Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hansberry; Guido Lopez

Session 3159 Mini-design projects; a Hands-on Approach to Teaching Instrumentation Courses in ET Programs. Guido W. Lopez, Eric W. Hansberry School of Engineering Technology Northeastern University Boston, MA ABSTRACTDesign is the central activity of engineering and the focus of undergraduate engineering education.Effective teaching and learning of underlying engineering science and the

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Duane Dunlap; Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the panel session of the National Collaborative Task Force on reshapingprofessional graduate education in engineering and technology that is more relevant to the needs of industryto ensure a strong U.S. engineering workforce. As the final and integrating paper of the panel session, thispaper ties together the three previous papers and focuses on leading change for purposeful action atcomprehensive research universities to implement this needed innovation into the mainstream of universityoperations across the country. The National Collaborative Task Force believes that innovation inengineering education can be accomplished best at the graduate level through a national demonstrationproject effected by a critical mass

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Freeman; Jessica du Maine

students over the lastfive years.Introduction The twenty-first century will be dominated by technological change as the United Stateseconomy becomes increasingly dependent on a technically literate workforce. Engineering is oneof the careers that will help fuel the engine of economic growth1. If the United States is tomaintain its technological leadership in this interdependent global economy, it must takeadvantage of the entire pool of talent that the nation has to offer. Many major corporations nowsupport the thesis that diversity makes good business sense. Hispanics, African Americans andNative Americans, however, still remain significantly underrepresented in science andengineering with roughly half of the science and engineering

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Smerdon

consulting, nano/bio-technology, environmental, and medicalapplications. It is very hard to predict the future in the current environment where newtechnologies surface each day because it is difficult to imagine things we have neverexperienced. Most of us can’t predict well and that is why the “futurist profession” emerged.Businesses have to make decisions on not only what they think will happen, but also the way itwill happen. In a matter of days, a new technology can make an old technology obsolete and theinvestment in it virtually worthless. In most cases, left-brain dominant engineers of the past havetended to think conservatively and not be visionary. Others who were not engineers have thesame problem as shown by some past predictions by people

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

established by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET), in criterion 4, specify the following requirements with regard toengineering capstone project experiences4:“Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in amajor design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work andincorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the followingconsiderations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health andsafety; social; and political.”In recent years, capstone design projects have increased in complexity, duration, and relevance toengineering practice. Motivated by challenging ABET requirements for

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

Session 3248 Merits of Faculty Internship in Industry – A Valuable Experience Ahad S. Nasab and James H. Lorenz Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractOne of the more effective ways for the engineering technology programs to keep faculty abreastof the new developments in their respective fields is to instill a faculty internship program.Studies have shown that faculty industrial placement is a component of life-long learning thathelps to maintain and expand technological skills1. The internship program at Middle TennesseeState University (MTSU), fully supported by the industrial

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

Session 2325 Teaching Electronics and Instrumentation through an Innovative Core Design Laboratory in Sophomore Year K. Sheppard*, D. Carlucci**, R. Carr**, T. Corradeschi**, A. Messano** and L. Natiello** * Associate Dean of Engineering ** Adjunct Engineering Professor Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030IntroductionStevens Institute of Technology has completed implementation of a revised EngineeringCurriculum to include an

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

AC 2003-95: INSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY:THE TWO PILLARS OF OURSUCCESSKathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at AustinMary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin Page 8.715.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Instruction and Technology: The Two Pillars of Our Success Mary Crawford, Kathy J. Schmidt The University of Texas at AustinAbstractImproving the quality of instruction is a key strategic goal of the College of Engineeringat The University of Texas at Austin. The Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) plays a crucialrole in realizing that goal. Many colleges of engineering provide teaching

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Mahmut Fetvaci; Ismail Fidan

Session 2793 Development and Implementation of a Virtual Gear Design and Simulation Tool for Undergraduate Education Cuneyt Fetvaci 1, Serdar Tumkor1, Ismail Fidan2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul80191-TURKEY / 2Department of Manufacturing & Industrial Technology, College of Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505-USAAbstract Gear drives are the most important mechanisms in transmitting mechanical powercompromising several cost effectiveness and engineering advantages. Most of theundergraduate level-engineering design courses detail the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Session 2150 Relationships between Student Learning Styles and Methods of Presentation for Engineering Technology Students Harold L. Broberg, Paul I-Hai Lin ECET Department, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, INI. IntroductionMany studies of student learning styles and personality types have been conducted thatapply to engineering students. These studies were validated using large numbers ofstudents and are used to empirically formulate a hypothesis concerning the principallearning styles1 and personality types of engineering technology students. As an educator,you probably have an opinion of the learning

