Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

Session number 2220 Utilizing LabVIEWTM for data acquisition and analysis for a 13 weeks undergraduate course Alex See, PhD Monash University Malaysia, School of Engineering and Science, No. 2 Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150, PJ, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia email: alex.see@engsci.monash.edu.my Abstract Second year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash University Malaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practise GSE2800. The concept of computer based data acquisition instrumentation was introduced to them. They had

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

engineering flavor. Another lingering concern wasthat the Engineering Physics degree, as the only engineering program at Southeast, requiresabout 12 more credit hours than most other programs on campus, which might tend to reduce itscompetitiveness when recruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we developed asenior capstone course that has been accepted into the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s liberal education program. It therefore counts both in the major and for the liberaleducation program, thus reducing the total number of hours required. The course requiresstudents from at least two departments on campus to work on a project requiring expertise fromboth disciplines. In Spring 2004, in collaboration with a faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

combined Bachelor’s Degree plus 30 credits (B + 30) programincludes professional practice and management topics3. The ASCE BOK Committee added thefollowing four outcomes to the eleven “a through k” ABET outcomes4 as their way to address“what should be taught and learned” in the combined BS + MS program: (12) an ability to applyknowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering, (13) an understanding of theelements of project management, construction, and asset management, (14) an understanding ofbusiness and public policy and administration fundamentals, and (15) an understanding of therole of the leader and leadership principles and attitudes. Although these do not specificallyaddress IT, it is very evident from their report that IT is

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Harper

Session 3261 The Social Consequences of Design: PBL Workshops for Undergraduate Researchers Lee Ellen Harper The University of Maryland In Summer 2003 the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent institute of theUniversity of Maryland, within the A. James Clark School of Engineering, and National ScienceFoundation Engineering Research Center, piloted two day-long workshops on “The SocialConsequences of Design: Requirements and Trade-Offs in Large-Scale Engineering Projects,”for the first 15 participants in

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

during the workshop: • An introduction to the broad field of engineering • Student panel discussion on what it takes to be an engineering student • Overview of the freshman Introduction to Engineering course at UMBC • High school preparation for an engineering career, including math and science • Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) program overview and competition • Tour of local engineering facilities at Northrop Grumman • Engineering faculty panel discussion on various engineering disciplines • Opportunities and rewards of an engineering career • Use of the Internet to learn about engineering • ‘Hands-on’ projects to help introduce high school students to engineering • Engineering alumni panel

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

Session 3625 Teaming Freshmen and Juniors Hugh Jack, John Farris Associate Professor / Associate Professor Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI email: jackh@gvsu.edu, farrisj@gvsu.edu1. IntroductionA novel design project involving freshmen and juniors was begun in the fall of 2002. This projectinvolved teaming students in a freshman graphics and design course (EGR 101 [4]) with

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

assessment and graduates.Deng et al. [5] discussed the evaluation of assessment tools for outcome-based engineeringcourses for mechanical engineering program at Alabama A & M University. They adopted anapproach based Bloom’s taxonomy and is called SEAARK (Knowledge, Repetition, Application,Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis) in reverse order. Specifically, they discussed the assessmentevaluation for data on fluid mechanics course. Schmidt and Beaman [7] discussed a department-wide major curriculum reform effort, PROCEED, an acronym for Project-Centered Education. Following ABET [1], each engineering department, the program outcomes aresummarized as educational objectives that describe the unique characteristics of that program.Similar to

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

/ Student Survey4 Design Project Intro/Payload and Chapter 11.1 1,3,7 Spacecraft Design5 Remote Sensing Chapter 11.2 17,246 Understanding Orbits: Basic Laws Chapter 4.1-2 1-3,6,10,13,15 (Kepler and Newton)7 Understanding Orbits: Restricted 2- Chapter 4.3-5 17,20,22-23,28 Body Equation of Orbital Motion and Orbital Constants ( i and h )8 Describing Orbits: Orbital Elements Chapter 5.1 1,5 Design Project: (Definition) Part I9 Describing Orbits: Orbital Elements Chapter 5.2 10,15,16

