Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Bosscher; Jeffrey Russell

The Sustainable Classroom: Teaching Sustainability to Tomorrow’s Engineers1 By Peter J. Bosscher, Jeffrey S. Russell, and W.B. Stouffer2INTRODUCTIONWhy is an education in Sustainable Engineering needed and what should it look like? Engineersplay a central role in creating infrastructure in the world by acting as problem solvers who applytheir knowledge and experience to projects that meet human needs. They work on a wide rangeof issues and projects, and as a result, how engineers work can have a significant impact onprogress toward sustainable development. How engineers are educated has a significant effecton the way in which they work and the way in which they

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

: GUI for Resultant of Two ForcesDot Product ProgramThe projection of one force onto a direction of the other force is somewhat of a difficultconcept to the student in terms of computing a numerical number. It is easy for thestudent to visualize such a projection, but when asked to compute its projection innumerical form, the student gets stumped. This MATLAB GUI program, shown inFigure 2, can compute the projection, and it will display the intermediate calculations sothe student has better appreciation of the projection of one force on to the other. Suchintermediate calculations printing GUI option is yet to be developed for this mini- Page

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

-12education and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, the National ScienceFoundation has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universities nationwide. Oneof these projects is the Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) currently beingconducted at the University of Cincinnati. Graduate and undergraduate fellows of Project STEPare placed in different secondary schools to work with math and science teachers. The mainresponsibility of a fellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are creative,engineering-focused, and technology-driven. Activities are incorporated into lessons,demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and field experiences. By doing these activities, studentswill experience authentic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

aquiz and have to complete it within the specified time limit.The course format is as follows1: • The online-based course is offered almost exclusively on the web. The class meets once at the end of the semester to present the final design projects. An optional brief meeting at the beginning of the semester is also held to go over the Blackboard tutorial and course syllabus similar to the ones in the traditional format, as well as for testing purposes. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing are offered through the Internet. Blackboard is used as the course delivery platform. • The online-based course is composed of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

to students. Virtual laboratoriesprovide students access to simulated experiments or animated dynamic system simulations.Remotely accessible laboratories allow students to access via the Internet real-time experimentswith video feedback. Inter-university laboratories engage students in a collaborative effort toconsolidate resources for a single project. The goal is to effectively engage students in the engineering process of modeling andcontrolling dynamic systems. By implementing and assessing these laboratory formats, weintend to help students achieve the following objectives: 1. Enhance conceptualization and use of fundamentals through multiple means of visualization. The laboratory formats proposed will incorporate

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

&T Revitalization, Office of Naval Research/ 3Deputy Director, S&T Revitalization, Office of Naval Research/ 4 Senior Research Scientist, Virginia Tech.AbstractThis paper describes two recent programs--the NSF Navy Civilian Service Program and theVirginia Demonstration Project that are dedicated to the revitalization of the Navy ResearchEnterprise.BackgroundThe Department of the Navy (DoN) is one of a growing number of Federal agencies which isexpressing concern about its ability to meet its future science and technology (S&T) workforceneeds. This situation has grown more critical

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

activity. It is not difficult to find exciting and creative projects that would makeuse of the concepts covered in the program. However, it is much harder to meet that goalwith a modest time commitment. We have therefore elected to employ a reverseengineering ploy. After an introductory requirements review, pairs of engineers select arecent chief engineer-level decision within their company and systematically analyze howit was made. This includes interviews with key participants, conformance to proceduresand appraisal of the contributing factors and constraints. It requires technical skill and agood measure of effective communication and diplomacy – just the outcomes required.The company also gains a well-documented review of a high-level

Conference Session

Information Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Moore; Jeffrey Richardson; Michelle Perry

Page 10.1279.1includes aspects such as motivation2 . Students must be motivated to learn the new material.Academic students, who are high achievers, motivate themselves to study and learn. Non- Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationacademic students often require extra levels of motivation3 . Activities that engage the studentsand allow them the ability to interact with the new material can build motivation and thus,improve learning.Traditional TeachingIn a traditional college lecture, PowerPoint may be used to project materials to a classroom fullof students. PowerPoint is a great tool for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Lisa F. Bullard; Douglas G. Schmucker; Misty Loughry; Richard Felder; Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton; Cynthia Finelli

UniversityAbstractA multi-university research team is working to design a peer evaluation instrument forcooperative learning teams that is simple, reliable, and valid. In this work, an overview of theprocess of developing behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) will be presented, includingthe establishment of a theoretical basis for the instrument and a description of the extensiveclassroom testing of the draft instrument conducted during fall 2004.Introducing the draft instrument to the engineering education community through exposure in theNSF grantees’ poster session is expected both to improve the validity of the scale itself throughthe feedback we receive and to accelerate the dissemination of the instrument.IntroductionThis project and its goals

