Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

engineering students: 1) increase the numbers of entering freshmen andtransfer students, and 2) increase retention of currently-enrolled students. The topic of this paper is Page 10.563.1primarily associated with retention of sophomore engineering students. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

isdifficult to emphasize the importance of learning fundamental principles of Mathematics. It isnot possible to include many real applications in mathematics syllabi for a simple reason. Thesyllabi are too long and the students are not exposed to enough science and engineering conceptsat the time they are taking lower level classes. In order to discuss real applications the instructorneeds extra time to teach the engineering concept that is related to the problem. Perhaps, acomplete reform of the way we teach mathematics to engineering students is necessary. We donot wish to discuss better ways to teach mathematics at this time. The goal of this paper is toprovide resources and some ideas for undergraduate research projects and class projects

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

. He is Founder and President of the Iowa State University chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World he worked to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. He is currently working for Opus West Construction Corporation as an Associate Project Manager in Pleasanton, California. MANI MINA is an adjunct assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and the director of Spacecraft Systems and Operation Laboratory (SSOL) at Iowa State University. He has been a recipient of several teaching and research awards. His research interests include physical layer measurements and testing, optical networking, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and innovative methods of teaching technology

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

performed by two teams of students. In fall 2004,there was only one project performed by a team of two mechanical engineeringtechnology students. Their project involved the design and development of an airabrasion machine, LabJet, that has an integrated working enclosure with two chambers Page 10.1079.7containing two micron of aluminum oxide abrasive media for dental laboratory usage. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”This project was sponsored by American Medical Technologies. It is anticipated that

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Piechota; Shashi Nambisan

engineering education, is the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) programat Purdue University (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu) that partners undergraduate students and localcommunity not-for-profit organizations to solve engineering-based problems in the communityService-learning is a type of experiential education where the students learn through "real-world"experiences that meet a community’s needs4. In the engineering curriculum, other forms ofexperiential learning include projects, clinics, internships, laboratory classes, field trips.Moreover, service-learning promotes student understanding of the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global/societal context, a requirement in the Accreditation Board of Engineeringand Technology (ABET

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

adaptedfrom the text used in the lecture.3 Included is a requirement for oral and written reports. Projectsare selected by the faculty and are appropriate for freshman students of diverse and limitedbackground. They also do not rely on overly specialized skills, but utilize common elements ofproblem solving. Effective use is made of the students’ innate problem-solving skills and “streetsmarts” in creative problem solving.IntroductionWe have been team-teaching two EPSI project sections together for the past two years.Evaluation of the lecture and lab sections from previous years was based on instructor andstudent assessment as well as on student performance on course learning goals. Table 1 showsstudent comments about the design projects from 2003

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

limited availability of laboratory facilities, the enrollment is capped at eight students. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationessential for developing lifelong learning skills. Students chose topics ranging from organicLEDs to lasers in medicine to photonic crystals to free space communication systems. In thesyllabus distributed on the first day of class, the parameters of this project were described(presentation to class and written report: 6-10 pages typed, cover sheet, appropriatedocumentation of multiple references). To enhance the quality of the final product, interimdeadlines

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stockman

areimplemented by fundamental IT.The course has been supported by a teaching assistant (TA). The TA had office hours in additionto those of the instructor to support students with their homework. However, the most importantvalue was in being able to schedule open laboratory time so the TA could assist students in usingnew software tools.Graded homework problems are assigned every two weeks. Group work is encouraged for someproblems and forbidden for others. Two hour exams and a final exam are given. Some examproblems are quantitative, where students are required to apply algorithms and produce ananswer. For example, students are expected to be able to convert between binary and decimalnumber representation and smooth an intensity image by neighborhood

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

Page 10.793.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”have learned in school.1 The same can be said for some college graduates. Wherever educationis inadequate:1 Students know little about work. Students have no clear idea about what they must do to enter a particular career or occupation. Students do not know what might be expected of them at work since the teaching environment bears little to no resemblance to the engineering environment found in industrial companies. Schools do not teach the attitudes and maturity needed on the job. Schools isolate young people from adults who

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Meyer; Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

private, large or small, research-focused or teaching-focused. To date,18 universities ranging from Bucknell and Norwich to Penn State and the University of Nebraskahave volunteered to participate. The committee formed in August 2003 and is scheduled to issuea final report that provides curriculum implementation strategies, suggests revisions to the BOK,and offers possible BOK-compliant curricula with commentaries in December 2005. The UnitedStates Military Academy joined the partnership in October 2004. The purpose of this paper is todescribe the current status of the BOK, the nature of the West Point civil engineering curriculum,the reasons why West Point joined this effort, and the initial assessment as to how well thisprogram meets the BOK

