Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Seiler, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of designing and building a prototype of a shoethat is sturdy, comfortable, and fashionable. They must try to “sell” their shoe to their fellowparticipants. Using this data, they must create a marketing plan and present it to a panel ofjudges.When not working on their project, participants visit each engineering department. Facultymembers give an overview of the department, usually followed by a tour of the labs or anactivity. For example, a visit to Aerospace Engineering would entail and overview of whataerospace engineers do and the tours of the wind tunnel and Raspet Flight Research Laboratory.Another example would include a visit to Chemical Engineering where the participants would

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform Duplicate Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Jay Snellenberger, Rolls-Royce; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce

innovation at project level,program level, and policy level of engineering leadership responsibility in the practicingprofession.As a consequence, the National Collaborative Task Force will accelerate its leadership efforts asa major action item to begin to define professional scholarship, to build on work alreadypioneered at universities,7,8 to share best practice, and promote new professionally oriented unitcriteria for engineering and technology faculty across the United States in order to advanceprofessional engineering education in the national interest.5. Conclusions ─A Work in Progress for Planned ReformWhereas the current faculty reward system at universities largely reflects the value system andmission of universities for scientific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; George Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nikhil Sanghavi, Stevens Institute of Technology

onecredit.Course Website and Registration System A key enabler of the course function is a website and a registration system that is linkedto the website. A view of the homepage is shown in Fig. 1. The website, in addition to linkingto the registration tool, provides a Schedule of Events for the current semester to allow studentsto preview and plan which events they may wish to register for. An example is seen in Fig. 2. Inaddition there is a description of the course and its operation, links to the engineering Page 11.564.4departments and programs, to information on the engineering curriculum, and to a variety ofresources on careers

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

why, can help them put the approach into perspective. It is important that they understand that experimentation and design is part of the learning experience and part of being an engineer. 2) Assigning separate grades for technical results and process helped students feel more comfortable with falling short on the technical results 3) If time permits, more than one open-ended lab section can allow students to adjust their protocol if necessary. Along these lines, it was helpful to review proposals before the final lab. Groups either without a clear plan or an over-ambitious plan

Conference Session

Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

applications demonstrations. However, in this case, two significantchanges have altered that scenario: 1. The ABET requirement for a documented change process injected a much stronger planning phase that required industry inputs. The emphasis on outcomes and systems thinking also showed that there are many combinations of content that can be used to achieve the desired effects. 2. The Department worked closely with its Industry Advisory Board to generate a strategy plan based on the Balanced Scorecard process. This process also emphasized outcomes in terms of graduate skills and their application context.The combined effect of both activities is that the expectations from the academiccourses have changed

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

. Additionally, we are stillworking diligently on charts on Microsoft Excel and SPSS that will serve as great references forour cost analysis in the future. We have planned several meetings with the ST-5 project manager Page 11.752.8to discuss and plan how to complete all of the essential data needed to perform our duties.Figure 9: Collaboration Project Poster5. ConclusionThe cost accounting process for space mission is important. For multiple production runs ofspacecraft, recurring costs are specifically important because they play a significant impact ontotal cost. It gives the general idea of how much money is being saved in comparison to a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

senior yearof a BS program in Industrial Technology on-site at the community college campus, a UniversityCenter concept already successfully pilot tested at College of the Canyons. The first cohort ofeight students began in Spring 2003 with a target date to complete a BS in Fall 2005. CaliforniaState University, Channel Islands agreed to begin the process of developing the junior and senioryear of a 2+2 BS in Information Technology with a target of curriculum approval through theCalifornia Chancellor’s Office Master Plan in 2004-2005 and the start of the first class in Fall2005. CREATE students from multiple colleges were recruited and a tracking system wasdeveloped to assess their progress as they completed courses and progressed to degrees

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Summers, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

are included in class discussions besides what is being discussedalready, students will develop a larger knowledge on what is going on in otherindustries besides cars or manufacturing industries.Absolutely! I have applied for internships and even had a co-op at a distributioncenter. I plan to choose a career in logistics or possibly a service industry. …since our major is so broad, we need to broaden the examples used in our classesto help prepare or students for the various problems in the "real world". Page 11.1299.4 Sorry for the enthusiasm, but I really do wish that there were a course or courses that covered these topics within industrial

