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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

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Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

course, and several students intend to concentrate their graduatework in the fuel cell area.IntroductionToday’s cutting edge technologies are tomorrow’s commercial technologies. Fuel cells have the potential to solvemany of the dilemmas created by the energy demands of our society. With clean, quiet and efficient outputs, thepotential importance of fuel cell technology cannot be overemphasized. However, the technology is yet to mature,there are many technical problems that need to be addressed. This has created a need for qualified scientists,engineers and technologists. An important goal of this course is to train engineering technology graduates, both atthe undergraduate and graduate levels, who can contribute in an immediate and meaningful

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Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wafeek Wahby

Session 2549 Industry and ET Education Collaborations From A Construction Engineering Perspective Wafeek Samuel Wahby, Ph.D., B.Th. Professor, Industrial Technology Program Coordinator Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisAbstractThe preparation of ET graduates who can make a smooth transition from their academic traininginto the work force with confidence and maximum productivity in areas of education, research,and business can be achieved through well defined, carefully designed, and appropriatelyimplemented academia

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mahbub Uddin

INTEGRATION OF “SIX SIGMA” INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Mahbub Uddin, Department of Engineering Science, Trinity University And A. Raj Chowdhury, School of Technology, Kent State UniversityAbstractQuality Management using the “Six Sigma” approach is a fact based, decision making tool formany operations to improve quality, reliability and productivity in an organization. Six Sigmaensures that quality functions meet customers’ needs and that the chosen operation reduces wasteand defects, while improving product, processes and services and increasing customersatisfaction. Six Sigma

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Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Daniel Frey; Marisa Wolsky

Session # 3425 A Television Program to Engage Children in Engineering Design Daniel D. Frey, Marisa Wolsky, Nathan Ball, Derik Thomann, MIT / WGBH / MIT / MITIntroductionThis paper describes a television program entitled LAZYBONES which is currently underdevelopment by WGBH, a leading producer of children’s (e.g. ZOOM) and scienceprogramming (e.g. NOVA). The purpose of the program is to allow children, especially 10- to14-year-olds, to become intellectually engaged in engineering design. By this means, it is hopedthe program will improve technology literacy and encourage more young people to pursueengineering as a profession. The concept of the

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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George Westrom

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwell known that “doing science” results in basic understanding and long term retention, and yetthere has been a steady movement away from “hands-on” to lecture and ineffectivememorization.GoalsThere are four major goals for this model K-12 program. 1. To provide for these needs with a program that has the potential for being available in every public and private school in America. 2. To make a systemic change both in participation and in assumption of responsibility in teaching Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, (SMET). It is imperative to get local colleges

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

of energy and its many aspects such as energy conservationtechnologies and environmental impacts of energy generation, in the educational curriculum ofscience, technology, and engineering students is essential. In order to address this need, a newelective course, Energy Engineering, was developed and implemented in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Lamar University. The course was designed in order to demonstratehow knowledge from junior level thermal/fluid science classes could be used to design anddevelop energy systems. The course topics and contents were based on similar courses at otheruniversities1-3. However, more emphasis was placed on the design procedure and calculationsrelated to different energy systems in order to increase

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Robertson

Page 9.1069.3 15. Future technology development Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe 8 italicized topics are best taught in a class/lab context.System contextThe approach taken to cover sputtering technology is illustrated in Figure 2: Layer deposition (UET411) Anelva 1015 Industry Cluster-tool $5M tool Operational MRC tool Figure 2. Anelva sputter tool as a bridge to industry practiceThe operational sputter tool in the clean

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Taryn Bayles

Session 1793 Integration of Engineering Principles in High School Algebra Courses Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Anne M. Spence Department of Mechanical Engineering Claudia Morrell Center for Women and Information Technology University of Maryland Baltimore CountyAbstractIn 2003 the state of Maryland implemented an education initiative which requires all Marylandstudents to enroll in algebra classes and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Heaslip

2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Salt Lake City, Utah June 20-23, 2004CAPS Document ID: 2004-1735Title: Bridging the Gap between Post-graduate Engineering Education and Industry NeedsAuthor: David Heaslip, Executive Director Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute___________________________________________________________________________In today’s industrial business environment there is increasingly high demand for engineerscapable of integrating modern business practices with enhanced skills in engineering designand manufacturing processes, and knowledge of rapidly changing technology

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Novel Courses for ChEs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Dickson

Session 1091 The Engineer Ought To Be A Man Of Business B R Dickson Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.1. IntroductionDuring the first decade of the 20th century, Dr Alex C. Humphreys, the President ofthe Stevens Institute of Technology, gave an address on ‘Business training for theengineer’ in which he began with an axiom: “Self-evident should be the truth of the proposition that the engineer ought to be a man of business, or at least informed of, and prepared to conform to, business conditions and business

