Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

-solving intelligence specific to engineering. When they design aproject, engineers undertake a set of coordinated activities. They follow a combination ofparticular protocols so that, for example, dangers are obviated and efficiency attained. Engineersalso negotiate their design activities within several ranges of constraints, for example, budgets,timetables, and the limits of materials. In addition, they engage imaginative creativity, becauseproject specificity invites it or because project singularity demands it.7:28 Life-long learning requires the extension of curiosity into new areas. Engineers becomefree for such an extension, if they first recognize their own capacity. To examine the sameintelligence deployed in alien settings

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

membersprovide an invaluable link between industry and the engineering school by mentoring our studentsone-on-one. Because of students’ intense schedules, we do not require mentoring; however,students who elect to work with a mentor consistently perform better than those who do not.Clearly, the relationship that develops between a dedicated experienced professional and a young“apprentice” has no substitute.Between 1987 and 1999, our program grew to reach about 65 percent of our upper-level studentsat some level of instruction—either via our “stand-alone” three-credit technical electives10 or viashort modules integrated into design project, internship, laboratory, and other engineeringcourses. Our TC faculty tailored the short modules (typically five or

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

quantified outcomes for that course. They also describe what student activities(i.e. homework problems, exam questions, project sections, in-class problems, etc.) will be usedto measure the outcome. All of the information to this point is needed in any ABET self-studyreport. The most important aspect is that instructor defines each rubric so they make the mosteffective use of their time. As mentioned before, the faculty will also trust the results since theyshould not select a weak rubric. As faculty change courses and as courses change instructors, it isnow the responsibility of the new instructor to repeat this process to make the most effective useof their time.Once the outcome measurements are obtained, the next step in the structure is in the

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

stageof an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture from initial idea to growth and profitability. Theever-pressing issue of funding is presented as a manageable hurdle and options to structure anddevelop the business to attract potential investors are presented. The critical roles of engineering,marketing, finance and management are clearly explained as the entrepreneur learns practical andleading-edge approaches to bring products to market and grow the organization. Technologycommercialization projects, guest lectures and interaction / networking opportunities withsuccessful or struggling technical entrepreneurs, corporate intrapreneurs, angel investors, venturecapitalists, corporate technology managers, technology incubator directors

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Agnew; Ka C Cheok; Jerry Lane; Ernie Hall; David Ahlgren

design experience that is at the very cutting edge of engineering education. Itis multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed,and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologiesimpacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students. Thedesign and construction of an intelligent vehicle fits well in a two-semester, senior yeardesign capstone course, or as an extracurricular activity earning design credit. Mostparticipating undergraduate and graduate students use the technical challenges posed by thecompetition as guidelines for their engineering projects. Under the supervision of facultyadvisors, participating students can register and receive grades for up to

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Cooperstock

detailed description of our classroom’s hardware andpressing dozens of buttons throughout a lecture, in order to software architecture. Next, we describe how the lectureraise and lower projection screens, adjust the room lighting capture tools were integrated with this environment toas appropriate to the brightness of the media, and switching facilitate the production of an on-line record of the class,between the various input sources for display. All too both in terms of instructors’ ease-of-use and quality of theoften, such tedious interaction is not only distracting and end result.prone to error, but worse, often unnecessary. Many of the RELATED WORKoperational sequences involved in controlling the

Conference Session

A Focus on Industry Partnership

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

modeler” for the US Air Force. After one year of building visualdatabases for flight simulators, Pat began software development for the flight simulator andcontinued taking computer classes. After 6 months as a subcontractor, she began to work directlyfor the US Air Force. In the mid-1980’s Pat’s supervisor moved from the US Air Force to aprivate aerospace company that was competing for the US Army LHX helicopter. The LHX wasa R&D project sponsored by the US Army to develop a reconnaissance and attack helicoptercapable of flying at high speeds. After losing the LHX bid in 1991, Pat’s company had to layoff Page 8.284.5

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design projects in advanced mechanics of materials; Atherton (1998) 1 discusses controls;Schilling & Hagen (2000) 34, sanitary engineering; Lightner, Carlson, Sullivan, Brandenmuehl &Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; and Westerberg &Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses: These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

U.S. population and education statistics,the trend of some minority groups to obtain higher percentages of both bachelor andengineering degrees over other minority groups, the next-generation of college students,the projected future populations, and some possible solutions to increasing the numbers ofminority students in the engineering field.Literature SearchIn researching this area, one finds a plethora of information, yet not all address theaccurate state of minority students in engineering. Some references, including thosepublished by NSF1,2, state accurate information, but focus on the increase in the numbersof minority students, not the racial groups within the minority groups or the relationshipbetween these numbers and the U.S

Conference Session

Information Literacy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Smith; Lawrence Whitman

