Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

management capabilities of the software are important. Still othercourses require considerable programming abilities.We have long advocated that the most educational benefit can be gained by the integration ofseveral software packages throughout the curriculum (Shacham and Cutlip4). There is a need fora numerical problem solver that accepts the model equations close to their mathematical formsand provides their numerical solution with very minimal user intervention. Spreadsheets are usedwidely for organization and presentation of information in tabular and graphical forms and fordatabase management with related operations. Software packages that support programming(such as MATLAB, for example) are needed to implement algorithms are required in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

presented elsewhere in the MET curriculum, so discussionof temperature monitoring focuses on the instrumentation and thermal monitoring analysis.Guest speakers who demonstrate their equipment have been the solution to this problem. At eachcourse offering, one class session is devoted to a presentation of typical monitoring situationswhere thermography quickly shows the surface heat generated by a system problem. Studentsgain an understanding of the context in which non-contact thermal data can be used as anappropriate diagnostic tool. For laboratory and project work, students are presently limited topoint temperature readings.Leaks and vibration from minor bearing defects can be detected using ultrasonic inspection.Through the generosity of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

a valid assumption. Further, some universitiesoffer little faculty mentoring and the new professor must “sink or swim” his way to success. Toavoid frustration, guidelines are presented to help the new hire avoid “trial-and-error” mistakesand they fall into three general categories: peer networking, teaching skills, and timemanagement. Of these, teaching skills require the greatest attention. The new professor isencouraged to incorporate active learning exercises into his lecture and to integrate cooperativelearning project in the course syllabus. Finally, attending a teaching workshop such as the NETIsponsored by ASEE is a great way to acquire an introduction to effective teaching techniques.IntroductionMuch has been written about a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

for teaching theanalytical skills of probability and statistics. Through this project, students also engage in theengineering design and construction process doing so with realistic engineering constraints. Thisapproach also provides opportunities for discussions related to societal, environmental, andethical issues. All of this is geared towards the sophomore level and thus allows for realisticdesign early in the curriculum at the same time it reinforces prior knowledge and introduces newtechnical content.The ProblemProbability and statistics are perhaps one of the most commonly found yet least understoodtopics in most engineering programs. Sure, a large number of students successfully pass theirprobability and statistics courses. Some even

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

form ofcourse release time and a travel fund program for faculty to attend conferences, as well as otherscholarship support ideas proposed in this paper.The author hopes that this paper will start an ET Community-wide discussion about the “waysand means” to enhance the scholarly productivity of ET educators. ET faculty should beencouraged to embrace scholarship in order for ET to continue to thrive and maintainrespectability within the academy. In so doing, ET will become known and distinguished notonly for its applications-oriented and student-focused teaching, but also for its student-centeredand curriculum-enhancing scholarship. This will enable many more ET educators to achieve fullprofessorship status and prestige at their institutions

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

than a truss. • The shape functions were important for the first time. Shape functions were introduced with the spring and truss elements, but the linear variation of displacements made them trivial in these cases. For the beam, the shape functions were important for integrating strain energy through the element and for predicting displacement, slope, moment and shear between the nodes. • Boundary conditions of slope, in addition to translational displacement, were incorporated.The simple beam illustrated in Figure 15 was used as an example problem. A staticallyindeterminate beam was chosen for the example, again to illustrate the point that the deflection-based solution works for statically determinate and

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

of students of architectural engineering andarchitecture; architectural engineers; and architects currently use inaccurate rules of thumband/or over-simplified methods to design and predict performance of daylighting systems. TheArchitectural Engineering Program at OSU is in the process of adopting and implementing theapproach of testing daylighting scale models, which has proven to be able to accurately predictand quantify the performance of daylighting systems. With the support of the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), the school is currently in the process of building a cutting-edge daylightinglaboratory, i.e., the Artificial Sky Dome. The new laboratory will help integrate the engineeringof daylighting systems into the school’s curriculum

