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Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Marilyn Fowler, Austin Children's Museum; Christina Soontornvat, Austin Children's Museum; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Understanding the Effects: What Happens When the “New” Wears Off in Teacher Training” Proceedings of 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.iii Kolb, D.A., Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. 1984, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc, 1984.iv Bloom, B, Mesia, B., and Krathwohl, D., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: David McKay, 1964.v Austin Children’s Museum, www.austinkids.org accessed on January 6, 2009.vi Kao, G., Lin, S., and Sun, C., Breaking Concept Boundaries to Enhance Creative Potential: Using Integrated Concept Maps for Conceptual Self-Awareness. Computers & Education. December 01, 2008;51(4

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Computational Tools and Simulation I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sam Shearman, National Instruments

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Computers in Education

-view.cfm?id=16908. [4] Murat Tanyel, "Explorations In Communication Systems Using a Virtual Toolkit," 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Salt Lake City, 2003, http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper- view.cfm?id=18001. [5] S. Easwaran, "An Innovative Software Tool for Teaching Discrete Convolution from the Perspective of the Output Signal in Digital Signal Processing," 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Portland, 2005, http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=20967. [6] Murat Tanyel, "Virtual Toolkit As a Tool for Innovation," 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Chicago, 2006, http://soa.asee.org/paper/conference/paper-view.cfm?id=1016. [7] Marlin

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nhut Ho, California State University, Northridge; Robert Ryan, California State University, Northridge

) by changing the grading,complexity and time duration of the projects and assignments.Step 4: Compare design requirements with existing curriculumTo ensure that the design requirements capture and address all the existing shortcomingsin the curriculum, the team compared the teaching depth in the existing design-stemsequence (denoted by lower cases i,t,u) with the proposed teaching depth (denoted byupper case I,T,U), and identified broken links and weaknesses. As indicated in Table 2a-2d, many SKA’s, shown with lower case i,t,u are not currently addressed, and in manycases, students are expected to have a certain SKA for utilization but this SKA either wasonly introduced, or was not introduced or taught in previous year(s). Some of the

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark McDermott, University of Texas, Austin; Jacob Abraham, University of Texas, Austin; Mihir Ravel, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

requires the student to apply the knowledge of the three laboratory assignments to a realworld application. These applications include generating functional elements and libraries thatcan be used as building blocks in a larger VLSI implementation. The project is reviewed by thecourse instructor(s).Course 2 - Advanced VLSI DesignThe second course focuses on the “Early Design Planning” of complex SoC platforms andfeasibility analysis of critical circuits in the design. The students are required to do a class projectin lieu of individual lab assignments. The class project is designed to be as “real-world” aspossible utilizing a synthesizable open source Verilog model of a SoC as the design platform.The design platform undergoes detailed power and

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Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Zhi GE, North Dakota State University; Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University

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Continuing Professional Development

instructor-centered to a student-centered teaching philosophy.One of the most important tools for implementing this philosophy is use of innovativetechnology. Gradually, although controversy does exists (some senior faculty members choose tostay with their traditional in-class lecture delivery), web-based online teaching becomes anintegrated part of the program. Research showed that the online teaching is one of mostinteresting teaching methods that is growing rapidly.1, 2, 3Based on the previously noted issues, NDSU has recently launched a fully online M. S. degree inConstruction Management. Meanwhile, some undergraduate courses were selected, as well, foronline lecture delivery in order to best utilize the online teaching resources in conjunction

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Sustainability in Engineering Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Delfino, University of Florida

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Environmental Engineering

resource was being destroyed by toomany people demanding too much from a declining resource.By the early 1990’s, a newer term, industrial ecology evolved, wherein theinterrelationships among industry, environment and society were recognized. The termgained substantial credence when the text Industrial Ecology was published first in 1995 3followed by a second edition eight years later. Subsequently, the International Societyfor Industrial Ecology sponsored the publication of a new scientific periodical entitled theJournal of Industrial Ecology, starting in 1997. Selected applications of industrialecology appeared in a special issue of a companion periodical, the Journal of Cleaner

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1996 Annual Conference

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Richard L. Marcellus; Jr., John Felver; Joy Pauschke

University, 1992.5. _Ludwig, D., J. A. Harden, and R. H. Pusey, “Effects of Group Study on Student Performance in Freshman Engineering Courses,” Proceedings, 1993 ASEE Annual Conference: Shaping Our World Century II, Vol. 1, pp. 643-648.6. Panitz, B., “University of Michigan, WiSE Women,” ASEE Prism, March 1995, p. 15. Biographical Information JOY M. PAUSCHKE is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technologyand an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University (currently on leave). Dr.Pauschke serves as the faculty coordinator for the College’s academic residential program. She has M. S.,Engineer, and Ph.D. degrees in Civil

