Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

concerned with theirpersonal vocational interests and material goals and uncaring about society at large, particularlythe plight of the developing world.1,3,6-8 Arguably, the development of humanitarian engineeringprograms will enhance the role of the engineer in society, and, while not necessarily increaseoverall enrollments, will act as a magnet for excellent students, who might otherwise refrainfrom careers as engineers.In order to address these issues, a project has been initiated at CSM to develop a new cadre ofengineers, sensitive to social contexts, committed and qualified to serve humanity bycontributing to the solution of complex problems at regional, national, and international levelsand locations around the world in need of “smart

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carsten Ahrens

2004 - 631 Ethics in the Built Environment (EiBE) - A Challenge for European Universities - Prof. Dr. Carsten Ahrens Department of Civil Engineering and Geoinformation Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven (FH OOW) Oldenburg, Germany e-mail: carsten.ahrens@fh-oldenburg.deSummaryThe SOCRATES Intensive Project „Ethics in the Built Environment (EiBE) - A Challenge forEuropean Universities -“ should bring and mostly brought together students and teaching staffof 15 European universities from South (Porto, Portugal; Valencia, Spain

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

Technical Education program (ATE) hasbrought needed and welcome resources to foster improvement of technician education atcommunity colleges, secondary schools and four-year institutions throughout the country.Because of ATE funding, some 500 projects and centers have implemented a wealth ofexemplary curricula and instructional materials and practices, and technician education programshave been able to forge strong partnerships with business and industry, professional associationsand other educational institutions. Taken together, these activities are designed to lead tocomprehensive, system-wide improvements in technician education. Page

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Paper No. 2004-1198 Integrating Ethics into the Freshman Year Engineering Experience Dr. George D. Catalano Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Binghamton Abstract Various attempts are described in an effort to integrate ethics into the freshmanyear engineering classes. The attempts include formal lectures on moral reasoningtheories, ethics focused videos/DVDs, environmentally focused design projects, designprojects that force students to consider societal and global issues. A somewhat differenttype of design project, Compassion Practicum, is also

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robbie Goins; Kiel Locklear; Gregory Watkins; Chad Spivey

aircraft flies multiple parabolic loops that simulate zero gravity for periods up to25 seconds. Students and their reduced gravity experiments fly in the aircraft s cargoarea.In December 2002, a team of seven students from two North Carolina universities wasselected to conduct reduced gravity aqueous diffusion experiments aboard the KC-135A.The students, from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University ofNorth Carolina at Pembroke, worked together on the project, collaborating viavideoconferencing, email, and occasional face-to-face meetings. They successfullyovercame the obstacle of the 120 mile distance between the institutions, and executedtheir experiments during multiple flights in April 2003.As part of the project, the

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

traditionalservice courses in each of the disciplines. Although mechanics and thermal/fluid courses for theEE’s and circuits/machinery courses for the ME’s are important and necessary, they are notsufficient to give the students the skills to deal with these new systems.Western Kentucky University has implemented a course, EE 285: Introduction to IndustrialAutomation, in an attempt to build a bridge between the EE and ME programs. The goal is givethe students a common language in this area so that multidisciplinary capstone and professionalprojects are more easily accomplished. The results of two years of offering the course, includingstudent feedback and course assessment are included. Examples of projects tackled by thestudents, lessons learned by the

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

education has beendeveloping a productive research and educational program through a strategic focus ontechnology development in areas that meets the need of local industries.A series of initiatives and activities have been proposed and developed to accomplish short-termand long-term goals. Two main initiatives to facilitate the successful development, including theapproval and funding of the strategic initiative proposing the Hydraulics Research and EducationCenter and the designation of the Center as one of the new PACER (Presidential AcademicCenters of Excellence in Research) and subsequent funding for the next three years, have beentaken and are well in progress. A number of collaborative research projects are being conducted,including a

