Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, informationtechnology, the National Science Foundation, the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology Education (ABET), the changing expectations of employers, and many other forces.Within the new paradigm, instructors are expected to harness students’ prior experiences,promote high expectations within a supportive climate and encourage inquiry and the excitementof discovery, in addition to embedding communication and teamwork, critical thinking, and life-long learning skills into the learning experience (National Science Foundation, 1996). Active,integrative project-based learning is needed to replace the passive lecture-based instruction thatis so common in our classrooms.Realizing the importance of addressing these requirements, Drs. Raju and Sankar

Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University; John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

courses, andthe remaining recommendations are simply guidelines appropriate to teaching to a non-technical audience. Thus, with only a slight stretch, we may claim that TechnologicalLiteracy is merely “Engineering Design Literacy” for the general university audience !Table IV Successful Strategies for Technological Literacy Courses ( Re-ordered )23,25________________________________________________________________________ Page 11.1228.7 Synonymous with Design: 1. Teach design and the engineering design process. Have students designand construct projects themselves, hands-on” 2. Build on your strengths as an engineer and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University; John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

courses, andthe remaining recommendations are simply guidelines appropriate to teaching to a non-technical audience. Thus, with only a slight stretch, we may claim that TechnologicalLiteracy is merely “Engineering Design Literacy” for the general university audience !Table IV Successful Strategies for Technological Literacy Courses ( Re-ordered )23,25________________________________________________________________________ Page 11.1229.7 Synonymous with Design: 1. Teach design and the engineering design process. Have students designand construct projects themselves, hands-on” 2. Build on your strengths as an engineer and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Frehill, New Mexico State University; Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Lauren Ketcham, New Mexico State University; Amanda Lain, New Mexico State University; Heather Williams, New Mexico State University; Rose Pena, New Mexico State University

Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.Heather Williams, New Mexico State University Research and Evaluation Assistant, New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.Rose Pena, New Mexico State University Special Projects Coordinator, New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Program, College of Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Page 11.940.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Moving High-Performing URM Students into the

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; Michael Gustafson, Duke University; Jungsang Kim, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineering curriculum has long been recognized.However, students often do not complete a hands-on, comprehensive design project until theirsenior year capstone design course. While this is obviously a very valuable and appropriatelearning experience, students benefit from and desire earlier and more frequent real-world designexperiences12. One reason design experiences are often delayed is that students do not have thetechnical breadth early in their academic careers necessary to complete a comprehensive designproject. While students in the first-year course, Fundamentals of ECE, do not have the breadthand depth to successfully carry out a completely open-ended design project with a level ofsophistication expected from senior students, they do have

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omer Farook, Purdue University-Calumet; Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University-Calumet; Jai Agrawal, Purdue University-Calumet; Essaid Bouktache, Purdue University-Calumet; Ashfaq Ahmed, Purdue University-Calumet; Mohammad Zahraee, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Program EET Basics Exam Outcomes (POs) Senior Design Project Index of Excelence Associate & PUC Academic Bachelor Review Program Program TAC/ABET Feedback

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kedmon Hungwe, Michigan Technological University; Seyed Zekavat, Michigan Technological University; Glen Archer, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

11.664.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Gender Perspectives on the Optimization of the Interdisciplinary Course Curriculum “Introduction to Electrical Engineering for Non-Majors”AbstractThis paper is the outcome of a project that evaluates and improves the curriculum and teachingapproach to the interdisciplinary course “Introduction to Electrical Engineering (EE) for non-EEmajors” that is taught as a service course at Michigan Technological University, and hasequivalents in almost all engineering schools nationally. In order to specify the general andspecial needs of all non-EE majors and form a curriculum, a comprehensive survey was designedand distributed to universities and

Conference Session

Civil ET Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, University of Houston-Downtown; Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

experience obtained in their freshmanyear. In the Freshman-year course, the students learn computer languages widely used inengineering, such as Excel and Visual Basic. The advantage of teaching the course by thedepartment is that students can visualize and apply the computer in real engineering applications,developing two projects during the semester. One of them is selected by the professor and theother one is proposed by the student according to his/her interest and experience. This approachrequires an extra effort by the faculty because the students generally select a project from othercourses or work experience, often requiring instructor support to develop the program.During the sophomore year, a course in analysis of engineering networks is

