Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

preserves their own engineering design experiences and viewpoints. To counterthis tendency, the engineering faculty must generate opportunities to engage their liberal arts andsocial science colleagues in cross-cultural dialogs and, where possible, to involve them asinstructional resources when teaching element of design.Bibliography 1. Suh, Nam P., 1990, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, New York, NY. 2. Dym, Clive I., and Little, Patrick, 2004, Engineering Design: A Project-based Introduction, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 3. Eggert, Rudolph J., 2005, Engineering Design, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 4. Voland, Gerard, 2004, Engineering by Design, 2nd Ed., Pearson

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wipplinger

. These areusually built by local unskilled masons using local materials, resulting in poor craftsmanship(See Figures 1 and 2). This type of building has performed poorly in past earthquakes, includingthe 2001 Bhuj, India earthquake which killed over 13,000 people 12,13. One proposed solution isto add reinforced concrete bands at the plinth, sill and lintel levels of burnt brick and cementmortar houses with a concrete slab roof 12. This solution is currently being used forreconstruction efforts in India after the 2001 Bhuj earthquake and is being discussed for use inrebuilding areas in 11 countries devastated by the 2005 Tsunami in Southeast Asia. However, itis not currently clear that this solution will be effective in reducing loss of life and

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

qualityproduct, but a more satisfied teamTeamwork Exercises as Teams Move through Project Phases Forming Phase During the forming phase the curriculum focused on forming 1) an understanding of theproject, 2) needs of the client, and 3) the team. The team building exercise, Rope Geometry,required the team to build a geometric shape while blindfolded. The goal of the exercisepromoted initiating and communicating to successfully build the geometric shape. This exercisecreated a situation in which students relied on their ability to develop a communication networkin order to operate effectively as a team. Lacking information about each other, 0.3

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schneider

historically focused on learning thesyntax for a single programming language instead of the skills of logical and algorithmicthinking and the processes for software development. This paper presents a stepped process forintroducing software programming to engineering technology students.1 IntroductionWorking as a contract engineer for numerous companies has allowed me to interact with bothyoung and veteran engineers developing software systems for a myriad of industries. Thisexperience made evident the shortcomings of my software programming education as well asthat of many of my peers. While I was competent with the syntax and structure of programming,I was ill prepared to tackle large problems or complex systems. My deficiency was inunderstanding the

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Pangborn; Renata Engel

’ experiences in the subset of courses most frequently taken tounderstand their motivations and the associations they make with defined program goals. Toaccomplish this, attention would be given to identifying the technology that would affordefficient and broad-based input from students in many different disciplines. The premise wasthat, by providing this information to course instructors, they will be able to evaluate theirexpected or desired course goals from the consumers’ perspectives – both the enrolled studentsand the programs that rely on general education to further their accomplishment of selectededucational objectives. And finally, the resultant assessment process/instrument was intended to: (1) Encourage students to select courses and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement-Adaptation and Implementation. This newlaboratory will help integrate the engineering of daylighting systems into the school’scurriculum, with the anticipation that this will nurture the scientific background and design skillsof undergraduate students. The secondary mission of the laboratory is to disseminate the sameknowledge and/or skills between graduate students, faculty, and practicing professionals. Thelaboratory will also be an effective venue to integrate teaching and research.1. Design of Daylighting Systems in BuildingsIntegration between daylighting and electric lighting systems in commercial buildings may resultin a significant reduction in the annual energy consumption and operating cost. Indeed

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

the idea, but different students willgrasp different aspects of the subject matter. By presenting the answers from different studentsthe instructor can build up an understanding of the complex idea. In this way, students feelgreater ownership of the course, come better prepared to class, and have more productiveinteractions with the professor. Examples of the use JiTT in undergraduate physics will bepresented and a framework for applying the techniques to Mechanics described.IntroductionThe physics educational community has long been at the forefront of innovative pedagogy.Instructors have developed interesting hands-on demonstrations, laboratories, and examples tophelp motivate and teach their students. The Force Concept Inventory(1) has

