Conference Session

Implementing the BOK - Can it Be Done?

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University; Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

canoe or steelbridge competitions. Key deliverables of the professional component are the projectmanagement and engineering science notebooks. The notebooks document design calculationsas well as the project management, construction management, asset management, teamorganization and function, safety, quality control, and cost accounting tasks.As before, an additional critical feature of proposed projects is the opportunity for a constructeddeliverable that can be tested. The proof of concept aspect is a critical element in the feedbacksystem for the projects that is often not available in typical civil engineering senior projects.Projects of this type often require students deliver plans for the development of a tract of landincluding utilities

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

for course assessment, itwas considered it is better to get into greater detail initially and meet the needs of continuousimprovement at both the program and course levels.The paper describes the methodology using a typical theory and lab-oriented course in theIndustrial Engineering Technology program. An example of a course assessment summary isshown that meets the needs of assessment and continuous improvement.Even though the assessment and continuous improvement plan developed is applicable to anyengineering technology program, this paper gives an example of the plan as applied to the A.S.degree program in Industrial Engineering Technology.Program Objectives and OutcomesThe Industrial Engineering Technology program objectives are based on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

themathematical model.The value of teamwork was emphasized by having the teams go through a group problemsolving simulation7. Each of the students read through the details of a hypothetical subarcticsurvival situation, in which a plane has crashed in northern Canada and 15 items were salvagedprior to the plane drifting away and sinking. The students had to rank the items according totheir importance to their survival. After everyone had finished the individual ranking, the teamsmet and discussed the situation, and then ranked each of the items as a team. After comparingtheir answers with the Canadian Para Rescue Specialists, the students found that they performedbetter as a team, than individually.The teams were also given a planning exercise before they

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

as well as considering some specific issuessurrounding the CE program, the faculty decided to focus assessment on direct measures ofstudent work utilizing student design projects as much as possible. It was very apparent basedon attendance in the Olds/Miller workshops, as well as continual review of “CommunicationsLink: ABET Quarterly News Source”, that direct methods of assessment are the best way todetermine what students know and are capable of doing, rather than through grades or surveys 4.In addition, it has been shown that utilizing specific portions of classroom activities, such asstudent projects, are very effective at not only assessing the outcomes, but actually achieving theoutcomes5.It was determined that the plan should focus on

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

modeling capabilities by integrating constraint-based feature modelingand explicit geometric modeling. Besides parts of standard geometry, it enables thedesign of complex free- form shapes like airfoils and manifolds. It also enables themerging of solid and surface modeling techniques into one powerful tool set.The CAD files from Unigraphics are converted to .stl format and are further processedwith software tool called Catalyst. This software cuts the model into a set of stacked2D layers in a process known as “slicing” and plans the tool paths necessary for themachine to create each layer. This software will also compute the support structurenecessary to support the model as it is being constructed. All this information isuploaded to the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

information, grapple with challenges, solve problems, defineproblems, talk, and learn from each other. Underlying the design of the seminar is a goal ofhelping the collection of PhD students develop into a community of practice4.The general design of the seminar has been simple: have the students collectively identify topicsthat they would like to discuss and then have them use simple group facilitation exercises inorder to discuss the topic. Because the PhD process is complex, the space of possible topics islarge. Such topics include issues such as succeeding with PhD program milestones, choosinggood elective courses and selecting advisors, defining effective research questions, authorship,and managing citations.In planning the sessions, the idea

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shelton Houston; Christopher Herrod; Steven Blesse

. Students were provided sufficient addresses to plan, coordinate, and deploy redundant DHCPservices for their subnet. Additionally, students could implement DHCP relay agents and deploycentralized DHCP services for multiple subnets from a single server. Page 10.809.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2: Physical Layout for 32 Workstation LaboratoryThe primary set of RHDs was configured so that all workstations were on a single broadcastdomain and permitted student

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

entrepreneurial Reengineering Makes Industry Meaningful In College program not onlyexposes students to the world of industry within the confines of the classroom, it is areplicable, cost-effective model that can be adapted to a varying number of semesters andintegrated into a variety of technical programs and college settings.The origin of entrepreneurship in engineering and electronics at IVCCTen years ago, the engineering design instructor and a business instructor at Illinois ValleyCommunity College developed a creative plan to provide their students with workplace,entrepreneurial experiences. As a project in one of their courses, the instructors integratedtheir students into teams to develop, produce and sell a product. They named the projectMaking

