Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

0431779 is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. “Towards a Taxonomy of Electronic Portfolios”, http://webcenter1.aahe.org/electronicportfolios/taxonomy.html, accessed 12/23/04.2. http://bearlink.berkeley.edu/ePortfolio.3. Colyer, S., and Howell, J., “Beyond the shoe box: Developing an e-portfolio for leisure sciences students,” in the Proceedings of the Teaching and Learning Forum, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, February 2002. (available at: http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2002/contents.html).4. A.I. Morrison - Shetlar, “Investigative Laboratory Assessment of student learning,” http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/staff/morrison/nabt2002/NABT2002.pdf.5. Ridgway, J., and McCusker, S., Literature Review of E- assessment

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

suchexperience. By this method, we were able to interview practitioners in manufacturing, service,transportation and government organizations. Interviewees hailed from relatively smallmanufacturing organizations (approximately $6 million in annual sales), to some of the largestand well known (UPS, FEDEX), and most respected engineering companies (e.g., Bechtel, Intel,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Hewlett Packard) in the world.As a group, our interviewees averaged 17.9 years supervising engineers working in teams andparticipated in an average of 68 teams each. They served as leaders or supervisors for 22% ofthe those teams, and served as non-supervisory team members on the remaining 78%.Interviews were conducted either at the interviewees

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

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

curricula changed with the development of microwave during World War II. Morerecently, a uniform need for EM in certain engineering specialties has become less clear aselectrical engineering has expanded and become more diverse. Page 10.521.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationWhile there is coverage of EM in traditional electrical engineering programs, the engineeringtechnology (ET) programs have been hesitant about teaching EM.3 In engineering curricula, theEM course is supported by math

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(composed of students from 20 disciplines), vertically integrated (freshman-senior), engineering-based series of design courses. Each EPICS project involves a team ofeight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profit community partner – for example, a community-service agency, museum or school, or government agency - and a faculty or industry advisor. Apool of graduate teaching assistants from seven departments provides technical guidance andadministrative assistance. Currently, the Purdue EPICS program has 29 teams (over one third ofwhich serve pre-college needs) with over 400 students participating during the 2004-2005academic year. EPICS teams work in four areas of the community, access and abilities,education/outreach, social services and the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

. Students must meet deadlines in an increasingly self-motivated environment. 11. Students must self motivate in general and avoid procrastination without traditional verbal reminders of assignment due dates. B. Disadvantages for Students: 1. Student must still meet in class for the regular scheduled class times for web facilitated courses. 2. Students uploading assignments to CART CMS may require more time than writing it out by hand. 3. Student must have access to compatible hardware, software, and high speed web connection. 4. Students may need to access computer laboratories at school, libraries or other places with public access to the web

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

courses to courses in their majors orto their careers. Consequently, their motivation to learn the material in mathematics courses islow, and their retention of this material is poor.This paper describes an interdisciplinary, multisemester project designed to lead students toappreciate the relevance and importance of basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) material. Starting in the sophomore level differential equations course andcontinuing in junior and senior level engineering courses, students analyze dynamic systemsfrom various points of view, including mathematical modeling. This paper describes the projectand the modules being developed to implement it.IntroductionMathematicians teaching service courses for engineering

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

member who is an engineering educator, the “home time” willexperience some intrusion. When that household has two engineering educators, the family willhave to make frequent adjustments and “home time” will be under full-fledged assault. Whenthat household has two engineering educators in the same department, personal time is oftenoverwhelmed by the professional. Make that two “new” engineering educators in the samedepartment. “Help us, Kemo Sabe”. The problem is not that two educators in the samedepartment work more or harder. The problem is that both careers and their associated issues areso intertwined, it is hard to “get away from work”. Two research programs. Two sets ofgraduate students. Two laboratories. And often one name. “Why are there