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terence Weigel

homework.Example Homework Problem A typical homework problem given in CEE 422 is shown in Figure 1. The problemrequires that the student design a bolted single angle tension member. To work this problem byLRFD methodology, the student must consider the limit states of yielding, fracture, block shearrupture and bolt capacity. In order to simplify the presentation in this paper, a block shearrupture check and a bolt capacity check are not included. The LRFD equations for the Yield Limit State and Fracture Limit State are, respectively: Yield Limit State Fracture Limit State LRFD Equation D1-1 LRFD Equation D1-2 φ F y Ag ≥ T u

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeid Moslehpour

then evaluated the resultsby connecting to the NI ELVIS instrument suite via LabVIEW and used the NI ELVIS system toperform additional debugging.We also evaluated the effectiveness of the MCUSLK as a learning tool. Much of today’scurriculum is found on the web and is distributed on electronic blackboards or from facultywebsites. The Freescale MCUSLK and NI ELVIS provide a useful educational environment forstudents who are not available for onsite laboratory.Components EvaluatedFreescale Microcontroller Student Learning Kit – The Freescale Microcontroller StudentLearning Kit is more than just a microcontroller trainer.[1] It consists of an MCU project boardcomplete with a microcontroller development module and a Motorola MC68HC908QY4P 16

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erin Cejka; Chris Rogers

in the Massachusetts Frameworks can serve asa useful referent for discussion. Figure 1: Steps of the Engineering Design Process. From the Massachusetts Department of Education Curriculum Frameworks8, this is the model of the engineering design process used throughout the study.The eight steps laid out here cover the process involved in creating a solution to an ‘open-endedengineering design problem’. This model was chosen because the target audience for theworkshop was Massachusetts teachers, and this model is a part of the frameworks they are veryconcerned about addressing. I anticipated (and the results below indicate) that including theprocess as laid out by the frameworks would be a source of

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

of communication skills for engineers; studies doneby the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Arizonashow that engineering firms, as well as ECE graduates, rank writing ability as the most importantskill in determining engineers’ success, even above the much more obvious technical skills thatare the focus of much engineering education. In fact, results cited in a Report on Surveys ofOpinions by Engineering Deans and Employers of Engineering Graduates on the FirstProfessional Degree, indicate that over sixty percent of the respondents ranked bettercommunications as the #1 priority for curriculum revision [1].Yet it is difficult for engineering schools to stress the importance of student writing to

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

interface, shown in Figure 1. A JLabel displays boththe image and the name of the card just drawn from a deck; by displaying the rank and suitinformation of the card, it is easy to verify that the correct image has been associated with thecard object. Two JButtons are used to handle user interactions: one for drawing a card from thedeck, and the other to both restore and shuffle the deck. A second JLabel is used to indicate thenumber of cards remaining in the deck; when the deck is empty, the “Draw a card” button isdisabled until the “New & shuffled deck” button is pressed. This program allows the student toverify that all of the cards were instantiated correctly and that the basic deck operations ofdealing, restoring, and shuffling a deck

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

jobs. With the availability of low-cost, designer-friendly Internet connectivity, the designcourse is centered on the design, prototyping, and debugging of an embedded systems forinternet appliances. The target application of the first offering is a personal weather station webserver.Evolving from an earlier course on embedded systems that are more traditional, or “free-standing” [1]-[2], this new course relies on cooperative, team-based learning and design, andseamlessly resumes where prerequisite courses ended. Design in the course requires formalizedhardware and software design inspections [2]-[4]. The design inspections serve as a convenienttime for software product measures to be collected. The quantitative measures document thenature

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

. The main objective of this scientificresearch study was to establish the cracking patterns and intensities of concrete made withdifferent proportions of silica fume with and without curing compounds. Silica fume is a finematerial added to concrete to increase its durability especially its resistance to chloridepermeability. Figure 1 shows various forms of this additive material. Silica fume concrete isused in various concrete applications, from bridges to dams. Figure 2 shows a multi-storyparking garage made with silica fume concrete.Due to its fine nature, silica fume makes concrete more susceptible to cracking. Investigatingand documenting the cracks in several test slabs would establish a cracking pattern based on theproportions of the

