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Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jo Howze; Jefferey Froyd; Kristi Shryock; Arun Srinivasa

&M University (TAMU), at least four challenges were identified with respectto first-year curricula in the Dwight Look College of Engineering. These challenges are notunique to TAMU and avenues for addressing these challenges might be applicable to otherinstitutions. Challenge 1. Despite the innovations introduced during TAMU’s participation in the Foundation Coalition [1], retention of engineering students after one year still requires significant improvement [2-6]. Challenge 2. Engineering students require clearer understanding of the value and relevance of science and mathematics. Statements made by engineering students at University of California Berkeley are typical of statements by engineering students about mathematics

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Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Cathcart; Shanti Bhushan; Sandun Fernando

1 Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing Countries S. Fernando, S. Bhushan and M. Naveen AbstractAgricultural Engineering or Biological (Systems) Engineering is still considered a fairly newprofession not only in developing countries but also in many of the developed countries. Althoughcivil, mechanical, chemical, electrical and industrial engineering are well established asengineering subdivisions, Agricultural and Biological Engineering is still not considered as adirect engineering discipline in many of the 162 developing countries in Asia

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eric Inglert; Kathleen Ossman

of an architect, a humanitiesprofessor, and four engineers with expertise in construction, electrical, and mechanicalengineering technologies developed the course. The faculty team's initial question was "what isan effective learning strategy to encourage a deeper level understanding and a holistic integrationof historical and technological concepts?" Problem Based Learning (PBL), with its emphasis onsynthetic understanding and developing meaning over mere fact collection and recall, was anatural choice during course design.1 This paper is written as a case study that records howlearners, using the action-oriented learning attitude implicit in PBL, engaged in the process ofmaking sense of open-ended problems, reports on their successes and

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Scott

. Page 10.125.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2005, American Society for Engineering Education” FIGURE 1 STEPS STUDENTS PREPARE POSTERS FOR THE MINIATURE SOLAR RACE CAR COMPETITION AT THE PETROLEUM INSTITUTEINTRODUCTIONThe translation of an engineering design program to a foreign culture offers many challenges,including overcoming the broad barriers of language, religion, values, manners, and ethnocentrism.In addition, the unique aspects of engineering design – problem solving, decision-making,teamwork, and communication skills are put to the test when transferred to a new

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

Crucial Teaching Strategies for Engineering Educators Dr. John A. Marshall, Dr. June E. Marshall University of Southern Maine / Saint Joseph’s CollegeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and describe teaching tools and techniques thatwill help new faculty as well as experienced faculty become more effective teachers.Based on a review of the literature, the following excerpts have been divided into twomajor sections. The focus of the first section is the learning process, and the secondsection discusses innovative methods of teaching.Topics included in the “Learning” section include: 1) Focusing on Learning and NotTeaching; 2) Problem Based Learning; 3) Facilitating Group Learning

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

free-body diagrams explicitly show the foundations ofthe design mechanics by showing the connectivity between cause and effect. This technique wasused to show and calculate the loads distributed from plywood sheathing to studs/joists,stringers/wale, shores and lateral bracings. Figures 1-2 show some of the animated formworkconstruction details created using 3ds Max. Figure 2: Animated View of Plywood Figure 1: Animated Slab Formwork Placement with Stronger Axis BendingSeveral animation clips for construction processes and details for reinforced concrete structureswere developed using 3ds max. Figures 3 and 4 show the animation and walkthrough details

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; Eric Constans; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

José O Valderrama; Carolina Ponce; Zenaida Otero Gephardt

interdependentperspective. The global economy has dictated this new thinking and engineers are especiallysuited to the task. Engineers develop and use technology for the betterment of humanity. Thus,calls for engineering curriculum renewal, now are likely to include a focus on developing worldclass engineers, meaning engineers with an understanding of the complexities in a globaleconomy.1-4 In addition, US schools are finding that taking American engineering educationoverseas can make a significant international contribution and be good business.5There are numerous study abroad and international programs throughout the United States andthe world. Noteworthy are programs with a well defined mission and focus.6 Engineers areproblem solvers and uniquely equipped to

