Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

toemphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they will encounter asengineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning and improvement inthe design of this course.9 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuous steps: Plan, Do,Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students did not learn whatwas intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycle again underslightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because it leaves roomfor change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” orComplex Systems (see the class web page at http://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). Thisallowed room in the course for

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Matthews; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

conclusion.MissionThe virtual center promotes the opportunity to gain the knowledge and innovation skills to copewith the formidable technological, economic, social, and financial changes associated withcreating value from technological knowledge in an age of global competition. The focus of thecenter is on the rapid transfer of research, knowledge, and technology from the laboratory tothe marketplace.CPIC is ideal for professionals who: • Work in multi-functional, and perhaps global and virtual, product development teams. • Work in supply chain management or supplier partnering. • Are interested in general management of technology commercialization processes. • Work in technology transfer at a university, R&D laboratory, incubator

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

Society for Engineering Educationcounseling, university service, professional development, and interactions with industrial andprofessional practitioners, as well as employers of graduates.”Faculty must also have qualifications and authority “to develop and implement processes for theevaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, its educational objectivesand outcomes.” Indicators of faculty competency include “education, diversity of backgrounds,engineering experience, teaching experience, ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developingmore effective programs, level of scholarship, participation in professional societies, andlicensure as Professional Engineers.”From Criterion 61, “classrooms, laboratories, and associated

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

education faculty. At Louisiana Tech University we created a team thatwould teach engineering concepts to future teachers. Our course, Engineering Problem Solvingfor Future Teachers is a three semester hour course that is taught every year in the spring. It isconsidered a physical science course by the students. Most of the students who take the courseare sophomore elementary education majors. We have previously reported on different aspectsof this course 1,2,3,4,5 . The most complete description of the course is in reference [1].We teach this course in two class meetings per week that each last 110 minutes. This allows usto utilize active learning concepts in each class. There was a significant laboratory component toeach of the topics.This past

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

engineering design problems. Electrical and mechanical (machining)laboratory experiences are also in the process of being incorporated into the course. Thefollowing are the course objectives: 1. To learn and apply the processes, methodologies, and skills useful in engineering design. 2. To gain experience in and become skilled in the engineering problem solving process. 3. To become proficient in the various analyses often utilized in the engineering design process (e.g. cost analysis and graphical analysis in Excel). 4. To acquire a foundational understanding of engineering graphics and become proficient in the use of SolidWorks solids modeling software. 5. To become proficient in structured programming techniques, through the

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela J. Théroux; Gary Gabriele; Brad Lister; Deborah Kaminski

adjusted to allow abalanced emphasis on all four learning styles. Courses like the one examined here could beredesigned to include assignments and exercises which favor minority learning styles. Asillustration, Hartman (1995) applied Kolb’s learning styles to instructor teaching styles providingexamples of how each might be addressed in the classroom: for concrete experience, the lessonsshould include laboratory experiences, field work and other types of observation; for thereflective observer, journal, logs or even brainstorming provide the best match of teaching andlearning styles; for the abstract conceptualizer, lectures, reports, papers, analogies are best suited;for the active experimenter, simulations, case studies, homework. Obviously

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

2004, a well-developed set of performance tasks were added to the coursewhich necessitated a format change. A mathematics faculty continued to teach the lecture part ofthe course, and an engineering faculty taught the added laboratory component, where theperformance tasks were implemented. No additional course credit was given for the added two-hour laboratory component, which met once a week. The fifty-two engineering freshmenenrolled in the course were selected based on their placement exam results. Basic Algebra, Pre-Calculus I, Comprehensive Pre-Calculus and Calculus I are the possible entry courses for newfreshmen. The innovative Pre-Calculus course content was most closely aligned with theUniversity’s Comprehensive Pre-Calculus course

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

outlines these positive and negative elements in addition tosuggestions to improve the new approach. Over a four-year period, the students chose a widevariety of topics. The students became creative in this regard. The appendices of this paper listthese topics. The paper offers an evaluation of this alternative approach through instructor’sobservations and students’ comments. Embedded in the paper is a comparison between thisalternative approach and the traditional way of assigning course projects.IntroductionSeveral educators have reported that the implementation of new and alternative teachingmethods improves learning by students1-5. In engineering and engineering technologyeducation, the ASEE supports this by making new teaching techniques as

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1. Graphical Representation of Engineering ActivitiesAcademic institutions take several approaches in addressing the areas of professionalresponsibility. This paper describes the PRiME Project, (Professional ResponsibilityModules in Engineering) a program developed in the College of Engineering at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin to include topics of professional responsibility in theengineering curriculum.Origins of the PRiME ProjectIn the summer of 2004, faculty teaching Engineering Communication from fivedepartments in the college of engineering began meeting to explore ways to improve theways that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

