Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

students discover how imagination,creativity, technology, and engineering tools combine to turn their ideas into reality. Activelearning in a collaborative, discovery-oriented design environment that involves students in acompetitive, real-world type of project provides the opportunity for the students to acquire and/orapply multiple talents and skills. The students are constantly challenged during the two weeks asthey conceptualize and plan a product, develop models, build prototypes, evaluate and redesigntheir product, and present a finished product prototype and marketing strategy to the “contractingcompany” (i.e., industry people, Institute participants and parents).Participants. Students completing the 10th or 11th grade received Summer

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

information that the student would need to getstarted on the project. The general purpose of the project, raw material specifications, basicoperating parameters and systems, reaction kinetics, and product specifications are included inthis section. Support information includes a list of starting references, tutorials on relevant processes(created by previous years’ project teams), facility layouts, equipment lists, and suggesteddeliverables for the project teams. The exemplary solution provides a complete project report,including an executive summary, introduction, technical background, process description, wastemanagement plan, regulatory review, facility design, validation/commissioning plan, detailedmanufacturing costs, detailed spreadsheet

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

would be wrong to shelter the students from every failure foreseen by the instructorand essentially quash creativity. The faculty advisor strives to keep the project moving forward,on time, with a solution that will satisfy the client’s needs. Sometimes the faculty advisor ispushing students to complete a project and at other times they are doing their best to hold thestudents in check. It is not unusual for students to want to immediately start building the projectand it is the faculty advisors job to force the students to design and plan the project and thenbuild according to their plan.Capstone ICapstone I course requirements are based on the expectations for industrial projects. Studentsare required to prepare a formal written report about

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

in our Control Lab. Wehave planned to apply NSF funds to expand this multipurpose laboratory into 16 workstations,consisting of eight stations each in Analog Circuit Lab and Control Lab. The development of the laboratory modules is partially due to the results of the WSUfunded Undergraduate Research Projects as listed in the Acknowledgement section. We haveintroduced this project in the Senior Project class (ET4999) each semester and encourage seniorstudents and MSET students to participate in the development. As mentioned above, thedevelopment of this multipurpose laboratory is an on-going project. We will continue to developand modify the planned laboratory modules. In the future, we will extend this multipurposelaboratory for other

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Engineering.The plan was to provide freshmen students with: • An immediate sense of why they were taking lower level required courses • A means by which they could interact with students almost completed with their bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degrees • A means by which they would have access to the years of learning that the senior students possessed • A sense of actual future courses in their majorThe mechanical engineering section of the ROSES class was given such an opportunity.Students as individuals or in two-person groups were teamed with Senior Capstone Designstudents to both shadow and participate in the design activities of the senior capstone designteam. ROSES students were asked to meet with

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

professional development. Rose concludes that, “To fully utilizeconsulting and industrial experiences toward promotion and tenure requirements, scholarlypublications are necessary.”Finally, Yurtseven10 and Aghayere, et al11 address the question of professional developmentacross the broad spectrum of requirements and opportunities. Yurtseven proposes a developmentplan that leads to tenure and promotion and is ET focused. Unfortunately, the professionaldevelopment plan does not touch on consulting as a means to produce scholarly work. Aghayereet al, authors of the results of the ETC task Force on ET Scholarship, mention consultingactivities but do not tie consulting with scholarly endeavors in a tidy fashion.ConsultingTo maximize the benefit of

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang

and manufacturers, End-of-life (EOL) options for discarded products and materials have become emerging areas of engineeringresearch [4]. This necessitates a certain level of partial or complete disassembly depending on the typeand level of demand for used products, components and /or materials [1]. Since disassembly paths andtermination goals are not necessarily fixed, automation of disassembly is extraordinarily difficult.Moreover, the current disassembly systems exhibit a high degree of inflexibility towards variations indemands. Regardless of product condition, a used product is usually completely disassembled through afixed process flow. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient disassembly process plan from asystem perspective

