Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

computer vision. They also have opportunity todemonstrate their knowledge through hands-on course projects and laboratory experiences, in theabove fields. In this paper, an example of an image processing application project is developed,in the context of an image-processing course. This paper presents an algorithm that uses stereoimages, obtained from two cameras mounted on the Mars Exploration Rovers, to determine therange of distant objects in the images by using correlation and triangulation. The initial valueobtained by the algorithm was not accurate because it did not take into account the fact that therange of an object beyond the camera’s focal point is non-linear in appearance, and to the non-linearity of the camera lens, thus the range

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

aseries of design scenarios by which we will implement stochastic methods into EngineeringDesign VI. This course is taken by mechanical engineering students in the junior year.Previously, this course was based on deterministic approaches for integrated product design,spanning the entire process from product conception to product realization, following thesyllabus outlined by Ulrich and Eppinger.1 This paper discusses how the newly developed lecturematerials based on the framework by Hazelrigg2 have been integrated into the existing coursesyllabus. Furthermore, it describes the design scenarios together with appropriate MATLAB andMS Excel analysis modules that were developed for student usage in laboratory exercises. Thepilot course is currently

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The process of identifying and validating the ISU Competencies also confirmed our contentionthat engineering experiential education programs, such as our cooperative education andinternships, present the best place to directly observe and measure students developing anddemonstrating competencies while engaged in the practice of engineering at the professionallevel. For most of the ISU Competencies, stakeholders ranked the engineering workplace as theplace to best develop and demonstrate the Competencies, followed by coop/internships. Theclassroom consistently ranked last. Other settings included laboratories, professional activities

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

Engineering Educationdisagree with this assessment, the result is that almost all their computer science students becomesoftware engineers anyway, and without proper grounding. In the survey responses, the authors saw substantial impatience with the slow pace ofcurriculum change. Some people expressed this as seeing a failure to recognize the need, byadministrators who were not in touch with the markets receiving their students. Some very interesting responses were along the lines that, “Faculty think softwareengineering is a subset of computer science, and that computer science people are qualified to besoftware engineers or to teach it.” The fact that only a small part of software engineering work isfirst principles casts some doubt on this

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

larger system. Since this was the only required MCUcourse in our curriculum, many of my peers justifiably did not see the importance of MCUtechnology in comparison to other digital logic.I know that my MCU experience does not apply to all engineering programs, but through talkingto various professors the majority of introductory courses seem to focus on teaching studentsassembly programming. Strangely, there must have been something about assemblyprogramming that was intriguing to me since I did register to take an elective course titled,Microcontroller Applications. This course along with the next upper division elective titled,Microcontroller Interfacing, led me to a job in the semiconductor industry. It was the hands-onexperience and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Michael Urynowicz; Jerry Hamann

The Static Stability Factor – A Dynamic Introduction to Engineering Thomas V. Edgar, Michael A. Urynowicz and Jerry C. Hamann University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 80271AbstractMost students want to become engineers so they can design and build things. An introductorycourse in engineering should pique those interests and provide information and activities whichshow the breadth of the field of engineering. This paper presents a series of laboratory activitiesbased on the Static Stability Factor (SSF), used in vehicle design to determine under whatconditions a vehicle will spinout or rollover.The

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

World Federation of Engineering Organizations that will focus on theneed for:• Strengthening engineering education, training and continued professional development;• Standards, quality assurance and accreditation;• Development of curricula, learning and teaching materials and methods;• Distance and interactive learning (including virtual universities and libraries);• Development of engineering ethics and codes of practice;• Promotion and public understanding of engineering and technology;• Development of indicators, information and communication systems for engineering;• Addressing women and gender issues in engineering and technology;• Inter-university and institutional cooperation, including fellowships;• Development of engineering and