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

. The CourseManagement Section is modified slightly depending on whether the survey is being used for adistance learning class or a live class. (When used for live classes, a computer laboratory isreserved for 30 minutes during class time to allow the students time to complete the survey.)Even with the large number of questions, students complete the online survey very quickly,usually in 15 minutes. From past experience, this is much faster than paper and pencilassessment tools. Although much modified, it is based on the work of Land and Hager [3]. Thecourse assessment tool is part of a larger project to perform integrated, on-line assessment of allcourses in the METS Department, and provides a convenient method to gather summativeassessment

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

A 60-kW Microturbine Demonstration Facility Phase II: Instrumentation, Website Development, and Evaluation Michael Swedish, Glenn Wrate, Frederik Betz Emily Blakemore, Lee Greguske, Joe Jacobsen Milwaukee School of Engineering / City of MilwaukeeAbstractThe second phase of a joint project between the Milwaukee School of Engineering, theCity of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy to develop a 60-kWmicroturbine demonstration facility is described. In Phase I the facility was designed,constructed, and commissioned. A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty (MEand EE) continues work on the project in this second phase. Coordination among

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Odis Griffin

Session 2566 Hands On, 24/7 – Virginia Tech’s Joseph F. Ware, Jr. Advanced Engineering Laboratory Odis Hayden Griffin, Jr. Professor and Head, Department of Engineering Education Director, Joseph F. Ware, Jr. Advanced Engineering Laboratory Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061AbstractThis paper details the design, renovation, and approximately six years of operation of a hands-onundergraduate student projects laboratory with approximately 400 undergraduate

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Mary McEniry; Cid Freitag

culturalperspectives and how they inform ways of practice including both teaching practice andengineering practice. After an orientation in Madison, Wisconsin, the experienceinvolved weekly on-line discussions based on readings, a personalized curriculumproject, and approximately two to three hours per week commitment on the part of eachparticipant. The Foundation Coalition funded this project. This paper highlights theassessment results of this pilot project and next steps based on analysis and reflection.A forth-coming mini-document will describe how to develop and implement a distance-based faculty development program.Description and ImplementationDuring the Spring 2003, 20 faculty representing ten teaching and research universitiesthroughout the country

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

ABET’s evaluation criteria regarding undergraduate participationin research are examples of efforts and initiatives over the last decade to target and includeundergraduate students in research efforts. Going one step further would be including highschool students in such efforts. This paper summarizes efforts, experiences, and initiatives overthe last six years at the UNLV Transportation Research Center to include undergraduate and highschool students in research projects and lessons learned from the same – including examples ofpotential benefits and concerns. The paper also addresses innovative strategies and opportunitiesto fund high school students participating in research activities during the summer break.IntroductionFor well over the last

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

engineering and information sciencedepartments, primarily within the United States. The data analyzed include the course titles,course structure, textbooks used, major topics and how they are covered, projects, and laboratoryexercises, if any. We found that the courses can be divided into three categories: those that coverthe general topics of computer networks using some practical examples, those that specificallydiscuss Internet protocols, and those that work through a set of programming projects afterstudents have had a previous network course.1. IntroductionPervasive use of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web (the web) has made teachingcomputer network courses a necessity for many universities and colleges. Students take networkrelated

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: Progress and Potential Lee L. Zia* Division of Undergraduate Education National Science Foundation Abstract This paper explains the background of the NSDL program and details the program structure along with a short description of progress to date with pointers to complete project descriptions. In addition it provides technical information about the NSDL metadata framework and outlines new program components introduced for fiscal year (FY) 2004

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

instruction was motivated by several factors. One is therelatively new emphasis at Louisiana Tech University on entrepreneurship. This emphasis has acentral focal point on campus, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, orCEnIT. The mission of this center is to create an innovative entrepreneurial culture at LouisianaTech University. In order to change a culture, it is reasonable to begin with new members of thatculture. Another factor is the authors’ desire to see an improvement in the senior design projectsfor the capstone mechanical engineering design course sequence. These projects could benefitby attempting to have a marketable product as a final result. A third factor is the belief thatentrepreneurship begins by having ideas

