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Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

provide a description of the course design, highlights of specificprojects, past and current, and results and evaluation of the capstone course sequence in assistivetechnology. Conclusions and future plans are also provided. Page 6.871.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education2. Course DesignThe senior design course is a two-semester (6 credit) capstone design sequence. All of theprojects involve conceptual design, computer-based modeling and analysis, and the actualconstruction and testing of a

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Stanley Pisarski; Beverly Hunter; Kathy Bearden

Technology ProjectsMany of the Civil Engineering Technology department senior project ideas result frominteraction with community or governmental groups. Two projects completed within the pasttwo years entitled “Foustwell Access Project for the Stonycreek Whitewater Park” and “Designof a Maintenance Facility and Access Road for Whitaker Roads Corporation” are examples ofsuch interaction. Students select projects that incorporate personal interests and offer designchallenges.The Stonycreek Whitewater Park is in the planning stage. A local canoe club, the planningcommission and the local government are all interested in developing a section of the StonycreekRiver for recreational and tourism purposes. A member of the planning commission brought this

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Jerry Sellers; Douglas Bayley

failure, FalconSAT-1 represented an academicsuccess for the program as cadets participated from “cradle to grave” in a real-worldmission with an all too real-world outcome. Cadets designed and built FalconSAT-1’spayload and subsystems, and they were integral in the mission operations from devisingoperations plans to participating in the launch campaign. Cadets also manned theAcademy’s ground station during overhead passes of a satellite not operating undernominal conditions. Cadets involved with trouble-shooting the anomalies soon afterdeployment certainly gained deep insight into system functions and operations.Table 1 summarizes the various milestones in the Academy’s Small Satellite programthus far. The current project, FalconSAT-2, is the

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Satinderpaul Devgan

, 11]. Aconcept model for such a graduate level program is shown in figure 1.This program should provide a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms and softwareengineering along with a clear understanding of computer architecture and operating systemrelationships. It should provide a solid background in systems engineering approach to systemdevelopment from need analysis, through identification of system functional and operationalrequirements, technical performance measures, preliminary and detailed design, construction andoperation, and system retirement with coordination of all the activities through a systemengineering management plan (SEMP). The program should also provide a strong understandingof the communication and network

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Kwok Pang

, three hours for lectures and three hours fordesign laboratory. The model is used extensively to show how a plant is designed andconstructed, from process engineering, detailed equipment design, piping, civil electrical andinstrumentation and finally to construction.They now appreciate how complex the piping network is or how and why such a plot plan is puttogether. Students also have an opportunity to visit the actual plant in Chevron’s El SegundoRefinery. It is such a treat to the students to finally see the real plant, exactly the same as themodel which they have studied for several years. They climbed to the platform to see the largeair-coolers and their exposed finned tubes. They marveled at the height of the depropanizer.The design

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Hugh Jack

class was able to do a project that uses mature tools and tech-niques to design and build a complex workcell. The project chosen by the students was to usedevelop a system to make customized penholders. The students planned out the system architec-ture, and then implemented it, as described in the following sections.3. The System LayoutThe system was designed to mill out penholders on precut 6” by 6” wood boards. The boards weremilled with an “S” or “M” for local football teams (Spartans or Michigan), and with a hole to holda pen. The decision to use an “S” or “M” was be based on an order placed at a computer.Figure 1 shows the layout of the workcell. The precut wood started in the custom built Feeder.When an order was placed, a pneumatic

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Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

concerning this project is already being done via the Internet by having the tele-experimentation system’s home page linked to the Departments’ home pages. These activitiesare being undertaken with the secondary objective of motivating lower-level Engineeringstudents and influencing pre-college students everywhere, but particularly in the region (themajority of whom are Hispanic), to study Engineering.Impact on faculty and other researchers Firstly, the project director and co-director had the opportunity to investigate how toimprove distance education using the Internet and to exercise their project management skills incarrying out a plan for doing so. Furthermore, it is under planning for faculty and other researchers who are off-campus

