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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

. TheNational Academy of Engineering committee on technological literacy noted these trends and suggesteda possible cause: Most people have very few direct, hands-on connections to technology, except as finished goods. They do not build the devices they use, tinker with them to improve their performance, or repair them when they break. Because of this lack of engagement, people today learn relatively little about technologies through direct experience.1Coupled with the lack of public understanding is the dearth of students, especially women andminorities, studying engineering in school and pursuing engineering careers. In 2002, fewer than sixpercent of the 1.1 million seniors who took the ACT Assessment college entrance

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Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

statement, with inputfrom faculty members, and to learn material not normally taught in class. The exact topicsstudents must learn are a function of the project. It is less important what they learn year to year.The goal is to make students realize that they will have to continue learning new materialthroughout their careers and that they have the ability to do so.AssessmentTwo assessment measures were used. In one, the two instructors use a rubric to evaluate,separately, all aspects of the final design report and oral presentation submitted by the studentseach semester. This rubric was developed in the context of more traditional chemicalengineering design problems. For example, since biology is not required in our curriculum, it isnot listed as a

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

and instrumentation are topics usually addressed after students have taken theirbasic math and science courses. Greenfield Coalition has taken an alternative approach, which Page 9.648.8introduces students to the topics in their first semesters. The advantage of this approach is that it Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationallows students to apply this knowledge to better see the relevance of introductory math andscience courses to engineering problems early in their careers. Retention of

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Nelson

, defense, and electronics industries. They design high-tech devicesranging from tiny microelectronic integrated-circuit chips, to powerful systems that utilize thosechips and efficient telecommunication systems that interconnect those systems. Technologicaladvances and innovation continue to drive computer engineering. There is now a convergence ofseveral established technologies, which has created many opportunities and challenges forcomputer engineers. This convergence of technologies and the associated innovation lie at theheart of economic development and the future of many organizations. The situation bodes wellfor a successful career in computer engineering.The Computer Engineering body of knowledge The most significant effort of the CCCE

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mulvihill

existing today.They also indicated that there was much work to be accomplished and a career in the waterindustry would be challenging and rewarding.Next, the students toured the Culver City water distribution system. Mr. Michael Gutierrez,(class of 1978) from the Southern California Water Company, gave the students an overview ofhow a small private water company supplies and maintains the distribution systems for severalsmall cities. He presented a schematic of the Culver City distribution system and then led a tourof a pump station and the equalizing storage tanks in the city. This provided the students withphysical examples of components they would utilize in designing a distribution system.Following this tour, the design of a water distribution

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Polytechnic Institute in an era whenall EE students knew the filament pins for a 12AX7. A senior member of IEEE, Banzhaf is the author of two bookson computer-aided circuit analysis using SPICE.AARON GOLDAaron Gold just graduated with B.S.E.E.T. and A.S.C.E.T. degrees from the University of Hartford's Ward Collegeof Technology with a minor in Computer Science. While taking courses himself, he taught laboratory sections ofcourses in both algebra-based physics and electronic engineering technology, including three sections of the EL 110course described in this paper. Gold was a president’s list student for all eight semesters, and plans to pursue agraduate degree as well as a career in Information Technology, while likely continuing to teach at the

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

potential sources offunding. The classes should be multidisciplinary because ethics does not depend on a particularconcentration. Also, it should always depend on students who want to learn and apply it to thereal world. Faculty must teach them by example as well as by lectures. Page 8.735.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEvery student is going to face ethical issues throughout his/her career. It is critical that they beprepared for these decisions. They must understand the impact their

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joni Spurlin; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Lickert scale forresponse, a short-answer segment, and a part where students were asked to rate their experiencesin their various freshman classes. Table 1 lists the statements in the first part.1=Strongly disagree, 2=disagree, 3=neither agree nor disagree, 4=agree,5=strongly agreeI feel like my first semester has been easy.The College of Engineering has been a welcoming place to start my collegecareer.I have discovered that engineering is not what I thought it was.I have used the computer more than I did in high school.I expect to do well in the College of Engineering.College has been exactly as I expected it would be.I know more about what I want to do as a career than I did before thissemester.Table 1: Statements to which students were asked

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Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Ashby

, providing the material for lectures and classes. These dovetail with thetexts 10, 11 in which the selection methods are developed in full. The progression through the three levels provides the students with the knowledge andconfidence to select materials for mechanical, thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanicaldesign, as well as processes for forming, joining and surface treating the materials. Itprovides a tool that they take with them when they leave the university and start aprofessional career.4. Further adaptation to student needs. The needs of a course for engineers working in aerospace design differs from those of onefor the design of civil structures or for product design. A benefit of computer-aided teachingis the ability to customise

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Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harmon

sufficient, mainly due to the generosity of several of the co-principle investigators who voluntarily declined any summer salary throughout the project.Perhaps the most valuable person associated with the ISIS project was the lead programmer. This person(J. Giron) had an educational background uniquely suited for the project. At the onset of the project, hehad just completed his M.S. in Water Resources Engineering, so he was intimately familiar with the worktasks to be simulated in ISIS. At the same time, Giron, like many engineering students in the mid-to-late1990s, was interested in pursuing a career in computer science/programming, and was therefore learning to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