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

undergraduate students to the concepts and practices ofentrepreneurial thinking. Using a combination of lectures, case studies, student led discussions,team business plans, and investor presentation formats, the course teaches life skills inentrepreneurial thought and action that students can utilize in careers ranging from startingcompanies to initiating R&D projects in large company entrepreneurial endeavors. Major coursethemes include: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Feasibility Analysis, andBusiness Planning. The table 1 also shows the content of the course3.Course objectives include exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and culture that has beendeveloping in companies of all sizes and industries; examine the

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

time for attention to “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent writing, even though, when questioned, these professors assert that such writing is crucialfor their graduates.Recognizing our graduates’ need for strong communication skills, the ECE Department beganteaching its senior-level capstone design courses as writing emphasis courses beginning in 1989.Writing projects integrated into these senior classes included a well-defined problem statement, adesign proposal, a status memorandum, an engineering notebook documenting the designprocess, and a final technical design report. The

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rojeski; Cindy Waters

, andcompleting a Senior Design project. Data from several years of administering pre-tests of pre-requisite material clearly indicate that student retention declines rapidly over time. Research by Page 10.1082.1Spache and Berg (1978), and others have demonstrated that a simple study method significantly “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”improves understanding and memory (3). The method takes its name from the first letter of thefive steps that one follows - preview, question, read, self-recitation

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

essential aspect of any technical research project is dissemination throughpresentations of findings arising from the study. However, a technical presentation is an abstract,with only key points covered. Presentations should never contain a lot of information because theaudience will get lost in the details. The biggest mistake a technical presenter can make isthinking the goal of the presentation is to place all the details on slides. Reality is that theaudience needs less information than most presenters believe. An audience remembers about tenpercent of a presentation; it is up to every presenter to ensure they remember the right tenpercent.5, 12, 13Technical Level. Thoroughly understand the potential audience. A presentation at aninappropriate

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for EngineeringFour courses are required in 15 to 25% of our programs: • Engineering management or project management, • Information systems, • Systems analysis and design, and • Experimental design. Table 8. Required courses in industrial engineering Number Percent of of Industrial Engineering courses programs programs Operations Research 92

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for EngineeringFour courses are required in 15 to 25% of our programs: • Engineering management or project management, • Information systems, • Systems analysis and design, and • Experimental design. Table 8. Required courses in industrial engineering Number Percent of of Industrial Engineering courses programs programs Operations Research 92

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Lisa Milkowski

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1: Rubric used for the junior design presentation intended to measure the degree to which design teams presented the expected content, project research, proposed product specifications, presentation quality, and team professionalism. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationPage 10.1408.4evaluation of the fall 2004 junior design presentation and it could have been the result of anumber of sources including

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

semester, many different appropriate design problems must be created to provide newexperiences for successive classes of students. This is hard.However, there are many simple design tasks that do not involve a particular engineering field.For example, “Design a bathtub,” or “Layout a kitchen.” Yes, there are components of these tasksthat could be classified in one or more engineering disciplines, but no one discipline is an obviousfocus for the design, and no specialized engineering knowledge is required to complete the task.These are true design experiences, but no one category of engineering student has any particularadvantage. This is the type of design project that will be assigned in the course EngineeringProfessionalism.Another attribute of

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

, public transit, and airport “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”facilities. Elected officials expect coordination of engineering and contracts so as topromote maximum savings and convenience, and minimize conflict and disruption. Thistopic covers issues of project management, project design and project planning. Inaddition, the issues of general contracting, pricing, contract bidding and awards, differenttypes of bids and their requirements and prequalification are also covered using real-lifecase studies obtained from the Public Works Department of the City of Gainesville.Transportation: This topic

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Maldonado; Christenson John; Eugene Rutz

: • To create a means by which a select group of highly motivated, well-qualified students can earn a BS-ME degree and an MS-NE in five calendar years. • To increase the versatility, visibility and attractiveness of UC’s ME program at local, regional, and national levels, while also increasing the number of students entering the ME Program by about 10 to 15 additional new students yearly. • To develop a pipeline of talented and motivated students that feeds into the UC Nuclear and Radiological Engineering (UCNRE) Graduate Program. • To position the UCNRE Graduate Program into a leadership position in addressing the expected demand for ~90,000+ skilled new workers in the nuclear industry projected

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tilo Winkler; Rudolph Mitchel; Jose Venegas

of Health Sciences & Technology (VaNTH) [1] to develop new educational stylesand to introduce them in teaching bioengineering to undergraduate and graduate students. Themain thrust of the project is based on concepts presented by the NSF publication How PeopleLearn (HPL) [2]. The concept is to challenge the students with a set of realistic problems and Page 10.332.1give them a high level of freedom on the methods chosen by them for solving them. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

selection corresponds to the first component listed in Figure 5. Figure 6: Manufacturer’s PDF file of selected part from Figure 5As you can see, this process takes less time and it is more accurate than catalog searchesor searches using generalized web-based search engines. While GlobalSpec is anindispensable tool for engineering design work, faculty may also find the GlobalSpec siteuseful for R&D projects, consulting work and developing student lab exercises. Overtime, the actual search results will may vary from the examples shown as new componentsuppliers are added into the Globalspec database and site content changes.The next section of this paper will present a simple student project where Globalspecsearch engine plays an