Session Number 1526 Enhancement of Computational Engineering within an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Robert Spall, Thomas Hauser Utah State UniversityAbstractThe NSF supported Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Initiative (CCLI) project describedherein addresses concerns regarding undergraduate education at research universities as high- 1lighted in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report by incorporating advances in information tech-nology into the curriculum. This has been accomplished by developing an

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

where to implement it still remained.Looking at upper class courses, they are full of complex technical ideas. However, lab coursesand projects do offer the opportunity to use creativity. Why then do students feel stifled? Inmost cases students are afraid to go out on a creative limb—grades are a driving force for moststudent effort. Nobody wants to put his or her grade in jeopardy just to view an assignment froman alternate perspective. The stereotypical learning environment is highly structured, notsupportive of unique ideas about how to do things. This is often because the more alike a groupof students is; the easier it is to teach them. The “read and regurgitate” style of the first 12 to 14years of education infuses the idea that all that

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Sternberg

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 8. Karplus, Alan K., “Determining Significant Material Properties, a Discovery Approach," National Educators’ Workshop 91, pp. 223-231, 1991. 9. Karplus, Alan K., "Knotty Knots," National Educators’ Workshop 93, pp. 369-372, 1993. 10. Karplus, Alan K., "Paper Clip Fatigue Bend Test," National Educators’ Workshop 94, pp. 125- 131, 1994. 11. McClelland, H. T., "Laboratory Experiments from the Toy Store," National Educators’ Workshop 91, pp. 161-168, 1991. 12. McKeachie, W.J., Pintrich, P.R., Lin Y-G, Smith, D.A.F., and Sharma, R., Teaching

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

of the United States Military Academy8. “As the sole institution of higher education inthe nation whose primary responsibility is to educate cadets for career service as professionalArmy officers, West Point incorporates a dynamic, challenging, and integrated curriculum,organized around a set of interdisciplinary goals drawn directly from Army needs.” Further, theUSMA Dean of the Academic Board, Brigadier General Daniel Kaufman, states in his Vision forthe Academic Program that he envisions an academic curriculum that is “dynamic,interdisciplinary, and integrated”9. Within the ME and EE programs, a mechatronics tracksatisfies all of these requirements. Perhaps most important of all the reasons for teaching mechatronics, however, was

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

teamwork, and communication skilloutcomes. Examples of ongoing systems engineering projects include AEROCam, amultispectral imager designed for flight in UND Aviation small aircraft; AgCam, a two-bandimaging sensor to be installed in the International Space Station for capturing precisionagriculture data; and a radio-controlled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a three-meter wingspan,capable of flying four-kilogram scientific payloads. A major benefit of working on thesemultidisciplinary projects is that the students must learn to communicate well in order to besuccessful on a large team, which is virtually impossible to teach without some form ofexperiential learning opportunity. Undergraduates who excel at designing complex electricalsubsystems must

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

an engineering design project.Course StructureThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester hour course with two 75 minute lecture sessions andone 160 minute laboratory session each week. Faculty from the College of Communication are Page 10.1112.1responsible for the lecture sessions and engineering faculty supervise the laboratory. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In both the lecture sections and the laboratory the emphasis on teamwork in this course isexceptionally strong. The students

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

, respectively. These two signals were then hooked up directly to the dataacquisition hardware. A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the signals and then generatethe stress-strain curve in real time using the built-in calibration equations for load and elongation.IntroductionComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. While the newly acquired laboratory equipment likely will have the computer dataacquisition built into it, it is the old equipment that presents a challenge to institutions of how tomodernize it with computer data acquisition. Going back to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition is onepossible solution, which

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4: Image of the working project PEDA LCD ProjectLab StepsThe following steps are followed and documented for each laboratory. 1) Analysis 2) Design 3) RTL Coding 4) Test-bench Coding 5) Verification 6) Validation 7) Lab report write upTopics covered and reinforced each Lab 1) Coding Guidelines – The coding guidelines for both Digital System design and Principals of Electronic Design Automation are reviewed with the students at the beginning of the quarter. All labs are graded based on the coding guidelines. 2) Code Reviews – Students are chosen at random to perform a code review on a