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Ron Darby

process, with the companies given theopportunity to select the student(s) with whom they wish to work. Industry Participation - Companies are recruited to the program by direct contact. When theyagree to participate, they are asked to provide a brief description of one or more projects or project areaswhich would be suitable for the research or engineering projects. The companies are provided copies of thestudents’ resumes, and the students are given the companies’ project descriptions. Interviews are thenarranged between the company representative and the students on the basis of mutual interest. There is noobligation for the company to choose any student, nor is there any guarantee to the student of a project.The companies offer

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Bill Manaris; Ingrid Russell

Bulletin 25( 1 ), ( 1993), 33-37.[7] Rich, E., & Knight, K. (1991 ). Artificial Intelligence 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill, Inc.[8] Russell, I. Neural Networks in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Collegiate Microcomputer, 9( 1 ), ( 1991 ), 1-6.[9] Russell, I. Neural Networks. The Journal qf Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications, 14(1), (1993), 75-88.[10] Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (1995). Artficial Intelligence A Modern Approach. Prentice Hall.[11] Thomas, R. A consideration of some approaches to course organization. SIGART Bulletin, 6(2), (1995).[12] Tucker, A. B., et al. (1991). Computing Curricula 1991 Report of the ACM/IEEE-(CS Joint Curriculum Task Force. ACM Press.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHINGRID RUSSELL is an Associate Professor

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Shelli Kay Starrett

al s, data fi l es, Instructor Info. Sch edul es, sampl e tests l i nks to si tes Course Info. on web Syl l abus Projects Reading Requi rements, Assi gnments, i nformati on, l i nks, data i nformati on on-l i ne, fi l es l i nks to si tes Figure 1. Model of a World Wide Web Site for a CourseVI. STUDENT WWW REPORTS As an alternative to submitting

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Barbara Blake Bath

students have when the machines do not perform. As part of the program, the students attended regularly scheduled seminars, The topics for the seminars in the first year were: ● Critical Thinking. ● Looking ahead to Physics, ● Biographies of noteworthy people from the various disciplines. d3ne11’s Law applied to calculus problems. .- ● Methodology in the disciplines. d$rnog. ● Revolutions - Scientific, Industrial, Darwinian, and what’s next ? ● Limits to Growth, ● More math-physics connections. The students had very strong reactions to some of the seminar topics. Their primary criticism was they

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Emil C. Neu

- the Sights and Sounds of Computing,” New York: The New York Times May 19, 1991, pp. 18, 19. 2. W. D. Baker, “Active Learning through Semi-Notes,” ~, 1985 Annual Conference, June 1985. 3. A. J. Grover, “Integrating Hypertext into Teaching the Computer Science Curricula,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference, October 1992, pp. 131-134. 4. H. W. Hill, Jr., “Projecting the Future of Overhead Projection,” Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, Twenty-First Annual Conference, September 1991, pp. 218-221. 5. C. S. Kunkle, “Effect of Visual Aids in the Classroom,” 1990 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, June 1990, pp. 473-476. 6. J. A. Martin, Multimedia

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Phillip J. Cornwell

Page 1.118.3w- . . - . - {~:~> 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,~ymlc..$ . ‘-”1related.-.. Concept maps have proven to be an effective tool to improve the effectiveness of lectures and to helpstudents achieve a greater depth of understanding of course material. References1. Dwyer, F. M., Strategies for Improving Visual Learning, Learning Series, State College, Penn., 1978.2. Bloom, B. S. (Ed.), “A Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The

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Daniel Davis

Station, built in 1910, was designed byHenry Bacon who worked with McKim in the 1880’s and was also responsible for the design of the LincolnMemorial.. And lastly, the Hop Brook School was designed by Theodate Pope Riddle who was apprentice toand worked with White in the late 1890s on the HN-Stead House, a residence commissioned by her father,Alfi-ed Atmore Pope,Theodate Pope RiddleRegistered in 1910 as Connecticut’s first woman architect, RhMe’s style uf aic}iecture developed froni hertravels throughout Europe, and her knowledge of the Arts and Crtis movement, Refbsed admission to all-malePrinceton, she supplemented her education with private tutors. In addition to the Hop Brook School, othernoteworthy projects include renovations to the