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

, American Society for Engineering Educationapproach is to develop in students a critical thinking. For that, we regard as essential to usemeans to make relational reasoning putting together several ideas seeking for finding out themutual influences.The STS approach is relatively recent in Brazil. In spite of the emphasis given to Mathematics,Physics, and Technical knowledge, during several years, engineering curriculum in Brazil hastried to include subjects such as Biology, History, Law Studies, Economy, among others, toprovide a more encompassing view for students. Nevertheless, there was not an effective concernto connect/integrate the subjects and to make critical reflections. So, the students did notunderstand the reason of such subjects in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

program’s facilitation of the integration ofresearch and education, an important strategic objective of NSF. In recent funding cycles theDirectorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, andEconomic Sciences (SBE) have also provided modest amounts of co-funding. As the programcontinues to develop there are natural opportunities to broaden NSDL’s disciplinary coverage inareas of interest to other NSF supported disciplines; engineering presents one notable area ofopportunity. The program has also co-funded a number of international digital library researchefforts that feature a significant educational component. While NSDL has no formal internationalfunding agreements, this area bears attention given that the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

, American Society for Engineering Educationmounted in a closed circuit open test section wind tunnel shown in Fig. 4. The airfoil is providedwith 29 pressure taps located in an airfoil cross section. The measured pressures used tocalculate the pressure and lift coefficients. Pressure and lift coefficients are normalized with thefree-stream velocity. Integration of the measured pressure distribution over the airfoil’s surfaceused to calculate the lift force. Bernoulli equation used to determine the free stream velocitymeasured with a Pitot tube. The lift force independently measured with a load cell. Liftcoefficients calculated for Re = 143,000 and several angles of attack up to the stall angle. Fig. 4 Airfoil flow

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

that they can further explore and comprehend what is learned inthe classroom. Educators also suggest that, especially in the engineering fields, the content andeducation methods must be reformulated to meet students’ diverse learning styles. Some students learnwell with verbal and written instruction and are comfortable with the traditional education methods,“while visual oriented students find it hard to capture the information without seeing the illustration ofconcepts” [2, 3]. Therefore, it is a challenge to provide versatile and integrated learning tools to supportdifferent learning styles and self-paced learning.We believe virtual reality (VR) is an innovative platform that can greatly improve traditional engineeringeducation. VR is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

interconnectedness. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is seen as important notonly for researchers but also for a diverse, technologically literate workforce and for an educatedand informed citizenry (National Science Board, 2000; Cost Engineering, 1996). Despite theobservation that America's basic research in science, math, and engineering is world class, itseducation is still not mature. Too many students leave STEM courses because they find themdull and unwelcoming. Too many new teachers enter school systems unprepared, without reallyunderstanding the relevance of STEM courses to the development of scientific and technologicalliteracy in students. They also lack the excitement of discovery and the confidence and ability

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

the “Internet economy,” which israpidly becoming an integral part of the overall U.S. economy. The magnitude of thegrowth Internet economy is evident by the following indicators released by the Center forelectronics commerce, graduate school of business, University of Texas at Austin [5]: • The Internet economy now directly supports more than 3 million workers. • Employment in the Internet Economy companies is growing much faster than in the overall economy. • The Internet economy generated an estimated $830 billion in revenues in 2000, a 58 percent increase over 1999. The $830 billion in revenues is a 156 percent increase from 1998, when the Internet accounted for $323 billion in revenues.Table 1 compares the

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

Session 2533 Energy Engineering: Development of a New Senior Elective Course Kendrick Aung Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710Abstract Energy engineering is a multi-disciplinary course encompassing thermodynamics, fluidmechanics, engineering economics, energy conversion and conservation, and pollutantemissions. This paper describes the development of an undergraduate elective course, energyengineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ellen Ford; Keith Levien; Ellen Momsen; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

, American Society for Engineering Education”TABLE 4. Overview of the Hewlett Foundation GrantAn Integrated Learning Platform to Improve Engineering Recruitment and RetentionPI: Dr. Toni Doolen, Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringGrant Specifics: • Hewlett Foundation Engineering Schools of the West Grant Initiative • $1.1 M to OSU College of Engineering over three years (7/2003 – 6/2006) - $850K for faculty and student support; $250K for Outreach and Recruitment Goals: • Curriculum innovation to improve retention of engineering students • Outreach activities aimed at recruiting women and minorities into engineeringThe other significant activity that occurred in summer 2003 was the creation of the Women andMinorities Program in the