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; William Brownlowe, Montgomery County Community College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Engineering Science Department. Coordinator, Engineering and Design Technology. Project Director, Advanced Technologies Initiative. 15 years instructing in the areas of Engineering Science, Engineering Technology, Physical Science, and Computer Science. Seven years in electronics manufacturing as a Quality Assurance Engineer.Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University Dr. Kwon has over 12 years of engineering experience in industrial and academic settings. He has extensive experience & practical knowledge in current design, manufacturing and quality control and is versatile both academically and with hands-on implementation. Dr. Kwon’s work has been cited a number of times in high profile

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

federal funding agency. Many of these seed grant programs also provide you with thereviews so you can improve your ideas (and your chance of getting a larger grant).Although the dollar amounts are low, if you can show on the “Current and PendingSupport” some funding within Topic Y, and reference your funded project (withassociated website) in your new proposal, you now have a better chance of gettingfunding at a much higher level.Many national program solicitations (such as the NSF CAREER award program) receiveproposals from many faculty at your university. The people that work in the office thatformally submits these proposals on behalf of the university usually work very hard. Letthem know well ahead of time that you are writing a proposal and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Withiam, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Susan Dawkins, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Robert Martinazzi, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

. Registered professional engineer. Interests include engineering economics, management and leadership development. Worked as project engineer for Armstrong World Industries, does engineering management and leadership consulting work and presents seminars on effectiveness and leadership at both the individual and corporate levels. Colonel (Ret) in United States Marine Corps Reserves. Page 11.650.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 FRESHMAN BOXING LESSONS DESIGNED TO “TKO” ACADEMIC FAILUREAbstractNo one would argue with the fact incoming freshmen have a great

Conference Session

ChE: Experimental Design & Error Analysis

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

through a hands-on design project in afreshman engineering course. Rubino4 describes a project-based freshman EngineeringTechnology course in which one module which introduces students to gross, systematic, andrandom error via hands-on measurements. The workshop described in this paper comprises aseries of hands-on activities in which students conduct a variety of measurements andcalculations in a familiar context, allowing experimental error and error analysis to become theprimary focus of the investigation without being obscured by new theoretical subject content orextensive report writing.This workshop was performed during a three-hour laboratory period at the beginning of thesemester, prior to conducting any laboratory experiments which

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drug and material propertiesand the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from the system. This requires asolid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics, thermodynamics and transportphenomena. He or she must also be skilled in characterization techniques and physical propertytesting of the delivery system, and practiced in the analysis of the drug release data.The engineering goals of this project are (1) to explore different types of drug delivery systems;(2) to study drug delivery designs in a quantitative manner using engineering principles; (3) touse up-to-date industrial techniques for the production, testing and analysis of drug deliverysystems

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Harper, Ohio State University; John Demel, Ohio State University; Richard Freuler, Ohio State University

column pertains to each problem in thatcolumn.Future WorkThe project team is in the process of soliciting a variety of problems from faculty to see if theyfit into the matrix to determine if it needs further modification. Also, the original sample ofSTEM faculty are reviewing the matrix to see if 1) they agree with the descriptions, 2) they canadd more terms to the matrix, and 3) they can think of any problems that do not fit in the matrix.Further tweaking may be necessary. Eventually, all basic problems in the FEH sequence shouldbe categorized according to this or a similar scheme. One area of current debate is whetherauthentic design problems fit in the current scheme, or whether an additional set of categories isneeded for them.The next step

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

Teaching Students How to Evaluate the Reasonableness of Structural Analysis ResultsAbstractStructural engineers, and engineers in general, depend heavily on software to assist in complexanalyses of large problems. As the size and complexity of a problem increases, however, thepotential for errors and the devastating impacts of those errors increase. Unfortunately, fewfaculty teach undergraduate students how to evaluate the reasonableness of their structuralanalysis results. Therefore, the National Science Foundation has funded a project to develop aversion of undergraduate structural analysis course that teaches students to not only generatestructural analysis results, but also to evaluate those results for

Conference Session

Digital Communications Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland; Andrew Melton, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the first author. Some of the signalsincluded in the database are AM and FM radio, high definition AM and FM radio, analog anddigital TV, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, WWV time signal, garage door opener, remote control for toycars, wireless thermometers, and a wireless serial cable replacement system. The recordings,which were made with a Tektronix RSA3408A Real Time Spectrum Analyzer, can be used toillustrate several important concepts such as various modulation methods, frequency divisionmultiplexing, frequency hopping, direct sequence spread spectrum, and noise. The signals canalso be used in assignments and projects such as having the students identify the parameters ofthe signals (such as the bandwidth, type of modulation, baud rate, etc.), or

