Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

Society for Engineering Educationengineering education practices often implement experiential learning in smaller doses toimmediately compliment material presented in lecture and to offer an active mode of learning incourses for which no co-requisite lab is available. The value of immediate exposure is easilyappreciated,1 and dealing with actual objects has long been ranked first by merit among availableteaching aids: “Wherever possible, show the student the actual object being discussed. Let himuse as many of his senses as possible in getting acquainted with it. Actual contact … is betterthan thousands of descriptive words.”2 Implementation of active learning exercises, though, canbe intimidating to the traditional lecturer and to the novice

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

Student Funded Laboratory Exercises at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Jeffrey Connor1, Margaret Joyce2, Lynn Nystrom3, Steven York1, Michael Gregg1, Richard Goff1 1 Department of Engineering Education 2 Student Engineers’ Council 3 Office of the College of Engineering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTraditionally the methods of engineering education have been an outgrowth of the fact thatengineers solve practical

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

wide variety ofschools and departments. To illustrate the discussion of these first two approaches, we present aninformal survey of courses and programs in computer security throughout the U.S. The threadapproach is seldom advertised or implemented and is a compromise which bridges the gapbetween the single-course and the track approaches. This approach uses security and privacy as aunifying theme across the standard core Computer Science or Computer Engineering curricula.We argue that this approach can effectively meet the educational needs of the computerprofessional of today using a minimum of resources.1. IntroductionThe world is fast becoming a very large, inter-networked collection of computing devices. Yourpersonal computer connects to

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

. IntroductionWhile in the last decade Kumon NA has enjoyed substantial growth, the potential forgrowth in the upcoming decade is enormous. Kumon NA is presently serving just under200,000 students in 1,500 centers in the United States and Canada. However, to reachthe same type market saturation currently seen in Japan, Kumon would have to add overthree million students to their North American markets. Clearly there is vast potential inthis area for engineering entrepreneurs, with their unusually strong background inmathematics. BackgroundKumon utilizes a methodology created in Japan in the early1950s by a high school mathematics teacher, Toru Kumon(Figure 1). It begins with the philosophy that all childrenhave enormous, unseen, untapped

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Kramer

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”manual drafting taught when the data from the two surveys were compared. In 1998, the dataindicated that 57% of the participants still taught this subject.In the area of two-dimensional (2D) computer aided design (CAD), 82% (45 participants)taught this subject area. Of the 45 who offered 2D CAD, 31% offered it as a separate course,67% integrated it into other courses, and 2% offered it both as a separate course andintegrated with other subject matter. Two-dimensional CAD was taught, on average, in 3.02courses, ranging from 1-17 courses per year. AutoCAD was the most often cited softwareused

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jake Ingman; Camille Schroeder

engineering through learning and activities that celebrate the subjects throughreal-world applications. We also hope to entice other universities and entities to considerproviding related programming to their constituents.References[1] Mintchell, Gary. February 1998. Is there a Shortage of Engineers?, Career Update. Available from: http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA188792 (accessed February 2005).[2] Gender in Education. 2002. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass.[3] Department of Education. 2001, Women & Girls in Education. Available from: http://www.ed.gov/pubs (accessed May 2004).[4] McIlwee, Judith., & Robinson, J. Gregg. 1992. Women in Engineering: Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture. Albany:State University of New

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Miller-Young

theengineering design process and quality of the designed solution3. Developed in conjunction withsimilar courses at the University of Calgary, the Engineering Design and Communicationcourses span the entire first year and are taught by a team of interdisciplinary instructors.Students spend only 1 hour per week in lecture, and 4.5 hours per week in labs where activitiesare mostly team-oriented. Students are assessed with equal weight on visual communicationskills (technical drawing and sketching), oral and written communication skills (presentations,report writing as well as grammar and organization) and design (team project designperformance, analysis and quality).However, most entering students in science and engineering believe there are unique

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

Session Number: 1686 Observations on Benefits/Limitations of an Audience Response System S.E. Silliman1, K. Abbott2, G.C. Clark3, L.H. McWilliams1 1 College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame / 2Office of Information Technologies, University of Notre Dame / 3Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre DameAbstractProviding stimulating lectures to large groups of students has been one of the most challengingaspects of a first-year engineering course sequence. Prior efforts at improving the lectureenvironment included use of an audience response system (ARS). While the

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

what isrequired and how to navigate the process. Breaking the code (the rules for tenure and promotionand how they apply to ET faculty who consult) is the job of the leader. This paper will addressthe subject of being ready for the tenure when the time comes, and the steps necessary to prepareET faculty for scrutiny by their peers.The ProblemThere is a code within the walls of the university and it must be broken to achieve tenure andpromotion. New faculty, especially those from industry, need to break the code but they needhelp. In previous papers there have been discussions of mentoring and working with faculty, 1-3but there was never an attempt to define what makes a new professor attractive to the rest of theuniversity when it comes time

