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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

collaboration.Broader or More Specific KnowledgeWith the shift from a "planned economy" to a market economy, more graduating studentengineers in China will not be guaranteed a job and assigned to a post. Chinese engineeringschools need to offer more broad based programs to produce more versatile engineers because ofthe jobs available are more varied. Faculty members trained in Russia in late 40’s and throughout 50’s are now retired and replaced by faculty trained in the western world, especially theUnited States. It seems changes in Chinese engineering schools can be done most easily bysimply copying from the best undergraduate curriculum offered in the US. However, aftercareful examination of the current practices in a few US and Chinese engineering schools

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karyn Biasca

of asling psychrometer was initially planned as a video clip. The resulting video file for thedemonstration was very large, and was not as effective as we wanted it to be. We ultimatelydecided to create a Flash slideshow, which is a much smaller file, and turned out to demonstratethe concept adequately. The graphic designer scanned a version of the psychrometric chart(Felder and Rousseau, 1999) and touched up the image to make it usable for the interactive partsof the tutorial.When teaching the psychrometric chart in the classroom, I used an overhead projector withtransparencies of the psychrometric chart to demonstrate how to find the physical properties ofhumid air. Students watched (with encouragement, they followed along in their

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

CivilEngineering are involved in the Environmental Ethics, Diversity and Community Impactworkshops. Students are exposed to environmental ethics as it relates to their science andengineering curriculum via lectures and videos. The diversity workshop helps studentsunderstand the importance of working in a multidisciplinary diverse team and the importance ofgender bias in science and engineering. Finally the students are taught to think about the socialimpacts of science and engineering projects on communities. Specifically the students areexposed to environmental justice cases.A number of social activities are also planned for the REU duration. These activities allow thestudents to strengthen their social and team building skills. Activities include a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

technical support,PC technician, help desk, and other IT support roles after their graduation. This indicatesthat learning and maintaining a high level of Microsoft Office software is critical to mostof our graduates in today’s competitive job market. There is a need to further developstudent’s technical skills in this area.The Three Step Study Plan in IWU CIS ProgramBecause students need to use a test preparation course to prepare to complete the testsuccessfully, the step by step course program is designed to prepare students for buildingtheir Microsoft Office technical foundations first. Then they will develop their core-levelknowledge in every Microsoft Office application. Later they will go through theintegrated projects to learn how to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

students’ coordinator. They Alumni can also be linked to an employer as the school coordinator or liaison Staff with that employer. Faculty • Once a school is created in the Staff Schools records, that school can Advisory Boards also be linked as a student’s former Volunteers high school or community college, Emeriti faculty or as the university that the student Courses faculty are able to teach plans on attending after graduation Faculty Committee Assignments from your school. • Once an employer is created

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

Hinman CEOs and people seeking teamingopportunities with talented students. Our annual New Venture Challenge, formerlycalled the Business Plan Competition, provides experience in structuring and givingeffective presentations in a competitive entrepreneurial environment. Three types ofeducational opportunities are provided to the CEOs: formal academic courses, aninformal (seminar) class and experiential education.1.1. Hinman CEOs Program 2004-2005 Student ProfileThe current Hinman class is made up of about 89 undergraduate students withapproximately one-third majoring in an engineering discipline, one-third majoring insome area of business, and one-third studying a broad set of majors across many differentcolleges. Twenty-two percent are female

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

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Dennis

practice of civilengineering at the professional level.”[2] In addition to adopting Policy 465 ASCE created theTask Committee on Academic Preparation for Professional Practice (TCAP3) and charged it to“…develop, organize and execute a detailed plan for full realization of the ASCE PolicyStatement 465.” This committee, which was later made a board level standing committee(CAP3), formulated the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) which was formallyreleased in January of 2004. As a result of the CAP3 report on the BOK, ASCE’s PolicyStatement 465 was revised in October 2004 to reflect the work of the committee. It now states inpart that “ASCE…supports the attainment of a Body of Knowledge for entry into the practice ofcivil engineering at the

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

made contacts with engineering students in other majors through 18 0 NACME?5 Has the NACME program helped you fell more confident about graduating in 16 2 engineering?6 Are you planning to reapply? 17 17 Do you plan to continue in engineering in the Fulton School next fall? 17 1Table I. General Satisfaction with the NACME Scholars ProgramIn general, the NACME program was found to be beneficial, helped the students make contactswith engineering students outside of their major, and made them feel more confident aboutgraduating in engineering. The students planned to re-apply and to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

will engage both itsundergraduate and graduate student populations to develop global skills. Programs rangein duration from a few hours to the length of an academic career and include languagelearning and cross-cultural training. These programs are accompanied by a strategicmarketing plan that has resulted in a steady increase in participation, with more graduateswho are well-equipped to deal with the challenges posed by working in multi-nationalcorporations.I. IntroductionEngineers are increasingly asked to work with international suppliers, co-workers, and clients.Global assignments for companies in industries such as communications, informationtechnology, and automotive manufacturing, require engineers to integrate technical knowledgewith

