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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

chemistry, the students quantified the yield with adestructive test. Here, the students analyze the liquid product with gas chromatography.A diagram of the apparatus is shown in Figure 1. It is constructed entirely from basic labequipment; the only new items purchased were two micro-pumps costing less than $100total. The heat exchanger and reactor are both glass shell-and-tube heat exchangers.However, the tube side of the reactor is packed with 37 grams of Purolite 269 catalyst.This catalyst is a zeolite base that has been impregnated with a sulfonic acid group,C6H7NO3S. The catalyst has pore diameters ranging from 600 to 750 angstroms, with aspecific surface of 35 m2/g and a void fraction of 0.3.The water bath and feed tank are 10 L buckets. The

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

teaching programming can already attest to, present strategies for programming instructionrequire students to grasp not only the concept being presented but also the syntax necessary toimplement said concept. For example, when teaching loops in Java or C, students must not onlylearn the concept of iteration but they must also learn how to code such an instruction. Forexample, students are presented an added hurdle when “do this 5 times” requires them to write“for (x=0; x<5; x++)” as part of a repetition control structure. In Alice, “do this five times” willbe achieved as below (see Figure 1). Figure 1 - Sample for loop in Alice

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

program is to meet the intent of thecriteria. The generality of the specifications and the associated flexibility in operationalizingEC2000’s Criterion 3 learning outcomes (hereafter, the “a-k criteria”) have led to the emergenceof a wide array of items, scales, and instruments for assessing student performance on one ormore of the criteria. Few, if any, of the existing measures appear to have been developedaccording to the instrument/test-development standards generally recommended. Although thelanguage and steps vary to some degree, instrument development experts typically recommend atleast the following basic process:3,4 1. Identify content domains, the important concepts that need to be included in the instrument, and determine

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

time as an endeavor with historical, cultural, and socialmeanings, it resembles the communities of practice where Lave and Wenger grounded situatedlearning theory".Kegan5 argues there is often a mismatch between what schools and society expect of people, andthe abilities they currently have to meet those expectations. What is needed is a developmentalbridge to help them cross over, a bridge that acknowledges who they are now and fosters theskills needed to move forward. The VITDP is specifically designed to act as such a bridge forstudents, and is based upon three developmental principles: 1) knowledge is socially constructed,2) the individual’s developmental stage is key in knowledge construction, and 3) thisconstruction occurs through shared

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Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

involves the ability to findsolutions to problems by changing your point of view” 1.One way to teach innovation is to develop a systematic way of thinking or controlling patterns ofthought. There are many different kinds of such methods. Some examples include TRIZ 2,3,Lateral Thinking 4, Mind Mapping 5, and the Eight Dimensional Methodology for InnovativeThinking 6,7,9. Another option is to have hands-on activities such as 3-D puzzles and groupprojects which encourage students to be more open-minded and to experience joy in theirlearning and ideas. All of these methods are part of the curriculum in the course “InventiveProblem Solving” taught at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The goal of the course is toenhance the inventive thinking of

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Handy; Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

outside of the target maximum value of 50% relative humidity.Airflow Imbalance MeasurementsTo improve the potential air imbalance estimate, major sources of the inflow supply and outflowexhaust air were quantified through measurement or technical specification. Supply air isdelivered to the conditioned space and used for ventilation, heating, cooling, humidification ordehumidification. Table 1 provides a volumetric airflow summary for the specific site inflowsand outflows.Management provided the manufacturer estimated airflow data for the air handling units (AHU),which were being used to estimate the outflow from the manufacturing space. Since thedischarge ducts of the AHUs ducts were accessible on the roof of the manufacturing space, aneffort

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Wayne Sanders

with different backgrounds. This corresponds to working with groups in engineeringdesign where the members have different backgrounds. The presentation of the languageproject work was open to the public and promoted outside feedback, just as in engineeringdesign.1 BackgroundKanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) is a private college in Kanazawa, Japan and hasthree departments - engineering, environmental studies and architecture, and informationscience. It receives approximately 1500 to 1650 undergraduate students and 200 graduatestudents each year. The City of Kanazawa is located facing the Sea of Japan and can bereached by a 4.5 hour train ride, or 50 minute flight, from Tokyo. Although students come

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ning Fang

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

opportunities for jobenhancement and professional growth.History and BackgroundThe medical device industry had worldwide revenues of $195 billion and US revenues of $95billion in 2003 and is growing at 6% per year. The industry employs 1 million or more people inthe US, Europe and Japan. Ten companies control 35% or the US market, with five of thosecompanies located in Minnesota.i There are 800 registered medical device firms and more than520 FDA approved medical device establishments currently in Minnesota.ii About 2,500medical device related patents were registered to Minnesota companies between 1997 and 2001,and Minnesota has the nation’s highest number of investigational medical devices and FDApremarket approvals of medical devices per 100,000