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Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mukasa Ssemakula

Session 3549 Development of a Fully Online Course in Engineering Economic Analysis Mukasa E. Ssemakula Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.AbstractA variety of social, economic and technological factors are converging to create increaseddemand for online and long distance education. This demand is in turn transforming howknowledge is delivered to students. New technologies are emerging to help address this need.From the instructor’s perspective, this presents a challenge to keep abreast with the technologiesand to

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alice Pawley

majority of gender-proportionality efforts employ one of two general strategies. The first has been described(usually by critics) as the “add-women-and-stir” method. Using the metaphor of plugging aleaky “pipeline,”5 these programs and models concentrate on directly encouraging more womento enter science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields through camps, specialclasses, printed and internet-based advertising, and/or “girl power” media programming. Thesecond strategy addresses the “chilly climate” issues recently highlighted by the landmark MITstudy.6 When applied to undergraduate education, chilly climate models encourage instructors toredesign engineering education using different classroom techniques more congruent withcurrent

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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

researchers about the “reality” of research, not just the media version, in orderto gain a thorough understanding of topics such as genetic research, the Columbia experience,and alternative energy sources. The teachers then developed lesson plans for their specificcontent area that utilized an engineering/technology application or example from the NSFsponsored program.Educational discussions formed an important part of the on-campus experience as well. Venuesfor these interactions were facilitated peer discussions on the impact of culture on learning, andgroup work on how to incorporate their experience into the classroom. In addition, industry fieldtrips were provided to develop further engineering and technology awareness. In the future

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kanagaratnam Baskaran; John Long

Session 1603 Engineering Education Down Under: Distance Teaching at Deakin University, Australia John M. Long, Kanagaratnam Baskaran School of Engineering and Technology Deakin University, Victoria, AustraliaAbstractDeakin University in Australia is one of the leading providers of distance education in the SouthPacific region. The School of Engineering offers four-year professional engineering-degreeprograms and three-year technologist programs. The over 600 total students studying

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

education and lifelong learning • Rapid technology development and change • Shrinking product life cycles • Quality and cost dominated products/processes • Material and process dominated designs • Enterprise-oriented organization Page 9.79.1 • Increasing role of “integrated” engineering Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering • Sustainability for natural resources • Growing concern for biodiversity • Increasingly biologically oriented processes/productsTo successfully

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Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Session 2492 Achieving Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education--What Are the Major Issues?Carla Purdy, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Univ. of Cincinnati (Carla.Purdy@uc.edu), Ronald Kane, Dean of Graduate Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Ronald.Kane@njit.edu)AbstractWhat are the benefits of diversity in graduate engineering education? Reasons for increasingdiversity among undergraduates also apply at the graduate level--a larger pool of highly trainedworkers, increased technical expertise among the

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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kenneth weaver

flexibility. The technology spine consists of acovered trench in classroom and laboratory modules. This trench contains utilities and cables forready-use in the modules. Computers networked throughout the building allow students andfaculty to make optimum use of computer technology.Today, the College of Engineering at Rowan University is composed of four programs: ChemicalEngineering (ChE); Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE); Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE); and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Each program has been designed toserve 25 to 30 students per year, resulting in 100 to 120 students per year in the College ofEngineering. The size of the college has been optimized such that it is large enough to providespecialization in separate

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2004-463: A UNIVERSITY/PUBLIC SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP IN K-6ENGINEERING EDUCATIONJoseph Rencis, University of ArkansasJudith Miller, Page 9.122.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session 1793 A University/Public School Partnership in K-6 Engineering Education Judith E. Miller, Joseph J. Rencis Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA 01609AbstractMassachusetts introduced technology and engineering into its K-12 curriculum frameworks in2001. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Worcester

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ethan Brue

theseapproaches are counterproductive. Both approaches only solidify in the minds of engineeringstudents the false notion that while engineering and history may be both good to study, thesedisciplines are independent from one another and not inseparably intertwined. The developmentof an integral historical component in the engineering curriculum requires more than just newcourse development or old course modification; it necessitates interdisciplinary communicationand thematic continuity across the boundaries of every course taken by engineering students.Carefully crafting a history of technology “hub” course that enables integral historical reflectionin all subsequent engineering courses is only a first step. As an example, I will briefly outline

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

1994, coined the term, “Socioengineering” to describethe combination of the contextual and process skills with the elements of traditionalengineering education needed for the twenty-first century. This study will focus onABET Accreditation and how it has expanded in recognizing this “socioengineering” byincluding professional skills in the quality assurance of engineering higher education. ABET DefinedTo be ABET (The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited is tobe recognized as an institution or program with high standards. This accreditation isimportant as it provides prospective students and their parents assurance of a quality, bestpractice, education. In addition, future

