Conference Session

FPD4 -- Real-World Case Studies & Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology; Richard Sheryll, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology; Rustam Stolkin, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

tocomplete anonymous assessment questionnaires. These consisted of a combination of Likertscale and open ended questions. More comprehensive assessment studies are planned and adiscussion of possible assessment methodologies is included later in the paper (section 5.2). Thefollowing is a summary of the student questionnaire responses. The number of students isinserted in each box. A total of 13 students completed the survey.Question 1. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 representing very easy, how easy did you find thefollowing? 1 2 3 4 5 Average Very difficult

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wenshen Pong; Tim Le, San Francisco State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

communication skillsthrough written reports, experimental data analyses and presentation of the results. It is expectedthat this equipment will allow us to enrich our curriculum with many research-quality tests,which will in turn enrich the potential scope of senior projects for our students.Providing Undergraduates Opportunities to Work in a Research EnvironmentAll experiments are planned to include the participation of undergraduate students in thedevelopment of laboratory content. Students are an important part of the curriculum revisionprocess at SFSU. This is especially true for development of the laboratory, which will be set upbased on educational objectives to maximum learning, promote student participation and helpmentor student development

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Michael Miller, Michigan Technological University; Kirk Opella, Michigan Technological University; Julia King, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Chris Green, Michigan Technological University; Geoff Gwaltney, Michigan Technological University; Scott Bradley, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

, Campus Planning, Aerospace Enterprise,and Consumer Product Manufacturing. It is noted that there is a one-hour weekly“business meeting” between the faculty and staff mentors and all enrolled students. Themain goals and accomplishments during the past years will be briefly summarized here.Project work AFE Enterprise courses were first offered during the fall semester of 2002.Over the course of four years, an average of thirty students have been enrolled persemester (~ 40% Chemical Engineering). The original project was funded by the UnitedStates Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) with the goal oftaking an electric vehicle and operating it with a hydrogen proton exchange membranefuel cell to extend the operating range of the

Conference Session

Civil ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sprinsky, Pennsylvania College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(GIS) to CivilEngineering and Surveying students. After a number of years of MGE use, we decided to Page 11.1210.3upgrade to GeoMedia and teach the same applications to Civil and Surveying students. Our firstuse in instruction is in a Bachelor’s program senior (fourth year) course [4] where we plan not tochange what we teach despite the software change.This article is not a software review. We teach the elements of GIS to all our civil engineeringtechnology and surveying students so that they understand its use in their professional practice.Like both AutoDesk’s ACAD and Bentley’s MicroStation CAD software, the object of theinstruction is not

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Alejandro Teran, ITAM (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, a big challenge was to find alisting of the program in English. We thank Werner Rutten and Burak Aktas forproviding translations for us.Methods for recognizing an industrial engineering programWe identified a program as being similar to a US degree labeled industrial engineering ifit contained most of these components: • Math and science – calculus, physics, chemistry. • Engineering – mechanics, thermodynamics, other engineering sciences, computer programming. • Manufacturing engineering – manufacturing processes, automation, robotics. • Production engineering – facilities location and layout, production planning and control, supply chain management, quality. • People – ergonomics

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Tsui, Southern Polytechnic State University; Orlando Karam, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

four team members. These were relatively small teams where onemight wonder if communications is an important factor as in large software projectteams. While each team developed slightly different solutions, the project problem wasthe same. In other words, they were given the same requirements. The tools and processutilized by these teams were also very similar. Each team essentially performedrequirements analysis, detailed design and code, and unit and functional testing. They allperformed three major activities related to direct software development. In addition, eachteam prepared a project plan, presented a weekly status report, and a final project report.This set is considered indirect activities.Three basic forms of communications were

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelley Racicot, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

plans available. The cost for supplying PM services to a typical designclinic runs at $50/month. Considering that 80 students/year are processed through theclass, this results in a per-student software and software maintenance cost of$7.50/student. Additionally, since Basecamp is web-based, one does not have to worryabout the physical location of the software, or any piracy issues. The Design Clinic isbuying a service, and that service is physical location-free. When one considers that theproject sponsors also use Basecamp to manage the students, the per-seat cost reduceseven more.Further InsightsThe experience with Basecamp has given us important insights as far as the future ofacademic computing, and the future adoption of web-based computing