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Wood, Florida Tech; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

vehicle and the way in whichtasks were partitioned over multiple student groups and the results in terms of studentinvolvement and vehicle behavior as well as plans for the future.IntroductionTeachers are always looking for “Real World” applications which capture theimagination of students as they progress through the educational process. NASA foryears has encouraged students using space applications1 but accessibility to the spaceenvironment is problematic at best. The marine environment is in many ways as rigorousin terms of limits on design, and as described in various manuscripts, 80% of the oceanenvironment remains unexplored2. In addition, conventional ocean exploration requiresextensive financial support for manned operations, thus there

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simo Lehto, Helsinki Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

International

successof the work. There are three basic types of reaction:-active positive responses: taking care of the problem or turning the problem intobenefit/victory (leading to continuing the work)-passive responses: giving up or fleeing (leading to interrupting the work):-active negative response): struggle against the obstacle (leading to interrupting or continuingthe work depending on the outcome of the response).These three reactions correspond to the three modes of survival. The first requires consciousthinking and planning. The second and third are usually unconscious reactions that basicallycorrespond to the methods of survival in the animal world: freezing, fleeing and fighting.Requirements of the three modesThe routine work can be divided to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton

program planning projected that 30 IE students would begin their studies atTAMUC during the first year it was offered. To our surprise and amazement, seventy (70)students joined the program during the Fall 2002 Semester. To date, the program has graduatedeight undergraduate IE students. All eight are now employed in the IE discipline with verycompetitive salaries, representing such reputable companies as Raytheon, MCI, and UnitedParcel Service.In preparation for the EAC-ABET accreditation visit, the initial request for an accreditationassessment is made to ABET by January 31st, in the calendar year when the assessment site-visitis planned. It should be noted that the entire schedule of events is provided on the ABET WebSite at: http

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Hudson, University of Texas-San Antonio; Dawnlee Roberson, University of Texas-San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Page 11.276.6For the academic portion, the lesson plan is generic enough to be applied anywhere, and can beexpanded or contracted to adapt to the needs and experience of the students. Anyone who cancomfortably teach an introduction to the electrical engineering lab should be able to teach theLabVIEW portion, and a bioengineer or a physical therapist with research interests can teach thebiology and biomechanics. The accelerometers would not have to be used, but any data-gathering device that has electronic output could be utilized, and the data gathered can becorrelated to a type of physiological data.SummaryThis course was given during the second year of this federally funded four year program, and thefaculty plan to give this course during

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Bhansali, University of South Florida; Ashanti Pyrtle, University of South Florida; Louis Martin-Vega, University of South Florida; Peter Betzer, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

techniques for college-level science andengineering instruction; with development of professional and “soft-skills” including technicalwriting (research manuscripts and proposals), conference presentation preparation (oral andposter), professional etiquette, time management, strategic career planning and interviewingskills. The courses were cross listed in both Colleges of Engineering and Marine Science.These courses were designed as half-day biweekly sessions that started with a working lunch.This enabled the students to interact and share their concerns, challenges, successes and failureswith the group. The courses were offered separately in Fall and Spring, ensuring studentinteraction for two semesters.C. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority PhD

Conference Session

Innovative and Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

this way allowsthe students to learn software tools that can be used in other courses and industry.BackgroundThe UHD Engineering Technology department has recently obtained more LabVIEW and VisualBasic software to further the development of all engineering and technology classes. Theelectrical power systems course exercises and projects have benefited from the acquisition of thissoftware. Furthermore, it is planned to also use other software packages in the electrical powersystem course in particular Intergraph Smart Plant Electrical software. The use of the SmartPlant Electrical software is planned for the upcoming fall semester. Note that the Smart PlantElectrical software is used by industry to design various aspects of electrical power

Conference Session

DB & Information Integration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach, Purdue University; Nathan Bingham, Purdue University; Meiqi Ren, Purdue University; Dorina Mordkovich, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

application features are the restaurant and hotel locators. The e-stadium restaurant locator shown in Figure 2 allows users to search local restaurants by cuisine, restaurant name, city, or driving distance from Purdue's stadium. Each restaurant entry provides a business logo, address, telephone number, website URL, price guideline, driving distance from the stadium, and directions. For those football fans that have traveled to Purdue and plan on staying overnight, the e-Stadium application provides a hotel locator to help them

Conference Session

Examining the Synergy between Eng'g Mgmt & Sys Eng

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Trainor, U.S. Military Academy; Heidi Hoyle, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

to understand theconcepts of staffing, organizing, planning, leading and financing projects. Cadets have theopportunity to attend an Advanced Individual Academic Development experience during asummer training period to see the real-world application of their discipline. These are popularbut voluntary limited summer internship programs primarily with Department of Defense (DoD)agencies. Finally, the integrative experience or capstone design courses provide cadets theforum to apply what they have learned in the program in solving a problem for a real DoD orindustry client. They integrate concepts learned through all their USMA experiences to providevaluable analysis and recommendations concerning an issue for a project client. TheEngineering

