Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

critical role in the education strategydeveloped in the CDIO project (Berggren et al.2; CDIO Initiative Homepage3), an internationalinitiative that aims to develop a new model for engineering education, characterized by using theprocess of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating, i.e. the product lifecycle, as theeducational context. A prominent attribute of the CDIO initiative has been the design andimplementation of a new class of student workspaces (design studios, classrooms, study areas,laboratories) that enable student teams to design, build and test in project-based courses. This isin contrast to traditional student labs that are heavily oriented towards demonstrations(Gunnarsson et al.4; Wallin & Östlund5). The proper set-up

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

an engineering design project.Course StructureThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester hour course with two 75 minute lecture sessions andone 160 minute laboratory session each week. Faculty from the College of Communication are Page 10.1112.1responsible for the lecture sessions and engineering faculty supervise the laboratory. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In both the lecture sections and the laboratory the emphasis on teamwork in this course isexceptionally strong. The students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

Session 1526 Spreadsheets to Promote Interactive Engagement in Semiconductor Device Courses R. Venkatasubramanian and B. J. Skromme* Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706AbstractThe development and initial implementation of a prototype “virtual laboratory” based onMicrosoft Excel spreadsheets with associated Visual Basic for Applications modules isdescribed for use in semiconductor device courses for engineering undergraduates. Thespreadsheets use graphical methods to illustrate quantities

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

, particularly as practiced in the workplace, usually involvesmultiple reports and presentations documenting the project for various stakeholders, includingclients, coworkers, and supervisors. A typical workplace document cycle might include thefollowing: Page 10.1422.5 • Project Proposal Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Progress Reports • Laboratory Notebooks • Final Technical Report or Journal ArticleNote that with the exception of the laboratory notebook, these texts may be either

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

handles the planning, administrativeand promotion of the Exploration Days.The Exploration Days consist of high school students spending a half day on our campus duringa normal school day. During their time on campus, the high school students experience thevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,interactive demonstrations, laboratory experiences, and hand’s-on activities. Depending on theexploration event, sessions have included utilizing a three dimensional river model to explorewatershed processes, demonstrations by the Mini-Baja and Formula SAE competition teams,destructive testing of concrete beams, ballistics experiments, programming of electrical circuitboards, and building a small

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

non-engineering clients to define the technicalrequirements of their projects. In parallel, individuals from other disciplines can benefit fromexposure to engineering problem solving techniques. In this paper the authors present the resultsof an ongoing effort to integrate the benefits of both student-faculty collaborations and real-world design by incorporating undergraduate engineering students into physics research projects.Over the course of several years, engineering students at the University of St. Thomas have beenincorporated into physics department research laboratories, working side by side with physicsstudents and faculty. These students design, build and test instrumentation and other equipmentused in all aspects of the physics

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

design. Decliningenrollments forced universities to reduce program length. In order to accomplish this,many programs reduced application oriented courses and laboratories.1 This shift hasresulted in an increasing gap between what engineers are expected to know and how theyare to perform in industry, and what universities are teaching.2 Engineers in industryspend much time working on complex system integration, yet few engineering graduatesunderstand this process.3 Reference 2 adds “the state of education in this country,especially in science, engineering and technology, has become a matter of increasingconcern to many of us in American industry.”In order to meet the professional needs of industry, engineering educators must place arenewed

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

introductory course, we have implemented a newteaching approach which is centered on the integration of lecture and lab. The underlyingmotivation of this new approach is to enhance retention of the fundamental concepts by studentsthrough the concurrent offering of lecture and hands-on laboratory experiences. We believe thatthis methodology has several benefits over traditional course formats where lecture andassociated labs may be presented days apart. These benefits might include the ability to quicklyaddress student misunderstandings which may arise during lecture, immediately reinforcecomplex technical concepts through hands-on activities and to provide the students with a realworld application of the concepts. To implement this course, we

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

experience.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the development of an Introduction toEngineering course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona. Thiscourse was created as a part of a ‘common core’ freshmen program, and was intended to providestudents with a multi-disciplinary experience branching the aerospace engineering, electricalengineering, computer engineering, and computer science fields of study. As such, the coursewas team-taught by faculty drawn from each of the various disciplines. Each instructor wastasked with developing lecture and laboratory content which would allow students to developcross-discipline engineering design skills.This paper begins by describing the course goals and objectives as

