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Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

junior level for all civil engineering technology students. The course credit hourswere increased to 4 semester credit hours to allow for developing a laboratory component for thecourse.The use of lab assignments in the transportation course allowed students to get hands-onexperience and training in conducting transportation studies utilizing the latest standardsemployed in the industry. The lab also enabled the instructor to use open-ended problems suchthat members of each team can search for feasible solutions that meet specific guidelines.Different teams may end up with different analysis results or design solutions. Feedback fromstudents indicated their appreciation for integrating the lab assignments into the course.This paper describes the

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Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

Engineering EducationCurrent Course Structure of Freshman Engineering.ENGR 1550 Basic Engineering Concepts (3 SH)The first course in the current sequence at Youngstown State University is ENGR 1550 BasicEngineering Concepts, offered only in the Fall Semester. The three semester hour course iscomprised of two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite/concurrentrequirement for this course is a math course of pre-calculus or higher level.There are several distinct sub-goals of this first course; however they are all intertwined whenfocusing on the main goal of successfully transitioning the first year student to becoming part ofthe YSU engineering community. While presenting and teaching several engineering/technicalskills, the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

professionals. Kelton3 presented the pros and cons of teaching the “classics,” i.e.,“any general-purpose procedural programming language that is not a simulation language at all”versus “high-level, icon-based simulation software.” Nance and Sargent4 noted that an“unsettling consequence” of modern simulation languages is that “users may have littleunderstanding of how the model results are being produced” and “developers sometimes lack asufficient understanding of the internal logic [of simulation programming languages] to enablethe recognition of erroneous results produced by incorrect models.” However, experience hasshown that it is relatively easy to learn details of a simulation language for students whounderstand discrete event simulation and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

variety of disciplinary contexts. A solid background is developed by touching keyconcepts at several points along the spiral in different courses, adding depth and sophistication ateach pass. Each foundation course also stresses the development of several essential skills, suchas problem-solving, oral and written communication, the design process, teamwork, projectmanagement, computer analysis methods, laboratory investigation, data analysis and modeldevelopment. In addition to providing a broad engineering background, this sequence ofmultidisciplinary courses develops the foundation for building substantial depth in key areas ofimportance for engineering students.The first semester freshman course that includes feedback control is EAS 109

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

training go hand inhand because students are required to manage “projects” that they must complete during thequarter. They are introduced to the concept of team roles, agendas, minutes, listening, decisionmaking, peer evaluation, and scheduling. In their sophomore year, students are given training inpeer evaluation that is reinforced in the junior year. In the junior year student laboratory groupsare required to complete open ended laboratory projects. These groups are responsible forscheduling their work and performing peer evaluations. During the senior Systems Designcourse, students are given more in depth training on team motivation and interaction. They areintroduced to scheduling concepts and are required to use Microsoft Project to complete

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

incollege, the students usually work alone: in class, taking notes, doing homework, studying forand taking tests, writing papers, giving presentations, and managing their own time. Typically,in the laboratory the student will partner with another student. However, the dynamics of a teamof two does not at all compare to that of a larger group. Hence, while this overall approach istraditional and works well for the individual in an academic setting, it can be a shock when thestudent needs to work in a larger team in industry. Considerable time is spent in the first-quarterEE-407 course on team building, and this continues throughout the year.2. Understand the difference between a problem and a solution. This is one of the more poorlyunderstood

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

-Next.” Page 10.991.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFunded through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), N-STAR has begun to develop anintegrated continuum of activities and programs that have as their ultimate goal recruiting 500new scientists and engineers per year over the next ten years into the Naval Research Enterprise(NRE) which comprises the NWCs plus the Naval Research Laboratory

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

tenure andpromotion. Graduate students have little teaching preparation other than perhaps leadingdiscussion groups. Starting up a research program without funds is a difficultundertaking. Add to these problems the fact that most departmental chairpersons havelittle if no training in management or organizational behavior.Women and other members of underrepresented groups in SEM disciplines face addedstresses such as what Moody calls the “solo effect”10: being the “token, novel,” person onthe faculty whose behavior and performance may be judged more harshly due to theiruniqueness in a more homogeneous group. Women suffer from the well-documented“chilly climate”11 and may experience acute stresses of egregious hazing and sexualharassment12. There

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

teaching interests areas of interestare automatic control systems, distillation columns, teaching laboratories development, energy and environmentalconservation. He is the recipient of the Outstanding UTC engineering Faculty award in 2001 and received theFulbright scholar award in 1987-1988.Ann Marie Flynn is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College. She received her B.S.from Manhattan College and Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of technology. Her research and teaching areas ofinterest are the combustion of heavy metals. Page 10.605.17 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Susan Kowalski; Adam Kowalski; Frank Kowalski

microcomputer- based laboratories.” American Journal of Physics 65: 45-54.9. Sokoloff, D.R. and Thornton, R.K. (1997). “Using interactive lecture demonstrations to create an active learning environment.” As in CP399, “The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: Proceedings of ICUPE.” Redish, E.F. and Rigden, J.S, (eds.). The American Institute of Physics. Available online at http://www.psrc-online.org/classrooms/papers/mestre.html.10. Breslow, L. (2000). “Active learning, part II: Suggestions for using active learning techniques in the classroom.” Teach Talk Article appearing in the MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. XII, No. 3, accessed online at http://web.mit.edu/tll/published/active_learning_2.htm.11. Mazur, E. (1997