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Miner, Iowa State University; Andrew Riha, Iowa State University; Julia Apple-Smith, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

collaborators, internationalacademic partners and industrial partners, we plan to double the number of studentsstudying/working abroad and experience even greater success with preparing our students fortheir global leadership roles.Bibliography[1] Engineering International Programs & Services, http://www.eng.iastate.edu/intlprogs.[2] Iowa State University, College of Engineering, Strategic Plan (draft), 2005-2006.[3] L. Shuman, B. Bidanda, K. Thomes, and L. Feick, “The Global and Societal Challenge – An Innovative Approach to ABET Criterion 3.h and Beyond,” (CD) Proceedings, 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Conference.[4] College of Engineering Departments, http://www.eng.iastate.edu/dept_units.asp.[5] Engineering

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

through IC’sand relays, used a computer design and simulation package in designing control logic.They were also exposed to ladder logic and the block diagrams through NI’s graphicalprogramming. Most importantly, they worked on practical examples and exercises thatmade sense for them. In the process, they integrated multiple components into workingsystems. However, there were time constraints limiting abilities within certain areas andthis was the first attempt of teaching after the modifications were planned. With recentmodifications to the department’s curriculum, a lab session was added to increase thetime allocation on hands-on activities and the projects and to ease the pressure oninclusion of critical background information. With this change

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Holmes, AcuityEdge, Inc.; Hisham Massoud, Duke University; Steven Cummer, Duke University; John Board, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Lisa Huettel, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

focus in the first year of the curriculum reform has been on restructuring andredefining the core curriculum, responding to assessment results, implementing several newassessment tools, and planning and executing two pedagogical workshops. In this paper, wedescribe the process by which we have modified the core curriculum and the results of theredesign. [This work was supported by NSF grant EEC- 0431812].Initial assessment activities associated with our legacy curriculum indicated several areas thatneeded to be strengthened. First, students rarely felt they understood the coherent, overarchingframework that integrates basic principles. Second, there was an unbalanced coverage offundamental areas of ECE. Finally, the laboratory and design

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Program Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Leduc, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

isnot a new topic.Mr. Kveneland points out that “Specific areas where the use of preferred numbers can be appliedto your advantage are as follows: Inventory Reduction by applying preferred numbers to sizes forsuch items as: holes, pipes, cylinders, shafts, fasteners, steel material, drills, reamers, motors,pumps, tanks, pressure gages, wires, etc. Product Line Simplification and Planning by choice ofpreferred numbers in planning production of model sizes to cover a given range of performancesuch as: lift capacity, fill capacity, rotating speeds, power ratings, etc. Efforts to minimize costby reducing the number of manufactured sizes help reduce inventory for the consumer ofSemi-finished products, down the line to inventory at the hardware store

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Ravi Chilumula, Arizona State University; CHIH-WEI HUANG, Arizona State University; Mike Stiber, University of Washington-Bothell; Philip Loizou, University of Texas-Dallas; Takis Kasparis, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

educational technology innovations that enable Java-DSP (J-DSP) [1] to beused in 4 courses at 5 different universities. The project tasks consist of the following:a) educational innovation that upgrades the J-DSP GUI,b) a software development task to extend the mathematical and signal processing functionality of J-DSP,c) a comprehensive on-line laboratory exercise development task engaging all the Co-PIs at the different universities,d) a dissemination and assessment plan that involves five universities which committed to testing and providing feedback on the new J-DSP GUI and all exercises and content,e) a comprehensive pilot test of a new multi-site laboratory concept that allows students in the five universities to run real time

Conference Session

Back to Basics in Mechanics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Martinazzi, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Brian Houston, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

option - Easy [15 points], Medium [20 points], Hard [25points]. Who Wants to be an Engine-aire Students work problem at board. They can poll the audience, get a hint from the instructor, or “phone” a friend. A 5 point deduction is given for each lifeline used. Page 11.646.4Implementation The implementation plan involved incorporating the results of the efforts from the Spring2004/05 term into the Spring 2005/06 semester. There was a one semester lag since the course isnot taught in the Fall term. This set the stage for the “Five Surprises” prototype testing