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

fellows, and faculty right after the publicschool year ends. The goals of the workshop are to familiarize the teachers with the nature ofengineering; to form fellow-teacher partnerships that will last for the entire school year; and toprovide the fellows with sufficient direction that they can develop curriculum materials duringthe summer with very little additional input from the teachers. In the workshop, local expertsfacilitate hands-on engineering education activities. Once the fellows and teachers have had achance to interact, a matching process pairs them up, and each pair spends the remainder of theworkshop reviewing the teacher’s existing science curriculum and planning a year-long scheduleof engineering lessons to complement it.After the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Barker; David Hall

begin with ENGR 121 in the Winter quarter, and continue with ENGR 122 in theSpring quarter. This limited course development time, but a foundation of topics and skillsrelated to product development appropriate for freshman was identified. From this foundation,the daily class outlines were developed a few class meetings in advance. This approach allowedeasy modifications based on the results from previous class meetings, while avoiding a one-yearwait. A plan was formulated to introduce these topics and skills to the students in a way thatwould prepare them for a final project in the product development process. It was anticipatedthat starting in ENGR 121 would have some benefits, as the course population would consist ofstudents who had

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McGeen

theextrusion. In this case Bui created cylinders on all of the edges of the 3D faces with adiameter that matches the final thickness of the extrusion. This effectively filled in all of Page 9.1043.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe “V” shaped voids when all of the extrusions were joined together.Bui presented a paper at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) inspring of 2003. Bui is currently finishing her undergraduate degree at University ofTexas at Austin and plans for graduate

Conference Session

TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Michael Rider; Juliet Hurtig

the winter of 2001, it was felt that a significantimprovement could be made to the laboratory portion of this course. With the assistance of anONU Faculty Development Grant and colleagues Dr. Hurtig (Assistant Dean and AssistantProfessor of Electrical Engineering) and Dr. Rider (Professor of Mechanical Engineering), Dr.Yoder completely revised the laboratory schedule for the 2002-2003 academic year. The coursechanges and assessment of the results will be discussed, as well as plans for future improvementof the course laboratory experience.Introduction:Controls Systems is a course in which students often feel a disconnect between the mathematicsthey see during analysis and any real application of the theory (course evaluation comments fromthe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

Transformation Roadmap. It will also provide a criticalcomponent of the intellectual capability at the WCs today and tomorrow.The N-STAR Strategic Plan consists of four objectives and supporting strategies and isconsistent with the General Accounting Office (GAO) Model of Strategic Human CapitalManagement. The strategies are to: • Establish the DON Foundation for S&T Revitalization • Develop and Define a Robust and Forward-looking Set of S&T Workforce Requirements • Recruit, develop and Sustain Preeminent S&T Talent • Convey Program Importance via an Integrated Communications Approach The plan and these strategies are grounded on GAO’s four human capital cornerstones ofleadership, strategic human capital planning, acquiring

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Gandolfo; Ken Alford

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Army, specifically. Civilian faculty members also learn military rank insignia, basic Armycommand structure, and how the Military Academy is different from other universities.Teaching programs typically discuss the courses offered in their program, standard teachingloads, job appraisals, vacation policies, additional duties (outside of teaching), scheduledmeetings, and other related topics.The Academy, department, and teaching program information is extremely useful, but themajority of time during the summer teaching workshops is spent on developing and practicingteaching skills. New faculty members learn how to prepare lesson plans, write course objectives,create a course syllabus

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

is planning to enter the AerialRobotics Competition that requires transmission of pictures or video of a remote facility.The team is experimenting with an ATV transmitter on the 70 cm ham band.One of the projects in CENG 442, micro-based system design, was to design a PICmicrocontroller system that converts ASCII character data to output as Morse code andconversely accepts Morse code returning the equivalent ASCII characters.The capstone design requirement provides another venue for projects involving amateurradio. For example, the previously mentioned telemetry for the solar car was a seniordesign project [16]. Another example is a project [17] designing a hidden transmittersystem for a “fox hunt” [18] [19]. The competition involves

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Pete Schuyler

access multiple test points on the DUT, we found the Agilent 34970A DataAcquisition Switch Unit/Controller very useful. It is a GPIB-controllable modular chassis withthree slots that can be populated from eight available plug-ins. It also has a built-in 6.5 digitDMM. One plug-in we used was an Agilent 34904A 4x8 Channel Matrix Switch. In anotherinstance, we used an Agilent 34901A 20-Channel Armature Multiplexer to dynamically accessmultiple test points on a DUT. It contains a four-by-eight, two-wire switch that can be re-configured dynamically by a VIPThe system is not limited to the test equipment described above. In the future, we plan toconnect logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers and RF network analyzers to increase the variety ofexperiments