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David G. Meyer

. Opportunity #4: Another opportunity at our doorstep is the ability to make lecture presentation materials, as well supple-mentary course materials (both audio and visual), interactively accessible by students outside of class — in ahierarchical, cross-indexed fashion. Possible Pitfalls: Anyone who has attempted to create multimedia tools (or even Web pages) is well aware of thesignificant learning curve associated with most authoring tools. And since so many different possibilities existfor organizing databases of visual and audio materials (a de facto standard is yet to emerge), it is difficult todecide which authoring tool(s) one should (attempt to) master. Once the authoring tools have

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1996 Annual Conference

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Jerome P. Lavelle

teach engineering economy within theirrespective colleges/universities. The surveys, containing some dozen questions, were completed and returned tothe author during the fall semester of 1995 — the names of those who participated in the survey are given inAppendix A. The results of the individual questions from the survey are given below:QUESTION: Which department(s) Teaches Engineering Economy at Your School? Entity No. of Answer Entity No. of Answer That Teaches Responses Frequency That Teaches Responses FrequeIndustrial Engineering 26 54.2% Industrial Technology 1 2.1%Engineering

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1996 Annual Conference

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Arup K. Mallik; Sanjiv Sarin

. Ng = Efficiency of boiler supplying heat to the tank. If energy cost is given to be $4.20/MMBTU and the efficiency of the boiler is 80%, determine theannual cost savings. Assuming that the company expects 15% return on investments and the proposedinvestment has a life of 10 years with a zero salvage value, prepare the necessary information formanagement to make decision to accept or reject this project. Case 2: Relocation of Air Compressor Intake Outside air can be ducted to the intake of the plant air compressor(s). By utilizing the outside airas the supply, it is possible to reduce the energy requirement. Outside air is (on average) cooler andtherefore more dense and needs to be compressed

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Richard H. Selfridge; Karl F. Warnick; David V. Arnold

planes and the magnetic flux is shown using the tubes. Here the relationship between the two quantitiesis B=µ*H. planes of H N S tubes of B Figure 6. The magnetic field and flux forms in the air gap between two poles of a magnet. One commonly expressed definition of forms is that they are the things under integral signs. Theintegration of forms is very natural because the differential element of integration is carried in the form.The integral for a one form is a line integral. This same ease of integration extends to two forms and threeforms. Two forms are integrated over surfaces and three forms are

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Jo Ann Parikh

;’ Reference Manual, April, 1993.8. A. Silberschatz and P. B. Galvin, Operating Systems Concepts, ~th cd., Addison-Wesley, 1994.9. A. S. Tanenbaum, Distributed Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1995. JO ANN PARIKH is a professor of computer science at Southern Connecticut State University.Her interests include parallel and distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and object-orientedprogramming. Her address is Southern Connecticut State University, Computer Science Department,M0121, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 (E-mail: parikh@csu.ctstateu. edu). Page 1.208.6 . . ‘“x c

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Melissa Mattmuller

andbegin writing a lab procedure.Be certain paper work is in order. This includes medical releases, emergency numbers, etc.At drop-off timeRequire complete payment, remind parents of pick-up times, places and any final activities to which the parentsare invited.MELISSA S. MATTMULLER is assistant professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Purdue University,West Lafayette campus. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Missouri -Rolla. Industrial experience includes systems engineering, guidance/navigation/control design, and computersimulation. Page 1.460.7

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Robert P. Morgan; Nirmala Kannankutty; Donald E. Strickland

increased industryinvolvement, (2) the changing nature of the relationships between industry and university research, (3) thenature and characteristics of industry-sponsored engineering research in U. S. universities, (4) the role ofindustry sponsored research in engineering education and the perceived benefits to students of theirinvolvement in industry-sponsored research.Methodology A national mail survey of engineering faculty was conducted in 1993 by the Center for TechnologyAssessment and Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, with support from NSF. Using as a base the200 institutions with the highest ASEE reported research expenditures,l 1 a sampling frame of faculty wasconstructed from university catalogue listings. Included

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Subbarao Ivaturi; Joel Greenstein

’. Very little research has been published on applications related to engineering design or engineeringdesign education in a hypermedia environment. Further, “relatively little research has been devoted to carefullyexamining such issues as how team members interact with each othev whether such interactions vary over time,with the situation, and/or with team experience; what team members learn as they work together; and whatmeaning can be assigned to such terms as teamwork, coordination, and cooperation’’[s]. To begin to address these research needs, a hypermedia system was developed. This tool was used tointroduce engineering design students to teamwork activities. The main objectives of this study were toinvestigate the following

