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Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

., “An Interwoven Multisemester Dynamic Systems Project To Integrate Stem Material,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.3 Ganter, S. and Barker, W., Curriculum Foundations Project: Voices of the Partner Disciplines, Mathematical Association of America, 2004.Stephen Pennell is a Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.Peter Avitabile is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Director of the ModalAnalysis and Controls Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.John R. White is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Houston

assignmentsto be submitted in Mathcad format, instructors within a department can reinforce the utility of theprogram and gradually aide in the development of basic Mathcad skills.Assembling the booklet with faculty input is essential to ensure the problems shown areindicative of those that will be learned in each course. In addition, the booklet provides eachinstructor an easy opportunity to integrate Mathcad into their class. A consistent departmentalapproach using this method will give each student several opportunities to use the program eachsemester. After only a few semesters the utility of the program should be evident to the student.ImplementationThe initial phase of implementation involves developing a list of all the required courses

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

acomponent of our computer programming assessment of first-year engineers from a written finalexam format to an integrated programming project. This project was administered at the end ofthe semester across several sections of a first-year problem solving course that uses andultimately integrates C++ and MATLAB to introduce students to engineering analysis and design.The details of the rationale, project development, assignment types, and final outcomes are setforth in the paper. The intent of this discussion is to provide a working model that othereducators may follow to assist in developing an effective and representative programmingassessment method that can be used by multiple instructors. To that end we will also make ourwork available to other

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nicole May; Marguerite Mohan; Marco Castaldi; Nada Assaf-Anid

sustainable future. The example presented in this paperdemonstrates that such a training is possible through an in-depth approach to a societal problem.It also sets the stage for further development of the Chemical Engineering curriculum at Page 10.260.13Manhattan College to include grounding in alternative energy sources and sustainability “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”following the call of Sutherland, J.W. et al.,19 of Michigan Technological University for the needfor “globally aware students

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

field of ergonomics and an introduction to indus-trial safety and health. The course is intended to make students aware of the fundamental issuesin ergonomic design and industrial safety and health, and make them aware of the resources thatexist in those areas. An outline of the course topics is provided in Table 2. The course is notintended to be the first course in an ergonomics or human factors curriculum, so it does not gointo great depth in any of the areas, especially topics on the human physiology. The course has amidterm and a final, but the at the heart of the class and student learning are six open-ended as-signments that allow students to apply some of the ideas from ergonomics and explore issuessurrounding OSHA in more depth. These

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

SESSION #: 1526 Integrating BME into ECE Curriculum: An Alternate Approach for Robi Polikar, Ravi P. Ramachandran, Linda Head and Maria Tahamont Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract: A time honored technique for introducing students to new and emerging topics is to offerelectives; however, there are a few major drawbacks to this approach: the topic must be very fo-cused, either depth or breath must be sacrificed, and in either case, only a very limited amount ofmaterial can be covered, and students who may not have prior

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

SET program. Most notablythese were industrial collaboration, project centered, and student retention. It was furtherdetermined that presenting students with a series of real problems to solve was the best approachto attract, retain, motivate, and encourage students in a mathematically intensive curriculum. Theresulting SET program focuses on an experience-based learning model that provides studentswith the necessary fundamentals to be able to solve technical problems for industry and societythoroughly engaging students in this process. The SET curriculum design was prepared,reviewed, and approved by the faculty of the Engineering and Design (E&D) and ComputerScience (CS) Departments and by the University’s Undergraduate Affairs Council

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Matthew Ohland

The Benefits of an Engineering Post-doctoral Position Matthew W. Ohland and Mark A. Palmer General Engineering, Clemson University / IMEB Department, Kettering UniversityAbstractPost-doctoral positions are not as common in engineering as they are in the sciences, so somemay view as post-doctoral positions as “fallback” options for engineering PhD’s who are notimmediately hired into tenure-track positions. While seeking one’s first position, it is easy to losefocus on the long-term goals of tenure and promotion. Engineering faculty are expected to teacheffectively at the beginning undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels;develop and maintain a funded research program; and perform

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Ingalsbe; Jess Godbey

Project-Oriented Capstone Course: Integrating Curriculum Assessment Utilizing Industry Partner and Student Input Dana Ingalsbe, Ph.D., Jacksonville State University Jess Godbey, M.S., Jacksonville State UniversityI. AbstractThe need for industry feedback concerning possible competency gaps in an IndustrialTechnology program was fulfilled in part by means of a senior-level capstone projectexperience. Students in their final semester of the program from a range of majors(industrial technology management, electronics technology, occupational health andsafety, and computer integrated manufacturing) were assigned to an array of industrialprojects at various manufacturers in the local area

