Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

introduction to the ‘language of materials science’ iskey to understanding and utilizing the concepts presented. The analysis of mechanical andphysical properties, the manufacturing process, the material specifications for a selectedapplication or component, and the advantages and limitations of selected material are the focusof the project and a technical poster presentation.From the point of view of an engineering educator, the “Annual Materials Science PosterSession” is a learner-centered activity, which is defined as ‘an activity which provides creativeexperiences for students with many different learning styles1,2. The students must demonstrate

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

, and students to improve STEMeducation. These grants are also awarded with the mission of educating the future industry andprofessorial workforce on the culture and importance of K-12 STEM education. Tufts Universityreceived its first three-year GK-12 grant in 2000, called “GK-12 Engineering Fellows: A K-12Resource for Integrating Engineering, Math and Science.” The project was awarded a three-yearcontinuation in 2003 under the name “Tufts Engineering the Next Steps (TENS) GK-12.” Theseprojects developed a cohort of over 20 graduate students from various engineering disciplines(including computer science), who have worked to infuse engineering into existing math andscience curricula in K-12 schools.The model of GK-12 at Tufts University is one

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Johnson; Andrew Jackson

, 5S philosophy and techniques, and photographsof real-world examples of 5S. In this Fall 2004 freshman level course, students were divided into teams of 5 to 7members. They identified potential targets for 5S implementation and reviewed them with theinstructor. The instructor’s role was to help scope the project and to ask the team questions aboutresources, permissions, and schedules. The teams planned their projects and described their plansto implement 5S into each project. To plan their projects, the teams were given two one-hourclass periods to discuss their projects with each other and with the instructor, as needed. Twoadditional class periods were devoted to the team’s meeting and to conducting their 5Simplementation. It should

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

presented herein may serve as a model for similarly sized programs.Motivation In recent years, retention among freshman engineering students at UVM has only been~60%. To improve retention and attract new students into engineering, faculty from ECE andME worked to identify components of the freshman curriculum in need of revision. Historically,engineering students at UVM had not been exposed to engineering design until their junior orsenior years. This lack of a hands-on design project experience during the freshman year isinconsistent with the curriculum at universities with a strong engineering presence. Thus, a newcross-listed course, EE/ME 001 – Freshman Design Experience, was developed in the Fall 2003and introduced during the Spring

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

teams. Because engineers are traditionally trained in fields such as either“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Mechanical or Electrical engineering, many of today’s engineering graduates are not wellprepared to function competently in environments that require them to work on products whereelectrical and mechanical knowledge areas are intertwined.An NSF-funded project addresses these competency gaps through the development of two team-oriented, project-based courses as a follow-up to a previously developed “Introduction toMechatronics” course [1-5]. For this project, we have identified the following goals: (a

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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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

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

problems. By contrast, the design of RMS is composed of many individualprojects, all driven by a systems perspective. It provides an excellent example todemonstrate how a system-level perspective drives the individual research projects, and,in turn, how projects are integrated to form a system. This is an integrative approach thatcombines the depth in a particular discipline with breadth due to interaction with studentsand researchers from other disciplines.A driver of a different type for our education plan was the lack of valuable skills thatwould allow young engineering professionals to function more effectively in industry.Engineers in industry must be effective participants and leaders of teams, yet thetraditional university environment was

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

skill, knowledge, and experience. Missions of growing complexity provide opportunities to acquire baseline skills and then to build on them. We call this strategy "crawl", "walk", "run" and "fly!"This craw, walk, run, and fly euphemism forms the core of the NevadaSat Program. Our roster ofactivities begins with BalloonSats (Figure 1, left), where students build payloads out of kits withdata logging equipment, a timer, a camera, and material to build an enclosure. The payloads areattached to a lanyard, parachute and a weather balloon. The weather balloon provides lift for thestudents’ project and sends them up to a predetermined height. The data logging equipmentrecords data such as radiation, temperature, and pressure.CanSats

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

forms of active learning to varying degrees; approximately 50% of thefreshman class completes a design project in their introductory course.Like most science and engineering courses, the focus is on technical content, resulting indense courses with little room for the addition of societal context and other less technicaltopics. Thus, the decision was made to create a new interdisciplinary course for students Page 10.444.1from all engineering majors. The goal of the Engineering Freshman Academy seminars is Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

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NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

terms of seeing what types of STEMefforts have been previously funded. This review may also provide contact information for othergrantees that may be willing to share their proposal development experiences.Proposal PreparationHere we list some, hopefully obvious, but often overlooked issues in the proposal preparationprocess. This is not intended to be an all inclusive list, but rather a compilation of some of themore important facets of the proposal preparation process. 1. Project goals – The project goals must be clearly articulated and consistent with the solicitation objectives. These goals must include rational development, evaluation and assessment. Important ideas must be clearly delineated in the proposal. NSF program