The Engineering Economy course was taught in two separate sections at the same time.One section was taught aspects of MS Excel during the live class time. The second section hadlectures on MS Excel available online. Both groups were given a pre-test question requestingstudents to rate their skill level in MS Excel. A post-test question of self-assessment on skilllevel identical to the pre-test question was asked in the final week of the sixteen week course. A thirty-five point assignment allowed students to practice the learned concepts fromclass using MS Excel. The assignment required students to enter data, use multiple worksheets,create a bar graph, and use engineering economy MS Excel functions with an objective ofcomparing project

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Rakesh Sreenivasa; Kendrick Aung

was presented and discussed. One of thetools is an energy calculator that does unit conversion of different energy resources and fuelunits, and estimates the cost of electricity generation using different fuels. The other tool is acycle analyzer that conducts the first and second law analyses of power cycles for different idealgases. These tools were beta tested in a senior elective class to evaluate their effectiveness. Thestudents found the tools useful for their assignments and projects. Future improvements of thetools based on suggestions of the students were presented. These improvements are beingincorporated in the tools to make them more useful for students.Introduction Increasing popularity of the Internet and information

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Society for Engineering Education” Session 2433Project conclusion and student evaluationDuring the fall semester of his senior year, the student decided to terminate work on hisundergraduate thesis project. A number of factors contributed to this decision. They include: • Time constraint – The student felt that there wasn’t sufficient time to simultaneously work on the thesis while also maintaining excellence in his schoolwork and being involved in extracurricular activities, such as student government and his fraternity. He was also concerned about making satisfactory progress on his capstone senior design project. This team

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

Learning and Teaching Methodology“Eighty- three percent of faculty nation wide report that lecturing is their preferredinstructional method, even while surveys of students say that question-and-answer periods,team projects, work on problem-based activities and face time with the instructor were thebiggest contributors to a positive learning experience”1.“The attention span of the students increases from the beginning of the lecture to 10 minutesinto the lecture and decreases after that point” 2.There is no formal text book for the course. Most of the lecture slides and referencematerials are posted on the web. This is facilitated by the course management program: ANew Global Learning Environment (ANGEL). ANGEL was developed by Cyber Learningand

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

-enligne.prd.fr/, simulation libraries such as http://www.eoe.org, remote laboratories such ashttp://iawww.epfl.ch/, and virtual laboratories such as http://www.esr.ruhr-uni-bochum.De/VCLab/ and tutorials such as http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/. Projects for Page 8.471.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”pedagogical material capitalization and for open distance learning diffusion are strongly supportedby the European Commission, which considers education as one of the most strategic applicationsof

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

combustion engines. Thepurpose of this project was to service gasoline engine, service the engine dynamometer,test the system and carry out some engine performance tests. If successful, engine testswill be incorporated into “EDTE 341-Power and Transportation course” or “ETME 301-Thermodynamics and Heat Power” course as one or two laboratory experiments. EDTE341 course is a technical elective and ETME 301 is a required course in MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) program. Gasoline engine was disassembled andserviced as a requirement for the laboratory part of EDTE 341 course. Servicing of theengine-dynamometer was completed as an ETME 499 project. Instrumentation for fuelconsumption measurements were added and measurements were carried. Results

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enos Charles Inniss

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIn addition to preparing and presenting their own topics students were asked to evaluate both thepresentation and content of information provided by their peers. Evaluation forms were providedto the class and they were encouraged to actively participate in the Q&A session.B. Use of WebCT Course Management ToolThe course management tool WebCT was critical to the success of this project because it allowedfor • Students to personally communicate with only their group members through the web; • Groups to submit their fact sheet drafts to the instructor for review; • Groups to upload their PowerPoint presentations to the web-platform for ease of presentation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tricia Berry

Session 2793 WE@UT – A Residential Recruitment Program for Women in Engineering Tricia S. Berry The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Women in Engineering at The University of Texas (WE@UT) program, a two-day in-depthresidential program, is designed to increase participant knowledge and understanding ofengineering and technology through hands-on, technology-based team projects so well informedand solid educational and career decisions are made. The objectives of this program are (1) toencourage young women to explore engineering as a career

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ventura

topic can be mapped to an attribute of an ABET EC-2000learning outcome [4]. For example, an engineering course titled ECE Project must meet theobjective of EC-2000, item c – ability to design systems. The syllabus for this course is used toidentify the attributes that map to this key-learning outcome. Below is a statement of coursegoals listed in the syllabus of the ECE Project class: 1. Learn proper library search methods for information on selected subject. 2. Organize the problem statement and design specifications. 3. Present alternate solutions and list advantages and disadvantages of each. 4. Present final solution and reasons for choice involving realistic constraints such as economic factors, reliability

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wim Ravesteijn; Erik DeGraaff

. More, however, projected a society sharing all materialresources in conformity with the modern communist model, though ruled from a democraticbase. A lack of private property is essential in his ideal society is (see table 1.).Table 1.: Characteristics of life in More’s Utopia • all citizens work for a period of the day agriculturally, helping produce the stores that feed them all • social organization is patriarchal, in family units, with slaves for menial tasks • all property is held in common • citizens are indifferent to money, gold, silver and precious stones • all the activities are carefully supervised, including travel, marriage, the care of the sick, and the elimination of the old and infirm • war is hated, but

