Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

” Koehn is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, TX. Professor Koehn has served as the principal investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects of construction and has experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating of facilities. In addition, he has authored/co-authored over 200 papers and presentations in engineering education and the general areas of civil and construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi and is a licensed Professional Engineer and Surveyor. RAJESH D. MALANI Rajesh D. Malani was awarded the M. Engr. Degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Lamar

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Carla Campbell; Nancy Hubing; Timothy Philpot

generated at random (within broad limits).Consequently, each movie user gets a somewhat different experience each time they use thesoftware. Module development required approximately 200 man-hours total to develop bothmovies. Since all problems in both movies are dynamically generated, the need to periodicallyupdate the software is greatly diminished.References[1] Oglesby, D.B., Carney, E.R., Prissovsky, M., Crites, D., “Statics On-Line: A Project Review,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998.[2] Zecher, J., “An Interactive Graphics Oriented Beam Analysis Program,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996.[3] Hubing, N., Oglesby, D.B., Philpot, T.A., Yellamraju, V., Hall, R.H., Flori, R.E., “Interactive Learning Tools: Animating

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

opportunity for a student to reworkcategories of problems until they receive their desired score. From an assessment standpoint, theresulting database offers opportunities to correlate module scores with scores received on otheronline modules, projects, or exams, where scores can be aggregated or associated with specificproblems. Cross-semester comparisons can also be performed. Additional parameters such ascompletion date/time, the number of attempts per module, the location of the student’s machine,and the time required to complete an exercise provide a rich information set for understandingstudent work habits. The ultimate goal is to close the assessment loop and improve coursecontent based upon previous semester analyses. Early surveys and

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

uncertain or disagree. Additionally, almost one-quarter indicatethat they do not feel like equal participants when working on group projects with maleteammates.16Development of Tech 101 Women in Technology: Exploring the PossibilitiesWith seed money from John Deere, Tech 101 Women in Technology: Exploring the Possibilitieswas established as a first year seminar, tailored toward helping entering women students gain abetter appreciation of the career opportunities available with a technology degree, the ways inwhich technology benefits society, and how women with technology-related careers balancework and family. Funds were made available to bring women professionals to campus to serveas speakers for the course.The course was designed to create a

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

-10th grade girls. Park and Ride has beenoffered twice to date (April 2004 and December 2004) and EYH once (October 2004). Thissection describes efforts to publicize and recruit for the new events as well as descriptions of theactual events themselves.Development, Recruitment, and Application ProcessesMost of the initial planning for the two new events was done with the help of a RIT co-opstudent. RIT’s engineering and engineering technology students are required to complete 48weeks of co-op experience prior to graduation, and one of these students, who was already activein the women in engineering programs at RIT, was hired to work on these two projects full-time.While the student worked closely with faculty members on many of the ideas for

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

environment for students toobtain hands-on skills. To address security issues for accessing the remote laboratory, a simplecost-effective firewall mechanism is designed to alleviate the risk of the malicious attacks fromthe Internet. As a companion for one of networking course taught in the fall semester of 2004,the laboratory has undergone extensive tests and demonstrated satisfactory robustness andreliability. The results of this work create a prototype for other institutions to adopt to developtheir own online secure laboratories.9. AcknowledgmentThis project is funded through UNC OP e-learning initiative grant.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Sixto, O., “Virtual Private Networks: Leveraging the Internet,” IEEE Computer Magazine, pp.18-20, Nov. 1997.2

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

; Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationexperience might be worthwhile. Mixing concrete followed by constructing and testing aconcrete beam might provide improved appreciation of the nature of engineering design andanalysis. Projects or assignments requiring students from the engineering course and the finearts course to work together could also be used to further promote interaction, learning andshared perspectives. One possibility would be to have interdisciplinary student teams prepare apresentation on a skyscraper from both an artistic and engineering perspective.The collaboration discussed in this paper resulted from the two instructors realizing the potentialconnection between their course

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Hoffmann

the hands-on laboratory environment, detractionsseem to occur regularly. The lab ‘glitch’ may be related to apparatus, or computer hardware orsoftware, or to any number of human interactions. A case in point is the operation of oneparticular student lab in a course in the standard track that has been negatively affected by pastchoices in computer software and lab procedure.Introduction In the second course of The Ohio State University First-year Engineering Programstandard track, four-member teams of students must design and build a roller coaster as their10-week lab project. Student teams are required to include certain features in their roller coasterdesigns, and must develop a paper design which is reviewed by instructional staff

Conference Session

Integrating Research into Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Toni Doolen; Rungchat Chompu-inwai

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Lancaster; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

homework. Or your project. [senior, male]Table 1: Distribution of Comments by Gender female male female malenumber of participants 23 18 56% 44%number of participants who 22 18 55% 45%commented on office hoursnumber of comments 90 55 62% 38%average number of comments 3.9 3.1Table 2: Tallies of Student Comments Related to Office Hours total comments female male female male 56 POS IE 31 25 55% 45% 3

