Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Brophy

woulduse to explore various thermodynamic cycles. CequelTM “is an Excel® Add-In chemicalcombustion analysis tool for assessing the products of combustion under equilibriumconditions using the minimization of the Gibbs free energy. The NASA Lewis chemicalequilibrium computer program is the underlying solver.” 1 Vanderbilt Universityinitiated a laptop program several years ago so that every student would have a similarlaptop configuration. This year’s cohort of students is the first to have these computersfor the thermodynamics. The follow describes the redesign of the course and homeworkassignments to support the learning of thermodynamics using the Cequel code.One of the course goals was to prepare students to complete a term project that

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rahul Kulkarni; Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

. Page 10.142.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Eduction Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Fig. 3. Digital image of Nueces river Fig. 4. Classified image of flooded flooding areaStudent ParticipationStudents have been involved in this project from its inception. The first student to work onAMIS was a graduate student in computer science. He was recruited to the project because hehad an electrical engineering undergraduate degree. His knowledge of both hardware andsoftware was very valuable for the project. He was responsible for overall system

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

engineer’s ability to integrate theconstituent fields within mechatronics is difficult to overstate. In a series of papers on “TheFuture of Engineering Education,” Richard Felder, et. al., discuss several areas of needed changein engineering education. Among them is a call for increased emphasis on multidisciplinaryprojects and programs: “All authentic problems and all viable solutions today aremultidisciplinary and, therefore, engineers must be skilled and educated at working effectivelywith and in other disciplines...”3. There has been wide current public interest in mechatronics, as evidenced by the responseto the recent “Great Race” sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA). For several weeks, articles appeared

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

, the students were surveyed to determine if the material was at theappropriate level, which activities were most valuable/useful, if certain activities appealed morefor women, and if certain activities appealed more to minorities. These survey results and moreare presented.1. IntroductionWhile it is well known that K-12 outreach programs are necessary to promote engineering1, it isdifficult to know if the program being offered is too advanced or too simple for the studentparticipants. Should high school students get more advanced projects and activities than middleschool students? Is it acceptable to use the same activities for both groups?It is also well known that more effective outreach needs to be focused on underrepresentedgroups for

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Catherine Lewis; Susan Etheredge; Thomas Gralinski

pursued and answered thesequestions by exploring, experimenting with, and engineering pop-up books during a two-weekprofessional development summer institute, held at a four-year liberal arts college in thenortheastern United States. A team of faculty and students from the college's departments ofEngineering and Education and a secondary school technology education teacher led the project-based institute.The power and potential of pop-up books to teach teachers about engineering principles anddesign is the primary focus of the paper. The paper includes rich descriptions and examples ofthe pedagogical methods, models, and materials used to engage the teachers in paper engineeringthrough their immersion into the world of pop-up books. The

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

arts and media with engineering. The coursesrely on a combination of lecture, hands-on class work, and predominately a project whichrequires significant student effort and time. Students are eligible to attend the courses during thesummers following their sophomore, junior, and senior years.To date we have offered two courses entitled “The Science of Guitars” and “Introduction toMusical Recording.” In The Science of Guitars course, students learn about playing the guitar aswell as the physics behind acoustics, vibrations, and electronic amplification. The attraction ofthe course is that each student constructs an electric guitar from a kit which they own at the endof the course. In the Introduction to Music Recording course, the students learn

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lane; Sarah Rzasa; Richard Behr; Christine Masters

objectives are clearlyidentified, preferred means of gathering information related to these goals and objectives can bedetermined.The purposes of this paper are to provide a description of one such assessment plan for anengineering educational innovation, and to assist others who might want to assess similar courselevel innovations. Details of the MechANEX project are first described to provide contextfollowed by a discussion of the assessment plan used during the fall 2004 semester. Thechallenges encountered during this particular project are also summarized. Finally, preliminaryresults of the assessment project are provided and discussed. Page

