Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Lin

optimize a knowledge management with information technologies is acontinuous effort. As a greater number of people adopt it, they will look for moreopportunities to share and collaborate in other ways. Page 9.836.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTypical enterprise applications, including ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM(Customer Relationship Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and ERM(Employee Relationship Management), require various types of integration of businessprocess

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

applications have been expanded to the area ofwastewater treatment, hydrogen production, and CO2 fixation. Technical systems for the production ofphototrophic microorganisms are termed photobioreactors[9]. The educational materials for teaching Photobioprocesses and photobioreactors are very rare Page 9.171.1and this package might be use for inclusion into the biotechnology education curriculum. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” By following the package, student/viewer expected

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

objectives in general. However, with the advent of EC2000, the process of faculty developing and using course objectives is becoming anintegral part of an engineering curriculum.An objective is a description of a performance you want learners to be able to exhibitbefore you consider them competent. According to Mager, there are at least three reasonsthat objectives are important: • When clearly defined objectives are lacking, there is no sound basis for the selection or designing of instructional materials, content, or methods. • Unless objectives are clearly and firmly fixed in the minds of both students and faculty, tests are at best misleading; at worst, they are irrelevant, unfair, or uninformative. • Clearly

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Socha; Valentin Razmov

Vlasseva.References[1] Kent Beck. Test Driven Development. Addison-Wesley, 2002.[2] John Bransford (ed.), et al. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition, 2000, available at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/[3] Ann L. Brown and Joseph C. Campione. Guided Discovery in a Community of Learners. In Classroom Lessons: Integrating Cognitive Theory and Classroom Practices, K. McGilly (ed.), pp.229-270, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.[4] Valentin Razmov and Stani Vlasseva. Feedback Techniques for Project-based Courses. To appear in American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, 2004.[5] Donald A. Schön. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books

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International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Baty; Patricia Fox

Page 9.1237.6 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" accommodating…………Just as things became more familiar and similar they also remained different, adding to the enjoyment of the trip. The lessons learned in Germany went beyond the expected.” Christina Osborn – Interior Design - GO GREEN Summer 2003. “……The experience of visiting another country with nearly all the same attributes and fewer resources to work with makes me appreciate the fact that I am an American. It also reconfirms to me how important it is to be tolerant, understanding, and open-minded to the ideas of others

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Loren Limberis; Bijan Sepahpour

. Page 9.927.19 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationSAFETY The experiment has been designed for safety in mind, although human error can alwayscause injury. Remember the initial length of the springs before they are used in the systemsince any deformed spring contains energy. Care should be used to prevent the spring fromshooting away from the experiment as this might cause a soft tissue injury. The LabVIEW codemust run in its entirety to prevent any non-zero voltage from crossing the motor leads. Part ofthe LabVIEW code does account for setting the motor voltage to zero.PRE-LABORATORY

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

hours7 Entrepreneurial skills Training on writing a business plan8 Creation of a Business plan Developing, proposing and defending a business plan for a technology-based companyThis work describes each activity of the EM and discusses the motivation for each of its sessions. Page 9.1259.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe reasons behind the Entrepreneurship MarathonThe first efforts toward creating a class for extra-curricular study

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

). Also, the idea of using the Internet as a mediaspecifically in the field of training machine tool technicians is novel and untested. By placinghigh quality, multiple intelligences approach based learning materials on the Internet, we areproviding enhanced opportunities for individuals to improve their skills regardless of time andgeographical boundaries (Gardner, 1993). Page 9.1402.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDescription of the ModulesMultidimensional approaches were employed in

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pong Chu

which a(3) hasthe highest priority. The output code is the binary code of the highest request and the outputvalid indicates whether there is an active request. With C programming in mind, the VHDLcode will be written as: LIBRARY ieee; USE ieee.std_logic_1164.ALL; USE ieee.numeric_std.ALL; ENTITY p_encoder IS Page 9.102.2 PORT( a: IN std_logic_vector(3 DOWNTO 0); valid: OUT std_logic; “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lunt Barry; C. Richard Helps; Joseph Ekstrom

Interfacing [1]. The initial curriculum for Information Technologyat BYU took the approach of including topics from Electronics Engineering Technology,Computer Science and Computer Engineering in a traditional topic-oriented approach.Other IT programs have been following a similar track [1]. During the last three yearswe have observed several problems in attempting to implement IT courses by tailoringcourses from related disciplines to the requirements of an IT curriculum. We reported onthese experiences in our networking course development at ASEE 2002[2]. Wediscussed similar issues for web systems and database courses at CITC III[3] and CIEC2003[4]. At CITC IV[5] we proposed focusing on the interfaces between technologies asan overriding philosophy

