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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

between science (or the sciences) and practice. As Mead expressed it,“We were out in the research laboratory trying to figure out what was true. . . .Of course, thingsthat don’t work in the lab don’t work in the real world, but things that do work in the lab oftentake a long time to work out in the real world.”4 Mead might also have added that things thatwork in the lab sometimes do not work at all in practice. The “bridge” between the engineeringcurriculum and engineering practice matters, then, because it educates students about the realitiesof the disjunction between the laboratory and practical application. Ideally, educationalexperiences that fulfill the Criterion 4 requirement give the students an understanding of theintegrative nature of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

laboratories. These graduate students read thedraft reports, make appropriate comments and return the reports for final production. The graduatestudents critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while alsoteaching the above laboratories. The reports are then read again and a grade is assigned. The issuesregarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for theundergraduates who will be impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involvesleading engineering students to the realization that communication is important because it is beingevaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills becauseof their need to focus on how

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

student’s transition from high school to Virginia Tech. The programprovides the following:• the opportunity to become familiar with the university community• academic enrichment in selected subjects (i.e., mathematic, chemistry and engineering fundamentals• the opportunity to participate in seminar sessions to enhance personal and professional development.CoursesThe students receive instruction in chemistry, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals.Students participate in a chemistry laboratory as part of the program. These classes are taught byinstructors from each department. The five week summer classes are similar to those classestaught in the fall semester. Both, mathematics and engineering fundamentals introducesstudents to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

design experience to our students. The paper also providessample design projects.Design in EE CurriculumThe mission of the EE program at UWP is “to provide a quality electrical engineering educationwith extensive hands-on and laboratory experience that will enable our graduates to practice theirprofession with proficiency and integrity.” One of the main objectives derived from the mission is“to graduate engineers who have the ability to use modern analysis and design techniques and have thelaboratory skills to use state-of-the-art equipment to solve practical engineering problems.”Consistent with its mission and objectives, the EE curriculum is designed to provide a qualityundergraduate education complemented with extensive hands-on laboratory

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

221. Power flow 4Total number of lessons 45A laboratory requirement emphasizes applications of these introductory topics in power andenergy. For the students who will take no other power and energy courses, this is normally theironly laboratory experience with voltage levels commonly considered to be dangerous. Everystudent continues to learn electrical safety with every lab exercise in this course. The first lab Page 9.945.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

"teacher-centered" with some elements of"interaction" and "collaboration" between teacher/student and student/student. TheConstructivist paradigm was also adopted because it is the currently dominant school of thought9(at least in the U.S.A. and Western Europe). Description of Instructional FacilitiesThe Spring 04 Machine Vision course will be taught in the BAE Collaborative DistanceEducation (CDE) Laboratory that was developed using Student Technology fees anddepartmental funds. It was operational in Summer 2003 and currently has 30 workstations forstudents and a teacher station connected to an isolated 1.0 Gbps LAN with direct fiber

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

requirement has not been used as a deciding factor inselection. Instead we have targeted recruiting directly at institutions, majors, and organizations,which result in an application pool that is more representative of the general population than theaverage demographic pool in engineering at Washington State University.Our REU program starts at the beginning of June and runs for ten weeks ending the first week ofAugust. We have found that interactions between the students are increased if they all stay indormitory accommodation on campus. These interactions are important not only on the sociallevel but also appear to increase collaborations in the laboratory. During the first week of theprogram the students meet each other, are introduced to the

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

. To understand the overall concept of a process, simple processes areexplored which take place in well-known systems, such as an automobile and its processunits, the engine, starting the engine, cooling system, and the heater-air conditioner (summerand winter). The key components of the automobile are shown as a process flow diagram. Abrief overview of this process flow diagram is given in about 15 minutes.We then develop the concept of a chemical process and how a chemist prepares a newproduct in the laboratory and how a chemical engineer must take these chemistry conceptsand relate them to large-scale production facilities. A short discussion of a simple example ofa process given by Solen and Harb2 is used for this purpose.The human body

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum. Specifically task groups at the college level have been formed to study in depththe teaching practices and content with regard to major design experience, communicationskills, and laboratory pedagogy, because of clear evidence from all constituents indicating theneed for improvements. The following sections include sample results of direct and indirectmeasurements of program outcomes as well as corrective actions proposed to improve theprogram.Program Assessment – Direct MeasurementsAt the course level, instructors individually perform the initial assessment. The mainassessment tool used is the Instructor Class Evaluation Form7. This form reports the gradedistribution as well

