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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

Page 10.1371.3 Pipelined 5ns 13 65ns Table 3: Sample Performance Results for Previous Example Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs can be seen, a Pipelined implementation combines the short clock cycle length of the multi-cycle implementation with the low number of clock cycles found with the single-cycleimplementation. At least in the absence of branch and data hazards, the pipelinedimplementation represents the best of both worlds.Performance MeasurementThe goal of the laboratory

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

teaching the application of engineering principles, but behavioralskills in a team environment. Cowan showed the value of group learning in engineering coursescan halve the failure rate.2 Still, these courses are evaluated with traditional tools. McGourtystates that the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria encourageinstitutional assessment efforts to focus on the measurement of student learning outcomes in asystematic and valid manner. McGourty goes on to state “few educational institutions have acomprehensive system for measuring program results in terms of student learning outcomes.”3One of the more common tools used to determine personal growth is through the use of self-assessment. The purpose of self-assessment is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Construction Management Technology, ElectricalPower, Information Systems Technology, Consumer Science and Merchandising, Logistics, andTechnology Leadership and Supervision. In addition, UH is recognized as the most ethnicallydiverse major research university with no single majority group in its student body. Thus, thestudent population served is heterogeneous with respect to a number of factors including priorcomputer experience. IST faculty members have chosen to use a variety of technologies thatsupport collaboration with students in the course. Technologies used with students include e-mailand discussion boards through the centralized interface provided by WebCT, Web logs, ad-hocnetworking using Tablet PCs in a Mobile Learning Laboratory, and

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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

practical and challenging projects instead of writingresearch papers.Identifying and Recruiting Good Candidates for the ProgramThe ECET faculty teaching the freshman courses in introductory circuit analysis and digitalelectronics identify students through their scores on exams and their performance in lab. Welook for students who are willing to take the initiative in the laboratory, are inquisitive both inlab and lecture, and are mature and responsible individuals. When potential students areidentified, a meeting is arranged between the student and the faculty advisor for the ECEThonors students. The requirements of the program are discussed, questions and concerns areaddressed, and a general plan for completing the requirements is outlined. The

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

injury and death.Governments, industry, and user organizations have long realized that it is not sufficient to relysimply on the intelligence, cleverness, and integrity of individuals or organizations to produce Page 10.1123.1worthwhile software. Many sets of standards have been written to better control the process ofsoftware development. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright (c) 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBy using a standards based approach to teaching software development, students are encouragedto take responsibility

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Winton

higherdegree of accuracy than the simplified models ordinarily identified in the classroom orlaboratory. And this paper has found a practical means to investigate aspects of devicebehavior from simulation that is more accurate and less complicated to implement than simpletheories or laboratory measurements.The capability to analyze devices is a demand item, since circuits of micron and sub-microndimensions are difficult to assess both before and after the fact, since the devices are onlyassessed as part of a test vehicle, which leaves the engineer at the mercy of the complexrelationships developed thereto. For example the level-49, BSIM3V3 model[3], as acceptedand continuous form simulation model as it may be, is an engineer’s nightmare, since

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

) outcomesThe Freshman Introduction to Engineering CourseMost engineering programs offer a freshman “Introduction to Engineering” course. The contentof this introductory course varies from program to program, and there is no well-acceptedcurricular model for it. Programs typically use this course for student orientation to theengineering field, to teach problem solving, for design projects and contests, for developingcommunication and professional skills, for developing computing and software skills, and forpotentially a host of other local interests. Some programs have also aligned this introductorycourse with an existing traditional engineering topic, such as engineering graphics, as is the casewith the UT-ME program. There is also an opportunity to

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationspent per student on the project was intended to be 3-6 hours, not including training.Treating the project as a laboratory exercise, this corresponds to a lecture class time lossof 1-2 hours, which is typical during the AIChE Annual Meeting week.As part of the assignment, students were provided a grading rubric to make expectationsclear and to guide them on their writing. Newell, Newell and Dahm13 provide guidelinesfor rubric development appropriate to this sort of project. The rubric used in this projectis provided in Figure 2.Students are given creative freedom to define their objectives to take advantage

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

Page 10.834.1satisfy the University Studies Program, the college of engineering adopted the University Studies “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering Education”Requirements into an integrated first year program. This allowed an opportunity to introduceglobal problem solving skills and introduce design early in the curriculum while meeting theuniversity requirements.Each fall the college of engineering offers 12 to 14 sections of ES 1000, Introduction toEngineering. Each section has 20-22 students and is taught by faculty members that are selectedfor superior teaching skills and an interest in first year

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTo protect the rights and maintain the trust of honest students and support appropriatebehavior, reasonable steps to anticipate and deter acts of dishonesty in all assignments.WebCT-based Course TeachingFor a successful on-line teaching experience, it is essential that student-faculty interactionoccurs regularly and in a timely fashion. The Excelsior College on-line teaching faculty isencouraged to include practices such as weekly activities, a variety of assessment tools,announcements, feedback, relevant discussion topics, and timely posting of grades in theon-line course design.For an on-line course, all course work must be

