 2 years, there is a need for continuous skills upgradingand the majority of students taking technology courses in ASU (or the CommunityColleges) are already working in the industry. Students are seeking courses that willprepare them for the technology of the future and the skills to map out the knowledge andcredentials their future career plans require.(*) Motorola