Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

broughtto public attention the need for a comprehensive energy strategy to ensure a sustainable supplyof energy for our nation. Alternative energy sources to support our infrastructure are becomingmore and more significant as we look towards the future. Establishment of the NextEnergyCenter in Michigan is an important step in that direction; and to prepare technical workforce foralternative energy area would be an important milestone in taking forward our nation towardsthe future. In this paper, the necessary curriculum, courses, and degree program were explored toaddress the alternative energy technology workforce needs. Also, various avenues with the prosand cons were explored, identified, and recommended. The project work done dealt with

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationOther hands-on exercises currently in the curriculum include new and/or improved exercises toteach about Compton scattering, intensifying screens, digital detection, pixels and resolution(multiple experiments), aperture effects, magnification, penumbra, CT projections and backprojection reconstruction. The process used to develop these exercises can be briefly described asa six step process – identify learning objectives, brainstorm ideas for experiments, test theseideas, teach the best ideas to a small group of learners, let the learners try the experiments, andthen gather feedback. This process, especially the last two steps, helps spawn new ideas

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

discussed the need for using formal design methods in engineering courses.However, simply using such methods do not particularly facilitate students buying into acomplex problem. Experience has shown that it is not uncommon for students to misinterpret anassignment, to solve the wrong problem, to write programs that contain errors and give theincorrect answers, and then blame everything and everyone other than themselves for themistakes.This condition is not unique to the education environment. Numerous examples could be givenof lengthy product development projects that yielded defective products; products that didn'tmeet the customer need, and worse yet, programs that performed a miscalculation and causeddamage to equipment, and resulted in human

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

for 6th graders. Constructivist-based methodology is employed to create goals,expected outcomes, and the logistics for the field experience. The 6th graders use computers tofollow step-by-step instructions, program their creations, and operate their systems. The studentsin the Toying With TechnologySM course serve as classroom facilitators for the engineeringactivities used to attain the goals and achieve the outcomes desired. Assessment of the success ofthe program is through multiple measures. These include: a written feedback from the 6th graderswith answers to specific questions as well as any comments, observations and feedback by theTWT student facilitators during problem solving and design projects, interpretations of theresults by the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

for engineering and a commitment for the degree program.A fundamental assumption of the program is that students learn best in environments that supportconstructivist approaches to learning and which encourage students to integrate the knowledgeand content of their courses into meaningful applications. This integration is accomplished in thefall semester of the freshman year through a common engineering design project that iscollaboratively designed by the faculty who are teaching courses within the fall cluster.The content of the clustered courses is integrated where appropriate and, during the final third ofthe semester, students complete a five-week design project. The project is collaborativelydeveloped by course faculty and requires

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

Session Number 1526 Enhancement of Computational Engineering within an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Robert Spall, Thomas Hauser Utah State UniversityAbstractThe NSF supported Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Initiative (CCLI) project describedherein addresses concerns regarding undergraduate education at research universities as high- 1lighted in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report by incorporating advances in information tech-nology into the curriculum. This has been accomplished by developing an

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

alsolays the foundation for strong understanding of world cultures, languages, and localpractices in the context of international collaborations on small to mega constructionprojects. The future construction professional will be required to be grounded in ethicaldecision-making, and more versatile in life long learning aspirations. The future role ofeducators will continue to include characteristics such as scholarly faculty, effectiveteaching, and practice-oriented teaching and research.IntroductionToday’s world is a lot different than the world of the yester years, and so are the civilengineering projects. As a result of greater public awareness of the environmentalconcerns and sustainable development, complexity in design and construction has

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thanassis Rikakis; Jiping He; Hari Sundaram; Andreas Spanias

concentrations.That is, we have created hybrid arts, media and engineering concentrations within thegraduate degree programs of six of the nine core disciplines of our effort. (ComputerScience, Electrical Engineering, Music, Dance, Theater, Visual art). Concentrations in theother three core disciplines (Bioengineering, Psychology, Education) are at the finalapproval stage. These concentrations require a unique plan of study (POS) that integratescourses and research across disciplines. Two-thirds of the course credits are fromdiscipline-specific courses and one-third are from hybrid media-arts-engineering coursesoffered through AME. Research and thesis credits are related to work on interdisciplinaryexperiential media projects from our common research agenda

