Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

Technical Marketing, High Tech Product Strategyand Technology Commercialization Strategies.Module 1: Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship - this module is a comprehensive overviewof Systems Engineering Principles as applied to Engineering Entrepreneurship and the studentswill start integrating the various components to develop their business plan. The risks, rewardsand challenges of entrepreneurship, and the system-engineering-based strategies and tactics toincrease the chances of success are systematically covered in this module. Each session of thismodule consists of (1) a lecture and case study based on system engineering principles thatparallel an entrepreneurship concept and step and (2) experiential guest lecture/seminar byindustry expert or

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul DeNu; Connie Sketch

Online Technology Career Preparation Course Paul A. De Nu and Connie Sketch Cincinnati State Technical and Community CollegeCincinnati State Technical and Community College is a comprehensive community college withan enrollment of approximately 8500 students. Students attending Cincinnati State are providedan education that features a combination of theory and practice, delivered via appropriateclassroom, laboratory, and cooperative education experiences. Cooperative education isconsidered an integral part of the learning experience at the college. Cincinnati State’scommitment to co-op is demonstrated in part by the large number of student placements eachyear. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

realizing a design, problem solving, projectmanagement, and teaming issues. Their successes were limited, hampered not by a lack of technicalknowledge, but because they lacked skills in design and in teaming.Each D4P course builds on the previous design course with the threading of topical design contentfrom course to course. The courses are team-taught by faculty and local engineering practitionerswho are experienced in engineering design. The sophomore design course, EGR 286, is the coursewhere students fully integrate their current level of engineering education with a semester-long,team-based design activity. EGR 286 was and is currently the cornerstone of the Engineeringundergraduate design curriculum. The use of a semester-long project was

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

focus on requirement 3(g) [1]. Other approaches to engineering education haveincluded interdisciplinary course development [2]. The use of capstone courses haslikewise become a popular medium for integrating business principles into theengineering curriculum [3]. What is missing, however, is a systematic approach tocovering the basics of business education for aerospace engineering students.Process As a part of the Boeing Corporation Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program(Welliver), faculty members are encouraged to submit proposals for an eight-weeksummer program. The proposals are generally technical in nature with the facultymember desiring to learn more about specific components or systems within the Boeing

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

iscentered on the actual creation of goods and commodities. The availability of differentprototyping systems at each of the three partner schools, all connected via the internet, are givingstudents first hand experience in how technologies can be utilized to speed product developmentand production while providing a contextual learning environment which will facilitate theacquisition of relevant skills.There are three major institutions involved in this project: Saddleback College, San Diego CityCollege, and California State University, Los Angeles. Each school plays an integral part of theproject. Through the leadership of the Principal Investigator Ken Patton, the Dean of BusinessScience, Vocational Education and Economic Development at Saddleback

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

tobecome familiar with the overall vehicle and become an expert in their particularsubsystem. They develop skills in researching available technology, evaluating designand fabrication options, and then building or contracting out flight hardware. This paperdiscusses the current status of the FalconLAUNCH program, the challenges of an almostcomplete turnover of personnel every year, and the dynamics of managing the design,construction, and flying of a supersonic rocket every year by a completely student team.Since this program is conducted in the same manner as a typical Air Force science andengineering program, students from other academic departments also participate in theprogram. The program has been augmented by the participation of electrical

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

. Thus, the course may emphasize the theory of and modeling with HardwareDescription Languages, but the course also introduces the students to additional aspectsof computer architecture and digital design.I. Overview: The design methodology for digital integrated circuits has changed dramaticallyfrom their early inception. Not only has technology advanced to the point where asignificant “system” can be placed on a single chip, but the design methodology to designsuch a chip has also advanced to allow such an implementation. In 1980 HardwareDescription Languages (HDLs) existed but were proprietary. In the 1980s, thedevelopment of a “standardized” HDL began. The language requirements for thelanguage were established in 1981. The first

