Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Society for Engineering EducationAcknowledgmentThe author gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation undergrant 0354557. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions are those of the author and donot necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.References[1] J. Bransford, T. Hasselbring, B. Barron, S. Kulewicz, J. Littlefield, and L. Goin. Uses of macro- contexts to facilitate mathematical thinking. In The teaching and Assessing of Mathematical Problem Solving, pages 125—147. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.[2] J. Bransford, N. Vye, C. Kinzer, and V. Risko. Teaching thinking and content knowledge: Toward an integrated approach. In B. Jones and L. Idol, editors, Dimensions of thinking and cognitive

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

faculty member should engage inself-reflection, exploring his/her personal willingness to experiment with alternative approachesto the common practice of traditional lecturing.(6) Within this context, and from author’sperspective, the paper sheds light on the common forms of active learning most relevant forengineering faculty in the Arab Gulf Region. Further, it examines the core elements for eachmethod, looks at the pros and cons, and underscores those specifics that are believed to beimplementable in the Region. In short, careful selection from published literature on alternativesto traditional classroom presentations provides a rich menu of different approaches, faculty in theRegion could readily add to their repertoire of instructional

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Sahakian

the principles associated.The effectiveness of the designed apparatus and its demonstration was assessed throughasking students to reflect upon the presentation. Students’ perspectives were explored toevaluate the effectiveness of the demonstration. We report the study context--thedemonstration--, and its effectiveness for the targeted population as how it was informedfrom students’ reflections.Study context: The NMR demonstration.The present demonstration was done in a typical classroom rather than a laboratory.Though we do not simply claim that it is always feasible to conduct an NMR/MRIexperiment in a typical classroom rather than a laboratory, in our case, it was moreconvenient for us to bring the apparatus to the classroom rather than

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reed Stevens; Kevin O'Connor; Lari Garrison

Engineering Educationargue, would represent a deepening identification with engineering education.The second distinctive property of person-centered ethnographic interviews is that theyare conducted to “encourage respondents actively to reflect on and evaluate their lifeexperiences” with the aim of exploring “the most significant and meaningful aspects ofthe world of the individual as experienced by him [or her] and in terms which he [or she]thinks, is motivated to act, and satisfies his [or her] need” (p. 3).8 In summary, we aretrying to understand what developing membership in engineering and engineeringeducation means to the students in our study and how these meanings change as theymove along a developmental path toward or away from more publicly

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

createdindividually, with its own 3-D model and associated 2-D drawing. The individual 3-D modelsare assembled in their functional positions, and can even be “joined” by connections such asfixed fasteners, pins, and sliders. Moving assemblies can even be animated, if desired.In true feature based parametric modeling software, the 3-D model and the 2-D drawing arelinked, meaning that a change in one generates the same change in the other. For example, if ahole’s diameter is changed in the solid model, the 2-D drawing’s circle and hidden lines,depending on the view, are also updated. The diameter dimension is updated as well. Theprocess also works in reverse, as changes to dimensions in the 2-D drawing are reflected in the2-D views and the 3-D model.In

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viviana Cesani-Vazquez; Maria Irizarry; Freya Toledo-Feria; Sonia Bartolomei-Suarez

the faculty.When that female representation within the faculty of the COE is compared to the successachieved in recruiting and retaining female students at the undergraduate level, a seriousconcern arise. At the COE there is a bigger pool of potential female candidates for graduateschool and academia than in other higher learning systems but this is not reflected in itscurrent faculty composition.In this paper the reasons for the high enrollment and retention rates of female undergraduatestudents are investigated and possible courses of action are recommended to the COE in orderto increase the percentage of female faculty.IntroductionPuerto Rico has a combined public and private system of higher education with an enrollmentof over 170,000

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

reflected in our name which embodies the ethics of hard work, technicalproficiency, and self-reliance. The Physics Department manages three degree programs: B.S. Engineering Physics andthe M.S. and Ph.D. Applied Physics. It has 17 full-time faculty, 40 graduate students, 230undergraduate EP majors, and conducts about $2M in sponsored research annually. With thestrong emphasis in applications, the department has developed close relationships with thetraditional engineering programs and conducts multi-departmental interdisciplinary researchthrough the Materials Science program and two research centers (Center for Electronic and SolarMaterials and the NASA Center for the Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space).These close relationships