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

years (Freshmanto Graduate level). Students on the team designed, fabricated, and tested the world's firstmanned Mars rover prototype called "Everest." Everest is based on an Army FMTV cargo truckand is designed to house 3 crew members in a pressurized environment while they travel up to1000 km round trip to explore the surface of Mars. Everest was tested at a Mars analog site inUtah and a local Michigan rock quarry.The team is researching and integrating the latest automotive and aerospace technology todevelop prototypes that are more advanced. Students are highly motivated by the opportunity togain experience on a large scale project, contribute to solving the complicated problems inherentin such a vehicle, and participate in the exciting

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Guidera

that producesimages with a limited degree of the ambiguity that is required for multiple interpretationsassociated with effective use of sketching. Scanning sketches and using raster-to-vectorconversion software to convert scanned sketches to vector data compatible with CADapplications provides another option for integrating preliminary conceptual drawings with CAD.However, this process lacks both immediacy and low-level interaction of sketching and is limitedin the extent to which it supports a cyclical design process that produces lateral transformations. Van Elsas and Vergeest [2] suggested that 3-dimensional modeling for conceptual designcould provide an alternative to sketching. Applications such as Autodesk’s ArchitecturalDesktop

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Carlson; Renato Pacheco; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco; Walter Antonio Bazzo

power to people that can buy something that is notaccessible to everyone, in this case a relative power, satisfying psychological features, suchas novelty needs, vanity, and need of self-confidence. The “power” of having the lastgeneration of hi-tech objects, which only very few people can own.Reactions Against Consumerism and TechnopolyWe can already observe some reactions against the exaggerated consumerism andTechnopoly. A university in Australia13 adapted its curriculum to graduate engineers, as“technical person”, in four years or, in case students want to, as “authentic person”, in fiveyears. That is, they can choose if they will be a “technical person”, working within theirprofessional limits, or an “authentic person”, working to achieve

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

Education to Practicing Professionals: A Case Study has been submitted forpresentation at this conference discussing the evolution of the CAI program.The two courses under study are Construction Safety CE 475/575 and Methods Improvement CE479L/579L both offered by the Civil Engineering Department. These two courses have beenoffered in a traditional mode for many years, but were offered fully online for the first time inspring 2003 using the WebCT platform. A majority of the students enrolled in these courses arepracticing professionals in the construction field.This case study begins by describing the evaluation methods developed for CAI courses. Thefirst evaluation step was to conduct an initial instructional design evaluation of the two

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Flowing your way through equations: Putting the decisions in the hands of the students Laura J. Genik, Craig W. Somerton University of Portland / Michigan State UniversityAbstractIn the teaching of thermodynamics and heat transfer, there are two subjectmatters that baffle and bewilder students, obscuring the education process. Inthermodynamics it is property evaluation and in heat transfer it is transientconduction. Property evaluation becomes a mass of tables and interpolation.Transient conduction is several different sets of differential equations anddimensionless numbers that look like a bunch of z’s and w’s all strung together.In an attempt to clarify this for the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lili Zhao; Chris Brus; Julie Jessop

in the nurture camp, emphasizing the role of differential experience as a critical variablein an individual’s facility with spatial visualization tasks.13 Secondarily, and most importantlyfor those of us involved in developing curricular interventions to increase the retention of womenin the engineering pipeline, there is ample evidence that performance on visual-spatial tests, suchas the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization of Rotations (PVST:R),14 can be greatlyenhanced by training.15,16,17,18With the ever increasing utilization of computer graphics programs, such as CAD, in theundergraduate engineering curriculum, it is critical that the reported gender gap in visual-spatialability be further characterized to understand its

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Harth; Matthew Barber; Andrew Spurgeon

. Explain that humans are an integral part of the Earth’s system and the choices humans make today impact natural systems in the future.Physical Sciences A. Demonstrate that energy can be considered to be either kinetic (motion) or potential (stored). B. Explain how energy may change form or be redistributed but the total quantity of energy is conserved.Science and Technology A. Explain the ways in which the processes of technological design respond to the needs of society. B. Explain that science and technology are interdependent; each drives the other. C. Predict how human choices today will determine the quality and quantity of life on Earth. D. Design a solution or product taking into account needs and

