Conference Session

Construction ET/Technology Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Anthony Brizendine, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-1406: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTIONMANAGEMENT AND CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUMBruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina-Charlotte DR. G. Bruce Gehrig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1984 and worked for over 15 years as a licensed professional civil engineer in both the public, private and international sectors. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University in 2002 and has taught courses in construction methods, cost estimating, project management, hydraulics, and highway design.David Cottrell, University of North

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 11.1119.2statement and to provide guidance for engineering programs regarding what should betaught and learned, how it should be taught and learned, and who should teach and learnit [2].The ASCE-BOK promulgates a wide variety of academic ideas and philosophies, two ofwhich are most directly addressed within the context of this paper. The committeesuggests that in addition to eleven program outcomes identified via ABET Criteria 3 a-k,four additional outcomes should be addressed through the instructional process including:specialized areas of civil engineering; project management, construction, and assetmanagement; business and public policy; and leadership. Table 1 includes a list of all 15program outcome criteria identifying both ABET and

Conference Session

Successful Grant Proposals

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Houdeshell, Sinclair Community College; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Big 15 Learning Picture Authentic Beliefs Learning Tasks Context Transfer 6 Assessment/ Activities Evaluation Beliefs Integrating Learning Activities Manufacturing Experience Closure/ Capstone Generalization ExperienceFigure 1. Instructional Design Model

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anshuman Panda, Polytechnic University; Hong Wong, Polytechnic University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University; Sang-Hoon Lee, Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

journal articles, and 76 conference papers. He has mentored 67 high school students, 38 high school teachers, 10 undergraduate summer interns, and seven undergraduate capstone-design teams. In addition, he has supervised three M.S. projects, two M.S. thesis, and two Ph.D. dissertations.Sang-Hoon Lee, Polytechnic University SANG-HOON LEE was born in Seoul, Korea. He received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 1996 and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, in 2002. From 1996 to 1997, he worked for Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. in Korea. He is currently continuing research at Polytechnic

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

to real flows and structures.Digital signal processing also became accessible on PCs, transferring experimental techniquesfrom the research laboratories into the undergraduate curriculum. These capabilities enabledproject-oriented courses where students learned theory and applied it immediately to projects.We discovered that students could handle courses where several topics were learned in parallel,and where they created the “manuals” for their experiments. Project teams could interact throughthe computer. This was a far cry from the traditional model of undergraduates just beingobservers, or at best just operators following precise instructions.The capabilities demonstrated by 1993 were used to revamp the junior-level Low SpeedAerodynamics

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Annette Muetze, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Departments of Electrical andComputer Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. They have developed a set of courses thatform a complementary suite of technical skills intimately coupled with practice in the field ofelectric drives and power electronics. A list of courses regularly offered by WEMPEC faculty islisted in Table I. The pedagogic approach in all the courses strongly follows a behaviorist model,in keeping with the nominal academic traditions within the university education. Clearlyarticulated course objectives, task-oriented homework assignments, term projects, and gradingthough examinations are the norm in the courses. However, in addition to the classroom studies

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Lyons, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

materials engineering. • Life sciences is currently receiving major funding. • Major movement in UG curriculum to include Ethics. • Outsourcing creating downward pressure on U.S. engineering salaries. • Stronger science and mathematics instruction in community colleges. • Expose engineering students to relationships between technology and society. • Nanotechnology could play a major role in economic and industrial growth. • Engineering faculty should have industrial experience. • Industrially-sponsored senior design capstone projects. • Program should be based on industry needs. • Major impetus on

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

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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

FPD8 -- Systems, Nanotechnology & Programming

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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

Improving ME instructional laboratories

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Chastain, Clemson University; Harvin Smith, Clemson University; Mason Morehead, Clemson University; David Moline, Clemson University; John Wagner, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Presentation of fundamentals of instrumentation, calibration techniques, data analysis, and report writing in the context of laboratory experiments.A brief literature review will now be presented on mechanical engineering laboratories. Schmaltzet al.1 reported on the senior mechanical engineering capstone laboratory at Western KentuckyUniversity that focuses on students undertaking mechanical, materials, and thermal/fluidexperiments. Important activities are the definition of requirements, design of methods andequipment, execution of test plan, analysis of results, and reporting. To ensure topical coverage,a design of experiments plan was created to implement, assess, and adjust the laboratoryexperience. Layton et al.2 discussed the need to identify

Conference Session

ChE: Departmental Issues and Integrating Freshmen into the ChE Program

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

-disciplinary course is held in a large lecture hall with a class size normally exceeding100 students. The course focuses on introducing students to the profession through topic lectures,videos and a capstone project (normally something mechanical in nature). After analysis of thetopics and via discussions with chemical engineering students who have taken this class, it wasclear that certain important pieces of information, including things specific to chemicalengineering students, were never being discussed or even conveyed. Hence, the next logical stepwas to generate a separate class, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, which was to be requiredof all entering chemical engineering freshman. Note that this course, labeled ChE 1010, iscurrently not a