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

changing faculty) is being explored in an NSF-supported project “Changing Faculty throughLearning Communities.” The project employs four mechanisms to promote change in facultymembers: speakers, workshops, faculty learning communities (FLC), and matching grants tosupport women students. Specifically, the project aims to catalyze changes in the way facultythink about four concepts that are tightly linked to the concept of gender diversity: 1) mentalmodels, 2) development and invitation, 3) personal vision and commitment, and 4) the culture ofengineering and science. The following paper describes change mechanisms, highlighting FLC,and four changes that learning community participants report. Participants a) shifted fromsearching for external

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Session 2171 First Year Engineering Experience Initiative1 E. Wang, N. Velasquez-Bryant, J. Adams, T. Batchman, P. Cantrell, E. Jacobson, W. Johnson, J. Kleppe, J. LaCombe, N. LaTourrette, G. Norris, W. Sparkman, and Y. Varol University of Nevada, RenoAbstractThis project is one of nine projects supported by the Hewlett Foundation’s Engineering Schoolsof the West Initiative. At the University of Nevada, Reno the College of Engineering and theCollege of Education are working together on the 5-year project: The First Year

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

Session 2166 Weigh Dr. Lyons: An Application of Problem-Based Learning Jed S. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 20208AbstractA laboratory project is described that was developed for a mechanical engineering measurementsand instrumentation course. Each student designs, constructs, calibrates and uses a strain gagebased load cell to weigh the instructor. The project takes about three weeks to complete.Besides learning how strain gages work

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joao Almeida; Guillermo Salazar

Parametric Building Model (3DPBM) is perhaps the most promisingmechanism for creating an integrated view of the project within the industry. The 3DPBMsoftware also has tremendous potential for supporting the education of future generations ofengineers. The 3DPBM is an object-oriented approach that allows the design team to develop anintegrated 3D visualization of the building by creating new ways to reason about the product ofdesign, and by introducing more efficient communication and coordination amongmultidisciplinary teams who participate through all phases of the project development.For over three years, a software grant has allowed the authors to experiment with the 3DPBMconcept through activities in courses and research at the Department of

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

A Complete Product Design Realization Experience Through Integrating a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Course with an Automotive Capstone Jacqueline El-Sayed, Lucy King, Mohamed El-Sayed Kettering University, Flint, Michigan 48504Abstract Engineering capstone classes are the culmination of a student’s academic experiences. Theobjective is for the student to use much of their engineering knowledge base to design a system orcomponent for a set of design requirements. This usually entails a detailed team project with the designcriteria, product drawings, analysis, parts list, product costs, discussion and conclusions. If the design isfabricated at all, it is done so in a

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

the sophomore level andtwo in the junior, to introduce students to laboratory procedures and design projects13. Thefinal laboratory, an autonomous robot, is intended to be an open-ended project that preparesstudents for a senior-level capstone design course. In the lab, students use the PIC12F675microcontroller from Microchip Technology, Inc. to create an embedded systems solution14.We found that although the robot laboratory was being completed successfully, our averagestudents were not prepared for the independent thinking required in their capstone designs.To address this issue, we identified six new goals and methods for the robot laboratory. 1. Fully custom design – As much as possible, we wanted students to have complete control

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

find engineering positions, particularly for seasoned managers.Never the less, many former colleagues continued to search within these careers, while a fewbranched out and explored alternate professions.But one important question had to be answered. Were the skills learned and practiced as anengineering manager transferable? Engineering managers were usually proficient in planning,scheduling, organizing, exploring, controlling, mentoring, communicating, leading, budgeting,administrating and allocating scarce resources. After independent investigation it was determinedthat these skills were not only transferable but necessary in a wide variety of other fields.Opportunities existed in industry, education, government, project management and

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

listed above while recognizing the limitations ofa freshman class. The time spent on the design project is balanced with an academic successportion of the course, with 1/3 of the course focused on the Wobbler design. The class is teamtaught, with the author covering the Wobbler portion of the course. Students in this requireddesign course are in their first semester, and are typically taking a material science course,calculus, and chemistry at the same time. Only ME students take this course, with each of theother WKU engineering programs offering discipline-specific design courses in the first semesteras well. The freshman design courses in the other disciplines have projects that can becharacterized by the three attributes above, but they use

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

Session 3266 Student Understanding of Program Outcomes through Formative and Summative Course-Level Assessment Raghu Echempati, Arnaldo Mazzei and Karim Nasr Mechanical Engineering Department Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractIn this paper, an approach is suggested to begin a process in which each student, while solving ahomework problem, or a test or a project is asked to provide additional information concerningwhat concept(s) is (are) targeted in each homework problem and to what extent, if any

