Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

their project. By the end of the DPM course, team leaders have produced apreliminary needs assessment and project plan that will guide the team through 22 weeks ofwork. Most students completing the DPM course go on to become team leaders. However,some elect to become chief engineer instead. Chief engineers focus on the more technical aspectsof problem definition, concept development, concept selection, and performance validation,while team leaders focus on project management.In the DPM course, and throughout the program, a multi-facetted paradigm is used to teach basicconcepts in product and process development. These are (1) Needs Assessment, (2) ConceptDevelopment, (3) Feasibility Assessment, (4) Specifications and Objectives, (5) Analysis

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schumack

Problem 1 9 Exam 3 Problem 2 5 Problem 3 10 Table 3. Linkages among class assignments and outcomesIdeally, the course outcomes, developed while the course is being planned, should drive theassignments. In practice, some of the assignments or exam problems were first given to thestudents, with the outcome assignment being done after students handed in their work. Thus,some of the outcomes were assessed heavily while others were addressed just once. It may bethat the resulting coverage is appropriate, but the coverage for each outcome should bedetermined prior to designing assignments, not after the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

theteaching scholars in residence. The course is based on the NSF New Century Scholars workshop[6]. Faculty at University of Nevada, Reno, who participated in the NCS workshops are beingfunded to assist with development and delivery of this program. We plan to replicate this NCSexperience insofar as possible, using the same PBL-methodology for this educational program.Our version of the NCS workshop will include: balancing teaching/service/research, knowing thelearner, assessment strategies, active/PBL activities, and practice lectures. This workshop willalso be taken by our graduate teaching assistants and undergraduate coaches. This experiencewill be directly applicable to the PBL course delivery for which they are subsequentlyresponsible.4

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

, perhaps from a funded proposal or by solid commitments form industry to provide funding. Solicited letters of support from industry that do not contain specific commitments, such as funding or sponsorship of students to enroll in the program, are useless. - Prepare a brief business plan for the new program which includes a review of the potential market, similar programs now available, existing and potential sponsors from the public and private sector, what the administrative structure of the program will be, how the program will be integrated into the university structure, a projection of start-up costs and potential enrollment, and income projected over a five-year time frame

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Coleman; Jennifer Craig

between poor written communication and poor design performance.Moreover, a correlation between poor teamwork and poor design performance has beennoted. This paper reviews that work and proposes a model that explicitly teachesteamwork skills and uses written communication to develop team dialog around thoseskills. This model uses team communication deliverables to identify poorly functioningteams early in the process and suggests strategies to intervene with those teams whenidentified. Assessment plans for this model are described.Introduction:This paper presents work done in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in monitoring the effectiveness ofundergraduate student design projects

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan Hassan

. Ego; having a strong ego identity with a particular belief leads to defending this belief if it was wrong. Demands for quick production of results; deadlines often cause stress and reduction of creativity and good planning is the answer. Harsh words from others may destroy one’s creativity; the instructor must be careful what he/she says to students. Routines and setting specific ways of doing things generate a rigid mind. Continuous exercise to human brains is necessary for creativity an innovation. Self-criticism; negative thinking and self-criticism are also limiting factors of one’s creativity. Rigid rules and barriers limit creativity. Freedom is great for positive thinking

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

plan tofacilitate learning of the new material, based upon the successful teaching and learningexperiences in the pilot. The second challenge is regularly confronted and many curricular pilotprojects have produced and shared instructional materials for the new material that the projectteams have introduced into their curricula. However, fewer resources have been generated forthe first challenge. This paper describes a curriculum innovation project that intended toincorporate so-called smart materials and intelligent systems into undergraduate engineeringcurricula at Texas A&M University (TAMU). In addition to describing the curricularinnovations, the goal of the paper is to present two concept inventory assessment instrumentsthat have been

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

potential combination of the “Gallery Method”with modern communication tools, and analyze if the on-line Gallery Method is suitable fordesign projects, which their team members are located in different places. There are plans toestablish a course about collaborative product design in both countries Turkey and USA.Solution Findings Methodologies and the Gallery MethodSolution methodologies can be divided as classical methods, intuitive methods, and discursive5.The Gallery Method is one of the intuitive methods. The other intuitive methods can be listed asbrainstorming, 635 methods, Delphi Method, and Synectics. The Gallery Method was developedby Hellfritz6, it combines individual work with group work, and it is particularly designed forembodiment

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

personal philosophies for success Engineering in teaching. Technology in the classroom and learning styles (how to use technology in consideration of learning styles to best Electrical and Computer enhance learning) Engineering Engaging and motivating students to participate and utilize educational tools available to them Engineering Planning a core course for non engineering majors Fundamentals Engineering Science and Delivery of Statics and Dynamics Courses in the ESM Mechanics