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

as one aspect of an institution’s environment orcontext, as a contextual element and critical variable that affects the process of change.In this paper we present and compare the stories of two curricular change initiatives atRose-Hulman Institute of Technology, one that was sustained, one that was discontinued Page 9.298.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationin 2001. The first initiative, IFYCSEM (Integrated First-Year Curriculum in ScienceEngineering and Mathematics) was the highly innovative

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Mowry

comprehending thereciprocal space relations between time and temporal frequency, the reality of analogous distanceand spatial frequency concepts often eludes many students. Hence the application of Fourieranalysis to spatial functions often results in a deeper appreciation and understanding of thetransform. Optics readily provides a means of visualizing these relations. Finally, since theFourier transform is a linear transform, Fourier analysis also provides an excellent format forreinforcing the fundamental concepts of linearity and linear algebra.ToolsMany software packages exist that are useful for integrating and applying Taylor’s Theorem andFourier analysis into a technical curriculum. Several of the more popular software packagesinclude Matlab

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mani Soma

the advantage of integration with the PC, and makes it easier for an experimenter to compare test data with simulated data from the same circuit. A cursory examination of product lines from several manufacturers (see Test and Measurement World magazine for example4) reveals that these functions are available as PC plug-in modules: analog I/O, waveform generator, digital I/O, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, spectrum analyzer, counter, timer, frequency measurement, timing measurement. The unit price, which targets industry test engineers as buyers, is the real impediment in providing these equipment as part of an at-home laboratory for distance

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindlingeducational resources is that students will have access to the full array of specialized electivetopics, laboratory equipment and practical experiences available at any partner university.From a practical perspective, the Global Engineering College (GEC) model consists of four keyelements that interact in complementary fashion to provide a wide range of internationalexperience and training opportunities: Curriculum Internationalization. International perspectives can be integrated into existing engineering course curricula by replacing generic, context-free assignments and projects with “scenario-based” challenges, in which the same pedagogic exercises are situated

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

engineeringstudents, is designed to assist teaching many practical engineering skills that may oftenbe left uncovered; innovation, design, knowledge integration, and the ‘real’ problems of‘real’ systems. With these hands on materials the students can attach a real meaning tomany of the seemingly ambiguous topics presented in lecture. In the following section the paper will present a platform for learning as it has beendeveloped at Oregon State University. TekBots and the AVR sub-platform are thenpresented with in the scope of the first course they are used in the Computer Architectureand Assembly Programming course. The paper concludes with how the AVR sub-platform is to be extended through the curriculum and future work

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

is in combining technical expertise with entrepreneurship. This paperalso discusses the current as well as the future need in engineering and technology to integratehigh technology entrepreneurship into the curriculum as an essential component. Several meansto achieve it are explored. The end result will prepare them to launch tomorrow’s successfulbusinesses while earning their degrees. It will definitely have a positive impact on the overallhealth of the economy.IntroductionEconomic globalization has put a tremendous pressure on our engineering and technology Page 9.1405.1education program to explore several aspects of

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

, the engineering curriculum was formed in response to the workforce needed for thecurrent technology. Today, the technology is changing too fast for the engineering education tokeep up with. A new way of teaching engineering must be devised [8]. The engineeringgraduates of the future must be able to continuously reeducate themselves, adapt to changingconditions, integrate knowledge from various disciplines, and then apply this knowledge ininnovative and active ways [4]. In words of Dr Joseph Bordogna, a National Science FoundationLeader: “We all acknowledge that scientific and mathematical skills are necessary for professional success. An engineering student nevertheless must also experience the "functional core of

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering and Technology (ABET) requires that “Students…be prepared for engineeringpractice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on theknowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work….”1 In numerous curricula, this majordesign experience is reserved for the last semester of the final year of the undergraduateprogram, while in other curricula, the course can span an entire year of the final undergraduateexperience.In addition to being mandated by ABET, industry representatives of potential employers thinkhighly of capstone courses. This support is demonstrated by assistance for such