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Thomson; Donald Orlich; Richard Zollars

activity in the program is a one-day meeting that was held on May 21 involvingeleven of the twelve teacher participants and all of the faculty mentors. The purpose of thismeeting is to start forming relationships among all of the participants, firm up housingarrangements for the summer, distribute information on the research projects that would beavailable for the summer, and tour the campus and laboratories. All of the teachers, whether theywere able to visit the campus or not, then were asked to return a listing of the top three projects onwhich they would like to work. By the end of May all teachers had been assigned projects, with Page

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathy Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

pipe and channel flows Lecturing, supplemental for incompressible fluid: CALCULATE pressure drop in Pipe reading, virtual laboratory Knowledge flow. ANALYZE flow pattern, APPLY to channel flow. experiment (LABView), Repetition 4 DEFINE and CALCULATE drag and lift. ANALYZE and computer simulation, Analysis COMPARE laminar flow, turbulent flow. SOLVE pressure simulation tutoring, Application drop for laminar and turbulent flows. projects, problem solving, Evaluation study session, photograph of flow

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pat Leelani; Hector Estrada

introduction to the civilengineering profession. The activities presented here are for a project lasting two weeks, includinggroup counseling, advisement on the college application process, financial aid, and technicalactivities. The technical activities emphasize hands-on civil engineering projects, interaction ofparticipants with practicing engineers, and discussion of different engineering disciplines withengineering faculty. To provide real life engineering experience, activities including field trips toengineering work sites were provided.Objectives of the TAMUK Institute ν Expose participants to post secondary campus life as well as career opportunities in engineering and other activities usually not available to disadvantaged and other

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

COURSE REVIEW IN THE ASSESMENT PROCESS Mark E. Cambron and Stacy Wilson Department of Engineering Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101AbstractA joint program in Electrical Engineering has been created with Western Kentucky University(WKU) and the University of Louisville (UofL). The program resides at WKU with UofLfaculty delivering 16-24 hours into the curriculum through distance learning methods. The focusof the new EE program is a project-based curriculum. WKU’s Electrical Engineering Programhas developed an assessment plan to insure a systematic pursuit of improvement. A

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

in today’sindustry (6).According to a recent informal survey of two and four-year engineering technology programs(1), 39 of 77 responding institutions (~51%) still teach some form of instrument drawing.Reasons given in support of this approach varied widely, but some central themes do emergefrom the data. They are broadly summarized as follows: • Can introduce fundamentals without simultaneously teaching software commands • Students with only CAD training lack visualization skills • Learning instrument drawing first eases later instruction in CAD • Concepts such as orthographic projection and tangency are best learned manually • Manual drawing teaches the thought process necessary to produce working drawings

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

Excite Camp 2004: An Updated Look at Integrating Science and Native Hawaiian Tradition Leslie Wilkins, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectBackgroundLaunched in 1999, the Maui-based Women in Technology Project (WIT) is funded by the U.S.Department of Labor as a workforce development project. Its mission is to encourage womenand girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)in the state of Hawaii. WIT has been successful at creating systemic change by working directlywith educators and employers to make them aware of the return on investment of recruiting andretaining a

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

in the private and public sectors.”12 The Carey Program is now part of the Centerfor Leadership Education (CLE), housed within the university’s Whiting School of Engineering(WSE). The CLE offers a traditional mix of educational programs, including 1. a wide variety of business courses, many using a case approach and requiring sophisticated final projects 2. the Marshall Salant Student Investment Program, which manages a portfolio donated by an alumnus of the same name 3. an annual business plan competition 4. sponsored internships 5. support for campus business and entrepreneurship clubsIn one course, Technology Commercialization, student teams work with the technology transferoffices of the university

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Incorporating Automobile Climate Control into the Teaching of Thermal Environmental Engineering Craig W. Somerton, Laura J. Genik Michigan State University/University of PortlandIntroductionThere are many mechanical engineering students that are very interested in theautomobile and automotive engineering. It has been our experience that students withthis interest can be a challenge to motivate in a course on thermal environmentalengineering. This challenge has been tackled by using the automobile interior as theHVAC application. A project approach has been used in two senior level thermal designcourses at two different institutions (ME 416 at Michigan State University

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

the College of Engineering. This redesign resulted in changes tocourse curriculum and coordination and hiring/management of faculty.The increased focus on educational research has had multiple effects on EngE1024, including theincorporation of outcomes of ongoing research projects, such as the incorporation of electronicportfolios for assessment and reflection purposes originated from an NSF Bridges to EngineeringEducation grant and use of a ‘spiral curriculum’ approach from an NSF Department-levelReform grant.The change in paradigm resulted in significant personnel changes. For the first time, thedepartment hired graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants to aid in course developmentand implementation. Also, to provide faculty time to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

graduate also ought to demonstrate 1) ability to manage a project (including afamiliarity with business, market-related, and financial matters), 2) a multidisciplinary systemsperspective, 3) an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of students, faculty, staff,colleagues, and customers, and 4) a strong work ethic. During Phase II of this project, weidentified several assessment instruments that might measure those outcomes and begansearching for instructional “best practices” thought to promote the 15 desired learningoutcomes. This paper, based on Phase III of the project, provides empirical evidence from andidentifies the gaps in higher education and engineering education journal articles that linkinstructional best practices with