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationdeveloped that could be driven from a control center across the desertto pick up the payload and return it back to the launch site. Thesystem worked well in nearly all respects, except for the transmissionrange of the video transmission system used for driving.In addition to participating in “Open Class” ARLISS competition,NeavdaSat is also planning to participate in the general (non-competitive) CanSat portion of ARLISS. NevadaSat has begundeveloping a student satellite workshop that focuses on CanSat. Theexperience gained thus far with “Open Class” CanSats, coupled withthe proximity to the ARLISS event were large factors

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Sullivan

operate in an abstract 3 dimensionallandscape. In addition to supporting the material science curriculum, the inclusion ofsolid modeling exercises in the materials science class also supports the equally importantgoal of improving students’ long-term retention of solid modeling skills. In the paper thatfollows, a description of the current material science program at VMI is given, along witha summary of characteristic problem areas for student comprehension in material science.Goals for the incorporation of solid modeling tools with the materials science course arereviewed, and descriptions of solid modeling exercises are detailed. Lastly, studentreactions to the new teaching approach are discussed, as well as future plans for usingsolid modeling

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

victims of our success. Use of the testbed has resulted in someproblems with electrical connections. We are in the process of replacing breadboards withcustom circuit cards and terminal strips in order to withstand the heavy use the testbed isreceiving.Remaining TasksThe students liked the action provided by the switches flipping under the control of the VI theywrote, but felt that adding model train signal lights would add to the visual appeal of the testbed.Therefore, we plan to install miniature signal lights throughout the testbed, making it look like areal railroad. The plan is to install a signal light before each track switch, or group of trackswitches for the crossovers. If the locomotive were approaching a track switch where there is

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

effort. It shouldbe an ongoing process integrated into the application development lifecycle. Security, like otherWeb application components, is best managed if planned at the initial phase of the applicationlifecycle. This strategy will help project managers and security professionals establish securitypolicies, conduct risk assessment, and address potential risks in a cost-effective manner. It Page 10.23.1ensures system architects design secure application infrastructure. It makes sure application Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

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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Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

. Examples of some of the units used in this course and how theyapply to the K-12 classroom will be introduced. The paper will conclude with observationsgleaned from the preliminary run of this course and an outline of plans for continuing this intothe future.History and LogisticsCollaboration between the Colleges of Engineering and Education at Boise State was started in2001 after the respective college Deans attended an IEEE sponsored workshop. An ad-hoccommittee was formed which introduced the faculty of the respective colleges to each otherproviding a chance to develop a sense of trust. This led to a collaboration that produced the“Engineering for Educators” course.Several options were considered for how more engineering could get infused into

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ismail Fidan

, online teaching, and manufacturing processes.SERDAR TUMKORSerdar Tumkor is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University,Istanbul, Turkey. He has been a full-time faculty member since 1996. Dr. Tumkor received his PhD inMechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1994. His teaching interests are MachineDesign, Engineering Design, and Computer-Aided Technical Drawing. His current research interestsinclude computer integrated design, process planning and manufacturing, gear and continuously variabletransmission manufacturing, design for optimum cost, online design catalogs, and web-based collaboration

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

%),African Americans (2%), and Native Americans (0.3%) are only a small percentage of the totalnumber of participants.In the early years of the program (1995-1998), approximately 20 students received funding persemester. In addition to a stipend of $375 per month, students also received financial assistancefor supplies and travel. The assessment and evaluation of MIE program components, which1 Until the Fall of 2003, participation in the program was competitive. Interested students submitted an applicationpacket that included a resume, a short questionnaire detailing their research interests and future plans, and a letter of

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

UT New College was to helpTennessee citizens complete a college degree.The New College Committee, consisting of a group of UTM faculty and administrators, wasappointed and directed to develop an implementation plan to offer BUS courses via the Internet.The committee was also charged with developing a budget and a selection process for the initialon-line courses to be offered in Fall 2001. Page 10.1174.1The UT System provided funding for the development of 10 courses each year for three years--atotal of 30 courses. A faculty member was to be paid $8,000 to develop a course, $4,000 at the “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

UT New College was to helpTennessee citizens complete a college degree.The New College Committee, consisting of a group of UTM faculty and administrators, wasappointed and directed to develop an implementation plan to offer BUS courses via the Internet.The committee was also charged with developing a budget and a selection process for the initialon-line courses to be offered in Fall 2001. Page 10.1175.1The UT System provided funding for the development of 10 courses each year for three years--atotal of 30 courses. A faculty member was to be paid $8,000 to develop a course, $4,000 at the “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

playing off against the other that we had to balance out. And there were several environmental issues up there, concerns from US Fish and Wildlife that we were going to hurt the fish. And we had to get some extra power to run our treatment system so we had to work with the local utility company. Had to work with some rental companies for equipment rental. We had to work with the EPA and the Department of Natural Resources and briefly with the local emergency planning committee.Constraints often result from biases, such as personal preferences on the part of the client.We also note that engineering problems are frequently subject to multiple non-engineering constraints.Theme 2. Success is rarely