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

dramatic effect that the new software has had on theway that mechanical drawing and engineering design are taught at Daniel Webster College(DWC). The two year design experience at DWC is more extensive than the design experiencethat students normally have during the first two years of most four-year engineering programs.The evolution of this design experience will be presented. Three of the presenters of this paperare students. Two will present robotic arm projects; the third will present a supersonic gunproject.I. IntroductionDaniel Webster College offers B.S. degrees in a variety of majors; however, the currentengineering degree programs are two-year transfer programs. The College has severalarticulation agreements with ABET-accredited

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

steps in the design process are: • Identify Need, • Define Problem, • Generate Alternative Solutions, • Analysis and Feedback, • Winnow, • Detailed Design, • Test and Refine, and • Implement.Identify Need Previous experimental courses in the department have integrated active learning componentsinto lecture courses. Department-level initiatives include industry-sponsored capstone designprojects, the hands-on Integrated Design, Engineering, and Life Skills (IDEALS)1 courseincorporating team design and building projects, the Case Study Web Site2 that incorporatesexperimental data analysis into core lecture courses, and the Energy Systems Laboratory3 used inseveral required junior courses to demonstrate the integration of

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

redesign implementationgrant. In this paper, we describe results from our initial assessment activities and plansfor the coming years. We also describe the process by which we are redesigning our corecurriculum, including the design of a theme-based introductory course that introducesfundamental concepts of ECE through coursework and a real-world design project andlaboratory experience. The structure of the new core and theme-based structure will alsobe presented. [This work was supported by NSF EEC-0431812]. IntroductionThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in the Pratt School ofEngineering at Duke University is committed to a significant redesign of theundergraduate curriculum. To

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

School implemented inthe spring 2003 and fall 2004 semesters. In this semester-long course, students create andrun real businesses using a project based learning model and following Pennsylvania’sacademic standards for career awareness and planning, career acquisition, careerretention and entrepreneurship. Our primary goal at Northwestern Lehigh High Schoolwas to create a program that helps students meet the individual, family, work andcommunity challenges in today’s complex, technology infused, global society. We offerthis work as a possible model for others to follow. This course is a partnership withLehigh University’s Integrated Product Development Program and Wilkes University’sEntrepreneurship Program. The Northwestern Lehigh model for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhifeng Kou; Sudhir Mehta

. The students mainly learned the temperature measurement component on Page 10.892.3 their own by doing a PBL project. The second test covered materials taught in a combined mode including both traditional and PBL. The tests had numerical problems and multiple-choice Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright. 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconcept questions. The PBL project was evaluated based on a group report (30%), grouppresentation (10%), individual research work (30%), individual critical

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

introductory computing and introductorymechanical engineering students.The paper outlines this pairwise linkage model, the goals of this project, the framework forevaluating the linkage and the types of data we collected as part of the evaluation effort. Resultsfrom the initial study confirmed that problem-based teamwork enhanced student attitudestowards MATLAB. We also describe how results here will enable us to reach our long-termgoal of curricular integration.IntroductionUndergraduate education in engineering has been generally successful over the last fifty years asmeasured by the most important metric: a well-educated and productive cadre of effectiveengineers in the engineering professions. However, critics have rightly pointed out

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

, that require use of the cumulative knowledge they have acquired in lowerlevel courses. If the project is large enough, they are assigned a group project. The SensorAssembly design project was assigned to one student during spring semester of 2000. Thestudent has finished the mechanical design and the construction of the sensor assembly. Initially aDC generator was used as a sensor and very limited testing of the sensor was done on the bench.The author did the rest of the work during the fall semester of 20011. During the fall semester of2004, a new data acquisition system was installed; a new optical sensor was purchased for thesame project to improve the accuracy and the range of relative power measurements.Measurement of Relative Cylinder

