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Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Harris; M. Bramhall; Ian Robinson; David Hick

maintain any competitive advantage. Many UK industries are now ‘out-sourcing’their manufacturing to cheaper labour markets within Eastern Europe. Graduate engineers needto be able to communicate and work with these European countries. They need to have the widerskills outlined above to be able to succeed in this demanding global marketplace. Richardson [1]tells us that: “traditionally engineers and scientists in the UK have seen themselves only as inventors or Page 10.1276.1creators of systems and have left businessmen to worry about the possibility of their commercialexploitation”. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

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Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricio Torres; Matthew Stephens

2005, American Society for Engineering Educationwe state that today’s business world is experiencing a new industrial revolution. Only throughthorough education, it is possible to achieve the most ambitious goals in manufacturing. The authors have developed courses and modified some others to focus on expandingstudents understanding and skills in “Lean Manufacturing.” Major educational emphasis areplaced on: 1. - Understanding the theory, concepts, policies, procedures and steps of LeanManufacturing. 2. - Determining the major causes that create “waste” in factories and how to implementthese modern techniques. 3. - Determining how Lean Manufacturing can be the answer to several problems inmodern factories as a way

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

digital designs is the use of simulationtools and test-bench models. Although simulation is a very effective solution, designers todayare continuously faced with the challenge of exhaustive and timely verification of large systems.Many designs are taped-out with corner bugs, which is the result of non-exhaustive simulationcoverage. Furthermore, with the growing complexity of IC designs and programmable parts,simulation runs are becoming prohibitively long and non-convergent. One solution, which wasfirst commercially introduced in the mid 1990s, is the use of static tools[1] in addition tosimulation. The Static approach consists of formulating properties about a design (instead ofusing test-benches) and proving those properties or assertions using

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

Leaving Engineering: Gender Differences Harriet Hartman, Moshe Hartman Rowan University/Ben-Gurion UniversityAbstractThe paper focuses on retention in an innovative undergraduate engineering program with many“female-friendly” features despite its design as best practices for all students. Both male andfemale “stayers” in the program are compared to “leavers” on a variety of characteristics,including pre-college and family background, grades, satisfaction with the Rowan program,engineering self-confidence, and future expectations about their engineering major and career.Data come from a special 2000-1 survey of all Rowan engineering students.IntroductionStudent

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Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

help students to integrate diverse competencies across the Information Systemscurriculum.Concept Mapping FundamentalsAs the tools for organizing and representing knowledge, concept maps (CM) include concepts(defined as “a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designatedby a label1 “) and relationships between concepts or propositions designated by a connecting linebetween two concepts to form “a meaningful statement1”.Two important features of CM are: 1) The concepts may be represented mostly in a hierarchicalfashion (and sometimes as a non-hierarchical, randomly arranged setting), with the most inclusive,most general concepts at the top of the map and less general concepts arranged hierarchicallybelow

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Bern; Brian Steward; Amy Kaleita-Forbes; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Page 10.116.1outcomes assessment process is given in Figure 1. Our process primarily involves the“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” -2-assessment of workplace competencies in co-op and internship experiences3, and across students’academic experiences via electronic portfolios4. These competencies were mapped to ourprogram’s outcomes through engagement with our stakeholders5. A summary of the process isgiven in the next two paragraphs.Outcomes and objectives are reviewed every three years, in consultation with our stakeholders.The instructor(s) of each agricultural

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Kevin Craig; Pamela Theroux

Skills Students need to begin to develop a set of skills essential for all engineers: design, problem solving, computing, measurement, technical communication, leadership, ethics, professionalism, teamwork, and social awareness. These skills need to be embedded in all the courses, not just the engineering courses, and this then needs to continue throughout their remaining years of study in their chosen discipline.• Conceptual Understanding It is known that students who can correctly solve problems and receive high grades often cannot explain the basic physical principles underlying their solutions9,2. The Kolb Learning Cycle8, shown in Figure 1, consists of four components: concrete experience