, written and graphical communications in engineering practice and project management, and will have the corresponding skills to communicate with a range of audiences, and the skills to employ information technologies where appropriate. • The graduating student will acknowledge that technologies, economies and societies are in a continuous state of evolution, and should therefore have the flexibility to manage a career path that changes over time, and that is supported by life-long learning, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership and the ability to span several disciplines. • The graduating student will understand the global nature of modern engineering and

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

operations approach. Whiledrawing heavily from problems of the petrochemical industry, commodity chemicals, andpolymers, the core courses were adequate to prepare chemical engineers for careers in emergingareas of energy and environmental engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, and the diverserequirements of the pharmaceutical industries. Elective courses in these technologies were straightforward applications of the paradigm, as they were based on the same chemical engineering core;namely, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and transport phenomena. More importantly, over theyears, when chemical engineering departments brought into the curriculum advanced materials,combustion and fuel engineering, biotechnology, or environmental engineering, that

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

research careers. The previous glomerular filtration Page 8.464.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum included the use of quantitative and basic science examples designed to capture theinterest of this population. This learner centered aspect is maintained in the new module.Feedback between students and teachers is evaluated from the assessment-centered platform.The existence of opportunities for formative assessment that provide feedback and time forrevision prior to final summative

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Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd J. Griffiths; Anne J. Marchant; E. Bernard White

undergraduateprogram) in an engineering school might benefit from the lessons that we have learnedearly on. Most notable are changes in preconceived notions widely held by some IT&Efaculty and administrators as to the impact that the BS-IT program would have on thefollowing: student enrollment and their persistence in our existing calculus-intensiveIT&E majors; integrity of existing degree programs in related disciplines such as computerscience and management information systems; relationships with other GMU schools andcolleges offering related IT study options; overall quality, number, and diversity ofstudents who are preparing for careers in the IT profession; availability of resources tosupport both the BS-IT program and existing programs; and IT

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

culminate in formalengineering design reviews. These reviews serve several purposes. They help keep the studentson schedule by providing deadlines at regular intervals. In addition, they provide an engineeringreview experience similar to what they may one day experience in engineering practice. In orderto ensure this, two reviewers were recruited from local industry. Both were senior engineers whohad participated in many design reviews over their careers. Page 8.1152.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copywrite © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

of parts forprojects, a payment process, shipping procedures, and the approval and documentation ofpurchases.All industrial projects require an extensive amount of time outside of class for group meetings,trips to industrial sites, contacting suppliers, fabricating the machine or cell, and troubleshooting.But, it truly becomes a passion for the students to complete these projects. Many graduates havesaid that it was the most rewarding experience of their school career because it allowed them to“put it all together” into one comprehensive project.References1. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps”, SME Report, 19992. Wells, D., Editor, Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century, Volume 1: Curricula 2000 Report

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Smolleck

helpful to review briefly, in this paper, the fundamental goals andmethodology of the mentoring program as presented in [1]. The mentoring program wasactually initiated in the Fall semester of 2001. Its goal has been to encourage students toconsider power engineering as a career choice. Identifying students as early as theirfreshmen or sophomore years, and engaging them in power engineering, is seen as thepath to accomplishing this goal. A major incentive (from the student’s point of view) isfinancial support and the near-guarantee of a summer or co-op position. Students whoelect to participate in the program have the following opportunities: • Work with faculty during regular semesters while they take power area

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr; Heather Smith

experience in the freshman andsophomore years.Traditional methods of engineering education often involve a piece meal approach where thefundamental topics such as math, statistics and chemistry are taught as separate, stand-alonecourses. In some ways this is like eating a pie one ingredient at a time, where the seeminglyunrelated topics are devoid of integrative synergy.6 And since these support courses are takenearly in a student’s career it becomes more crucial to capture their attention and createenthusiasm, lest we see yet another change of major request. This is not to say that thefundamentals are not important nor are we here to entertain the students, rather we propose anapproach that gives the student an appreciation for real world problem

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

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.OMER FAROOK is a member of the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department atPurdue University Calumet. Professor Farook received the Diploma of Licentiate in Mechanical Engineering andBSME in 1970and 1972 respectively. He further received BSEE and MSEE in 1978 and 1983 respectively fromIllinois Institute of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

andtechnical school projects. These grants are made for the school for the support of the materialsrequired for the project and not for funding school overhead costs, faculty or student salaries.These grants are provided to engineering, technical and architectural schools worldwide. Byproviding this type of funding, ASHRAE hopes to fill a need often found in undergraduateengineering and technical school programs. Their goal is to increase student knowledge, learningand awareness of the HVAC&R industry through the design and construction of senior designprojects and to encourage students to pursue ASHRAE-related careers. Announcement of theUndergraduate Senior Project Grant Program is normally out by mid September of each year.Copies of the

