Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

Education • Applicable curriculum and teaching methods should ultimately become learning-style based and personalized to address and respect diversity.The practice of incorporating some or all of the elements listed above in an “engineering” coursein which one is already faced with the problem of too much material in too short a time isdaunting. But the challenge is exciting to any instructor who wishes to “humanize” the teaching(and learning) process, and reconcile within himself/herself that: he/she is teaching studentsrather than “unloading” teaching material in accordance with a time schedule.Examining the Literature on Meanings and Substance of Active Learning:It is difficult to come to grip with all the cited definitions and

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

-26.6 48.0 7.41 0.5, 4, 6(BIG-biomass integrated gasification, blend-syngas - NG, CC-combined cycle, CHP-combinedheat and power)IMPLICATIONS OF THE ACE-AGIR ANALYSES In the spirit of the scientific method, Green and Feng (2, 23) have analyzed a large body ofeconomic “data” for biomass-fueled technologies given in the AGIR. They have representedthem quite accurately by an empirical Equation [6] that uses only 3 adjusted parameters for eachtechnology. The equation seems reasonable in that it confirms the economic and efficiencyadvantages of scale (power level) usually seen by utilities. Furthermore the equation can extendthe usefulness of the AGIR report to examine the influence of electricity prices or power levelsand fuel costs

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

perform necessary labprocedures. This can lead to an over dependence on the instructor for information, which canresult in frustration for both students and instructor. A lot of lab time is often spent waiting forinstructor assistance, which can result in student loss of interest, motivation, and focus on the laband its objectives. Also, students may have little or no understanding of how and where the labconcepts and principles can be applied in real world problems. Therefore, an alternativeapproach to physical lab instruction is desirable. Innovations in technology provide several waysto improve lab instruction. For example, students could prepare for labs through on-line pre-labtutorials and quizzes that explore the lab principles and test

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

participation in summer training programs for the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education students as well as to providing an opportunity for the Faculty members to professionalize their experience. Accreditation process has positively encouraged innovation both in curriculum development and in teaching methods. One example of it was the adoption of two compulsory courses (IE201 and IE202) for all engineering students in the new curricula. This course involves interactive learning for instilling among the students notions like life-long learning, working

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wicklein; David Gattie

to the subject. Whilealmost 80% are satisfied with their own instructional methodology, over half (53.2%) are notsatisfied with current instructional materials. Most (87.4%) do not identify any constraints toincluding engineering design content in their curriculum, but only half (54.2%) are aware oflocal or state approved courses or curricula that focus on engineering or engineering design (seeTable 2).Teachers expressed confidence that an engineering design curriculum focus would add value tothe field of technology education by: clarifying the focus of the field (93% agreement);providing a platform for integration with other school subjects (96.7% agreement); elevating thefield to higher academic levels (92.7% agreement); improving

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

proposed in this document, providesa means for comprehensively integrating technology and engineering content within theframeworks of existing mathematics and science curriculum. Resistance to change in apredominantly traditional high school setting is a hurdle that must be overcome in order forthese frameworks to be implemented in secondary school classrooms. Resistance to change isnot an easy task to overcome as Evan[13] articulates. From that start of their educationalexperience, preservice teachers’ training and teachers’ continued professional developmentmust be the catalyst to drive this new pedagogical paradigm. EEF provides the context to guideteachers’ of science and mathematics into inquiry based lessons using relevant social issues

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Phillip Wankat

Table 11. Clearly,mathematics preparation is an area of major concern. As in any tabulation from an open-endedquestion, the percentages for specific areas would undoubtedly be higher if respondents had beengiven a box to check.Since the first-year curriculum was the major interest of this survey, the survey included a veryextensive list of possible first-year courses for both first and second semesters. Respondents Page 10.1188.13were asked to check the appropriate courses taken by first-year engineering students, and list thecredits and hours per week for the courses. They were not asked to indicate which department Proceedings of the

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

Table 1. Professional Development Seminars for teachers and graduate fellows One of the underlying themes of the GK12 project is to transform the university’sculture to view outreach to public schools as an integral part of graduate education, andas a necessary step in ensuring that the nation produces a well-trained and educatedpopulation for excellence in science, engineering and mathematics innovation.9Consequently, in developing the teacher-graduate fellow professional developmentseminars, a multi-disciplinary faculty team of faculty PIs were selected from at least onedepartment in four of the University’s colleges including Business, Education,Engineering and Science. The goal was to broaden faculty participation as much aspossible

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

rating and the average of ratings from all three peer reviewers.III. CPR and the Assessment of Learning through WritingCPR -- as an advanced form of educational technology -- partners both with the student and withthe instructor to foster learning. In this project, through the vehicle of CPR, we were able toimplement assignments that fully utilize the “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) pedagogy [3- 6], without overly increasing the workload for instructors. Furthermore, CPR’s ability both toelicit and to report qualitative and quantitative peer review helps to make formative assessmentan integral part of instruction. And, the data collected by CPR during the student’s process ofengaging the

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.Her research interests include engineering applications of geophysics, curriculum development, and K-12 outreach.JOAN GOSINKJoan Gosink is an Emerita Professor and former Director of the Engineering Division at CSM, the largestdepartment or division in the School. Under her direction, the Division received various accolades, includingdesignation as a Program of Excellence from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The program alsoexpanded to include Masters and Doctorate degrees and an undergraduate specialty in environmental engineering.Dr. Gosink twice served as a Program Director at NSF, and is an experienced ABET evaluator

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

phases.Phase 1, a feasibility study for the wind and water resource availability, which was completedlast year. Phase 2 is an ongoing design and construction of the entire mechanical systems, whichbegan in September 2004 and is to be completed by May 1, 2005. The final phase (Phase 3)includes the following: (1) completion of wiring of the electrical systems in power house; (2)analysis of the occupational safety and health administration (OSHA) rules as applied to theproject, (3) operation of the hydro and wind system; (4) completion of field test measurements,and observation of daily average power readings; (5) collecting data on environmental savingsand air quality improvement; and (6) report of results to the Black Hawk County ConservationBoard and

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xiaoguang Yang; Chika Nwankpa; Valentina Cecchi; Karen Miu

beginswith a brief overview of the experiment in Section 2. In Section 3, various parts of the relevantpower hardware are presented along with the measurement and digital control hardware. TheDMS interface between the students and the distribution system is illustrated in Section 4. Then,an outline of the experiment is addressed in Section 5, followed by conclusions.2. Overview of the Network Reconfiguration Experiment The network reconfiguration experiment provides students with hands-on learningexperience concerning load balancing and loss reduction techniques through a series ofexperiments on different distribution systems. The experiment was developed within RDAC.RDAC consists of a three-phase, 4-wire, 43.2 kW reconfigurable distribution

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

curriculum. Three case studies were developed todescribe the effect of the course on four categories that emerged from the data -Reflections onPractice, Changes in Practice, Intentions to Change Practice, and Change in Knowledge.DesignThe study was a component of a graduate course in science education supported by a NSFBridging Engineering and Education grant. Created and taught by a team of faculty fromeducation and engineering, the course was a follow up to a previous “bridging” course and wasdesigned to address students’ expressed need for a greater emphasis on integrating DET into theK-12 curriculum. The class met weekly in an industrial engineering lab with access to a widerange of materials, tools, and technical assistance. The course

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

-based design philosophy that are hallmarks of thecivil engineering program at Rose-Hulman there were to be no changes to the current curriculumto accommodate the development of the BOK compliant tract. To maintain the integrity of thecivil engineering program, all engineering courses within the current curriculum must be taken atRose-Hulman. Additional courses included in the BOK compliant tract to achieve specializationmay not necessarily be limited to courses offered at Rose-Hulman. Our intent is not to modifythe current curriculum but to offer an alternate tract within the current curriculum that wouldallow for students with sufficient off-curriculum hours to take the additional courses required forspecialization. In addition, we prefer to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

an Art Education masters/licensure program. The other four have done very well;three will teach in spring 2005, while the fourth has taken a leave this academic year. Becausethe demand for licensed Technology teachers is so remarkable, each of these graduates will havean endless number of teaching positions/opportunities from which to select. Virginia’s teachingreciprocity with 48 states means this “seller’s market” is a nationwide phenomenon.Contemporary framework for undergraduate engineering pedagogy Page 10.649.4BEEVT investigators launched a number of data collection activities with objectives to analyzechanges in GE curriculum and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Tao; W Bao; R Moreno; Marc Zampino; Yiding Cao

so I22 can make improvements. When I submit design oriented projects, I am given the opportunity to evaluate the design through simulation and/or23 prototyping testing.24 Open-ended design projects allow me to be more creative in my solutions. Open-ended design projects force me to investigate and explore engineering science material in an independent25 manner. I get more motivated to learn and practice my engineering skills through project work as opposed to formal26 examinations. The MME curriculum does a good job of integrating the material in two or three core courses when I do major27 projects.28 I enjoy team projects and feel they are effective for

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Jacquelyn Sullivan

College — The roles of an upper division service-learning course, such as OutreachCorps, in the overall college-wide curriculum lies in its interdisciplinary nature, in itsrequirement that students integrate subject matter from a wide range of prior courses, and that thecourse itself has embedded assessment to ensure that it is challenging. The Outreach Corps classfurther fits into the college curriculum because it advances science and math through engineeringin the K-12 setting, and it aligns with the national priority of boosting the nation’s science,mathematics engineering and technology workforce.For Undergraduate Students — This course provides an upper-division service-learningexperience that puts junior and senior engineering students in a

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

Electronics (PLTW) Additional Elective such as an Computer Integrated Internship Manufacturing (PLTW) (Pre-Calculus rep. Addl Math Elective for Honors diploma)Table #4: Sample Course Sequence for Core 40 Page 10.219.10Students interested in completing the Core 40 curriculum have the option (under theDirected Electives section) of taking “at least six credits in a logical sequence from a “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Jerry Gintz

expertise of a manufacturing engineer, such as systems integration,microcomputer technology and computer-controlled machinery.For this reason, it is a more effective educational strategy to develop a concentration instead ofjust adding a course or two into an existing curriculum. Manufacturing automation represents awide spectrum of technologies that can be applied to an even wider range of areas. Therefore, itis difficult to teach automation as a single discipline. What becomes necessary is teaching anapproach to automation and solving automation problems.3Automation Degree ConcentrationWith this in mind, the automation concentration for the mechanical engineering technologyprogram at Arizona State University (ASU) consists of six multi

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

explicit connectionsamong related and supporting content and learning outcomes. An explicit plan identifies ways in which theintegration of CDIO skills and multidisciplinary connections are to be made, for example, by mappingCDIO learning outcomes to courses and co-curricular activities that make up the curriculum.Rationale: The teaching of personal, interpersonal and product and system building skills should not beconsidered an addition to an already full curriculum, but an integral part of it. To reach the intendedlearning outcomes in both disciplinary and personal, interpersonal, and product and system building skills,the curriculum and learning experiences have to make dual use of available time. Faculty play an activerole in designing the

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

) EGR345: Dynamic System Modeling and Control* C (AVR), MATLAB EGR450: Manufacturing Control Systems PLC EGR474: Systems Integration C * Discussed as part of the mechanical engineering courses.Evolution of Pr ogr amming Instr uctionIn this section we describe the evolution of programming instruction for our undergraduateengineering students over the last 6 years.The Curriculum in 1999With our common course thread in place in 1999, all engineering students were exposed toprogramming. All freshman engineering students were required to take CS162 (ComputerScience I), an introductory programming course. This course assumed

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

the database job market expects our graduate to haveenough expertise to be able to install and configure their Database Management System, writeapplication programs, design their database, and maintain and administer their database system.Such an expectation requires the offering of more than one course in this area. Therefore, wehave decided that it might be best to add a new area of specialization to our computer scienceprogram called the Database Management System track. The paper elaborates the detail contentof the curriculum requirement for this Database Management System track in our computerscience program.Introduction:Utah Valley State College (UVSC), located in Utah Valley, was founded in 1941. UVSC is astate college comprised of two