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

collaborating institutions nationwide.Facilitating this dissemination is the open source distribution and development method forcurriculum, lecture and laboratory content, established by The National Center forTelecommunications Technologies (NCTT) Consortium.ObjectivesKey objectives and activities of the project are: • Develop a state-of-the-art wireless communications program the includes security courses and concepts and is reflective of regional industry need; • Disseminate this curriculum; • Support NCTT in establishing a nationwide telecommunications education program by providing marketing and access to colleges and companies in the Mid-Atlantic region; • Establish collaboration between regional industry and education

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roya Javadpour

days in every news segment. Thecourse and project was a true example where "learn-by-doing" made a real difference to adisabled and disadvantaged family in the central coast and the entire San Luis Obispocommunity was made fully aware of Cal Poly student outreach. The effort that studentsput into this project deserves honorable mention.The project terminates with a post-project assessment, personal paper reflecting on theproject experience, and the hands-off of the rehabilitated structure to the client. Letters ofappreciation are also sent to all donors of in-kind items, cash donors and all volunteers.There are several lessons which students learned from this project. The first is that youcan never underestimate the importance of the planning

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

economics in the countries of EastAsia, and how the “East Asian miracle” and later “Asian Crisis” reflect the political economycontext that led to the rapid development of China, Japan, Korea, and other smaller states in EastAsia. This course will also overview theoretical perspectives in political economy that informdifferent understandings of economic development, the relationship between politics andeconomy, and the impact of globalization and new technologies on the region as a whole. Toexplore the political economy of the Pacific Rim, we will read particular East Asian case studiessuch as the computer and information technology industry, the steel industry, and the conditionof industrial workers in East Asia. Methods of evaluation consist of

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

., Gerace, W.J., Leonard, W.J., & Beatty, I. (2002). “Assessing-To-Learn: Reflective formative assessment using a classroom communication system.” Presented at Pathways to change: An international conference on transforming math and science education in the K-16 continuum, Arlington, Virginia, April 18-21, 2002. Accessed on-line at http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/~stemtec/pathways/Proceedings/.6. Duncan, D. (2005). “Clickers in the classroom: how to enhance science teaching using classroom response systems.” San Francisco, CA: Pearson Education, Inc.7. Mazur, E. (1997).”Peer instruction: A user’s manual.” Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall.8. Steinberg, R.N. & Sabella, M.S. (1997). “Performance on multiple-choice diagnostics and

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

resources.In order to offer the CCNP curriculum at Southern Miss, two faculty participated in thecertification process. The rationale was that one would serve in a backup capacity. Each facultymember required $36,000 in institutional support to complete CCNA, CCNP, and CCAIcertifications. This cost reflected a two-week workshop registration fee for each course andtravel cost to attend training. It did not include faculty salary or adjunct pay while facultyattended training. The cost for faculty training might appear high; however, one should considerthat the approved training location for faculty was located in Texas. In addition to the initialtraining and certifications costs, faculty must maintain industry certification by retesting every 2-3

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

This curriculum would replace a significant portion of the macro-scaletechnology that has been taught in chemical engineering for most of its history as a professionwith multi-scale technology, while retaining a sufficient amount of the traditional technology topermit teaching and learning of manufacturing. Traditional course titles may change, reflecting arearrangement of topics based on length scales.1In any new curriculum paradigm, there will still be a need for a capstone experience. In the newcurriculum paradigm, the capstone experience may include design of a product at multiplescales, from the product at the atomic through the colloid scales, as appropriate, and themanufacture of the product at the macro scale. Therefore, a new class of

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine Cunningham; Cathy P. Lachapelle; Anna Lindgren-Streicher

which students understand the range of types of engineering, wehave now modified the survey and replaced half of the six items that focused on machinery andconstruction with items that reflect other engineering fields such as chemical and biomedicalengineering. We hypothesize that students will not recognize these disciplines as engineering.It is clear that for the majority of students, technology is closely linked with power andelectricity. While was also expected and is certainly understandable, it presents a narrow (anddeveloped country’s) view of technology. Less than a third of the students identified any of theeveryday human-made objects as technology. Clearly students need to be educated about whattechnology is and the prevalence of

