Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

over the past 25 years. However, there is always room forimprovement. Opportunities to enhance the existing program include: (1) increasing the numberof MITE applications from African American, Hispanic and Native American students; (2.)marketing the MITE program to the target audience referred to above. Current plans designed toaddress this challenge include distributing additional MITE information packets (paper andelectronic copies) to: (1) high school math and science department chairs; (2) “high flyer”students listed in UT Austin recruitment database; (3) and administrators of pre-engineering andmagnet programs.References1. The University of Texas at Austin, Office of Institutional Studies, Website URL[http://www.utexas.edu/academic/oir

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

algorithms can be very useful inautonomous navigation: • Find the distance to the target (to adjust the robot speed) • Remember the locations, directions, and speed data (for future navigation planning such as more complicated paths). • Navigation autonomously in the area from point to point or backward and also repeats the same path with faster speed. • Build a mapOnce a database system to support robot navigation has been developed other interestingpossibilities exist, such as “Can the robot learn?” With the database recording past successes andfailures, the robot can avoid the paths leading to failures and when confronted with multiplepossible paths can compute the most economic path.References:[1] Sethuraman, S. Jodan, A

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Frances Stewart; Malgorzata Zywno

-hand how the students interacted with the object.Usability feedback obtained from the participants brought us immediate benefits in our goal ofcreating a user-friendly and valuable learning object. The comments from volunteers regardingthe usability of the object have already been implemented. Quantitative data analysis presentedhere completed the first, preliminary stage of the study. In the second stage, the authors willfurther analyze the visual data obtained from the taping of the sessions using qualitative analysis,which may yield further helpful insights. The authors are planning to follow this small study witha large scale longitudinal analysis of learning styles and teaching strategies across severalengineering disciplines

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

OfficeMaxCalculator 1:30-1:45 Discuss Lunch Problem #1 Discuss Lunch Problem #2 Collaborative Learning and Developing a Plan for Fall Group Work 2005/Time Management 1:45-3:45 Vectors and Coordinate Word Problems, Systems Reading for Clues 3:45-4:00 Camp Evaluations Evening Problem #1 4:00-4:30 Eve Problem

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

ableto make improvements in the process and in the sessions that simplify the amount ofeffort required from everyone involved. The major improvement has been in theorganization and scheduling of experience dates. As mentioned earlier, the originalformat of the program was very random. Dates were scheduled sometimes only days inadvance leaving little time for faculty preparation and commitment. The timing of theevents would also change with each group so one week the session might be 1 hour longand the next time it might be 2 hours long. Subtle changes in the planning andorganization have resulted in significant improvements in the overall efficiency. Now,rather than feeling like “organized chaos,” the scheduling and standardization of theformat

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

inclusion of additional professors in the program but, todate, such interest hasn’t materialized. Although I’m planning to continue this particularseminar in its current form, I’m also considering how a larger offering could be constructedthat would capture some of the current seminar’s flavor and yet be more easily deployableto larger numbers of students.References [1] Demel, J.T., et.al., Bringing About Marked Increases in Freshman Engineering Retention, Proceedings, 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montr´eal, Qu´ebec. [2] Rojas-Oviedo, Ruben and Qian, X.C., Improving Retention of Undergraduate Stu- Page 10.289.6

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

, assuringthat all assembly has been done according to plan. The other type of testing is model validationand it is this aspect that could be considered deconstruction. Testing of the particulars of adesign is essential in order to determine if any of the “universals” assumed during the designwere not truly universal. When a test of this type fails, we can feed this new information backinto our models to help us improve them. Implementing tests that can disprove the model allowsreality to deconstruct the model. Good interface design actually includes this type of feedback asan integral part of the normal operation of the machine: “Feedback is essential for safe andefficient operation… Perhaps because designers never expect things to go wrong, too

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

Enrollment ServicesAlthough they started out as separate committees, over time the student services andenrollment services groups actually began meeting as a single group. This providedbetter coordination and planning for student issues. Prior to the Institute, WSUVancouver had developed a co-admission agreement with Clark and Lower ColumbiaColleges. The group revised the agreement and the form that was subsequently used bythe Institute applicants.Institute students must meet university admission requirements to be admitted to WSUVancouver as freshman or transfer. At the same time, they are admitted to one of the twocommunity colleges since students register at and belong to the community collegeduring the lower division. In addition, the Institute

