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Thomas J. Krueger; Ted Aanstoos; Ronald E. Barr

continuous assessment of the program outcomes. One of thebiggest obstacles in assessment is the inability to engage students in the awareness of programoutcomes and their importance in the curriculum. Many students see them as overly generalizedstatements that have no bearing on the concepts they need to pass a given course. Thus,dissemination of the notion and value of program outcomes is a major challenge for the faculty.Examples of freshman class assignments and projects that address specific program outcomes ina mechanical engineering department are presented. IntroductionIn the mid-1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) developeda new set of criteria for accrediting

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Jorge E. Navarro; Apolinar Zapata

curves, the amount of work it takes to pump liquidsfrom below ground, the forces against floodgates, the center of mass, etc. will be of greatbenefit to Calculus teachers. The design of this manual, and the success of itsimplementation, will generate the necessity of a Calculus Laboratory room. These are thefuture contributions of the authors. References1. Principles and Standards of School Mathematics, 2000, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Virginia 2000, pp. 383-390.2. Arons, A. B., 1990, “A guide to Introductory Physics Teaching,” John Wiley and sons.3. Van Heuvelen, A.,1991, “Overview, Case Study Physics,” Am. J. Phys. 59, pp. 898- 907.4. McDermott, L. C., Shaffer, P. S., 1992

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Role in Engineering Design Education. The Journal of Engineering Education. April 2001, p. 239.4. Rennie, S. C. and Crosley, J.R. “Are tomorrow’s doctors honest. Questionnaire study exploring medical students’ attitudes and reported behavior on academic misconduct. BMJ. February 2001;322:274-275.5. Madden, M. and Lenhart, A. “Pew internet & American life project.” The Pew Charitable Trust. 2003. Available at: http://www.pewinternet.org. Retrieved February 2005.6. “Cheating is accepted when there is no enforcement.” Jim’s Blog. Available at: http://www.beernut.ca/jim/archives/001659.html. Retrieved February 2005.7. Goulet, R. “Ethics and engineering professionalism.” Presented at the Ethics Across the Curriculum

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Rita Caso; Kristi J. Shryock; Jo Howze; Jeffrey Froyd; Arun R. Srinivasa

the above specifications. Hopefully, a stream of projects cancontinue to be generated. AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0336591. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. References1. Caso, R., Clark, C., Froyd, J.E., Inam, A., Kenimer, A.L., Morgan, J.R., and Rinehart, J., “A Systemic Change Model in Engineering Education and Its Relevance for Women,” Proceedings, 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Conference and

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Kenneth Van Treuren

Letter, Spring 20059. http://journaltool.asme.org/Content/AuthorResources.cfm10. ASME Writing Guide for Baylor University – (Student handout developed for EGR 4335, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory.)KEN VAN TREURENKen Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. Hereceived his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy and his M. S. in Engineering fromPrinceton University. He completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, UK. AtBaylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, propulsion, andfreshman engineering. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty; Chad Lloyd

. MethodologyThis project is divided into two main sections, hardware and software. The hardwarediscussion will detail the microcontroller, the development environment and allrequirements necessary to recreate a working model. The software section will brieflyillustrate the Keil C IDE and JavaKit applications as well as the firmware written for themicrocontroller.HardwareThe DS80C400 is a microcontroller with onboard network support. In addition, themicrocontroller has seven bidirectional parallel ports, four counters/timers and threeserial ports with onboard UARTs (3). The instruction execution speed has beendramatically increased with a maximum input clock speed of 75 MHz and the original8051’s 12 clocks-per-instruction cycle has been reduced to four

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education(see later Table 7). The students then performed the challenge(s) posed on the CD in the form ofthe Legacy Cycle. After the completion of each topical area, the students took a post-test and apost-affect survey. Three times during the semester (Pre, Mid, and Post), a student outcomessurvey was administered. All tests and exercises were graded using uniform grading rubrics. Atthe end of the semester, the students also completed a final report that included a learningeffectiveness survey for each of the eight challenges and a matrix that mapped generalBiomechanics topics to the modules. Table 1 summarizes this methodology. Table 1: Summary of Classroom Instruction and Testing

