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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

interest atthe NSWCDD. The FIRST LEGO league (FLL), a highly-successful program which operatesrobotics competitions throughout the country devoted to providing middle-schoolers with ahands-on appreciation for the contributions of science and technology, will be used as the modelfor this part of the program. With the assistance of the Dahlgren mentors problem-basedscenarios have been developed which we believe will be both interesting and challenging to thestudents, and, at the same time, will reflect current and projected Navy R&D requirements.Scientists and engineers have been selected from a number of Dahlgren research departmentsrepresenting a cross-section of science and engineering disciplines to provide mentors for boththe science and

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

teaching as lecturer. Second, writing intensive courses requiretwice as much grading, a draft paper and a final paper. This is in addition to setting a pace ofhaving students write every week and probably having them submit a short paper every otherweek. A class limit of no more than 15 students is recommended. Third, There are many goodreasons to use students as peer reviewers. Several additional reasons not stated are one, it givesstudents the ability to analyze writing, define the standards and then reflect on their writing.Two, students are a free and willing source of labor; the instructor can't do everything. Three, italso promotes a very important life-long skill of peer review that students will use aftergraduation to review and improve

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

and a total score is determinedfor each candidate for each reviewer. These scores are then added together to get a total scorefor each candidate for the committee as a whole. The rating sheet used by my institution isshown in Figure 1.It is important when developing the criteria for the paper screen that they be related to theelements of the position description that are in the advertisement. Sometimes the ad will berelatively short referring prospective candidates to a web site where the full text description canbe found. In either event, the criteria must reflect what is in the description but can include otherfactors the committee considers valid. The other important consideration is that the criteria bedescribed in such a way that the

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

. Heknows the best practices. He is committed to small business start-ups.” She said he is “gentle but determined andforceful because he has the expertise behind him and he’s very open to ideas.”When asked about Jim Robbins, Mary Sidney, COO of the SJSU Foundation, said Robbins is “the quintessentialentrepreneurs’ coach” and that he’s able to make introductions to venture capitalists and angel investors.Jim thought that one could take business cluster principles and apply them to the incubator. EBC was the firstincubator based on the cluster concept. Jim chose to work with environmental issues because it is his passion. Jim’sassociation with Barbara Harley is also reflective of the social network of incubation in Silicon Valley. They workedtogether

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

and summerschool is only an option for those who fail a course. The large core curriculum requires morehumanities courses than most other engineering programs. Figure 2 reflects a benchmarkingeffort that compares the number of semester credit hours in the humanities and basic scienceareas at USMA to those required in some other prominent civil engineering programs. Certainlyother schools do not require four semesters of military science and physical education.Considering this is a military academy, it is not surprising that there are other mandatory Page 10.1472.5activities that contribute to the BOK – particularly in those outcomes

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

introduced but not explicitly related toeach design task. While students, when asked, successfully modeled basic componentslike a potentiometer and a light sensor, we found that when working on their own designprojects, the instinct to model a component or system wasn’t developed enough forstudents to pursue the strategy on their own. In the second version of the course, the labswere restructured to reflect and promote both the DMII design process as well as theIdentify, Interface, and Integrate strategy. While the I3 strategy leads the student throughintegrating a component into the system, the DMII strategy guides the system design as awhole.3.3 Choose appropriate technologies to expand the robotic system.Although new technologies were

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Benegas; Rick Covington

essay, it seems odd that it should suffer a higherfailure rate than other challenging freshman-level courses in calculus, physics, or engineering.Many educators have begun to assign the blame on the teaching approach. In this paper wecritique some current teaching approaches and agree that this is one source of the problem. Aglance at almost any textbook on introductory programming will reveal a presentation that startsfrom many flawed assumptions about the target audience, and that does not follow well-established principles for how to teach technical material. Computer programming educationsimply is not as mature as the teaching of the sciences and engineering, and this is reflected inthe CS1 failure rate. In this paper we explore some