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

Series Fall Semester Spring Semester Perspectives Pre-Professional Education Pre-Professional Education Pre-professional Business Management Foreign Catalog Search Techniques Catalog Search Techniques Language Technical Translation Comprehensive References Senior Project Proposal Computer Computer Application in Computer Applications in Senior Design Projects Senior

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

development of our contest infrastructure—a specially developed simulationsoftware package and a web-based judging system. We briefly describe the implementation ofthe contest and present a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which it is accomplishing itsgoals. The assessment results serve as the basis for conclusions about the viability of IT-enabledengineering outreach.GoalThe principal goal of this project is to increase awareness of and interest in engineering among alarge, diverse population of middle-school and high-school students. By making engineeringaccessible to a broad audience, we seek to overcome students’ common misperception thatengineering is an endeavor for the “technically elite.” 1We suggest that this goal can be achieved by

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

-learning, students become involved in a project that meets specific educational objectives Page 10.216.1while providing a needed service to the community. Service-learning can range from a singleProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege course where the students are required to do some community service to multi-year,service projects that are fully integrated into the curriculum. Service-learning has been found tohelp students develop technical and non-technical skills, make connections

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

Session 1515 3-D Visualization for Civil Engineering Undergraduate Learning Kenneth R. Leitch, Kristine E. Martin, and Jeffrey D. Will College of Engineering, Valparaiso UniversityIntroduction Civil engineering analysis and modeling frequently reduces 3-D land features andstructures to 2-D representations on such media as paper and overhead projectionsystems. Students often have trouble understanding the 3-D aspect of civil engineeringproblems because of the limitations of conventional 2-D representations. Many studentsfind it difficult to understand how landforms from a topographic survey will impact aconstruction project

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

: • At the individual, not team, level • Process-focused (not only focused on quality of end result) • Not too time-intensive (not requiring significant class time or unreasonable amounts of time to prepare and score) Page 10.1442.3Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” • Reliable from student to student, project to project, and year to year • Linked to more than just one level on Bloom’s taxonomyA trade study of four basic assessment strategy options in shown in Table 2. Table 2

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College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brecca Berman; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

characteristics and operations of partnerships influence STEM educationaloutcomes.* Part of this project addresses the vexing issue of how to evaluate both the outcomesof a partnership, and the partnership itself. For, although a partnership is often viewed primarilyas a vehicle or framework for conducting other planned STEM activities or interventions, it oftenbecomes much more than that, leading to a multitude of unanticipated activities and outcomes.Evaluations that don’t directly address the partnership, and the unanticipated outcomes thatresult, may suffer from a weak formative assessment regarding the health of the partnership, andalso may miss some of the most important results of that partnership.The unintended consequences of the partnership

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Sternberg

cooled liquid, testing tensile and compressive strength, testingductility, cold working, concentrating stress, and observing electro-chemical corrosion.The designed activities highlight basic fundamental ideas from material science and helpstudents build their working knowledge of materials behavior. This project has beenimplemented twice and results of student surveys show an increase in student interest andreported motivation. However, classroom assessment showed little difference in studentachievement on exams.IntroductionSeveral short, simple, inexpensive, hands on activities have been developed. Theactivities promote interest in the course material and provide students opportunities toexperience a range of properties and materials. Students

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael R. Sexton; Mehmet Sozen

6100 6000 5900 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 X/Y (# of moles of H2/# of moles of O2) Figure 3. Variation of flame temperature with reactant mixture ratio______________________________________________________________________________Classroom ApplicationsThe method by Sözen and Majumdar discussed above was modified to simplify the mathematicsto make it more presentable in an undergraduate course in thermodynamics. For this project thesolution of the equations was accomplished using MathCad; although other software capable ofsolving this system of equations is available

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Maixner

Session 2005-1222 Excel™ Analysis of Combined Cycle Power Plant Michael R. Maixner United States Air Force Academy A key issue in student design projects in thermodynamics is the necessity to modify property values during iteration and/or redesign. This is particularly true when dealing with two working fluids (e.g., air, water) in a combined cycle. The necessity to manually ascertain these values at all points of the cycle can inhibit the pedagogic purpose of the project: to allow students to view how overall system parameters (efficiency, specific fuel consumption, horsepower, etc.) may vary in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Irina Nelson

, Germany, Russia and the UK) and numerous (typically fifty) visiting lecturersrepresenting different countries, contribute their expertise in various specialized topics such as:space utilization, space safety, project management, financing and insurance, human resourcesmanagement, research, innovation, and technology transfer, patent and intellectual property, Page 10.1301.1strategic alliances and international project management, etc. 4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”More than an