Conference Session

Software and e-learning in the ME curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Fisher, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering problem-solving is for the most partpostponed until Term VI, where it is the primary focus of the Modeling and Simulation (ME345)course. The reasoning behind such placement within the curriculum is that students first musthave a thorough grounding in (mechanical) engineering fundamentals before such software canbe adequately presented to the students. In addition, coverage during Term VI prepares thestudents to use such tools on subsequent internship/co-op assignments and the capstone SeniorDesign project, as well as provide the relevant modeling skills desired by industry upongraduation.As envisioned, the proposed library of CAE learning modules will change our current coverageof CAE software by enabling such tools to be incorporated

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Industrial Advisory Committee Input outcomes Evaluation Improvement Outcomes Transcript Analysis of Planning Program Capstone Course Every semester Activities Objectives and Program Improvement Learning Assessment Methods

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Westbrook, University of Alabama-Huntsville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

catalog. 4. Course material must be directly related to technology driven organizations. 5. The curriculum must require each student to demonstrate a command of written and oral communication skills in English. 6. Courses must relate to knowledge workers in a global environment. 7. Each student is required to perform a capstone project or thesis using analysis and integration of Engineering Management concepts. 8. A minimum of one course in probability and statistics 9. A minimum of one course in engineering economy 10. Two courses in quantitative analysis courses are required. C. Students Admission Requirements 1. Two years of engineering experience in a company based in a

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

improvement plan. Itshould be noted that some assessment methods can only be used to assess certain specificoutcomes. Table 1 maps the assessment tools for assessing each of the a-k programoutcomes.Table -1 Assessment Tools for Outcomes for the Engineering Technology Programs Engineering Technology Program Outcomes Assessment Tools a b c d e f g h i j k Advisory Committee X X X X X X X X Feedback Used to assess program objectives Course Assessment X X X X X X X X X X X Alumni Surveys Used to assess program objectives Capstone/Senior X X X X X X X

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Lunt, Brigham Young University; Joseph Ekstrom, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

commonalities, since they allclaim to be computing disciplines. Analysis of the formal curricula shows that all five programscover: Computer foundational topics Computer programming (including algorithms, implementation, and software quality) Capabilities and limitations of computers (including societal impact) Software lifecycle issues Processes, both computing and professional Advanced computing topics Professionalism (including interpersonal communications, teamwork, management, ethics, and legal constraints) Applications to join theory and skills (including labs, assignments, projects, etc.) Capstone projects

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Williams, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, otherdepartments have had the test set up as a demonstration during another lab. The lab is a resource for other student courses, particularly senior capstone projects. Themost commonly used apparatus is the hardness tester. This efficiency has its costs. Effective utilization of time means that more tests can beconducted in a lab session. For example, there is an annual consumption of 850 metal tensilespecimens. Individual departments surrender control of equipment and facilities.Evaluation The basis for student assessment of this instructional facility is challenging. It is difficult toisolate the lab facility itself from the course and the effectiveness of TAs. The best method hasbeen to set up focus group meetings at the end of the semester

Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

lead “device dissection” labs of one type or another. Easilythe most populous of these three categories is the cadre of design instructors, as“capstone design” is virtually universal among engineering schools, whereas first yearinstruction is highly variable in coverage and level of effort, and even device dissectionlabs are not present in the majority of engineering departments. The materials needed for instruction in technological literacy courses (TLCs) aresubstantial and varied. Materials available to address this need include an increasingnumber of books by engineering and science authors such as Billington 5, Bloomfield 6,Florman 7 , Lienhard 8 , and Petroski 9. Radio programs featuring engineers are written

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

lead “device dissection” labs of one type or another. Easilythe most populous of these three categories is the cadre of design instructors, as“capstone design” is virtually universal among engineering schools, whereas first yearinstruction is highly variable in coverage and level of effort, and even device dissectionlabs are not present in the majority of engineering departments. The materials needed for instruction in technological literacy courses (TLCs) aresubstantial and varied. Materials available to address this need include an increasingnumber of books by engineering and science authors such as Billington 5, Bloomfield 6,Florman 7 , Lienhard 8 , and Petroski 9. Radio programs featuring engineers are written

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

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

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College; Nora Paul-Schultz, Smith College; Ida Ngambeki, Smith College

2006-258: LEARNING/ASSESSMENT: A TOOL FOR ASSESSING LIBERATIVEPEDAGOGIES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDonna Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Assistant Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her work focuses on implementing liberative pedagogies in engineering education.Lionel Claris, Smith College Lionel Claris holds a master's degree in education from Smith College and currently teaches Spanish and French to elementary school students in Springfield, MA. He is a passionate advocate for new ways of thinking about learning, involved locally in the Holistic School Project of Amherst and the Re-radicalization of Hampshire College.Nora Paul-Schultz, Smith College Nora

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Toto, Pennsylvania State University; Mark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University; John Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University; John Wise, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Instructional Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the design of online learning and how learning occurs in those environments. Address: 201 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-4017, FAX: 814-865-4021, email: rtoto@psu.eduMark Wharton, Pennsylvania State University Mark J. Wharton is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. He teaches undergraduate courses in Electronics (Electronics I, II, and III) and Senior Project Design, the EE capstone design course. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and his M.S. from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Prior to working at Penn State, Mark spent

