Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

: The chair of the department shared her thoughts on the current direction of the field of technical communication. The chair presented a diagram illustrating the scope of activity in the field, and invited participants to comment on how the diagram was consistent with (or different from) their prior understanding.7. a) Preliminary exam: Participants met with the PhD advisor and discussed varied questions and issues related to the first PhD program milestone, the preliminary exam. b) Creating curriculum vitas: Participants reviewed guidelines for helping graduate students generate curriculum vitas, and discussed strategies and challenges for getting their own curriculum vita started.8. Authorship: The facilitator and an

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mincer; David McDaniel; Laurence Caretto

Thermodynamics without Tables – Isn’t it Time?” Proceedings of the 2001 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2001.6 C. C. Ngo and F. C. Lai, “Web-Based Thermodynamics Tables Wizard,” Proceedings of the 2002 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.7 Kyaw Aung, “Integration of Computational Tools in Engineering Thermodynamics Curriculum,” Proceedings ofthe 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.8 Susan T. Hudson , “Laptop Computer Integration in a Lower Level Mechanical Engineering Course,” Proceedingsof the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2002.9 Craig W. Somerton

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

practices an applied approach to learning. Thisentails hands-on activities supported by a solid practitioner knowledge base. In addition, thecurriculum presents a strong business orientation to the practice of all technological disciplines.The undergraduate course structure uses a traditional lecture/lab method of instruction withlaboratory activities providing students the opportunity to learn the technical aspects while thelecture supports the concepts and business context. One learning objective persistent throughoutthe undergraduate curriculum is to develop problem-solving skills – to develop our students’skill to solve open-ended, high-risk problems that may have multiple potential solutions

Conference Session

Web-Based & Distance Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

learning environment: Operating lab-volt electro-mechanical system using web-based tools from national instruments” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, p 5599-5608.12. Goolsby, L.K. “Converting a traditional lecture/lab programming course to an online course “ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2003, p 5371-5392.BiographiesYOLANDA GURAN-POSTLETHWAITE is a Professor Emeritus of Electronics at Oregon Institute ofTechnology. She is the program director of the Electronics Engineering Technology program for OITcampus in Portland, Oregon. Professional interests focus on analog integrated circuit design andengineering education improvement techniques. She is registered as a professional engineer in the state ofOregon.DAVID N. POCOCK is an

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Carlsen; Robin Tallon; Phil Henning; Leanne Avery; Angela Lueking; Daniel Haworth; Elana Chapman

UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted an NSF-sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the past fiveyears, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State project utilizes thetalents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers, mentors and role modelsfor the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developing skills of students in the areas ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics through the use of Advanced TransportationTechnologies. A new project component was devised and implemented--the interaction of K-12students with college freshman via a website project. The college freshmen were asked to createa website describing a component of "Clean Energy", which was to include an assessment tool toprovide

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

general education requirements leading to anine semester, 149 unit dual B.S./B.A. degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering.Introduction Page 10.1428.1Senior ISyE students are required to take a one semester senior capstone design course. As withmany capstone courses, the capstone experience is meant to be an integrative experience in “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”which students apply their Industrial Engineering knowledge and skills acquired over theprevious four years. The senior

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

be given to the engineering students and they should be able to create anautomaton, either a push-down stack for a context free grammar, a Turing machine for acontext sensitive grammar, or a finite state automaton for a right linear grammar. Thesewould be good programming assignments for undergraduates.ConclusionLanguage theory is usually taught in compiler theory, operating systems, and othercourses, that are in an engineering student’s curriculum. Using these familiar concepts isa good way to introduce bioinformatics without spending a great deal of time onreviewing genomic concepts at the onset of a bioinformatics course.This paper included a brief review of language theory, including alphabets and grammars.It also included ways to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

competition concerns.Our “course within a course” style also includes guest specialists working with the students ontopics such as safety, ethics, standards, resume and interviewing techniques, and evenprofessional behavior. A “trade show” with a prototype and poster competition completes thecourse’s professional experiences. Employer response to the efforts has been very positive andencouraging.I. IntroductionThroughout the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) program at MSOE, design isstrongly integrated into many courses. These projects are generally short-term, and involveindividual or two-student teams. The projects lead to the major capstone design experience,Senior Design, which is a three-quarter course sequence: EE-407/8/9