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

and final phases were applied to all students in theIntroduction to Digital Logic course. The second phase was applied to selected sections of thecourse. In the initial phase, students in all sections of the course were administered the Index ofLearning Styles Questionnaire, a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and a laboratory experiencessurvey. In the second phase of the learning model, the students in the selected sectionsparticipated in weekly learning sessions. The weekly learning sessions provided students withpractice problem sets and a structured environment to collaboratively practice problems anddiscuss Introduction to Digital Logic concepts. The final phase of the learning model evaluatedthe performance of students in both environments

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

provide. With the advent of high-speedInternet communications an alternative approach to providing hands-on experiences hasbecome possible – remote operation of real equipment. Such remote operationexperiences are fully learn-by-doing with nearly all the positive and negative aspects oftrue hands-on laboratory work. Such an approach can, however, be frustrating forstudents at the remote site if the equipment malfunctions.During the past two years the process control class at Washington State University(WSU) was taught using both of these approaches. Computer simulations for processidentification and control were provided using Control Station®(http://ww.controlstation.com). Remote operation of actual equipment for the samepurposes was provided

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

signal processing implementation, but is not so overwhelming in scope that it cannot be completed in a reasonable amount of time.1 IntroductionFor several years now, we have been providing proven DSP teaching methodologies, hardware andsoftware solutions, and DSP tools that have helped motivate students and faculty to implementDSP-based systems in real-time.1–7 These efforts have emphasized the fact that DSP is much morethan just a collection of theories and problem solving techniques. Students can easily be motivatedto explore and implement DSP-based systems in an environment where they are limited only bytheir imagination. This process can be facilitated through real-time demonstration programs suchas winDSK and winDSK6.8All of our DSP

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

becoordinated between the faculty members, students, and perhaps industry involved inorder to provide a meaningful experience for students. 2The need for laboratory development is an important component of engineering Page 10.670.2education and is viewed as an ongoing innovation in teaching and learning “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”methodologies. Variety and balance in teaching methods and appropriate technologiesshould be utilized in the delivery of the subject matter being taught.Transforming Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

laboratory redesign or updating as frequently as yearly. The attendant financialcosts and time invested by the faculty to provide well-designed laboratory experiences canbecome overwhelming. For example, in teaching a class related to modern computer operatingsystems involving, say the Windows and Linux operating systems, it is probable that at least oneof them will go through significant changes as often as once per year, particularly if the varioustools that are used to work with them are also considered. Updating lab configurations to reflectthese changes requires changing lab computer software, and possibly hardware too.In this changing environment it is highly desirable to explore paradigms of thought andmethodologies which enable technology

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

prediction of severe weatherevents than current weather radar systems. CASA is a complex, multidisciplinary projectinvolving engineering, meteorology, computer science, and sociology. This complexity wasreflected in the challenges of teaching content from all of these disciplines in a weeklongsummer workshop designed for middle school science teachers. Participants in CASA includefour core academic institutions along with dozens of educational and industry partners. Ninepeople from the four core universities taught the course, which presented another set ofchallenges. Pre/Post tests and course evaluations indicated that despite the breadth of the course,the participating teachers were able to understand the content and had many ideas how to use

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; Barbara Masi; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

, a representative group in terms of research focus, gender, and tenure level,indicating that 80% of faculty are open to the use of service learning. However, 52% expressedconcerns about time constraints and 56% needed support finding suitable projects for technicalclasses. If this type of support, including methods to mitigate time constraints, were available,faculty were interested in the practice. Surveyed faculty considered service learning mostappropriate for design classes, but were open to the practice in other classes if suitable projectswere available.IntroductionService learning is a teaching method that integrates academically-appropriate communityservice projects into the curriculum of a class. Service learning research shows that

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

-disciplinary teams, the department has abandoned its Senior Research class (used since theinception of the program) and developed an artificial project that incorporates a “real-world” feelwhich integrates the three disciplines of environmental, structural, and site development into oneunified design team. A complete description of the three classes and the interaction between thecourses is described in Black et al.1. Page 10.724.1In addition to an overhaul of the entire course, the pedagogy of the environmental engineeringcapstone class was changed from a traditional direct instruction format and laboratory class to aself-directed problem based

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

non-STEM related careers.Furthermore, the National Research Council’s (NRC) report, Evaluating andImproving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics, 10 raises challenges that include improving the assessment of learningoutcomes, teaching a broad range and large number of students, providing engaginglaboratory and field experiences, and enhancing the faculty’s knowledge of researchon effective teaching.In meeting such challenges, the CCLI program builds on a number of recent publicationsanalyzing the current state and future needs in STEM education. The NRC volume, HowPeople Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 11 advocates that teachers draw outand work with students' preexisting knowledge, teach