Conference Session

Where are We Going? The Future of Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

theindustry first hand will be needed to teach these subjects. Only a person who has worked ona real world engineering project is best qualified to assess whether a student capstone designproject is realistic and relevant. If practitioners are needed, then there needs to be a careertrack where their services can be valued and rewarded. Practitioners are typically includedon the faculty as adjunct professors. They are paid less and not viewed as full-fledgedpartners. Most do not have the Ph.D. credential that accords equal status. The advantage ofthis system is that the practitioner faculty member is typically teaching as a side job, while heis working in a firm as a primary job and continues to stay current in professional practiceand can bring those

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Ida Ngambeki, Smith College; Lionel Claris, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

articulation of values, andintroduce frameworks for ethical problem solving and case analysis. Core engineering coursesbuild on this experience, employing additional cases that integrate relevant engineering content.In the capstone design course, students apply what they have learned preventively to identifypotential pitfalls related to their particular projects. Additionally, advanced ethics topics areexplored in two upper-level technical electives, examining key issues of environment andsustainability and considering critically the role of engineering in global development.The approach to date has been grounded in problem solving and systematic analysis, teachingstudents to build and support arguments engaging with primary themes in ethics. This

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Sullivan, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

train studentsin “technical communication” have prioritized writing over speaking. Second, most approachesto communication skill development include an emphasis on either integrating writing and Page 11.625.2speaking into an introductory and/or capstone engineering course or offering a TechnicalCommunication course specifically for engineering students. Third, research in this area oftenhighlights previous attempts to incorporate or develop writing assignments using a writing-in-the-disciplines approach while relying on industry representatives and/or alumni to providediscipline-specific, genre-based knowledge. While these approaches to

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Carolyn Conner Seepersad; Kathy Schmidt; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

: Undergraduate Reverse Engineering of Consumer Products3.1 Design Team Background The UT Austin Department of Mechanical Engineering undergraduate curriculumincludes a senior design methods course followed by a semester of capstone design. Students inthe design methods course apply design methodologies in a semester-long project involving thereverse engineering and re-design of a consumer product. The text used for the course12conceptually presents the design process in three phases: (1) task clarification (understanding there-design need), (2) concept generation, and (3) concept implementation (detailed design andprototyping). In the first phase students use a number of tools to understand the re-design needsuch as: a mission statement, a

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Ekstrom, Brigham Young University; Melissa Dark, Purdue University; Barry Lunt, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

“Fundamentals”, if there is one, and thenthe units are sorted in order of the number of core hours. This ordering should not beconsidered as any indication of the order the units would be covered pedagogically in animplemented curriculum.The model is a cube (see Figure 2) that provides a simple visual representation that afreshman can understand, yet the 3 dimensional structure facilitates the detailed analysisrequired for use in technology specific contexts, and is comprehensive enough toencompass a capstone learning experience. IAS. Information Assurance and Security (23 core hours) IAS1. Fundamental Aspects (3) IAS2. Security Mechanisms (countermeasures) (5) IAS3. Operational Issues (3) IAS4. Policy (3) IAS5. Attacks

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Koehler, North Carolina State University; Jerome Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Susan Matney, North Carolina State University; Mary Clare Robbins, North Carolina State University

State University. Dr. Lavelle’s teaching and research areas include: engineering management, project management, cost engineering, engineering economics, leadership, teamwork and personality, and engineering education. Dr. Lavelle is past chair of the ASEE Engineering Economy and Engineering Management Divisions.Susan Matney, North Carolina State University Susan Matney is Associate Director of Cooperative Education at North Carolina State University, with 18 years of experience in co-op. She has served as President of the North Carolina Cooperative Education Association, is current Secretary of the Cooperative Education Division (CED) of ASEE and a graduate of the BRIDGES Academic

Conference Session

Leadership and Administration in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Ibrahim, ECPI College of Technology; Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Sciences - Physics, Chemistry, etc. 6-18 Management - Total Quality Management, Quality Control, Production Planning and Control, Industrial Supervision, Industrial Finance and Accounting, Industrial Safety Management, Facilities Layout and Materials Handling, Industrial Ergonomics and Time 12-24 Study, Industrial Communications, Business Law, Marketing, Leadership, Project Management, International Business, and Teaming, etc. Technical - Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design, Electronics, Materials Testing, Computer Technology, Packaging, Construction, Manufacturing 24-36 Processes, etc. Electives

Conference Session

Engineering Practice for a Moral World

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

soon back up. It was determined by both hisemployer and social worker that some variety of device that would help David’s pacewould be a great aid. A team of senior engineering capstone design students selected thisproject and dedicated two semesters to the design, fabrication, testing evaluation anddelivery of the final device.During the two terms, David made several visits to the campus and he and the studentsbecame quite close. Delivery day became a highly publicized event with local officials,university officials, family and friends all in attendance along with local and nationalpress. David thoroughly enjoyed the festivities and was immensely pleased by his device.At that time, the project seemed an incredibly successful effort for