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

environmental burden of a product, process or activity byidentifying and quantifying material and energy usage and waste outputs at every life stage.LCA involves three steps: identification of scope of analysis, life cycle inventory, and impactanalysis. Such an approach has two attractive features for engineers. First, it is a rational andquantitative process that is easily appreciated by engineers. Second, because it examines allstages of the life cycle, it allows engineers to easily identify what design or processimprovements will lead to the greatest reduction in environmental impact.The present paper will describe a laboratory experience used in a senior level materials andprocess selection design course developed by the author. The project

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

kenneth weaver

faculty has a diverse set of skills and expertise but shares a common vision ofmultidisciplinary project-based learning. The current full-time tenure track faculty roster is 25%female and is led by Dean Dianne Dorland, who joined Rowan in 2000.Henry M. Rowan Hall opened in January 1998, and was dedicated that April. The $28 million,95,000 SF building was designed to accommodate seamless integration of teaching, research andproject-based learning. Figure 1 shows a view from the atrium of Rowan Hall. Classrooms haveeasy access to laboratories and laboratory-support rooms. Non-load-bearing walls separateclassroom and laboratory modules so that they can be easily modified. The building contains atechnology spine, which is a key to the building's

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

who choose to do so. Students areencouraged to develop their full intellectual potential within a continuing community ofscholarly excellence that offers exciting and enhanced varieties of academic experiences. Honorsprogram experiences are designed to nurture students' curiosity, their written and oralcommunication skills and their leadership capabilities as well as to provide an opportunity forstudents to be more actively involved in their education.Each honors student is required to complete a series of honors seminars, "contract" courses and afinal honors project. The project is a major research, performance or creative endeavor guided bya full-time faculty member. Two existing courses at the junior-level or higher must be completedwith

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

and Depar tment of Electr onics and Computer Engineer ing TechnologyAbstr actThe Microelectronics Laboratory Curriculum development, for both associate and bachelordegrees, is a project between Arizona State University East (ASU East), three communitycolleges in the Maricopa Community College District, and Maricopa AdvancedTechnology Education Center (MATEC) and is funded by the National ScienceFoundation. This paper describes a model curriculum development strategy to create user-friendly material for students and the instructor. The development team consists of facultyfrom community colleges, ASU East and industry subject matter experts (SMEs). Tomaximize the efficiency of the development team an Online Authoring Tool is

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

from two-year collegesthat have differing academics. The software is used to both create standalone projects, and todesign and interact with course hardware projects.Innovative laboratory exercises to acquaint the safety and fire students with LabVIEW areused in the “Fire Alarm” course. The exercises both familiarize the students with the use ofLabVIEW and the subject area of alarm systems.The alarm systems software exercises incorporate the detection of fire signatures that includesmoke, heat, and other changes in ambient conditions. The exercises also include thelogic to activate alarms and fire suppression. Use of both digital logic and analog functionsand systems are included in the exercises.The exercises for the alarm systems laboratory

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

transfer of learning in an introductory course inStatics and Dynamics at the U.S. Military Academy. The authors developed a rather unorthodoxcourse project that was explicitly designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice theapplication of newly learned concepts in an unfamiliar context.The Statics and Dynamics course is taken by second-semester sophomores and first-semesterjuniors at the Academy. The student population includes approximately equal numbers ofengineering majors and non-engineering majors (to include many humanities and social sciencesmajors). Thus the course must address a broad range of student capabilities and motivations. Inpractically all cases, students are taking this course as their first engineering course

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

digital, analog, mixed-signal, MEMS, computer-aided design (CAD), and design method-ology IP, including standardization of the deliverables for IP of these types. The current demandfor IP of this nature far outweighs its availability7 and thus UMIPS can accelerate microsystemsand SoC research while preparing students and researchers with experience developing IP compo-nents and using these components in an IP design framework that will almost certainly becomeubiquitous in future microsystems and SoC development.II. Recent research developments and the founding of UMIPSSeveral independent but related University of Michigan research projects were combined in orderto develop the microsystem recently presented by Senger, et al.8 This microsystem was