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

characteristic impedance of the transmission G + jωCline. Z 0 represents the amplitude ratio between the voltage and current at every point along thetransmission line, and φz indicates the phase shift between the two values.To obtain a simplified picture of the evolution of the voltage and current signals, assume that thetransmission line is infinitely long (or that the load impedance is perfectly matched with thecharacteristic impedance), so there is no reflection by the load (V − = 0) . Then, assuming thatthere was no initial phase at z = 0 or that V + is purely real, the propagating voltage and currentsignals can be written as V + −αz V ( z, t ) = V + e −αz

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

lesson objectives must be assessed at theconclusion of each lesson.II.B. Board Notes Page 10.1217.4Armed with learning objectives, the teacher develops board notes detailing the activities andmaterial to be presented on the chalkboard (or other medium) always with an eye on what is the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationirreducible minimum needed. Our classroom (board) notes are not just a stream of consciousnessas some professor classroom notes seem to reflect, but bite-size chunks of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

corresponding torque rod activation. The STARSHINE project has an overall mission of introducing K-12 students to space technology, and they are involved in polishing the high-quality mirrors attached to the surface of the sphere. The spin controller will enable the orbiting satellite to be viewed with the naked eye, as sunlight reflects off the mirrors.Launch Vehicle: NASA Space ShuttlePersonnel: ~ 4 EE capstone design students, ~ 5 EE master’s-level graduate studentsBudget: ~ $25K in equipment, provided by Broad Reach Engineering.Sustainability: Not sustainable; one-time development project.Remarks

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bongsu Kang

excitation. Page 10.832.12Irregular Motion: Chaos There is a class of nonlinear dynamic behavior that is referred to as chaos or chaotic motion Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin mechanical dynamic systems4. Linear and nonlinear oscillatory motions are in generalcharacterized by periodicity. Periodicity reflects a high degree of regularity and order. Dynamicbehavior that is not stationary, periodic, or quasi-periodic is called aperiodic or irregular. Achaotic motion differs from

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Whalley; Harriet Svec; Harvey Svec; Teresa Hall

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The CourseThe curriculum consisted of pre-travel meetings and briefings on the Manchester region andits culture, and general information culminating in the trip to England during spring breakand post-travel seminar presentations and a reflection paper. The first pre-immersion sessionincluded covering the course requirements, introduction to the Manchester area usingbrochures and maps, a basic travel itinerary, travel cost information, how to start thedocumentation process (passports and SDSU international trip forms), and a studentparticipation survey dealing with cultural sensitivity and awareness. The survey wasdesigned to help students

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

next time we held thecourse we should do only one session per week. On the other hand, the students felt that thesession length of 1 ½ to 2 hours was appropriate.Impact on Teaching FellowsIn reflecting upon the impact of this course, it is clear that we learned as much from thisexperience as did the students who participated. Foremost, educational research of this typevastly differs from the typical laboratory research we as graduate engineering students havebecome accustomed to. For example, when conducting educational research investigators mustunderstand that working in a K-12 environment requires a higher degree of flexibility, patience,and tolerance of unexpected chaos. An important outcome derived through the implementationof this

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Turpin; Donald Richter; William Loendorf

teamsbegin the process early and work continuously on their vehicle right up to the competition. Thelate starters rarely do well or even complete the course.Research has shown that the earlier a student becomes involved in the department with otherstudents, the greater the success of retention in the major. As a result, teams should be formed asearly as possible to allow the team to have ample time for design, prototyping and testing. Thisfun and exciting competition has fostered a great deal of interest in engineering that has led tonew students in the major as well as retention of existing students.Conclusions, Reflections and the FutureThe HPPV competition has grown into a very popular annual event. The contest is challenging