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxReferences1. “Practical Electronics for Inventors” by Paul Scherz McGraw-Hill 20002. “Student Manual for the Art of Electronics” by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz Harvard,Cambridge University Press 19893. “Pros and Cons of replacing discrete logic with programmable logic in introductory digital logiccourses” by Kevin Nickels Trinity University ASEE Annual Conference Session 25324. “A Proven Different Approach to Teaching Linear Circuits” by Albert J. Rosa and Roland E. ThomasUniversity of Denver/USAF Academy Proceedings

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

0 -0.5 -1 -1.5 -2 0 0.5 1 1.5Bibliography 1. Berglund, G.D., A Guided Tour of the Fast Fourier Transform, IEEE Spectrum, (July 1969), 41- 52. 2. Budrikis, Z. L., & Hatomian, M., Moment Calculations by Digital Filters, AT&T Laboratories Technical Journal, 63, No.2, (February 1984), 217-229. 3. Cochran, W. T., & Cooley, J., W., & Favin, D., L., What is the Fast Fourier Transform? Proceedings of the IEEE, 55, No. 10, (October 1967), 1664-1674. 4. Gabel, R. A., & Roberts, R. A., Signals and Linear Systems, Wiley, NY (1980). 5. Harris, F

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

included a mid-semester survey, asurvey of student opinions of teaching and an end-of-semester survey for each course; aquestionnaire for graduating seniors at the conclusion of each semester; and annual surveys foralumni (limited to first through fifth year after graduation), and employers of graduates. Thenumerical tools included the subject-specific Fundamentals of Engineering Exam results (USAgraduates are required to take the FE exam, but are not required to pass the exam), and theannual performance of USA’s EE and CpE students in the IEEE SoutheastCON HardwareCompetition.Documenting compliance with other program criteria was more straightforward. Since therewere many similarities to the older ABET criteria for self-study, the requirements

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

are emerging are not known. Page 10.1140.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe opportunity that RMS design brought in teaching a systems approach to engineeringwas another important driver to our education plan. Due to the highly specialized andfocused relationship between students and their individual faculty advisors, studentstypically have little opportunity to develop the systems perspective in engineering. Theyhave limited experience in working with experts from diverse fields on a team to solvecomplex

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

conceptualquestions. Data analysis is provided to begin to evaluate the effectiveness of this method,and future work collecting more detailed data and combining concept inventories withlecture sessions is discussed.Course-Specific Background and MotivationTable 1 outlines the topics included in University of Southern California (USC) MASC110, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Unlike many introductorymaterials science courses, this course includes significant chemistry content andsubstitutes for the first-semester chemistry requirement for aerospace, mechanical,electrical and industrial engineering majors. A chemistry textbook is used9, and materialsscience concepts are introduced through laboratory activities and lectures later in

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

– for example, a community service agency, museum or school, orgovernment agency and a faculty or industry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistantsfrom seven departments provides technical guidance and administrative assistance.Each EPICS team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors,and senior and is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through finaldeployment. Once the initial project(s) is completed and deployed, new projects are identifiedby the team and community partner allowing the team to continue to work with the samecommunity partner for many years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit forseveral semesters, registering for the course for 1 or 2

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

theory course. While they can demonstrate frequency-dependent behavior with analog circuits in the laboratory, they find it difficult to (a) conceptuallymap time-domain signal character to frequency-domain spectra and (b) describe the effect of a Page 10.976.1frequency-domain filter on the shape of a time-domain signal, even if they understand the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationfundamental concept of a Fourier series. Finally, linear systems students find it hard to correctlyinterpret the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

(www.vanth.org) are concerned about how their innovative efforts to integratecommunication instruction into their classes can be promulgated throughout the curriculum.To investigate these problems and gather data to help us improve the teaching of writingthroughout the curriculum, our interdisciplinary committee--faculty from engineering, writing,and the learning sciences—collaborated to: (1) systematically gather information about the writing standards that engineering faculty want to support (2) discuss the standards with faculty in relation to preferred teaching methods (3) disseminate those standards through a websiteOur primary research question was to determine whether engineering faculty within and acrossdisciplines share

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 16. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team-Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 17. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethnicity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 477-489. 18. Seat, E., and S.M. Lord, “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak; Xiaolin Chen; Dave Kim

workshop helped the girls understand fundamentals of molding, polymerprocessing, and machining. All participants had a chance to operate manufacturing toolsin a real engineering laboratory. Page 10.983.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAll students and staff pretended to run a manufacturing company called “Wazzu Corp.”There were three divisions in the company, the Plastic Molding division, PolymerProcessing R & D division, and CNC Machining division. In the ‘Polymer Processing R& D’ division

