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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

. Aimed primarilyat women, the program targets incoming first year students, undergraduates, graduate students,and faculty. RISE SRT is a ten-week team-based research experience. The team structureincludes a Faculty Mentor, a Graduate RISE Fellow (a graduate student currently working withthe faculty member on the identified research project), an Undergraduate RISE Fellow (anundergraduate student familiar with the faculty member’s research), and up to four RISEScholars (undergraduates new to the project recruited nationally). Since the program began insummer 2002, ten research projects have been completed.Over the past two years the research experience has been assessed from a variety of perspectives,including a series of focus groups (e.g., RISE

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Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

importance Page 9.394.11 In the continental Europe, “civil engineering” is considered as the most generic discipline. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof IT for the BC industry. However, researchers still seem to live under the impression thatthey have all these fantastic solutions and the only thing lacking is a way to make the BCindustry using them. Several EU research projects have tackled this issue from theperspective of educating the practitioners and tried to bring

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

producing parts in a real environment. Since the hands-onlabs are very important to concrete the CAD/CAM/CNC concepts, lack of adequate CAM andCAD application hardware is the “weak link” in the current enhancement effort. MIT students’lab practices were limited to conventional CNC turning and milling projects. There was no hightechnology equipment beyond a couple of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP filledthe gap between CAD/CAM and provided MIT students with the opportunity to practice hightech prototyping assignments.A Generic Overview on RPRP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical model of a part ismade directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD data may be generated by3D CAD modelers or

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

Session 1520 Asynchronous Communication Between Network Processes Sub Ramakrishnan, Mohammad B. Dadfar Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419) 372-2337 Fax: (419) 372-8061 email: datacomm@cs.bgsu.eduAbstractThis paper concerns a project that provides hands-on exposure to students of a typicalundergraduate data communication course. The project is implemented in C++. However, it isapplicable to other

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

nearly all engineering development contracts. TheRFP specifications used in the courses are adapted from actual equipment specifications used inthe procurement of major system development, such as a redundant air traffic control computersystem and a digital telephony switch.Teams are chosen by the instructor and, as far as practical, contain equal numbers of ComputerScience, EE students, graduates, and undergraduates.The major benefits of the RFP methodology and the significant award (exemption from the finalexam) are: • Generating an extremely high level of interest, which is a key to learning. • Developing lively and interactive project presentations, since each team has worked on the same design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

, and student affairs staff who are participating in this project. • Conducting workshops for instructors, faculty advisors, student affairs staff, and student mentors. • Randomly selecting a cohort of 25 students from a group of freshmen in a particular discipline who have volunteered to participate in this project. Four, eight, and sixteen cohorts will be selected in the first, second, and third year of the grant respectively. Each cohort will be residing in a close proximity (not as roommates) within in a residence hall. • Forming learning communities, each one consisting of a group of 25 students, one faculty advisor, other instructors who are teaching this group of students, student

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

in academia and industry. Hosted by the EqualOpportunity in Engineering (EOE) Program for more than 11 years, this paper captures lessonslearned over the years and describes how to create a successful undergraduate research programon your campus. Along with an overview of the TREX program and its benefits, the followingessential program components are covered in detail: program funding, partnerships with faculty,promoting the program, the application and selection process, student placement, managing theprogress of multiple research projects, and project close out requirements. In addition, studentperspectives on the benefits of the TREX program have been incorporated into this paper.The EOE Program at UT Austin was established in 1970 for

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

human-powered submarine projects in previous years (seeRef. 2). A number of graduates from the program had gone on to work in such organizations asthe Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Electric Boat, and the Office of Naval Research. In order toformalize this past experience for the new IGS program, and also to provide increased courseopportunities for students in Mechanical Engineering, it was decided to create a new technicalelective in Ocean Engineering, to be offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thesequence of events was to include a sabbatical leave for the author to develop additionalbackground in this field, followed by creation and offering of the courses. The sequence usedcould be used by any college or university to develop

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

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Mater; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 METS Pilot Program: A Community College/University Collaboration to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Students into Engineering Mary R. Anderson-Rowland1, Mary I. Vanis2, Debra L. Banks1, Bassam Mater2, Donna M. Zerby1, and Elizabeth Chain2 Arizona State University1/Maricopa Community Colleges2AbstractMaricopa Engineering Transition Scholars (METS), funded by NSF, is a collaborative projectbetween Arizona State University and five Maricopa Community Colleges. The project aims toincrease the recruitment and retention from untapped labor pools in community colleges intouniversity engineering

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Document: 2004-1744 Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings Chris Leslie, Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi Polytechnic UniversitySeeking to understand what and how students are learning about writing in its first-yearengineering course, we have implemented an assessment project for Polytechnic University’score engineering course. Building on an innovative Writing Consultant program that already wasimplemented for EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, the assessment project drawsseveral projects from English composition instruction to improve the