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

) and a matched sample (n = 40) of male faculty from the Colleges of Agriculture,Engineering, Natural Resources and Science.1 We asked each faculty member: 1) What factors at USU contributed to your career success and job satisfaction? Page 10.1062.1 2) What factors at USU were obstacles to success or sources of job dissatisfaction? “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 3) What changes would you like to see at USU to improve the recruitment and retention of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Thomson; Donald Orlich; Richard Zollars

Paper 2005-1689 Linking Middle Schools and High Schools with Engineering Programs Donald C. Orlich1, William J. Thomson2, Richard L. Zollars2 1 Science, Mathematics, Engineering Education Center 2 School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Washington State University A problem facing the United States is the declining numbers of students expressing aninterest, or majoring, in engineering. Recently the American College Testing organizationreported that between 1992 and 2003 the percentage of high

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationensure student progress in the comprehension and mastery of the specific content andrequisite linguistic skills presented in each cycle. Student self-learning through discovery,either individually or in groups, is an essential element of each of the three stages of thecycle. Within its current use in linguistics, the three stages of a cycle are: 1. Into: The goal of this stage is “for students to gain an entrée into the topic, recognize the depth of their own prior knowledge, and be better prepared for the new content materials they are about to encounter.”3 By

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

. Detailed plans for the apparatus, circuits, computer interfacesand computer programs and tutorials are made available via the Internet. The results of apersonal self-evaluation (PSE) from the design competition are described.IntroductionAn annual student conference is sponsored by the Midwestern Undergraduate PrivateEngineering Colleges (MUPEC) group, comprising the institutions listed in Table 1. Thepurpose of the conference is to give undergraduate engineering, science and math students fromthese institutions a forum to showcase their work in oral and poster presentations. A differentinstitution hosts the event each year.The conference often includes a design competition in addition to the oral and posterpresentations. The challenge for the

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

requirements, learning objectives,design performance measures, testing setup, assignments, timeline, and design considerations.The paper contains examples of students’ work, such as design sketches and prototypesmanufactured on a stereo-lithography machine (3-D printer), and rubrics used to evaluate thestudent’s individual and team performance. Also included is an example of how assignmentgrades are linked to ABET (a-k) Program Outcomes.I. IntroductionThis paper describes three design team-projects developed for MEGR 181, a freshmanengineering design course, offered in the Mechanical Engineering Department at SeattleUniversity. The course has eight learning outcomes.At the completion of the course students should be able to: 1. Apply the design

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

approach to problemsolving, insufficient understanding of real-life problems, and poor communication skills. [1]Further, engineering education research has not been discriminant in modeling the graduate andundergraduate consumer. A conclusion may be that an imprecise definition of the term “student”[graduate or undergraduate] could affect the process of educating the graduate-level industrialengineer such that their subsequent presentation as a candidate for the workforce community isnot “aligned” with that community’s needs. [2] Page 10.53.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

. Page 10.978.3Quarter One Design Projects Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ♥ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education“First-year engineering design projects are an integral part of the education process inengineering and engineering technology.”1 Design projects are fundamental in developinginterest in engineering and technology disciplines2, 3, 9. At NEIT, design projects are utilizedthroughout the Mechanical Engineering Technology program.The fundamental goals of quarter one projects is to give the students an introduction to theirchosen course of study, a feeling for the extent or scope of the discipline, a chance to engage is

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

for EC 2000Preparation for the first visit was a challenge. The ABET Engineering Criteria (EC 2000) had tobe interpreted in the absence of many good examples of EC 2000 accredited programs,particularly for universities of USA’s size and student demographic. The University of South Page 10.1145.1Alabama was the first university in the state of Alabama to seek accreditation under EC 2000. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The now well-know criteria included (1) Students, (2) Program

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Ekstrom; Joseph Ekstrom

researchers.Introduction Figure 1Organizations often have many computersthat are unused for much of the day. Thedesire to utilize these idle machines hasspawned systems that attempt to harness theunused computer cycles for useful work.These include SETI@home [1], Globus[2],Condor[3], DOGMA[4], and recentlySLURM[5]. Each of these systems has uniquecharacteristics and has evolved independently.At BYU DOGMA is being used to facilitatephylogentic research and 3D graphicsrendering. These compute intensiveapplications are being executed at no costthrough the use of idle cycles. This enableseven undergraduates to have access toextensive computing resources

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Resnick

of theprogrammer.This paper presents an approach for teaching programming that evolved from the experiences ofenabling those new hires to perform their job. It describes how to prepare to learn a language,presents visualization techniques and problem assignments that take a student from zero to full-speed, and concludes with a series of programming axioms and background information that isessential to every programmer. The author applied this approach to one course of DataStructures in C++ for third-year students who had previously received one or two courses inother programming languages. Selected comments from a survey of the students are included.IntroductionComputing Curricula 2001 [1], a joint task force report from the Computer Society