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

and yourdiscipline, job, hobby, or courses completed later Identify the specific scientificprinciples usedSample Learning Statements: • As a Field Engineer at ACME Company, I need to have a good comprehension of natural sciences and physics to understand, troubleshoot, and teach others how the given equipment is designed to function and if it is not functioning as designed, explain why the equipment is performing differently. I am attaching copies of several failure reports that describe the problems and their resolution. • I studied the principle of harmonics in the General Physics course at University College and later applied that concept to the creation and application of band

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

Page 10.1191.1be translated into educational paradigms, particularly for the engineering senior design classes. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition” Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationIntroductionFor almost a millennium, the role of the university as a place to create and disseminateknowledge has evolved constantly, but slowly. Initially, the university examined topics ofgrammar, rhetoric, history, theology and science. In the 20th century, the combination teaching-research university developed under a model established by Wilhelm Humboldt of the Universityof Berlin. This model has worked well, but it tends to encourage individual

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

students for industry and may help develop theirskills in communicating technical issues.IntroductionI, the lead author, am a chemical engineer with 31 years of industrial experience. Whilepreparing to teach thermodynamics and heat transfer, I found striking differences between thetextbook problems and working world engineering problems. I also noticed that the students hadlittle or no exposure to the communication needs of industry and businesses. As noted byS. Dillon(13), businesses are spending as much as 3.1 billion dollars annually to improve thewriting style of their employees.In response to these observations, this paper looks at these differences and introduces a methodto bring working world engineering problems and e-mail communication

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

to focus on quantity instead of quality, enabling three“chalkboard lectures” to be crowded into a single PowerPoint presentation. Oppenheimersuggests that computers should be used to supplement current pedagogies instead of replacingthem.Although skeptics of a high-technology approach to teaching at the university level certainlyexist, Arnold4 stated, “A less hyperbolic and more measured position simply suggests that newmodes of communication, new forms of interactive media, and new forms of informationrepresentation and information manipulation have not only altered the environment in whichuniversities are situated, but also offer possibilities for improved teaching and learning thatacademics should not ignore.”2.1 The University of

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

they participate in a series of laboratory activities provided by studentsand faculty in the departments of Electrical, Industrial and Systems, Mechanical, andMicroelectronics Engineering. The young women also spend the night on campus with RITstudents. Attendance has grown in recent years, and RIT hosted over 40 girls for the 2004 SWESleepover.Colleges and Careers DayColleges and Careers Day is an annual summer event targeting high school students betweentheir 11th and 12th grade years. It is an institute-wide recruitment event designed for male andfemale students. Students interested in engineering are able to participate in hands-on activities

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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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

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

, multimedia now provides greaterflexibility in teaching and learning. Although prior short-term experimental programs conclude strongly that VR can enhancelearning, educators still must overcome several technological and educational challenges to bringVR into regular classroom use: • When, where, and how should we introduce VR into existing curricula? • How can VR be used as a communication tool, rather than just a visual aid, in the classroom? • How should we teach students to use VR tools? Introducing new technology into classrooms also brings in the requirement for coursereformation. This paper describes a teaching and learning experience in which VR tools wereintroduced into design and technical graphics courses at three

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

. o Recommitment to engineering issue. Engineering students can take this course but right now, it will not transfer to the engineering institution. However, one engineering student is serving as a volunteer Teaching Assistant in order to keep her interest in engineering alive. o Engineering advising issue. Advising can never start too early in a student’s education. In addition to introducing students to engineering earlier, the education majors who teach will be able to give their students sound advice on how to prepare for success in engineering. • Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) minor currently supported by

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

starting point for the collaboration. Theopportunity to collaborate took several years to develop since the Frank Lloyd Wright course istaught every other year and Dr. Rose only began teaching the reinforced concrete design coursein the spring 2004 semester. This created the first opportunity for the interaction. Collaborationand interaction between the arts and engineering is supported by ABET,1 ASCE Policy 465 andits Body of Knowledge document,2 and UPJ GenEd program.3 ABET1 requires engineeringprograms prepare well-educated graduates able to interact with other professionals in anincreasingly complex and diverse world. In the Body of Knowledge document,2 ASCE is strivingto raise the professional practice of civil engineering to a higher level

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

-disciplinary support for the fledgling program.This program was established with a part-time director and a seven-member steering committee.Funding for the part-time directors position was secured from the University’s annual programsupport. Members of the steering committee serve as unpaid “volunteers”, contributing their timeand effort in support of the overall mission of the college. Although the director’s “home”department continued to fund his/her full salary, the Green Engineering Program reimbursed thatdepartment by providing whatever funding was required to hire a teaching replacement.Green engineering is, inherently, inter- and cross-disciplinary in nature. Each department withinthe College of Engineering includes this information to a