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Session 2660 CAPACITY BUILDING – ENGINEERS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. World Expertise LLC and Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D. James Madison UniversityAbstractThe global persistence of warfare, aggression, oppression and political unrest testify to thegrowing vulnerability and impatience of those who live in conditions of extreme poverty.A larger injection of aid is needed to help stabilize the poorest countries: projects thatpromise only

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gralinski; Janis Terpenny

Regional High School (ARHS) with faculty atthe University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College in addressing issues impinging thesuccess of engineering and technology curricula. More specifically, this collaboration hasfocused on: reviewing and enhancing high school teacher’s core knowledge of engineeringdesign, the curricular changes made based on this study/research, and research of gender equityissues in engineering and technology curricula. Plans to recruit and retain female students in thetechnology/engineering area at both secondary and university levels are described; including,cross-institutional projects with an emphasis on assistive technologies and universal design, anda variety of outreach activities between institutions. A structure

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

paper presents the design and development of a generic control architecture that enablesover-the-Internet access to automated manufacturing equipment. The architecture has beendeveloped through a series of projects that have been conducted at the Integrated SystemsFacility (ISF) in the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla.The projects include Web-based applications for materials management, product design andmachining, robot programming, and programmable logic control programming. For eachapplication, a prototype has been developed and implemented in the course Emgt 334 ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing Systems as an E-Lab Suite for various laboratory applications.The concept presented in this paper offers a

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement in attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and team skills in addition to a background in BME applications have been successfully demonstrated with projects, papers, and presentations. This approach has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduate students and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is so high that it is planned for incorporation in all courses in the curriculum. I. Introduction This paper presents the results of having students use the instructor’s grading rubrics to assess both oral and written presentation. For the

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie Edmonson; Donna Summers

two institutions requires at least a forty-five minute commute,all of The University of Dayton Engineering Technology courses completed by Edisonstudents will be offered through distance learning. Nearly all of the Edison Community College students participating in the 2 + 2program work full-time. This fact, combined with the distance separating the twoinstitutions make providing a cohesive educational experience similar to that of residentstudents at The University of Dayton challenging. Distance learning capabilities at bothinstitutions make such an endeavor possible. During the Fall semester of 2002, the Industrial Engineering Technology programat The University of Dayton offered the IET 323 Project Management course as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

Session 2793 Pedagogy and Technology in Statics Sean W. St.Clair, Nelson C. Baker Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper will discuss ten different Statics instructional technology programs that wereconsidered for classroom use and the positive aspects of each as well as some of theirshortcomings.While in the process of a larger research project investigating the effects of technology use in theclassroom, a number of different readily available instructional programs designed for use inStatics courses were studied. The programs were being

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

of using the marginal cost of equity is that it more closely reflects the currentsources of the firm’s equity financing. The weighted average cost of equity determines the cost ofequity based on the firm’s overall equity composition, which may not be the same as its mostrecent financing composition.Capital Asset Pricing Model. The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was developed toexplain the variation in yield rates on various types of investments and also to provide insight intothe appropriate rate to use in discounted cash flow analysis (Kellison, p. 350).4 The main benefitis that it shows the relationship between project risk and return.The CAPM identifies two types of risk. The first is unsystematic risk, also known as unique risk.This

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marty Frisbee; Deborah Sharer

examined individually in the following sections.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationWebCTIn an attempt to minimize potential problems, the Active Networks I course was developed usingseveral compatible delivery and interaction strategies that were intended to provide optimumsupport for students. The IADE offerings of the ET Department had previously been defined asan asynchronous program and, in 2001, WebCT was chosen by the University as the primarycourse delivery mechanism. Asynchronous delivery of lecture material, examples, homeworkproblems, projects, self-tests and other course requirements

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

thesecompetencies.ePortfoliosFirst, our decision for using ePortfolios comes out of our desire to have a broader assessmenttool for student intellectual development and technical expertise. We believe that the portfolioprocess is a successful paradigm for broader assessment because student are given the choice tocollect certain examples (papers, reports, projects, and autobiographical information), reflect onthe significance of these examples, and to explain their selection process for the instructor and/oraudience. When done correctly, the portfolio as an educational artifact shows intellectual growthand gives the assessor of this growth a range of performances that indicate the student’sintellectual and technical development8.Second, we believe that engineers and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Herbert Hess

part. A microturbine can run for days without attentionand its total projected life that is six times that of a comparable internal combustion engine. Itshigh rotating speed gives it a great energy density. It has a nearly universal fuel capability. It isquieter than an internal combustion engine, but not as quiet as other competing technologies.Unfortunately, its tolerances are exacting and its materials are expensive. It does not respond asquickly to a load change as competing technologies. To overcome these disadvantages,additional equipment must be added, defeating much of its size and simplicity advantage. Page 8.548.3 Proceedings