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

proficiency and natural depth of“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” analysis. Students are always more motivated and cooperative when they understand the pedagogical goals and guidelines of the instructor.Putting things into perspectiveI have described above a number of specific techniques to engage a circuit class in a way that,presumably, facilitates the emergence of professional competence and confidence. It isnevertheless important to put things into a right perspective. In this regard some questions donaturally arise.1) Is it reasonable to credit the formation of a well-rounded, confident

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Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

attitude and personality driven, a significant component involves the appropriateunderstanding and expectations of members representing other engineering disciplines that workon the same design project. The Citadel in Charleston, SC is a military college with traditionalcivil and electrical engineering programs. Traditionally, ocean and marine engineering subjectcontent has only been introduced in a few classes as related to faculty experience. During theirfinal semester, students select and take one of four Capstone courses that include (1) structural,(2) environmental, (3) transportation, and (4) site development. Students in these courses worktogether on multidisciplinary teams to design roadways, subdivisions, buildings, bridges, and awater

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Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Involving High Schools Students in a University-Level Mechanical Engineering Design Competition Michael Robertson1, Joshua Vaughan1, William Singhose1, Michael Pastirik2, Marion Usselman3, Donna Llewellyn4 1 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 2 Cedar Grove High School, DeKalb County School System 3 Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing 4 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Georgia Institute of Technology

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Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary McDonald; Charles Knight

“REAL” qualities of a course and/orlaboratory may be more difficult to define due to inadequate interest and sustainabilitybeing provided by the university and faculty. The senior mechanical engineering (ME)laboratory at UT-Chattanooga as described in this paper has both ME faculty, university,and external support required to sustain the many positive attributes associated with thelaboratory. Page 10.240.1“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”AttributesThe attributes of the senior ME Experimentation Laboratory are:(1) Utilizes Modern

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Wollin; Ronald Bennett; Melanie Steinborn; Al Dombrowski

recommendations. Finally, the speaker would detail what actuallydid happen, and more discussion would result.In one case, the speaker was working on a new venture that had not yet beenresolved. This case was presented by a venture capitalist. An inventor hadproposed a radically new medical treatment with great promise but limited testdata. In the due diligence process, several issues were revealed that could be dealbreakers: there was technology risk, time to revenue was 3-4 years and the FDAapproval path was unknown. The venture capitalist was faced with fouralternatives: 1) let the project die, 2) sell the technology, 3) put a newmanagement team together and write a new business plan or 4) form an interimteam and do a phased approach with limited funds

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”1. INTRODUCTIONConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the PennState University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring and control of theconstruction projects. The emphasis of these courses is on engineering design of the constructionprocess. Students gain the knowledge necessary to apply engineering principles to the analysis ofeconomical approaches to construction project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control.There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethical conduct in these

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Mays

. Page 10.1152.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn an effort to address the issue of design and to create an environment that encourages activelearning, The Citadel’s Mechanics of Materials Laboratory (CIVL 307) course has beenrevamped. Approximately half of the traditional professor designed laboratory exercises havebeen replaced with new equipment and new exercises that allow for student design experiences.Figure 1 shows some of the outdated equipment from the old exercises and Figure 2 shows someof the new equipment used in the fall 2004 course. The initial five laboratory exercises

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

others.In this research I explore student response to and utilization of CES4 software and testhypotheses about how it might be received by students with different learning styles. In a recentoffering of a large enrollment introductory course, students were provided with the most basicversion (Edu Level 1-2) to augment a traditional textbook. While the content and generalapproach of the course remained the same as previous offerings, assignments were modified toinclude questions that drew on CES4 in some way. In addition, students were encouraged to usethe software as a resource for an optional course project. Concurrently, students’ learning styleswere measured using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and questionnaires wereadministered to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

From BEEVT to DLR – NSF Supported Engineering Education Projects at Virginia TechVinod K. Lohani1, Mark Sanders2, Terry Wildman3, Jeff Connor1, Kumar Mallikarjunan4,Theo Dillaha4, John Muffo5, Tamara W. Knott1, Jenny Lo1, G. V. Loganathan6, GregAdel7, M. L. Wolfe4, Richard Goff1, Mike Gregg1, Mike Chang4, Foster Agblevor4,DavidVaughan4, John Cundiff4, Ed Fox8, Hayden Griffin1, Sue Magliaro9 1 Department of Engineering Education/ 2Professor and Program Leader, Technology Education/ 3Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching/4Biological Systems Engineering/5Academic Assessment Unit/6Civil and Environmental Engineering/7Mining and Minerals Engineering/8Computer Science/9Director, School of

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

lead a design team of a company and grow as technology advances, to express himself/herself in written and oral form, to be able to function as a project engineering immediately upon graduation, or undertake graduate studies in a variety of professional fields.The three primary objectives of the program are: 1. To produce an engineer capable of functioning as a project engineer upon graduation. 2. To develop professional design skills. 3. To produce and engineer capable of professional-level written and oral expression.We recognize that many of our students will not become or remain designers. While theirtraining will allow for this option, and certainly many take this route, many others will pursue adifferent career

