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Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mitch Keil; Pavel Ikonomov; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

Session 1368 Online experimentation for study of stress and deformation in structural beamsAlamgir Choudhury, Jorge Rodriguez, Mitch Keil, Sam Ramrattan and Pavel Ikonomov Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Western Michigan UniversityAbstract Analysis of stress and deformation of beam elements are utilized in a wide rangeof curriculum. In most engineering and engineering technology programs, analyticalmethods are often augmented with computer applications and laboratory experiments. Inthe lecture only classes, theoretical learning can be complemented by

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aiman Kuzmar

one of thetopics in its annual conference as well as in its annual chapter conferences6. Severalalternative teaching techniques have been implemented in the specific courses of steeland concrete in civil engineering and civil engineering technology education7, 8.Many courses in almost all disciplines, from Sociology9 to English10, require a termproject and consider it an important part for various reasons. This is true in almost allengineering and engineering technology fields including steel and concrete constructioncourses. A traditional format for assigning the project in these two particular courses wasused in the Engineering Technology Program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campusprior to the year 2001. A different approach in

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Taban; Ayhan Zora

Session Number: A Comprehensive Energy Model Development for Off-Highway Vehicles Ayhan Zora*, Mohammed F. Fahmy, Recayi Pecen, Faruk Taban** Department of Industrial Technology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa/ (*) Technology Center, Deere & Company, Moline, Illinois/ (**) Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NevadaAbstractUtilizing machine and thermal system simulations (vehicle energy models) can be very helpfulfor vehicle manufacturing companies to develop a machine with acceptable componenttemperatures, less heat loads to the vehicle cooling

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Ingalsbe; Jess Godbey

, and secondly, local companies who encourage their employees withoutdegrees to enroll in the Technology program to earn their baccalaureate degrees.While past studies have questioned the viability of using the capstone course as anoutcomes assessment tool, it is becoming apparent in this particular situation that thecapstone course experience provides a pivotal opportunity for employers, educators, and Page 10.1035.2students to share opinions concerning the strengths and opportunities for improvement inthe program.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Chung-Ling Huang; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

Teaching PIC microcontroller in EET Program Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University William Lehman, Advanced Systems and Materials Muniyappa Venkatesha, Savannah Technical College Chung-Ling Huang, Southern UniversityAbstractIn our Electronics Engineering Technology program at Savannah State University, wehave been teaching the Motorola 68HC11 Microcontroller for the last decade. However,the trends in microcontroller technology have changed to provide faster and more robustsystems. This demand has led to sophisticated microcontroller architecture. Microchiptechnology has designed several low cost PIC (Peripheral Interface Controller

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 3548 Academic Quality Management Based Assessment C.R.Sekhar, O.Farook, Jai. P.Agrawal, and E. Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis paper describes an Academic Quality Management (AQM) based assessment process andthe outcome results that showed positive student’s acquired knowledge and retention.Continuous improvement is the theme emphasized by ABET 1 and our AQM based assessmenthas worked for us and is used in the continuous improvement of course delivery to improve thelearning and

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

Session xxxx Hinman CEOs Student Ventures David Barbe, Karen Thornton, James Green Tony Casalena, Matt Weinstein, Borna Ghavam, and Blake Robertson Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute Hinman CEOs Program University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractIn Fall 2000, the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, incooperation with the Smith School of Business, created a unique residentialentrepreneurship educational model - the Hinman Campus EntrepreneurshipOpportunities (CEOs) Program. The program is based

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Teri Rhoads; Kurt Gramoll

century:globalization, information technology, a diverse society, new technologies, enhanced publicawareness, and a deteriorating infrastructure. After more than a decade of study, a task force hasprepared a report that lays out the “Body of Knowledge” that civil engineers should possess inorder to meet these challenges; it has been adopted as ASCE's Policy Statement 465. [1]3. Motivation for Planning Grant Activities.As stated earlier, the original Sooner City model fits into an integrated systems project into anexisting “course-dictated” curriculum. The objective of this planning grant is to pilot the conceptof a “course-less” curriculum, so that teaching and learning activities are not bound by theconstraints of a 50-minute, MWF class format (a system that

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Hata

grantthrough their Advanced Technological Education Program. This paper describes theproducts and results of this three-year project. Page 10.774.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Educational Materials DevelopmentPlasma-aided manufacturing is a muti-disciplinary discipline. Prerequisite knowledgeincludes topics from general chemistry and general physics, mathematics, electronics,vacuum technology, and materials processing.Educational materials development efforts focused on three areas: basic plasma

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

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Philip Dunn

Transitioning to Academia Philip A. Dunn, Jr. PE Assistant Professor of Construction Management Technology, School of Engineering Technology, University of Maine at OronoAbstractAfter 23 years working as an engineer in a private consultant firm, a municipality, and a statedepartment of transportation, I had the opportunity to teach at my alma mater. I took theopportunity and because of the immediate need to fill the position, I left my employer and beganteaching duties in a short two week time frame. I was assigned two full time courses andadditionally took on duties assisting with two other courses. I soon devised organizationaltechniques to