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

time and at earlier ages than most outreach activities allow. Theeducation students are mixed with the engineering students in the existing “Introduction toEngineering” course. The education students get an extra hour a week with an educationprofessor to discuss how the engineering projects could be used in the K-12 classroom to meetstate teaching standards for math and science as well as reading, writing and other non-technicalsubjects.Combining the educators in with the engineers has three main benefits. First, the educators get tosee what the engineering students actually learn without the material being watered down.Second, the teaching load is distributed by including more bodies in existing sections requiringthe education professor to

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

captured their own voices and viewed the quantized voice signals as oscilloscopeimages. They used a Matlab script to manipulate the sampling rate and quantization and to playback the modified signals, illustrating aurally the effects of changing these parameters.The last two hours of the module were spent on a small electronics project involving a “lightorgan.” This discrete circuit consists of a microphone, an amplifier, and a series of band passfilters tuned to different frequency ranges. The filters drive LEDs that flash with an audio signal.Circuit boards were prefabricated with all components except for the band pass filter resistors inplace. The students engaged in the design process by first identifying the desired frequencyranges for their

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Thompson

The MS in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering An Update Bruce R. Thompson Rader School of Business, Milwaukee School of Engineering Abstract: At the 1990 ASEE annual conference a paper titled “Evolution and Projections for the MS in Engineering Management” described the experience of the Master of Science in Engineering Management at Milwaukee School of Engineering, one of the oldest graduate engineering management programs in the United States. Since then, the program has faced a number of challenges, including the introduction of the MSEM at Milwaukee’s two largest

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

business. DLJCME uses theengineering design process and its associated engineering projects as the foundation of aninstructional strategy to help its students gain important conceptual understandings as well asdevelop secure problem solving skills. At Jamerson, design activities emphasize designchallenges that rely on mathematics and science skills also being taught at each grade level aswell as any relevant knowledge and skills developed, learned, and secured in earlier grades. Thisapproach prompts inquiry and analysis as well as discourse among students and teachers. It alsoleads to project concept closure which is seldom accomplished in many trial and error designefforts. A vision of the schoolwide curriculum is illustrated in Figure 1, which

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

Enrichment Laboratory) whichwas funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As the Labneared completion, with involvement from the CS/CIS faculty and students, and wasfully funded, we started looking into institutionalizing the outcomes of BCEIL through itsmany individualized lab modules. This paper looks closely at the dissemination as well asthe implementation efforts that are being taken in order to achieve the department’sinstructional goals through BCEIL. These efforts have allowed the faculty to reevaluateand to rejuvenate the currently used projects and lab modules by dressing them up in astate of the art networking and simulation environment; additionally, many new labmodules were created and specifically used based on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Bailey; David Beams

are involved in the 2004 production: a self-propelled electrically-driven sleigh (usedto transport Clara and the Nutcracker to the Land of the Sweets) and a microcontroller-basedgrandfather clock used during the Christmas party scene and the battle between the toy soldiersand mice. This relationship has provided projects (both for senior design and independent study)to engineering students while exposing them to a segment of the performing arts; conversely, ithas exposed persons in the arts community to engineering. The development and use of thesestage props are described in this paper, as well as how they have earned favorable publicity forthe College of Engineering.A brief history of an unlikely collaborationTyler Junior College (TJC) is a

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

.Armed with this wealth of information, the faculty ultimately had to determine the specifics ofhow to assess the outcomes considering some specific issues surrounding the WKU CivilEngineering program, including the following: 1. The CE faculty consists of only 4 people, therefore, the assessment workload cannot be burdensome, 2. The WKU Engineering programs are project based which the faculty must be evident in the outcomes assessment process, 3. The programs are going through their first EAC of ABET accreditation, therefore the opinion was that the Criterion 3 requirements must not only be met, but comfortably exceeded to avoid any possibility of a deficiency in this area.Based on the necessary background information

