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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nuno Delfino; Calvin Cutshaw; Brian McGee; R. Mark Nelms

. Studentsdevelop their ladder logic programs in the RSLogix software and download them via a serialconnection between PC and the PLC. Programs may be uploaded from the PLC to the PC overthis same connection. One of the goals of the laboratory was to provide the students with an end-of-term projectthat would simulate conditions in an industrial environment. Limited laboratory space andfinancial resources prevented the acquisition of actual industrial equipment. Many educatorshave utilized LEGO products for projects and laboratories2-5. A LEGO Student Factory wasconstructed as the basis for the end-of-term project and is shown in Figure 1. A crane is utilizedto lift blocks from the floor to the top of the laboratory table. Once a block has reached

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Paula Quinn; Jill Rulfs; John Orr

Lessons Learned in a University-Public School Partnership for Teaching Engineering in Grades 2-6 John A. Orr, Judith Miller, Jill Rulfs, Paula Quinn Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractWorcester Polytechnic Institute is conducting an NSF-funded GK-12 program titled "K-6 Gets aPiece of the PIEE (Partnerships Implementing Engineering Education).” The goals include (1)assisting the Worcester Public School System to implement curricula in engineering andtechnology at the elementary level, and (2) providing in-depth involvement with K-6 educationto WPI graduate and undergraduate students as they pursue their own technical education. At themid-point of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

electric engines fedusing natural gas or hydrogen fuel cells. A hydrogen economy may arrive quicker than wethought. Current gasoline prices in the U.S. exceed the DOE target price of $2 for deliveredhydrogen,3 and the current gasoline prices in Europe and Asia ($3.60) exceed GE’s current $3.50estimate of a feasible delivered cost in U.S. cities for hydrogen. People will want to travel. TheSpace Program will have become dominantly commercial, either through expansion of thecommercial market, or through attrition and collapse of public support for a weak anduninspiring civil space program.Scenario 1: Managing ContractionThe first of our scenarios is a linear extrapolation of current trends. It shows the Americanaerospace industry transitioning

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

)-(k) outcomes. We also felt that the (a)-(k) attributesof program graduates are sufficiently comprehensive in and by themselves that any rephrasingwill be only an exercise in creative writing. Therefore, although not required by ABETguidelines, we decided to make the program outcomes identical to the (a)-(k) outcomes ofCriterion 2 of TAC. This also ensures that our future efforts will not be directed at debates aboutthe interpretation of new phrases or the validation, monitoring and measurement of the newphrases. These (a)-(k) outcomes will be interchangeably referred to as Program outcomes (a)-(k)or ABET outcomes (a)-(k).Spreadsheet-1: SLOs - ABET Elements MatrixIt is the responsibility of the course instructor to indicate how a particular

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite; David N. Pocock; David Dutton

is due, in part, to the fact that there has been substantial research dealingwith distance education, and the findings prove conclusively that distance learning is asgood as traditional education. Numerous published assessment studies comparing web-based vs. classroom-based instruction have concluded that e-learning courses comparefavorably with classroom-based instruction and enjoy high student satisfaction 1.Despite the widespread use of the Internet as a conduit for content-based curriculumdelivery, the availability of engineering laboratory courses remains moderate, andeffective distance delivery of engineering laboratory courses remains a challengingproblem to be solved 2. Currently, there are very few engineering laboratory

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

, from Adam Smith and Karl Marx, to Amartya Page 10.426.3 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Sen and Paul Streeten. It is assumed that students entering the program are not familiar with thisliterature, and the text chosen (Martinussen [1]) offers one of the best overviews ofmultidisciplinary development literature available. In addition they are assigned books onglobalization, the information revolution, and information technology and development (Lechnerand Boli

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Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

ableto apply the concepts of mechanics without the elaborate mathematics proceduresrequired for vector notation. In fact, many instructors feel that the mathematical Page 10.1258.1sophistication detracts from understanding the core concepts.“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Available Instructional MaterialsTextbooks and other teaching materials for engineering mechanics can be separated intofour categories: 1. Elementary books that are primarily intended for vocational and two-year programs

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

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

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

with students at desks and chairs in regimented rows.Ideally, the college classroom needs total flexibility. But that is hard to achieve while stillbringing utilities (like power, data, gas and water) to students. Perhaps future classrooms willneed to be much larger, to allow for traditional instructional areas surrounded by clusters ofproject areas all in one room. [1]There is an emerging trend towards larger better-equipped college classrooms. Over the past fewdecades students have been taught on a discipline-by-discipline model, separate periods forseparate courses. Typically, lectures on these courses were centered on a textbook. Today thereis evidence of a shift toward multidisciplinary learning and multi-source instruction.Increasingly