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

Female Students" SIGCSE Bulletin, 25(3), 3-12.14. National Science Foundation. (2000). Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. Arlington: Author.15. National Science Foundation. (2002). Science and Engineering Indicators. Arlington: Author.16. Seymour, Elaine. and Hewitt, Nancy M. (1997). Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences. Colorado: Westview Press.17. Spertus, Ellen. (1991). "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?" The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1315. Available at << http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/why.html>>18. U.S. Census Bureau. (1998). “American Indian Heritage Month: November 1-30” Census

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Wick; Bradley Bishop

while avoiding obstacles. The primary outcome of this exercise is a deeperunderstanding of computation for mobile robots, and a clearer view of possible alternatives toembedded processors for low-cost applications.BackgroundMobile robotics is a well-recognized motivational vehicle for engineering education. Not only isit an enjoyable topic for many students, but it has a broad appeal due to its wide scope, includingaspects of electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. Further, the design of such systemsis an excellent tool for reinforcing fundamental engineering concepts. It is important forinstructors in robotics to understand, however, that robotics is not just a tool to teach otheraspects of engineering. Rather, it is a robust and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

, is still a bit much for engineeringtechnology students.The Marathon ApproachAnyone who has run in (or even observed) a heavily-subscribed long-distance foot race hasobserved that the burst of runners leaving the starting area in a dense pack disperses significantlyby the end of the race, especially in a full marathon. However, only those who also teach fiberoptic telecommunication may have drawn an analogy between this phenomenon and chromaticdispersion in optical fiber! And these days marathon organizers often post results on the web,making it easy to study this analogy in more detail.For example, the results of the 2004 Toronto Marathon are posted on the web [3] in a form thatcan be easily downloaded for analysis. The results data include

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Janice Singleton

challenges. Several things drive the interest of industry and suppliers to involve the academiccommunity in technology research. First, there is an opportunity to expose students and faculty tocurrent issues, processes and procedures in use in industry. Not only do the students directlyinvolved in the research benefit from this, but also students who are exposed by assisting,observing, discussing and listening to the challenges of the project derive benefit. Engineeringdevelopment projects, particularly when they must be integrated back into a company’s ongoingoperations, offer an opportunity for faculty to develop and integrate procedures and projectmanagement principles that are current and realistic into their teaching materials and frame

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

described and the balance voltage derived. Thevalidity of the assumptions will be checked using software simulation. This is preliminary work thatrequires experimental confirmation. Based on the results of the proposed algorithm an experiment may beplanned in which the system will be constructed and the suggested measurement procedure tested.In the Systems Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy, we strongly emphasize capstonedesign projects. The proposed research presents a very good opportunity to teach students the full designcycle. This experiment is well defined using mathematical tools and in that sense it is a straightforward taskto develop a software simulation. The actual construction of the measurement system is rather complex

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

most revealing regarding the issue of importance and relevance of K-12education in the post-secondary world is the lack of research into the area K-12education, recruitment, retention and outreach. In a recent article by Wankat (2004)published in the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), an analysis of articles and theircontent, reported sources of support, author information and citations analysis, there werezero articles with the key words “K-12 education” or “K-12 outreach.” The top threekeywords in the ten-year analysis of the JEE from 1993 through 2003 were “teaching,computers and design.” According to Wankat, both the keyword and the citation analysisshow that the content coverage of JEE is “very broad5.” Since engineering education

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

will be held for two days – on a Friday andon the following day at the university’s spring Open House, where the projects will be viewed byapproximately 1000 prospective students and their families in addition to the students, facultyand public described above.The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department series of senior design coursesmasquerades as a start-up company, planning to bring a suite of new products to market. In thiscontext, the students learn much about the industrial new product pipeline, project managementand team behavior. Teaching the course in this context is particularly useful for students andteams desiring to commercialize their project results, as they are learning and using an industrial-quality new product