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

University ofNevada, Reno and provides a forum for synthesis of concepts from numerous scientific andengineering programs with a focus on nanotechnology. The course also implements the novelstrategy of presenting a microcantilever transducer as the “bridge” linking the micro- and nano-domains. Ongoing research in atomic force microscopy, as well as biological and chemicalsensing, is integrated into course material and laboratory experiences. The course in this wayprovides an example of an effective, highly pertinent small system.More detail about the course will be presented later, but we will first focus on the broadereducational strategy to which it belongs.2.0 Unifying Educational Strategy: Mapping Content to All AudiencesThe material

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

equations. Students learnthe concepts of the plane wave, wave reflection and transmission, boundary conditions, andpenetration depth. These principles are then applied to waveguides, antennas, and free spacewave propagation. The final subject of the course is an introduction to RF communication links.Basic communication system architectures are presented and the concepts of noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and link budgets are introduced. This paper will discuss the course curriculum andthe laboratory in detail.Introduction In today’s industry where many electronic systems operate at increasing frequencies, anunderstanding of fundamental electromagnetics is becoming not only a desired trait but also arequirement for the entry-level engineering

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

manage a class using hand-on/laboratory activities 10 2.10 0.99 9 2.67 1.004. Ability to design and implement appropriate investigations for children 10 2.30 1.25 9 2.78 1.095. Ability to conceptualize activities that use math and science concepts to solve problems 10 2.80 0.79 9 3.11 1.056. Ability to use computer technology and other instructional media as teaching tools 10 3.20 0.92 9 3.89 1.057. Ability to develop appropriate forms of assessment 10 2.20 0.92 9 3.00 0.87Note: n = Number of fellows

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

question must be answered “is different information beingassessed in the different courses?”. If all 3 reports are assessing the same thing, then 1 isenough. If a student can write effectively about a soil mechanics laboratory project, it isreasonable to expect that the same student can write effective about a fluid mechanics laboratoryproject.The following is a detailed look at the assessment plan for Outcome 1, which is essentially theengineering science and experimentation outcome.Outcome OneCivil Engineering graduates will demonstrate the mathematical, experimental, and engineeringscience skills required in the civil engineering problem solving and design process

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

(flashlight, tape recorder), Light (lasers, paint), or Optics (cameras, telescopes, microscopes). The course will include a two-hour laboratory component each week.The text How Things Work by Louis Bloomfield covers each of these topics and numerousothers and was selected for the course2. The text was well received by the students: they enjoyedreading it and found most of the explanations easy to follow. The text contains numerousexercises for developing the lower three levels of Blooms Taxonomy: knowledge,comprehension, and application. Many of the exercises and case studies require the students toapply material in both presented and new situations. For example, lift is explained in the fluidmechanics chapter through discussion of

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Atif Qamar; Zahed Siddique

user can now try to create the solid model in Pro/ENGINEER.IV Observations and lessons learned from using the training environment The training environment, presented in this paper, has been used to provide instructions forstudents to self learn Pro/ENGINEER in the Product and Process Design Laboratory at School ofAME of University of Oklahoma. Observations and lessons learned from the preliminaryimplementation are: The training environment provided a tool for students to perform solid modeling operations in a CAD software like environment. This helped students to understand the material without using the software, which students did not have access to if they were not on campus. The training helped

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ghanashyam Joshi

: High school trigonometry.MEEN 201: Manufacturing Processes laboratory – Study of fundamentals of engineeringmaterials and processes in manufacturing as related to design and production. Students willdevelop short seminars on the new advances in manufacturing processes and examine theeconomics of processes. Students will be given laboratory assignments in material removal,forming, casting, joining, heat treating, and computer-aided machining. Students will beprovided SAP/R3 experience with job order, process costing, and manufacturing/maintenancescheduling through educational demonstrations. Prerequisite: MEEN 120.MEEN 570: Engineering Management - Introduction to the broad field of engineeringmanagement with specific emphasis on subjects such

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

impressions about their career choices, and will soon be able to select their coursework.Multiple efforts are in place to encourage students to pursue manufacturing careers, includingtechnology and engineering. Students are also given access to existing activities, such as FIRST[11] and STEPS [10] to help keep them engaged. Careful advising helps the students select theappropriate math and science courses to ensure that they can pursue technical studies at the col-lege level.The second goal involves a launchpad course that will be offered for college credit at Grand Rap-ids Community College to help students in their transition from high school to college. The courseis designed to address topics such as math, science, writing and laboratory skills

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

, sanitary and storm sewer systemsfrom house outfall to the plant, storm water retention ponds, roads – slopes, intersectionsand vertical and horizontal curves. Planned Unit Developments (9 days)Subdivision Design and Presentation (1 day) The course material has been written in html and is currently available athttp://wwweng.uwyo.edu/classes/ce2100, however that site may change in the future.CAD Laboratory Given this topic material, it was important to integrate the CAD portion of theclass into the lab. The lab time is devoted largely to development of drawing skills and Page 9.1111.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