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

could catch a ball. Even thoughcameras and computers could direct the robot towards a ball, robot's move in an Page 10.817.1awkward, lumbering fashion because conventional hydraulic valves cannot keep pacewith the commands of the computerized controllers. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAdaptive materials, such as magneto-rheological fluid, can “cycle” at a rate of 200 timesper second. As a result, this technology will allow devices that can operate instantly andwithout mechanical valves. Increased

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Russell

commissions ofABET, the Engineering Accreditation Commission, EAC; the Technology AccreditationCommission, TAC; the Computing Accreditation Commission, CAC; and the AppliedScience Accreditation Commission, ASAC. With the exception of CAC, which onlyaccredits programs at the baccalaureate level, the other three commissions havedeveloped accreditation criteria for more than one level, the associate and baccalaureatelevel for the TAC, and the associate, baccalaureate, and master’s level for the ASAC.Oddly, the EAC refers to basic and advanced level accreditation instead of the degreelevel, i.e., baccalaureate and master’s level, which could be a source of confusion. Boththe TAC and ASAC specifically permit a named program to be accredited at more

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

the first of itskind for a college career fair. Many companies employ this technology on their websites,requesting that the prospective hire fill out fields of information rather than just submitting a textresume. By employing similar methodology the SEC requires students to spend a little bit longerfilling out the résumé drop form; these résumés can then be easily found by companies seeking aspecific set of characteristics in a candidate.SEC strives to enhance student development on a personal and professional level through variousactivities and projects. An important objective is to address facets of engineering education thatare often neglected. Increasingly in today's society, technical competence is not sufficient forcareer success

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Nutter

Virtual Simulation Curriculum Integration Paul Nutter Ohio Northern University Department of Technological StudiesAbstractManufacturing simulation is being used extensively to model, analyze, and optimize complexmanufacturing operations by many major corporations, including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin,Daimler-Chrysler and Toyota. Companies are utilizing these advanced 3D digital manufacturingtools as a component of their product life-cycle management. In many cases a simulation ismandatory prior to any significant new operation, project or process implementation.Manufacturing technologists and engineers will

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Mickelson

have difficulty becoming engaged inthe university.4 To that end, we have been conducting an on-going assessment of ourlearning community, the results of which we will report in this paper.The ABE LC at Iowa State UniversityIn our department, the umbrella term Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering LearningCommunity (ABE LC) has evolved to now encompass two complementaryundergraduate programs available to our first- and second-year students who aremajoring in agricultural engineering or agricultural systems technology: the ABElearning community, which is created by having students co-enroll for specially selectedlinked courses, and the ABE living learning community, a reserved portion of a specificresidence hall. Other features of the ABE

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bruce Franke; David Devine

Session 3649 Public Records as a Source for Assessment Data David P. Devine and Bruce Franke Indiana University Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present how program assessment data can be gathered frominformation available from public sources in the government. Public records areinvestigated as a source of assessment data. Particularly, this paper deals with records thatare well suited for civil engineering technology, civil engineering, and related degreeprograms. These records include engineering licensing records of individuals, RequestsFor Proposals/Requests for

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

A Cross-Disciplinary Study via Animatronics Arif Sirinterlikci, John Mativo Ohio Northern UniversityBackgroundThis paper presents the authors’ attempts and consequent challenges in developing a true cross-disciplinary study for undergraduate engineering, technology and art students. The developmentprocess was initiated to enhance the Mechatronics and Robotics Program at Ohio NorthernUniversity (ONU) Technological Studies Department resulting in development of an honorscourse. HONR 218 - Animatronics was developed and offered in Winter Quarter of 2003/04academic year. Animatronics is the art of bringing inanimate objects to life through

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Austin Asgill; Willie Ofosu

Session 2247 DEVELOPING COST-EFFECTIVE LABORATORY EXERCISES FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS 1 Austin B. Asgill, 2Willie K. Ofosu Southern Polytechnic State University1 / Penn State Wilkes-Barre2AbstractTelecommunications equipment that are commonly utilized in industry are generally expensiveand it is becoming increasingly more difficult for universities to afford even some of the mostbasic of these equipment for their laboratories. As a result, Engineering Technology programshave had to resort to alternative means of providing the requisite laboratory training for

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

with formaleducation occurring both at the baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate level. However, the BOKdoes not explicitly divide formal education into baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate levels.Therefore, each civil engineering program will determine what part of formal education can beachieved in their baccalaureate program and what part should be met in a post- baccalaureateprogram. Based on an earlier analysis of the civil engineering program at Rose-Hulman Instituteof Technology we have concluded that outcome 12 of the BOK, an ability to apply knowledge ina specialized area related to civil engineering, was not attainable within our current four-yearbaccalaureate program. In addition, we concluded that modification of the curriculum to

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

Merging Design Competition and Industry Sponsored Projects Rebecca Blust, David Myszka Engineering Technology University of DaytonAbstractOver the past several years, the use of competition-based projects in engineering andengineering technology education has dramatically increased. These competitions take onmany different forms. Many individual technical organizations sponsor a collegiatedesign competition. Additionally, many schools conduct their own internal competitions.These projects provide the benefit of the increased learning from student-focusedexperiences with the additional benefits