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

the titles, funding, and rewards revert,rightfully, to the department, not to the ‘green’ program. A specific program to pursue legitimategreen research would likely infringe upon or duplicate efforts by individual departments andtheir faculty. In terms of engineering education, ‘green’ senior design projects are options ineach of the departments.The departments of Biological Systems Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineeringhave recently agreed to jointly oversee the Green Engineering Program. These departments willnot be contributing financially to the program, but will provide what might be described as moralsupport to those faculty contributing to the program. The current director of the program servesas an unpaid volunteer and a

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Shahrabi; Feng Huang; Ali Setoodehnia; Hong Li

in classical and quantum communication. Page 10.396.10DR. HONG LI is Assistant Professor at Department of Computer System Technology of New York CityCollege of Technology-CUNY. She received Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of Oklahoma,“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005 American Society for Engineering Education”Norman, Ok, in 1997. Her research has been focused on system modeling with numerical method andartificial neural network. She has worked on funded projects that include modeling of drainage of rainfallthrough

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Education” Session #1649in this program reflect the world of work that the Verizon employees encounter. Besides using aninnovative curriculum, this program places a heavy emphasis on employee soft skills. Integratedwithin the curriculum are numerous projects and assignments designed to increase the student’scommunication skills, leadership qualities, problem solving ability, and other soft skills.VIII. ConclusionWhat about today’s electronics engineering technology teaching fraternity? Will they be quick toembrace change? I think the answer to that question is, most likely not

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

to a step input. The digital controller will provide therequired output with variations in a single plant parameter. A fully adaptive controller will then beimplemented using PC Matlab to allow for any of the plant parameters to vary and still maintain asuitable output. This concept is used in our Senior Design Project Course as well as in Master Programin Engineering Technology.The popularity of the PID controller and the increased use of microprocessors has led to a digitalversion of the algorithm for use in computer control applications. The first part of this paper will lookat the output response of the specified plant to a step input. Some of the plant parameters will beadjusted to obtain the best results. The next part will show how

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Jacobitz; Kathleen Kramer; Rick Olson

. Because of this rotation manystudents are comfortable seeking input from any of the engineering preceptors. Consequently, insome respects, engineering students have three advisors and mentors rather than one.The current approach of rotating students in Engr101 through the discipline is partially a resultof curricular changes that resulted from establishing the mechanical engineering program in Fall2003. In previous years, some of the time currently devoted to ME was devoted to generalprofessional topics (e.g. project management) in preparation for the design activities in Engr 102.The remaining time was used for more discussion of preceptorial topics- particularly study skills,communication, and teamwork.Although these non-technical skills appear

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Cornwell; Richard Layton

head and a project manager. He is a member of the Teaching Page 10.1116.12Workshop Group of the ERM Division of ASEE, giving workshops on building student teams. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie McCarther; Linda Garavalia; David Renz; Deborah O'Bannon

Session 2692 “Networking” (n=2) “Allowed me to understand the dynamics of leadership, the responsibilities that go with it, conflict management, my current leadership style & how to project my image more positively” “Support”In response to the question, "What part of the Leadership Institute was most useful to you,"participants responded Personal inventories of communication and conflict style (n=7) Strategic planning (n=6) Conflict resolution (n=5) Guest speakers, role models (n=5) Leadership Practices Inventory (n=3) General management (n=2) Financial reporting and planning (n=1) Mentoring (n=1) "Know yourself" aspects (n=1) Case studies (n=1) Networking (n=1) Image

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

of the Year" among research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2000. The author has refereed to many of his publications and presentations. Peer Assessment must be a part of the Teaching Evaluations Plan and should be practiced by almost all the faculty in any given department. Peer assessment procedures are a mandatory requirement in Senior Design Projects. (Muchinsky, 1995, Nelson, 1991, Brown, Race and Smith, 1996).“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 10.231.3Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Program

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shyi-Jeng Tsai; Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

though the objects discussed in the course (e.g. gear or linkage Mechanisms) are very concrete. Especially the symbolic representation of mechanisms is meaningless to most students if they cannot establish the mapping relation between abstract symbols and realistic mechanisms in mind.(2) There is no close relation between the individual course contents. It is not necessary, for example, the chapter “Cam Mechanisms” and “Gear Mechanisms” in a given order to teach. As a result, the students are not capable of integrating the diverse knowledge from the course to solve practical kinematic problems later by their project or capstone design.(3) Only by the chapter “Cam Mechanisms”, the students can acquire design ability

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 2005-1195 Table 4: Design problem #2 – “Art enabling device” A device needs to be designed to allow children with severe physical disabilities to create art projects. The children have very limited motor skills. They cannot hold items such as a paint brush. The deviceDesign Problem needs to be actuated by simple electrical devices such as the large switch shown on the left. Teachers