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

departments and a topic well discussedin the 2001 ASEE conference2,3. The curriculum of the course was built around fourpillars: drawing, design, communication and teamwork.The Engineering Design LabThe University of Calgary invested 1.28 million dollars as a start up contribution to thedesign and construction of four technologically advanced laboratories for the first yeardesign course. The four linked labs circle around a central broadcast booth; instructorscan broadcast to all labs simultaneously and are able to monitor lab activities throughfeedback screens. The four labs accommodate 150 students at one time; students work atlab tables in teams of four. Each lab has a document camera, a projection screen, acomputer terminal for every two students

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

followed across different capstone classes with application to machinedesign and automotive capstone classes is presented. The developed process fosters creativity,develops students’ communication skills and provides a logical product realizationengineering/management experience.The educational design process starts with team building and brainstorming focusing oncreativity as right brain activity. From the brainstorming list of projects one is selected based oncreativity, effort and timing. Each team proceeds to develop a written and oral proposalcontaining product history, state of the art, Bill of Product, development and simulationmethodology, project management/impacts and cost estimates. The Bill of Product represents theset of product

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

3160 Rural Economic Development through Building Energy Efficient Houses for Under $3,000 J. STRUEBER, V. Harris, E. Meyer, E. Carter, E. Maweza, M. Matshaya, Tuskegee University/Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/Tuskegee Uni- versity/University of Fort Hare/University of Fort HareAbstractThis paper looks into creating community-based economic development through materials de-velopment and building small energy-efficient housing for the rural areas of the Eastern Provinceof South Africa. This is a student exchange project between Tuskegee University and the Uni-versity of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

scales, as appropriate, and themanufacture of the product at the macro scale. Therefore, a new class of design projects will beneeded to replace the traditional continuous chemical manufacturing process that is most oftenthe subject of the capstone design class. This paper describes one such design project assignedto the West Virginia University class of 2004.The ProblemThis class was assigned the task of investigating transdermal drug delivery systems. They wereto identify potential pharmaceutical products for use in a transdermal patch and suggestopportunities for a profitable venture to manufacture such a product. They were to learn thecomponents of transdermal patches, including their chemical composition, their function, andtheir mechanism

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips-Lambert; Charles Camp; Paul Palazolo

2004-824 Changing the paradigm of power in the classroom to teach, promote, and evaluate leadership training within an existing Civil Engineering curriculum Authors: P. Palazolo, C. Camp, A. Lambert, E. Lambert, N. Dennis University of Memphis/University of Memphis/University of Memphis/ University of Memphis/ University of ArkansasAbstract:This project evolved out of three years’ worth of data from junior/senior-level engineeringmajors who completed both pre and post-semester surveys asking them to rate their perceptionsof preparation and training in a variety of areas. Not surprisingly, the majority of

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

LTC Robert Powell

professional responsibilities as student leaders and futurecommissioned officers. Participating agencies gain by having additional personnel to work onengineering projects, and by having the opportunity to expose future Army leaders to theimportant functions performed by their organization. Some AIAD opportunities extend beyondthe summer into the academic year as CAPSTONE projects. These projects continue to allow acadet the opportunity to discover the “real world” applicability of their academic endeavors.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of our program, its purpose, our process formatching skills with a participating agency and follow-up feedback from cadets. This feedbackis used to assess the viability of the program for future students

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

been intricately woven into the undergraduate engineering curriculumand is a key component of the teaching-learning engineering environment. The objective is touse undergraduate research to teach engineering skills such as research methodology, design,development, manufacturability, testing, and implementation. These skills are necessary forsuccessful engineers to be proficient, regardless of specialization. Primarily, the success of ourresearch utilizing only undergraduate students has come from the project managementmethodology implemented to stimulate success both in the research endeavors and for thestudents who participate. The research process involves interdisciplinary undergraduate researchteams with a minimum of one-year student

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

, University of Oklahoma (OU) during 1999 and 2000, and then at theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Cincinnati (UC)during 2001 to 2003. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site was funded bythe National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REU Site was to encourage talentedundergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research, and to increase theirinterest in graduate research. In this paper, first the basic approach adopted to plan the REU Siteis presented, followed by a description of how it was administered each year. Then a detaileddescription of the projects executed in different years is presented. In the end the evaluationprocess used, and the outcomes from the