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

reflect sound engineering design theories and processes. They are complimented by instructional guidelines for teachers and activities for fourth, fifth, and sixth grades students that align with the science curriculum and state academic performance standards. Delivered: A large variety of projects have been completed and implemented into the interactive Rainforest Room: An Air Cannon that shoots tennis balls and helps apply concepts such as force, gravity, air pressure, friction, and trajectories; A Laser Harp that uses lasers in place of strings to play notes; The Memory Basketball Game that demonstrates how memory affects learning via shooting baskets off an electronic-based backboard with and without

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

civilengineering curriculum at the University of Florida that introduces students to a generalpicture of how cities and counties function within the United States.As a senior level, 3-credit-hour elective course, it introduces civil engineering seniors tomanagement and operational aspects of city and county government. Management topicsinclude public works organization, managing people, communication management,contract management, legal issues, budgeting, as well as finance, zoning, planning andpurchasing. The public works operations topics in the course cover transportation,equipment management, fleet management, traffic management in urban areas, wastemanagement, emergency management, code administration, water resource management,buildings management

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

© 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographiesDR. JAVIER A. KYPUROS is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UTPA. He received his B.S.E fromPrinceton University, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and 2001,respectively. He is actively involved in researching methods to implement and assess virtual or Web-accessibleexperiments and exercises used as supplementary curriculum for System Dynamics and Controls courses.DR. THOMAS J. CONNOLLY is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the UTSA. He received his B.E.in Mechanical Engineering the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. He earned an M.S.E. inAerospace Engineering in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Solt; Ashbjorn Osland; Anuradha Basu

awardingbachelor’s degrees to Asian Americans” (personal communication, Nancy Stake, September 14, 2004). 2Silicon Valley: SJSU is the primary source of human resources for Silicon Valley enterprises andour students show strong interest in entrepreneurship, an integral characteristic of the area. TheCity of San Jose lists the following facts ( http://www.sjeconomy.com) which describe how thearea depends on innovation and establishes a climate conducive to entrepreneurship: • “One-third of all venture capital invested in the United States is invested in companies in the San Jose area--$5 billion in 2003 alone.” • “San Jose leads the nation in patent generation, and is home to more patent

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; James Detweiler; Daniel Loranz; Eric Wang

had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the community of other programs andtheir status. At this conference, much advice was received on how to start a CubeSat program.As a result, the NevadaSat team immediately began planning a ground-based satellitecommunications station, which will be tested using both BalloonSats and CanSats.In addition to the various project activities, the development of an engineering course dealingspecifically with student satellites was viewed as a critical task. To this end, a curriculum for anew interdisciplinary Student Satellite course to support NevadaSat activities has beendeveloped. The course will be offered for the first time in the spring of 2005. During the pastyear, the instructors developed the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

to a realistic embedded system designexperience, while giving them an opportunity to bring their accumulated knowledge to bear ona specific design of their choosing. The course philosophy centers on the idea that the studentshould work through a challenging project, but that student success with their project is a vitalpart of the overall experience. This course serves as a capstone design experience for students, sothey have generally completed most of the curriculum by the time that they enroll in this course.The prerequisites effectively limit the course to students who are in the computer engineeringprogram (as opposed to the electrical engineering program).The design projects are accomplished by self-selected teams of three students. The

Conference Session

The Citizen Engineer

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; barbara waugh; Charles Pezeshki; Lueny Morell; Tom Roberts

institutions (UPRM, Penn State University and the University ofWashington in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and industry) to developan undergraduate product realization/manufacturing engineering option the partnerscalled the Learning Factory, an outcomes-based undergraduate curriculum integratinglaboratory facilities and industry partnership. The Learning Factory was successfullyinstitutionalized at the three partner institutions by 1997. Under the leadership of AlSoyster and John Lamancusa from Penn State, the program had a significant impact atUPRM, on its faculty, students and partners. I was fortunate enough to lead thecurriculum development activity at UPRM and the system-wide outcomes assessmentstrategy.One of the most