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1996 Annual Conference

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Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

The authors would like acknowledge the contributions of Frank Bazeli, Thomas Babin, Jeff Christensen,Corenna Cummings, Tamara Knarr, Newton Moore, and Augden Windelborn for this effort.REFERENCES[1] Black, K. M. “An Industry View of Engineering Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, 26-28, January 1994.[2] Claxton, C. S. and Ralston, Y. “Learning Styles: Their Impact on Teaching and Administration,” ERIC, Washington, D. C., 1978.[3] Barrington, Jr., J. “Understanding the Manufacturing Process - Key to Successful CAD/CAM Implementation,” Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1984[4] Kolb, D. A. “Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development,” Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

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John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

Page 1.74.5Time Between a Course and its Prerequisite The time between course i and its prerequisite(s), j, was used to determine a score, tb(i, j) for thisobjective. Shorter time is valued higher. For practical purposes, a time spacing of one year or less wasdetermined to be the minimum possible time between courses. n numPreq 0 if tb(i,j) 1Time Between Score = i 1 j 1 tb(i,j) if tb(i,j) > 1Scaling For a given curriculum, the rating of each factor in the multi-criteria model must be scaled to a commonrange before being added together. This requires knowledge of what represents a "best" and "worst" rating

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Lance Schachterle

their familiarity with mathematicalmodeling; with computer data bases, communications, and software; and with solving problems by decidingamong various conflicting solutions--is ideal preparation for employment in their fields.In the early ‘90’s, WPI faculty and administration recognized a pressing need to create new opportunitiesfor undergraduate engineering students to pursue unconventional career objectives in these fields at the“interface” between technologies and societal needs, such as pre-law or pre-health programs. Flexibility andminimal capital costs for such new programs were crucial in this “re-engineering,” and in no case was a newdepartment desirable. Instead, existing resources--especially WPI’S flexible, project-based curriculum

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W. M. Waite; Rommel Simpson

. $i!tI1’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘S.+,yyyc:: IWe therefore decided to reverse the order of these two courses in the process of changing them to the 5-hourformat. - Finally, since almost every system in any field of engineering involves embedded computers, we triedto broaden the erstwhile assembly language programming course into one that would benefit engineers fromother areas. Partially for this reason, but also to focus our attention on essentials, we changed its name anddefined the three courses in terms of outcomes:Elementary Programming: An understanding

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Jose A. Macedo

. D., “Assigning Students to Groups for Engineering Design Projects: A Comparison of Five Methods,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 3, July 1994, p. 259-262.[4 Dally, J. W. and Zhang, G. M., “A Freshman Engineering Design Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 82, no. 2, April 1993, pp. 83-89.[5] Fentiman, Audeen W. and Demel, John T., “Teaching Students to Document a Design Project and Present the Results,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 329-333.[6] Harris, T. A. and Jacobs, H. R., “On Effective Methods to Teach Mechanical Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 343-349.[7] Johnson, S. H., Luyben, W. L

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Henry G. Ansell

. vii3. S. Sharan, ed., Cooperative Learning; Theory and Research, Praeger, New York, 1990, p. xiv HENRY G. ANSELL Henry G. Ansell received a Ph.D. (Electrophysics) from Polytechnic Inst. of Brooklyn. He wasemployed for 25 years as an electrical engineer by AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since fall 1987 he has beenteaching at Penn State Berks Campus. Page 1.299.5 f$iii’ F 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.yllllj .

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Ronald P. Krahe; Thomas E. Russell

as low cost and lowpower consumption. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We wish to thank the American Meter Company, Penn State Erie Design Center, and the Ben Franklin PartnershipProgram of Pennsylvania for their support of this work. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.305.4 REFERENCES1. MacKenzie I. S., "The 8051 Microcontroller", 2ed, Prentice Hall, 1995.2. Barnett R. H., "The 8051 Family of Microcontrollers", Prentice Hall, 1995.3. Nachum A

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David W. Russell

the UK is based on nation-wide, standardized examinations. These are somewhat similar to the familiar SAT but far deeper in content and highly subject specific. By testing students at the end of 10th grade, only those intending to go onto college are allowed to stay in school for 1 lth and 12th. grades, at the end of which, the advanced (and scholarship) level examinations determine if the student is college-material. The student requests to which department within a colleges s/he wishes the results of these Certificates of Education examinations to be sent, and receives an acceptance letter direct from the institution. If no acceptances are forthcoming, a clearing house system then “introduces” students to colleges which