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IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Burton; Ashbjorn Osland

1 SJSU UBIcharacteristics one could use to describe and study UBIs: origins of facilities, objectives, organizational design,governance and policy guidance, tenant performance review, institutional support, staffing, funding sources,technologies and entrepreneurs targeted, strategic operational policies, services and their value added, and survivaland growth of tenant firms. Mian performed two case studies of UBIs: Enterprise Development Inc. (EDI) at CaseWestern Reserve University (CWRU) and the Ben Craig Center (BCC) at the University of North Carolina. Oneinteresting observation about the EDI and BCC was that there was relatively

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Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dean Schroeder; Doug Tougaw

SESSION 969 Collaborative Teaching of a Course on Technology, Society, and the Natural Environment Douglas Tougaw and Dean M. Schroeder Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Valparaiso University / College of Business Administration, Valparaiso University 1. Introduction For most of the twentieth century, engineering educators in the United States focused largely on developing the technical expertise of their students. Little attention was paid to non-technical design constraints, nor to complexities that arise at the boundary between two disciplines. This strategy was

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cote

was originally due to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) requirements formaritime program graduates. USCG regulations require that, to be eligible for the ThirdAssistant Engineer Merchant Marine Officer license, MMA graduates must have 180 days ofwork experience on an operating ship. This resulting “hands-on” knowledge has become anintegral part of an MMA education. As stated in the MMA catalog, “An integral part of allMaine Maritime majors is the practical knowledge that students gain by actual work experience.A major component of all MMA programs is learning by doing.”[1] Therefore, when the PETprogram was created, a similar component of work experience was incorporated into theprogram.To further parallel the marine programs, MMA

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Donald Mueller; Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

to be an ideal gas with temperature-dependent specificheat capacities. Two approaches are presented to describe the temperature-dependent properties ofair. The first approach is to use the ideal gas table data from Ref. [1] with a look-up interpolationscheme. The second approach is to use a curve fit with the NASA Lewis coefficients [2,3]. Thecomputer model developed makes use of a bracketing–bisection algorithm [4] to determine thetemperature of the air after compression. This computer code is supplied to the students and dis-cussed after the students have performed a detailed hand calculation. Then, students are requiredto modify the supplied computer program to solve additional problems.The instructional approach outlined in this paper

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

helped develop course materials, helped establish and sustain a research program thatprovided a general research direction and enough preliminary results to write proposals forfunding, and attract new graduate students. In addition, the university expectation to publish inconferences and journals was partially satisfied. The faculty also learned a great deal aboutworking closely with and managing students. Such opportunities are not usually available inregular undergraduate engineering courses. This paper describes the research work, the students’feedback, and gives a general assessment of the research experience.1. Introduction Undergraduate research has gained significant popularity in many, if not most, ofengineering schools in the past

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Waffle; Donald Martel; Peggie Weeks

secondaryeducator project leaders as well as workshop participants. Project dissemination has largely beenthe responsibility of NYSTEA.Goals, The Professional Development Model, & Informed DesignThe overarching vision of NYSPDC is the creation of a statewide professional developmentcollaborative that is responsive to the needs of the technology education community and that issustained by a dynamic and cohesive partnership among technical/ community colleges and highschool technology educators.The project’s primary goals are to: (1) produce a cadre of expert technology leaders from highschools and colleges; (2) link high school and college technology educators in a meaningful andsustainable collaboration; (3) provide professional development workshops

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Adams; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

(ECET) students generally do not have such a math background to digest conceptsand analyze issues associated with wireless communications. It is a better approach to focus ona point-to-point wireless system through experiential exploration, and extend the knowledge towireless communications systems in general. There are different educational training stations available to help achieve educational goals inwireless communications. However, these educational trainers have their obvious shortcomings,which include: (1) most of them transmit at relatively low frequencies (in one hundred MHzrange), while most of contemporary communications systems transmit in GHz range; (2) mostof them are built as systems and it is hard for students to test module