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

Session 2506 ABET Educational Assessment: Outcomes (a)-(k) Enno “Ed” Koehn Lamar UniversityAbstractThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has revised the accreditationcriteria that is designed to assure that graduates of accredited programs are prepared to enter thepractice of engineering and satisfy industrial requirements. The general criteria also specifies thatengineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates possess or satisfy eleven (11)educational attributes or outcomes generally known as “a” through “k”.This

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

issues involved in the production of a design such as timeestimation, components availability, the design difficulty, and the problem solving skills.IntroductionThroughout their undergraduate curriculum, engineering technology students will plan, develop,and present semester-long projects in their field of engineering technology. Working on theseprojects, students gain knowledge and skills in project handling, technical writing, problem-solving skills, evaluation process, and oral presentation techniques. Many times the projects arenot completed on time because of lack of estimating the difficulty of the design, or the timeinterval required to gather components and assemble the given design. Most problem solversskip the step of estimating the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

Session 2530 Content Generation: Lessons Learned From a Successful High School Science and Mathematics Outreach Program Eric A. Roe1, Joseph D. Hickey1, Andrew Hoff2, Richard A. Gilbert1, and Marilyn Barger3 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 3 Manufacturing Technology, Hillsborough Community College, Brandon, FL 33619AbstractThe High School Technology Initiative

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

enrolled in EGR 1301 and graduatedwith an engineering degree from Baylor University.The data analyzed show an overall graduation rate of about 22.1% for the first two groupsstudied. The next two groups show graduation rates of approximately 32.3%. For comparison,the Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium, a group of private universities thatshare data, show the average five- year graduation rate for students entering and graduating inengineering is 42.0%. The 1999-2000 SMET Retention Report contains the retention andgraduation rates of 1992-98 entering science, mathematics, engineering, and technology majorsin 119 colleges and universities. The study showed that the average six- year graduation rate forthe SMET majors from a SMET

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

Session 2793 STOMP: Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program Merredith Portsmore, Chris Rogers, Melissa Pickering Tufts UniversityAbstract The Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program (STOMP) at Tufts University bringsengineering students to educational settings to support engineering education. In December2000, Massachusetts incorporated engineering into its state science and technology frameworks.Educators are now working to integrate these new standards into their classroom teachings.Many educators are not familiar with engineering concepts so they are working

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

Session 3560 Maintaining Accreditation of an Accredited Program After Addition of A Distance Learning Degree Option Cyrus k. Hagigat Engineering Technology Department College of Engineering The University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390I: AbstractEach accreditation commission and/or board has established definitions of what activitiesconstitute a substantive change that will require a review of accreditation of an existing accrediteddegree

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

AC 2003-1042: BUILDING A SEAMLESS LABORATORY CURRICULUM FORUNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTSJohn Robertson, Arizona State UniversityJon Weihmeir, Arizona State UniversityLakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State UniversityRichard Newman, Page 8.276.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2003 Session # 2148 Building A Seamless Laboratory Curriculum for University and Community Colleges Richard Newman, Lakshmi Munukutla, John Robertson and Jon Weihmeir College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University East

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Session 1658 Challenges for the Next Integration of E-Business Projects in Higher Education Leonid B. Preiser Department of Computer Science and Communications Technology School of Engineering and Technology National University 11255 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1011 (858) 642-8483, fax (858) 642-8489 lpreiser@nu.eduIntroductionThe reality of E-Business proliferation is posing new challenges as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

Session 2793 The Positive Impacts of Design Projects in Freshman Courses Dr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ms Linda O. Hardymon Middle Tennessee State University Engineering Technology & Industrial Studies DepartmentAbstractTo enhance learning and encourage freshmen students to continue within the pre-engineering andengineering technology curriculums, Middle Tennessee State University modified itsintroductory engineering course to incorporate not only the fundamentals required to the supportbasic engineering course learning

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lauren Neal; Jr., Robert J. Clougherty; Ismail Fidan

Session 3550 Design, Implementation, and Assessment of WebCT-based CNC Ismail Fidan§, Lauren L. Neal¶, Robert J. Clougherty, Jr.¶ § College of Engineering/¶The Institute for Technological Scholarship Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN 38505Abstract In the 21st century, the Internet has become the dominant distribution system for distanceeducation and training. Many faculty members are expanding their traditional delivery methods(lecture, laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edwin Rezaei; Sri Kolla

laboratories for distanceeducation using LabVIEW and its communication protocols. Researchers at the Fort valley StateUniversity studied LabVIEW’s Internet capabilities [3]. The research identified the advantagesand disadvantages of this technology [3]. A remote web-based engineering laboratory was Page 8.772.1developed at Drexel University, where every workstation has accessibility and controllability Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationover the Internet. The faculty at the Drexel University

