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The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

a wide variety of careers in related fields. 2. The program will provide training at the individual topic, individual course, and certificate level for individuals interested in learning mechanical engineering technology topics regardless of a traditional degree goal. 3. The program will provide technical assistance in mechanical engineering technology related areas to local businesses.Note that this mission supports METS Department goals 1 and 2 listed previously.Moving further down the support structure, one of the MET program educationalobjectives with a specific linked outcome that supports the MET mission items 1 and 2above is shown in Table 1 below

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Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

sustained funding (see sectionbelow), faculty from Marketing and Management, Computer Science, MechanicalEngineering, Economics, Sociology and Design Arts have formed a team to developproposals for research in the economic, social and technical aspects of entrepreneurshipand the development of enabling technologies that assist globally dispersed productdevelopment teams.Educational outreach: The Integrated Product Development program has teamed withLehigh’s Iacocca Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (www.iacocca-lehigh.org/cap/) tosponsor Career Awareness Programs (CAP) for highly qualified, underrepresented highschool students. The focus of these one-week summer programs included business,engineering and design arts, all with a technical

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ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

fortheir future career or graduate study in control engineering.II. Equipment used in the controls laboratory courseIn this section we list the equipment used in the controls laboratory. The purpose is to inform thereaders what equipment was available to the students.There had been eight stations of equipment housed in the controls laboratory. In spring 2004, thelab was moved into a bigger room in the new engineering building. There are now thirteen stationsof equipment in the new laboratory. Each station consists of the following:1. one Feedback Mechanical Unit, model # 33-100 [1]2. one Axiom M68HC912B32 microcontroller evaluation board, model # CME12B/BC [2]3. one Feedback Analog Board, model # 33-110 [1]4. one oscilloscope (either Tiepie

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Stroud Rossmann; Clive Dym

mechanics.This course is well positioned to demonstrate the connections between solid and fluid mechanics,as well as the larger mathematical issues shared by both fields, to students who have not yettaken courses in fluid mechanics and/or strength of materials. The context and foundationprovided by this course are available to students as they specialize (by choosing electives, byselecting career paths, or by going to graduate school) in either solid or fluid mechanics, orspecialize in the connections themselves by returning to a deeper study of the overarching field ofcontinuum mechanics.Over four academic years, we have had success in introducing this subject at such an early pointin the curriculum. Such a course could replace statics and first

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Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

venue.An example of a project completed by a recent graduate is given to support this thesis.Foundational NeedsStudents, at all levels, acquire concepts more easily by putting in a sufficient amount of time inthe art of practice. This idea may seem trivial, but many experts have said that continued practiceis a major contributor to being successful in any field. Students can be made proficient in this artif they are required to present technical ideas in professionally prepared reports.Industrial experience has proven that communication skills will be the largest contributor toenhancing a student’s technical career and advancement. Instilling this concept into studentsearly on should be a top priority. In order for students to prepare properly

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Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

they are not at the beginning of their careers, they may have invested wisely and donot feel that salary is as important as it once was. Further, improved flexibility and/or less stressmay now be very important. But each individual’s situation is unique and a decision can be madefor a wide range of reasons. The point here is that the experienced new faculty may be lookingmore for intrinsic rewards then extrinsic (remuneration) rewards.Table 1 contains a synopsis of the primary differences between industry and academia across alarge number of attributes. The higher the attribute in the table, roughly the greater thedifference. So, mission is at the top. In industry, it is very clear why you are there and that is tomake money for the company. At

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

delivered. In the product-to-market sense, they represent the documentation generally developed for the principal gates of a traditional stage-gate system, and are relevant to what entrepreneurs must consider, formally or informally, as they bring their new products to market. There are two caveats: 1) The senior design sequence of courses are core courses and must be taken by all undergraduate engineering students, regardless of their career interests or abilities and 2) Even on entrepreneurial teams, not all team members are intending to follow an entrepreneurial path after graduation The authors observe that the teams and

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Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivia Dees; Saeed Foroudastan

muchneeded to confront these problems. An alternative to the damaging effects of monocultureis intercropping.A number of solutions can be implemented in order to combine different areas of interestfor a common goal. Engineering advances, through the use of even the most basicformulas, may brighten our socioecological future with a confident sense of economics.It is highly important that current engineering students are introduced to the methods ofagricultural and biological engineering that are described in this paper. The world’spopulation grows rapidly while its resources deplete just as quickly. If engineeringstudents are introduced to innovative methods of agricultural and biological engineeringearly on, some may decide to pursue a career in

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

(CSM) offers a design-oriented,interdisciplinary, accredited non-traditional undergraduate program in engineering withspecialization in a branch of civil, electrical, environmental, or mechanical engineering. In theDivision, we have a tradition of innovation with respect to interdisciplinary curriculum, a Page 9.616.1young and dynamic faculty (currently five NSF Career awardees), and relative freedom from Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringState control on credit allocations. This provides us with