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Frehill

responsible solely for teaching and service but not research. They arenon-tenure track, but relatively permanent employees of the institution. While the College ofEngineering has few of these faculty, other colleges like the College of Arts and Sciences makeextensive use of these lower-paid, less prestigious, and more focused teachers who teach anaverage of four classes per semester. While most of these faculty are women (two-thirds) inscience and engineering institution-wide, in the College of Engineering one of the four collegetrack faculty members is a woman. Page 10.1314.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanorious Chalkiadakis; Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen

.He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004.MOHAMMAD F. FAHMYDr. Mohammed F. Fahmy joined the university of Northern Iowa (UNI) in August 1983 as an Assistant Professor ofMaterials and Metallurgy. Currently he is a Professor and Department Head of the department of IndustrialTechnology. He has been serving as department head since 1998. During his tenure at UNI, Dr. Fahmy served onnumerous departmental, college, and university committees and task force commissions in different capacities asmember or chair. His services covered a wide spectrum of activities at both the undergraduate and graduate levels incurricular, administrative, and outreach matters. His research interests are mainly in applied

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

senior project topics.Finally, administrative considerations for making the senior project successful includeinstitutional funding for faculty mentoring, laboratory access, and archival capabilities todocument the results. Dutson 8 suggests that a modular approach might be implemented tocounteract administrative difficulties. Other authors, most notably Adams 4, entertain virtualteams as an alternative. As this study shows, support from the three constituent groups is criticalfor the success of a senior project initiative. Page 10.584.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

research lab with the purpose of gainingexperience in the research and development process. The Hinman program supportsinternships with startup companies to help students become familiar withentrepreneurship processes and in selected faculty laboratories to help the students gainexperience in the R&D process. One particular student, Blake Robertson, is profiled hereas an example of the potential for creating an environment that opens the door to productdevelopment in the CEOs community.Blake began his journey into product development during a summer internship in 2002.After the internship was over, the faculty member hired Blake to continue working onprojects in his VLSI lab. Since then, Blake has worked on a number of projects. Amongthem, he

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

. This paper also comments on what teaching strategies haveworked well in introducing systems engineering concepts and which have not.Systems and Systems Analysis For every complex problem there is always a simple solution. And it is wrong. –H.L. MenckenSystems analysis is fundamentally different than traditional forms of analysis. It begins withanalysis—separating a study into individual pieces—but emphasizes synthesis—looking at therelationships between parts to form new conclusions. Systems analysis is most often used whenconfronting complex problems with a variety of variables that cannot readily be quantified andwhose structures are not well defined. It uses ad hoc models to represent variables (theenvironment, components, and alternatives

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

) Page 10.38.3was secured and mounted on the roof of the four story Simrall Electrical and Computer Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering building at MSU. Sensors are multiplexed and transmitted via an eight-conductorCat5/RJ45 cable to the microprocessors laboratory on the third floor.The sensor signals represent six quantities in three signal categories: analog, digital closure, andfrequency. The weather sensor signals are described in Table 1. Analog sensors create a voltageoutput corresponding to their quantity, wind direction, air temperature, and wind directioncompass

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randa Shehab; Teri Rhoads; Teri Murphy

the accelerated pace and highworkload expected of each engineering course9, 10. Many also report poor teaching within theSME (science, mathematics, and engineering) curricula10. Other curriculum-related factors thatdiscourage engineering students from persevering include restrictive curricula that require strictprerequisite structures, provide limited course offerings, and require additional laboratory work5.These curricula restrictions are particularly problematic for non-traditional students. Financialconstraints5, 9, 11 are also cited by students as reasons for leaving engineering.A reported lack of interest in engineering curricula9, 10 may be indicative of a more specificproblem as identified by Edward. He describes a discontinuity based

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

of basic research.That means, if a university leans against enterprise projects alone, the basic research together withthe students training in fundamental scientific methods will come to starve.As mentioned above, we are dealing with two different worlds, the life in an industrial enterpriseand in academia with different goals, criteria and success and reward systems. But, there is potentialsynergy in using industry as laboratories for lecturing, projects and research.A traditional contribution is a set of proposed decisions that represent an appropriate solution to awell-defined problem. However, an equally significant contribution may be structuring a complexissue and the pointing out of appropriate options available, leaving it to the