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

equipment beyond a token handful of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP was planned to fill the gap between CAD/CAM andprovide TTU students with the opportunity to practice high tech prototyping practices.Finally, TTU received a NSF DUE CCLI A&I Grant, 0311586 to establish the state’sfirst educational RP Laboratory funded by NSF in Summer 20034.A Generic Overview of RP RP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical modelof a part is made directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD datamay be generated by 3D CAD modelers or model data created by 3D digitizing systems5.Charles Hull is given credit with bringing the first commercial RP machine to market in1987 with SLA-16,7. His

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

and money remained to rebuildthe engine in the allotted time, and the project was terminated at that point. Page 9.316.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Although the end result was not as planned, many things were learned as a result of these efforts,some of which are detailed below.Student motivation: This is a quality that is difficult to evaluate, particularly without baselinemeasurements for comparison. Student surveys conducted indicated that nearly all studentsthought that it

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vance Poteat; Abdullatif Bagegni

processorstudents, both from ECE and Computer Science, are planned to have remote access to the lab andwill be encouraged to help with the development via laboratory assignments.An Introduction to Power Quality and the Power Quality Problems in the Mendel ScienceBuildingIt is the objective of the electric utility to supply its customers with a sinusoidal voltage ofrelatively constant magnitude. The generators that produce the electric power generate a veryclose approximation to a sinusoidal signal. However, there are loads and devices on the systemthat have linear and nonlinear characteristics and result in voltage sag, voltage spikes, voltage Page

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

program officer to discuss your idea; this often helps you to refine your idea and may prevent you from applying to the wrong program • Subscribe to Custom News Services at NSF –http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/To be competitive, the proposal must: • Be based on original and/or sound ideas • Have a clearly defined scope of work and set of measurable outcome objectives • Have a focused project plan in sufficient detail • Require a realistic amount of work within budget constraints • Be cost effective with evidence of potential high impact • Demonstrate the likelihood that the project will be sustained • Include a solid assessment and evaluation plan linked to project objectivesIn writing a proposal

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

upon a protocol developed through theCenter’s professional development activities15. The protocol links the state sciencecontent standards and the specific knowledge and skills students are expected to acquirewith the learning expectations of the students by the teachers. The program instructorsplan standards-based lessons that include the learning expectations of the standards, andassessment of student work in relation to the expectations of the standards. Theprocedure allows the instructors to write and implement standards-based lesson plans thatinclude the assessment and documentation of students’ achievement of the standards inthese lessons. Program instructors develop rubric assessment instruments to evaluate theextent to which their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Herz

transitions and much was gained with the enhanced capabilities of the new tools.Some of the recent additions to the scripting language are commands that implementcommunication over the Internet. The Reactor Lab recently evolved from a standalone programinto an "Internet application" which provides lab modules on demand and updates whenavailable, and enables communication between students and instructors.The following sections describe the current version of the Lab, plans for the future, andrecommendations to educators interested in developing their own simulations.Student interaction with the LabStudents download the Lab from ReactorLab.net, expand a compressed archive file, and thenopen the Lab. Installation in local school labs can also be

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

Science Foundation is underway to integrateworkplace communication instruction into the Technical Communication course.Bibliography1 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.2 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 19993 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay; and J. M. Kennedy. “Workplace Communication Skills and Value of Communicationsand Information UseSkills Instruction—Engineering Students’ Perspectives.” Proceedings of the IEEE Int’lCommunication Conference, 1995: 161-165

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Michael Laughter; Judith Norback

Carol J. Romanowski. “A Message from Recent Engineering Graduates in the Workplace:Results of a Survey on Technical Communication Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, v90 n4 (October2001): 685-693.2 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.3 Rogers, Dick, Jr.; M.J. Stratton; and R.E. King. “Manufacturing Education Plan: 1999 Critical CompetencyGaps—Industry Updates Competency Gaps Among Newly Hired Engineering Graduates,” Society ofManufacturing Engineers, 1999.4 Walker, Mirabelle. “Enhancing Students’ Learning While Developing Their Communication Skills.” EngineeringScience and Education Journal, v8 n5 (1999): 201-205.5 Pinelli, T.E.; R.O. Barclay

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

evaluating curriculum andwriting outcomes struggled with being able to articulate the types of data needed so early in theprocess. The technical team continually made the statement ‘When you tell me what you need,we will supply it’. Administrators needed to plan the next year’s budget requests. All werelooking for definitive and concrete answers.The reality is that the OA development process and the supporting systems developmentactivities are strongly inter-related, re-iterative, and complex. Data needs must be addressedfrom the first moment you begin to talk about OA. All players need to be prepared for a messy,dynamic, continuous improvement process. As faculty refine their ideas about OA, data needschange, disappear, and are revised. Data system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

offerusers the capability to transmit and receive video and audio images and files, share screens oreven software, conduct public and private conversations, and access a common electronicwhiteboard.The costs to implement an effective web conferencing system appear in Table I. Many costs in a Page 9.1347.1video web conferencing system are predictable in nature. Not all the costs involved are static, soa budget must be carefully planned. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable I. Costs for a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

technology will serve • analyze and evaluate the impact of new technologies on economy, environment, physical and mental health of manufacturers, uses of power, equality, democracy, access to information and participation, civil liberties, privacy, crime and justice. • identify unintended consequences of technology development • create safeguards to minimize problems • apply lessons from earlier technologies and experiences of other countriesRecognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning • identify learning needs • set specific learning objectives • make a plan to address these objectives • evaluate inquiry • assess the reliability of sources