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

results toencourage professional critique.The program also acknowledges the need for STEM education research and developmentefforts to build on and contribute to the STEM education knowledge base. The ProjectKaleidoscope report, Recommendations for Action in Support of Undergraduate Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, 13 calls for “collective action” to share ideasand materials so that projects build on, connect to, and enhance the work of others. Itstresses that educational research and development efforts must move away from thepractice in which an individual “owns” a new approach from conception toimplementation. The planned CCLI program supports a collaborative model whereinvestigators learn about and adapt the work of others

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

?” InD. Berry (Ed.), How Implicit is Implicit Learning? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp 107-123.8 Farison, James and Newberry, Byron , “The Current Status and Uses of the General (Undesignated) EngineeringProgram with a Case Study,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)Conference, Nashville, TN, June, 2003.9 Wentzheimer, W. Wayne, Ermer, Gayle E., Van Antwerp, Jennifer J., and VanderLeest, Steven H., “An OptimalEngineering Education: The BSE at a Liberal Arts College,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2004.10 Seel, N.M., Al-Diban, S. and Blumschein, P., Mental Models and Instructional Planning. In M. Spector and

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Technology: Choosing the Best Path,” ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville. 2. Abi Aghayere (2004), “Strategies for enhancing the scholarly productivity of engineering technology educators”, ASEE Annual conference, Salt Lake City. 3. Al Simone (2004), “Rochester Institute of Technology Strategic Plan 2005-2015”, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 4. Subhi M. Bazlamit, Farhad Reza, Ashley Middelberg and Justin Stiles (2004), “Introducing research into undergraduate honors program”, ASEE annual conference, Salt Lake City. 5. Anant R. Kukreti (2004), “Research experiences for undergraduate students in structural engineering”, ASEE annual conference, Salt Lake City

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

paperdescribes the process of creating the lecture and lab materials for the new technologyliteracy course, teaching the pilot course in fall 2004, and plans for a second semesteroffering in spring of 2005.Spring results will be reported at the June 2005 ASEE meeting.Formatting the Course In more detail, we have developed a two lecture and single lab per week formatwith the following characteristics: Lecture 1: CONTEXT: define the historical origin and technical evolution of priordevices which served the same or related functions (e.g, for digital camera, survey optics,drawing, camera obscura, Daguerrotype, black and white film, Kodak and the personal(Brownie) camera, color film, Polaroid camera/film, and video camera). Lecture 2

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards

throughout the semester. Manyfaculty members, particularly the engineering technology faculty, have a significant amount ofindustrial experience, so a wide variety of potential project experts are available. This has beentried for two years with good success, and plans are for it to continue. The expert can providethe students with valuable background information to help them realize the importance andrelevance of the project to real world situations. The students seem to appreciate this. Since theexpert is another faculty member, he/she can be available on a regular basis as a consultantduring the entire semester.The first year that this concept was used the students were required to design a cooling systemfor an injection mold for a plastic part

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

samesemester. A second digital course was also added to the curriculum to address what we felt wasa deficiency in the curriculum.A two semester required senior project design course sequence was added to the final twosemesters. This was a significant departure from the previous curriculum where we had a onesemester, optional senior project course. Our reasoning for this addition was that it wouldprovide a capstone experience for all students, and we could incorporate topics on projectmanagement and teamwork. We also felt that two semesters would provide students greater timeto plan and execute a design project. Most of the debate centered around the number of creditsand laboratory time for the course. By structuring the course with both theory and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

1.67 Figure 12 - Test Circuit for Norton Equivalent Circuit, and Data TableConclusionThree innovative, simple laboratory exercises for students learning DC fundamentals have beendeveloped and tried with first-year students. The author is planning to refine these, and continuedeveloping others on different subjects, during the spring 2005 semester, in DC Fundamentals.Bibliography1. The EMF Safety Superstore, 141 Soller Heights Rd., Ghent, NY 12075. www.lessemf.com CuProCote is alsoknown as StaticVeil, a water-based high-conductivity shielding coating. 4 ounces costs USD$30 plus shipping, andwill coat the Ohmic contact areas of many, many student graphite resistors.2. http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/potsecrets/potscret.htm3