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David R Finley

• when I secure external funding • when I get tenure, etc.The real answer to this question is that life is now! And, it is important to find the properbalance between living for the moment and planning for the future.As academicians, we have been groomed to be goal-oriented. We have been extensively trainedin an environment that rewards us for working hard to achieve the next level of success. Thetendency to believe that everything will be wonderful (or at least easier) once that next barrier iscleared is a difficult mindset to break. This idea that life’s troubles will suddenly be lessened orremoved following the completion of some goal is a perilous trap in which to fall.In many respects, life can be thought of simply as a series of hurdles

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Thomas Currin

transportationengineering as part of the undergraduate curriculum. What works and what does not at this levelis presented with suggestions for others implementing such a program. In addition, a stepwiseprocedure for monitoring the changes via learning outcomes assessment is presented.Introduction: Historically, transportation engineering education has been limited at theundergraduate level. Specific topics of transportation planning, traffic engineering and highwaydesign have been limited in depth and breadth due to the limitations of the undergraduatecurriculum. In addition, educators have implied through their practice that undergraduates aretoo immature to appreciate the subtleties of and detail associated with these topics. It isunderstood that

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Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

3. Boundary Conditions (Liao, PML) 4. Implementation of Microstrip Structures using FDTD 5. Source Excitation 6. Fast Fourier Transform 7. Computation of S-parameters • Statistical Techniques 1. Design of Experiments (DoE) 2. MetamodelingThe goal of the course is for the students to perform research at an undergraduate level. At theend of the course the student will be able to define a work-plan, timely follow a work-plan,clearly communicate ideas both in written report and oral presentations, facilitate effectiveinterpersonal relationship within a team, effectively used CAD tools (XFDTD) for the simulationof passive structures, clearly and effectively

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Melissa Lin

queries against the de- normalized data? • Will system performance be acceptable or unacceptable after de-normalizing?Physical Design of Data ModelsAfter designing the logical data models, we designed the physical data models toimplement the entities and relationships of the logical data model with DB2. In thephysical design, we defined data naming and data type, reviewed the table plan, andcreated DB2 tables, table space and indexes to maximize database access performance Page 6.1085.5within a DB2 data structure. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

team. This strategy permits a faculty member tosupervise two teams simultaneously with the help of the SAs. At the beginning of the labperiods, there are short group activities that build on the topics discussed in the lectures such asteam building and brainstorming exercises.At the beginning of each week, the course staff including the faculty, SAs, and TAs, had a one-hour meeting to discuss the lecture and lab activities of the week and to plan the activities of thefollowing week. This meeting was extremely important to keep the design process proceeding onschedule in all the lab sections.In the semester that I taught the course, I chose biomedical engineering projects for my twoteams from a list of potential design projects solicited from

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William Watkins; John Sullivan

Astronautics(Engineering) (AAE) has joined forces with the Aeronautical Technology Section (AOT) of theUniversity’s Department of Aviation Technology (AT) on experimental basis to provide seniorlevel students with a design/build/text experience in an interdisciplinary team environment. Thepaper identifies the two types of projects (specific objective and research) used in support ofinterdisciplinary activities. It describes previous projects and discusses some of the successesand difficulties experienced in pursuit of this effort. Industry’s reaction to these interdisciplinaryteam activities is discussed, as well as, future plans for the expansion of interdisciplinarydesign/build/test team projects.IntroductionPurdue University provides a unique

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Corrosion BatteriesAfter the work of the committee, the author was assigned to teach this course. With the abovethemes in mind, the detailed content of each lesson was planned. Table 3 provides a list ofcovered topics, and the engineering examples used. Note that these are not necessarily given in Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.700.5 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationorder of their presentation throughout the semester. While it is not possible to describe alllessons in detail, two examples

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Jeffrey Johnson; Janet Rutledge; Eric Sheppard

(NSB), the governing body of the NSF. Thenew criteria were implemented later in 1997 and are now an integral part of the reviewprocess at the NSF. These two criteria ensure that all NSF funding decisions are madebased on a consistent definition of excellence. The two criteria are characterized by thetwo following questions in the context of the GRF. The lists of items beneath eachquestion are examples of the types of evidence that reviewers look for in eachapplication.What is the intellectual merit of the applicant? • Ability to work as member of team as well as independently, to communicate, to plan & conduct research, • Strength of academic record, • Proposed plan of research & previous research experience

