Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

Engineering Exploration Days – Recruiting High School Students Into Engineering through focused K-12 Outreach Efforts Donald D. Carpenter1, Andrew L. Gerhart2, Lisa Anneberg3, and Jane Rohrback4 1 Civil Engineering Department/ 2Mechanical Engineering Department/ 3 Electrical Engineering Department/ 4Office of Admissions Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI 48075AbstractFaced with decreasing engineering enrollments, many institutions are now forced to considernew techniques for marketing the engineering field, as well as their programs, to high schoolstudents and teachers

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Nutter

TECH 421 Solid Modeling for DesignTECH 130 Metallic Materials & Processes 1 TECH 423 Virtual SimulationTECH 140 Microcomputer Applications Production & Management in Technology TECH 430 Non-metallicTECH 221 Computer Assisted Materials & Processes Construction Design TECH 435 Advanced Robotics (2 times)TECH 321 Basics of Virtual Simulation TECH 460 Energy and TransportationTECH 322 Virtual Simulation of Systems TECH 470 Quality Control andTECH 223 Computer Assisted Product Design Work

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

tedious tasks, such as calculations with a slide rule,interpolations for fluid property values, and plotting data by hand, have been assumed bygraphing calculators, powerful computers, and discipline-specific software packages. Theintensive mathematical tasks required in the application of engineering principles are often betterexecuted by a computer.Engineering education must adapt to changes in technology and the practice of engineering orrisk sending unprepared graduates into the workforce [1-3]. One notable example is theincreasing prominence of computer aided engineering (CAE) tools used to simulate engineering Page 10.1238.1systems

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

Strategic Planning for New Faculty: From What to How Justin S. Davis Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes methods of implementing advice given to new faculty members.Every new faculty member is (or should be) given advice through mentoring, new facultytraining, and development programs. Many times new faculty are told what they need todo to succeed, but not how to do it.1. Introduction Broad advice targets a broad audience, but specific advice is more difficult to givebecause every faculty member’s situation has different priorities. Therefore, theimplementation of the broad advice is left to the creativity of the faculty member

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moustafa Moustafa; Cheng Lin

Material Condition (MMC).Four steps are proposed to accomplish the task: (1) creation of two-dimensional (2-D)initial template files, (2) generation of hierarchical folders for the template files, (3)creation a 3-D gage model from a specific template file, and (4) dimensioning andgeneration of the gage drawing. Results show that, by following this approach, studentscan effectively generate correct engineering drawings for functional gages.1. Introduction of GD&T and Functional GagesIn the engineering drawing design, GD&T is a means of specifying engineering designand drawing requirements with respect to actual “function” and “relationship” of partfeatures. If the technique of GD&T is properly applied, it will ensure the mosteconomical

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter

audience.When determining which action verb is appropriate to use in an objective, thought should begiven to the different levels of learning/performance and how the verb can be applied to thedifferent domains. For example, according to Bloom’s Taxonomy, the cognitive domain has sixdefined levels (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation)3.The first three levels are considered lower level thinking skills while the second three areconsidered higher level thinking skills. Samples of action verbs based on these levels can befound in Table 1 which was modified from Bloom and Krathwohl3. The cognitive domain is thedomain commonly dealt with in engineering courses, however, the affective domain can beimportant too

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Bruce Muller

broader standard. In 1979 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) established aworking group to look at the complete standardization of PLCs1. The PLC standard, called IEC1131, (changed later to IEC 61131) has the following parts. Part 1: General information establishes the definitions and identifies the principal characteristics relevant to the selection and application of programmable controllers and their associated peripherals. Part 2: Equipment requirements and tests specifies equipment requirements and related tests for programmable controllers (PLC) and their associated peripherals. Part 3: Programming languages defines, as a minimum set, the basic programming

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

for instance is acceptable performanceunder an unusual loading, where an unusual loading could be a physical attack, a natural disasteror a cyber attack. Survivability includes: 1)Redundancy of the system components for morereliable operation, 2)Robustness which depends upon excess capacity and distributed intelligencein the system, 3)Resilience which depends upon the ability of the Remote Terminal Units torecover from attack as well as software which seeks viruses and destroys corruption, 4)Securitywhich includes deterrence, detection, and defense against attacks. Security is introduced in thiscourse with the help of a few articles and on- line seminars provided by the ISA society7