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Jiusto; David DiBiasio

taxonomy.The outcome elements include a range of abilities such as: basic communication skills,developing learning plans, dealing with information including evaluating integrated information,critical thinking, and analysis of one’s ability to reflect on their own understanding and thinking.As educators our interests involve what we do with our students for four years and how thatprepares them professionally, intellectually and emotionally for post-graduation life. Because ofits many dimensions it is important to understand LLL, or students’ preparedness for LLL, andits connection to the curriculum. Few studies have really probed this connection. AlvernoCollege pioneered work in this area related to liberal arts education. However, theirmethodologies

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

incorporates cooperative or clustered learning and experimentation by students; 2. Create a structured critique process based on performance assessment for CG, developing a rubric for the critique which takes into account program objectives and which documents student learning; and, 3. Eventual integration of the critique-based learning outcome assessment into the program assessment for eventual accreditation. The CGT program at PUC is currently in year one of the three year process described above. PUC’s initial example of this process was to create an integrated set of rubrics for a mid-semester and a final project in each class (total of six critiques and rubrics) for the following courses: CGT 111, CGT

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

design a proprietary force monitoring and analyticalmeasuring system which will be used in conjunction with machining and assembly equipment.The final system consisted of an industrial PC with LCD display, data acquisition card, and acustom user interface which allows the user to control the various applications of the system, andultimately determine the integrity of the parts being tested. This statistical software is not fixedfor specific applications, but rather allows for further customization as needed. The prototype iscapable of monitoring industrial processes by creating pressure curves and depth measurementsvia the data obtained from the inputs. All data collected is stored on a self-maintaining archivalhard drive. The computer scientist

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

faculty and student focus groups, a large pilot test, and afield administration involving 4,558 seniors at 39 randomly selected colleges of engineering.The resulting nine factor-scales align closely with the EC2000 criteria and retain 72% of theoriginal item variance. All but two scales have internal consistency reliabilities above .83. Theinstrument appears to be a conceptually faithful, psychometrically sound, and practical tool forassessing student learning on Criterion 3.*************************************************************************** In 1996, the ABET Board of Directors adopted a transformative set of criteria forprogram accreditation that shifted the reaccreditation focus away from an emphasis on meetingcurricular

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach; Heather Cooper; Bill Hutzel

proportional, integral and derivative components. At the lowest level of instructional design, performance outcomes determine the contentof each experiment. The four performance outcomes listed below are specific to the closed loopcontrol experiment used in MET 382. Preface each statement with the phrase “After completingthis module students will be able to:” 1. Recognize common sensors and actuators used in commercial HVAC systems. 2. Evaluate closed loop control algorithms used for regulating temperature, pressure, or flow in an HVAC system. 3. Compute the output signal from a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. 4. Identify how software features like scheduling, trending, or runtime monitoring are used to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

Lengths of Algebra with Polynomials Sides of a Tract LandECE Battery Depletion Through Parasitic Equation of Lines LossesECE Understanding Moore's Law and How Coordinate Geometry to Graph and Analyze Integrated Circuit ProductionECE Mixing Digital Music Signals Transformation of functionsCE Sizing Pipes for a Sewer Line Based Graphs of Functions on the Required Flow VolumeIMIE Minimizing the cost of production in Composition of Functions manufacturing of an oil storage tank.ECE Design of a Direct Broadcast Satellite Quadratic Functions Dish AntennaECE Synthesizing Sound Effects for Toys Exponential, Log and Trig

