Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

courses in software engineering and HCI and assign studentsto community projects where students practice the principles they are learning and completeworthwhile products for real-world clients. This paper presents some of these experiences andcompares the interaction design and software engineering methodologies. The conclusionsreached by the authors provide a basis for further study of the integration of these two paradigmsand a preliminary integrated model of the two methodologies.INTRODUCTIONIn San Jose, California, in June of 2004, the San Jose Police department began using a newmobile dispatch system in every patrol car. Police officers commented that, “the system is socomplex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

course is on spacecraft design tools. The students becomefamiliar with the spacecraft design tools that are used in the final design course. The toolsinclude STK, IDEAS, NASTRAN, and MATLAB/Simulink. They also become familiar withsystem software such as Aerospace Corporation Corporation Conceptual Design Center tools andspacecraft cost estimation. The second course is on spacecraft system engineering where theyreview the design aspects of all subsystems, systems engineering, and do an individual designproject. In the final capstone course, they do a team spacecraft design project. The spacecraftperformance requirements are given by a sponsor. The students have mentors in each subsystemfrom industry, Aerospace Corporation and government

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

series of project courses that representtheir roles/assignments as members of their enterprise. In addition, students take a number ofprofessional development courses that were created specifically for the Enterprise Program andcover topics such as Teaming, Communications, Leadership, Project Management, Ethics,Economics, Entrepreneurship and Finance. Each professional development course is equivalentto one-semester credit or 14 contact hours of instruction, hence, these courses are veryconcentrated in their subject matter, providing students with the most critical information andinstruction in order to enable them to employ their new-found knowledge directly in theoperation of the enterprise.The philosophy behind this approach is that students

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Bala Maheswaran

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpitfalls. A large body of literature exists supporting the importance of teaching teamwork to ourstudents. For example, the Foundation Coalition promotes student learning communities. Thesecommunities are used to build a sense of group identity and cohesiveness so that students maybuild a better understanding of the material they are learning (Clark et al., 2003; Astin, 1992).Transitioning from the importance of student teamwork to faculty teamwork in curriculumdevelopment is evident in a number of additional papers. Balamuralikrishna et al. (2003) discussthe importance of faculty collaboration or teamwork to develop student design projects thatimplement multiple discipline or simultaneous

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

society’s needs; technologies are the result of engineered designs created tosolve societal needs and wants4 These common threads can be strengthened when educationalsolutions and opportunities for engagement are consistently, creatively, and thoughtfully applied.In8, the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue University wascreated to provide undergraduates with a real design experience within a service-learningcontext. EPICS teams perform their designs within four main areas of focus: 1.) Education andOutreach, 2.) Access and Abilities, 3.) Human Services, and 4.) Environment. Included withinthe realm of Education and Outreach is a concerted effort to focus on the integration ofengineering within the P/K-12 community

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

. Thismay especially be the case for the student who has not experienced an industrial electricalcourse.It is believed after this second lab that the student is adequately experienced in thedevices that PLCs replaced and that it is time to move on to PLC programming. Aphilosophical approach to labs requires that labs or projects should be visually easy tosee. Machines from industry are not available and most students have not seen a typicalmachine. It is believed that a better approach is to select labs from experiences commonto the student.A first PLC project is given with the program already written. The student must masterthe programming of the circuit using the programming language of the PLC. In A-B, thechoices are RS-Logix, RS-Logix 500 or RS

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

, Engineering Graphics and Computer AidedDesign (EG&CAD) teaches the skills of using a solid modeling system to create parts,small assemblies, and documentation. More importantly, EG&CAD also emphasizes theuse of vectors in creating solid models and thereby provides students reinforcement oftheir linear algebra knowledge. The students normally take EG&CAD during their firstyear and then have the opportunity to use solid modeling in their sophomore and seniordesign projects as well as some special topic electives. In addition, several other coursesare now using solid models as a way to demonstrate fundamental principles2. With anincreasing dependence on solid modeling skills required, it is imperative that the coursecontent in EG&CAD be