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

Professional Orientationcourse in the School of Engineering. The paper reports on a longitudinal study of academic performance of firstentrant engineering students who enrolled at the University of Pretoria in 2000 and compares performance of theunder-prepared students with that of other first year engineering students.Five Year Study ProgramThe standard university engineering program in South Africa requires four years of full timestudy as regulated by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). In 1994 the Five YearStudy Program (5YSP)[1] was introduced in the School of Engineering at the University ofPretoria (UP). This program is structured in such a way that the academic courses of the first two

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Smith

encourage placement of graduating engineers in a global environment?Objectives: • Profile engineering/technology academicians from China, India, South America and the Middle East to enhance understanding of country differences • Share Fortune 500 transnational engineering recruitment preferences • Explore marketing techniques to successfully attract international students • Create an environment for retention of all studentsProfile 1: ChinaHigher education opportunities in China are very limited as compared to the United States (US).1The Chinese government heavily funds economic growth, yet this is not the case for education.The government of China invests merely 2.3% of its GNP 2 into the educational system, ascompared to an

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Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhiyong Zhao; Joe Hagerty; J. P. Mohsen

submit a one-page summary of the case. The casepresenter graded the summaries. The way this course was taught has been described elsewhere (1). Not all of thepresenters followed the original format exactly; one week was devoted to a first session in which studentsparticipated as “evaluators” of highway noise barriers in a simulated public meeting scenario, and then a secondsession where they presented their evaluations of actual highway noise barriers in the vicinity of the campus; theymade the evaluations in groups between Monday and Thursday. Another presenter showed evidence of ten differentinstances of structural distress and asked the students to explain the causes of the distress. 1 CEE Department, U. Louisville, Louisville, KY

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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

reward system is attributable to the introduction of increasedfederal funding in engineering research after World War II.1 Funding constraints facing publicinstitutions creates a situation where the golden rule applies. The golden rule states that the personwho brings in the gold rules. Thus, the faculty members that bring in the large research grants arerewarded greater than the faculty in the trenches focusing on student development and service toindustry.In the case of engineering technology faculty, this challenge shows up when student contact hours areincreased inordinately when research is not required. High teaching loads limit the time faculty haveto work with industry. Either an emphasis on research or heavy teaching loads will tend to

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

(Table 1).1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Table 1: Digital-Age Literacy for the 21st Century Literacy Type Description Basic Literacy Language proficiency that enables a student to develop his/her knowledge-base Scientific Literacy Knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes, that enables students to make personal decisions, participate in civic and cultural affairs and contribute to economic productivity. Economic Literacy

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Om Agrawal; Fred Fontaine

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford Mirman

was the interdisciplinary aspects of manufacturingand electrical students working in teams. However, this project was completed by a group offour MET students. The project was supplied by a regional division of Caterpillar, and itrepresented an excellent opportunity to blend many aspects of the MET curriculum with areal-world industrial problem. The project arose from the need to apply 50# steel lugs to asteel wheel (figure 1). Figure 1 – Lug attachments on compactor wheelCurrently, workers are lifting the lugs and securing them for the welding process. In this Page 10.160.6process, some workers injure themselves

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

pads on the PCB surface, as shown in figure 1. The example in figure 1 isbased on IPC standard IPC-A-610, Revision C, January 2000, “Acceptability of ElectronicAssemblies”. It shows both target and acceptable placements for chip components, for the threeclasses of electronic assemblies. These classes are: • Class 1: general/consumer electronic products • Class 2: dedicated service electronic products where failure is highly undesirable but not critical, such as servers and telecomm products • Class 3: high reliability products, where failure is considered unacceptable, such as life-support electronics and missile systems. Figure 1. Example of allowable SMT placement. SMT assembly

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

undergraduate students to the concepts and practices ofentrepreneurial thinking. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, student led discussions,team business plans, and investor presentation formats, the course teaches life skills inentrepreneurial thought and action that students can utilize in careers ranging from startingcompanies to initiating R&D projects in large company entrepreneurial endeavors. Major coursethemes include: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis, andBusiness Planning. The table 1 also shows the content of the course3.Course objectives include exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and culture that has beendeveloping in companies of all sizes and industries; examine the

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

results of three main questions for study: 1) whetherstudents’ perceptions of their ability in various engineering skills changed over the course of theclass, 2) whether students’ perceptions of career goals changed over time, and 3) whetherstudents’ interest in community service changed over the course of the class. Results indicatethat students perceived learning gains in key product design areas such as ability to design newproducts, creativity, and problem solving, and some differential effects were found for women.Students, particularly minorities, also increased their orientation toward a service approach,changing their professional aspirations away from consulting and medicine to more innovativeproduct development work and graduate

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

learning grants program were given to increase faculty awarenessof the resources available at MIT for such work.Most of the questions allowed for an open-ended response; however, a quantitative scale wasused for two questions targeting faculty’s future behavior: “On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not Page 10.625.3at all open, and 10 being completely open, how open are you to trying service learning in classes Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationyou teach?” and “Assuming the [service learning