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Hvid Nielsen

presented in the frame ofMechanical Engineering and Industrial Design curriculums. Innovation as suggested is the creationof a new product-market-technology-organisation-combination (PMTO-combination) consisting ofthree key elements: 1) Innovation is a process and should be managed as such, 2) the result is atleast one new element in the company’s PMTO-combinations. 3) The extent to which theinnovation is new may range from incremental, small step innovation, through synthetic innovation,i.e. the creative recombination of existing techniques, ideas or methods, to discontinuous, radical,quantum-leap innovation. Often new means: new, somewhere on the continuum. The company inthis case - a very small business - wanted just an aluminium

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

Integration of Interactive Simulations and Virtual Experiments in Fiber Optics and Wireless Communications Courses for Onsite, Online and Hybrid Delivery Yakov E. Cherner*, Amin Karim**, Ahmed S. Khan** *ATeL, LLC, **DeVry UniversityAbstractRapid pace of technological growth has placed new demands on the skills, competencies andknowledgebase of engineering and engineering technology graduates. In order to be successful inthe 21st century workplace, graduates are required to acquire Digital-age literacy. Theengineering and engineering technology graduates are not only expected to understand the theorybehind state-of-the-art technologies, but also to

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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

that requires technology and engineering tobe taught at the K-12 level2. To help develop in-service teachers’ ability to teachengineering, the DOE encouraged the creation of one to two weeklong institutes byuniversities to teach engineering content to teachers. The teachers could then adapt thecontent using their own knowledge of age-appropriate pedagogy to lessons that theywould teach in their own classroom. Teachers participating in summer content institutesreceive professional development points for maintaining their teaching certification. Inaddition to professional development, CASA and the College of Engineering workedwith the School of Education to offer the option (with some additional work on the partof the teachers) to receive three

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

) Page 10.764.1γ Graduate StudentΨ Aerospace Engineer, NASA GSFC’S Wallops Flight Facility’s Observational Science Branch Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session #1408compare with similar data that will be gathered when Variable Rate Technology (VRT) isadopted for one or more of the following with progress of time: (i) nutrient application1,(ii) seeding2 (iii) pesticide application3, and (iv) herbicide application4. Baseline data willbe collected in Phase-I to monitor the run-offs into the watershed of the farm

Conference Session

Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

Retaining Female and Minority Students with EMC2 Scholars Program S. K. Gupta, E. C. Hensel, A. Savakis, P. Tymann, D. Narayan Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NYAbstractThis paper details our highly successful scholarship and academic support program to retain andgraduate students in four academic departments: Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics,Computer Engineering and Computer Science (EMC2). The EMC2 Scholars Program issupported by a 4-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s CSEMS Program andmatching funds from the Rochester Institute of Technology. The paper describes the processesfor selection of scholars and renewal of scholarship, and includes data on

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kellen Maicher; Patrick Connolly

The Development and Testing of an Interactive Web-based Tutorial for Orthographic Drawing Instruction and Visualization Enhancement P. E. Connolly and K. R. Maicher Purdue UniversityAbstractAs has been shown by significant research over the past several decades, there is much that canbe done to encourage student development in visualization ability. This capability to visualize, or“see” in three-dimensional space in the mind’s eye, is crucial in many areas of computer graphics,engineering design, and manufacturing technology, and is spreading across traditional boundariesin many industries.In conventional engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 Building a Reactor Simulator as a Senior Project By Mitty C. Plummer, Monty Smith, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.The Senior Design Project is intended to provide an “integrated educational experience”or capstone, for the engineering technology curriculum. As administered at the Universityof North Texas, the capstone “Senior Projects “ is a two credit hour, one semester course.The course concludes with a presentation of the students’ projects in which faculty,family members, business leaders, and other

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

Course and Program Assessment – Methodology for Continuous Improvement Ramesh Narang Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneTo meets the needs of accreditation and for continuous improvement, a methodology has beendeveloped to assess the curriculum in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringTechnology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.The methodology consists of assessing the curriculum at two levels of operation, known as thecourse-level and the program-level of assessment. The course-level assessment consists ofevaluating specific

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

under “Education”. Resources for engineering course content are foundunder “Science and Technology”. One goal of the MERLOT engineering editorial board is tobuild the collection and the traffic in engineering so that engineering will become a member ofthe top-level subject list, not a category under Science and Technology. Anyone can browse thematerial in MERLOT, follow the links, and use them. Chemical engineering educators areencouraged to become members (it’s free) and help build the MERLOT community.Membership does not require you to contribute or review objects or otherwise serve.Learning objects enter MERLOT upon being added by a MERLOT member. Any member canadd a learning object by clicking on “Contribute Material”. MERLOT is a catalog

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Fischer; Richard Jerz

the file to a computer in the College’s Engineering Design and Prototype Center,which runs an RP machine. This is great technology for students to learn about, but the lab is notparticularly challenging because creating an STL file from Pro/E takes about 10 seconds andlittle mental effort. Page 10.610.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Integrated Design ProjectAn “Integrated Design Project” was added to the fall 2004 offering of the course because it wasbelieved that students needed to