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

measures: effort, size, quality, schedule measures Derived measures: yield, productivity, defect density, etc. Planning Proxy-based size and time estimation Task and schedule planning Quality Quality measurement and analysis management Code and design reviews Design documentation and verification Defect prevention Process Process improvement proposals (PIPs) improvement Project postmortem, with data analysis and “lessons learned” Table 1 Personal Software Process

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

businessand pharmacy due to honors program requirements. Its main audience is second year honorsstudents with at least the introductory honors course (HONR 100 - The Discipline of Reason)under the belt. Topics are covered through lectures (40% of course time) complemented byreading assignments and homeworks, laboratory assignments and a quarter-long design project(60% of course time). Students are evaluated on their attendance and participation to classactivities, their performances on homeworks and laboratory assignments, a paper that activatesthe students’ imagination and creativity, and a successful completion and presentation of anopen-ended quarter-long design project.Upon successful completion of HONR 218, the students will gain

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thad Welch; Robert Kubichek

, “Communications Measurement Laboratory.” This new course was designed to reinforce student knowledge of their course work in signals and systems, digital and analog communication systems, and digital signal processing. The primary course objectives were to familiarize students with vector signal analysis and develop a thorough understanding of I and Q-based demodulation techniques. This paper provides an overview of this course and describes student projects that utilize a vector signal analyzer (VSA) to detect, localize, and record decimated I and Q data as would be available at the output of an intermediate frequency (IF) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) stage of a software defined radio (SDR).1 IntroductionThe

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

Reaching 6th through 8th Grade Students through the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers Program Alice E. Smith1, Cynda Fickert2, Mark Jones3AbstractThe National Science Foundation instituted a novel program recently called Research Experiences for Teachers(RET) which allows principal investigators to request a funding supplement to existing grants to enable interactionwith K-12 teachers. At Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, the Department of Industrial and SystemsEngineering received funding for two teachers for the summers of 2002 and 2003. A science teacher of 6th and 7thgraders and a math teacher of 8th graders joined the research team on the project “Relating Field

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Kahn; Marina Bers

An Examination of Early Elementary Students’ Approaches to Engineering Jason Michal Kahn, Marina Umaschi Bers Tufts University A five-week interactive workshop gave us the opportunity to study the engineering learning processes of early elementary children, allowing us to gain a sense of their innate engineering abilities and the processes they could be taught in the context of the Project Inter-actions study at Tufts University Department of Child Development. Forty children participated in the research, split into four groups of 10 each, each group participating in 5 workshop sessions of 2 hours each

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

Session ???? Benefits of Undergraduate Research and Independent Study Dr. Scott Kiefer, Dr. Nihad Dukhan Tri-State University / University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezAbstract It can be very difficult for junior faculty members to find the time required to developnew courses and to establish a research program while continuing to dedicate the time necessaryfor students in their regular teaching load. One way to maximize the benefit of time spent is toteach small independent study courses with research projects that help prepare students forgraduate school and evaluate course material to

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Staszowski

effects of thepeer interactions that occurred within an early-childhood robotic learning environment.Specifically, which of the underling concepts of the curriculum were most often used as thefoundation of peer-interactions and how did those interactions appear to effect the children’sunderstanding of engineering methods and processes.Method The study was conducted as part of a larger research study on the interactions betweenculture, technology, and family-member/child interactions. This larger study, ProjectInteractions, was a conceptual modification of a research project conducted by Bers and Urrea(2002) entitled Con-science.3 Con-science studied the effect of programmable Lego technology

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

. Although the ATE programemphasized community college faculty development, the Foundation felt it was important toinclude high school teachers as well. Bringing the two faculty groups together could potentiallycreate greater partnerships which could lead to articulation agreements, ultimately creatingpathways for students who might not otherwise transition into a college program.While the emphasis on the subjects taught was math, science and technology, the industry focuswas on engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. These industry areas were chosen because of a perceived critical technology skillsshortage in these areas, future positive job projections and their obvious dependence on strongmath and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