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Misna; Erica Liszewski

principles of Boolean algebra. The subject forms a vital part of the technical foundationthat enables our students to contribute to the field of modern digital hardware. Students are oftencalled upon in later courses to apply a key set of digital logic analysis and design skills to theadvanced material being covered. Those who are weak in these skills are at a decideddisadvantage.Experience at NAU indicates that many students who do well in the digital logic course oftenhave trouble applying this material in later courses. Colleagues at other universities haveexpressed similar concerns. This indicates that their knowledge is often rather fragile. There areseveral likely causes: 1) Insufficient student practice with critical skills and concepts

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

, where a watershed is located, how beams and columns areconnected in a building frame, what work will need to be done to excavate a foundation,or how to lay out a roadway. With the advent of new computer technologies, it ispossible to take numerical 3-D data and render virtual computer models that arepresented in 3-D, enhancing the learning experience in relation to both analysis anddesign in the civil engineering curriculum [1]. To this end, the College of Engineering at Valparaiso University has establishedthe Scientific Visualization Laboratory to improve the learning experience for studentsfor 3-D concepts that are hard to represent in conventional 2-D space [2-4]. Examplesinclude electromagnetic fields, complex organic molecules

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

courses that are prerequisite to the design sequence, students gain experience with anincreasingly broad range of activities in the software life cycle. One can view the software lifecycle as having several stages, though iteration through these stages is common. (Design is, afterall, an iterative process.) Figure 1 depicts the software life cycle stages and the focus of studentexperiences in coursework encountered prior to the design sequence. Requirements Determine Plan System Detailed Implementation Life Cycle Maintenance Analysis Specifications TImeline Architecture Design & Integration

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trine Kvidal; April Kedrowicz

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEducators generally adopt one of four approaches to improving the communicationcompetence of engineering undergraduates: (1) a required communication course, (2) acommunication lab, designed to provide assistance to students on a voluntary basis, (3)integrated communication and engineering courses, or (4) an integrated communicationand engineering degree program.In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, a series ofengineering courses have been revised to include significant communication components,such that students will have received instruction in and practiced

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

km.Although sales of such “extreme” systems slowed at the turn of the century, the fundamentaldriving forces that led to their development are still present. In the post-bubble years 2000-2004,worldwide Internet usage has grown more than 125%1. As of October 2003, more than 35% ofU.S. households with Internet access had a high-speed (DSL or Cable Modem) connection to theInternet2. Although the rate of growth of bandwidth demand has slowed since 2000, the forecastof 30% growth in 20053 is still well into the double digits. Moreover, whereas fiber has playedonly a minor roll in the local access (loop) network up to now, the market for optical networkingequipment, cable and apparatus for the local access network is forecast to reach $3.2B by 2009,which

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

, evolves as IVthe design team synthesizes information, skills, Design Synthesis & Optimizationand values to solve open-ended problems. The IIIdesign stem encompasses a four-year program in Technical & Economic Designengineering design, summarized in Figure 1. The (EPICS) II

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

help session to help students with background deficiencies.Some students took advantage of these sessions, but many did not. As a means of helping withthe problem, a 3 contact hour per week, non degree credit, lab session was added. Students tookthis lab concurrently with the computer graphics course. Students were required to take thiscourse if they could not pass the proficiency test shown in Figure 1. This was a step in the rightdirection, but two new problems surfaced. First it was difficult to cover the background materialquickly enough in the lab before it was needed in the class. Also, the total amount of time in thelab was a bit short for good coverage.This led to the development of the course ENGR 1555 – Engineering Drawing and

Conference Session

IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro; Jane Fraser

, but not limited to: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1. University and college strategic plan 2. Number and interests of the faculty. 3. Number and academic preparation of students entering the program. 4. Organizations that recruit program graduates (industry and graduate programs). 5. Governing professional societies.Based on presentations in professional meetings, it is evident that there have been broadinterpretations of the ABET 2000 Criteria. The recently approved 2005-06 Criteria1 reflect thefirst iteration in improvements to the ABET 2000 Criteria. Specifically