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curriculum Support

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

to increase the success rate,which was still below 50% despite earlier attempts at improvement. Another reason was toreintroduce C++ material that had been dropped from the curriculum. Yet another reason was toincorporate more software engineering practices by having students: • write design documents, test plans, and test specifications • participate in reviews and inspections • use version control • do some programs/projects in teamsAlthough the software engineering additions were primarily in support of the newly-createdsoftware engineering program, it was felt that these changes would also benefit the computerscience students, since the majority of the computer science students took software developmentjobs after

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University; Michael Oehrtman, Arizona State University; Anton Lawson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of an Integrated Learning Framework for STEM LearningAbstractAs part of an NSF Math Science Partnership project targeting mathematics and science learning,our project is delivering a set of courses to high school mathematics and science teachers thatintegrates relevant mathematics, science, and engineering concepts and practice. These courseswill promote conceptual competence in core content and key process behaviors in scientificinquiry, mathematical problem solving, and engineering design. A distinctive element of thiseffort is a commitment to design a coherent approach consistent with existing scholarship in thefields of STEM education. An early result

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Rousche, University of Illinois-Chicago; Michael Cho, University of Illinois-Chicago; Yang Dai, University of Illinois-Chicago; Hui Lu, University of Illinois-Chicago; J Hetling, University of Illinois-Chicago; jie liang, University of Illinois-Chicago; Susan McCormick, University of Illinois-Chicago; David Schneeweis, University of Illinois-Chicago; Richard Magin, University of Illinois-Chicago

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

industryfacilities. In camp year one (CY1), senior students were targeted. In CY2 and CY3,sophomores and juniors were targeted. Each day began with a special-topics lecture in amixed student/teacher setting. Lectures were typically followed by group tours of universityor commercial medical/bioengineering facilities. A group lunch for all participants includingthe camp faculty was provided each day. Mid-week, a separate lunch was arranged for thehigh school teachers and university faculty alone. In CY1 , students were assigned to a singlelaboratory to complete a project (a vote was used to try and match students to their preferredlaboratory). In CY2 and CY3, students rotated throughout the laboratories in small workinggroups of 4-8 students. Teachers were

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

La Verne Abe Harris, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

turning 50 on a daily basis.3 Thiscalculates to over four million each year.These 40- and 50-year olds can boast about being the best-educated generation in history.4 Thefocus team members were no different. Over half had a 4-year university degree, with just underhalf having graduate degrees. Almost 20 percent had doctoral degrees.The participants who responded to the income survey question made over $100,000 annually.Over half were employed in the technology business, with a few employed in engineering firms,and one employed as a defense contractor. Almost half were engineers. The rest had thefollowing job titles: program manager, project manager, chief engineer, or quality and missionassurance director. They represented companies such as

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Barrett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, and other community groups with cost-effectivemethods of contributing to systemic reform that promotes better science, mathematics, andtechnology education1.” The Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program2 is a specificvariety of SWEPT that places teachers into university laboratories to conduct research projects Page 11.247.2and that is sponsored by individual scientific and engineering directorates at the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). Annual requests for RET Supplements, of up to $10,000 per teacher, may beincluded in proposals for new or renewal NSF grants from various directorates, includingEngineering, or as supplements to

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experiments

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuyler, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

software and the spreadof software programming skills (principally Java and Microsoft .NET), more and morework is appearing each year in journals and conference proceedings. While most of thereported systems are developmental projects by motivated faculty, it is only a matter oftime before a robust, commercially-viable solution appears on the market.Is it possible to develop a purely distance EET or CET program via some form ofdistance laboratory. We think not, and have not found a single educator who thinks so.There is a “hands-on” component that is integral to the laboratory experience that isinescapable. Does anyone believe, that a graduate who has never seen, touched, orhandled electronic components and measurement hardware or has not built

Conference Session

International and Sustainability Perspectives and Women in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Cecilia Chan, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

project proposals have been submitted by the Dublin Institute ofTechnology, one through Science Foundation Ireland and the other at European level,through the Sixth European Framework, this was submitted in conjunction with otherEuropean Partners.In this paper, we will discuss a number of primary obstacles that our research has foundmost of our female encountered in our survey and interviews – how to balance the choiceyou choose. Some initiatives on the proposal based on the statistics survey to supportwomen in engineering will also present and share among the academic community; it ishoped that the measures proposed will be of practical use for other academiccommunities who are affected by the under-representation of women. The overarchingaim is