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

complete the Felder Solomon Index of Learning Styles (ILS)[10] as part of courseactivities. This is followed up with a discussion of the outcomes of the ILS, and of the existenceof and diversity in thinking, learning and teaching preferences. The aim is to make the studentsaware of their own preferences and the need to develop functionality in their less preferredthinking and learning modes. External Internal learning learning Linear Global Logical Holistc

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”with insight for activities in future classes and in the long term allows them to becometechnology resources in their schools. Graduate fellows receive tuition remission, as well as a stipend, while undergraduatefellows receive a stipend. The fellows benefit by acquiring valuable teaching experience,improve their communication skills, and apply their knowledge and explore their creativity bybeing able to design lab experiments and demonstrations.3. Illustrative Sensor-Based Physics Experiments A key element of the RAISE project is the development of sensor-based lab experimentsthat demonstrate concepts in physics from an engineering perspective

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Hudson; Laurence Merkle; Joshua Holden; Richard Layton

Conf., Salt Lake City.2. MUPEC 2004 conference website, www.rose-hulman.edu/MUPEC2004/RICHARD A. LAYTONRichard Layton received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995 and is currently an AssistantProfessor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His interests include student teambuilding and laboratory curriculum development. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years Page 10.1373.10in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Georgios Anagnostopoulos

programentitled Course, Curriculum and Laboratories Improvement (CCLI-EMD). Thetitle of the grant is “PROJECT EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Developmentthrough the Integration of Machine Learning Research into Senior DesignProjects”. The project partners are two major universities in Central Florida,Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne and the University of CentralFlorida (UCF) in Orlando. In addition to the two universities, there are two 2-yearCentral Florida colleges, Seminole Community College (SCC) in Oviedo andBrevard Community College (BCC) in Palm Bay.Project EMD-MLR is a “proof-of-concept” project focused on Machine Learning(ML), whose immediate objectives are i) the development of educational materialin the form of software

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marijke Kehrhahn; Kelli Vallieres; Alexandra Bell; Nicholas Massa

faculty from five geographic regions across the US participating inProject Photon2, a National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education (NSF-ATE)project aimed at increasing the number of educators across the US prepared to teach photonicstechnology.BackgroundCurrently 85% of all universities and colleges in the United States offer distance educationcourses, an increase from 62% in 19981. According to the National Center for EducationStatistics2, enrollment in online instruction courses has more than doubled, from approximately1,364,000 in 1998 to over 2,870,000 in 2001. One of the fastest growing forms of distance Page 10.872.1learning

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Wild; Constance Holden; Karen Horton

the Park during the spring term of 2004.Holden and Horton successfully proposed a three-credit service learning course to the Divisionof Lifelong Learning at UM to be offered as a Continuing Education (CED) course during thespring 2004 term. CED courses are open to all students. The course was numbered MET220and titled CAD Modeling of Archeological Structures. CED courses must be offered after 4:00pm. The course was scheduled in a computer laboratory four hours per week, Monday andThursday from 4:30 to 6:30. A three-credit CED course supports the faculty member overloadwith eight percent additional salary; by team teaching the course in addition to their regularclasses Horton and Holden each earned an additional four percent salary.Wild

Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

engineering jobs, however, there is a general acceptanceamong most engineers that graduates will “really” learn how to be an engineer during thefirst year or two on the job. Rarely did practicing engineers recommend more engineering inengineering curricula. Rather, most of the engineers emphasized more instruction on clientinteraction, collaboration, making oral presentations, and writing, as well as the ability todeal with ambiguity and complexity. As two engineers opined: …it is kind of a sore spot with me that educational institutions teach when you do your work there is a right answer and a wrong answer. And in the real world it is never that way, there are many ways to do things and it is not a matter of getting a right

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

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC). He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University ofOklahoma. He teaches structural engineering, with research in experimental and finite element analysis ofstructures. He has won major teaching awards and is internationally recognized in his primary research field.TIM C. KEENER Page 10.1380.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 9 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Tim C. Keener is a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

suggestedwhich place design in the initial year to maintain interest 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 32, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18, 26, or whichare laboratory-based 2, 4, 7, 12, or finally those which emphasize the development of problem-solving skills. 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 Baylor University uses self-paced mastery of subjectmaterial as an interesting further refinement for a problem-solving course.24 During presentationof previous work1, interest was expressed in the team design project used in the introductorycourse at CCSU to reinforce several learned problem-solving principles and skill sets and toculminate the course with an experiential learning experience. This team project effort is similarin many respects to the Building Engineering Student Team