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

, and advisory board members. In order todetermine agreement, data concerning capstone project outcomes was gathered and evaluated.A number of senior project descriptions and outcomes were perused on the Web (see Table 1)and a list of key terms was extracted. These key terms formed the basis of an instrumentconsisting of 31 questions asking for the respondents’ level of agreement on a Likert-type (1-5)scale. The questions were grouped into two general categories: 1) the procedural operation of asenior projects course, and 2) outcomes that might be expected from participating in the course.An example of a procedural question would be: “An elective class could be substituted for thesenior project.” An example of an outcomes question would be

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasemin Jones; Elaine Maldonado

The Adjunct Academy at City Tech: Academic Support for First Year Engineering Students at an Urban College Yasemin Jones, Elaine Maldonado College Learning Centers New York City College of Technology, CUNY AbstractUrban students in engineering programs can face certain challenges including: 1)Inadequate academic preparation for college 2) Family and work responsibilities and 3)Lack of in-school support in the formation of their academic/ professional identities. TheAdjunct Academy at City Tech (CUNY) project was created to improve the lives ofadjunct, engineering faculty and engineering students

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Helbling; Patric McElwain; Angela Beck; Ron Madler; David Lanning

not satisfied with the HU/COM instruction they had received at ERAU. At this point, theAE faculty reached out to the HU/COM faculty. After a series of fruitful discussions andnegotiations, the faculty from both departments agreed that they would pursue an instructionalstrategy that was, at the time, quite new for ERAU: collaborative teaching.Collaborative teaching refers to both linked teaching and team-teaching 1. In linked teaching, aninstructor from a math, writing, ethics, or other general education discipline links the content oftheir course to that of another course so as to provide a synergistic outcome. Thus, a mathinstructor might link their course to a space physics course, introducing or reinforcing themathematical notions that are

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

projects for junior and senior high school students. The Marconi Challenge hasbeen expanded for the pre-College student to include electronic circuits for PC serial-portinterfacing and ASCII character data transmission. Improved optics, telescopes and parabolicmirrors have allowed IR data communication across the width of an entire high school ground.The Marconi Challenge seems to resonate better with our wireless world!1. Dennis Silage, Reintroducing Amateur Radio In ECE Capstone Design Projects, Proceed. 2004 ASEE Annual Conf.DENNIS SILAGE (silage@temple.edu) received the PhD in EE from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He isa Professor, teaches digital data communication and digital signal processing and is the trustee of the

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

National Science Foundation to promote science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) skills in K-12 education. Two of the primary goals of STEP are (1)to train future scientists, engineers, or STEM educators to bring their technicalbackgrounds into the classroom to enable secondary education students to relate STEMknowledge to the world they live in, and (2) to design, develop, implement, and assesshands-on activities and inquiry-based projects that promote authentic learning. TheSTEP Fellows provide the high school students with direct experience of the relevancy oftheir education to life, society, and the world, in addition to enhancing math and sciencecurriculum with familiar, real-life engineering and technology examples.This paper

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Kahn; Marina Bers

questionnairedata is limited to parent-child groups; in the child-only groups we saw inconsistencies with therespondent, who was sometimes the child participant and sometimes the parent. Parent-Child Group 1: - A Mess Machine uses gears to rotate a catapult into position. The group connects a smaller gear to a large gear to slow down the rotation and increase power, and a long arm connected to a lever to fling a paper ball across the room. - A Castle uses motors to open and close a drawbridge. A program is written so that pressing a button activated the door, and the castle itself is a tall, colorful lego structure. - Uncle Feather (based on a bird from Judy Blume’s Fudge books) is a remote control bird. It uses two motors

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Yame

!" ! "# $ " %& & ' !" ( $ $ ! " )* +& , " & -& +" & + , " & -$' ( - ." # / 0 - -" - - - & 1+ - - - - "" "+ " &2 0 -- -0+-+ - - + "-- " ( - " # / + - "- " " & # "-+ -+ - 0+-+ - - " ." " - " -- &3