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

engineering degree from UWP. 95% 97% 0.96 I am sure I want to be an engineer. 82% 85% 0.83 I plan on continuing my studies in engineering 91% 97% 0.93Next we asked questions to assess whether the students’ reasons for entering engineering in thefirst place were based on the “right” reasons. We based these questions on the work of Seymourand Hewitt5, and provided the questions to students on the entrance survey. “Right” reasonsmight include a history of being interested in how things work while “wrong” reasons might bechoosing engineering based on feeling “pressure” to do so. Other reasons

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

Session 2530 TTU College of Engineering Pre-College Engineering Academy© Teacher Training Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D. and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper reports on progress to-date in the planning, design, and initial implementations of aK-12 engineering program being developed collaboratively by Texas Tech University, LubbockIndependent School District, and a growing number of other entities. The paper discusses variousissues endemic in K-12 and post-secondary education that have driven the evolution of

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Chandler; dean fontenot

regarding the community projects. Thisarticle also describes the plan the College of Engineering has for developing a collegewide engineering communications program.OverviewService-learning is a pedagogy that links community service and civic engagement withacademic courses in order to meet the needs of the community. Through reflectionstudents access their role in the community and their obligations to the community.Service learning does not require extra work from students, but must be integrated intothe course curriculum so that it is a part of the learning process for all the students. In the Page 9.768.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

necessary to become licensed asa professional engineer. It is expected that existing undergraduate and graduate programs Page 9.737.1will be revised to reflect this body of knowledge and that new programs will be created. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The ASCE board established the Task Committee on Academic Prerequisites forProfessional Practice in the fall of 2001 and charged it with developing a plan forimplementing Policy Statement 465. That committee has been pursuing three parallellong-term (20

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leirad Carrasco; Charles Turner

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe UTEP Sustainable Engineering Initiative sponsored the GEBDC during the fall semester of2001 and the spring semester of 2002 in order to promote the integration of sustainable designelements into the construction plan of the new Engineering Building Annex. The newengineering building must be seen as a sustainable engineering icon and thus, its design shouldincorporate state-of-the-art technology and at the same time, it must contemplate the sustainableuse of resources to the maximum extent possible.Goals • Create an opportunity for students and faculty to contribute to the design of the new building that will

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

homes that qualify for this subsidy, avery sound business plan that, when operating efficiently, produces the lowest cost house. Thisbusiness plan, however, means that any economic benefit from the development, other than theactual housing, goes elsewhere. The idea behind this project is to develop a way for some of theeconomic benefit to stay in the local community.A basic economic principle is that income from sources outside the community has a multiplyingeffect when the income is spent in the local community for goods and services needed by thepeople with the income. The typical rule of thumb for export income1 is for every actual dollarspent in the community, the community receives four dollars of economic benefit. This eco-nomic gain is

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

skills they expected to be utilized, the focus was on project/team scheduling rather than on project proposals, plans, or control. The comments will form part of the discussion that follows this summary of responses.-In what course are they taught these skills? Once again, there was a mixed response between a separate course (12) and the information being taught on an as needed basis in the same course as the project (18) and not being taught at all (7).Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.216.3 Copyright  2004, American

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

found in [[4]]. The goal of the inspection is to identify asmany design defects as possible. Design fixes are made by the author later.In the proposed inspection process, there are four well-defined design review roles: coordinator,author, reader, and recorder. Ideally, each role is played by a different team member. The role ofthe coordinator is to facilitate communication, schedule meetings, and ensure the process issuccessful. The author is the person who authored the design and, ultimately, corrects theidentified defects. The reader and recorder act as impartial reviewers, in addition to thecoordinator.After a design module has been authored, the inspection procedure has five steps:• Planning (coordinator and author) After the designer

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

Educationdesigned to foster collaboration in topics including: sustainability, assessment, recruitment andretention, modules and courseletts, and faculty development. The public colleges and universitieswho are part of the Hewlett ESWI hope to build upon success and create models to improveengineering education throughout the United States.DOC Goals and Program ActivitiesThe following briefly outlines the DOC program components designed to meet these goals andassessment plans to obtain baseline data in order to measure success of the program.Goal I: Increase the motivation and pre-entry academic preparation of American Indianstudents. The DOC Program contacts students, teachers, counselors, tribal college faculty andtransfer counselors to establish an