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Widmer, Purdue University; Richard Furtner, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

upper-level elective courses,which might not be taken by all students who will encounter digital logic.This ‘skills inversion’ was also shown in an unpublished survey of users of digital designtextbooks by Pearson’s Press. Less than 40% of responding EET departments currently coverhigh-relevance skills like CPLD programming or VHDL (or plan to in the future). Thecomplete results of this survey are shown in Table 3 below: All 2yr 4yr ET EET CET Page 11.1241.6Are you covering CPLD programming is 23% 19% 29% 15

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Lynch, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

engineering discipline. Disunited actionsthough will not result in long lasting results. Missing is the formulation and execution of amaster plan run by a professional society and backed by practitioners, researchers, and academia.Components of an image enhancing master plan are identified below.Professionals now practicing environmental engineering who have roots in other engineeringdisciplines should stand behind environmental engineering as their primary discipline and stopviewing it as a sub-discipline or specialty area. Environmental engineering needs its ownidentity. What will help is that “there is a growing number of graduates who will considerenvironmental engineering to be their primary discipline rather than a specialty area withinanother

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Freeman, Valparaiso University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

consists of the coordinator andthe students during which the student would evaluate him or herself and together with the facultycoordinator would come up with plan of action to get more out of the learning communityexperience. During this meeting the faculty evaluator would evaluate students on their maturity,approach to learning, general attitude, and problem solving maturity. Finally the facultycoordinator would meet with the TAs and mentors and go over each student’s growth andachievements. The EELC assessment has been based on the evaluation outlined above, and useof authentic assessment of an Electrical Engineering project (typically building a Ring Launcher,AM Radio, or other project that requires students to grasp several EE concepts) but

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University; Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, lube and other oil systems. 2. Principles of Marine Engineering II: This course of study builds upon the previous course and provides a more in-depth look at shipboard systems and introduces topics such as basic shipboard operations, and ship specifications. 3. Principles of Maintenance Engineering: This course of study looks at maintenance systems: predictive, preventative and corrective; large scale maintenance systems, principles of reliability engineering, maritime logistics, planning for maintenance and repair, using and ordering spare parts, technical manuals, system specifications, and shipyard operations.The development of the three additional courses, combined with existing

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul King, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

scheduled for two hours. The course hasbeen taught by the author five times since 2000, a second section has been taughtby another faculty member four times in the same interval. It is the purpose of the remainder of this paper to describe the normallecture content, lab visits, optional exercises, and homework such that the coursemay be emulated elsewhere with a minimum of effort. The course web site mayalso be used as a reference.1Normally scheduled lectures A portion of the first class is usefully used in allowing the students tointroduce each other, discussing home towns, majors planned, unique events, andtheir reasons for taking this module. The remainder of the first class, andtypically the entire next class is then used to give

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

? Do we need different equipment or instrumentation facilities ? Do we need experts from Industry or commercial establishments ? 3. Conduct an extensive background search that focuses on salient features of the main project and address the key issues that may arise as the project unfolds. Always have a “PLAN B”. Be prepared to handle contingencies. You may be very diligent in your design, planning and implementation. Regardless, things may go wrong. (Example : Bridge Building Service Learning Project ---- Heavy Rains ! Students just could not work ! They could not pour mixed cement concrete !) 4. Develop a Decision Analysis Matrix that can justify the actions taken during the

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders Programs Involving Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado-Boulder; R. Scott Summers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado-Boulder

Tagged Divisions

International

communities. These include water provisioning and purification,sanitation, power production, shelter, site planning, infrastructure, foodproduction and distribution, and communication, among many others. Suchproblems are not usually addressed in engineering curricula in the United States,however. Thus, our engineers are not educated to address the needs of the mostdestitute people on our planet, many of them living in industrialized countries.This is unfortunate, because an estimated 20% of the world’s population lacksclean water, 40% lacks adequate sanitation, and 20% lacks adequate housing.Furthermore, engineers will be critical to addressing the complex problemsassociated with refugees, displaced populations, and the large-scale movementof

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

as are feasible within the constraints of the institution. These skills coupledwith technical information create for the student an atmosphere of interest within whichcommunication skills can easily be incorporated and emphasized. Careful planning andcoordination can provide needed instruction in the communication skills within the department.These ideas are developed in a structured plan that incorporates communication instruction andevaluation into all engineering classes offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.The plan shows the development of communication skill awareness in the freshmen year throughthe senior design experience.There will always be a need for communication skill awareness. Students seem to forget theimportant