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Divakar Rajamani, University of Texas-Dallas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

, which require tightcommunication and collaboration between multiple enterprises. Effective frameworks donot only enable communication and collaboration, but also can help supply chain partnersto identify and eliminate non-value adding supply chain activities as part of a leanstrategy, to check if the supply chain strategy is aligned with the company’s overallstrategy, to benchmark against competition, and to select the right informationtechnology infrastructure during the supply chain reengineering projects by focusing onthe right processes. The proposed framework can enable the students, the future supplychain practitioners, to communicate and collaborate more effectively, which in turnshould increase their company’s and the overall supply

Conference Session

Evaluation and Assessment of IE Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Koopmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Erick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, 1992).Bauch, Garland T., Chung, Christopher A.., A Statistical Project Control Tool for Engineering Managers, Project Management Journal 32(2): 37-44.Bohlen, George A., Lee, David R., Sweeney, Patrick A. “Why and How Project Managers Attempt to Influence Their Team Members” Engineering Management Journal, Volume 10 No. 4 (December 1998), pp. 21-28.Bureau of Labor, Labor Letter, (Washington: US Department of Labor, 1966).Chermiss, C.(1980b). Staff Burnout: Job Stress in Human Services, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Page 11.66.11 Publications.Chung, Christopher A. Simulation Modeling Handbook, A Practical Approach, (New York

Conference Session

FPD8 -- Systems, Nanotechnology & Programming

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

see the job being done. In addition, the baby-care unit was the basis ofthree short team projects to examine data acquisition, maintenance and management ofsuch a unit. The concepts were easily grasped but since no-one had any experience ofthe activities, the module provided a good starting point to define the subject anddevelop team-working skills as they analyzed the different interpretations of what theyhad seen. The limited time available for each topic was fully occupied with preparation,a visit and a short follow-up review. As a result, only the systems features wereconsidered and the students had no problems in working down from the general systemrequirements to the electronic building blocks. We stopped just at the point where agreat

Conference Session

Curriculum for Green Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen McLachlan, Granta Design; Patrick Coulter, Granta Design; Mike Ashby, University of Cambridge

Tagged Divisions

Materials

example is selecting the material for use as a container for a liquid: it illustrates themethod and the tools needed to implement it, and makes an excellent introduction for studentsbefore they move on to working on more complicated problems either as homework assignmentsor as projects. The student will need an introduction to the concepts outlined above and willneed to have some knowledge of the EduPack software.On the left of Figure 4 is an inventory of the principle materials, manufacturing methods and useand disposal information about a milk container. On the right is list of the additional informationrequired to allow an approximate energy audit. The need, then, is for a tool to provide this.Granta Design’s CES EduPack Eco-Edition offers

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Koubek, Pennsylvania State University; M. Jeya Chandra, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

courses into areas of competency. Page 11.954.2• Reorganize elective courses (IE and non-IE) into domain areas.• Introduce elective course(s) in other application areas (e.g., service processes, financial engineering, health care management, etc.)• Introduce a focused design project in various application domains.Description of changesChanges in the non-major courses from other departments in the College of EngineeringThe old curriculum required that the students take the following non-major courses in thecollege. a) Introduction to Engineering Design (ED &G 100) 3 Credits b) Computer Programming for

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Sanjay Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Dinesh Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

of regularlecture classes and takes its name from the fact that lectures are not merely filmed but the videosare scripted, filmed and produced in a manner that makes the student feel that he or she isactively engaging with the presenter.Building on the success of the quasi interactive videos for first year lecture classes and in aneffort to overcome many of the problems associated with laboratory instruction, the authors setout to undertake a pilot project to see if quasi interactive video could also be introduced to aidstudent learning in the traditionally challenging area of laboratory teaching.This paper outlines the pilot approach taken and the rationale for lab video production. It alsoexplains the lab structure and the video production

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy; Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

international experience. These include, but are not limited to: o Enrollment in classes or study abroad. Here students take classes delivered by faculty of other /overseas institutions delivered at their campus. o International study tours lead by faculty from the students’ home institution. o International content/activities infused into existing courses delivered at the student’s home institutions. o International internships or cooperative learning experiences (credit or non-credit) in business or industry. Page 11.438.6 o Research project activity, undergraduate or graduate, conducted at an overseas