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

with the university mission. Theuniversity mission in turn impacts the department goals. The program outcomes are derived andjudged based on the ABET criteria [1] and the IEEE department specific criteria as well as ourdepartment specific competencies. With these in mind, each course objective and assessmentmethod is carefully examined for a better coordination among courses and setup in order to reacha complete coverage of the program outcomes that lead to achieving the program goals.The correlation between all required electrical engineering courses begins with the individualcourse’s objectives to the program outcomes. The correlation between program outcomes andprogram objectives will be explained in detail in the next section. Using the

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Roselli

Session 13XX Challenge-Based Instruction in Biotransport Robert J. Roselli Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235AbstractAn introductory physiological transport course was recently redesigned to take advantage of thebenefits of challenge-based instruction. In this mode of instruction a series of specific challengesare introduced throughout the semester. The challenges are based on real problems inbiotransport and are designed to motivate students to discover a solution. For example, principlesof

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

Session 2547 Combining Computer Analysis and Physical Testing in a Finite Element Analysis Course William E. Howard, Thomas J. Labus, and Vincent C. Prantil Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractFinite element analysis (FEA) has become an essential tool in the product design process ofmany companies. A course in FEA is required in a large number of mechanical engineering andmechanical engineering technology curricula. Most FEA courses necessarily include somebalance of theory and practical use of a commercial FEA program. In a course recentlydeveloped at Milwaukee

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.12. Pellegrino, J. W., Chudowsky, N., & Glaser, R. (Eds.) (2001). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.13. Chi, M. T. H., Glaser, R. & Farr, M. J. (1988). The nature of expertise. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.14. Ausubel, D. P. (1968). Educational psychology: A cognitive view. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.15. Piaget, J. & Inhelder, B. (1969). The psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books.16. Atman, C. J., & Turns, J. (2001). Studying engineering design learning: Four verbal protocol studies. In C. Eastman

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

Session 1149 The Next Level in TC2K: Continuous Quality Improvement Susan Scachitti, Gregory Neff, and James Higley Purdue University CalumetAbstractMany educators in engineering technology are currently working on preparations for theirnext accreditation visit by the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). With these visits come aneed to understand new evaluation criteria, TC2K; criteria focused on improving thequality of student outcomes.The TC2K evaluation criteria is a quality based standard that begins with basic qualityconcepts. This

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

Session 1566 Teaching Finite Element Analysis as a Solution Method for Truss Problems in Statics Jiaxin Zhao Indiana University–Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractFinite Element Analysis (FEA) is a very powerful tool that is used in virtually every area in thefield of Mechanical Engineering and many other disciplines. It is beneficial for the mechanicalengineering students to have exposure to this tool as early as possible and as frequently aspossible in their engineering education. The earliest time comes when they are taught the trussproblems in Statics

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solt Michael; Malu Roldan; Burton Dean; Asbjorn Osland

entitled “Lessons learned in first business plan competition at San Jose StateUniversity” (by Dean, B., Osland, A. & Solt, M.) that has been accepted for a special issue of the InternationalJournal of Engineering Education entitled “The Entrepreneurial Engineer: Educating Tomorrow’s Innovator,” editedby John Feland.5 Legare, T. “How Hewlett-Packard Used Virtual Cross-Functional Teams to Deliver Healthcare IndustrySolutions” Journal of Organizaional Excellence, Autumn 2001; DeSanctis, G, Wright, M, and Jiang, L. “Building aGlobal Learning Community” Communications of the ACM, December 2001; Kock, N. “Managing with Web-basedIT in mind” Communications of the ACM, May 2002; Clark, M., Amudson, S. and Candy, R. “Cross-FunctionalTeam Decision-Making

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Enke; Susan Murray

Successfully Blending Distance Students into the On-Campus Classroom Susan L. Murray, Ph.D. David Enke, Ph.D., and Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. Engineering Management University of Missouri – Rolla AbstractAs universities are increasingly embracing distance education technology, it is useful toexamine the challenges and opportunities of technology in the classroom. This isespecially true when the course contains on-campus local students in addition to studentslearning at a distance. A significant challenge commonly faced is how to remain flexiblein presenting course materials while still having notes and other