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman; Keith Johnson

and Technology, and anew Department of Technology was established to administer both the previously establishedand the proposed new programs in technical education. The Engineering Technology Committeeof the Engineer’s Council for Professional Development, Inc., first accredited the engineeringtechnology programs in 1979. In 1988, the Technology Accreditation Commission of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology re-accredited the programs in engineeringtechnology. The programs were again re-accredited in 1994.The current Five-Year-Plan for the University calls for several of the old programs and all of thenew programs to be designated and accredited as Engineering Technology programs. The planalso call for every program that has

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Palmquist

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Span 1 Span 2 Span 3 Span 4 Figure 2. Elevation of College Street Bridge Figure 3. College Street BridgeThe purpose of the project was to give students an opportunity to work hands-on on a realengineering structure and to develop generalized equations for the dead load forces in selectedmembers and to solve for these forces. Students were required to perform a preliminaryinspection of the truss superstructure for spans 1 through 3 to obtain basic bridge geometryinformation. This information (since plans of the structure no

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Burton

essential [3]. In addition, the structure of the videoproductions is a very important consideration and segmenting the material to be covered intoblocks seemed appropriate for a number of reasons discussed later.StructureThe semester consists of 13 weeks and it was planned to have approximately one hour of videomaterial for each week, which was divided into several blocks or segments, each 15 to 20minutes long. The format for each segment varies but for new material is generally as follows:The lecturer (the author) • introduces the theory for a particular topic; Page 10.1048.2 • works an example problem with the students; • provides

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Boyle

– the method offers a very thorough examination of mechanism kinematics and provides an instructor with an “endless” supply of 3-D slider crank solutions. • Student feedback on pseudographics is about evenly split between those who see benefit in the method, and the less enthusiastic who may have been conditioned into more familiar equation solving approaches. Opportunity to use 3-D pseudographics has been limited to exploratory forays in an introductory course. • Future plans for this work include making 2-D and 3-D mechanisms more accessible to non-mathematically inclined users via an online ‘store front’.Appendix A: TK Solver CodeInput

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

interdisciplinarytraining may be of value to students in preparation for the workplace. The ideal (recommended)approach is to provide controls training over the four-year college curriculum, which can beviewed as follows: (1) start with first year college students and provide practical experience incontrol systems that emphasizes fundamental principles; (2) develop new courses and materialsthat broaden the first-year experience, such that third-year engineering students should beintroduced to system modeling, planning, design and simulation, system performance evaluation;(3) develop follow-up courses, for fourth-year engineering students and graduate students, thatemphasize theory, digital control, real-time systems, nonlinear control, and other areas such

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Sappington; Emma Seiler

categorize their feet into one size. Also, they learn some people have feet that are two different sizes. 2. Design of shoe sole and upper – This part of the activity consists of looking at the pressure exerted by different points of the foot. Comfort and style must also be considered in the design. Students are instructed in the engineering design process. 3. Construction of shoe – Students construct their shoe based on their design. Often they are surprised at the redesign that has to be done. 4. Marketing of the shoe –Student must create a marketing plan for their shoes and sell their shoes.Measure Your Feet Don't know your shoe size? Your feet change during your lifetime. To make sure that youget the best possible fit and

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Freeman; Anita Persaud

Engineering through the Multicultural Engineering Program.This program is a direct pipeline of underrepresented minority engineering graduates who are notonly technically competent but also world-class engineers. Specifically, students enrolled in thisprogram develop core competencies that extend beyond technical ability which include effectivecommunication skills, planning and prioritization, time management ability, engaging teamplayers, and success in competing globally.In its 14 year history at The Pennsylvania State University, 269 students (170 students fromengineering) have completed the PREF program. This support service, created to improve theretention and graduation of underrepresented minority engineering students, continues todiversify

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

lessons from our practices. In particular, precisely balanced laboratoryworkloads and seamless or smooth transition from classroom lecture to laboratory practices arethe important non-technical aspects required to complete this course more efficiently andsuccessfully. As technologies evolve, this course will be continuously supplemented with newtechnologies and educational materials. As an extended effort, we plan to develop a set of thegraphical user interface (GUI)-based tools that will eventually assist a small group of students indesigning their application-specific industrial quality of soft RTL synthesizable processorplatform cores by clicking their computer mouse.AcknowledgementsI would like to acknowledge Joshua W. Jones for his help in