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

Technology Conference, (1997).3. Felder, R. M. and Silverman, L. K. Learning and teaching styles in engineering-education. Journal of Engineering Education 78, 674-681 (1988).4. Felder, R. M. and Soloman, B. A. Index of learning styles. http://www.ncsu.edu/felder- public/ILSpage.html, accessed on June 2003.5. Haji, R. Venomous snakes and snake bite. http://www.zoocheck.com/programs/exotic/venom/snake.shtml, accessed on June 2003.6. Kadiyala, M. and Crynes, B. L. A review of literature on effectiveness of use of information technology in education. Journal of Engineering Education 89, 177-189 (2000). Page 9.1416.5

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The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

; 11/19 Women In Engineering & Technology Presentations 11/20 Women In Engineering & Technology Presentations14 12/1 & 12/3 Women In Engineering & Technology Presentations 12/4 Women In Engineering & Technology Presentations15 12/8 & 12/10 Course Evaluations and Wrap-Up Page 9.679.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Thompson; William Oakes

enhance the services of localcommunity service organizations that lack the technical staffs and/or resources to take fulladvantage of current technology. The potential benefits of service learning have motivated theDepartment of Freshman Engineering at Purdue to begin implementing service learning into thefirst-year engineering courses. 143 students participated in an service-learning experience atPurdue University in the Fall semester of 2003. Student and community partner evaluationshave shown initial success and in depth investigations are underway to characterize theseexperiences.Introduction Over the past ten years, engineering has been undergoing a reform of its educational models.We have seen a significant increase in emphasis on design

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

computer and communications technology can enhance and enrichthe case method. Videotapes and CDs provide the means to bring site visits, factory tours, and Page 9.1369.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Sessioninterviews into the case method. Engineering cases usually involve substantial amounts ofgraphic information and numerical data. The multimedia format will help students understandand

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

Session 1620Evaluation of Tablet PCs for engineering content development and instruction Jeff Frolik and J. Brooks Zurn University of VermontIntroduction Over the past decade, there has been a great deal of activity across disciplines attemptingto incorporate computing into the classroom environment. The now near ubiquitous nature ofmultimedia enhanced classrooms is indicative of the perceived benefits of this technology. Interms of instruction, these enhanced classrooms have enabled faculty to replace or augmentchalk/whiteboard lectures with a variety of new pedagogy

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

Session No. 1532 A Digital Electronics Course Using CPLDs for Manufacturing Engineers Karl D. Stephan and Vedaraman Sriraman Department of Technology, Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, Texas 78666Abstract: The challenge faced by ECE instructors who teach a one-semester digital electronicscourse in a manufacturing engineering curriculum is to present a useful fraction of the material tostudents whose primary interest is not electronics. We have developed a course whichaccomplishes this goal with the use of complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) and a termproject that

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Chandler; dean fontenot

theprogram, especially focusing on our experience in working with K-12 teachers to introduceengineering content into public school curriculum.The TTU College of Engineering Center for Partnerships in Science and Technology is activelyengaged in developing curriculum, teacher training and support, academic competitions, afterschool programs, and other educational activities to increase awareness about engineeringpractice in the different engineering disciplines, and to provide engaging learning experiences forK-12 students and teachers. The Academy began with a pilot engineering magnet program atEstacado High School in Lubbock. The magnet program has grown to include feeder programswith several elementary schools and junior high schools in Lubbock

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

Session 1515 Some Methods to Achieve Changes in Delivered Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge Thomas J. Siller, Marvin E. Criswell, Darrell G. Fontane, and Neil S. Grigg, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372AbstractASCE Policy Statement 465 has lead to an extensive examination of the changes needed in civilengineering academic programs to better prepare graduates for licensure and professionalpractice over the two decades. Many trends, including rapidly growing Information Technology(IT

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yakov Cherner

Interactive Simulation-Based e-Learning Tools for Engineering Education Yakov E. Cherner*, Doyle V. Davis** *ATeL, LLC, **New Hampshire Community Technical Community CollegeSimulation-based e-learning is rapidly becoming a significant part of most educational processesas an important component of the next generation of e-learning materials [1-4]. As highercommunication bandwidth becomes more accessible, it becomes an effective counterpart of thelearning process.The highly interactive integrative learning system 'Active Learning Suite' (ALSuite) is the nextstep in simulation-based e-learning for STEM education and corporate training. It uses real-lifesituations and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Nelson

Emerging Trends Session 1793 Engineering Student Writing Shortcomings and Remediation Strategies Stephanie Nelson, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032Abstract — Engineering student reports for senior term projects were evaluated from the threeengineering disciplines taught at California State University Los Angeles: Civil, Mechanical,and Electrical/Computer Engineering. The reports were evaluated for