Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mariasingam, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Gregory Moses, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

International

new ways of educating the engineers of thefuture for engineering education to be in tune with demands of the emerging engineeringenterprise. The new ways include common first-year curricula with design experiences andmulti-disciplinary capstone design courses as well as alternative delivery approaches andcollaborative partnerships,Alternative delivery approaches: Alternative delivery approaches will not only change the modeof operation and organization of higher education but also provide access to education, animportant element of quality education. The American Council on Education22 says, All members of society have the right to access learning opportunities that provide the means for effective participation in society (p.11).But

Conference Session

Teaching Innovation in Architectural Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Hector Estrada, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

every program has something in this category because of the accreditation requirement for the history of architecture. Those AE programs that require students to participate in architecture design studio courses have a much greater number of these courses. • L: Capstone Design – many programs offer a senior project course that requires a complete design of a complex system. It is a culminating experience that requires students to synthesize and use all of the skills developed in the program. The content of these courses would mostly fit into the categories E, F, and G above, but is listed here.The information for making this assessment was taken from the website postings for theindividual universities

Conference Session

Intersdisciplinary Courses and Environmental Undergraduate Research

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helene Hilger, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Francis De Los Reyes, North Carolina State University; Warren DiBiase, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Len Holmes, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Siva Mandjiny, University of North Carolina - Pembroke; Todd Steck, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Keith Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Environmental Engineering

Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. Dr. Wang teaches educational research and statistics courses. Dr. Wang received a master of applied statistics degree and a PhD degree in educational research from The Ohio State University. Page 12.1083.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 MULTI-CAMPUS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM-BASED-LEARNING COURSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNINGIntroductionThe project described here began with a civil engineering and biology laboratory

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

TOTAL 30 20 10 Page 12.1210.2 0 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2006 2000-2009 Projected Table 1: Recently Accredited Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Programs2 Next General Year Review (NGR) Accredited University

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University; J. Scott Patton, California Polytechnic State University; Raymond Gordon, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

loweroutside pressure (such as atmosphere) through a small opening. The goal of this experiment is topredict either the time required to discharge the tank, or the pressure inside the tank, after aspecified time. The exercise is useful to students because it is a rather straightforwardapplication of conservation of mass, and introduces the concepts of choked and subsonic flows.Further, the solution integrates aspects of thermodynamics and heat transfer, making for anexcellent capstone experiment in thermal sciences. The most comprehensive solution to the problem is presented by Bober et al.1 Theyapplied conservation of energy to a discharging tank of air to predict the temperature andpressure inside the tank as a function of time. They analyzed

Conference Session

Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kailash Bafna, Western Michigan University; Betsy Aller, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

Engineering at Western Michigan University. She teaches the capstone senior design sequence and the College-wide engineering design courses. She is a member of ASEE, ASEM, and SME, for which she is the student chapter advisor. Page 12.676.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Enhancing the Learning of Engineering Economy with Innovative Technology and TeachingAbstractAs one migrates from the traditional classroom instruction using black or white boards to the useof computers, many other forms of technology have become available—both as hardware andsoftware—that can

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Michael McCuddy, Valparaiso University

consequently would expectsmaller changes. In contrast, we would expect to find a much greater pretest/posttest differenceamong groups of students with a lower level of sophistication regarding technology and itimplications. On balance, reasonable evidence exists regarding the efficacy of the ethics education Page 12.837.9approach we have developed.The impact of the training for the engineering students may have been mitigated  ironically  bytechnology. The PowerPoint projection system in the classroom in which the engineering studentsmet was less than fully functional given poor in-room lighting. Thus, the engineering students didnot have the

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Veera Gnaneswar Gude, New Mexico State University; Adrian Hanson, New Mexico State University; Michele Auzenne, New Mexico State University; Sarah Williamson, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 12.664.2knowledge acquired in two pre-requisite courses, “Environmental Science” and“Introduction to Fluid Mechanics,” and develops new skills which are specifically 2applicable to the department’s capstone design classes. The general objective of applyingskills used by successful practicing professional engineers, critical (reflective) thinking, isaddressed throughout the course and is the primary focus of the process of supplementalinstruction (SI).SI has been conducted for this class since Spring 2003. The purpose of the SI is to guidethe student’s development of critical thinking skills through: • Identifying confusion or lack of

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 12.1562.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Simple Experiments to Teach Core Concepts in the Thermal and Fluid SciencesIntroductionThis paper documents the start of a research project involving laboratory exercises for coreundergraduate classes in the thermal and fluid sciences. Students perform experiments oneveryday technology such as a hair dryer, a bicycle pump, a blender, a computer power supply,and a toaster, or very simple hardware such as a tank of water with a hole in it, or a pipe sectionwith a change of area. The equipment is chosen because it is familiar to students, or at least thatthe physical principles of operation are easy to understand. The laboratory

Conference Session

IE Program Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Morales, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

students).After the arrangement of these features twelve types of homogeneous groups were formed: • Public Spanish high school, • Transfer, • Private English high school • Private high school • Rural high school • Pre-basic • Academic difficulties, • Graduate in five years, • Coop, • Private English freshmen, • Public Spanish freshmen, and • Pre-basic freshmen.Fifty five students participated in this project. Twenty three were females and twenty two males,all of them were undergraduate students ranging from the freshmen to the fifth-plus year.Students’ were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding demographic and high school relatedfactors, such as the type of high school they attended, the language of instruction (English orSpanish or

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University

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Manufacturing

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland; Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, alternately, that can return to industrial cycles to supply high-quality raw materials for new products; • Transportation that improves the quality of life while delivering goods and services; • A world of abundance, not one of limits, pollution, and waste.Building on this, McLennan2 puts forward the following definition of sustainable design:“Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the builtenvironment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.”Sustainable design is seen as a philosophy, an approach to design that can be applied to anyobject or project. It tries to enhance quality which as McLennan (p5) argues is about “creatingbetter buildings for people, better

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

a particulartheme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project.”2 The freshmen inquiry course onDesign & Society is one of nine themes offered.In Fall 2002, SJSU began their MUSE program for incoming freshmen. MUSE was designed tobridge the gap from high school to college. MUSE includes academic seminars on a variety ofsubjects that help the freshmen students gain skills that are necessary to academic success. Inaddition, all MUSE classes are certified in one of SJSU’s General Education areas. Therefore,students taking the MUSE seminars receive three units of General Education credit. Theseminars qualify in one of the following areas: B1 (physical science), B2 (life science), C1(arts), C2 (letters), D1 (human behavior), or E

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lari Garrison, University of Washington; Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Portia Sabin, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

research projects and jobs inthe field (both on campus and off) as being factors in one’s chance of being admitted. Of all ofthese, however, grades seemed to be what most students thought was given the greatest weight inthe decision about their futures in engineering. This is not surprising, given that much of the Page 12.428.9assessments given by advisors relied heavily upon GPA. The other things, like activities played asupporting role. They were things used to bolster or prop up one’s chances, if one’s GPA was notbelieved to be strong enough.The students who were most confident in their chances, like Joe and Renee, talked very little, ifat all