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

traditionalRF/microwave background). These tutorials will be discussed further below.The course fundamentally involves “hands-on” circuit design at the IC level; state-of-the-artcommercial RF/microwave CAD and layout software is used in conjunction with the course.The CAD environment will be discussed further below. The culmination of the course is amajor course design project involving the design and full-custom layout of a functionalblock/component RFIC for wireless communications applications. The project guidelines arepromulgated, and student design teams (typically 2-3 students per team) are assigned, ~10weeks into the semester; the projects are due at the end of the semester. Typically no finalexam is given, and the final design project report

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

Session 1331 The Engineering Problem-Solving Process: Good for Students? Durward K. Sobek II, Vikas K. Jain Montana State UniversityAbstractAs part of an ongoing effort to better understand student problem-solving processes to open-ended problems, we have coded 14 mechanical engineering projects (representing about 60journals) according to abstraction level, design activity, planning, and reporting. We alsodeveloped quantitative outcome measures that are reported in a separate submission to thisconference. We then developed a computer model of the journal data that correlates

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

integrated development environment provides editing, versiontracking, and testing capabilities such as breakpoints and memory management. Testing of theprototype will take place during the 2003-2004 academic year with the finished controllersavailable beginning in the 2004-2005 academic year. This paper describes the programrequirements, research, design, and testing of this controller, as well as the motivations for theproject and its diverse team structure.1.0 IntroductionOver the last year, a group of Ohio State students and faculty have been designing a newmicrocontroller for use in the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program. Thegoal of this project is to design a controller that can be modified and expanded to suit the needsof

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Sun; Robert Comerford; Musa Jouaneh

Assistive Technology Devices: A Multidisciplinary Course Musa Jouaneh, Ying Sun, Robert Comerford University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881Abstract This paper reports on a team-based, project-oriented engineering and business course atthe University of Rhode Island. The class is a two-semester course sequence that emphasizesinvention, innovation and entrepreneurship with focus on the marketing, design, anddevelopment of assistive technology devices. Faculty from the Colleges of Engineering andBusiness Administration guide multi-disciplinary teams through innovative product-orienteddesign projects in the field of

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Krchnavek Robert; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; John Chen; Shreekanth Mandayam; Paris von Lockette; Yusuf Mehta

teaching. The work is an effort to provide students with digital imaging experiencesthat make them ready for the marketplace. Projects involve the development of digital imagingexperiements and curriculum and also the creation of a leading edge digital imaginglaboratory/studio. This studio will facilitate the use of nontraditional learning approaches thatencourage interactive learning, team building, and creative problem solving among students andinstructors. A number of hands-on visual experiments are being developed and used to introducestudents to the multidisciplinary engineering principles and use of DIT. Activities have also beendeveloped for K-12 outreach.IntroductionDigital Imaging Technology has advanced with great speed over the past few

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

hasbeen extensively applied to exchange the course offerings between the Tulsa and Normancampuses. The addition of a course exchange program has enhanced both the initial offering ofthe Telecommunications Systems degree and those of the Norman campus Engineering andBusiness programs from which it is spawned. In addition, OU’s research objectives areenhanced by the relationship between Tulsa and Norman faculty, in cooperation with industryand government partners.3. CurriculumThe program requires all students to complete a minimum of 32 credit hours, including aprofessional project. All students are required to complete the following common corecoursework: TCOM 5113 - Telecommunications Industry Overview – 3 credit hours This course

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

Bringing an Integrative Modeling Experience to a Freshman Biomedical Engineering Course Douglas A. Christensen Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UTAbstract – As an integrating lab experience in our Fundamentals of Bioengineering freshman course,we have included a Major Project that ties together many of the principles of biomechanics andbioelectricity covered in the lecture. It uses the human systemic cardiovascular system as amodel. During the first half of the semester, students solve finite-difference equations describingthe flow of blood in the cardiovascular system using Matlab. During the second half, teams oftwo

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Welker

have been discussed in the literature. Theseinclude having students work in teams on various projects; providing training in effective teamfunctioning; and providing learning objectives that cover elements of effective multidisciplinaryteam functioning. Upon examination of our curriculum in the Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering Department at Villanova University, we discovered that our students are oftenrequired to work in groups, but that we did not provide training nor did we routinely providelearning objectives relating to teams. Modules on team functioning have been developed and arecurrently being implemented in sophomore, junior, and senior level classes. These modulesinclude in-class activities and homework. The students are also