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

hasgreatly enhanced the learning experience. It has motivated students to create more complete andcomplex designs and to spend more time using the CAD software. Students are no longersatisfied with their “first design”. They are encouraged to redesign their creation again andagain. It has promoted student interest in mechanical engineering technology. Since theintroduction of this machine, the enrollment in the program has increased by more than thirtypercent.References1. Hansberry, Eric, Bernard Hoop, Thomas Hulbert, and Robert Augus, “First-Year Design Projects in EngineeringGraphics”, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.2. Skurka, Carolyn, Brain Thomas, and Walter L. Bradley, "Teaching Freshman Engineering Using

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

engaged in “learning-by-doing” activities. “Whatever delivery medium you work with, awareness of the variety oflearning styles which your learners may possess can help you make effective decisions aboutyour presentation of information, the guidance and practice you provide, and the kinds ofassessment you offer in instruction which you design” (Keirns, 1999, p. 147). Buckley, et al.(1999) describe how higher education is shifting from a Teaching Paradigm to a Learning(Active Learning) Paradigm. Recognition of differing learning styles and learner experiences aretwo driving forces for this shift. Buckley, et al. (1999) demonstrated how interactive multimedialearning environments were designed at the University of Hartford to assist students in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

electrical students. This is alaboratory to teach students how to design and build electrical systems, with an emphasis on thepractical use of theory in the creation and testing process. In this laboratory the instructor (RWG)is careful to choose pairs of students or singles if an odd number is enrolled. Part of the teamformation is related to perceived growth needs of the student. Three students should never be puton one team because one will be left out. Students are allowed a voice in choosing a partner butthe instructor will veto a decision if there is a difference of two letter grades between them, usingthe previous lab grade as a measure. For instance, A-B and C-D students can work together butnot A-C or B-D. Experience has shown that female

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

Using Problem Solving Preferences to Promote Teaming in a Mechanical Systems Design Course James M. Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CAAbstract At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, MechanicalEngineering students are required to take a course in Mechanical Systems Design. It is ajunior level course where students learn the fundamentals of machine components (gears,bearings, screws, etc); furthermore, the students gain experience in the integration ofthese components into complex Mechanical Systems during a weekly 3-hr laboratory.During the laboratory portion

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

short amount of time, bothapproaches use commercial FEA software as a teaching tool.Integration of FEA with undergraduate engineering courses has been held in many schools. Anycourse involving applications of mechanics of materials is appropriate for integration with FEA3-7 . However most of these integrated undergraduate courses are for civil and mechanicalengineering (and engineering technology) curriculum, very few evidences have been found thatintroduce FEA in the manufacturing engineering (and manufacturing technology) curriculum.Waldorf1 introduced FEA for fixture design analysis to the tool engineering course. Hedeveloped a series of FEA laboratory exercises to analyze and optimize fixture, mold, and diedesigns.A project-based

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Deepti Suri

importance ofrequirements as sophomores in SE-2831 (Introduction to Software Verification), and SE-280(Software Engineering Process). The concepts learned in SE-3821 are reinforced in SE-380(Principles of Software Architecture) and the process is scaled up for the students in their three-quarter experience of “Software Development Laboratory” [5], where the students work on large-scale projects in a “real-world” setting.The unique thing about the Biomedical Engineering (BE) program at MSOE is that the studentsstart working on their design capstone project as freshman. The freshman and sophomore yearsare typically devoted to market and technology research phase. The various project groups aresupposed to have their design presentations sometime in the

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

in an industrial environment that requires some engineering research. Undergraduateresearch programs are very likely to overcome such shortcomings and would provide thestudents with an approach to seek answers and a way of independent scientific thinking. Teaching independent study courses of six to eight students does not require much coursepreparation, and the students can be evaluated on the outcomes of their research projects withoutspending a lot of time with written homework or exams. Furthermore, the students can assist indeveloping projects and handouts that can later be used as hands-on laboratory exercises orclassroom demonstrations. At the same time, the students can acquire the background necessaryfor them to be valuable to