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Henrickson; Heather Gunter; Joseph Bonventre

informs the lecture content andis used by the instructor to tailor it to the learners. A novel java based simulation of glomerularfiltration that permits manipulation of independent variables while displaying the dependentvariables is projected during the module’s lecture (and available for use by learners outside ofthe lecture). It expands the range of examples that are presented by the lecturer and facilitatesinteraction between students and the lecturer. Feedback from students and faculty followingimplementation of the module was positive, and specific feedback helped guide a re-implementation of the module with more opportunities for learning and formative evaluationbefore and after the lecture.Knowledge based outcomes demonstrate that

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

, the Schools of Engineering ECAMBrussels, ISAT Brussels, the IUT Bethune, and the Technical University of Radom. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFuture DirectionThe future education and research activities of the Electrical Engineering Faculty willfocus on: • Intensifying work to obtain grant funds from State Committee of Scientific Research (KBN) for fundamental research. • Increasing co-operation with industry by performing commissioned research, expertise and making results of research and development works more practicable. • Participation in international projects and

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Adams; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are covered. The modular approach focuses on Parts II through IV, which is the core of the course. Thison-going project generates lab experiments designed to emphasize the course contents describedabove. Details of our modular design are discussed in the subsequent sections. The modular approach to teaching “Wireless Communications and Systems” is expected toachieve the following goals: 1) Provide students knowledge of functionality and testing parameters of wireless communi- Page 10.60.2 cations function blocks, especially modulator, demodulator, VCO, and mixer blocks.Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak; Xiaolin Chen; Dave Kim

exploration of design andengineering concepts during an interactive two-week day camp program. The girlsexplored fundamental concepts of engineering and design through hands-on activitiessuch as taking clock radios apart, studying different materials used in the design of aparticular product and through field trips to local industry. Girls met and worked withengineers, designers, and researchers. During the camp, each girl completed anindependent project. They began by improving existing designs and ended up developingtheir own inventions. Along the way, girls learned about energy transfer through motors,gears and belts; looked at the world through a materials engineer’s eyes; exploredengineering tools such as CAD and statistics; wired electronic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

KaMing Lai; James Webb; Robert Hendricks

turning an LED off (Experiment 4C). First order circuits are illustrated byboth a differentiator circuit (Experiment 5A) and an integrator circuit (Experiment 5B). Thehomework experiments conclude with two introductory design projects, either of which can beused to conclude the course. The first is a project in which the student uses a number of resistorsand an LED bar graph to design a simple graphical voltmeter. The second project uses LEDs,resistors, and capacitors to design a simple blinking arrow similar to one often seen as a safetywarning for highway construction. Unlike the homework experiments in which a predefinedcircuit is built and measured, in these experiments only a component list and some hints are

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Devon

and excellent texts have helped promote it very well indesign courses in industrial and mechanical engineering.5 We anticipate it spreading to otherfields of engineering.Most scholars who describe the design process actually do it in different ways.6 There may be anassumption that they all mean the same thing, although we doubt that these differences aremeaningless. Similarly, no account covers the same design ideas and methods. Despite this,there is now an identifiable and complex body of knowledge we can call design, and there is no Page 10.762.1longer any excuse for treating design education as purely experiential projects and pre-study

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

. Figure 4 – Solar System simulation using Keplar’s Law of Planetary Motion Figure 5a & 5b – projectile motion with different initial velocities and angles simulated in an Alice environment.In addition to homework assignments, students were also assigned a semester project usingAlice. Students were teamed up in groups of 5 or 6 and tasked to create a game (“rated ‘E’ forEveryone”) that utilized the programming concepts they were exposed to during the course of thesemester. This included at least one of each control structure covered (ex., for loops, if/else, etc.)and at least 5 world- and 5 class-level methods (In Alice, “world-level methods” involvemultiple objects while “class-level methods

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

Page 10.904.1would find this effort worthy of potential adaptation in their program. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationII- OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECTThe following major objectives were set at the inception of the project; 1. To develop an experiment for examination of fatigue failure theories, 2. To create an opportunity for collaborative research and design efforts between engineering student(s) and faculty, 3. To generate a modular, cost-effective, reproducible apparatus with outstanding design characteristics, 4. To make all information necessary

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

, honorscontract students are required to maintain a project journal to record ideas, data, test results, andexperiences throughout the project.IntroductionThis paper utilizes an Honors Contract to present simplified test procedures for determining theequivalent electric circuit parameters of a quartz crystal. First, the electrical characteristics andparameters of the crystal are defined followed by a description of an experimental setup. Thehardware setup is simple and relies on a homemade signal generator and crystal test fixture. Theremaining components of the system were purchased at a very reasonable price on eBay. For testpurposes a batch of twenty 3.579 MHz "TV color burst" crystals were purchased from anelectronics supplier. A detailed test