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

). Thiscontradicts the preferred use of third person by some references for writing. (3)(22)DiscussionA literature review found case studies, term projects, and exemplar studies (14) for the classroom.Miller (23) discusses industry’s additional issues (inconsistent data, real vs. theoretical data) thatare normally not part of the classroom. Otherwise, a search of the literature revealed nothing thatcompares how working world engineering problems differ from textbook problems.Textbook problems differ with the working world in several ways as shown in Figure “A”. Inthe working world the available information may be wrong or misleading. Critical data may notbe easily available. The engineer in industry needs an in depth understanding of the problem.He/she

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Alice Scales; Aaron Clark

over the last five years. Again, manycomments were made, but those mentioned most often included greater utilization of web-based instruction and tutorials, emphasis on 3D visualization using testing and help sessions,and project-based learning with students working in teams.The 2004 survey requested that participants list their major concerns related to the teachingof engineering/technical graphic communications at the post-secondary level. Overall, the Page 10.1359.8most cited concerns were the quality of students entering programs; staying current withchanges in technology (the cost of software/hardware, faculty development, and the

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

much less intellectual energy left toactually think about what’s being discussed.Helpful but not necessary is a good projection system. PowerPoint usage should in generalbe used only sparingly but occasionally it’s invaluable. Additionally, it’s often advantageousto hook up a computer to display an animation that illustrates some point of the lecture.This entails a real cost to the school and should be appreciated when available but notexpected.The instructor should definitely strive to arrange for proper seating and proper blackboards.The room’s floor should be sloped, as do theatre floors, so that all students can see theblackboards. Just as important is that with this arrangement the instructor can see thestudents. It isn’t helpful to know

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger; Richard Felder

. Page 10.95.15 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education32. When writing a paper, I am more likely to (a) work on (think about or write) the beginning of the paper and progress forward. (b) work on (think about or write) different parts of the paper and then order them.33. When I have to work on a group project, I first want to (a) have "group brainstorming" where everyone contributes ideas. (b) brainstorm individually and then come together as a group to compare ideas.34. I consider it higher praise to call someone (a) sensible. (b) imaginative.35. When I meet people at a party, I am more

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barbara; Shripad Revankar

-iv/vhtr.html 2003.25. Nicholls D. Status of the pebble bed modular reactor. Nuclear Energy 2000; 39(4) Aug., 231-23626. William KT, editor. Modular Pebble-Bed Reactor Project, FY 2001 Annual Report. INEEL/EXT-01-01623, Idaho Falls, Idaho. December 2001.27. Croy C, Elkhiamy S, Kopenec R Revankar ST. Scaling Investiation of a Modualar Pebble Bed Optimization. School of Nuclear Engineering Purdue University, Senior Design Report 2001.28. Joo H, Barber D, Jiang G, Downar T. PARCS: A Multi-Dimensional Two-Group Reactor Kinetics Code Based on the Nonlinear Analytic Nodal Method. Purdue University, School of Nuclear Engineering Report PU/NE-98- 26, 1998.29. Downar T, Lee DJ. Comparative Analysis of PBMR Core Physics

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

students also liked the way that they could choose to arrive late,leave early, or even miss lectures altogether.Students also saw problems with large classes. First, there was less individual responsibility.They saw the passive context as hindering learning, making it easier to not pay attention, or evennot attend. Second, large classes were seen as impersonal, leading to decreased motivation. Third,students found that large classes tended to be noisier and offer more distractions: students arrivedlate, left early, and talked to others during the lecture. Students also mentioned overcrowding,microphone difficulties, and projected images that were hard to see. Significantly, however,when asked to compare their best large classes with their best

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

-timed, adaptive, electronically administered, proctored, semi-secure exam); The Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) exam (a timed, non-adaptive exam, sold in booklet form, but parts of which are electronic, non-secure, not originally used for placement, but is being used by the University of California, Cal State and Community College systems as one pillar in their placement procedure for several different levels of mathematics); The Entry Level Mathematics (ELM) exam (a highly-controlled, secure exam, regulated by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), but not designed for placement into higher level mathematics

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

financial support as well.We also wish to personally thank Anna Henson for coding and tallying the data. Her meticulouswork was a large contribution to this project.8. References1. University of Missouri, Kansas City web site, http://www.umkc.edu/cad/SI/2. Murray, M. H. (2001). Students: Managing to Learn, Teachers: Learning to Manage. In Miller, Groccia, &Miller (Eds.), Student-assisted teaching: A guide to faculty-student teamwork, Boston: Anker Publishing.3. LaFasto, F. M. J., & Larson, C. E. (2001). When Teams Work Best. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,Inc.4. Pellegrino, J. W., Chudowsky, N., & Glaser, R. (Eds.). (2001). Knowing what Students Know: The Science andDesign of Educational Assessment. Washington, DC: National

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

represented the experiences of a small number (N < 6) of undergraduates andgraduate students within the context of this program.In this paper, we will first describe the background for this project. Secondly, we will provide anoverview of the undergraduate Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP) which includesa description of the context in which we piloted this newly developed undergraduate version ofthe ETPP curriculum and the process we used to adapt the curriculum materials that wepreviously developed for an advanced graduate student audience to the undergraduate level.Third, we will present the design of the research study linked with this pilot offering and discussthe results and their implications of the formative evaluation of the