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sonia Sanchez; S. Khalid Latif; Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler; Kazem Kazerounian

of a National ScienceFoundation grant titled, da Vinci Ambassadors in the Classroom – The Galileo Project,graduate fellows in the Project have developed a set of engineering education frameworks(EEF) that describe what technically literate students should know by the time they graduatefrom high school. These novel engineering frameworks incorporate concepts in the fields ofmathematics, science and engineering with a systematic approach to a prescribed high schoolcurriculum that promotes technical literacy. Currently, the educational structure in thedisciplines of mathematics and science, have content frameworks that describe what studentsshould know by the time they graduate from high school. The organizations that governdiscipline standards

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

to be allowed to do so if no one documents and addresses theirunprofessional behavior!In the Research LabThe timetable for tenure and promotion, interim and final reviews are rather short. This isespecially true when considering the time it takes to do the following: • write a research proposal o wait for the proposal to be reviewed o receive comments on the proposal (if it is from NSF) o make corrections and resubmit the proposal the next year (likely) o receive the award (sometimes there are significant delays) • purchase and install equipment • recruit graduate or undergraduate students for on the project • perform the actual work that you proposed to do • write papers o

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

, asmathematical equations and models, and as an assemblage of actual physical components. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationLearning these abstract concepts is easiest when treated holistically, because each viewpointprovides a distinct and useful insight for analysis of electrical systems.(2) Capture the imagination of first-year engineering students: instill in them a feeling ofaccomplishment and confidence in their achievement.Students generally learn most easily when they are actively engaged in a significant, thought-provoking, and hands-on project. Their observation skills are activated

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

program objectives and missions.This paper reports the first longitudinal results of a survey undertaken as part of the NationalScience Foundation-funded Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project. The instrument isdesigned to measure undergraduate women students’ self-efficacy in studying engineering. Self-efficacy is “belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action necessary tomanage prospective situations" 3. Prior work from Blaisdell4 has shown that feelings ofefficaciousness can be an important predictor in the success of women studying engineering. Inour project, we developed a survey instrument designed to measure self-efficacy in engineering,feelings of inclusion and outcomes expectations, and have collected

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Tonya Emerson

in addition to taking full course loads. Although they offered a first-year seminar,ETCS was experiencing retention rates to graduation of less than 50%, with the majority ofstudents leaving by the end of the second year. To improve retention rates, college facultymodified the existing Introduction to Engineering course, which previously followed thehistorical format of a seminar series about engineering professions. The new high-tech formatallows for student development of computer and personal skills necessary to succeed inengineering curriculums. The main focus of the new introduction course is the design andconstruction of an autonomous mobile robot by student teams, similar to the CSU, Chico model.The project requires students to apply

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

student. Itcan also be considered as a contract between a student and the course instructor.Assessment ActivitiesTypical classroom assessment activities include mid-term and final examinations, quizzes,homework assignments, laboratory exercises and reports, project work and reports, oralpresentations etc. However, assessment activities need not be confined to the classrooms. Thecourse instructor usually assigns % weights to each of these assessment activities (e.g. 15% each Page 10.923.2for each exam, 10% for laboratory reports etc.). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

almostentirely experiential in nature, changes to the curriculum and rapidly changing technologies arenecessitating some changes to the character and substance of these labs. These courses are beingmodified to provide general guidance in experimental methods and analysis, and to specificallyprovide an introduction to data acquisition and control of experiments directly related toanalytical coursework. Lab classes continue to be a forum for individual research projects andseminar presentations. Individual laboratory experiences have also become an important part ofthree introductory courses taught in the freshman and sophomore years, with experimentsranging from simple exercises to complex analytical and experimental correlations. Additionallaboratory

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

] To address these two barriers, theUniversity of Washington developed a Faculty Recruitment Toolkit in 2000, and recentlydeveloped a companion Faculty Retention Toolkit as part of its National Science Foundationsponsored ADVANCE program. This paper summarizes the history and intent of both toolkits,discusses preliminary data from an ongoing research project relative to utilization of therecruitment toolkit and offers recommendations for replication on other campuses.The University of Washington Context Page 10.1349.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

restructured to meet the growingglobal competition and to keep pace with the changes in the field.”5As PS465 suggests, ASCE believes that the engineer of two decades hence will need anew skill set and a new mind set. The fundamentals of science and mathematics willcontinue to be the foundation for engineering. But engineering will have additionaldimensions. It will be information and molecular based using new and differentmaterials. Moreover, it will be an interactive global enterprise. The future engineer mustunderstand project/activity management, how businesses function, and the social contextof engineering practice. The design space has expanded, and now includes social,economic, and policy-related consequences.In short, ASCE believes the