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

engineeringcurricula. The point is that a chemical engineering curriculum can be tailored to specific needs,but a curriculum that incorporates extensive training in both traditional and modern chemicalengineering probably can not be completed in four years. By taking advantage of the flexibilityof the current accreditation criteria, any of these curricula would pass accreditation as long asthere were an assessment plan in place to show that the curriculum responds to the needs of theconstituencies and produces graduates meeting the stated educational objectives and programoutcomes. Can all of these curricula be called chemical engineering? Why not? We always extol theflexibility of chemical engineers. An analogy to civil engineering may be appropriate. The

Conference Session

Design of Laboratory Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; James Johnson, Howard University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Thelaboratory course brings together undergraduates from two engineering departments (electricaland mechanical) with plans to include systems and computer science students in the near future.Laboratory Hardware/Software InterfaceTo concentrate fully on the actual control design task and allow students to gain experience withindustrial control development tools, a dSPACE DS1104 DSP board6 is chosen as the maininterface between the controlled system (process) and the host computer. One of the salientfeatures of the dSPACE DS 1104 DSP-board is the ease of building real-time applications. Inorder for students to access the I/O dSPACE DS 1104 DSP-board, a software interface to theboard is required. Here, the student has two options: 1) the student can

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

financial aid issuesFinancial aid issues are important in a student’s college plan. Academic advisement mustconsider this aspect of a student’s academic career as well as academics. Some of our studentscomplete the 2-year laser technology program and then afterwards work a full-time job andattend night school. The night school program consists of pre-engineering courses such as morerigorous calculus and chemistry courses. The idea is that a degree in laser technology enables astudent to get a reasonable income after only two years of college. The laser technologyprogram contains some general science methods such as Fourier optics and laser gainmechanism. Exposure to these topics enables a student to understand the materials in a pre-engineering

Conference Session

Building Blocks for Public Policy in Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Fayerweather, University of Toledo; Sorin Cioc, University of Toledo; Douglas Oliver, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

question number nine, which got a value of 3.9.This question asked whether or not this project should be included in future classes.Most of the students gave a rating of “agree.” The other part of the class was, for themost part, split between “neutral” and “strongly agree.” This shows that approximately75% of the class agrees that this project should continue in the future.The remaining questions, all got at least an average rating of 3.7 which is close to theaverage of agree. However, the majority of the votes on each of the questions were for“agree”, and for all but one question, over half the class voted “agree.”Planned Changes for Next SemesterAs mentioned above, we will add a requirement that the opposing teams meet prior to thepresentations

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University; Jeffrey Ray, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of the project and an application forparticipating in the senior capstone courses. The purpose of the application is to learn of theskills acquired while the students were participating in their cooperative education program.Other essential information obtained includes major, technical electives taken or planned to take,and strengths and weaknesses. Following project assignment students began the process oflearning their team members, assigning roles and responsibilities within the team, meeting withthe corporate sponsor, and design proposal development. This gives students an opportunity togain experiences to be successful in their future careers. Faculty members were used as designconsultants throughout the courses. The course coordinator

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University

requirements and the professor kept notes. The whole process took 3.5 hours. Whileit was planned to hold the process down to 5 minutes per team, the positive interactionsoccurring with the audience caused slippage. Some of the projects were quite interesting inmeeting requirements. Once, a singing fish “Billy Bass” was used with Christmas tree lights. Asthese simple solutions occurred, the requirements were tightened to require more originality.Majority of the projects used timers and decade counters as part of the design. Table 2 providesthe results of the survey.ResultsStudents responded well to this final project. Though there were few students who had workedon circuits while in high school, a majority of them did not. For this reason, the labs

Conference Session

Defining Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglass Klein, Union College; Robert Balmer, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

-traditional, interdisciplinary field • encouraging (and making it possible for) existing faculty to contribute to CT programsCurriculum • ensuring a proper liberal-arts-worthy balance of breadth and depth in CT programs • finding appropriate academic “homes” for CT courses, when they do not neatly fit into existing disciplinary boxes • creating policies for staffing interdisciplinary team-taught courses • integrating CT into the new general education curriculum for all Union students, and recommending homes for CT courses • considering the proper role of CT courses in disciplinary majors and minorsSpace and Facilities • planning for and allocation of space and facilities for CT faculty, research, and academic programs