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Roop Chanda; Mohammed E. Haque

. Thesevisualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but also aneffective self-directed tool for open learning via the web. ReferencesAnderson, E (2002) Enhancing Visual Literacy through Cognitive Activities. Paper presented at the 2002 ASEE/SEF/TUB Colloquium, American Society for Engineering Education. Retrieved Jan23, 2004, from http://www.asee.org/conferences/international/papers/anderson.pdfBlais, C., Burtzman, D., Horner, D., Nicklaus, S. (2001) Web based 3D technology for Scenario Authoring and Visualization: The Savage Project. Paper to appear in proceedings of Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2001. Paper

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Raviganesh Singh; Matthew Siik; Ioana C. Finegan; Gowri V. Kumar

mechanical properties of carbon nanofiber/thermoplastic cpmposites”, J. of Materials Science, No. 1-6, pp. 1-6.3. Finegan I. C. and Tibbetts G. G. , 2001, “Electric conductivity of Vapor-Grown Carbon Fiber/Thermoplastic Composites”, J. of Materials Research, Vol. 16, pp. 1668-1674, 2001.4. Edmund, I. Ko, “Are Engineers really Nerds ? “, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.5. Michael Valenti, “Teaching tomorrow’s engineers”, 1996, Mechanical Engineering, July 1996.6. Wankat V. C. and Oreovicz F. S., Teaching Engineering, 1993, McGraw-Hill.FINEGAN I.C.Dr. Finegan currently serves as an Assistant Professor of the Engineering and Technology Department ofCentral Michigan University

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Mirley K. Balasubramanya; George D. Tintera; Alexey Sadovski

aphenomenon caused by a microorganism, Aureoumbra lagunensis, that discolors thewater. The turbidity of the water has a negative impact on the seagrasses that grow in theshallow waters in the vicinity of Corpus Christi. In turn, the entire ecosystem isnegatively affected; ducks lose feeding grounds, larval fish and other creatures losehabitat, larger animals also lose feeding grounds. The Brown Tide persisted for severalyears in the 1990’s, and the natural consequences became economic ones2.Brown Tide is a complex phenomenon. SCAMP took on the task of measuring turbidity.To start, we simply took the students to the field to observe it. This was aided by a toolcalled a Secchi disk3. The Secchi disk has a diameter of about 6 to 8 inches and isdivided

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M.K. Balasubramanya

in experimentation, and conducting military research for a state that does notalways subscribe to ethical norms4.No texts are used for either the discussion section or the lecture. All the course contentsare made available through the web2. A significant part of the student's assignment is topost analyses on ethics at the course web site, for critique and response by other students.Each post is moderated by the faculty team for content and appropriateness, and gradedon a 6 point scale. The posts are organized by threads, which are often begun by thefaculty team. In their posts the students need to "focus on making a point (or points) andthen giving reasons for the point(s) (they) have made … (They) may …make positiveclaims (in favor of

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Kevin M. Nickels

and Cons of replacing discrete logic with programmable logic in introductory digital design courses. In Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 18-21, 2000, St. Louis, MO4. R. Katz. Contemporary Logic Design. Benjamin/Cummings, California, 1994.5. S. Lee. Design of Computers and Other Complex Digital Devices. Prentice/Hall, New Jersey, 2000.6. J. Hamblen and M. Furman. Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems – A Tutorial Approach. Second Edition. Kluwer, Boston, 2001.7. R. Felder and L. Silverman. Learning and teaching styles in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education 77 (2), February 1988.8. J. Greco, Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in

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James R. Morgan; Brian P. Janak

. Thesevisualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching in the classroom but also aneffective self-directed tool for open learning via the web. ReferencesAnderson, E (2002) Enhancing Visual Literacy through Cognitive Activities. Paper presented at the 2002 ASEE/SEF/TUB Colloquium, American Society for Engineering Education. Retrieved Jan23, 2004, from http://www.asee.org/conferences/international/papers/anderson.pdfBlais, C., Burtzman, D., Horner, D., Nicklaus, S. (2001) Web based 3D technology for Scenario Authoring and Visualization: The Savage Project. Paper to appear in proceedings of Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2001. Paper