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendree Sampson; Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young

weaknesses in their answers. Young posed the questions for each class as a“Quiz” to be submitted via Blackboard, an online course-management program. Students wereto complete the “Quiz” at least 1 hour prior to class, and then Young and a teaching assistantread through the answers and graded them 0, 1, or 2. Although this worked well for timelyfeedback to the professor, the logistics using Blackboard version 5.0 were occasionallyfrustrating. For example, there was no simple mechanism to provide feedback to individualstudents, and the only options for conducting a “quiz” were a single access by each student (notappropriate for a learning activity) or an infinite number of accesses for the duration of thecourse (which left no record of when the

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Billy Koen

Engineering Curruiculum”1 to fit a free-standing course inethics into the curriculum or to “make what it teaches seem a routine part of engineering.” Andunless we are able to make it “seem a routine part of engineering” students will resist our bestefforts. One strategy that Davis recommends is a pervasive approach to ethics infusing adiscussion of ethics in existing courses at all levels. The problem then becomes discovering the best pedagogical approach to ethics instructionsin individual courses. Many feel caught between two possibilities: either tackling traditionaltexts, such as Plato or Kant or Mill, or skirting the difficult scholarship involved in teachingthose philosophies by using case studies and scenarios that prepare students for

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erick Jones

threeresearch areas, Industrial Engineering (IE), Engineering Management (EM), and IndustrialPsychology (IP). The three research areas provide important aspects to the methodology and areuniquely integrated. Figure 1 shows the SECtCS methodology and the integration of the researchareas.Fig 1: SECtCS Methodology Page 10.1399.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society fr Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” SECtCS Statistical Evaluation of Cognitive Turnover Control System

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watkins

Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 A VIRTUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF A DYNAMIC SIGNAL ANALYZER USING SIMULINK John M. Watkins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wichita State University 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0044 J.Watkins@IEEE.orgIntroductionThe ability to understand and utilize the frequency response of a linear system is a criticalbuilding block in many undergraduate engineering disciplines. For example, undergraduatestudents in electrical engineering will often see the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Karlin

theimplementation of the original idea and the current creation at SDSM&T, there areseveral lessons that can be taken to reduce the learning curve of other groups wishing tocreate similar programs on their campus. These lessons are categorized as: resources,consistency and continuity, student involvement, STEM community involvement, andscalability. Page 10.188.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Table 1. Differences Between the Two Iterations First Iteration

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IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

referenced each factor. Table 1. Number (percent) of student comments regarding factors important in their choice of industrial engineering. Total # of Student # of Comments # of Comments Recruiting Factors Comments by Males by Females Nature of the Degree 31 13 (42%) 18 (58%) IE Professors/Director 13 3 (23%) 10 (77%) Recruiting 9 3 (33%) 6 (67%) Peers 6 4 (67%) 2 (33%) Family 5 1 (20%) 4 (80%) HS

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

referenced each factor. Table 1. Number (percent) of student comments regarding factors important in their choice of industrial engineering. Total # of Student # of Comments # of Comments Recruiting Factors Comments by Males by Females Nature of the Degree 31 13 (42%) 18 (58%) IE Professors/Director 13 3 (23%) 10 (77%) Recruiting 9 3 (33%) 6 (67%) Peers 6 4 (67%) 2 (33%) Family 5 1 (20%) 4 (80%) HS

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wang

four basicpurposes: 1. To prepare architects to fill multiple roles in preserving valuable cultural traditions and enabling continuing evolution of the culture in response to internal and external mandates, 2. To foster independence and intellectual freedom, 3. To contribute to an individual sense of self-fulfillment, and 4. To promote the sustainability of architectural education. Students should be encouraged to defend the processes and products of their investigations.Reforms already underway in Taiwan have shifted architectural education from the concreteto the abstract, from the general to the specific, and from the literal to the figurative. Educational reform worldwide is taking many shapes, but most reform

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

during theirjunior year. This course includes some statistical methods for analyzing data, utilizing a wellknown text.1 However, it has been generally found that a senior student has forgotten much ofthose techniques. In an effort to reinforce and solidify the learning of these methods, anexperiment was devised that uses torsion testing of metallic screws as the vehicle forunderstanding and, hopefully, remembering some basic techniques of data analysis. In addition,the students learn something about product testing and the variability of real commercialproducts.The specific objectives are:1. To introduce statistical techniques for evaluating and comparing the means and variances of different samples. a) To determine the mean of a

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John King; Dae-Wook Kim; Tom Stoebe

Manufacturing Technology Curriculum Research and Development for High Schools and Colleges in Washington State D. Kim1, J.T. King2, T. G. Stoebe3, I. Cossette4 1 School of Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA /2College of Education, Seattle University, Seattle, WA/ 3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA/4Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, WA ABSTRACTThe Puget Sound Consortium for Manufacturing Excellence (PSCME), a three yearproject funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a regional education-industry partnership aimed at enhancing the