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanislaw Maj; Anuradha Sutharshan; D Veal

needs, and ChallengesEnterprise Architecture groups exist to nurture enterprise assets and to support othergroups, such as development teams, within the organization. These enterprise groupsshould act in a manner that reflects the expectations of their customers and the waysin which their customers work.The authors suggest the following key points for developing and improving the EAprocess: - Focus on People, Not Technology - The quality of the people on a project, and their organization and management, are much more important factors in success than are the tools they use or the technical approaches they take [18]. - Keep it Simple - A critical concept is that enterprise architecture models and documents just

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming Sheu; Michael Ohadi; Arman Molki

. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Graduates from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the PI will work for ADNOCand other sponsoring companies as field test engineers, laboratory test engineers, designengineers, development engineers, project management engineers, and research engineers. Wemust prepare the students with the ability to undertake a variety of engineering tasks in the oiland gas industry. Laboratory and hands-on training has proven as an effective tool in preparingthe students with the necessary skills to tackle problems of significance to the industry and fieldengineering

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

knew UMR was involved in all of these different projects. Yes, I have never really thought about this industry or what went into supplying products. This real- ly opened my eyes to the importance of research. Yes, how modeling and rapid prototyping can benefit company before investing large sums in the tri- al and error format. Yes, I understand that it goes beyond just factory-wise. Yes, the lean manufacturing presentation gives much to consider for applications in other areas. Absolutely - I had very little knowledge initially, but I have a much better understanding of many ar- eas of manufacturing. Yes, lectures and tours were very informative. It was great to see how excited the grad students were. Yes, now I know some of the pre

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

scenario? Do notworry; no great damage has been done. In the next class I will presumably start over from thepoint where the class disengaged and the lost bits of knowledge will be recovered.Continuing this daydreaming of my own, suddenly another scene strikes my imagination: here Isee one particular student, the one who was always interrupting in that introductory class threeyears ago, asking me to repeat the proof, or to scroll back to a previous slide. I was going toofast, he told me once, after dropping by to my office. Now this student is a senior, and I amsitting in the crowd listening to his/her Senior Project presentation. What a performance! How he

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

anddeveloping countries, and effective management of academic and engineeringinstitutions. 2Critical thinking and problem solving are important skills that need to be developed forstudents in an undergraduate program. Critical thinking is one of the several ABETprogram outcomes that are difficult to achieve using traditional approaches toengineering education. For example, engineering graduates need to have the broadeducation necessary to understand the impact of civil engineering solutions in a globaland societal context. There is much to be gained from broader application of thephilosophies and techniques to the education of engineers.3 Problem solving in specificcannot be simply a series of stand-alone assignments or projects. It must thus

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

convincingly present an argument.The Circuit X lab experience occurs in the first few weeks of the first 3rd year lab.During the first week of the project each student team is given one of fourteen unknowncircuits to analyze. The circuit is contained in a small black box (Figure 1.) that is rivetedclosed. The boxes and circuits were fabricated by the ECE department machine shop andelectronic technicians. Each box contains a unique first or second order passive circuitthat must be analyzed by the students to determine the circuit topology and componentvalues. The graduate teaching assistants have access to the master record of which boxcontain which circuit. The boxes are numbered for easy identification. Electrical accessto the interior circuit is