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

. Page 10.372.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationWhy Engineering in High School?Science and math are fundamental K-12 subjects taught throughout the world. According to 2003TIMSS results,1 although average eighth-grade achievement in science for U.S. girls and boysincreased since the 1995 and 1999 assessments, a measurable difference continues betweencountries. On average, the eighth-grade students in seven other countries continue to outperformU.S. eighth-grade students. The areas of U.S. improvement were primarily in the subjects ofphysics and earth science, with little noticeable

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Coleman; Hisham Alnajjar; Hesham Elsaghir; Alan Hadad; Donald Leone

. At a weekly scheduled time and place, thestudents asembled to listen to a 1 hour pre-recorded (with audio) PowerPoint lecture. The lecturewas followed by a 15 minute chat session, featuring live audio/video, to answer questions andclarify concepts. Homework and laboratory reports were completed by the students outside theclass room, on their own time, and submitted to the instructor via e-mail, graded and returned thesame way. Blackboard, e-mail, and the telephone were used as communication devices. Analysis of homework and lab grades indicates that 3 out of 4 course objectives (seefigure 1) were comfortably met. Grades associated with the fourth objective, involving a termproject, showed that the attainment of objective 4 was

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole LaRocque; Terri Lynch-Caris

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”9500HR, cushioned floor mat with set markers, stopwatch and an Acuflex I flexibilitymeasuring device.Several attempts were made to control variation in the experiment including: • The Control Group did not use the Strength Assistant product • The Control Group met at the beginning of Week 1 and end of Week 3 for pre and post test strength and fitness assessments • All subjects continued with their usual lifestyle (diet and exercise) • All subjects were encouraged to avoid weight training 2-3 hours before the strength trials • All Strength Assistant use occurred on the same

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

included inintroductory courses4 in aerospace engineering at MSU. Much effort continues to insure thatlaboratory experiences are modified and updated continuously so that they remain valid andapplicable to the program of study. Since the use of computers has compounded the difficulty inmaintaining modern experiences that reinforce classical engineering fundamentals, it isappropriate that experiential learning continue to be emphasized in the manner in which thecomputer usage is emphasized--across the curriculum.Experiential LearningTwo laboratory classes of the upper division of the MSU curriculum have been moved ahead onesemester in the current curriculum, and may be moved even further ahead. Table 1 details thelast major curriculum modifications

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

The Engineering Decision Making Model: Its Importance as Applied through the Context of a World War II Simulation Elias W. Faraclas1 & Catherine Koehler2 1 School of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 Neag School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268Abstract The NSF sponsored Galileo Project, at the University of Connecticut, aims to bringengineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms and curriculum. Inattempting to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe; Seyed Zekavat; Sheryl Sorby

theinterdisciplinary service course Introduction to Electrical Engineering for all non-EE majors atMichigan Technological University. The curriculum optimizes the current 3-credit service courseby addressing: (1) the general needs of all majors through in-class lectures and lab experiments,and (2) special needs of all majors by designing a web-based teaching and lab system. In order tospecify the general and special needs of non-EE majors and form an overall curriculum for them,a survey was designed and distributed to universities and industry. Faculty members, studentsand industrial personnel responded to the survey. This work presents an analysis of the surveyand describes a preliminary overall curriculum for this course

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

-Core) and several CNC machinesincluding the latest twenty-one tool station Fadal. As part of introducing the ET 1840 students todifferent areas of engineering, they were given an overview of 3-D modeling. An approximatelyten-inch long cycloidal and straight path model (Figure 1) was designed in their presence usingAutoDesk Inventor. The file was transferred electronically to the Stratasys machine and a fewminutes later we went to the machine shop where the students could watch the machine build the3-D model out of ABS plastic. Two days later the students could hold the prototype (Figure 2)in their hand and play with it rolling marbles down the cycloidal and straight paths. Needless tosay they had a lot of fun finding out for themselves that