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

(www.vanth.org) are concerned about how their innovative efforts to integratecommunication instruction into their classes can be promulgated throughout the curriculum.To investigate these problems and gather data to help us improve the teaching of writingthroughout the curriculum, our interdisciplinary committee--faculty from engineering, writing,and the learning sciences—collaborated to: (1) systematically gather information about the writing standards that engineering faculty want to support (2) discuss the standards with faculty in relation to preferred teaching methods (3) disseminate those standards through a websiteOur primary research question was to determine whether engineering faculty within and acrossdisciplines share

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

, where the top of theboard has a ball grid array (BGA) component, the bottom side of the board may have acorresponding set of chip decoupling capacitors. The pattern of pads for a given component onthe circuit board is called that component’s “footprint”. The footprint can range from 2 pads for aresistor to in excess of 1000 pads for an ultra-large scale integrated circuit. Along with these design advantages, manufacturing is also easier and faster with the useof SMT. Compared to THT components, that require insertion machines to line up all thecomponent leads with all the corresponding holes in the PCB, SMT allows for much fasterplacement since placement is allowed that does not exactly line up component terminations andthe corresponding

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering from the University of Washington. She pursues research in pollutant formation in combustion. email:teodora@seattleu.eduGreg Mason is an Associate Professor at Seattle University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received aB.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Gonzaga University, an M.S. in Computer Integrated Manufacturing fromGeorgia Institute of Technology, and the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.email: mason@seattleu.edu Page 10.1345.13 Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

(PromotingAccountability, Linking Assignments, and Stimulating the Idea Exchange); 4) ChangingLearning Behavior Outside the Classroom; and 5) Preparing to Teach. Topics included inthe “Teaching” section include: 1) The Seven “Good Practices” for Teachers; 2)Teaching with Hospitality; 3) The Importance of Listening; and 4) Assessment Via theMinute Paper.The presented techniques are not cumbersome or extremely involved. In fact they are funand very straightforward. Learn more about these practical and helpful teaching ideasthat can easily be implemented into your curriculum. Examples and brief case studies areutilized to increase clarity and understanding.Learning Technique Number 1 - Focusing on Learning and Not TeachingSpence’s (2000) article, Maybe Teaching is a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

? Page 10.703.13 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1 Masters, C. and R. Behr (2001). Integrated Statics Experiments in the ‘MechANEX’ mini-laboratory, 2001 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, June 24-27, Albuquerque, New Mexico.2 Behr, R (1993). Concurrent Structural Analysis and Experimentation Using the ‘AN/EX/ Mini-Laboratory, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 1(3), pp. 213-222.3 Belarbi, A, R. Behr, M. Karson, and G. Effland (1994). Formal Assessment of the AN/EX Structural

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

. Part ofthis increase is probably because the faculty members have become more adept at teaching thealternative design. For instance, the faculty members incorporate more examples from previousmechanical engineering students in their instruction. Another part of this increase is probablybecause the students have seen older students use the design in senior design presentations andhave interpreted the alternative design as an integral part of this engineering community. What is also interesting is an examination of the slide designs that these undergraduatesuse after they leave the laboratory course sequence. Our examinations of senior designpresentations over the past three years have found that in these presentations, only about half

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

been definedto cover the key features of integrated circuit fabrication technology as well as theorganizational and solution management skills needed by any effective practitioner in theindustry.Industrial participation has included a very active Advisory Board, senior staffassignment, seminars on specialist topics and company visits. Although this activity hasa specialist microelectronics focus, there are many general features that are applicable toall branches of technology.1. Refocus the goalsThe interface between industry and academia is never comfortable. Nor should it be ifwe are to meet changing market needs with independence and measured forethought. Allacademic technology programs profess a close interaction with industry with the