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

sufficient time for extensive, hands-on work. Theintroduction of engineering practice into these courses would be very limited. Forexample, students can be given assignments which require them to study professionalstandards.Laboratory experiments are often combined into specific laboratory courses wherestudents tend to be given detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to use the laboratoryequipment and calculate the results. This approach is not the best way to learn thematerial, since (a) the lecture and the lab are not presented at similar times and (b) it doesnot accurately reflect the reality of professional engineering practice. Further, thelaboratory experiments used in these courses often are intended simply to illustratefundamental

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

timely or thorough.” “It allowed the seniors to get the design team experience and also allowed the freshmen to interact with a senior to see what lies ahead.” “-- get a taste of what the real world is like.”The most mentioned difficulties were getting the teams started and arranging meeting times. Tensuggested making the assignment sooner.There were four comparisons of when seniors were freshman and had to do the same assignmentwithout interacting with a senior. All four felt that having the senior-freshman interaction wasmuch better.There were several comments that reflected the seniors primary reactions to this experience. “I am thankful for being afforded the opportunity to experience such a wonderful program.” “It would be

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

Engineering Educationfocuses on credit bearing coursework, review of this research literature can provide insight intofuture research directions on the benefits of the GK-12 model of service work.Definitions of service learning vary. Bringle and Hatcher (1996) define service learning as,“credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs and reflect on the service activity in such a wayas to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, andan enhanced sense of civic responsibility.”2 According to the American Association of HigherEducation (2000), experiential education can range from formal internship

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Sabick; John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; William Knowlton; Amy Moll

.” Page 10.993.5 o “Training is very important to keep the line going.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education o “Time is very valuable.” o “A smooth process is crucial to the final product.” o “Accurate and detailed process documentation is hard to explain and write.” o “There are a huge number of things to consider in manufacturing – the process you design never works as well as you thought.”The student comments and learning experiences reflect the tasks that industry engineers andmanagers say are the most important challenges facing engineering graduates

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

theenvironment’s simplicity, the task of developing sensor and actuator models was significantlyreduced. The color and reflective properties of the obstacles were specifically chosen so thatsensor response would be similar at given distances from an obstacle regardless of its type. Theseproperties along with the constant lighting in our lab provided the basis for the accurate yetefficient models eventually used within the simulator. The software architecture used to Page 10.749.3interface the hardware with student written controller is described more completely in [3]. Hereit is sufficient to note that the students actually program a “virtual robot object

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

regular (weekly)gatherings. Our network is reflected in the growing connections to the larger community thathave come from being directly connected to members of the cohort, whether it is knowledge ofart openings and concerts or introductions to politically and socially active members of thegreater community.VII. Suggestions for Institutional SupportFirst, it should be noted that the type of peer-mentoring described here is not a formal programsponsored in any way by the institution. However, there were some things that MSU did that Page 10.345.5supported the development of the group. The week-long orientation for all faculty members

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

academic pursuits, and math and science as meaningful careers. In order to accomplish this, it was imperative for the girls to see how people working in their community use math, science and technology.Program development for Excite Camp 2004 reflected an incorporation of program modelelements based on the research, evaluation and success of prior years’ camps in 2001, 2002 and2003. In addition, a review of other model programs was conducted and implemented as newactivities, which included: Experiments from Try Science (www.tryscience.org) Akimeka’s Digital Bus equipment (motion sensors) Oceanit’s MOSAIC PVC Telescope ActivityRecruitmentTo take full advantage of the opportunities and benefits

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

importance of multidisciplinary problems in biomedical engineering. 9. To require the students to utilize skills gained through analytical and experimental exercises to conduct a semester long group design project investigating medical phenomena of their interest. 10. To encourage students to reflect upon their design process and identify areas of strength and weakness in order to prepare for subsequent design exercises.For this new version of the course, lecture and lab components have been blended into a weeklystructure which includes two-hour instructional sessions on Monday and Wednesday followed bya one-hour session on Friday. The course, which is team-taught by two faculty in order to assureadequate technical