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

resources per project: a design challenge from anindustry sponsor, with industrial liaison engineer available for a finite weekly time (e.g.,2-4 hours), and project funding of $15,000. Each project included a contract fordeliverables, namely, a first semester with “product specifications, concept generationand evaluation, a preliminary design report, a project plan, and an analytical andexperiment plan and report, and a final report and project documentation”. Thesubsequent semester allowed time for prototype realization, with an end-of-termdemonstration to the industrial sponsor, to include “a systems level design report,prototype results and report, a production sample, and an acceptance test. This course,initiated in the mid-nineties, has grown

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Piacentine; Tonya Emerson

it mildly, as plans for their own outreach event began developing before the close of theconference. In developing their plan, the students determined two main goals. First, theywanted to excite kids about engineering, specifically Civil Engineering. Second, they wanted tocreate an event to showcase the Civil Engineering students and the department in an effort togenerate pride in the department and create campus and community awareness about civilengineering. After the first annual event, which had been developed in honor of the 150thAnniversary of ASCE and held on September 27th, 2002, the students expanded the event toincluded all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The 2nd Annual Mindsin Motion was held on

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective is to graduate engineers who are familiarwith the construction industry and have a better understanding of the role of the civil engineer inthe construction process. Courses offered include project management, project planning,contracts, bidding, estimation, and other topics that are of importance to construction.As a means to provide an incentive to the student, a certificate in Construction EngineeringManagement is awarded upon the completion of a required number of credit hours. Thecertificate prepares the undergraduate civil engineering student for a career in the constructionindustry. For those students who are not interested in a career in construction, the certificateprovides them with sufficient

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina

-solving methods as thePolya’s work and its further development by Wales et al. and their GENI idea [12]. While theseheuristics methods help planning a mathematical reasoning from the goal (e.g., the unknown) tothe equations for solving, the FPD proposes a formal language and graphics approach when thealgorithms (i.e., equations or procedures) are known to exist.The method can be very helpful for identifying the relations between “variables” (e.g.,dimensions, parameters, factors, etc.) and “computations”, and it is general enough to show if apath to a solution can or cannot be produced from given data, even if the relationships Page 10.1386.4

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Carpenter

removingtoxins from the human body. At the end of this course, you should be able to generate a business plan for a start-upcompany that would support a request for venture capital.Well-written objectives clarify the expectations of the instructor in terms of measurable orobservable student performance. As such, objectives can play a key role in the educationalprocess. A set of published learning objectives can provide a focus for instruction, facilitatecourse activities, communicate expectations to students and to other faculty, and provide targetsfor assessment1, 2.Writing Learning ObjectivesConsider the following objective: At the end of the course, I should instill upon the student a comprehension of the designprocess.This objective has several

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Dunn

‘Install brick veneer on south wall.” Critical pathschedules are so-named because these time schedules highlight a subgroup of activities that lieon the critical path. The activities that lie on the critical path are important because a delay incompleting any of these activities will result in a delay in completion of the project.Schedulers and/or construction project managers should update their CPM schedules on a regularbasis in an effort to compare actual progress on the job with planned progress. Owners will wantto know if the project is on schedule, and the only way to provide a quantitative answer to thatquestion is to examine each activity in the schedule and record any progress that has occurred onthat activity since the last update. Once

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

of their impression of the Center ofTown and the elements that they felt were needed to increase the activity and vitality of thecenter. The second phase consisted of analyzing the data and performing several design studies.These studies were performed by architecture, art, and engineering students enrolled inArchitectural Design II, Site Planning, Design Systems, Water Quality Engineering, and CivilEngineering Senior Design Project. The final phase consisted of developing recommendationsbased on analysis of the data gathered in phase 1 and the design studies conducted in phase 2. Page 10.276.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

engineering classes. Wehope to catch students in their junior years, before they have decided what college to attend. Thejunior- and senior-level participants will be examined for application to the University of Tulsa,as engineering majors and particularly as chemical engineering majors. The students will also besurveyed for future plans, specifically their chosen universities and majors. The effectiveness ofthe competition as a recruiting tool will be evaluated.IntroductionWe have taken a national collegiate competition offered by a professional society and modified itfor use at the University of Tulsa (TU) as a recruiting tool for chemical engineering. Thenational competition is the Chem-E-Car Competition sponsored by the American Institute