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CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. Page 9.624.8 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” In addition to the preceding, professional development can, include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

of the engineering workforce, we must look to the elementary and secondarygrades.Though much attention has justifiably been focused on elementary and secondary students’proficiency in math and science, there is also a compelling need to increase their awareness ofengineering as a career path and their interest in engineering as an academic program of study.In responding to these challenges, we must also address the common student misperception thatengineering is appropriate only for the “technically elite.”4There is no single best answer to this challenge. In the absence of a well-coordinated nationalprogram, engineers and educators have responded with a variety of creative grass-rootsapproaches.5,6 We propose another such approach

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Krause

Page 9.397.3all researchers come to a consensus. The next to last step was to pilot test the rubric with data. In Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationorder to examine how well the rubric captured the data, we selected two students for preliminaryevaluation. One of the selected students was a male and the other one was a female. We analyzedtheir data using the scoring rubric. As a result of this evaluation, we added two subcategoriesunder the transfer to the classroom category, engineering as a career and critical perspectives.The final rubric included 46 specific categories for the six

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Reed Stevens; Lorraine Fleming; Cynthia Atman; Sheri Sheppard; Theresa Barker; Ruth Streveler

’ perspective.The Academic Pathways Study draws on previous research on how students learn, as well aswhat factors influence attrition in science, math and engineering majors. However, this studyextends previous research in a number of fundamental ways: Page 9.1133.3 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 1) It is a longitudinal study, following the same students from freshman through junior years, and other students in career transition into engineering practice. 2) It is specific to engineering

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ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

but no limited to humanities and social sciences. [ABET criteria h, j] 13. Students will be able to function competently in a related entry-level career. [ABET criteria i, f] 14. Students will show the desire and ability to keep learning throughout life. [ABET criterion i] Page 9.173.17 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 15. Students will develop the cognitive and analytical skills needed to succeed in graduate programs

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

vastly more interdependent, exports account for an increasing percentageof economic activity, and capital, work and jobs move rapidly and frequently from one continentto another. Recent cover stories in ASEE’s PRISM explore the effect of these trends on modernengineering practice12,18,19; the overall conclusion is unanimous: all recent engineeringgraduates can expect to work, at some point their careers, on teams with members from variedcultural and linguistic backgrounds; these teams may be geographically distributed acrossseveral international locations. Page 9.1265.1Although international programs for engineering students have had some

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

available to all students. In order to enhance the students’chances for success in all their classes, university personnel from the Center for Student Progresslecture very early in the semester on on the proper way to manage time and proper studymethods for success. A large part of the Center’s services is dedicated to the first year student,providing peer assistants that are actually in the student’s college and mid-term grade reporting.They also present information on the multitude of services they offer the student free of charge;for example a support group for the non-traditional, older student. Career service personnellecture more toward the end of the semester supplying information on what employers’ desire ofcoop and internship students

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

EducationSample ResultsThe types of experiments that can be performed using the engine as it exists in Phase I arecertainly limited; however, we believe students can still be exposed early in their undergraduateacademic careers to a rewarding laboratory experience for minimal monetary outlays. Studentscan be exposed to data acquisition, LabVIEW, uncertainties in measurement, manipulation ofdata, report writing, simple instrumentation, and can make qualitative statements about theengine’s performance. For example, Figure 3 shows sample exhaust temperature data for atransient warm-up and Figure 4 shows sample steady-state exhaust temperature data for severalengine speed/back pressure combinations. For example, from Figure 3, students can

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

innovationimplementers is important to them and that it is helping them in their jobs and career decisions.Furthermore, they are on the road to being “conscious competents”, particularly exhibited in therealization of their leadership abilities.It is encouraging to see that learning continues long after the class ends. These students areclearly demonstrating innovation leadership, developing the ability to think differently. They arebecoming the “right engineers for out times and for the future” that Dr. Bordogna addressed inhis Distinguished Lecture. They are on the path to becoming the trusted innovators, changeagents and master integrators so important to the economy and security of the future of theUnited States and the world. They are clearly contributing

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

University of Dayton. Previously, Rebecca has had a 12-year career with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. While working for Goodyear, she held manymanagement positions including; Automotive Business Center Manager, Production Manager and Interim PlantManager for the world's largest conveyor belting facility. Rebecca also is the Assistant Director for the IndustrialAssessment Center at The University of Dayton. Rebecca's extensive industrial background facilitates excellentlearning for students by combining practical experiences with technical knowledge.J. BILL BATESBill Bates is currently a Program Manager at the National Air & Space Intelligence Center at the Wright PattersonAir Force Base. Bill started working for the Air Force in 1989 and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

studentsreceive significant team skill instruction in earlier courses (EPICS), they do not always have theopportunity to practice these skills throughout their undergraduate careers and can be out ofpractice when they take their senior capstone design course. In this mode, they sometimes do notunderstand how the pieces of a major project fit together in a “beehive” fashion, but rather theytry to force fit an “assembly line” approach. Additionally, these students are groomed to act asindividuals in their other, more traditional lecture classes where they often compete for grades.The students have a difficult time switching their mentalities between these competitiveindividually-graded classes and a design class which requires them to work together for