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

. Included are adetailed description of the major components of the Leadership Institute, characteristics of thewomen faculty members who enrolled in the 4-day program, a summary of participants'leadership activities to date, and an analysis of participants' pre-institute leadership goals.Sixteen women faculty participated in this first of three leadership institutes. Data from theseparticipants regarding the value and effectiveness of the first institute are presented as well asconclusions and plans for future work.I. INTRODUCTIONThe purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we describe the rationale behind and thedevelopment and implementation of a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored LeadershipInstitute for tenured faculty women in

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

documentation, formats; how to give an effective oral presentation11 Project planning and scheduling charts (using CD templates in the textbook)13, 14 The Pugh method for creative design concept evaluation and solution optimization15 Information sources and patent searching17 Economic decision making (using CD templates in the textbook)19 QFD and design specifications (or other just-in-time topics needed by specific projects)21 Prototyping and prototype testing22, 23 Product liability; ethics24–26 Design for X (DFX); design for manufacturability (DFM)10 “Innovation in the Workplace”Individual and Team Project Deliverables and Course Assessment9 Oral team presentation of project proposal; written proposal is submitted

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ford

offered on a regular basis. Meanwhile the Physics/Geophysics Department at TAMUK has developed a laboratory-based course in nuclear physics. This is the first upper division laboratory course offered atTAMUK in over a decade. The faculty members in the Department of Nuclear Engineering atTAMU are assisting TAMUK to ensure that the lab equipment is tailored to enhance the successof the students in their preparation for graduate studies. The courses provided at TAMUK andvia the TTVN network allow the students entering the graduate program at TAMU to follow thesame plan of study as students from TAMU or comparable nuclear/health physics programs

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

in the new SP-COMcurriculum is to move away from the transmission of information in the traditional lecture format to thefacilitation of discovery- to create “significant learning experiences” [Fin03]. The organized hands-onresearch activities have been organized in a manner that stimulates critical thinking and by promoting a“what if” type of approach. We will emphasize and employ active learning (especially inquiry-basedlearning) as a means of helping students learn for understanding [Chi91] [Bra00] [Lig01]. The curriculumwill focus on the development of higher order thinking skills [Shu99] Blo57] [Pau95] and is built aroundauthentic tasks. The modules and planned hands-on activities have been developed in a manner thatengages UG students

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

. Deming in 1987. He was inducted intothe Automotive Hall of Fame in 1991. During the seventies and eighties, qualitybecame the buzzword of industry, organizations and institutions. Several awardshave been instituted to promote quality. It is very well known that The MalcolmBaldrige National Quality Award is one of three global quality awards coveted bycompanies all over the world. The main focus here, is to document success inseven selected areas : leadership, strategic planning, customer’s market focus,information analysis, human resources, process management and business results.Following the footsteps of Dr. Deming’s teachings, the author re-visits the learningpyramid and examines Deming’s ‘14 Points for Management’ and their

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

Session 1649 What math do we really need? John Robertson, Richard Newman College of Technology & Applied Science, Arizona State University, 7001 E Williams Field Rd, Mesa, Arizona 85212AbstractThe Microelectronics program in the Technology College at ASU was totally restructuredin 2001. The courses are entirely new and have novel (web + class) deliveryarrangements. There has also been substantial industry input both for planning andcontributions in the class-room. As a result, we have been able to execute a strategy thataligns the skills and capabilities of the graduates with the

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

, research,and practice in the understanding of the interaction between natural and non-natural systems atmultiple scales from local to regional and global, and (3) create an action plan to implement therecommendations. More specifically, the workshop addressed the interaction of natural systemswith the built environment. Research, education and outreach were addressed throughout theworkshop. The workshop participants unanimously proposed the following definition of the“engineer of the future”: “The engineer of the future applies scientific analysis and holistic synthesis to develop sustainable solutions that integrate social, environmental, cultural, and economic systems.”The workshop participants also recommended that there is a

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Williamson; Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

other groups within the company have developed. This includesa summary of projected operating costs, a staffing plan, and other related information includingrestraints on the amount of cash that is available from the proposing company.Using the RFP documents and the provided data, students must develop an after tax cash flow Page 10.1013.4analysis and use this to develop a proposal to the government for the privatized waste watersystem. This proposal must be presented in a formal written report and also presented in a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

their final grade. There isstill scope to improve this course with some hands-on and fun type activities in theelectrical/electronics area. This year our colleagues in the Computer Engineering Technologyarea agreed to arrange such lab activities but could not carry them out due to schedule conflicts.We are planning to resolve this issue by next Fall and also improve upon the stress-strainexperiments. We have a 3-D scanner in the department and plan to use it to measure thedimension off the specimens supplied by PASCO so that additional specimens can be reproducedusing our Fadal CNC machine. The author intends to include the demonstration of the 3-Dscanner as part of the ET 1840 lab activities for the Fall of 2005. In October, 2004 we