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

, knowledge integration, innovation and troubleshooting experiences. It also created ownership, motivation, community, and course continuity. When working with the platform, students often need to choose one out of manysolutions, in contrast to the end-of-chapter problems that usually have only one correctsolution and rarely more than one way to find it. In this sense, the platform naturally putsstudents in the position of actual engineers. To solve these problems, students use manyof the procedures and practices that they will need later in their professional careers. Thisemulation of engineering practice encourages students to use their imagination andteaches them to be innovators, rather than replicators

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ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

been createdas a learning tool (not a homework solver). It is intended to eventually provide a suite ofapplications that would aid Electrical and Computer Engineering students in the process of theireducation by providing them with tutorials and interactive applications where they can ‘practice’their new found knowledge.MotivationWithin the electrical and computer engineering curriculum, fundamental theories and conceptsare taught that provide tools to be used by students in their upcoming careers. These topics aretraditionally taught in a classroom by professors engaging in discussion with the student.However, a lack of resources exists outside of the classroom to aid the student in theunderstanding of these topics. Software packages like

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

Demurrage Level of Service, e.g., Number of Berths (or Moorings) Figure 4. Competing cost curves for port operationsThese and other models have been included in the new course EN486A to enhance studentunderstanding of the solution techniques while gaining appreciation of their application in thestudents’ career field of choice. While the comprehensive nature of the course was challengingto the students who enrolled in the initial offering of this “Project Management” course, thefeedback through class discussions and course evaluations has been encouraging.Alternative courses in Project Management at USNAAs noted previously, three other track electives for the project management are EN412, EN450and EN445

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

fairly independent, autonomous courses to anintegrated, cross-coordinated organic shared curricular experience, complete with large publicevents and shared policies and course management systems.The circumstances driving these changes are a synergistic confluence of independent decisions toshift faculty assignments, seek senior design funding, coordinate senior design courses, start abusiness accelerator and, on the part of the School of Management, to get involved withengineering senior design. The net result is as outlined in this paper.Though it is too early to quantitatively assess the bottom line of the effects of these changes(student career satisfaction and success), such measurements will be done. In the meantime,there is general

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

the first two years of the program. These numbers willincrease as the program continues to endure and grow, expanding to the middle and elementaryschool level. This growth meets the project goal of helping teachers and schools increase thenumber of students who are better equipped for the technology/engineering component of theMCAS exam. In addition, these students will be exposed to new career opportunities and furtherdevelopment of problem solving skills that can be applied to all areas of their lives.Bibliography1 http://www.fairtest.org/care/Overview_of_MA_Ed_Reform.html http://www.doe.mass.edu/edreform/2 Technically Speaking, Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy Press

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Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

topics they have been addressing in their coursework.CONTEXTThis work presented in this paper is unique largely due to the collaboration between the Collegesof Engineering and Education. In this section, the context for the collaboration is established.Assessment of Student Learning in Introduction to EngineeringThe engineering course focused on in this collaboration is ENGR 102, Introduction toEngineering, a class taken by approximately 800 students each year in 20 different sections. Thefive learning objectives of the course are that students should: ‚ Learn how to use the design process to meet expressed needs. ‚ Become effective team members. ‚ Become effective communicators. ‚ Create career plans & develop the personal

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Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

the doors to an area of activity many of them see as a primaryreason for becoming an engineer. The growth of popular cable shows documenting motorcycleconstruction and other vehicle fabrication activities is having an impact on young engineeringstudents in our region. Comments suggest that they see an engineering degree blended withfabrication skills as a path to a successful career. They recognize value in the experiences of ME101, and see the wobbler project as a rite of passage to getting their ME degree.Lessons LearnedThis course was offered with the Wobbler assignment for the third time in fall 2003. Based onthe course outcomes assessment, specific student comments, and observations by the courseinstructor, several major improvements

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carnell; John Lumkes; Joseph Musto

entering college. For students with little or no previous programming experience, a single ten-week course was not sufficient for learning a programming language. • Specific weaknesses in the use of loops and the use of data arrays could be seen in a significant number of students. • Despite faculty efforts to motivate students with examples from engineering, many students still found the material in the programming course to be very “dry”, and many could not see (or did not believe) that programming would be an important and integral skill for both their academic and professional careers. • Many students had little interest in flowcharting their algorithms prior to coding, or in

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

Page 9.103.2 Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education • Given the broadening nature of electrical and computer engineering, and the rapid changes that the field will experience during students’ careers, it is more important yet more challenging than ever that ECE students develop a firm foundation in the basic phenomena, principles, and concepts underlying ECE, and understand their interrelations and practical application.In response to these concerns, the course EE 2799: ECE Design was developed in 20002 bythree ECE faculty who between them had over 70 years of experience as practicing engineersand engineering managers. The course has since become a de facto

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

a very large extent, and there is a need to have new texts in this area. It isinteresting to note that some of the current texts have already started to expound on thissubject. For example, Shigley and Mitchell [1] address the issue of stochastic approach indesign. Collins [10] and Dieter [11] address the issue of material selection. The overallcurriculum needs to have elements of computer-aided design both in terms of computergraphics as well as finite elements to address structural design of complex structures thatthe students would use in their professional careers and also to verify numerically thesolution of classical mechanics problems that are solved in a closed form. The entirecurriculum needs to have a modern and a novel outlook