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Campbell

, They begin to seek answers to questions that lead to later subjects in their courses. Their ‘motivation’ level rises dramatically. 2. Since models are fabricated/prototypes tested at home, a student (in this way) exposes relatives, friends and family acquaintances to the ‘process’ of engineering design. This assists students in validating Engineering as their chosen career. 3. In 2001 and again in 2002, significant numbers of students sought to enter the annual Australia competition for “Paddle Pop” model bridges in Sydney. (In both 2001 and 2002, this competition was won by freshman students taught by the author. Figures 19 through 22 show aspects of this annual competition.) 4. Progression records show

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Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ CertifiedQuality Engineer and a Registrar Accreditation Board Certified ISO 9000 Quality System Auditor.DONNA EVANECKYDonna Evanecky started teaching as an assistant professor for Purdue University School of Technology in 2001 afteran eight-year career in the field of quality management. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Managing Change,Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Health and Safety and Team Development for the Department ofOrganizational Leadership and Supervision

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NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Dean

and the New Science. Berret-Koehler. San Francisco.BiographiesMARK DEANDr. Mark L. Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University, New Albany. Dr.Dean holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Public Administrationfrom IUPUI, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville. He is an ASQ Fellow and Page 9.1285.6Certified Quality Engineer. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Dean enjoyed a 23 year career in industry. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Steif

Session 2468 Use of Simplified FEA to Enhance Visualization in Mechanics Paul S. Steif, Edward Gallagher Carnegie Mellon UniversityIntroduction and BackgroundMany recommendations have arisen from national reports1,2 which noted the increasingneed to improve undergraduate education in engineering. A central suggestion is that“Institutions of higher education should provide diverse opportunities for allundergraduates to study science, mathematics, engineering, and technology as practicedby scientists and engineers, and as early in their academic careers as possible”3. This isalso recognized

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

• Become proficient in preparing and reviewing formal technical data packages related to an engineering design. • Apply the broad range of technical tools and engineering sciences learned during the previous formal education.Level 5: Synthesis • Be ready to begin a career as an engineer. • Synthesize the learning achieved from not only the formal classroom experiences, but also co-op work experiences, to form a solid foundation for subsequent professional development. • Be able to function in a multi-disciplinary environment. • Understand the importance of life-long education.ConclusionThe Rochester Institute of Technology has a life-long history of responding to the needs of theindustrial community. In this case

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

working together with students, Page 9.1291.4advisors, and professionals from myriad disciplines,engineering students gained invaluable experiencethat will aid them in their future careers (Marshall,11-12).Energy Systems Design Most engineering effort focused on managingthe house’s energy production and consumption. Animportant feature of an energy-efficient home is aneffective HVAC system to adequately heat, cool, andventilate the house with a minimum amount ofelectricity. The HVAC team worked for almost two Figure 3: UVA Solar House Sunspaceyears on their design. We knew we wanted to makeour house the most efficient one at the

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Tracy Van Zandt

integral part of their learning process throughout their entire educational andprofessional careers – the students must, in essence, “live the material” every day and in everycourse.In laboratory courses, students are expected to understand and comprehend all of the pre-requisite STEM material. Laboratory courses generally have some review material to summarizethe basic underlying theory and methodology required for particular laboratories. The laboratorycourse can then concentrate on various measurement techniques.In the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMASS Lowell, the laboratory courses are taughtin a two semester sequence. The first semester concentrates mainly on basic measurement tools(oscilloscopes, multimeters, digital data

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

take a weed out approach can have a devastating effect onotherwise able students.18 The curriculum and academic culture must contextualize the work thatstudents are asked to do and provide students with role models and career information. Facultyand staff must be made aware of unintentional gender and other inequities, such as assignmentsand teaching examples that reflect male-dominated interests, textbooks that focus on technicaldetail and fail to reflect the application and impact of the material. 18ConclusionWorkforce demands and demographic trends dictate a new imperative to increase the recruitmentand retention of women and URM into STEM fields. While outreach and support activities forwomen and URM in STEM play an important role in

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”I. Introduction Undergraduate research should be an important part of our Engineering Technology (ET)curriculum because it better prepares our students for the graduate school. This additionalexperience also helps our majors in their career regardless of the job type because they learn towork independently as undergraduate researchers. However, it has been our observation that ETstudents are far less motivated to do research and report writing than those in other fields such asBiology, Chemistry and Physics. This is more apparent at Middle Tennessee State University(MTSU) since we have a large number