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

teachers in sufficient quality and quantity to meet currentdemands[5]. Recent graduates enter the mathematics teaching profession already indesperate need of intensive professional development[6]. Moreover, state and districtefforts to recruit and retain teachers too often fail to benefit high-poverty, high-minority,and low achieving schools where inexperienced and out-of-field teachers are more likely[7] . Consequently, efforts toward professional development of the current teacherworkforce hold the greatest promise for improved achievement.Fortunately, NCLB facilitates partnerships between K-12 districts and higher educationinstitutions to provide teachers with professional development opportunities including

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

be analyzed 4, 5. However, queuing analysis often assumes a Poissondistribution, which is not the case with most networks 6,7. Performance analysis incomputer networking can be based upon various models; and bandwidth in MB/s is acommon performance indicator. Students can perceive differences in performancewith respect to bandwidth which can be used as a starting point for a constructivistbased performance model.ConstructivismThe dominant theory of conceptual understanding in education is constructivism. Thishas been extensively tested in the field of science and mathematics education 8-11.Although Constructivism is a foundation of many modern teaching practices it has notbeen influential within computer education 12. The knowledge the

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

faculty?Comments made by faculty were categorized into nine categories of positive or negativeremarks. Four researchers independently scored each interview transcript and came to consensuson whether or not a faculty member included a category in their remarks. The major findingsfrom our interviews are presented below.a) Sour ces of success and job satisfaction wer e similar for male and female faculty.We found no significant differences (chi square analysis) between male and female faculty insources of career success and job satisfaction at USU. The top four sources of success andsatisfaction in descending order were interactions with colleagues, campus resources, support ofadministrators, and positive teaching experiences.b) Male and female

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

, audio and video will also be used to help teach scientificprinciples. Primary source materials, including articles, correspondence, laboratory notebooksand patents, are being used to research, develop, and produce multimedia materials presentingelectricity and its application to the technological development of products. The Museum’smoving image collection consists of more than 1800 films and video relating to the developmentof the electrical industry that often feature inventors discussing their discoveries. For example,Exploring with X-rays features Dr. William Coolidge (the inventor of the X-ray tube in 1913),discussing the history of X-ray research and development along with the scientific principlesbehind X-rays. Selected artifacts from

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

students. This project can becompleted with inexpensive and readily available tools and materials. It provides opportunitiesfor the students to use good engineering analysis in their designs and opportunities for studentsto exercise creativity.Wind chimes have been proposed and used as a project or laboratory in a number of physics andmathematics courses. In this paper I review the approach and results of using a wind chimedesign in a first-year “Introduction to Engineering Design” course. In a portion of this coursestudents are asked to design, construct and test a wind chime. They are provided with anequation to predict the frequency of their chimes that is based on a solution to the fourth-orderwave equation. Students select their desired chime

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

Page 10.346.1students.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference * Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education As shrinking budgets cause an ever greater part of undergraduate laboratory education to becomputer centered, and as a greater percentage of students enter the curriculum withoutpractical experience in mechanics or a familiarity with tools and tooling, there is a strong needto expose aerospace engineering students to these realities of the aviation workplace, aworkplace that traditionally has inspired a passionate intensity. The Aerospace EngineeringDepartment at Cal Poly is trying to provide hands-on skills and foster this intensity

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker

basic digital building blocks such as multiplexers, decoders, full adders and ROMs and verify the correct operation of the design through simulation and/or implementation • Design, simulate and/or implement sequential circuits using various representations such as state diagrams, ASM charts, and hardware description language, specifically VHDL • Design, simulate and/or implement a digital system as a circuit consisting of a Data Path and Control Unit • Design the Control Unit as a finite state machine and using micro- programming • Be able to describe the design and verification process through written communication in the form of laboratory reports

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0202/30/main.shtml.2. Korane, K.: Putting ER Fluids To Work. Machine Design, May 9,1991, pp. 52-57.3. Scott, D.: Amazing Hardening Fluids Open a New World of Hydraulic Drives. Popular Science, April 1984, pp. 42-46.4. Duclos, T.G.: Electrorheological Fluids and Devices. Automotive Engineering, December 1988, pp.45- 48.5. Carlson, J. D., Lord Corporation, Sensor Technology and Design, February 2002 http://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0202/30/main.shtml.6. Conrad, H.: The Impact of ER Fluids. Compressed Air Magazine, March 1992, pp.14-17.Biographical Information:Dr. JOHN ALLEN MARSHALL taught senior high school prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&MUniversity. He has 23 years of university teaching experience, and is