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tsung-juang Wang

and multiple professionals oriented curricular design (Hawkes, 2001; Teichler,1949). Methodology & Approaches There is the inherited and unavoidable time lapse between the preparation education andthe graduation in the educational system of technical occupation. There will be a span of one “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 9.363.1 Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"up to four years of time fall in facing the demands of the

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Dean

struggled with, in short – cognitive or affectivereactions – that came to mind when he or she read the material. This typically leads to interactiveand thought-provoking classroom discussion. In addition to providing his or her own reflection,the assigned reflector is also responsible for soliciting the reactions of others to the material. Page 9.1285.2That’s the reflection technique it in a nutshell. Very simple to implement, yet very powerful in itsability to stimulate preparation, interaction, learning and integration of the material. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Session 1534 Effectiveness of Problem-solving and Teamwork Skills for Cultivating Technological Creativity within a Team-based Design Course Jiunn-Chi Wu, Pei-Fen Chang National Central University Taiwan, ROCAbstract Recently many studies in the United States that have presented functional groups,decision-making, and teaming skills as important pedagogical tools for engineering faculty tointegrate into their curriculum. However, the examination-oriented education in Taiwan hastended to turn assessment into a tool that increases competition instead of cooperation. In thissituation, schools and teachers pay

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

types of knowledge that one expects from a college graduate in the areas of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences. That experience (and legitimacy) is not immediately available regarding the area of Technology. Believing strongly in the need to help produce a technologically literate citizenry, in 1988 the Department of Engineering at DU set out to create a course designed to fit into this new quadrant. We will describe that course next. III. Technology 21 – A Course for Leadership in the New Millennium With the above background in mind several engineering faculty met and created the pedagogy Page

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

-established professions, including medicine, law,engineering, and accounting in the past, researchers observed that professions in severaldifferent fields follow a professional development path that is fairly similar, regardless oftheir specific discipline. There are a number of important elements for one to become aprofession. Initial professional education is the primary element and foundation. Then Page 9.75.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationaccreditation is the second element. The rest of them are

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Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

9.754.1manufacturing design course impacts their academic performance throughout their degree Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprogram, and even their future career (Newcomer, et al., 1999). Therefore, it isimperative for manufacturing educators to plan the content of this course to ensure thebest possible foundation for students seeking to enter manufacturing disciplines.Introductory manufacturing design courses used to be drafting-centered. Students in thepast learned hand-sketching skills and used drafting boards. A considerable amount ofclass time was

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

2433 An Assessment of Active and Project Based Learning in Energy Conservation Education for Non-Technical Students Sarma V. Pisupati, Jonathan P. Mathews, David DiBiase, and Alan W. Scaroni Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering Department and John A. Dutton e-Education Institute College of Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802AbstractA 3-credit general education course on “Energy Conservation and EnvironmentalProtection” was developed for mostly non-science/engineering students

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

as shown below in Figure 3. The star character ‘*’ represents theoutline of the diagram whilst another pattern can represent the white space. ******* * * * * ******* Figure 3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.73.7 Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe user viewing the pattern sequences would need to keep in mind the two-dimensional patternrepresented by such sequences. Thus the ‘scanning’ is

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

Session 3215 The Undergraduate Research Advantage: The Split Perspective Stacy Eisenman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland and George List Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAbstractUndergraduate Research Projects (URP’s) are unique opportunities. They can provide studentswith wonderful learning experiences and faculty with

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Briller; John Carpinelli

sciences (CIS) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and considers factorsrelating to the students preparedness for the distance learning course; level of communicationwith the instructor; teaching and course materials; technology issues; student courseexpectations; student participation in the class; and the learning environment. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. The research questions and research designare presented next, followed by a description of the data collection and analysis procedures. Page 9.1046.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

Session 2533 Incorporating ABET “Soft Skills” into Energy Conversion Courses Timothy L. Skvarenina School of Technology, Purdue UniversityAbstractBoth the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the Technology Accreditation Commission(TAC) of ABET have adopted outcome-based evaluation criteria. The EAC began the process withearly visits in 1997. TAC began later with the adoption of its Technology Criteria 2000, or TC2K, andconducted its pilot visits in 2001, with full implementation in 2004. In both

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Zemke; Donald Elger

her understanding appears to be fundamental to mentee learning. 2. Collecting, processing, and incorporating self and observer feedback appears to enable our mentors to quickly and effectively develop their skills. 3. Maintaining the level of challenge and the development of healthy rapport appear to be synergistic with exploring what a mentee knows and enabling the mentee to refine his or her understanding. Page 9.649.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education