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

laboratory isdesigned to continuously evolve. Each semester has ten one-week fixed assignmentswith a three-week design project at the end of the semester. The fixed assignments areindividual and have specific learning objectives dictated by the course outline. Thedesign projects are team-based and use the same learning objectives as the fixedassignments. The finished design projects are then used as next semester’s fixedassignments. This paper will provide the details and evaluate the effectiveness of thisapproach.1. Introduction The development of the Internet has created a very efficient method ofdisseminating information. It is so efficient, that stopping the flow of protectedinformation is extremely difficult. This has been proven in many

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Cynthia Finelli

education, students have beenfinding ways to cheat on these assessments. What has only more recently become apparent isthat the extent to which individuals engage in cheating is dependent on the field of study of theindividual. For example, Bowers [1] and McCabe [2] both showed that engineering studentsself-reported significantly higher rates of cheating than did students in other disciplines with theone exception of business. Explanations for elevated cheating among engineering studentsinclude higher work loads, the vocational orientation of the discipline, and the grade orientationof engineering students. However, the interaction of these and other explanatory factors is notunderstood, leaving faculty and academic institutions with little more

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

between classes,develop racial and cultural sensitivity, enhance their commitment to civic responsibility, increasetheir ethical awareness and awareness of the impact of professional decisions on society and theenvironment and see the human side of engineering. Through service-learning, students are ableto develop fundamental skills while serving the needs of a local or global community.1-5Appropriate technology also has many definitions but typically involves solutions to problemsusing alternative, non-traditional technologies that are based on fundamental science andengineering principles, are culturally appropriate, can be made and maintained by the localpeople, promote self reliance and help to feed the local economy. Ideally

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Engineering EducationCourse ContentElectronics and Computer Science Technology students are introduced to EmbeddedSystems I and II sequence courses at the junior and senior level respectively. Each courseis a three-credit hour course consisting of two-hour lecture and a two-hour lab per week.Embedded Systems I is designed to introduce the basic concepts in microcontrollerprogramming and interfacing, followed by Embedded Systems II, which covers theadvanced topics.Following topics are covered in Embedded Systems I and II sequence courses: 1. Introduction to the PIC18 Microcontroller 2. PIC18 Assembly language Programming 3. PIC18 Development Tools 4. Advanced Assembly Programming 5. C language programming and PIC 6. Interrupts, Resets, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

experiences for students in all engineeringprograms at UMD. The course also provides a setting in lecture format for describing to studentsthe engineering topics identified as the “Professional Component” of engineering by ABET, andembeds topics in advanced composition relevant to engineering professions. Through a series oflectures and lab assignments, this course specifically addresses the “Professional Component”ABET topics and provides multidisciplinary design experiences that students enjoy.References 1. Carroll, C. R., “Engr 4001: Engineering Professionalism – Teaching the “Soft Side” of Engineering,” Proceedings of ASEE North Midwest Section Conference, Milwaukee, WI , 2004. 2. Fleddermann, C. B., Engineering Ethics

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

multiple subjectssimultaneously. While there is a trend among schools of engineering to introduceentrepreneurship into the curriculum, it is usually taught as an entity within itself and doesnot involve cross-disciplinary activities. Our approach involves the development of cases that are tied to either the localcommunity or of national concern. Cases are usually written for a certain group of students atUniversities that are in the Entrepreneurs in Action! network. Other classes and Universitiesare encouraged to use the cases after they have been fully developed and tested. We havedeveloped the following cases to be used in Engineering and Business related curricular:Featured Cases 1. Blackout in America! (Electrical Energy Case

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

bothmotion and speech, the next step was to determine the scope and logical order of these functions.First, when motion (a child approaching) is detected, the abominable snowman, who is hidingbehind a large Christmas tree, pushes the tree aside, revealing himself and startling guests. Then,the scary creature looks around, ostensibly, seeking out the victim. Suddenly, he raises his armin a threatening manner. Then, his demeanor changes and he waves. Simultaneously, thesnowman speaks! He cheerfully greets his audience, transforming at once into a lovable friend.A complete flowchart of the scope of the project is given in Figure 1. S ta rt S en se