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jones; Beth Tieszen; Dennis Schulte; Ann Koopmann

quantifying anecdotal data on the learning whichmay, or may not, have occurred through internships, co-op and part-time work experiences,international involvement, on-campus organizational activities and so forth. The purposes of thispaper are to share information about the process of acquiring such data, and to illustrate the kindof data that can be developed for assessment purposes. Also, selected preliminary data ispresented and initial interpretation of that data is provided. ProcessDeveloping the SurveysIn 2002, a plan to move from anecdotal to measured outcomes for out-of-classroom experienceswas presented to the Deans of the CoET and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources(AGEN and BSEN

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

theprogram means that the capstone sequence is completed over the spring and then fall semestersor, in some cases, over the spring semester and then the extended summer term. Increasedadvisory board involvement in the capstone was planned beginning in Fall 2002 and affectedsections of EEE 191 and EEE 192 during Spring 2003, Summer 2003, and Fall 2003.The involvement of the EEAB within the capstone sequence included: 1. Continuing to schedule EEAB meetings to coincide with capstone presentations 2. Changes in structure of the projects and the role of design reviews 3. Ideas for project and project mentoring 4. Lectures and activities on professional topicsScheduling of Advisory Board MeetingsEEAB meetings continued to be scheduled to coincide

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hari Janardanan Nair; Frank Liou

developments nowadays. Microcomponents through increasing minimization and intelligence have become an essentialpart of many novel products and different forecasts show an increasing role in a widevariety of diverse applications. Like any other technological development, proper educationand training plans are essential for creating the ingenious brains indispensable in the areasof research, development and mass production of MEMS devices. Assimilating expertswith different backgrounds is not necessarily the optimal solution, rather a new generationof scientists, engineers and technicians is required, with broad knowledge of differentsciences and engineering, as well as of the basic principles of design, manufacturing andcontrol. These experts need to

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

realisticeffort by the participating faculty. Program courses are currently being designed for Environmental, Geotechnical and StructuralEngineering using the following general template. Page 9.90.2“Proceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education (1) Initial Course Planning - The type of courses to be offered will be planned and scheduled by CWRU and PUI Department Chairmen who will determine which of the potential research courses will work best at the PUI given student interests and the availability of faculty

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Eli Fromm; Jay Bhatt

curricular committees to the clear need to revisit and strengthen theethics programs in the college. Our students faced challenges in the work place that they feltunequipped to deal with. Students’ employers felt that a host of issues related to professionalbehavior, respect for proprietary information and communication skills, needed to be addressed.The rebuilding of the programs in response to these challenges coincided with the emergence ofthe ABET EAC Criteria.1 The multifaceted approach of the criteria was consistent with our viewthat ethics instruction should be given “in context,” and is closely related to other planned Page

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

, and math applications that are utilized throughout their undergraduate experience.They learn about the various computing platforms on campus, learn to use the University’selectronic messaging system, and are introduced to C++ programming.The Introduction to Engineering course is modeled after the College’s Engineering 100 course,which is required for all engineering students. Students are presented with an engineeringproblem, then plan a strategy, gather information, analyze data, and produce a formalpresentation of their team solution. The course places a heavy emphasis on technicalcommunication skills and teamwork skills and teaches students basic project planningtechniques. This paper focuses on a detailed description of one version of

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Garcia-Saenz

discounted at arisk-rate, and inflation must be handled consistently. The rule to measure the future of a projectis simple too: “An investment is worth if it has a positive NPV, and if the investment has anegative NPV, it should be rejected.” 1 These rules have many times killed projects before theyare even born.In order to understand better this topic, lets say BDS Corporation is planning to buy land for$120,000 to develop a condominium. The intention of the company is to build seven (7)apartments type A or 11 apartments type B. Current value of apartment A is $ 97,000 and type Bis 105,000 and the cost are 80,000 and 95,000 respectively. Could the company build the projectthis year?Because the project will be build this year, time T = 0. Table No