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

will not be an extraneous use ofclassroom time. On the classroom level, the software has to fulfill the needs of the teacher notonly with curriculum but as a means of tracking student progress and getting meaningfulfeedback akin to the more traditional use of hand grading. Teachers need to feel comfortablewith the software as a teaching or reinforcement tool and feel confident in allowing their studentsto use valuable class time on such software. The students have very different needs from thesoftware, such as reliability and ease of use. Each of these levels represent a set of stakeholders,or those with a controlling interest in the software; as such, each will be discussed in furtherdetail later in this paper along with the approach used to

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Graf; Ann Christy

spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Overseveral years, the first author has assigned essays inviting students to reflect on their attitudestoward the General Education Curriculum (GEC) at the Ohio Sate University (OSU). Fewerthan half expressed an appreciation for the value of the GEC component of their education,especially the arts and humanities. Likewise, OSU’s College of Engineering annual alumnisurvey includes questions about the importance of and ability/preparation gained at OSU in avariety of areas including math, chemistry, physics, and humanities. Every year, humanities isranked the lowest in both categories: importance and ability/preparation.ObjectivesThe objectives of the poetry contests were

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Noah Salzman; Christopher Emery; Kevin Kloesel; Sandra Cruz Pol; Omnia El-Hakim; Kathleen Rubin

the KCI • Introduced instructors • Presented an overview of the course including schedule and work expectationsFrameworks (30 minutes) Chris Emery • Introduced teachers to the Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Frameworks • Presented a brief overview of the Engineering Design Process and encouraged the teachers to use this model for understanding the engineering concepts they would learn over the next weekDiversity Case Studies (45 minutes) Omnia El-Hakim, Professor of Civil Engineering andAssistant Dean for Diversity in the College of Engineering, Colorado State University • Presented theoretical case of issues surrounding diversity that may occur in the science

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cook; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

Performance: Cross-Validating Assessment Instruments.” Proceedings of the AnnualConference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June.6. Gentili, K.L., J. Lyons, E. Davishahl, D. Davis, S. Beyerlein. (2005). “Measuring Added-Value Using a TeamDesign Skills Growth Survey.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, June.Biographical InformationKENNETH GENTILIKenneth Gentili has been an instructor at Tacoma Community College for 35 years as an instructor in engineeringand physics. He is currently on leave at the National Science Foundation serving as a Program Director in theDivision of Undergraduate Education. He has developed curriculum and assessment tools in engineering design,introductory physical science, and

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

at the Colorado School of Mines. Their teams participated in the Spring2004 EPICS Challenge – a Versatile Weather Station. As an award for their outstanding work on the project, theywere selected to submit this paper to the ASEE.ROBERT KNECHTRobert Knecht’s 23 years of experience in the engineering industry focuses on technical and management support forminerals, energy and waste projects. He currently directs an engineering design program based on a curriculum thatfocuses on projects from industry. His projects require students to implement a design methodology in teams to solveopen-ended problems and to communicate these solutions both in written and verbal forms

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Trine Kvidal; April Kedrowicz

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEducators generally adopt one of four approaches to improving the communicationcompetence of engineering undergraduates: (1) a required communication course, (2) acommunication lab, designed to provide assistance to students on a voluntary basis, (3)integrated communication and engineering courses, or (4) an integrated communicationand engineering degree program.In the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, a series ofengineering courses have been revised to include significant communication components,such that students will have received instruction in and practiced

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

create greatdifficulty for EET educators in identifying the future directions of the program of study.Today, these boundaries are dissolving rapidly and therefore confusion is rampant in theability of educators to layout sustainable EET curriculum directions that confidentlyaddress the future workforce needs of industry and society. The focus of this paper is toillustrate the whole process of road mapping to create new program focus areas in thefield of electronics and closely related fields that yield employment to our graduates intothe new emerging technological disciplines.Introduction:To build a successful technology enterprise, it is vital to have a knowledge basedworkforce with skills in science and engineering (S&E). In addition