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

”education. Our faculty members strive to be mentors, our academic programs stress learninghand-in-hand with application, and our students learn to inquire and discover knowledge.Michigan Tech’s Enterprise Program is one example of the innovative approach to education theuniversity is known for. The Enterprise Program combines education and experiential learningthrough interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate student working together to address real-worldproblems of significance to industry. The Enterprise curriculum is a 20-credit, 3-year experiencewhich consists of 1) participation in the operation of a business (project work) and 2) completionof concentrated course material (instructional modules) designed to provide key information,processes and

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell

campus, experience university lifewhile attending classes, tours and working on a group project in their major.The targeted pool of potential candidates was limited to students who would be newstudents to ASU Engineering in the fall of each year. Students had to have a transfer orhigh school GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale and possess a desire to pursue a baccalaureatedegree in engineering or the applied sciences. Students were required to submit thefollowing items in order to apply for program participation.• Application Form• Official copy of high school and transfer transcripts• Copy of their incoming schedule at ASU• Demographic informationIII. Participants:Letters of invitation were generated to all minority students who had applied

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

PHY121 EN241 Basic Science AUC EN481English I Phys I Phys II English II (Lab) Elective Tech Writing3303 4336 4336 3303 4336 3303 3303 ECT121 ECT231 ECT36x AUC AUCET111 Electronic Intro to Prog II Elective ElectiveIntro to ET Circuits Semicond C1101 4336 4336 3224 3303 3303ECT111 ECT122 ECT 222 ECT242 ECT471 ECT472Intro to Digital I Digital II Microproc I Sr Project Sr ProjectElectronics

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

½ Engineering as a Overview of 210 12-15 profession engineering and each discipline6 ½ - 10 Seminar #1 Discipline related 27 12-1510 – 13 ½ Seminar #2 seminar 27 12-1513 ½ - 15 Engineering and society Ethics 210 21 The first course module introduces engineering and each of the six engineeringdisciplines taught at Bucknell. It also features a team-project in which students suggestimprovements to campus to enhance mobility for persons who use

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas H. Miller; Susan Frey

course.In 2001, Dr. Miller joined CH2M HILL as a flex staff employee, starting with a sabbatical, andhe has worked in that capacity to the present time during summers, and at times during theacademic year. He has been involved with seismic rehabilitation of buildings, bridge projects,and anti-terrorist/force protection design of facilities for the U.S. Air Force.Class Economics and FundingThe economics of providing this course exemplifies a true Oregon community project. OregonState University (OSU) provides the venue, a lecture room in the Civil Engineering Building,Apperson Hall. OSU also supplies transparencies, audio equipment, computer access, projectors

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

“Bridging the Information Gap in the Comprehensive Design Studio” John J Phillips, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract:The culmination of a students design education at Oklahoma State University’s School ofArchitecture is experienced in the nine credit hour comprehensive design studio. The approachused in teaching this studio is a team concept, with four different faculty members specializing inarchitectural design, mechanical systems design, and structural systems design. Additionally,separate courses in project management and environmental controls design (as elective courses)are closely linked in the same semester. The scope of the comprehensive design

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Afshin Ghajar; Ronald Delahoussaye

Engineering at Oklahoma State Universityoffers MAE 4243, “Gas Power Systems”, as a required course for the Aerospace Engineeringdegree and an elective course for the Mechanical Engineering degree. Student use of software toanalyze and design gas turbine systems has been an important part of this course since 1988.Use of software has been particularly important in the “design project” phase of the course. Thesoftware in use for many years was developed in the DOS environment and lacked many of theease-of-use features now commonly available in MS Windows style programs. In addition, thesource code for the program was not available to allow faculty and students to correct perceivedweaknesses in the program. The primary goal of this project was to

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

field, yet undergraduate engineering students in civil and environmental engineering arerarely exposed to digital imaging through their coursework. The College of Engineering atRowan University received funding from NSF to integrate digital imaging technology (DIT) inour undergraduate engineering curriculum. Faculty from all engineering disciplines withexpertise in DIT participated in this exciting project to develop hands-on experiments forundergraduate engineering students. Experiments developed were such that all engineeringdisciplines would benefit from the endeavor. Certain digital imaging experiments havegenerated a lot of excitement in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program as many ofthe laboratory experiments are extremely