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

management, business, and leadership principles. 2. Faculty The program must demonstrate that faculty teaching courses that are primarily design in content are qualified to teach the subject matter by virtue of professional licensure, or by education and design experience. The program must demonstrate that it is not critically dependent on one individual.These criteria use the terms recognition, understanding, and ability to describe three specificlevels of competence. These terms are used, but not defined, in the ABET General Criteria. Toenhance clarity and to promote shared understanding, the authors of Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century formally defined the three levels of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

concepts applied in the Clinic projects have just been introduced in other courses, so that thematerial is still fresh in the students’ mind5. The sophomore clinic teams with the College ofCommunication to integrate the teaching of a common core of communication skills to allstudents. Faculty engage in reflexive pedagogy, continually assessing and revising the program.In addition to these curricular and pedagogical innovations, the College has a student-to-facultyratio of approximately 17:1 and class sizes not exceeding 35, facilitating personal student-facultyinteraction both within and outside of class The tightly structured curriculum results in strongcohort solidarity among students who take most of their courses together throughout the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

everygraduate student must pass before admission to doctoral candidacy. The ECT has oral as well aswritten components. Although US graduate students generally pass the ECT easily at the firstattempt, a large majority of international students from non-English-speaking countries had beenrequired to take remedial courses in writing and presentational skills. During the Fall 2004semester, all graduate students, passed the ECT to the examiners’ satisfaction.Multidisciplinary Informal Engineering Education Seminar (MIEES) CourseA new 1-credit seminar course was started in Fall 2003 semester, under the aegis of the NSF-funded multi-university Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning(CIRTL).3 Penn State and Michigan State Universities

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Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

to address some of these issues will be described.2.0 Traditional Ph.D. Engineering ProgramsThe traditional Ph.D. programs are narrowly focused and discipline-defined dissertationresearch. A typical discipline normally requires a graduate student to take certain number ofcourses beyond those already taken to fulfill the Master of Science (MS) degree within the samediscipline. The idea here is to ensure that when the student completes the Ph.D. program he orshe will be prepared to teach graduate level courses in that discipline at a university. This ideaassumes that upon completion of his or her Ph.D. dissertation, those courses will be sufficient toprepare the students to teach courses in new emerging areas that do not have any

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

includingmaster’s and Ph.D. programs. More and more Chinese universities have gained excellent repu-tation internationally through their high-quality teaching and outstanding research. E&T education in China has always been regarded as ”elite education” among all highereducation majors. Despite the growth of university admission rate from 4% in the early eightiesto more than 50% nowadays, there is only a mere 20% or less of those admitted by a universitycan enter into various E&T disciplines. In general, as evidenced by those who came to theUnited States for higher education, engineering students in China possess strong mathematicaland analytical capabilities. This is due to the fact that Chinese have always emphasized on thesolid foundation of

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

university classes that are unfriendly to them,impeding their learning. The absence of women faculty and mentors both within the classroomand outside of it, few women students in their classes, and the lack of supportive networks cancreate a “chilly climate” for women in non-traditional fields. It is during this critical period thatmany of them transfer into other fields.12, 5 , 13Research suggests that female students are most concerned about isolation, the perceivedirrelevance of theoretical preparatory courses, negative experiences in laboratory courses,classroom climate, and lack of role models.14 Other studies have suggested that the differentlearning styles of women may influence their desire to enter engineering or technology

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Sullivan

operate in an abstract 3 dimensionallandscape. In addition to supporting the material science curriculum, the inclusion ofsolid modeling exercises in the materials science class also supports the equally importantgoal of improving students’ long-term retention of solid modeling skills. In the paper thatfollows, a description of the current material science program at VMI is given, along witha summary of characteristic problem areas for student comprehension in material science.Goals for the incorporation of solid modeling tools with the materials science course arereviewed, and descriptions of solid modeling exercises are detailed. Lastly, studentreactions to the new teaching approach are discussed, as well as future plans for usingsolid modeling

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Loralee Donath; Nadia Craig; Nancy Thompson; Michael Matthews

environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother.4 The RCS addresses the development of communications abilities in a system ofdistributed cognition.Survey results of RCS participants are presented to provide an example of a way to incorporatecomplex systems study into the existing undergraduate engineering curriculum. Complexsystems study is defined as a new field of science that studies the collective behavior of a systemand how this system interacts with its environment. Complex systems study is laying thefoundation for a revolution of all

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

• Contractor negotiations • Project plans and specifications • Budget, bidding, estimating, planning, scheduling, and time management • Quality assurance, quality control • Dispute resolution, labor, and cost management. CE 304 Construction • Plan and specification reading Management Laboratory • Estimating • Scheduling using software (Microsoft Project) CE 316 Equipment & • Construction operations Methods • Production processes • Equipment utilization