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Hug; Jason FitzSimmons

WEB MODULES: NEW TOYS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO LEARN WITH Jason FitzSimmons, Barbara Hug University of Illinois at Urbana - ChampaignAbstract How far do we integrate technology, if at all, into our teaching? Instructors in engineeringclassrooms have traditionally used the chalkboard as the main medium to communicateengineering concepts to their students. The current movement within academia is to move moreof the traditionally taught classes to an online learning environment. These two pedagogies canbe thought of as the bookends of our current spectrum in education. Both techniques areappealing in their different application aspects, but they also have their own unique set

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Li Qian

. Vericut is a powerful CNC verification software, which detects errors andinefficient motions in CNC programs [2]. Vericut can also perform realistic 3D simulation Page 10.1219.1of entire CNC machines, just like they behave in the shop. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThese cutting edge technologies are being integrated into a senior ManufacturingEngineering Technology (MNET) curriculum at the South Dakota State University (SDSU).Projects shown below provide a curricular module for students

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

curriculum. This study,known as the Engineering Writing Initiative (EWI) seeks answers to the following questions: • How do the writing skills of engineering students develop during the course of their studies? • What are these students’ attitudes, practices and skills with regard to writing, and how do those attitudes, practices and skills develop over time? • Does writing in engineering courses help students become more involved with those courses and understand and apply the ideas of those courses? • Do improved writing skills help students become stronger engineers? • How can we incorporate we learn about students’ attitudes, practices and skills in order to improve our instructional

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Elizabeth Bauer; David Munoz; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal

Understanding Student and Faculty Attitudes With Respect to Service Learning: Lessons from the Humanitarian Engineering Program E. Heidi Bauer, Barbara Moskal, Joan Gosink, Juan Lucena, David Muñoz Colorado School of Mines, Golden, ColoradoAbstractNow entering its second year, the Humanitarian Engineering Program, which is sponsored by theHewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines is creating curriculum that will supportengineering students in developing an understanding of their responsibility for solvinghumanitarian problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, baseline data hasbeen collected on both the faculty and student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

) which addresses this needthrough the integration of both wireless communication system test methods and devicecharacterization techniques into its curriculum. In its first year, this program, enabled by a NSFCCLI A&I award, developed infrastructure and adapted experiments from the University ofSouth Florida into a senior-level laboratory course1. Now in its second year, new experimentshave been developed and have been integrated into a junior-level introductory communicationsystems course and two senior/graduate-level courses in digital and wireless communicationsystems. Herein, we discuss the new experiments, enabling infrastructure, and longitudinalassessment data.Laboratory Enhancements Our motivation for integrating laboratory

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

in teaching an IC Engineclass to undergraduate students is the lack of computational tools that enhance and improve thelearning process of students. With the widespread availability of multi-media software andhardware tools, development and integration of web-based tools to the undergraduate curriculumbecomes essential. This paper discusses the development of a web-based IC Engine Simulator(WICES) to be used in an undergraduate IC Engine class. The simulator is written in Javalanguage for easy use and portability. The simulator can be used to predict performance of ICengines using gasoline, diesel, methane, and hydrogen as fuels. Physical models for heat release,friction, heat transfer, and pollutant emissions were included in the simulator

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Water Level Forecasting along the Texas Coast: Interdisciplinary Research with Undergraduates. G. Beate Zimmer, Philippe E. Tissot, Jeremy S. Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412.Abstract:While pure mathematics makes it sometimes difficult to involve undergraduates who have notyet completed the higher level math courses in research projects, research in applied mathematicsis generally more accessible to these students. We present an example of an integrated researchenvironment including faculty, research professionals and students which has facilitated theproductive

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

High Performance Computing for High School Students: A Dam Design Competition Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan, Caroline A. Cochran University of Oklahoma, Norman, OklahomaAbstractHigh performance computing is an integral part of modern engineering design and research.Advanced computing techniques such as parallel computing are increasingly being used to solvedifficult engineering problems. Many high school students are, however, unaware of theseadvanced computing techniques and their usage to solve real world problems. This paperdiscusses a pilot design competition conducted at the Westmoore high school in Oklahoma toexpose high school students to