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

than fifty majors. This degree option might have continued, but a programaccreditation visit required curriculum changes and a separate degree program. An applicationfor a new degree program was approved in 1997. The concept was to offer the degree as aninterdisciplinary program with most of the required courses taken from different academic unitswithin the university, e.g. computer science and business.The interdisciplinary program would have been implemented; however, a proposal to establish anarticulated degree program was approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Because ofbudget constraints and the difficulty of having a new degree program approved by the stategoverning board, university administration decided to utilize the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

An Innovative Rapid Processor Platform Design for Early Engineering Education Yong-Kyu Jung Texas A&M University-College StationAbstractA new course for the early stage of digital design education is demonstrated. An innovativeusage of technologies and an effective organization of numerous subjects to leverage the currentclassroom practices are presented. In particular, the new course objectives and organization areexplained to provide an overall view and details of our rapid design process, as well as to achieveengineering educational goals for reducing a gap between the technologies used in industry andin academia. Expected

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

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

Industrial Engineering LIVE! Classroom Lab Activities used in an Introductory IE Course and in Recruiting Freshmen Dr. Susan F. Freeman College Of Engineering, Northeastern UniversityAbstractIntroduction to Industrial Engineering Courses provide an overview of IE history and commonmethods that are used by Industrial Engineers to analyze systems and design efficient processes.A series of active labs are integrated into a traditional course where the students are introduced toconcepts, apply solution techniques for those concepts with class and homework problems

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rogers; John Anderson; Corey Jones

will fit the proposed curriculum. Technologicalcolleges will be the focus of education because of their “hands on” educational approach.Oregon Institute of Technology will be used as the foundation of a typical technical college.The paper will also give an overview of the many different possible studies of renewableenergy, such as biomass energy, fuel cells, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar electricity, solarthermal, and wind energy; however, an emphasis on biomass in the form of ethanol fuelresearch is given.I. Introduction to integrating a renewable energy degreeThe renewable energy industry continues to rapidly expand. A key component in the drive todeveloping a sustainable energy supply is the training of a large number of renewable

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

views of the National Science Foundation The authors are gratefulfor the support obtained from NSF to further engineering education.References1 Barrows, H.S., “A taxonomy of problem-based learning methods”. Medical Education, 1986. 20: p. 481-486.2 Altmans,C. Turns,J., Mabbering,F. “Integrating Knowledge Across the Curriculum”, 29th ASEE/IEEE Frountiers in Education Conference, 0-7803-5643-8/99 San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov 19993 NSF, Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change, 1995, Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation: Washington, D.C4 NRC, Engineering Eduation: Designing an Adaptive System. 1995, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.5 ASEE

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

Building a Foundation for Pre-Calculus Engineering Freshmen Through an Integrated Learning Community Ricardo B. Jacquez, Michele Auzenne, Susanne Green, Chris Burnham New Mexico State University/University of Texas at El PasoAbstractBeginning in February 2003 the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation funded a five-yearproject designed to address retention of freshmen engineering students at New Mexico StateUniversity. The freshman engineering integrated learning community (ILC) is a cluster of first-semester students who are beginning their engineering studies below the Calculus I level. Thestudents are enrolled in algebra, freshman composition, a freshman engineering seminar

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

Integrating Practice into Engineering Education Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Powell, Ph.D. Department of Systems Engineering United States Military AcademyAbstract – Academicians have noted a deficiency in engineering education offered by collegesand universities. The deficiency is that a majority of engineering graduates are taught byengineering faculty with little or no industry experience. Faculty far removed from advances inindustrial practice will miss important opportunities to tailor the curriculum to crucial industrialneeds. This will be to the disadvantage of their students. Regardless, employers yet expectcolleges and universities to provide

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

environment called the Engineering Learning Portal (ELP), which focuses on improvingengineering problem solving throughout the industrial engineering curriculum. In the ELP,students are engaged in a structured process for solving unstructured problems whileencouraging metacognitive activities, such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating. This helpsstudents acquire the higher order cognition and integration of knowledge domains needed foreffective engineering problem solving. In particular, a key element of the ELP is that it requiresstudents to explain and evaluate their work while they are solving complex engineeringproblems. The underlying premise is that such metacognitive tasks are valuable to studentsbecause they eventually improve their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell

Session 1526 Drug Delivery Experiments in the ChE Curriculum Stephanie Farrell, Robert P. Hesketh, Mariano J. Savelski, and C. Stewart Slater Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan UniversityAbstract Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [ 1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Advanced Programming in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum B.D. Coller Department of Mechanical Engineering Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 601151. IntroductionWe are in the process of developing an advanced computing and programming trackwithin the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at Northern IllinoisUniversity (NIU). We are introducing our mechanical engineering students to conceptssuch as object oriented programming, data structures, complexity analysis, and elementsof software design that are normally taught to computer scientists. Rather than ship ourengineering students to