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Wolter

Development of an Acquisition Management Course Jason Wolter, M.S., Roger Burk, Ph.D., Bob Foote, Ph.D., Niki Goerger, Ph.D., Willie McFadden, Ph.D., Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D. United States Military AcademyAbstract In response to external feedback and a continual desire to increase the diversity andapplicability of the curriculum for our students, the Engineering Management Program at USMAwill offer an acquisition systems management course for the first time in Spring 2005. Thiscourse will provide graduates with relevant skills related to the acquisition goals of strategicallymanaging, planning, and implementing acquisition programs and reforms. Topics will

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell; Michael Kwinn

provided an opportunity to learn and use skillslearned in the classroom in a well-designed work experience. Since traditional schooling alonehinders the full development of each student’s cognitive abilities, incorporating education intoreal-world situations in which what is being learned will be used, work-based education hasbecome the bridge to the intellectual or cognitive gap between school and work. 1Work-based education and a variety of additional models and approaches have been attempted toaddress the perceived deficiencies of traditional schooling. Lessons from these experiences wereincorporated into the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. According to the act, acomprehensive reform plan must include three broad components: 1) school

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Scherr; Bevlee Watford

, all who share WEPAN’s commitment to enhancing the diversity of theengineering workforce.In 2002, WEPAN unveiled a new strategic plan centered on three keystone statements. (1) Toincrease the visibility and inclusiveness of Engineering to engage all talent; (2) to catalyzechange to create a critical mass; and (3) to make strategic choices that impact systemic change.The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of WEPAN and its operations. This isfollowed by a discussion of how WEPAN can affect women faculty in engineering and areas inwhich both WEPAN and women faculty could benefit from increased interactions.IntroductionEngineering education has long recognized the lack of diversity in their students. The numbersof students of color

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

’ conceptualization andexposure to System Dynamics and Controls fundamentals by providing less restricted exposureto a variety of systems that encompass the more important Dynamic Systems concepts. The plan involves the development of a System Dynamics Concepts Inventory and theimplementation and assessment of three Web-enabled laboratory formats: (1) inter-campuscollaborative experimentation, (2) remotely-accessible experiments, and (3) virtual systemexperiments. Each format has its inherent advantages and disadvantages. Remotely-accessibleexperiments, for example, can be made more readily available to students outside of regularlaboratory hours, but the lack of hands-on exposure limits the potential scope of the experiments.Each format has been

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Auzenne; Jeanne Garland; J. Phillip King; Ricardo Jacquez

-supported opportunities, and 3) year-round advising support on career opportunities. This paper focuses on the challenges we faced indeveloping and maintaining the META program and presents the positive outcomes, such asstrengthened industry and community college relationships, engaging student activities, studentinternships, and the increase of students entering SMET fields, particularly civil engineering.The paper reflects plans for sustainability by further collaborations with our community collegeand industry partners.IntroductionRepresenting a joint effort of New Mexico State University, Santa Fe Community College(SFCC), Luna Community College (Luna CC), and five regional civil engineering industrypartners, the Minority Engineering Transfer

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

learning, and developed theircompetency to integrate technology into the mathematics and science curricula.NASA personnel and university faculty offered courses that included lesson planning, classroomapplication of problem-based learning, application of mathematics and science content as relatedto real-world problems, and the effective use of technology as a teaching tool. In addition, pre- Page 10.1397.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition”Copyright © 2005, United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics andSpace

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

guarantee these results; rather it is effectivementor interactions that influence learning positively. We need to know how to direct ourmentors to activate learning, team formation, and team performance.Our research question then is: “What roles and practices can mentors take to activate team formation, team performance, and individual learning?”Effective mentor roles were surfaced using a qualitative method case study. The case involved aclass of 44 students and six mentors. Each week the mentors conducted the lab, recorded theirinsights of effective mentoring practices, distilled “best practices,” and incorporate these into thenext week’s lab plan. The mentor best practices and an end of treatment student questionnairewere used to