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Niewoehner

ObjectivesIntroduce T&E practices and attitudes at the undergraduate level in order to: 1) Enhance student/staff safety in conjunction with design/build/operate activities by systematically identifying and mitigating test hazards. 2) Promote affective appreciation of T&E processes as the bridge from engineering development to operational deployment, and the business and technical incentives for disciplined T&E.Content Disciplined T&E depends largely upon the quality of the preparatory planning. Appropriateplanning provides the principle means by which the following may be assured: 1) the testing will answer the sponsor's questions. It is possible to devote considerable resources to an extensive test program

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

opportunities for interaction between the university facultyand incubator residents.Conceptual frameworkThis section suggests a conceptual framework for establishing a business incubator and auniversity research foundation. The steps outlined here are discussed in some detail in theremaining sections of this paper. Lessons learned at East Tennessee State University whenapplying this framework are also briefly discussed in terms of a mini-case that is included in thisarticle.Step 1: Develop a Strategic Vision. The shared strategic visioning process helps buildconsensus between the administration, faculty, staff, and students. Primary benefits that meritconsideration are economic development, mutually beneficial commercialization of research andscholarly

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe

evaluatedtheir knowledge of the material, you’ve probably asked yourself the question: “Did they evenlook at that material that I gave them?” It is a perennial question educators ask and one thattypically has only been answered indirectly through polling the students or testing their recall ofthe material. There are times, though, where it would be very helpful to know, truly, did they seewhat you intended them to see? For this purpose, you need eye tracking technology.Eye tracking can be particularly useful for two broad areas of application: 1) general researchunderstanding of how different types of students in different learning situations make use of textand graphics, and 2) applied usability research of instructional materials that will be going

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

the frequency of the analog signal to be processed [1][2][3].There is also similarities that may be found between DSP’s and programmable switchedcapacitance blocks. But once again the analogy between DSP’s and programmableswitched capacitance blocks is also limited. Page 10.1182.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxProgrammable switched capacitance blocks are a subject deserving study in its ownright

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Barrett; Marion Usselman

placements vary greatly in length, intended scope and type of research experience, and canbe grouped into the following six general categories: 1. Fellowships in technical data analysis divisions of corporations; 2. 8-week experiences in which teachers conduct science, engineering, or social science research in academic laboratories; 3. International experiences in which teachers travel with university lab members to conduct research or compare cross-cultural models of academic instruction; 4. Student mentoring experiences where teachers supervise high school student research projects conducted in the university laboratory, 5. Fellowships created to assist teachers in refreshing their knowledge of specific academic

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

continues to grow in society, K-16 educators need to integrateSTEM skills throughout curricula to adequately prepare students for life long success. Toaddress this national need, faculty from the UC Colleges of Engineering and Education (faculty);teachers of STEM courses from local high schools (teachers); administrators from local highschools (administrators); and a cross section of professionals from the Cincinnati community(advisors) formed an ad hoc project team. The following four objectives guided meetings of thead hoc project team: 1. Determine what students, teachers, and school administrators know about engineers and the engineering profession. 2. Brainstorm to identify activities that could be undertaken to change the views

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

of Technology, and Linkoping University launched aproject to reform undergraduate engineering education.1 Sponsored in part by theWallenberg Foundation2, The CDIO Initiative has expanded to include programs in morethan eight countries on five continents. Descriptions of the project and its globalimplementation can be found at http://www.cdio.org.3The vision of the project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineeringfundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating(CDIO) real-world systems and products. This context is a generalized description of acomplete system life cycle, called in this project, Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate.The Conceive stage includes defining the need and technology

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlin Thomas

into the entry levelprofessional IE curriculum.1. IntroductionHomeland security has been a U.S. priority since the formation of our nation and throughouthistory our goal has been to provide citizens with a secure environment that is free of fears ofany attacks or invasion of our homeland. This is largely the basis for maintaining a strongmilitary force. In addition, we also have a network of federal, state, and local civil defenseorganizations that organize and direct preparedness and recovery plans for providing emergencyrelief to citizens during major disasters. Community alert programs such as air raid drills,training programs for schools, fall-out shelters, and emergency medical treatment plans areexamples of our civil defense programs