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; Hector Cervantes; K. V. Sudhakar

fracture mechanics topics include several lecture quizzes as acontinual assessment component. The main aim of the lecture quiz is to let the lecturer have abetter gauge of whether the students have grasped the main concepts/principles taught in eachlecture on specialty topics relating to fracture mechanics. Typically, 15-20 short questions(demanding specific answers) in the form of multiple-choice, true/false or computation are askedin each lecture quiz. Students are allowed to discuss the questions and hand in the answers insmall groups. It also promotes cooperative learning among the students as well as allows them torelate to and reflect instantly on what they have just learned.3.5 BrainstormingIn brainstorming, listening exercise that allows

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Thompson; Matthew Roberts

4.09 persist to the completion of the task. Figure 3 Motivation as measured by the Student Opinion Scale. The results pre- sented are reverse scored as required so that shown scores reflect motivation on a scale of 1 (lowest motivation) to 5 (highest).Case StudiesCase studies are also used in class to explore design, construction, and ethical issues. Two spe-cific case studies that have been used in past classes are the 1981 collapse of the Harbour CayCondominiums and a comparative case study of the performance of the Murrah Building duringthe 1995 Oklahoma City bombing versus the performance of the Pentagon during the 2001 Sep-tember 11 attacks.The Harbour Cay collapse resulted from punching failure of a flat plate slab

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

project was to investigate whether achange in the performance function or cost function used in the training of a neural networkwould lead to significantly different forecasts. These neural networks are trained by minimizingthe difference between the prediction and the actual data. However, it was hypothesized that theperformance function could be adapted to better reflect the Skill Assessment Variables publishedby the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While the root mean squareerror is important as a skill assessment, NOAA also focuses on the Central Frequency of 15 cm,or the Central Frequency, i.e. the percentage of time the forecast is within 15 centimeters of theactual water level. To achieve a higher central frequency

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Martin

. You can additionally type a report heading that reflects thechosen search criteria. Extra-useful report capabilities include: • Emails – You can enter criteria for students or staff, for example, and generate a list of email addresses that can be effortlessly copied and pasted into your email program. The whole exercise can be done in seconds. • Letter-merging is nearly as easy, providing every possible address type and sort preference. • Statistics reports are “smart,” allowing the user to see extensive descriptive profile information such as the number of students, grouped by gender, ethnicity, etc.Student records can initially be imported from a spreadsheet, such as from the schoolregistrar’s office

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

? Princeton Alumnae Reflect. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1993.6. H. K. Qammar, H. M. Cheung, E. A. Evans, S. P. Spickard, F. S. Broadway, and R. D. Ramsier. “Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.7. D. K. Sobek II, and V. K. Jain. “The Engineering Problem-Solving Process: Good for Students?” slides for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.8. “Success of SEAS Interactor Program Hard to Duplicate.” Princeton University

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education EMD 1642Perhaps project management will be one of the fads that will be incorporated into businessculture. Ideas with merit seem to find their way into engineering practices. Those who can useproject management tools not only for individual projects, but for the entire project managementprocess will ensure its longevity. Once a fad moves from novelty to a position central to abusiness’s corporate strategy, it becomes a strategic business tool.22Thoughtful, reflective study is called for from today’s

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

results areoften necessary immediately. The graduate students you pick can help get the papers published,or they can require extensive rewrite when results are time sensitive and critical to the tenureprocess. Remember, the quality of the paper reflects on the professor, not on the graduatestudents.Teaching: This is an important part of the job of all professors. The time estimates above are forone class but are the absolute minimums – most new professors spend more time preparing andtime is used up quickly when there are multiple courses that have never been taught before. Getwith a mentor or the person who taught the course last. Find notes if they are available – andteach efficiently to maximize classroom success and time for research and

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

communicate with the professor’s Windows XP Tablet PC using a peer-to-peer networking mode. The software we use to manage the intercomputer communicationsand to record and display student responses from the PDAs is a pre-beta version of OptionFinderVP, which is being developed by Option Technologies Interactive(www.optiontechnologies.com).Regardless of the feedback method, the concept question or skill quiz is posed by the professorthrough his Tablet PC and is projected to the front of the class, along with the possible solutions.The correct solution is embedded with incorrect answers, which are derived from commonstudent mistakes or misunderstanding. Students are given time to reflect on the question posed,discuss it with their peers, and then must