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Tannous

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”issues. The common key is that the classroom component, whether interactive lecture or studentactivities, is informed by an analysis of various student responses.Unfortunately, most students are passive recipients in class. Some students may come fromcultures whose norms discourage speaking in class. JiTT helps students become participants inthe discussion section. It increases students’ awareness of the values of participation, and createsa climate in which an important contribution is not lost because the person with the necessaryidea did not feel free to express it (1).How can there be a discussion in the classroom if the students haven’t read the

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

aseries of design scenarios by which we will implement stochastic methods into EngineeringDesign VI. This course is taken by mechanical engineering students in the junior year.Previously, this course was based on deterministic approaches for integrated product design,spanning the entire process from product conception to product realization, following thesyllabus outlined by Ulrich and Eppinger.1 This paper discusses how the newly developed lecturematerials based on the framework by Hazelrigg2 have been integrated into the existing coursesyllabus. Furthermore, it describes the design scenarios together with appropriate MATLAB andMS Excel analysis modules that were developed for student usage in laboratory exercises. Thepilot course is currently

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Zecher

resulting file was saved as a 44kHz, 16bit-mono sound file. This sound file wasthen edited to break the file into a number of small files which allowed mistakes to be deletedand to easily move the “sound bites” back and forth along a time line in order to correctly matchthe corresponding image being displayed. Figure 1 Recording of the “voice-over” being recorded in a sound boothGraphical images similar to that shown in figure 2 were created with a number of differentsoftware packages: ProEngineer, Macromedia Freehand, etc.. Page 10.472.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

theintegration of modern sensing and data acquisition technologies into science labs. Computerizeddata acquisition and sensor-based science labs are believed to excite students’ hidden curiosityfor science, impart technology literacy, allow for exploring scientific concepts, and intereststudents to strive for achievement in science and math courses. This paper presents some of thedeveloped sensor-based physics experiments along with the motivation and preliminaryobservations.1. Introduction The prevalence of computer technology in all facets of human life is renderingconventional high school science labs obsolete. Traditional labs are often outdated since theynecessitate manual operation and allow only limited data collection, thus constraining

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark French

offered in response to requests by both students and outsideorganizations. Our students tend to be very interested in cars and often come us with abackground in modifying, racing and even building them. The potential for outsidesupport offered the possibility of creating an appealing course that would link a variety ofsubjects in a rigorous way. The student response was enthusiastic, so we think this is agood venue for highlighting how working with a complex system integrates subjectmatter from the entire curriculum1.Basic Structure of CourseThe course was developed with 12 distinct modules: 1. The Role of Automotive Motorsports in the Undergraduate Curriculum 2. History of Automotive Motorsports

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Fernando

program through the web site from his distance location. A similar process can be carriedout for the complete work cell programming as well. With a web camera installed in the lab, theuser can observe the live video of robot operations as well.Laboratory SetupRecently, robotics laboratory of Industrial Technology department at WVU Tech acquired twonew industry standard robot arms and controllers. By utilizing these two new robot arms andexisting Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines of the department, we have set up aflexible manufacturing work cell and an assembly work cell. Figure 1 shows the manufacturingwork cell and Figure 2 shows the assembly work cell. The manufacturing work cell consists of a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

. Page 10.776.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The first exhibit is the schedule of events as handed out with the syllabus to students during thelast “Circuit Analysis” course in fall 2004. The second is an example of one of the lab handouts,specifically for design and measurement of second order circuits.“Exhibit” 1: Schedule for EGR 210 – Circuit Analysis, Fall 2004 Day/Date Text Reading, Chapter, Topics ACTIVITIES: LAB DESIGN/APPL. th PSPICE CLASS # Dorf-Svoboda: Introduction to

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sanders; Sanju Patro

international conference and the CordysGrant [1], the “Global Classmates” initiative was recently introduced at Kettering University.Four different universities from around the globe have pledged to participate in this pilotinitiative to educate the next generation of engineering students in a global setting. A globalteam of students in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Manufacturing ProcessEngineering, with different functional roles in a virtual organization, will work in a live meetingenvironment to solve a real-life engineering problem. Page 10.1290.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual