Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga

technologies are taught, one may findstudents from different levels such as undergraduates in senior level, graduates with no ability totake electrical and/or mechanical measurements, and students from industry with little or noexposure to newer measuring instrument and techniques.This paper introduces several laboratory activities that could be replicated to teach students howto take accurate measurements of electrical, light, air flow, and heat flow parameters beforeconducting energy audits. The focus of these labs is not to introduce how to save energy but tointroduce many aspects of the energy management. For example, predictive maintenance is anintegral part of energy management. Ultrasonic and power quality measurements may not beused directly

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

possible andthe educational template for the workforce of tomorrow be solidified. If possible, acquisitionseditors for electronics texts should be invited to observe the outcomes of these workshops.Thereafter, the marketplace will provide the necessary filtering of the next generation of texts.What about today’s laboratory experiments and exercises? Recently, several new texts haveappeared that integrate fundamental concepts with devices and systems. This should be the paththat is followed. Too many of today’s basic electronics laboratory manuals are without anycontextual basis whatsoever. Furthermore, higher level courses should embrace complex projectswith emphasis on the integration of systems and cross disciplinary topics.How will all this

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

active experimentation for experiences both in and outside of theclassroom/laboratory environment9. Traditional laboratory work is being augmented to includeevening and weekend workshops associated with students’ assignments, but designed to havestudents consciously move from “receptor” to self-directed learners who are at ease with learningas an experiential process that actively involves them in establishing learning goals, choosinglearning strategies that are most likely to help them achieve their goals, and assessing the resultsof their efforts10.Redesign efforts are expected to result in improved passing rates, students having successfulmastery of the theoretical and applied learning that will be required of them in Upper Divisioncourses

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bertini; Steven Hansen

, vehicular delay, travel time, and travel time variance, to name afew. The extent of data available to the student and researcher now allows for flexibility andcreativity that was not always available in a standard classroom environment.IntroductionPortland, Oregon is known for its unique multimodal transportation system, and thereforestudents are drawn to study here, with the advantage of a laboratory right outside the classroom.Current students of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban and Regional Planningprograms at Portland State University may someday hope to plan, design, manage and/or buildthe transportation infrastructure necessary to provide adequate mobility in our cities. It is criticalthat we educate and train a new generation of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

attitudes towards service activities using the“Community Service Attitudes Scale” which was developed and validated by Shiarella,McCarthy, and Tucker1. During the fall of 2004, 78 students and 34 faculty responded to thisassessment instrument. Student data were collected in the first semester of the MultidisciplinaryEngineering Laboratory course sequence, a required course taken at the start of students’sophomore year before they have the opportunity to participate in the newly revised servicelearning courses. Faculty completed the attitudes survey during the first faculty meeting of theacademic year. This paper describes and compares student and faculty attitudes with respect toservice activities prior to the proposed intervention. Attention is

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

coherent fashion in accordance with the specified guidelines.These are the ILOs for the project, and to demonstrate the achievement of these ILOs studentsundertake the following set of low stakes assessment tasks (along with their phasing during theUK academic year): • Submission of a Risk Assessment and Project Specification (November). • Maintenance of a laboratory/project log book (weekly review) • An interim Oral Presentation (early January) • Submission of an interim report (half way through the project timescale at the end of January) • Demonstration (May) • Final Oral Presentation and Q&A session (May) • Final Written Report (end of April)Custom and practice within the

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

active classroom learning, we have also developed out-of-classwork/questions for the exercises that offer individual reflective components to compliment andstrengthen the in-class learning experience. Along with a review of the exercises that highlightsthe learning objective and student response to each activity, the paper offers notes on deliverylogistics that have been successful in our classrooms and an account of the expenses associatedwith each exercise. The worksheets that we have created for these activities are provided as anappendix to the paper for reader use, and solution keys to the worksheets are available from theauthors upon request.Introduction In the past, experiential learning was often reserved for formal laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

”developing ethics workshops for nanotech students as well as mid-career industry professionals.The goals of the workshops are to introduce the AIR (awareness, investigation and response)model18 of ethical inquiry to participants. This model will be presented both as a proven tool toassist them in processing the ethical issues that may arise during their own laboratory research,and as a teaching tool for use with the students, graduate assistants, technicians under theirsupervision.CHN-affiliated faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are designing curricula that usenanotechnology as a framework for examining the entire range of societal issues associated withemerging technologies. For example: faculty in the Department of Work Environment

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

rather than facilitate student learning. In short, they “teach the way theywere taught” 5, lecturing, developing assignments and tests, and assigning grades. Students movethrough a standard sequence of self-contained courses taught in isolation where they learn tosolve problems within the narrow context of individual courses6. Laboratory courses are oftentaught using a “cookbook” approach, not affording students sufficient opportunity for criticalthinking and synthesis of knowledge; connecting what they have learned to prior knowledge orexperience and applying what they have learned in new applications and/or novel situations.Upon completion of core coursework, students are often expected to synthesize the knowledgegained in each course

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8,9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal course in product dissection at StanfordUniversity (http://www-adl.stanford.edu/), and a similar course in product dissection wasdeveloped as part of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership between Penn State

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. A considerable body of research has shown that learning is significantly enhanced when students engage all of these cognitive processes5,7.Background on RensselaerRensselaer’s commitment to student-centered learning and its innovation in undergraduateengineering education is well known. Between 1993 and 1998, Rensselaer won the Pew Awardfor the Renewal of Undergraduate Education, the Boeing Outstanding Education Award, and theTheodore Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development, the only technological university to win allthree of these prestigious honors. Crossing low walls between schools, and combining thetraditional laboratory-centered education with

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

males are available to fill the SEM positionsneeded. But progress is slow. For the individual woman at a non-ADVANCE institutionthe lack of information is significant. Furthermore, graduate students are often isolated intheir laboratories and have little insight into the faculty search process. For these reasons,a workshop to demystify the tenure-track assistant professor path in SEM fields is sorelyneeded.We present here the design, content and outcomes of the “FORWARD to Professorship”workshop. The aim of this paper is to 1) inform the community of the existence of theworkshop and 2) appeal to higher education administrators that workshops such as thisone are extremely well received by participants and can contribute to increased numbersof

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

bono or fee basis (2) Student interns and employees (3) Access to technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

) introducing modern learning practices, (ii) incorporating new laboratory experiences, (iii) integrating powerful software tools using an object oriented approach in engineering design, (iv) incorporating research experiences including use of National Scientific Digital Library (NSDL) to promote inquiry based learning outcomes, and (v) emphasizing communication and interpersonal skills, 2. Develop an assessment scheme to assess the effectiveness of the enhanced program, and 3. Develop a Master in Engineering Education program Page 10.649.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activitiesEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the commercialization of their projects and ideas. In this regard, Florida TechStart’sgoal is provide an accelerated opportunity track for any senior design projects and teams whichmay have market potential for commercial implementation.In addition to Florida TechStart, Florida Tech has initiated a student entrepreneurial club, the e-club, which meets regularly

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

then does experiments to test their hypotheses.”Question 7: Describe what an engineer does.“Engineers use math and science to solve practical problems. They also design, manufacture, and build such itemsas houses, bridges, etc.”“An engineer is someone who invents or creates new thing things. This is much like the job of the scientist in thefact that they would also use the scientific process in their work.”“An engineer takes the theories that scientists develop and then apply them in the field and in everyday life, to see ifthe theories can work outside of the laboratory. An engineer will also examine the theories and fine tune them ifnecessary, in order to make them work outside of a laboratory.” College Student Minute PaperTo

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

additional area of science, consistent with the program educational objectives; C proficiency in a minimum of four (4) an understanding of the fundamentals of recognized major civil engineering four technical areas appropriate to civil areas; engineering; D the ability to conduct laboratory an ability to conduct civil engineering experiments and to critically analyze experiments and analyze and interpret the and interpret data in more than one of resulting data; the

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

education faculty. At Louisiana Tech University we created a team thatwould teach engineering concepts to future teachers. Our course, Engineering Problem Solvingfor Future Teachers is a three semester hour course that is taught every year in the spring. It isconsidered a physical science course by the students. Most of the students who take the courseare sophomore elementary education majors. We have previously reported on different aspectsof this course 1,2,3,4,5 . The most complete description of the course is in reference [1].We teach this course in two class meetings per week that each last 110 minutes. This allows usto utilize active learning concepts in each class. There was a significant laboratory component toeach of the topics.This past

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

Collection

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

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

laws of nature. This kind of knowledge underlies technological development and product and process advances in most industries. The production and reproduction of know-why is often organized in specialized organizations, such as research laboratories and universities. To get access to this kind of knowledge, firms have to interact with these organizations either through recruiting scientifically-trained labour or directly through contacts and joint activities. ◊ Know-how refers to skills or the capability to do something. Businessmen judging market prospects for a new product or a personnel manager selecting and training staff have to use

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

credits each semester. The credit structureis designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significantscope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A majority of the lectures are by guestexperts, and have covered a wide range of topics related to engineering design, communication,and community service. The long-term nature of the program has required some innovation inthe lecture series since

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

(s) is completed and delivered, new projects are identified by the team andcommunity partner allowing the team to continue to work with the same community partner formany years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit for several semesters,registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The credit structure is designed toencourage long-term participation, and grants multi-year projects of significant scope and impactto be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Laboratory Green Engineering Experiments Heat and Mass IntegrationDesign for Pollution Prevention Process AnalysisSenior Engineering Clinic/Senior Project Real Industrial Projects in Green Engineering Page 10.605.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGreen Engineering ModulesThe following sections give examples from courses that have been developed for various coursesby the

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

. Page 10.894.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationPedagogic IssuesThe obvious question in this project is: "How do you teach engineering to a second (or third,fourth, fifth, or sixth) grader?" Engineering is a process, not a body of knowledge. Hence, it isquite different from much of the elementary-level science content. However, the scientificmethod is also a process, so engineering can grow naturally from the laboratory and exploration-based aspects of the science curriculum. Also, science provides the knowledge base forengineering. There does seem to be a tendency to slip back from

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

reviewed jointly. Thesummer institute in Taiwan was originally a bilateral program between NSF and NSC in which it sponsored 10 to 15graduate students from the USA to work in the laboratories in Taiwan during the summer time. Since it receivedoverwhelming responses from the students, this programs will be expanded to become a multinational program sothat more foreign graduate students can start to build up his/her research experience in Taiwan and this experiencewill definitely play an important role in future international cooperation. Bilateral seminars are an efficient means to initiate international cooperation especially for a group ofresearchers who are not known to each other. They can use this activity to share their research results

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasoul Saneifard

. If nodata sheet can be obtained, laboratory tests can be conducted to acquire the desired data. It isimportant to have knowledge of the type of motor in the vehicle (continuous, stepping, servo,etc), the operating voltage range, and the maximum current the motor can handle withoutsuffering any damages.In this undertaking, direct current (DC) continuous motors are used in the “Tigerbot.” A DCmotor will spin steadily in one direction when a battery is connected across the terminals. If thebattery polarity is reversed, the motor will spin steadily in the opposite direction. Theknowledge that a motor can be switched ON and OFF by connecting a battery in either way isnot enough to make our robot functional. The robot must be able to move in any

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Page 10.1091.2designing an imbedded system that would be used to implement a True RMS Voltmeter. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education v(t) vi A/D Converter microProcessor 7.23 voltsrms Displayv(t) is the laboratory voltage that is to be measured and vi is the sampled input signal.For this assignment, the sequence of samples, vi, will be drawn from a test file, and thedisplay will be the terminal window. This assignment can per presented to the students atseveral

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

safety in laboratories ishighlighted. The groups familiarize them selves with the device. At the end of the firstclassroom meeting each team prepares a one-page preliminary report summary (speculation) ontheir thoughts of how a trimmer works. This is accomplished by carefully examining the trimmer Page 10.600.4externally to determine how it is operated and what it does. This is done prior to any disassembly Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationor reference to user’s manual. In other words, what