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

. The controls portionbenefits from the transition directly from the vibrations portion of the course. The students arevery familiar with the topics, as opposed to trying to recall the information from a previouscourse they may have taken earlier. In fact, they are pleasantly surprised to find how the twotopics can mesh together each other. In addition, the students recognize the value of theirAdvanced Engineering Mathematics course with additional Laplace Transforms content beyondthe Differential Equations course.This course does not sit alone in the curriculum. A Professional Component Plan1 has beenestablished for the curriculum, with an integral component being an experimental plan. Thiscourse and its lab strongly support this plan. In

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

of small team work; one Fellow works with 1-3teachers--the Fellow serves as a technical resource for the teacher and classroom and the teacherserves as an expert about pedagogy and classroom teaching. The Fellow helps to designengineering activities that align with science and math curriculum frameworks for all grades. TheFellow spends a majority of his/her time co-teaching each class and is therefore exposed firsthand to the challenges and intricacies of public education.Evaluation data collected throughout both Tufts GK-12 projects have suggested an apparenttrend in how the Fellows’ understanding of teaching and schools changes over the course of theirFellowship. Furthermore, many of the Fellows report improvement in their communication

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

Page 10.120.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationyears of the standard four year study program (4YSP) are spread over the first three years of the5YSP.The 5YSP is fully integrated into the mainstream program in the sense that all students on the5YSP attend the same classes, have the same time-table, textbooks and lecturers and write thesame tests and exam papers as the mainstream students. This contributes to increased credibilityof the extended program and prevents stigmatising students as being 'at risk'. Faculty thus takeownership of the extended program and do not view it merely as an

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

timeframe. The COT and CBIA partnership has allowed both secondary teachers and two and fouryear higher education faculty to gain experience and develop curriculum in cutting edgetechnologies. As a result, the COT is the statewide vehicle for creating a technological workforcethat responds to workforce needs in the region.CBIA and the COT were also partners on a previous ATE curriculum development grant. Thisgrant gave CBIA the opportunity to work with dedicated teachers who understood theimportance of learning technology through industry collaborations. Continuing that partnership,CBIA took the lead position, collaborating with CCOT in proposing the ATE professionaldevelopment grant, which was awarded in 2002. This partnership was an important

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

students, andis very time consuming for the engineering faculty. These activities also usually have arelatively short duration compared to the other educational activities, and are often viewed by thereceiving students as a break from the “reality” of school rather than an integral part of it. Theother weakness is that all too often these outreach activities reach the students in high schoolwhen the students have generally decided that they have an interest in math/science/engineering,or as all too commonly occurs, that they do not have such an interest.The goal of those involved in this melding of Engineering and Education is to reach more K-12students for longer periods of time and at earlier ages than most outreach activities

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Estevez; Mark Humphries; Mukul Shirvaikar

the OMAP 5912 starter kit(OSK5912) module supplied by Texas Instruments (TI). Some of the applications covered are:implementing a finite impulse response (FIR) filter and testing with audio, modifying the filterfor different band pass characteristics, testing a media codec and implementing an embeddedweb server. TI expects to disseminate the instructional resources developed and tested in thiscourse to other universities and industry partners.IntroductionThis paper presents the laboratory curriculum developed for a senior-level elective course inReal Time Systems. The labs developed for this semester long course are aimed at providing achallenging experience to electrical and computer engineering students and exposing them tostate-of-the-art

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Wood; John Wood; Daniel Jensen

) at the USAF Academy. In addition, weacknowledge the support of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air ForceAcademy as well as the financial support of the Dean’s Assessment Funding Program.References1. Aglan, H.A. and S.F. Ali, Hands-on Experiences: An Integral Part of Engineering Curriculum Reform. Page 10.572.11 Journal of Engineering Education, 1996: p. 327-330. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Wood, J.J., et al., Enhancing Machine Design by

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

. This isdemonstrated by the approval of the objectives by the department Industrial Advisory Committeewhich consists of representatives of regional industries which employ the graduates.The following program outcomes2 were revised and approved by the Industrial AdvisoryCommittee. The outcomes are demonstrated by the student in each course in the curriculum andmeasured by the program at time of graduation. a. An appropriate mastery of the knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of industrial engineering technology. a1. Technical expertise in quality, metrology, and SPC. a2. Technical expertise in ergonomics, and work methods design. a3. Technical expertise in facilities layout, and production planning