Conference Session

Issues of Building Diversity

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Isadore Davis; Eugene DeLoatch; Sherra Kerns; Carla Purdy; Lueny Morell

implications for U.S. industries, education and government agencies. Why? Becausethese groups have long been under-represented in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM). Additionally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor 2000 Census predicts thatengineering jobs will increase from the current level of 1.5 million to 1.75 million and ComputerScience and Engineering jobs will increase from 1.5 million to 3.0 million by 2008. These jobgrowth projections represent tremendous challenges for our K-12 and higher educationalsystems, as well as for industry and government. Supply and demand must match up.Currently, there is a lack of a comprehensive plan and focused national strategy to address thetrend of unfilled future STEM positions. Thus, the members

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

controller to perform the physical buildof the “product”. This paper also describes student projects designed to explore the feasibility ofthe technical concepts necessary for such a system. These include a robot gripper, a block sortingmechanism, and an assembly planning system integrated with the Lego CAD system and thephysical assembly cell.INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATIONComputer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is typically defined as the use of Computer andAutomation Systems to operate and control production. This definition breaks the productionactivities into two major categories: the information processing performed by Computer-AidedDesign and Planning systems and the physical activities performed by automation systems.Information processing tasks

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

Lean implementation projects. In addition a semester project onproduction simulation using ProModel software is also required.VII. Ship Repair Simulation Exercise This simulation exercise incorporates repair of two ships of different sizes. One ofthe ships is shown in Figure 1. During the simulation, students track performance metricslike lead-time, cycle time, rework and distance traveled by material handler whileimplementing various tools of Lean in three phases. This exercise takes into accountlogistical issues such as inspection reports, master repair schedules, emergent repairs, inaddition to planned repair activities. This simulation exercise simulates repair activitiessuch as painting, blasting, engine overhaul, shaft

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Larkin; Dan Budny

in the countries of destination.The course consists of three parts: • A pre-departure component (25% of the course grade) consisting of four mandatory three hour Sunday afternoon seminars in March and April. These sessions incorporate material on the historical, cultural, economic, and social environments of the country/region of the field study. In addition, students take part in both engineering and business lectures that prepare them for their research projects and provide them with the analysis tools for the student project; a crash course in language; and advice on traveling in each country. There are also assigned reading materials. Students are also advised in December, that it would be to

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

a significant factor in theoutcome of an engineering project, product, or undertaking. There are many sides to theissue of ethics globalization. As educators in this field continuous attempts are made tolook at these issues systematically and assess the required modifications for our ethicseducation to produce engineers that are globally successful.Endeavors by the authors to “internationalize” instruction in engineering ethics includethe solicitation of input from engineering and technology students at Lake Superior StateUniversity with regard to changes in the ethics component of the engineering curriculum.This past year third-year students were given a survey soliciting their views on whatethical values are “universal” and what values

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

building andsimulating the production system being studied in Promodel. The student version of Promodel isintroduced early in the class and is used as a complement to class and homework problems toverify the textbook solutions. Building the Promodel solution forces students to think about andidentify the process structure, connections, and parameters as they would in a real productionsetting. Students both build their own simulation solutions to problems as well as experimentwith models provided by the instructor.As the textbook does not integrate the simulation approach, several new homework assignments,case studies, and a student project covering generic production and logistics processes have beenintegrated into the course to illustrate course

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Border

Techniques for Application of GPS Receiver Technology David A. Border Electronics and Computer Technology Program Department of Technology Systems Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403AbstractThis paper details both the hardware platforms and software techniques used in applying GPSreceiver technology to engineering projects or processes. Two software techniques are detailed:(1) use of pre-existing application level GPS receiver programs and (2) coding of new GPSreceiver application programs using the .Net Framework ™ / Visual Studios

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

each of these certificates isa specific skill or skill set which would be the equivalent of roughly one college course (3semester credits). Other, not specifically engineering, societies offer certifications in similarregards – i.e. APICS (The Association for Operations Management) and ASQ (American Societyfor Quality) which offer production planning and control certifications and different qualitycertifications such as Certified Quality Engineer. PMI (Project Management Institute) is anexample of a society built around a skill set which is common to all engineering disciplines, aswell as, most non-engineering disciplines. PMI has developed a body of knowledge for the skillset, a standardized test based on the skill set, and promoted the