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

Leadership and Teamwork Education for Engineering and Technology Students An Experiential Learning and Community Service Approach George Suckarieh, Jason Krupar University of Cincinnati1. IntroductionThe history of technical education in the United States over the last two hundred years can betraced back to the American Revolution; it evolved from both military and craftsmanship needs.Over the years, the trends in technical education changed from teaching of craftsmanship andbasic science, to assembly and design of sophisticated projects. The present trend in technicaleducation focuses on complimenting the design skills of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

course that are offered. To date, the course has been offered twice through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (http://itll.colorado.edu). The course gives students a thorough understanding Page 10.364.9 of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education community developments. Students are asked to create, design and construct appropriate technological systems, processes

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

order to exist and thrive at the university.Developing a national forum to support a positive discussion and debate concerning the futuredevelopment of technology programs and their role in fulfilling the university’s mission shouldbe a national priority. Clearly, a major dichotomy is the appropriate balance and focus in theareas of teaching and research. Clearly, good classroom and laboratory instruction is expected atall major universities, especially those that are state supported.Some would also argue that good teaching is not possible without good research and scholarship,and that the scholarship should be grounded in the creation and development of new knowledge.This new knowledge could come in the form of new curriculum or pedagogy, or

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

students.Course Management IssuesThe current structure allows for the dedication of three faculty assigned to the class. However, thegoal is to make the offering more “standardized,” such that by 2006, one faculty with several studentTAs can teach the course. Part of this objective will be satisfied by documenting a series of bothfinal projects and standard weekly projects. An instructor can select a final project, then choose fiveto seven short projects which will support that final project. Accumulating short projects is similarto the activities which produced the fine laboratory manual offered by Wang. [11] The authorswould have chosen this manual as a required text in the new course revision, but for the fact thatEGR 286 needed to be offered with

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

experiential learning with academic programs.This paper reviews the growing popularity of engineering management programs, the impact ofentrepreneurship courses on the engineering management curriculum (including a taxonomy ofpromoters, engineers, managers, engineering managers and engineering entrepreneurs), thedebates over teaching of entrepreneurship courses and a new course in Systems EngineeringEntrepreneurship that will be a paradigm shift in engineering entrepreneurship education.The Growing Popularity of Engineering Management ProgramsTo better prepare themselves, many engineers, scientists and researchers are choosing to pursuetheir master's degrees. This fact in and of itself is not unusual. What is unusual, however, is thefact that the

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

Engineering Educationrescue robot. Although this communications module truly pushed the envelope of thestudent’s abilities, grappling with designing and integrating the communication protocolsinto their robots provided interesting complexities, interactions, and other system issuesthat arise in a multi-layered physical system. It also enabled us in the classroom tosubstantively introduce more advanced topics in communication.4 Laboratory strategiesIt is important to note that this refocusing on system issues did not just take place in thelabs or the classroom. Indeed, teaching a systems perspective required a paradigm shifton the part of the instructors. For example, thought processes of the instructors that usedto be implicit must be made explicit

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Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

://www.ecpsystems.com 2. Burchett, B. T., and Layton, R. A., “An Undergraduate System Identification Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005.Author BiographyBRADLEY T BURCHETT is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches courses on the topicsof dynamics, system dynamics, control, intelligent control, and computer applications. His research interestsinclude non-linear and intelligent control of autonomous vehicles, and numerical methods applied to optimalcontrol. Page 10.985.11 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

, management, and others such as sales, consulting, and teaching.• Engineers use tools to apply processes systematically. Therefore, the choice and use of appropriate tools is key to engineering.• Engineers, via their professional societies, advance by the development and validation of principles, standards, and best practices.• Engineers reuse designs and design artifacts.However, there are two key differences between products designed by software engineers(software products) and other engineers (bridges, automobiles, electrical components, etc.).Software is abstract rather than physical and it deals with discrete rather than continuous entities.The intangible nature of software affects its visibility, its changeability, and its lack

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

capstoneexperience for Engineering Technology students, documenting their ability to integrateknowledge from various technical and general education areas and apply it in ameaningful way. The portfolio development process requires students to reflect on pastexperiences, both academic and professional, and then use the information gained fromthis reflective process to develop learning statements that address specific learningobjectives.Excelsior’s Engineering Technology programs represent a laboratory of innovativeassessment, articulation and course delivery, whose techniques can be used by alleducational institutions to further the cause of educating and recognizing worthy studentswho might not otherwise be able to complete traditional degree requirements

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

? Since entering your department, have you experienced isolation?Laboratory Climate How well are lab experiments explained prior to your participation in them? Extent other team members view you as a leader when working in small groups in the lab? How productive do you feel when working in a group lab setting? Page 10.308.4 Extent your suggestions or comments are taken seriously by the “Proceedings of the 2005