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

curriculum intro- Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationduced students to (1) mathematical problem solving using the Matlab system, and (2) the C pro-gramming language, as well as to calculus and physics courses. In the sophomore year the cur-riculum builds on the first year's foundation of calculus and physics, and covers analog circuits(e.g., solutions to linear differential equations by classical and Laplace transform methods),solid-state materials, and digital circuits (combinational logic and finite-state machines). Re-quired courses in the junior year of the curriculum introduce concepts in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

technology has changed the “how”but not “why” some things are done. Therefore the preparation of professionals to work in thearena of the urban infrastructure requires a new approach to the engineering education for theUrban Infrastructure. A few selected topics with adaptations are presented to illustrate this point.Example 1: In the field of traffic operations (vehicles), traffic control signals still requiretraditional colored (green, yellow, and red) lights, but control of these lights is accomplishedthrough the use of solid state electronics. Monitoring of traffic counts historically has beenthrough manual observation and pneumatic counting devices. All of these now can beaccomplished with computers and electronic equipment. Therefore it is our

Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

engineering students; 2) how should it be taught and learned;and 3) who should teach and learn it.”11 The primary emphasis of the report and this paper is onthe what. This BOK is stated in terms of 15 learning outcomes, the first 11 coincide with currentAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) outcomes, which ABET uses toaccredit undergraduate (BS degree) civil engineering programs. Four new outcomes prescribeadditional breadth and more technical depth. The executive summary provides a quick overviewof the BOK. Specifically, “the 21st century civil engineer must demonstrate 11 1. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering. 2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

Instruction in Heat Transfer #1 (i.e. CSI-Heat Transfer #1): The IceMan Cometh… with Some Heat Transfer KnowledgeA public relations article by a master magician Mr. David Blaine is found in thenewspaper promoting his most recent stunt. The stunt involves being sealed in a tomb ofice while standing, motionless for over 61hours. Mr. Blaine was dressed only in khakisslacks, a sweater and boots. There is an opening in the ice for a catheter and for theadmission of air for breathing and an occasional drink of water…contrary to the oldadage about bringing “coals to Newcastle”. After the world-record setting time in thissolitary tomb, the magician is removed. Although physically exhausted the magicianappears otherwise unharmed despite his 61 hour ordeal. He

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Panhans; Joseph Musto; William Howard

recommendations from the standpoint of an undergraduate mechanicalengineering program at small, private, predominantly undergraduate institution.Review of the LiteratureThe reforms proposed for undergraduate engineering education are motivated by three distinctareas of change: emerging technological trends, student/population demographics, and globalsocioeconomic conditions. In this section, we will examine some of the proposed reforms withrespect to these three areas.1) Emerging Technological TrendsThe consensus of the published work is that the engineering profession will be dramaticallyinfluenced by breakthrough technologies such as biotechnology, small-scale systems(micro/nanotechnology), energy, and information technology.BiotechnologyAccording to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

mailing attempting to obtainpersonal information about a user. Many people are interested in spam, including legislators,researchers, and businesses. One interesting forum is held by The Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology; the next MIT Spam Conference will be held in January 20052. There is a great dealof interest in this subject, and it should be addressed in the engineering classroom.CAN-SPAM Act of 2003The bill was signed by the President on December 16, 2003, and became an effective law on Page 10.665.1January 1, 2004. This law was designed to eliminate, or “can,” spam, but it actually has verylittle bite. There is no liability for third

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Quinn

lectures are devoted to introducing technical material. The rest of the lectures arespent discussing generic topics of benefit to freshmen, such as time management, groupdynamics, and opportunities for international study. In order to have each technical lectureaccompanied by an applet, we would need a total of about 18 applets. We were able to produce15 applets before the class began in September 2004. The applets did not map evenly to thelecture topics. Some lectures had two relevant applets, while others had none. In the end, weused the applets in 10 lectures, or about one-third of the total number of lectures in the class.Table 1 summarizes the goal(s) for each of the applets we have created.Applet Designed to

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sofia A. Pechorskaya; Alexandr M. Shvaiger; Charles Dolan

be a whole course, but rather part of a course called Engineering Drawing thatincludes descriptive geometry.” [1]. It seems to be a paradoxical situation that descriptivegeometry courses were taken off the curricula of most engineering programs of Americanuniversities at the same time when some authors proclaimed Visual Science as an EmergingDiscipline [2].Russian engineering graphics courses, particularly Descriptive Geometry courses, are consideredfundamental theoretical courses, rather than an applied field of engineering knowledge. So, it istaught from a set-theoretical approach as an applied mathematical discipline that uses acombination of the projective principles and a sophisticated symbology to solve 3-dimensionalgeometrical