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christan Whysong, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

through a spiral themed curriculum so it will beessential to orchestrate an assessment plan for future evaluation. The proposed assessment plancurrently includes an analysis of focus group interviews, online surveys, online discussions,classroom discussions, and electronic portfolio entries. For the last two years, the Department ofEngineering Education has started to collect data regarding student perceptions of engineering Page 11.735.8ethics training in the freshman year; these studies will be expanded to include BSE students intheir upperclassman years.Future workFuture work includes piloting the preliminary case studies and assessing the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

determinate beam is presented in Figure 2. Situation: The roof shown experiences snow load with drifting adjacent to the AC unit. The resulting distributed load on member AB is shown. 300 plf A B 100 plf 100 plf AC 50 plf Unit A B 10 ft 5 ft 10 ft 5 ft Plan View Find: Find, approximately, the peak

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melinda Hess, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

learning thematerial themselves, regular class periods and the weekly lab session that were devoted to thetopic of Nonlinear Equations as in Summer 2003 were cancelled. At the end of the week, as partof their graded homework assignment, students were asked to submit answers to 18 shortquestions (6 on each of the 3 subtopics of Background, Bisection Method, and Newton-RaphsonMethod) that were based on six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. The reading assignments andproblem sets were the same as in Summer 2003.1 We were planning to implement the fourth modality in Summer 2005. However, due to certain circumstances, it Page 11.242.4was co

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Mullin, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

under consideration at the time of this writing. In lieu of the world fact quiz, a hands-onactivity is being designed which examines a projected growth in world population and theresulting energy and water resource requirements. The predominance of water filter solutionsfueled much speculation and reflection on the part of the project designers. Ultimately, it wasfelt that presenting the students with examples of design solutions early in the projectpredisposed a large percentage to consider only these solutions. It is being planned to presentthese examples to the students later in the project. Construction materials deserved serious re-consideration, as too many students felt the constraints limited creativity and design options. Inresponse to

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joni Spurlin, North Carolina State University; Hatice Ozturk, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

2006-966: ASSESSING THE CONNECTIVITY OF AN ELECTRICAL ANDCOMPUTER ENGINEERING CURRICULUMHatice Ozturk, North Carolina State University Hatice O. Ozturk is Teaching Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is also coordinator of assessment for both programs.Joni Spurlin, North Carolina State University Joni E. Spurlin is University Director of Assessment and Associate Director, University Planning and Analysis at North Carolina State University. Page 11.245.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

Conference Session

Women Faculty Issues and NSF's ADVANCE program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Page 11.1066.11benefit, service, plan or policy which such recipient administers, operates, offers, orparticipates.”19 This regulation appears to limit the requirement to treat pregnancy as a medicaldisability only in regard to the medical services and programs in which the educationalinstitution participates. Thus, a medical insurance policy offered to students cannot excludepregnancy. And although the regulations require that the educational institution treat anemployee’s or faculty member’s pregnancy the same as any other temporary medical disability“for all job related purposes,” with regard to students the regulations do not go beyond therequirement of equal treatment in medical services.19 Thus, the regulations appear to allow for

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University; David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Laurie Laird, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

above assignments. In addition, students weregiven a self-assessment of how their writing and proofreading skills have been affectedby this assignment. In-class quizzes were given to measure students’ ability to proofreadby asking them to find errors in written work and in graphs. Finally, two similarquestions on the final examination were used to measure students’ ability to proofread.This paper discusses the proofreading assignment, the results of the various forms ofassessment, lessons learned, and plans for modification for next year’s classes.IntroductionAs part of curriculum reform at ONU, a new sequence of three freshman courses wascreated in the Engineering College. These courses were designed to have significanttechnical communication

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Mueller, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

class visited a local manufacturer of heat pumps,WaterFurnance International. The students got to see first-hand how heat pumps weremanufactured. During this visit, an alumnus gave us insight into many real-world issues such asmembership in technical societies, international patent protection, and labor concerns. This tripwas extremely insightful, and we plan to visit in the future. Later in the semester, students weregiven a design project dealing with heat pumps.Midway through the semester, students were required to read an article from an on-linepublication Distributed Energy7 and write a brief memo summarizing the article. Three differentarticles were assigned, and the articles were discussed during the class in which the summarieswere