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

that exists at the workplace or community and then“coaching” him/her to create and implement a plan of action that will lead to the success of theprotégé. The vocational functions also include “sponsoring” protégés by speaking favorably of Page 9.219.4them before key individuals in the workplace or nominating them for key positions. This, in turn Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpromotes the “visibility and exposure” the protégé needs to be considered for opportunities thatwould advance his

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

. For example, a question requiring real-world knowledge or an understanding of semantics will be more effective. ̇"Students play a version of the game described by Turing8 in which a male and a female replace the person and computer. Both try to convince the judge that they are female and the judge must try to identify the imposter. ̇"Students converse with chatterbots—programs that imitate human conversation—and try to identify their logic structure and rate their effectiveness for imitating humans.After the students worked through these activities, they devised a lesson plan and used the sameactivities to teach a class of middle school girls attending a summer program at Smith College.The education students started

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAdvising Process and Enforcement of Prerequisites: Advising and enforcement of courseprerequisites ensures that the students are taking required courses in the proper sequence. TheCollege of Engineering has established a policy requiring all students to see a faculty advisorbefore registering for courses each semester5, 6. Each faculty receives a degree audit plan for thestudents assigned to him/her. The degree audit plan shows the completed courses with gradesand the list of remaining courses required for the degree. A system to check prerequisites hasbeen implemented. At the beginning of

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

, University of Oklahoma (OU) during 1999 and 2000, and then at theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Cincinnati (UC)during 2001 to 2003. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site was funded bythe National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REU Site was to encourage talentedundergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research, and to increase theirinterest in graduate research. In this paper, first the basic approach adopted to plan the REU Siteis presented, followed by a description of how it was administered each year. Then a detaileddescription of the projects executed in different years is presented. In the end the evaluationprocess used, and the outcomes from the

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Tammy VanDeGrift; Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

created a plan for expanding and revising their portfolios, and developed a complete, if not polished, portfolio) 9. Professional Development Plan (participants created plans for gaining teaching experience and/or skills, future documentation of teaching, learning about career options, and becoming competitive candidates)Each topic was discussed in two separate sessions. This occasionally caused confusion for some Page 9.1006.5participants, but it makes the program more flexible because topics can be reordered to suit the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

facultytalk about enhanced oral and written skills. Seymour, Hunter, Laursen, and DeAntoni [12] foundfrom their interviews of URP participants that students’ personal/ professional gains andimproved thinking ability were the two major benefits. While not yet complete, NSF issponsoring a survey of thousands of undergraduate student researchers and faculty, post-doc, andgraduate student mentors about their experiences with undergraduate research in order to learnmore about how to ensure success [14].The literature on conducting URP’s addresses things to do and not to do to help ensure success.For example, the URP website at Stanford University [13] provides advice for mentors aboutestablishing short and long term goals, devising a plan for the work to

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Haws

rather than Hoover, would tend to relieve Hoover’s obligation ofgratitude. Certainly, justice wouldn’t demand that Hoover always put Moreing’s interests (orLoring’s) ahead of his own. Hoover probably should have informed Moreing of those plans,which might adversely affect Bewick, Moreing (there is some indication that he did this, in 1904when he decided to eventually leave the firm, and in 1910, when he and Moreing came at crosspurposes over the oil pipeline proposal in Russia). The implications of Virtue Ethics for engineers subject to changing employmentrelationships is that employers should provide opportunities for the growing competence of their

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Moore Furneaux; Randa Shehab; M Jayne Fleener; Kim Warram; Elizabeth Kvach; Betty Harris; Anne Reynolds; Teri Reed Rhoads; Susan Walden; Teri Murphy; Deborah Trytten

attitudes and behaviorsexpressed by students and faculty from both outside and within Industrial Engineering (IE) affectthe perceptions that IE majors and potential majors have of IE as a discipline. In turn, thisperception impacts the attractiveness of IE as a major and a career path.The perception of IE surfaced in the context of a three-year study to examine reasons that theSchool of Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU) has achieved gender parity(award NSF-GDSE #0225228). The achievement of gender parity in this School wasspontaneous, instead of being the result of a carefully-conceived and well-financed plan to Page 9.2.1