Role of Axiomatic Design in Teaching Capstone Courses Edwin Odom, Steven Beyerlein, Christopher A. Brown, Daniel Drew, Lloyd Gallup, Sam Zimmerman, and Jeremy Olberding University of Idaho/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractHelping undergraduate engineering students learn effective design practices that are applicable tothe modern workplace is one of the most complex challenges of engineering education. Onestrategy to help students master open-ended design projects is to use a systematic process.However, students often want to jump past the front end of the design process and thiscompromises the quality of the final product. This paper examines the suitability of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Reid Bailey

year, nine departments offered senior design classes in theCollege of Engineering. All but one of the departments offered two semesters of senior design.The structure and content of each course reflected the nature of each discipline and thedepartment in which it was offered. For instance, the chemical engineering course involved thedesign of a plant (without implementing the design) while mechanical engineering projectsinvolved the design of devices and required construction and testing. Most of the nine differentcourses, however, involved a team of students identifying needs, developing designs, buildingdesigns, and testing the designs over two semesters. Projects came from a variety of sources,with primary sources being industry, faculty

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

Session xxxx HOT WHEELS®, BLACKBOARD AND LABVIEW – WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON? Murat Tanyel Geneva CollegeAbstractAfter nine years of keeping away from freshmen, I taught an “Introduction to Engineering”course this year. Although I had undertaken the project with great trepidation, the course turnedout to be one that I enjoyed teaching. In the lab, I introduced LabVIEW, a graphicalprogramming language for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. The course wassupplemented by the Blackboard

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

in the awareness of programoutcomes and their importance in the curriculum. Many students see them as overly generalizedstatements that have no bearing on the concepts they need to pass a given course. Thus,dissemination of the notion and value of program outcomes is a major hurdle for the faculty.This paper suggests that engaging students at the freshman level in the departmental programoutcomes is one strategy to foster a climate of their acceptance in later courses. Examples offreshman class assignments and projects that address specific program outcomes in a MechanicalEngineering department are presented.IntroductionIn the mid-1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developeda new set of criteria for

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

A case study of eradicating weakness in accreditation owing to vital role played by industrial and government leaders in academia Kanti Prasad, Ph.D.; P.E. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell MA 01854 Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduIntroduction In the fall of 2000, we were visited by ABET for regular accreditation forour Electrical Engineering Program. We were cited ‘weakness’ in our course16.499 Capstone Project. Although the design content was of great quality, but itlacked in elucidating the design impact on society, its environmental implication,ethical content, and economic

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

survey of the typical college student showed that they love video images. It could be a videoclip captured with a digital camera, a digital video playing on their laptop, or digital images capturedwith their camera phone. This paper reviews and discusses how an FPGA platform was selected andintegrated with a QVGA(320x240) color display. It details how an eight lab sequence was developed toallow the students to accomplish a project goal of playing a video image sequence on the QVGAdisplay. This paper also illustrates how additional ABET outcomes such as applied technical problemsolving, technical writing, configuration management, team dynamics, communications, and ethics wereintegrated into the course content.IntroductionRochester Institute of

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

rating and the average of ratings from all three peer reviewers.III. CPR and the Assessment of Learning through WritingCPR -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the student and withthe instructor to foster learning. In this project, through the vehicle of CPR, we were able toimplement assignments that fully utilize the “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) pedagogy [3- 6], without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore, CPR’s ability both toelicit and to report qualitative and quantitative peer review helps to make formative assessmentan integral part of instruction. And, the data collected by CPR during the student’s process ofengaging the