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

andfemales, thus improving technology education and the technological capabilities of our futureworkforce. Furthermore, by building upon the belief that students grasp a better understandingof concepts when given an opportunity to teach them to others, the mini-enterprise experienceprovides undergraduate students an opportunity to help with the development and delivery ofeducational materials to the pre-college students, thereby strengthening their own level ofunderstanding.To date, this concept has been piloted with several of our enterprises ~ Aqua Terra Tech,Consumer Product Manufacturing and Wireless Communication, with great success. This paper

Conference Session

Professional Development & Women Faculty

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Carroll Dougherty; Cheryl Schrader

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PANEL FOR WOMEN FACULTY: PATHWAYS AND CHECKPOINTS F. Carroll Dougherty, Cheryl B. Schrader University of South Alabama / Boise State UniversityAbstractFinishing the Ph.D. is always considered to be the hard part; but it is simply the beginning of along string of challenges and opportunities, checkpoints and pathways. Many women are drawnto an academic career path because of their interest in teaching, research, and outreach potentialto others. But sometimes the pathways to success seem unfriendly or unclear. It is not alwayseasy to chart one's progress and define the steps needed to accomplish a goal. And it can be alltoo easy to get sidetracked

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

. Bloom, B.S.(1956) Taxonomy of Educational Outcomes, Volume 1, The Cognitive Domain, London: Longman.3. Boudourides, M. A (1998) Constructivism and education: a shopper’s guide, Proceedings of the InternationalConference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Samos, Greece, July 3-6 1998.4. Bloom, B. S (1984) The search for methods of group instruction as effective as one to one tutoring, EducationalLeadership, vol. 41, no 8. pp 4-17. p4.5. Di Bello, L. and Orlich, F. (1987) Quarterly newsletter of the laboratory of comparative human cognition vol. 9,no.3, pp 105-110, cited in, Au, K. (1992), Changes in teacher's views of interactive comprehension instruction, inMoll, L. (ed.), Vygotsky and Education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p273.6

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineering topics and inmastering less tangible skills such as “mechanical intuition.” Page 10.745.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2 Course DescriptionOne prevalent challenge in teaching machine elements within the modern mechanicalengineering curriculum is that it essentially encapsulates a large amount of mechanicalengineering knowledge – most of which is compiled empirically through laboratory tests overthe span of a hundred years or more. In order to combat the tendency to fall into the

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materialsand is the author of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials and MecMovies, recipients of thePremier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware.RICHARD H. HALLDr. Richard H. Hall is a Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Hereceived his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree in ExperimentalPsychology from Texas Christian University. He is co-director of UMR's Laboratory for Information TechnologyEvaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web-based learning technologies.NANCY HUBINGDr. Hubing is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Department at

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

both traditional and onlinecourses. For purposes of this paper, the term traditional refers to a typical college course wherethe instructor and students meet face-to-face in a classroom or laboratory at the same time in asynchronous fashion. Similarly, the term online refers to a course where material is prepared byan instructor (including audio, video, and written formats) and presented to the student over theInternet in an asynchronous fashion. The student can access the class from any Internet-enabledcomputer at any time, and the student learns from the course material on his or her own. Theauthors have no experience with courses presented through TV or synchronous web courses, sono comments directed towards those types of courses will be

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

the design process. Also in many cases, students, through working on projects,often perceive the relevance of mathematics and science and see how what they have learned inthese courses might be applicable to their current project. Another, less frequently usedalternative is a first-year course built around discipline, laboratory-based learning experiences[10]. The goal of this alternative is to help first-year students better understand the nature of thedifferent engineering disciplines through carefully crafted experiential learning experiences.Given that one of the challenges faced by the first-year engineering curricula at TAMU was thelack of understanding of engineering practice, EAPO selected the project-based approach. Thedesign