Session 1464 Materials Education 2004 Topical Trends and Outreach Efforts Mary B. Vollaro, Craig Johnson Western New England College / Central Washington UniversityAbstractThis research explores the history of topical trends in the ASEE Materials Division. This historywill be compared with national trends. It is observed that creative materials education efforts innon-major curricula are highly sought, following national trends of higher contact numbers ofstudents in related engineering programs versus relatively small numbers of students in materialsprograms. Issues of implementing laboratory

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

animation and visualization in a virtual soil mechanics laboratory” the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T1C, Reno, NV, (2001) 7. Kocijancic, S. and O’Sullivan, C. “Integrating virtual and true laboratory in science and technology education” the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T2E, Boston, MA, (2002) 8. Tatum, C. B. Balancing engineering and management in construction education. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 113, 10-17 (1987). 9. AbouRizk, S. M., & Sawhney, A. Simulation and gaming in construction engineering education. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education conference

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

instruments commercially available to measure the impedance of acapacitor. LCR meters are general impedance-measuring instruments that have limited Page 9.1115.1* Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.Contribution of the U.S. Government. Not subject to copyright in the U.S.accuracy, while automatic capacitance bridges are commercially available with very highaccuracies but with more limited measurement ranges.An automatic capacitance bridge is very convenient for measuring standard capacitorswith precision, reliability, and uncertainty at metrological levels. Measurement

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationObjective C: Provide students with opportunities to develop the ability to use modernexperimental techniques; collect, analyze, and interpret experimental data; and effectivelycommunicate the results.Outcomes for Objective C: Students will develop the following abilities through theirundergraduate education in this department:C-1 to design and conduct experiments to analyze and interpret experimental dataC-2 to use modern engineering tools, software, and laboratory instrumentationC-3 to communicate effectively through technical presentationsObjective D: Provide opportunities to prepare students with the diverse skills

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

additional expenses except for travel and living costs. • The students be at least at sophomore and preferably at junior level • The schedule at international institutions be compatible with UM-D schedule. • There be a reciprocal student exchange arrangement with the selected institutions abroad (this was needed to address issues related to tuition and fees of international students.)Program GoalsThe major thrust of the international program was to expose our undergraduates to academic andstudent environment at an international institution. In addition, it was expected that 1. UM-D students would work in a team environment in a laboratory setting or on design projects with students from the host institution and students from other

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

. Page 9.265.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent Evaluations – Evaluations of the class and the Major Project have reinforced the fact that the project is avaluable part of the class. In an end-of-semester survey in fall 2001, 83 students (out of 107students enrolled) responded. When asked about the benefit of the laboratory project to the goalsof the class, the score was 5.70 out of 6.00. When asked about the overall effectiveness of thecourse, the score was 5.72 out of 6.00. Several students commented on the effectiveness andreal-world nature of the Major Project exercise

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

course titled “Oceanography,” a senior levelcourse titled “Fluid Mechanics II,” and a graduate course titled “Coastal Structures.” TheOceanography course was a general summary of physical, chemical, and biologicaloceanography for Ocean Engineering students. The Fluid Mechanics II course included materialon calculation of resistance and performance of ships, as well as marine propeller selection. TheCoastal Structures course was a detailed course in wave mechanics, as well as calculation offorces on coastal and offshore structures. Contacts were also made with faculty doing researchin this area, attendance at seminars, and field trips and laboratory experiences. Highlights of theprogram included wave tank demonstrations, flow around model ship

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

ed conley

classroom minutes expendedin this exercise can bring to life one of these fundamentals.References1. ‘The Machinery of Life,’ Mechanical Engineering, v126, n2, p30-4, February 2004.2. ‘Classroom Demonstrations and Laboratory Experiments,’ Chapter 7, Wiley Higher Education, http://wiley.com/college/msci/callister39551X/demonstrations/ch07.html3. ‘Strain in One Dimension,’ ABAQUS Theory Manual Version 6.3, http://gong.snu.ac.kr/down/on-line-documents/abaqus/V6.3_HTMLdocs /books/stm/ch01s04ath05.htmlEDGAR CONLEY is associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,New Mexico. He received the PhD from Michigan State University in Engineering Mechanics (‘86). Dr. Conley

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

Collection

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

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

well as the basic principles, behind a CFD solution.When used in conjunction with a fluid mechanics course, it can be used to teach some of thefundamentals of fluid flow analysis, and 'replace' some of the laboratory experiments used toteach these principles. Similar examples include CALF (Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics)3, theNTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory6, Virtual Laboratory7, and Java Virtual Wind Tunnel5. CALF(Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics) is an interactive web-based course developed atthe Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. It gives an introduction to CFD and covers subjects likeCFD illustrations, turbulence modeling, parallel computing, and grid generation. The NTNUVirtual Physics Laboratory, a web site