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

students to realistically assess technological implications within the worldstage and to bridge the gap between the developed world and the developing worlds. The coursefalls into the inter-disciplinary STS classification (a field known as Science, Technology andSociety whose main focus is to explore the influences of technologies on society and therelationships between societies and technologies). The course emphasizes an integration of alltheir previous studies at DeVry in addition to professional group work, research, researchpresentations and technical reports, communication, critical thinking and analysis, solutions andapplications of the moral and ethical dilemmas the use of technology sometimes presents. Thecourse also identifies conditions

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationundergraduate student as compared to the typical university or college. The differences do notcome so much from aptitude or motivation but from the constraints of a Military Academy. Thestudent’s time at the USAFA is in high demand, as they are required to graduate fromchallenging academic programs with extensive core course requirement in addition to theirengineering curriculum. All students must graduate in no longer than four years. They are alsoloaded with military, leadership, and athletic requirements. It is not unusual for students to haveless than an hour free every other day that they can use to take advantage of “extra instruction”(office hours

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; George Wright; Joseph Morgan

asthe director of the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory discussed a project known as LDIS, orLocation Dependent Information System. The concept for LDIS was originally conceived as a solution for creating self-guidedtours. The principle is fairly simple and is depicted in Figure 1. Someone interested in touringthe Texas A&M campus could check out an iPAQ equipped with a radio frequency interrogator.As they tour the campus, they could point the interrogator at sites to get information about them.Each building and landmark on the campus would be equipped with an RF tag that could respondto interrogation with a unique URL. The iPAQ would then use wireless network capability tolook up the URL and access information about the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

10.411.8Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 11. Summary of ILS results for Visual/Verbal attribute.5. DiscussionThese results suggest that the Ladder Logic Tool Kit design is instructionally effective, and thatstudents’ subjective impressions of the system are positive. It appears that we may safelycontinue to develop similar types of lessons. It also appears that the Toolkit’s visual, exploratoryis a good fit for active, visual learners.6. Conclusion and Future DirectionsThis paper has described continuing steps in the process of developing an Integrated VirtualLearning System, called

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

Optimizing Student Learning and Retention of Time- and Frequency- Domain Concepts Through Numerical Computation Projects Steve Warren, Ph.D. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Kansas State UniversityAbstractThe ability to analyze signals and systems in both the time and frequency domains is an essentialoutcome in most engineering curricula. However, concepts such as time-domain convolutionand frequency-domain spectra can be elusive to students. While most students can learn themathematical procedures whereby they obtain correct answers on homework and exams, manylack the higher-level understanding that aids long-term retention. This paper addresses thecreation of

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. 2002. Denver, CO.12. Mayer, R.E., Elements of a science of e-learning. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003. 29(3): p. 297-313.13. Sweller, J., J.J.G.v. Merrienboer, and F.G.W.C. Paas, Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review, 1998. 10: p. 251-96.14. Miller, C.L. and G.R. Bertoline, Spatial visualization research and theories: Their importance in the development of an engineering and technical design graphics curriculum model. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 1991. 55(3): p. 5-14.15. Holliday-Darr, K., D.G. Blasko, and C. Dwyer, Improving Cognitive Visualization with a Web Based Interactive Assessment and Training

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Soda

) basedamplifier is one of eight executed in our two semester required course sequence inelectronics. Laboratory exercises are integrated with lecture and classroom exerciseswith the same faculty member responsible for both forms of instruction. Laboratoryexercises throughout our curriculum follow a cycle of theoretical analysis or designfollowed by computer based simulation which are subsequently compared with hardwarecircuit performance. The first course in the electronics sequence, Electronics I ( El Engr321 ), covers semiconductor physics and the theory of operation of the junction diode,bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor(MOSFET). Circuits involving small numbers of these active devices are used

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Perry Li; David Waletzko; William Durfee

Session 1526 At-Home System and Controls Laboratories William Durfee, Perry Li, David Waletzko Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of MinnesotaAbstractWe are piloting the concept of distributed laboratories in the form of kits that students take homeand work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller andcommunicate to the student’s home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the neededcomputational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting.The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two kits have been developed