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

engineering curriculum andprofessionalism. Service learning is easily implemented in engineering communicationscourses because the nature of the courses lend themselves to written and oralpresentations to a professional audience, and, in the case of service learning, acommunity audience. In the IE Communications for Engineers course, students developprofessional written and oral communication skills by writing technical documents,giving oral presentations on those documents, and writing and delivering professionalemails. However, the team projects for the course are geared toward teaching studentsabout civic responsibility by having them design, develop, and deliver exercises geared topublic schools that demonstrate and teach elements of engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Tang; Lynn Johnson

into a four-year engineering degreeprogram. In this paper we will describe the:• FEST Program design and organizations,• Academic objectives using learning technologies,• Development of blended online versions of the FEST core courses,• Integration of engineering applications into the FEST core courses,• Development of a Collaborative E-Learning Library System (CELLS), and• Lessons learned.FEST Program Design and OrganizationsThe FEST project involves collaboration among faculty and administrators from severalinstitutions, including the CU at Denver College of Engineering and Department ofMathematics, the Arapahoe and Red Rocks Community Colleges. These are the peoplethat develop and deliver pre-engineering courses preparatory to a four-year

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

describes the integration of theengineering in context philosophy, which incorporates “real world” aspects, into the engineeringcurriculum.Four features of the EIC initiative are particularly worth noting at the outset. Specifically, theprogram is designed to: 1.) Cr oss engineer ing depar tmental boundar ies. It is administered on a school-wide basis, and the students not only work on multidisciplinary projects, but also on multidisciplinary teams (there may be no more than two engineers from any one discipline on a particular team). 2.) Be scaled up so that all students who want a truly multidisciplinary experience can have one, regardless of their major. 3.) Eventually encompass the entir e cur r iculum so that the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walker; Annu Prabhakar; George Suckarieh

Implementing a Web-Based Knowledge Base for a construction company: Industry-Academia Collaboration George Suckarieh, Annu Prabhakar, Tim Walker University of CincinnatiAbstractKnowledge Bases (KB) that capture and leverage the knowledge and experiences ofemployees are popular in many industries. However, in the construction industry,knowledge base implementation has been limited to some applications at the design stageor to project databases during the construction stage. This paper describes a project forimplementing a web based knowledge base to help a company transfer constructionknowledge from experienced professionals in the field to

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

important side benefit of implementing this applied research robotics project in theELET 492 Senior Design course, where student teams build robotics for our defense agencyclients, is realized with their success in the annual International Ground Robotics VehicleCompetition. This program has proven to be a definite benefit to motivating our students as wellas satisfying our clients.1. IntroductionThe 2002-2003 Vasilius Team of Bluefield State College was honored to bring new andinnovative ideas to the 11th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). Thevehicle draws upon many features of past GRV designs. For example, Vasilius uses a cameravision system and a laser measurement system like most GRVs. However, in addition to

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Engineering. Results show nostatistically significant change in the average pre-test and post-test scores; however, a fraction ofthe students were found to experience significant increases and decreases. A regression analysiswas conducted in an attempt to understand the effect of the characteristics of the students such asgender and grade point average as well as project and section; however, no statisticallysignificant correlation between the change in SDLRS score and any of these factors were found.Interviews with instructors were also conducted and suggested that the decreases in the scores forone project were likely due to the nature of the interactions of the project mentor with thestudents. Implications of the results of this study for

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

acquire anunderstanding of what works well at one university and may wish to adapt the practices to theirenvironment.The specific setting for this course is a small, private school located in the Northwest and in acity with numerous high-technology companies. As a result, the methods may or may not beapplicable to a large, state school and, depending upon location, interaction with practicingprofessionals may be problematic. We will provide an overview of the design course but will notgo into intricate details such as individual lecture topics, document contents, project funding,laboratory space, and equipment.The first section discusses instructional objectives and sets the motivation for the next section,course structure. Here, we define some

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

is used. 2. Depth and Breadth Graduates should have familiarity with topics across the breadth of the discipline, with advanced knowledge in one or more areas. 3. Design Experiences Graduates should have completed a sequence of design experiences, encompassing both hardware and software elements, building on prior work, and including at least one major project. Page 9.594.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with 110 faculty, 1800undergraduates and 1000 graduate students, employs a “lecturer and coordinator” who intervenesin three laboratory courses and a project engineering course.University of Texas at Austin:6 The Department of Mechanical Engineering with 60 faculty andover 1000 undergraduates has employed a senior lecturer (for over ten years) who offers onecourse in engineering communications as an “immediate” prerequisite to the Department’scapstone design course and then intervenes in the capstone design course itself.7Prior to Spring 2003, the UH College of Engineering had few options for their students in termsof technical communications instruction. The English Department at UH periodically

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Cecil

Assembly Manufacturing y Process Planning Supplier Testing Product Design Project Mgmt Figure 1: A Virtual EnterpriseIn this decade and beyond, it is predicted that growing product complexity and resultantdiverse skill requirements underscore the need for organizations to work together as aVE. More importantly, such a collaborative approach will enable the harnessing ofremote and far-flung engineering / manufacturing facilities (and resources) and createnew opportunities for these