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

B.K. Hodge

arithmetic. Thisarrangement permits the student to concentrate on problem formulation and results (theengineering aspects of the problems) rather than on the arithmetic. The congruence of theproblem formulations for all problems is evident to the student.IntroductionMany of the “procedures” for solving engineering problems are techniques to solve a non-linearalgebraic equation or a system of non-linear algebraic equations. However, recent computationalsoftware systems, such a Mathcad, have made possible “direct” solutions of such non-linearproblems in which the solution procedure is transparent to the user. Piping systems are anexcellent example of such problems. The purposes of this paper are twofold: (1) to explore theuse of computational software

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

in non-scientific areas, indicating a critical need for additional research into the reasonbehind this discrepancy. Not surprisingly, women also remain significantly underrepresented inthe total S&E workforce, especially when compared with their presence in the total labor force orin the college-educated labor force [1]. Page 10.667.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In 1970, 451,000 bachelor degrees were conferred to males as opposed to 341,000 to females.While in 2001 these

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Turpin; Donald Richter; William Loendorf

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationchallenges has led the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to adopt the contestas a voluntary regional event.IntroductionEach year, Eastern Washington University (EWU) hosts the annual Intercollegiate HumanPowered Paper Vehicle (HPPV) Engineering Competition. Typically colleges and universitiesfrom Washington, Idaho and Oregon participate in this event. This engineering competitioninspires students, challenges their engineering skill and creativity, and provides a format thatlimits the amount of money needed to field a competitive team [1, 2, 3, 4]. There is no cost toenter the competition. The only costs involved are for basic materials, which

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

20000increased through 1986 when it reached76,225, by 1990 the number dropped to 1000063,309 and throughout the 90' s dropped to 0 1970 1980 1990 2000 2about 58,000 per year . Major concernregarding engineering education occurredwhen within 4 years the number of BS Figure 1: Peaks and Valleys in the Number of BS 2graduates dropped by 16.5% or approximately Engineering Graduates Between 1970 and 2000 . Note Level-Off at 58,000 at End of Century.1 in 6. An analysis of the

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

and spend large amounts ofinstructional time preparing students for high-stakes tests.1. Introduction For decades, the main strategy for engineering outreach involved activitiesdesigned to motivate and attract students using the wonder and excitement inherent in theprocesses of design and discovery. Typically, matters related to curriculum alignmentwere left to the classroom teacher and university faculty involved in the outreach.Beginning in the 70s, the importance of statewide and national accountability testing inthe U.S. has risen steadily. In the reauthorization of the Elementary and SecondaryEducation Act (ESEA), No Child Left Behind1 the federal government signaled a furtherincrease in the use of accountability systems to

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Painter

Page 10.1321.4contractor were acquired by court order and are as follows:Site Consideration at Meeting DispositionColeridge "houses fairly wealthy" outSnow Camp "fairly affluent" outCherry Grove "residences of site minority-owned" inFarmington 1 "fairly affluent" outGold Hill 1 "dynamite company--explosives/ munitions" outGold Hill 3 "very depressed area" inWatson "poultry operations--impressive--Holly Farms" "some new homes--affluent" 5 outGhio "trailers everywhere" "forecloses then resells" "distressed county" inMarston "distressed area" "buffer would have to be in game land" (which violates state criteria) outHoffman "distressed area" "major wetlands" inMillstone Lake "Sheriff Goodman -- concerned about job loss" inSlocumb "affluent

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Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

trouble-shooting experience. Moreover, thehardware components and equipments are expensive and have long acquisition times in aneducational setup. The communication circuits and subsystems are now available as merchant integratedcircuits. Engineers and technologists in the modern telecommunication industry configuresystems and build them from subsystems and ICs. The subsystems, even though procured frommultiple vendors, use standard interfaces to enable trouble-free interfacing. The uppermostdesign issues before the engineers now are interfacing of subsystems. MATLAB SIMULINK [1]is popular software for developing educational exercises. However, several of these exercises useblocks that perform mathematical operations [2]. These blocks have