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

students practice them in a “semi- professional” setting. Written communication, project planning, ethical decision-making and collaborative problem-solving are the essential “soft skills” required for success in any professional engineer. The freshman program at Bucknell University, for example, has students create an ADA-compliant project proposal for the university. This experience impresses upon the Page 10.1194.2 students the importance of making sound technical suggestions and being able to present the required information to persuade (often non-technical) decision makers about ethically

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

teamcan be effectively put together and run, the leader has a lot of preparation work to set the stagefor success. Maxwell provides ten steps that lead to personal organization – an important step inthe process of leading others. 1. “Set Your Priorities. Two things are difficult to get people to do. The first is to do things in order of importance, and the second is to continue doing things in order of importance.” Most people are distracted by email, phone calls or some of the other things listed above. They select the “hottest” project to start on, and then go to the next project that comes their way. As leaders, they need to be more focused so that they can focus those that work for them. Often, hot

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha

.ABSTRACTConstruction courses in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the subjects of planning, organization, monitoring andcontrol of the construction projects. There is currently a scarcity of information relating to ethicalconduct in these courses. Government regulations, environmental permits, and other bureaucraticcontrols continue to grow. Projects also continue to get larger and more technical, requiring morespecialized people, high-tech equipment, and better project control systems. This trend requiresthat project managers have technical, business, organizational, ethical, and leadership savvy.Many new regulations and specifications (for example, those of OSHA and ACI) requireconstruction

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

theknowledge that they acquired in the content institute in their elementary, middle, and high schoolclassrooms. Collaboration among teachers from different states was encouraged during the weekthat the teachers were together, and the end of the course saw several exciting plans forcooperative projects in the future. Follow-up activities included developing a CD and web-basedarchive of the course, and the teachers returning to the University of Massachusetts to present onthe projects they developed. Page 10.298.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

Focus on Tar Creek Christi L. Patton University of TulsaAbstract Tar Creek is #1 on the EPA cleanup list and it is located about 90 miles from theUniversity of Tulsa campus. While the legislators and residents debate what should bedone to clean up the area, freshman Chemical Engineering students research the historyof Tar Creek and use this as a starting point for lectures and discussion on safety, ethicsand the environment. Throughout the course students perform practice calculations thatare based on the information gleaned through their readings. The last weeks of thesemester are spent in a research project that takes them to

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

its effects on societies and their economies, and how, in turn, socialchange influences technological advance. Thus, engineering students are exposed to graduatelevel theoretical foundations in the social sciences, and liberal art students are exposed to coursesin information technology software, transportation systems, technology forecasting, andsustainable energy studies. Because of the unique multidisciplinary curriculum that combinestechnology, social sciences, and international and comparative studies, students in this programare able to choose elective courses and theses or applied project topics from a wide variety offields, depending upon their academic backgrounds, strengths, and interests. The experience ofimplementing this

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

significance of the work, the process used, and what was learned 4. Has significance beyond the individual context 5. Breaks new ground or is innovative 6. Can be replicated or elaborated upon 7. Is judged to be meritorious and significant by a rigorous peer review process.In response to calls such as this and the urgent need for rigorous engineering education researchconducted by engineering faculty knowledgeable about the state-of-the-art in education researchmethods, the National Science Foundation has funded “Rigorous Research in EngineeringEducation: Creating a Community of Practice” (DUE-0341127). The goals of this project are to:• Create and present workshops for engineering faculty on conducting rigorous research in engineering

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

scope of considerations practicing engineers face when designingcontemporary products that involve electromechanical devices. In this paper the authorsdescribe various approaches used in teaching this multidisciplinary course. Build-and-testexercises are used to help students gain a better understanding of technical concepts covered inthe course, thus promoting a sense of accomplishment with real world experiences. Students’ability to retain knowledge of concepts taught is improved when the opportunity exists todemonstrate what has been learned. The projects and exercises, as well as the way in which theyare executed, are designed to enhance students’ decision-making skills and promote goodengineering judgment. One course project discussed in