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Jeffrey Mountain

meter to produce data points and all of thedata was collected for the lab section. The data for each set of measurements was randomlydistributed, providing a hands-on experience to introduce means and standard deviations as toolsfor estimating population characteristics. This also provided a set of choices to use whenestimating the torque required to move their tractor and sled. The motor characterizationexperiment was conducted as previously described.The Beginner’s Interdisciplinary Group TRActor Pull (Project BIGTRAP) built upon the lessonslearned during previous FOE projects. As mentioned previously, cost of materials was to be adesign constraint, project planning using either a Gantt or a PERT chart was required, thescheduled date for the

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Carlos Morales

provides a theoretical bandwidth of 11Megabits per second, which was more than sufficient for delivering full-screen full-motion video, but only had a range of one hundred fifty feet. Multiple access ports can beplaced throughout an organization to provide a wireless access area beyond the 150 feetrestriction of a single access hub. Within the confines of the development phase of thisproject a single access hub was used. It worked as expected. The author found themaximum sustained bandwidth to top out at approximately 7.6 megabits per second.VII. Future plans & conclusionIn the end, the system provided the necessary infrastructure and media deliverycapabilities to operate as an on-site reference tool for learners, but could be improved in

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Xudong Yu; William White; Scott Smith; Keqin Gu; Jerry Weinberg; Cem Karacal; George L. Engel

disciplines by means of guest lecturing in courses andhaving students in one discipline demonstrate their projects to students in another. This latterapproach provides a good opportunity for students to practice presenting technical concepts to anaudience from an alternative area of expertise, an important real-world skill (as evidenced by theneed for the MPAG itself). Area Course Concepts Emphasized Concepts Shared Computer Artificial Intelligence Embedded agents, deliberative/ Subsumption architecture, Science reactive robot control, planning, search strategies, multitasking

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Karen Davis; Jr., James Caffery; Jr., Fred Beyette

and planning on the part of the student, as well asrequiring exploration of various resources to justify items on their resumes. The resume includesthe following items: 1. G.P.A. and class ranking (out of 50 students), 2. name of college, major, minor(s), and date of graduation (e.g., University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, EE or CompE major, VLSI/Photonics/Math/etc. minor, June 2005), 3. all honors and awards earned, 4. co-op experience (where, how many quarters, responsibilities), 5. technology skills mastered, and 6. campus organizations/activities.In addition to the one page resume, one page of justification that includes the following issubmitted: at least one library

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Ram Mohan; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Krishnamurthy Jayaraman; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Ed Evans; Charles Petty; Andre Bernard

. These meetings allowed thestudents and the industrial mentors to decide upon the scope and set the expectations on theprojects.Part of the training at the bootcamp included a discussion on the state-of-the-art of CFD software,its limitations, and interpretation of results. These discussions were provided by AEA TechnologyInc. and by Fluent Inc.At the end of the bootcamp each of the design teams presented their plan of how they were goingto solve the problems proposed by the industrial mentors. The students were given instruction onhow to interact through email or the WebTalk bulletin board at the MSU web site to work on theirprojects and to discuss course material. ii. Web courseThe purpose of the web course is to provide the students with

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David DiBiasio

professional staff. The same staff handles health and travel issues,risk management, and re-entry issues. At the completion of a project, each student team submitsa substantial written report to the sponsoring agency and the faculty advisor. In addition, aformal presentation is made to the agency.Our goal is to maximize the benefits of this experience not only for the students, but also for allinvolved. Developing a comprehensive assessment plan for the entire program, given its complexnature, is indeed a challenge. A variety of surveys, interviews and other tools are used toevaluate many aspects of the operation. The main product-oriented evidence currently used toassess student outcomes is the written report. New initiatives are underway in a

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Francis W. Derby

such as grants, teaching awards and scholarships can behighlighted because they bear testament to a recognition of the faculty person’s effectiveness asa teacher.Future Goals with Respect to TeachingFollowing responses and feedback from students and peers, it is possible to develop a plan forimproving both the course content and teaching method. The plan should include short termand long term goals. Short term goals could be improvement in frequency of studentassessment, an increase in the frequency class discussion sessions, or modifications in thelaboratory assignments. These are goals that can easily be accomplished within an academicyear. Long term goals may include the use of audio-visual materials in class, addition ofcomputer-based