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak; Frank Brattain

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”elongation and fracture of the specimen as a dynamic visual image so it might be replayed as anexample of how mechanical components react when subjected to an increasing tensile force untilfracture occurs. The authors decided to capture 2-D digital information of the specimen invarious stages of elongation until fracture and then use the captured digital data to create asequence of 2-D images that could then be used to animate the test from start to finish.Capturing DataThe experimental setup, shown in figure 1, consisted of a universal testing machine, tensile pullspecimen, dial indicator affixed to the lower UTM platen and monitoring the movement of theupper UTM platen, a Microscribe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

and chairs in regimented rows.Ideally, the college classroom needs total flexibility. But that is hard to achieve while stillbringing utilities (like power, data, gas and water) to students. Perhaps future classrooms willneed to be much larger, to allow for traditional instructional areas surrounded by clusters ofproject areas all in one room. [1]There is an emerging trend towards larger better-equipped college classrooms. Over the past fewdecades students have been taught on a discipline-by-discipline model, separate periods forseparate courses. Typically, lectures on these courses were centered on a textbook. Today thereis evidence of a shift toward multidisciplinary learning and multi-source instruction.Increasingly, learning is centered

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Skylar Stewart; Linda Ramsey; Julie DuBois; Jorge Roldan; David Mills

theirrole as Teaching Fellows in a National Science Foundation Graduate/K-12 Teaching FellowsProgram (DGE-0231728), integrated ACTive Prep® software, inquiry based activities, analysisof science demonstrations, and reading of scientific literature into the program in an effort todevelop the specific skills tested on the science portion of the ACT. Targeted skills included datainterpretation/analysis, reading comprehension, and science reasoning. High school studentsinterested in participating in the program were identified and placed in either an experimental orcontrol group based solely on their ability to attend all program sessions. The experimental groupof seven students met twice weekly for 1 ½ to 2 hours per session throughout the six week

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Amadei; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt

theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder on October 4-6, 2001. The workshop was three days in length Page 10.741.1and brought together about 90 industry, government and university participants from Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and social sciences. The overall purpose ofthe workshop was three-fold: (1) provide an intellectual framework for interdisciplinaryexchange, (2) provide recommendations on the future course of engineering education

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

development ofan educational program termed Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC).EDC related undergraduate (Table 1) and graduate (Table 2) courses and programs are currentlyactive at other Universities, including initiatives across the fields of engineering, science, andhumanities. A brief summary of selected programs is provided below.Table 1. Review of Existing Bachelor’s Degree Programs Relevant to EDCUniversity, Program, website URL Brief DescriptionColorado School of Mines. The CVEN EPICs course is a multidisciplinary andDept. Civil Engineering, Liberal Arts vertically integrated course program with opportunities forand International Studies. service learning. Courses incorporate sustainability

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

senior year caps off most undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. Per the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) therequirements for design are: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through thecurriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquiredin earlier course work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints thatinclude most of the following considerations: economic, environmental, sustainability, …ethical, health and safety, social, and political.”1 Content related to a number of other ABETcriteria for engineering curricula can also be incorporated within a capstone design course,including abilities to work on multi-disciplinary teams, communicate

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Williamson; Carol Considine; Paul Kauffmann; Tarek Abdel-Salam

body of research into the application of case studies to builddecision making skills in entrepreneurial areas. To illustrate this point, they propose that casestudies can be categorized in general terms based on a two axis perspective. The first axis(vertical in Exhibit 1) involves the degree of qualitative (lower half) or quantitative (upper half)analysis. The second axis (horizontal) represents the decision context being either an individual(right half) or organizational (left half) scenario. Exhibit 1 applies this two axis concept to theengineering entrepreneurship decision context. Quantitative focus Case requires objective analysis Case requires objective

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Mavriplis

An Innovative Approach to the Introduction to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course: Pressure Catherine Mavriplis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington UniversityAbstractAn innovative Introduction to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering course isdescribed. The course material focuses on the concept of pressure to relate concepts andsubject matters in the intended field. Self- and group-guided inquiry is used in and out ofclass. Group activities are also prescribed. The course makes use of three non-fictionpopular accounts of engineering feats, relating to 1) a high-pressure environment in thedeep sea, 2) a low-pressure

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

is theneed of the engineering school to make the program more suitable to the new kind of studentconnected to the world by Internet and eager for information. It is certainly a way to getknowledge in the comfort of home or the nice environment of school library. It also helps tooffer to the students’ new kind of extracurricular courses which content is more interesting forthis or that student. Initiatives like this have helped to overcome the prejudice about distancelearning in the Country.1. IntroductionThe main goal of this paper is to show a project that has been conceived and applied in a Schoolof Engineering in Brazil. It is a distance learning program that comes as a new tool and verypowerful one that is capable to bring education in a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

in today’s competitive job market, bringingemployment opportunities, greater earning potential and career advancement, in additionto increased job satisfaction.The Microsoft Office Specialist Certification is the globally recognized standard for skillswith the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. The benefits toindividuals, corporations, academic institutions, staffing agencies, and informationtechnology (IT) training centers are listed below. • Benefits for Individuals 1. Increased productivity at work 2. Greater earning potential 3. More opportunities in the job market 4. Satisfaction of demonstrating your knowledge and skills • Benefits for Corporations 1. Increased