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum with community college partners (Henry Ford Community College and MacombCommunity College) and an ideal articulation plan was devised where up to half the degreecredits (freshman and sophomore years) would transfer. An example of possible transferprogram with Henry Ford Community College is shown in Table 1. (iv) Created upper divisioncourses and related laboratories for the EGT curriculum. (v) Program launch of the modelBSET-EGT degree was delayed pending funding from external sources.ENERGY TECHNOLOGY BS DEGREE CURRICULUM It was important to design the BSET-EGT curriculum to satisfy the accreditationrequirements of the Technology Accreditation Commission of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

necessary. Forrealistic, real-world experiences, an efficient rapid design method must be developed to enhancequality and scale of classroom projects.What do we usually do in the classroom?We usually offer a series of courses such as Digital Logic Circuits and Computer Architecturescoupled with laboratory exercises that include HDL-based implementations. Since technologiesand tools are continuously evolving, digital design education must catch up with the pace of thetechnology evolution in industry. Furthermore, engineering education should predict and lead thedirection of the future technology paradigm shift. We should offer a few intensive courses ratherthan do a series of many courses taught in the current curricula!Is a commercial FPGA

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

is expected that the proposed program will enroll 10 students per year. This number assumesfive students 'new' to Clarkson University, that would have otherwise chosen this major from ourcompetitors, and five 'current' Clarkson University students, that will chose environmentalengineering as their major instead of civil engineering or engineering studies. Thus, each yearbeginning in Fall 2005 a cohort of ten new majors is expected, providing a critical mass ofstudents in the program.ResourcesCurrent library holdings and electronically accessible journals are sufficient for the major.Laboratory facilities in the William J. Rowley Laboratories are also sufficient to support theexpected program enrollment. Expendable laboratory supplies can be

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

in the image? What can we do to make this mass appear more clearly? How sure can we be about our diagnosis and what might make us reach an erroneous conclusion?This initial grand challenge sets up a sequence of follow-on challenges that provide a context forlearning about many imaging concepts such as specificity, accuracy of diagnosis, andtomographic imaging with computed tomography (CT). These challenges provide an orientingcontext for the laboratory experiments students perform to learn more about the details of thefundamental concepts of medical imaging.The curriculum is provided in three parts – an instructor’s manual, electronic slide presentations,and a student edition of the laboratory manual

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

program known as the LINK Nanotechnology Program launched in 1988started the nanotechnology research with an annual budget of about $2 million per year.The governmental funding for Nanotechnology in the UK has grown since then to over abillion dollars in 2002. In France, the Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique(CNRS) has developed research programs on nanoparticles and nanostructured materialsat about 40 physics laboratories and 20 chemistry laboratories. The CNRS projects innanotechnology started in 1996 with an estimated budget of about $40 million a year.During the same period, Sweeden has spent $10 million a year for nanotechnologyresearch. Further, the governmental support has been strong for nanotechnology researchin countries like

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

, respectively. These two signals were then hooked up directly to the dataacquisition hardware. A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the signals and then generatethe stress-strain curve in real time using the built-in calibration equations for load and elongation.IntroductionComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. While the newly acquired laboratory equipment likely will have the computer dataacquisition built into it, it is the old equipment that presents a challenge to institutions of how tomodernize it with computer data acquisition. Going back to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition is onepossible solution, which

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

utilized at present on this tract with uniformapplication of fertilizers and seedlings. No special irrigation or weed managementtechniques are currently used. The overall objective of the first phase of the ECPA effortsat UMES will be to develop baseline data via systematic record keeping, whilecontinuing with the current farming practices. This data will be valuable in the future toα Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciencesβ Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciencesδ Dean, School of Agriculture and Natural Sciencesε GIS Laboratory Coordinatorφ Lecturer, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences (Aviation Program

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4: Image of the working project PEDA LCD ProjectLab StepsThe following steps are followed and documented for each laboratory. 1) Analysis 2) Design 3) RTL Coding 4) Test-bench Coding 5) Verification 6) Validation 7) Lab report write upTopics covered and reinforced each Lab 1) Coding Guidelines – The coding guidelines for both Digital System design and Principals of Electronic Design Automation are reviewed with the students at the beginning of the quarter. All labs are graded based on the coding guidelines. 2) Code Reviews – Students are chosen at random to perform a code review on a

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; John Demel; Richard Freuler

rank the situations according to a particular parameter, explaining their reasoning. (typically Bloom’s 3 to 5 although one could envision complex situations requiring students to operate at level 6) 6. WRONG Problems: In these, students are presented with a problem statement and a possible solution for which they must identify and correct errors. (Bloom’s 6) 7. Design & Build: In these types of laboratory experiences, students are asked to design an apparatus to perform a function. There are typically multiple ways to solve the problem. (Bloom’s 5 to 6) Page