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Adams, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Paul Yanik, Western Carolina University; Kenneth Burbank, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project to design a baseband system for acommunication system, as well as on-going efforts to improve the design. Upon completion,the experimental design is intended for use in our Digital Circuits, Digital Signal Processing(DSP) , and Electronic Communications courses. For this reason, plans for incorporatingdesign aspects of a communications system in these courses are discussed.IntroductionIn the past few years, the authors reported their efforts of enhancing students’ learning byutilizing a systems approach1,2,3,4,5 . These methods focus on the functionality of system blocksto improve students’ understanding of system performance parameters. Positive results havebeen observed in strengthening students’ vertical knowledge development on

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Scachitti, Purdue University-Calumet; Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Lash Mapa, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

procedure such as tying sutures duringoperations and everyday tasks such as making hospital beds. He is also recognized by theAMA as having taken the first movies of surgical operations, one of the basic IEtechniques he used to conduct his studies.4Today, Industrial Engineering techniques are once again being recognized as beneficialand their use is being encouraged in the healthcare industry. In late 2005, the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) and the Institututes of Medicine (IOM) published anextensive report titled “Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/HeathCare Partnership”. 5 This report recommended a “framework and action plan approach tohealthcare delivery based on a partnership between engineers and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia; Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia

and enriched in various ways. The architect specializesthrough graduate studies (planning, development, etc.) and through practice. (office buildings,residential structures, etc.). The attorney may begin specialization in law school and continuehoning his/her expertise through graduate studies and/or practice. The medical doctor beginssome focus of specialization in medical school but completes the concentration in a specific areathrough an internship or fellowship resulting in recognition by a group responsible for ensuringthe qualifications of those practicing in that specialty (e.g. The American College of Surgeons,etc.).On the contrary, engineers, at each point where it became necessary to provide additionaltraining in a specialization

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McDonald, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

2006-1066: INCREASING THE CLASS PARTICIPATION EXPERIENCE FORENGINEERSKenneth McDonald, U.S. Military Academy Kenneth McDonald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the US Military Academy. He has served in numerous assignments throughout his military career to include the U.S., Iraq, Germany, Kosovo, and Korea. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Virginia and Wyoming and has a PhD in geological engineering, master’s degrees in geomorphology, city/regional planning and environmental engineering and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

architectural engineering undergraduate research projects:1. The student should have a clear understanding of the goals of the project and a welldefined list of what constitutes a finished project. This clearly requires planning on the faculty member’s part. While this item mayseem obvious, it is easy to avoid actually writing down a list of attainments that wouldconstitute a finished project. Yet, articulating such a list is important for the facultymentor when designing the project, and of course the list is extremely useful to thestudent. For example, if the project is a finite element model of a historically significantstructure, a list may entail

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Throne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

discrete-time model using integral control and state variable feedback. Theinput to the system was a one cm step.AssessmentAt the beginning of the introductory controls course, and again at the end of the course, thestudents taking the class were asked to complete questionnaires designed by Rose-Hulman'sOffice of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment. These questionnaires had two typesof questions: survey questions and questions about the level of knowledge and confidence invarious course concepts. The results of the relevant survey questions are displayed in Table 2,which indicates that most of the students felt that the course helped them with the use andlimitations of models in control systems. Table 3 presents the results for the

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University; Laura L. Pauley

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

accommodatethe addition of robotics projects using Handy Board and to satisfy those departments that feeltheir students need to have a general understanding of one of these programming languages.Moreover, we are looking into the possibility of eliminating our linear algebra course andcovering the bulk of the topics in the Matlab-based programming course. It should be mentionedthere are few universities that either have converted their computer programming course toMatlab [20] or offer different sections of the course with Matlab and C++/Java options [21].V. Course StructureWe started with an ambitious plan to teach the fundamental programming concepts, usingMatlab, in addition to robotics-based programming projects, using Interactive C. The

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Will Humphries, Virginia Tech; Justin Gawrilow, Virginia Tech; Manuel Perez-Quinones, Virginia Tech; Scott Turner, Virginia Tech; Stephen Edwards, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. This occurred because the grades were not entered into Moodle as quickly asthe students might want. While this is not actually a failing of the graphs per se, it is important to notethis issue, how it is perceived by students, and how it might be addressed.6. ImplementationThe grade visualizations are implemented as a patch to the standard Moodle 1.5 grade book. Written inPHP, most of the visualizations were created with standard HTML, with the star graph using PHP’s GDgraphics library to generate images. Although Moodle supports multiple languages, currently ourvisualizations only support English.Our future plans include releasing these visualizations as an extension to the Moodle grade book so otherusers of Moodle can benefit from our work.7