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

longitudinal section of wood and thenthe other direction. One direction will reveal smoothness while the other will encounterroughness or high resistance. A planner may be used to demonstrate when wood isplanned in one direction it is a smooth operation while chatter results when planned fromthe opposite direction.Recommended Apparatus:• A microscope with at least a x100 magnification. The MEIJI EMZ-5TR with a MA502 SWF 10X eyepieces is utilized here, Figure 1. It is enhanced with a camera that can be hooked up to a TV monitor for larger audiences to see and can be interfaced to a computer to customize graphics and print utilizing “Know Through Vision” software. The package cost is about $2500.00 and may be purchased at Dayton

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

with communication tasks. This teaming approachproved to be partially successful. When it worked, it worked very well. When timeconflicts arose, specifically near the end of the semester, the communication did not workas well for many of the students resulting in a less than desirable outcome. Plans arebeing formulated to correct this in the future.IntroductionProviding hands-on, or learn-by-doing, experiences for engineering students is oftencomplicated by either a lack of equipment, technician support or both. Yet most topics inchemical engineering are best learned via a learn-by-doing approach. Computersimulations have been used in lieu of a truly hands-on experience but these are oftenlacking in the fullness of details that real systems

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

method may be preferred in engineering. Technology majors tend to be more involved with detail design documentation, manufacturing process planning, production, and quality approval functions where 2-D CAD skills would be much more relevant. Engineers focus more on concept design and analysis where the solid model has become the starting point for product design and development using techniques such as rapid prototyping and finite element analysis. However, a 2-D drawing is readily generated from a 3-D solid model and hence is it really necessary for the technology major to study 2-D techniques in isolation from 3-D techniques? CAD software If computer-aided design is included in the course, what brand of CAD software would be

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan P. Mathews; David Morales

measures indicated that males are less active,dedicate less time to planning, and have a higher perceived self confidence withtechnology than their counterparts [8]. However, females earn higher overall coursegrades despite having to work later in the day, lower perceived confidence withtechnology, and experiencing more problems with using technology [8].Since Friday was the busiest weekday (580 out of 1,802 entries) for starting the weeklylesson, an analysis was conducted to determine how many students were waiting until thevery “last minute” to start the lessons. The submissions were separated into morning(before 11:59 AM), afternoon (noon – 5 PM), early evening (5:01 PM – 9 PM), and lateevening submissions (9:01 PM – 11:59 PM). The results are

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

University.Students who plan carefully will be able to satisfy the requirements for B.S. degrees in both CivilEngineering and Environmental Engineering with 120 credit hours. This is important, at leastinitially, as students wishing an Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)accredited engineering degree and an environmental engineering degree will need to completeboth the Civil and Environmental Engineering degree requirements. This will remain the caseuntil the first B.S. Environmental Engineering student graduates and accreditation is applied forand granted for the Environmental Engineering degree.Development of the ProgramThe successful initiation of the program was begun in 2003. A proposal was put forth by theenvironmental engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

improvements in the software.Description of SimulationThis section explains the mechanics of the game and provides details about some of theinvestment opportunities that made up the simulation. A more complete description has beenpublished previously.7,8Each student started the game with $10,000. The semester was divided into twenty turns. Thestated goal of the game was to finish turn 20 with as much cash as possible. Thus, allinvestments had a fixed, known planning horizon (and no salvage value unless otherwise stated).Students were given the option of placing money in a savings account- with no minimum ormaximum balance and no restrictions on frequency or size of withdrawals- at 5% interest perturn. In addition, students had the option of borrowing

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

the deformable-bodies software. Prime features of the software include professionallyprepared figures from textbooks, font sizes chosen for use in the largest (up to 300) classrooms,fast navigation, fine user control of progress within a page, a concise review of the theory,numerous sample problems, and good use of animation to help the student to comprehend theaction being considered. Plans for distribution of the software are currently being studied.AcknowledgementsThe Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech has provided much ofthe graduate-student support necessary for the software development described in this paper.The following students have contributed to the software: Chris Abada, Saurabh Bisht, YunkaiLu