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

Session 2586 A Collaborative Effort at Program Development Stephen J. Kuyath, Rod M. Townley UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering Technology/Central Piedmont Community College, Dean Southwest CampusBackground:The Regional Information Technology Training Collaborative Project is an outgrowth of theCharlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership and Advantage Carolina InformationTechnology Council (ITC). The Charlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership is a jointeffort of ten community colleges in the Charlotte region for workforce development. The ITC isan effort of the

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

, entitled Women and Men of theEngineering Path: A Model Analyses of Undergraduate Careers. This study confirms therelative scarcity of liberal arts courses in the undergraduate experience: “only four coursesoutside of science, mathematics, and technology—introduction to economics, Englishcomposition, general psychology, and introduction to management—turn up frequently ontranscripts” (Adelman 1998). The authors’ study confirms these findings, except the presence ofa psychology course, of which only two civil engineering schools specifically require. This islikely a difference between civil and other branches of engineering. The USDE study went on toreport that although “all branches [of engineering] encounter problems brimming withambiguities and

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yurtseven Oner; Fox Patricia; Stephen Hundley

Session 3647 Innovate, Rejuvenate, Remunerate: Enhanced Faculty Development Through Responsibility Center Management Stephen P. Hundley, Patricia L. Fox, and H. Oner Yurtseven Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAbstract Faculty development efforts in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology atIUPUI have been greatly aided by Responsibility Center Management (RCM). Under RCM,academic units generate revenue streams through credit hour tuition; state appropriation; indirectcost recovery from grants and contract; and/or development and fundraising efforts. University-level

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sauer; Mark Moore; Amin ul Karim; Ahmed Khan

graduates with appropriate background and training. Theengineering and engineering technology graduates are not only expected to understandthe theory behind state-of-the-art wireless technologies, but also to exhibit hands-onanalytical and problem solving skills.To address these changing industrial needs, it is imperative that new courses aredeveloped, implemented, and kept current. However, design and implementation of sucha course or sequence of courses requires considerable investment of time and financialresources. Keeping these courses current with respect to the fast pace of technologicaladvances in the field is another challenge for faculty.College and university professors can address these challenges by using the GlobalWireless Educational

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

aproject is very important.”The American Society of Civil Engineers recognizes that public involvement in what used to be alargely technical domain is now the norm: “Enhanced public awareness of technical issues iscreating more informed inquiry by the public of the technical, environmental, societal, political,legal, aesthetic, and financial implications of projects.”1 Indeed, this issue is cited when ASCEmakes arguments for a policy statement regarding the need for graduate education forprofessional practice.The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology weighs in on the subject of thisinteraction between the engineering and the public sector through Criterion 3 (h): “Engineeringprograms must demonstrate that their graduates have the

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

speakers. Faculty, students, professional organizations,and a number of manufacturing and processing industries are involved in the delivery ofthe program. The workshops are designed to introduce students to career opportunities,expose them to college life, involve them in hands-on educational activities, andencourage them to pursue careers in science and engineering technology. This paperdescribes the program and discusses the activities involved in its implementation.IntroductionThe current US workforce is comprised of 77% White, 4% Asian, and 19% Minority.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Science Foundation,however, among engineering professionals, 88% are White, 6% are Asian, and only 6%are minority [1]. To improve

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

difference as shown infigure 5. Just being engineering elegant (a subject to be discussed in the next section) would trulybe sufficient to get us over the hump and down the happy trail toward energy sustainability.Proposed check-off design questionnaires: Highest achievable efficiency? Best control scheme?Energy supply to track the demand curve? Truly unusable waste?2. Using More of What Are Available the Most. The tasks at hand are challenging, which areenhancing coal gasification technology, specifying the right fuels for use, and using them moreefficiently. Future engineers are key to the research and development effort in the area of coalgasification. While waiting for this technology to be rolled out 13, the design engineers have muchto do to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ferguson; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

Session 1037 Web Development Modules for Non-Web Programming Students Lisa Anneberg Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lawrence Technological University Southfield, MI 48075 248-204-2539 anneberg@ltu.edu Roger Ferguson Department of Computer Science and Information Systems Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49544-9403 616-895-2060

Conference Session

Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sushil Chaturvedi

Performing Interactively a Thermo-Fluids Laboratory Experiment in the Virtual Domain S. K. Chaturvedi, A. O. Akan, T. Abdel-Salam and A. Priyadershini College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529Abstract This paper deals with the development of an experiment in the virtual domain for theundergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory in the mechanical engineering program. A physicalexperiment titled “Venturimeter as a Flow Measuring Device” is replicated as a computer-basedexperiment as part of the ongoing effort at Old Dominion University to develop web-basedlaboratories that would provide students hands-on experience in the virtual domain