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Paul R. Corder

, 2) Definition of the Problem, 3) Synthesis of Solution(s), 4) Analysis (&/or Optimization), 5) Evaluation, and 6) Presentation. An illustration of this Process is that in the mid-1800s there was a need to expandwestward to help the growing country to reach its potential (Phase 1). The problem wasthat the nation’s transportation system was not up to the task (Phase 2). Some peoplesaid more and faster ships were needed to go from the east coast to California around thetip of South America while others said sturdier wagons were needed to travel across theundeveloped country. Groups of people would form and evolve their favored

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Daniel J. Burroughs

, S., and McGraw, G. “Software Penetration Testing”, IEEE Computer Society, to be published 2005. 2. “CERT Coordination Center”, http://www.cert.org (visited 1/5/05). 3. “Certification”, International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, https://www.isc2.org/cgi/content.cgi?category=3 (visited 1/5/05). 4. Davis, J. and Dark, M., “Defining a Curriculum Framework in Information Assurance and Security”, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2004. 5. Finelli, C.J., Killinger A. and Budney, D.D. (2001). “Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment

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Dulal C. Kar; Dennis Ma

tool reduces the timeneeded to extract an object from an image manually. References1. Fisher, B., 2005, “Feature Detector,” URL: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/sobel.html.2. Gonzalez, R. C., Woods, R. E., 2002, Digital Image Processing, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts.3. Petrou, M., Bosdogianni, P., 1999, Image Processing: The Fundamentals, John Wiley & Sons Publishing Company, New York.4. Tanimoto, S., 2005, “Digital images,” URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/about/digital.html. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas &M University-Corpus

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Steven L. Bryant; Christopher A. Irle

diameter to column heightconstrains the flow to produce a single dominant finger. Conducting the experiments in a porousmedium with a larger aspect ration would help determine how many fingers of oil can form in asingle displacement front. This could also alleviate edge effects, which in turn would give betteraccuracy in velocity and residual saturation measurements. The apparatus should be set up in away such that the oil would not initially be in contact with the sides of the apparatus, andtherefore should not be exposed to any gaps, if they exist, between the sand and the sides of theapparatus. References1. Kumar, A., Noh, M., Pope, G.A., Sepehrnoori, K., Bryant, S., and Lake, L.W., “Reservoir

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Richard Bannerot

sheet on the component and a formal technical report about the component you selected. Some of the issues you should consider are: 1. size of your sample(s) for the demonstration (not too big and not too small; consider a “hand-held” size) 2. best way to present visuals of your component in your report and take-away sheet 3. function of the component in general 4. function of your particular (sample) component (Where did yours actually come from or where could it be used?) Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education 5. specifications

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Pradeep Bhattacharya; Nikhil Modi; Fred Lacy

Laboratory, Haque, Mohammed E., 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Session T1C, 20012. Visualization Techniques for Complex Processes in Solid State Engineering, Scott, C., Wake, D., ASEE Annual Conference Proceeding, Sec 3532, 19973. Documentation from URL: http://www.vrco.com, website of the software company that supports CaveLibTM4. Solid State Electronic Devices, Streetman, B., Banerjee, S., 5th Edition, 1999NIKHIL MODIMr. Modi is a graduate student at the College of Engineering, Southern University, Baton Rouge. He hasalso been a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering. A proficient VC++programmer, he has great interest in computer graphics, computational fluid dynamics, and

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Ross Kastor; Robert Askew; Richard Bannerot; Paul Ruchhoeft; Elena Poltavtchenko; Colley Hodges; Chad Wilson; Cari-Sue Wilmot

Technical Communications in a Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center,” submitted to the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition of the ASEE, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR.5. See especially The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Harper and Row, 1976; Madness And Civilization: A History Of Insanity In The Age Of Reason. London, Routledge, 2001; and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage, 1995.6. Faigley, Lester. The Brief Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman, 2002.7. Ferguson, Eugene S. Engineering and the Mind’s Eye. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1992.8. Finkelstein, Leo. Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005.9