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

., Stice, J.E., Rugarcia, A., “The Future Of Engineering Education II. Teaching Methods That Work”Chem. Engr. Education, 34(1), 26–39 (2000).18 Komerath, N.M., “Design Centered Introduction: 3-Year Experience With the Gateway to the Aerospace Digital Library”.Session 2225, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 200019 Fulford, Robert H., “Airplane Criteria Process”. Paper 975567, SAE World Aviation Congress, Anaheim, CA, Oct, 97.20 Smith, M.J., Komerath, N.M., "The Virtual Laboratory: Technology Enhancement for Engineering Education", Proceedings ofthe ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001 http://www.adl.gatech.edu/archives/adlp01062701.pdf21 Bramesfeld, G. and Maughmer, M.D., “The Penn State Sailplane

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; G. Padmanabhan

group through email and occasionalface to face meetings. NDSU professors developed supplemental materials to address Page 10.55.7technical concerns raised by the teachers. They also provided guidance to the teachers “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”through a 2-day workshop to demonstrate and try out the hands-on activities in the lessonplans.Workshop for After-school Enrichment SessionsMiddle school teachers can exert great influence on their students, not just through whatthey teach but also their

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

bedaunting to engineering educators. Unable to predict so volatile a future, we nonetheless have to decide about whatto teach engineers and how to prepare them for an increasingly international workplace without compromising thehard-won quality of education programs. The main purpose of engineering education is to provide engineering graduates with knowledge, skills andattitudes, which will enable them to practice their profession with competence and confidence. There are various Page 10.1300.1reports and survey concerning the generic attributes of an engineering graduates1, 2 in the new millennium. Althoughthe research

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Staszowski

technology.References1 Bers, M. New, B. Boudreau, L (2004) Teaching and Learning when No One is Expert: Children and Parentsexplore Technology. Early Childhood Research & Practice. 6(2)2 Bers, M. Portsmore, M. (In Press) Teaching Partnerships: Early childhood and engineering students teaching mathand science through robotics. Journal of Science Education and Technology3 Bers, M. Urrea, C (2000).Technological Prayers: Parents and Children Working withRobotics and Values. In Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for LearningExperiences. Edited by A. Druin & J. Hendler. NY: Morgan Kaufman. pp. 194-2174 Howe, C., Tolmie, A., Greer, K., & McKenzie, M. (1995). Peer collaboration and conceptual growth in physics:Task influences on children's

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

form a connected nodal structure.The author was introduced to the concept of Mind Mapping during a recent full day workshopthat was sponsored by the Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technology Center at MTSU.During this workshop participants learned how to:• Use whole-brain stimulation techniques to increase the ability to think multi-dimensionally. Page 10.1418.1• Use color, fun, planned breaks, images, and multi-sensory approaches.• Enhance personal learning, memory, and creativity. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

program on student’s thinking.I. Introduction The adoption of Lean Manufacturing philosophy by manufacturers worldwide hascreated a demand for workers who are trained in the Lean principles and have an eye forthe waste in the value stream [1]. A previously developed Lean enterprise trainingprogram has been combined with a ship repair simulation activity to teach students aboutLean philosophy and its implementation. This curriculum is part of an upper-divisionelective in the Mechanical Engineering technology program at Old Dominion University(ODU). A training program in Lean enterprise was developed by the author for NorthropGrumman Newport News Apprentice School. This training program contains sevenmodules, which can be

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

in teaching an IC Engineclass to undergraduate students is the lack of computational tools that enhance and improve thelearning process of students. With the widespread availability of multi-media software andhardware tools, development and integration of web-based tools to the undergraduate curriculumbecomes essential. This paper discusses the development of a web-based IC Engine Simulator(WICES) to be used in an undergraduate IC Engine class. The simulator is written in Javalanguage for easy use and portability. The simulator can be used to predict performance of ICengines using gasoline, diesel, methane, and hydrogen as fuels. Physical models for heat release,friction, heat transfer, and pollutant emissions were included in the simulator