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kari Clase

Curriculum Implementation of Biotechnology Minor in Industrial Technology Kari Clase Purdue University Abstract- Indiana’s health industry is an extremely important and growingeconomic engine1. Tremendous advances are being made in pharmaceutical andbiotechnology discoveries and their applications (including manufacturing), as well as inhealth care services. As a result, there is an increasing sophistication of the productsand services available and being developed, with an ever-widening scale of applicationsand marketing. The growth of biotechnology results in ever-expanding needs for collegegraduates who have knowledge of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

on the use of smalldimensions to fabricate structures, devices, and systems with unique properties. Suchfabrication requires integrated processing using complex tools, knowledge of interactionbetween processes, and development of new techniques to make the new object ofinterest possible. One of the major factors determining the rate of growth of thenanotechnology industry in the coming years will be the availability of an adequatelytrained technical work force.Projections made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2001 showed that the US economywill be able to support 167.75 million jobs in 2010 but anticipated only 157.72 millionpeople being available to fill them. Further, as the U.S. manufacturers continue to shiftunskilled and low-skilled

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

2005-2548-1119 Software Engineering Standards in the ECET curriculum Ron Krahe Penn State Erie, Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper introduces the need for including software engineering standards in the ECET(Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology) curriculum today, and discusses the desireddepth of coverage. ECET comprises a broad array of topics, including both hardware andsoftware design and development. Many current electrical and computer systems containembedded controls of one sort or another, and in nearly all of them, the control affects the safetyof the

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

the class session to explore the range of viscous behaviorswithout leaving the room. For concepts such as unsteady mass balances, students might spendthe first half of a class session working in groups on a theoretical model of a recirculating druginfusion problem. Immediately following the solution of the problem, students then move to thewet benches to run an experiment which demonstrates the theoretical result just derived. Overall, we anticipate that this approach to integrating lecture and lab exercises willenhance the educational experience of the biomedical engineers. As the Biomedical Engineering Page 10.565.1

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Sekmen

Page 10.801.3objectives and contents so that the curriculum can keep its integrity. The draft project is usually “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”designed before the semester starts. However, it is tailored to the exact needs of the studentsduring the first half of the semester.Interaction with Students: The interaction occurs at different levels: 1. The industry partner(s) and students meet face-to-face at least four (4) times during a semester. The industry partner teams visit the classroom in the second week of the semester to introduce themselves, present the business

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricio Torres; Matthew Stephens

time techniques. Page 10.730.3Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ⓒ 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Just in Time Techniques “Just in Time (J.I.T.) is an integrated set of activities designed to achieve high volumeproduction using minimal inventories of raw materials, work in process and finished goods.There are seven elements that address elimination of waste: 1. Focused factory networks 2. Group technology 3. Quality at the source 4. JIT production 5. Uniform plant loading 6. Kanban production

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Teri Rhoads; Kurt Gramoll

Paper 2005-2156 A Pilot Study for a “Course-less” Curriculum R. L. Kolar, R. C. Knox, K. Gramoll, T. R. Rhoads University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractIn 2002, we received an NSF planning grant (NSF EEC 0230681) that builds upon our SoonerCity project, which was funded through the Action Agenda program (NSF EEC 9872505).Briefly, Sooner City is a comprehensive, integrated, infrastructure design project that is threadedthroughout the OU civil engineering curriculum, beginning in the freshman year. For practicalpurposes, the original Sooner City project was implemented in the

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik Peterson; Ian Papautsky

life sciences recently experienced a revolution similar to the changes society experiencedwhen the integrated circuit was introduced. The application of microelectromechanical systems(MEMS) technologies in research has already increased the performance of conventionalmethods in microorganism detection in environmental monitoring, drug discovery in thepharmaceutical industry, and clinical diagnostics. Even more importantly, it is enabling accessto new information and applications on the molecular level.1 The conceptual paper published in19902 triggered an avalanche of developments and discoveries, which led to an exponentialgrowth of the microfluidics field.3,4 As microsystem technologies often employ techniquesdeveloped for the

Conference Session

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

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

. Course guidelines specify that reports must follow a traditionalformat that includes an Abstract, Table of Contents, Introduction, Theory, Apparatus andProcedures, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion and Recommendations sections.While students either work individually or in small groups while performing the in-classexperiments, all written lab reports are required to be individual work. In fact, EngineeringMaterials Science with Laboratory is notable in that it is the only junior or senior course thatrequires each student to complete several individually written reports, and may therefore be oneof the last chances in the curriculum to improve each student’s writing ability before graduation.Thus, collaborative teaching of the laboratory