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

professor’svantage point is far different than that of the young, inexperienced student. Often, students won’tfully realize the relationship between different approaches until well after the completion of thecourse—often not until they are working in industry and a problem arises which requires thenow “practicing engineer” to “pull all the pieces together”.In order to improve this situation, students must be given a compelling reason to fully understandand retain the material when it is initially presented. Students learn best with hands-on projectsand problems with practical purpose [1]. Without a clear need or a “real problem” to which thetechniques can be applied, the theoretical concepts are too abstract and difficult to remember.The concepts taught in

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Loving; Joyce Yen

, the faculty all agreed to lengthen the time to three hours and this time frame has made ahuge difference. These three hour sessions, still respect faculty time and allow them to value thetime they are spending. Moreover, scheduling these sessions during a meal and providing lunchor dinner has worked well.CDCCP CurriculumThe CDCCP curriculum includes concepts and skills development and acquisition as well as adepartment project. The first few sessions are focused on skill development; however, as theskills become a part of the faculty member’s interpersonal repertoire, the time focused on thedepartment project increases (See Figure 1). DEPT. PROJECT WORK SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

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Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Engineering EducationTechnical BackgroundThere are two aspects of thermal environmental engineering that are special toautomotive climate control. The first is inclusion of the solar load through the windows.This analysis begins with a calculation of the solar insolation, qsun, based on location,time of day, and time of year. The process behind this standard HVAC calculation isprovided in lecture. With the solar insolation known, the solar load to the automotiveinterior is then calculated from Qsolar = τwindAwindqsun (1)where τwind is the solar transmissivity of the car windows and Awind is the window area ofthe car.The second aspect of note is the cool down process that is a major

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schaffer; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Jenna Rickus; Matthew Verleger

Learning ModuleBIOL 295F, Quantitative Biology of the Living Cell, is a new 1-credit hour computer lab basedcourse developed at Purdue University targeted at engineering students studying bioengineeringor related fields. In Fall 2004, the course met once each week for 110 minutes in a computer lab.The objective of the course is to examine traditional cellular biology topics, but place them in anengineering context, identifying the fundamental engineering concepts that underlie manybiological processes. This course is designed to be a co-requisite to BIOL 295E, Biology of theLiving Cell, an existing 3-credit hour traditional introduction to cellular biology for engineeringstudents.The course developer, as part of the course creation process

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Dunlap; M.L. Meier

a structured approach to problem solving. Recent efforts at integrating spreadsheetsinto materials science courses at U.C. Davis have been successful [1]. The one aspect that until Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 10.795.1 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnow has been ignored in these efforts, the reason spreadsheets were invented, to performfinancial calculations in a table-like format. This is now being incorporated into a laboratorycourse at U.C. Davis and have been incorporated into an electron microscopy

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

, includingforming martensite. The students perform a tensile test to evaluate the yield strength and ductilityand take micrographs of the alloys.IntroductionBloom’s Taxonomy is key to the author’s philosophy of engineering education1. Rather thanemphasize the lower levels of learning: Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application, the authorfeels that lower level undergraduates should be required to perform at the Analysis level andupper level undergraduates at the Synthesis level. It is felt that this better reflects the maturity ofthe students. Engineering Materials is a core engineering course designed for the junior year. Thecourse has three objectives: 1) Specify suitable materials for a given application using the relationship between

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

activity (in contrast to a protocol study, directlyaccounting designer actions such as decision events). Here we choose to measure the: (1)quantity of ideas, (2) technical feasibility, and (3) novelty. The research objective is toexperimentally measure the impact of functional modeling methods upon conceptual designperformance by senior engineering students. An empirical study is conducted in a controlledsetting to meet this objective in which the experimental group (“functions group”) is cued to usefunctional modeling, and the control group is not cued to use any specified technique. Thehypothesis of this work is that functional modeling is expected to result in overall improvementsin designer effectiveness and efficiency.Here we briefly review

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins; Ambrose Barry; Nan Byars

students, the department had to develop curricula for the first twoyears of its programs, which include civil, computer/electrical, fire safety, and mechanicalengineering technology. Referred to as the “lower division,” this new curriculum includes basicstudies outside the department, such as English, math, and physics, and also several coursestaught within the department. A course that proved most challenging in its development anddelivery was ETGR 1100, Engineering Technology Computer Applications.The goal of the course is to provide basic computer competencies that the students will need asthey move through the curriculum (1). It covers the use of standard office applications inengineering, advanced use of scientific calculators, and also gives