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

enablesecondary students to experience the relevancy of their education to everyday life, societyand the world. The third goal is to encourage secondary students to consider engineeringas a field of study in college and as a profession.Project STEP Fellows are primarily graduate students, but several undergraduate studentshave participated and used the experience as a capstone design experience. The Fellowsare trained by College of Education faculty in a sequence of graduate courses that covertopics including classroom management techniques, lesson planning, instructionaldelivery, state and national standards, and assessment of student learning. Fieldpracticum allows the Fellows to observe teachers’ classroom styles and becomeacquainted with school

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt

course. A more completedescription of the course elements is provided in a previous ASEE conference paper2.Students begin the semester by responding to the RFP. If possible, clients (typicallyrepresentatives from local consulting firms, the University, and ICAST) are part of the audiencewhen the students present their proposals. The students create a work plan to outline theiranticipated tasks and time management throughout the semester. Given that many weeks go bybetween due dates for the deliverables, time management by the students is critical. Weeklytimesheets are submitted by each student. Typically, individual meetings between each team andthe instructor occur on a weekly basis to ensure that progress is being made. Meetings with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

DetroitMercy. These included a new senior level technical elective in introductory mechatronics alongwith mechatronic activities in freshmen design and in the introductory electrical engineeringcourse meant for non-EE majors. This effort has been very successful, and now mechatronicsactivities are also going on in many pre-college programs that the school runs.Recently this team received a National Science Foundation grant to take this effort one stepfurther by developing two new advanced courses in the area of modeling and simulation ofmechatronic systems and in the area of sensors and actuators, including emerging technologies.One of the key components of this effort is a detailed plan for outcomes assessment. Anoutcomes assessment expert is also

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

are taken is important for the shopping cart but notfor the egg counter. The results indicate that the two tests are not as parallel as intended and,consequently, assess different objectives.Item correlation analysis was conducted and the results show that in both tests (shopping cart andegg counter) there are some items that do not correlate with the overall score. There were fivecommon items that did not work in either rubric. These five items are as follows: • Item 1: State that a team is needed to work on the project. • Item A: Indicate that the three phases of design are addressed in an appropriate order. • Item C: State that iteration should be planned into a design process. • Item H: Extra points for

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

-level “program” (somewhat similar to our local Science & Technology StudiesProgram or our new School of Biomedical Engineering & Science), governed by faculty from allparticipating units, that will oversee the degrees. As a part of the creation of the Program, whichis currently being referred to as the “Education-Engineering Collaborative” (EEC), we plan toredefine and include our existing Technology Education graduate program, which has beenranked as one of the top such programs in the nation. This is not a radical combination, since asengineers, we feel an instant kinship when we visit the Technology Education laboratories andsee wind tunnels and polymer fabrication equipment in use. We have employed two TechnologyEducation Ph.D

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering; however, one or twostudents typically enroll from the City Planning Program in the School of Architecture. Thecourse has been offered once a year since 2000 with enrollments ranging from 4-18 students. Itpresents an integrated treatment of methodologies, models, tools, funding mechanisms, rules andregulations that assist with managing civil infrastructure deterioration. The course also includeslectures on sustainable development and the built environment. Concepts are introduced toencourage students to think more seriously about the broader social and environmentalimplications of infrastructure decision making and to encourage students to explore projectopportunities for incorporating sustainability into built systems decision making

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

slides of their early nanosat design for all universities toreview. The Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was a review of initial designs (subsystems,interfaces, configuration items) relative to the design requirements provided by the NS-3program. The SDR was an intermediate review whose intent was to ensure that the PDR concepthad evolved into a design that meets requirements and that the universities were taking theappropriate management steps to assure successful build and test. At the Subsystem Design Review (SDR), teams brought with them demonstrationsubsystem hardware as well as preliminary subsystem drawings and test plans. The subsystemhardware could be in a developmental stage or could be flight hardware. The Critical