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ritsuko Izuhara; Hideo Miyata; Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

inorder to support their out-of-class learning. Fifty Engineering Design Courses are offered in each year. In order to maintain a high levelof quality in the course management, a learning manual for students as well as a coursemanagement manual for instructors have been published as shown in Figure 1, and a web site tooffer virtual learning space to students has been set up. All manuals as well as the corresponding Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 10.71.1 Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationweb site contents have

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Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

certifications such as ORACLE can also beincluded into the IS elective courses. The goal is for the curriculum to provide an avenue forstudents to take the certification exam after completing the course series leading to thatcertificate. This research will help faculty design their courses to integrate certain certificates. Itwill also help students choose their courses in order to acquire certificates.1. IntroductionInformation Systems (IS) programs are accredited by oversight bodies that determine if theprogram provides adequate education. This assures that, as long as professionals graduate fromaccredited programs, they will start their professional lives with the knowledge they need toperform effectively. Currently, ABET1 is the accreditation body

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

universities in Taiwan, establishing the so-called “sister university” around the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationworld is a way to promote international cooperation. The alliance will result in, mostly, student exchanges andadvantages such as ：1. The development of those not necessarily learned in traditional education-like initiative, responsibility and a developed sense of inquisitiveness.2. A command of a host country’s language.3. Knowledge of the studying and teaching techniques used in other countries.4. Access to a greater amount of resources.5. Obtaining another academic

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wanasanan Thongsongkrit; Trasapong Thaiupathump; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

contents were tested on the Web with the MicrosoftInternet Explorer 6.0.ResultsFigures 1-5 illustrate some captured screens of the interactive/animation tutoring system on thefollowing topics: signal fundamentals, Fourier series, sampling, convolution, and modulation.Signal FundamentalsFigure 1 shows the pages for the signal fundamentals topic. The tutoring system allows users tochange basic parameters of a sinusoidal signal, such as frequency, amplitude, and phase, whichwill help students understand important properties of sinusoidal signal better. Figure 1. Signal fundamentals pagesFourier SeriesIn the study of Fourier series of periodic signals, such as square or triangle signals, it is importantto understand

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

maintaining consistency of the course.It is anticipated that upon completion of the sequence of programming and problem solvingcourses, students are able to complete the programming certification exams. Moreover, studentswith a degree in Information Systems and certificates that provide evidence of their qualificationand competency in programming and problem solving will have better opportunities foremployment upon graduation.1. Introduction.In the last decade, there has been a growing demand for Information Technology (IT)professionals with many skills to answer the needs of the complex and rapidly changinginformation industry. Among those professionals, the job opportunities for computerprogrammers and problem solving professionals have become very

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Development of Teaching Strategies and Assessment Methods for Course “Mechanisms” based on Students’ Outcomes Shyi-Jeng Tsai1, Pei-fen Chang2, Jiunn-Chi Wu1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering/2Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Jong-Li, TAIWANAbstractThe introduction of accrediting programs in colleges is now the main topic of the engineeringeducation reform in Taiwan. This paper presents therefore our current research results oncurriculum planning and evaluation of the mechanical engineering course based on the learningoutcomes proposed in ABET EC-2000, with example of the course “Mechanisms”. With aid

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

. The practicalclasses and the laboratories take half of the schedule and they approach techniques and locationtechnologies, creation and reproduction of aquatic species and of industrialization. It is aprogram that will fulfill the lack of this kind of engineer in the Atlantic Coast Region of SãoPaulo State, which has a natural vocation to fish. It is because of its large portion of seashore andlarge number of fishing communities besides the industries of fish caught. It is a project that alsohas the goal to change the old orthodox pedagogy for engineering education.1. IntroductionThe mission of Education is most of all, to promote the natural ability of the mind to set and tosolve problems and by inter-relation to stimulate the full usage of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

laborthere have been a number of highly publicized lay-offs. These stories have created an incorrectimpression in many parts of American society that manufacturing is leaving. Even before this,manufacturing employment did not have the luxury of a positive image as illustrated by theNational Association of Manufacturers report [1] that surveyed students and teachers. When asked to describe the images that they associate with a career in manufacturing, student respondents quickly and consistently offered phrases such as "production or assembly line work" work in a "factory" or "plant" that is "repetitious," "boring," "tedious," "dangerous," "dark" and "dirty." They felt that manufacturing required "hard work" and "long

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

custom designed cir-cuit boards based on the Atmel Mega32 microcontroller. While these new boards are low cost($37), they support a much more relevant and mature set of pedagogical experiences.The objec-tive of the paper is to present enough information to allow other educators to evaluate the viabilityof the controllers for use in their own courses. All of the board designs, lab descriptions, sampleprograms and course textbook are available on the course home page [1].IntroductionEGR 345 - Dynamic System Modeling and Control is a course offered to junior level mechanicaland manufacturing engineering students [1]. The course topics, listed below, include the model-ing, analysis, and control of mechanical and electrical systems starting with