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Ilya Grinberg

demonstrated and measurements are recorded.At the relay laboratory the students are exposed to digital relays and perform actual testing of anovercurrent relay using the company’s tools and software.5. Senior Design ProjectAt the beginning of the second semester the students are assigned a senior design project. Theproject objectives are to perform preliminary design of a power distribution system for anindustrial facility. Students are given a site plan of the facility as well as dimensions of thebuildings. Load characteristics are given for each of the buildings with one building being givenin full details. After determining rated demand for the facility, the students have to adjust powerfactor of the plant and to propose at list two variants of the

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

Outcome Goals Goals Assurance Plan ASSESSMENTS Curriculum/Program School Level Institution Level Constituency Group A: State; SCHEV; BoV; Other Constituency Group B: IT&E Advisory Board; Employers; NVTC; Administrative Council; Alumni; Student Leaders; Student Advisory Group; Other Constituency Group C

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Arturo Fuentes; Cristina Villalobos

& Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationNACME plans to develop a national public service advertising campaign to educate the publicabout issues related to a higher education.4 Since many of UTEP’s students are first-generationcollege students, parents may not fully appreciate the value of a higher education. These parentsmay be less informed about the process and be less able to guide and support their children duringtheir college education. In fact, research shows that first-generation students have higher attritionrates, whereas students who have a parent who earned at a minimum a bachelor degree are morelikely to complete college2.Studies have shown that students employed full-time

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Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

designcourse as a major source of assessment data for EC 2000 accreditation. We have shown at bycarefully planning the process for grading the design reports and presentations, we can obtaindata for Criterion 3, items a, b, c, d, e, g, i and k, leaving only items f , h, and j for assessment inother courses.VI. References[1] URL http://www.abet.org/eac/EAC_99-00_Criteria.htm[2] Skvarenina, T.L., “Developing a Department-Wide Learning Assessment Program,” Proc. 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, St. Louis, MO, Session T1A, Oct. 2000.[3] Daniels, P., and Mailer, K., “Assessment of the Senior Design Experience and ABET 2000,” Proc. Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre

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John I. Hochstein; Deborah Hochstein

excellent documentation to help satisfy the new Engineering Criteria 2000(EC2000) accreditation guidelines published by The Engineering Accreditation Commission ofThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). One component of thecurriculum development plan is to perform several DACUM workshops focused on differentindustries that hire significant numbers of our graduates. Over the past few years the departmenthas recognized that an increasing number of our graduates are being hired by localmanufacturing companies. Although several members of the faculty have industrial experience,most have little experience with the small to medium size manufacturing concerns that areprevalent in Memphis. Given the limited experience base, and the

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Winston F. Erevelles

interfaces for the cellThe author and the laboratory technician adopted a predominantly advisory role where they wereinvolved in all discussions. The team itself was led by a student project manager who wasresponsible for the execution of the project according to the plan, within the time allocated forthe project, and within the budget allocated for the cell. Since the area of injection molding andthe specific equipment used for the process was new to some of the class, a special session wasled by Professor Gwan Lai of the department to familiarize the participants with the process andthe machine.In each of the major areas identified in the preceding table, the following strategy was adopted2.• Discussion of underlying theory• Discussion of current

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Gay Canough; Linda M. Head; Ravi Ramachandran

will describe the design process that thestudents persued and describe the results that were obtained by the end of the first semester’swork.Description of the Design Process We began the semester by setting the task schedule that we thought would be required tocomplete the lantern design and construction in a single semester. In retrospect this was overlyambitious, however it did set a high standard for the group. Table 1 shows how we planned toorganize the tasks for the semester. The students were very excited about the project andplanned to see it to completion in the span of the semester. Table 1. Task Planning for Solar Lantern Project TASK JAN FEB MAR APR

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Patricia Backer

, multimedia course. The course chosen for this project wasTechnology & Civilization, a general education science-technology-society course. This courseis required for Industrial Technology majors in the College of Engineering as well as being apopular Advanced General Education course for other majors at San Jose State.A needs assessment for this course was done, eliciting input from faculty and experts in thefield. An overall framework for the multimedia document was developed that was used as theplanning document for subsequent development. This plan was evaluated for content using theexpertise of many faculty members in addition to evaluation from an instructional perspective.Before any multimedia development work was done, a faculty panel