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randal Direen; Frank Barnes; Edward McKenna; Driss Benhaddou; Deniz Gurkan; Alan Mickelson

centralized location for bothpractical and safety reasons. This fact has hampered the freedom of non traditional (offcampus) students to achieve their educational goals. The web adaptations of softwarepackages such as LabView allow control of experiments over the internet. Remotelaboratories then become possible.Online education has been gaining momentum for many years, in great degree due to theindustrial need for training [1]. Broadband access, which provides high bandwidth access tothe Internet, is beginning to have an effect on the content of such materials [2], [3]. Thereseems to be consensus that video streaming is preferable to simply static placement ofmaterial on a website. The efficacy of live streaming (large scale teleconferencing

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

aspect (communication) intowhat we had been trying previously while still maintaining the desirable feature of havingstudents working with real equipment. Feedback was obtained from the students todetermine the best and worst features of this approach.Procedure – Experiment-Remote StudentsThe process control class at Washington State University is taught in the first semester ofthe senior year. The class is typical of many ChE-based control classes. The courseobjectives state that the students should be able to: 1) analyze the dynamics of process operations 2) understand the dynamic response of various operations 3) understand PID controllers for process operations based on both theoretical and empirical process characterizationThe

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

AC 2005-1349: GUIDED TOUR OF GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS IN SIGNALPROCESSINGJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch Page 10.679.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Session #### Guided Tour of Generalized Functions in Signal Processing 1 John Schmeelk Department of Mathematical Sciences Virginia Commonwealth University Doha, QatarAbstractThe paper considers generalized functions as a necessary ingredient in various

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

content is the examination of textbooks which arecurrently being used. At this time, however, no ethics textbook solely dedicated to the discipline ofindustrial technology exists. In order to establish an appropriate content domain for ethics which isapplicable to the discipline of industrial technology, an examination of tables of contents fromseveral common engineering ethics textbooks would be useful. These are depicted in Table 1below. Throughout the table it is evident that many of the topics covered in engineering ethics textswould be equally applicable to the field of industrial technology as well.Examining Table 1, as well as delving into the substantive content domains of each of these books,has identified several areas of commonality

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Clifford Mirman

ADOPTING A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO DESIGN A FRESHMAN COURSE IN TECHNICAL GRAPHICS – MEETING THE SOCIETAL NEED FOR ARTICULATION Radha Balamuralikrishna, Clifford R. Mirman Department of Technology, Northern Illinois UniversityIntroductionThe freshman course in engineering or technical graphics has received wide attention in recenttimes 1. There is a significant variation in course offerings taken across engineering andtechnology degree programs nationwide both at two-year and four-year institutions. Forexample, in problem solving, some courses are solely restricted to structured drafting exercisestaken from typical textbooks and others are devoted to an ill-structured design

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

regional campus of Purdue Universitylocated in northwest Indiana. It is primarily a commuter campus, and serves justover 9,000 students. PUC started a program in Computer Graphics Technology(CGT) in the Fall 2000 semester. The course curriculum development wasinfluenced by existing successful course offerings within the Purdue system, bynationally known universities, and by regional job demands, as well asinternational considerations. Figures 1 and 2 show the growth in credit hours andthe increase in students in the CGT program between 2001 and 2004. In the spaceof a few years, laboratories were built, faculty hired, and many new coursesdeveloped to meet this demand. In the face of all this growth, and the number ofchanges that were occurring

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

project different cross-disciplinary teams worked together on specific courses/topics.Members of the entire community met in larger bi-weekly and quarterly meetings to discussissues and share ideas. In the current study we focus on the local interaction between two facultyand two learning scientists during the development of course materials and examine the processof how these diverse practitioners worked together. We interviewed the faculty and learningscientists and asked them to retrospectively describe the process by which they collaborated. Weused a semi-structured interview protocol. Sample questions from the interview protocol aregiven in Figure 1. The interview protocols were slightly different for faculty and learningscientists