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe empirical relationship can be chosen as a matter of suspicion of a physical phenomenonthat decouples the circuit or as a matter of data behavior, as represented by this illustration.It is apparent that Vo(max) decreases approximately linearly with Cp and the choice ofrelationship as given by equation (3-1) is a reflection of this observation.IV Circuit constructs afflicted by device parameters.Situations at the next level of abstraction are the instances in which the device parametersaffect circuit performance, and these situations can either be of concern to the circuitperformance or to the device performance, depending on the demand requirement. As aclassroom artifact, the principal

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Duncan; William Swart

achieve the performance standards. This simultaneous development, knownas “Concurrent Engineering (CE),” is a multidisciplinary team approach that hastraditionally focused on the interaction among various life cycle concerns. The purpose ofCE is to increase productivity and to create products that are high quality, reliable, lessexpensive than that of the competitor, and reflect the customers’ requirements.2Traditional CE approaches have not focused on “trainability” or “performability” for theworkforce to produce and implement the product or service under development.However, by including a Human Performance Technologist (HPT) subject matter experton the multi-disciplinary CE team, the training and performance concerns will be voicedearly in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi; Dan Dimitriu

thecoordination of the department chair, program faculty members approve any major changes inthe course content. The finalized changes are reflected in the course syllabus.Faculty members discuss the curriculum in departmental meetings (ME related courses) orcollege meetings (for common courses in the college). Any curriculum changes are reviewedand approved by the Academic Policies and Curriculum Committees at the College and theUniversity levels. After approval of changes, the modified curriculum is implemented in theappropriate courses and thus the feedback loop closed.A critical item used in the analysis of the course is the student course survey. The key in terms ofthe portfolio audit is whether the survey data was analyzed and acted upon. The

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

to the forefront. The structured labs enabled the students to better design their analyses. Thiscame directly from an improved skill set and an increase in confidence and familiarity of avariety of failed component case studies. The weekly discussions were of immense value asstudents could learn from each others past work experience and critique one another in a non-confrontational setting. Additionally, the students were participating to some degree ineveryone’s project, making the class environment more like a big team as opposed to 20individuals. Seeing the comradery and support was very rewarding and was reflected in thequality of work and overall moral of the class.Based on the presentation of the new course the instructor learned

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

graduates from UTAustin through comprehensive support programs that address outreach and recruitment,academic enrichment, leadership, and professional development.As a result of EOE and programs such as MITE, the minority student enrollment for the Collegeof Engineering has increased substantially over the past 34 years, from 94 in 1971, to 890 in Fall2004, which represents 17.6 percent of the total undergraduate enrollment1. Our vision is tocreate a student body at UT Austin’s College of Engineering that reflects the demographics ofthe college age population within the state of Texas, 43 percent ethnic minorities.IntroductionThe Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) program was created at The University ofTexas at Austin (UT Austin) in 1980

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rogers; John Anderson; Corey Jones

can clearly beseen. Further implementation of renewable fuels is near and will be made possible by theaddition of renewable energy degrees. As reflected in the current environment, theimportance of educating young minds about such forms of renewable energy is clearlyobvious.Bibliographic information1. Oregon Renewable Energy Center, Oregon Institute of Technology, “Fossil Fuels,” web sitewww.oit.edu/orec/12. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Major R and D areas,” web site www.nrel.gov Page 10.780.63. D.V. Hunt, The Gasohol Handbook (New York, NY: Industrial Press, 1981) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Glover; Frank Claydon; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

Working Pizza Dinner: 4:30 - 7:30 Finish Robots, Presentations Figure 1. GRADE Camp Schedule from 2004.Demographics A total of 129 girls have participated in the GRADE Camps to date (44 in 2003 and 85 in2005), and another 100 are anticipated in the 2005 Camps. The ethnic diversity of theparticipants over the two summers reflects that of the diverse city of Houston; seven differentethnic groups have been represented, and 60% of participants come from a minority group.Figure 2 describes the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

.”How are these pieces integrated over a semester to motivate and hopefully attract students?What needs to be created at the start of the class is a thread of continuity that lets thestudents realize there’s a big picture as well as each weekly “little picture.” The sequence ofseminar discussion topics should reflect this larger framework in such a way that the studentscan see how each week’s work has more completely limned the overall theme of the seminar- in this case automotive-bicycle technology.The first day of the seminar is used to introduce the philosophy and goals of the course.Being a freshman seminar, and therefore only a single credit course, I’ve found it to beimportant to indicate clearly what I’ll be expecting of the students