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

.” Page 10.1150.5Looking at the Engineering Management curriculum it became clear that they indeed take basicengineering courses just like most engineers. Robert Shaw, past president of the Engineering Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationInstitute of Canada said, “I believe, that the key mission of the engineer in these radicallychanging times is to improve productivity. He must provide the energy and tools we need; hemust innovate, research, develop and transfer technology from the laboratory bench to field andfactory.” (5) And this is exactly what the engineering management program is

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

of the Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) project at UTEP. Components of theproject are based on Tinto’s[1] longitudinal model of individual departure that can be analyzed interms of a student’s pre-entry attributes, intentions, goals, and commitments, institutionalexperiences, and integration to academic and campus social life. The Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) component was envisioned to promote faculty-student interaction andacademic integration through laboratory and field research. The funding provided by theprogram has allowed a select group of students the opportunity to work on campus, gain Page 10.26.1experience

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

curriculadesigned to prepare graduates for emerging areas. These pose challenging evaluations forvisitors steeped in discipline-specific participating society training programs.ASEE is unique in being composed of all engineering and engineering technology disciplinesplus many of the support areas. Faculty who teach in such programs are active in ASEE. Whilemost ASEE members are faculty, they run the gamut from research I doctoral institutions to two-year community colleges. There is also a significant number of ASEE members in industry, andASEE has a very strong, active Corporate Member Council, which has the leverage to reachlarge numbers of engineers in industry.The interdisciplinary character of engineering and engineering technology has long been

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schaffer; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Jenna Rickus; Matthew Verleger

Session 1190 Drag the Green Ion - An Interactive Online Quantitative Cellular Biology Learning Module Matthew Verleger, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Jenna Rickus, Scott Schaffer Purdue University West Lafayette, INAbstractThe goal of bioengineering education is the marriage of quantitative engineering with traditionaldescriptive biology. The successful merging of these two disciplines at the undergraduate levelhas been hampered by the limited availability of appropriate curricular materials and educationalresources. Few resources have been developed to aide instructors in teaching and

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

Society for Engineering Education”2. To teach students about types of fasteners, and parts of a screw.3. To teach students about, at minimum, one important property of machine screws.It is expected that the student will be familiar with PC’s, spreadsheets and some very elementarystatistical tools.FastenersTypesThere are many types of common threaded fasteners. Figure 1 shows a number of them inschematic form. Of particular interest for this experiment are the different types of recesseddrives found on the heads of the fasteners. Most common in ordinary use are the slot, hex,phillips and torx heads. The focus here will be on the slot, phillips, and combination slot/phillipshead screws (Figure 2).Machine ScrewsThe elements of a machine

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

future coursework.2. Rationale for the CourseA simple problem statement for the course we are developing is to teach mathematical problemsolving in a way that leads to transfer of knowledge and skills to future coursework. We focusedon the solution of difficult, but well defined problems because this is a major deficiency in thestudents we see. We also included the formulation of real-world problems, which usually are notwell defined, contain both incomplete and unnecessary data, and lack a clearly defined objective.Engineers need a solid foundation in solving well defined problems in order to solve these realworld problems. Page 10.922.1

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

. “Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research.” Ethics and Behavior. 11(3): 219-232. 2001.12 Beck, L., and I. Ajzen. “Predicting dishonest actions using the Theory of Planned Behavior.” Journal of Research in Personality. 25(3):285-301. 1991.Biographical InformationDR. TREVOR S. HARDING is Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at KetteringUniversity. Dr. Harding is Director of the Biomedical Materials Research and the Environmental Scanning ElectronMicroscopy Laboratories at Kettering University. He currently serves on the ERM Division Board of Directors aswell as the Advisory Board for the Kettering University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.DR. DONALD D. CARPENTER is Assistant Professor of