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

Explorer (RCX) bricks. Although conceptually simple, the problem enables students to connect abstract design concepts with a concrete implementation and to better understand the importance of using an iterative design methodology.* In part, this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grants No.9980321 and 0227709. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are Page 10.270.1those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Proceedings

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

altitude,rotating and expanding a space station antenna to wall thickness, as well as wall materials. Two lowerconnect to each of three satellites, and (3) to interactive simulations assist the student in understandingunderstand the impact of surface roughness on the Huygens principle and Fresnel theory, which describesreflecting signal by moving and resizing wave refraction and reflection. Page 10.802.6containers.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”A virtual experiment can provide an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

of a presentation and a report.• The presentation should be conducted professionally using Power Point, or a similar application.• The report should be prepared professionally using Microsoft, or similar applications. Page 10.1164.3The chronology of the adopted approach is as follows. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005. American Society of Engineering education”First week of classes:The instructor informs his or her students that this course requires a project. The coursesyllabus reflects this requirement. It officially

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Håkansson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

different tasks from basic to advance. The experiment is designed to reflect on common a vibration problem in the manufacturingindustry, i.e. vibration in metal cutting processes.7, 8, 9 The object under investigation is aboring bar used for metal cutting in a lathe. Vibration problem associated with this type ofprocess is considered to be an important and critical factor concerning the performance, thetool life, the surface finishing, etc. that finally ends up on the production cost negatively.Since it is shown that vibration problem originates from the lower order bending modes7, 8it is of most importance to examine the different properties of the boring bar i.e. finding thedominating bending modes

Conference Session

Assessing Where We Stand

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Eisenbarth; Kenneth Van Treuren

components oftheir curricula 23. Their handbook consists of twelve chapters covering the topics ofmanufacturability, sustainability, usability, health and safety, environmental impact, ethical,social, political, economic, compassion, lifelong learning, and bringing it all together. Thishandbook is distributed to incoming freshmen and the faculty use aspects of it throughout thefour-year curriculum. When the student reaches the senior year they have been exposed toextrinsic design concepts several times and they are included as a natural part of the designprocess.Nair at Carnegie Mellon University studied decision making in the engineering classroom andconcludes that in the “post conventional classroom” synthesis, evaluation, reflection and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

out of, or in correlation with, course andlaboratory work.At this stage (end of fall semester 2004) the next “Electronics” class in spring 2005 will use forthe first time the semiconductor parameter analyzer for projects linked to the course, building onthe work of a student who is working on integrating and interfacing the equipment in the lab, inthe context of a senior design project.Critical analysis of course formatIn this section we want to critically evaluate the decisions made with respects to the courseformat. This analysis reflects the experience during the last three years, since the author joinedElizabethtown College. During that period, “Circuit Analysis” has been offered three times and“Electronics” twice. The author had had

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

to operate most efficiently. At the start, eight sites were identifiedacross the campus that appeared to favorably meet these three conditions.The efficiency of the system is largely affected by objects that could obstruct the sun’s rays. Asite with few trees, buildings, or other means of shading are more desirable because more of thesun’s energy will reach the system’s panels causing the system to work more efficiently. Thesites found in the preliminary search were examined based on solar data collected by a SolarPathfinder™ 7. When placed at a site, the dome of the Solar Pathfinder™ reflects obstacles thatcould hinder the efficiency of the system. After the obstacles are traced, special paper made forthe Pathfinder allows the user to

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

10.1317.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. The Challenge Cycle. The introductory page to a lesson that uses the failure of a series of dams in Logan County, West Virginia in 1972 as a case study to investigate issues of personal, professional, and corporate responsibility.Description of Example Module: Introduction to Professional Ethics The Challenge cycle allows students to go through the iterative steps of reflecting,investigating, analyzing, and making judgements, a process that prepares them to beresponsible professionals as much as the actual information they acquire