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Perry Deess; Judy Valyo; Kamal Joshi; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori; John Carpinelli

concept of open-ended design has remained at the core. Studies have shown that the freshman engineering designcourses have resulted in increased retention and 6-year graduation rates [1], thus meeting aprimary objective of the courses. Materials developed for these courses from several disciplines Page 10.515.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationare available at the web sites for the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition [2] and NJIT’sGateway Coalition web site [3], including the laboratory

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland

, anticipate potential problems, anddevelop procedures. Students were required to write these steps as part of the pre-lab portion oftheir laboratory report.At first, there was resistance by a number of students, who felt that all they wanted to do was“complete the lab”. Eventually, those students who offered some resistance found that, contraryto initial beliefs, the laboratory assignments actually took less time to complete, if the procedureswere followed. Some students told the instructor that they applied this problem solving approachto other laboratory based courses.Toolbox concept Page 10.1067.2The next approach in helping to develop

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Chapman; John Brocato; Jim Harden

Improving the Writing-Evaluation Abilities of Graduate Teaching Assistants in ECE Labs John Brocato, Jim Harden, Bill Chapman Mississippi State UniversityIntroductionIn 1999, faculty in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State Universitybegan a project to improve the writing-evaluation skills of graduate teaching assistants(TAs) in charge of undergraduate laboratories in electrical and computer engineering(ECE). Long considered valuable for discipline-specific undergraduate writingexperiences, undergraduate laboratories have also proven problematic due to the largegaps between sound writing-instruction pedagogy, the standards and

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Mohammadzadeh

in the laboratory to do the measurements. For ourtrial beam (see Figure 1), L = 11.5 in., b = 1 in, t = 1/8 in, α = 10o, E = 10.4×106psi, and υ = 0.33.The strains measured were ε1 = 973µ, ε2 = 686 µ, and ε3 = 449 µ. Appendix A is a MathCAD fileof the calculations for approaches I and II. As it is seen in appendix A von Mises stresses forapproaches I and II are calculated as: σvon Mises, approach I = 12470 psi σvon Mises, approach II = 11930 psiAppendix B indicates that the Algor file renders

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

recent hiring of a new faculty member with anuclear engineering background dedicated specifically to the development of the programit is expected to boost student enrollment in courses offered at PVAMU campus and theTTVN classes. Also a national recognition by numerous DOE laboratories of the need toincrease minority enrollments at such institutions is expected to influence students at theuniversities to consider nuclear engineering as a prospective career option. The uniqueness of the PVAMU program comes from the way it is setup. It isbased in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the NASA Center for AppliedRadiation Research (CARR) is an integral part of the program. The course curriculum isdesired to include specific topics

Conference Session

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

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leijun Li; John Pan; Ismail Fidan

or overhead projector.The instructor then hopes that students can regurgitate this collected information on theirhomework or examinations. Some classes have accompanied laboratory practices where students Page 10.1280.1can gain hands-on experience. However, the lecture-based teaching may not meet all students’ “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”needs. For example, some students (i.e. disabled, shy) sit quietly in a lecture room through thewhole semester/quarter. They may not

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

equation within Excel can beaccomplished by the use of either Goal Seek or Solver from the Tools menu. For this problem,the Solver will be used to minimize the nonlinear equation in cell C20 by adjusting the AFT incell C19. This is shown in Figure 8. Note that the Excel solution yields an AFT of 2017.9949 ascompared to the Polymath solution which yielded an AFT of 2017.995 which is excellentagreement between the two numerical solutions. Note that Solver in Excel is useful forsimultaneous nonlinear equations, while Goal Seek would be useful for only a single nonlinearequation.3. Enthalpy Calculations Using Excel PropertiesIf the problem to be used in the stoichiometry or numerical methods course, or in the ChemicalEngineering laboratory (to compare

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

Society for Engineering Educationplots of the system responses. The MATLAB software and its control commands tool-box rescue the instructor and students in this course with many advantages for both,especially for the ET student. Of course, some special virtual laboratory time needs to bespent by students to get trained in the use of these select MATLAB control commands.Thus, the ET student is trained in solving the control analysis/design problem withoutgetting distracted with many intermediate calculations, and subsequently, the student’scomprehension of the controls subject is much better. The student can then concentrateefforts in the overall design/analysis of a control system, leaving computationalcrunching to the virtual computer program

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

curricula. Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory (CIE 111) was the first course to incorporate the new plan. CIE 111 is a 1-credit laboratory component of a basic course in civil engineering materials, incorporating topics in material variability, plastics, metals, wood and concrete. Historically, students produced five full academic lab reports during the semester, with less than satisfactory results for the most part. Recent enrollment growth (to around 100 students) introduced further complication. The new ECP approach replaced the academic lab reports with five case-based memo assignments, which allowed for more specific instructional goals, more meaningful feedback to students and a