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

issues and concernsfrom students’ feedback and our own teaching experience. The following are some of them andour ways in dealing with them: 1. Undergraduates have no chance to learn database implementations. There are always gifted undergraduate students who are curious to know how a DBMS works or who want to apply what they have learned in data structures, algorithms and operating systems to the management of data. Our CS600-level courses are dedicated to graduate students. Putting database implementation into CS643 means that our undergraduate students have no chance to learn it. As a tentative solution, these students are encouraged to take database implementation projects in CS597. CS597 is a course on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

Session 1526 Curriculum Development for Rapid Prototyping Ken Patton and Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu, Saddleback College/ California State University, Los Angeles Project web address: http://www.rptechnician.comAbstractThis project (NSF ATE DUE 0302314) is in its last year of a three-year project. It was fundedJuly 1, 2001. The focus of the grant is to develop curriculum to train technicians in the use ofsolid modeling as a “Time Compression” tool to help manufacturers and designers reduce cycletime to market. Curriculum is

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to size a pump for a given piping system and to select an operating configuration to avoid pump cavitation.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to analyze a heat exchanger: given two flow streams, calculate expected outlet temperatures.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to function as a member of a design team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.]Program Educational Objectives Supported 1. Graduates entering immediately into professional practice upon graduation are capable of performing duties of an entry-level engineering position. 2. Graduates pursuing graduate studies are

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wronecki

professionalpractices the system seeks to provide a way for students to become engaged in a useful designmethodology.Information ArchitectureThe author currently uses the IdeasAlive System to structure an introductory level college coursein visual design thinking. Designed to be applicable to many kinds of challenges the systemprovides a way to design almost any kind of inventive project. The system is presented as a kindof comprehensive “ideation” or “design” game that supports game play or visual design thinkingthrough the integration of critical thinking2, role playing3, mind mapping4, and creative drawingactivities. In the design game the teacher/professor plays the role of a design manager and acts asa director, mentor, project facilitator, and design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

impacts on student motivation, learning,and retention.The paper outlines this pairwise linkages model, the goals of this project, the framework forevaluating the linkages and the types of data we are collecting as part of the evaluation effort. Page 9.362.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationResults from the current study confirm that problem-based team work enhances student attitudestowards MatLab.IntroductionUndergraduate education in engineering has been generally successful over the last

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

transition from EDI to EDII. A “Project Summary Report” was introduced toachieve this seamless transition.The second revision of EDE started in 2000. Websites for EDI and EDII were opened for studentsand instructors to use. The websites contain teaching materials, templates for assignments, paststudent design projects, a bulletin board for information to students, and a question-and-answerbox.Today, both the face-to-face instruction system and the e-learning system are used. TheEngineering Design courses are being taught face-to-face in the classroom, while collaborativecommunication functions of the e-learning system are being used to help the student teamscomplete weekly assignments. Since each student spends approximately five hours on

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Session 1657 Implementation and Assessment of Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform Sigurdur Olafsson, Kevin Saunders, John Jackman, Frank Peters, Sarah Ryan, Veronica Dark, and Mary Huba Iowa State UniversityAbstractWe describe a curriculum reform project that aims to improve the industrial engineeringcurriculum through a web-based learning environment that engages students in active andcollaborative learning. This environment focuses on engineering problems solving, increasedinformation technology content, and the higher order cognitive skills

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Sinha; Randolph Thomas; John Kulka

socialimpact awareness and ethical behavior into professional practice. The challenge engineeringeducators face is to develop strategies that will raise the awareness of students regarding ethicalissues related to construction at the same time that they are developing their technical expertise.Education has a special opportunity to train people to live and work in accord with societalvalues. Construction Courses in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at thePennsylvania State University focus on the planning, organization, monitoring and control of theconstruction projects. The emphasis of these courses is on engineering design of constructionprocess. The student gains the knowledge necessary to apply engineering principles in

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

offered under quarters.Current Course Structure of Freshman Engineering.ENGR 1550 Basic Engineering Concepts (3 SH)The first course in the current sequence at Youngstown State University is ENGR 1550 BasicEngineering Concepts, offered only in the Fall Semester. The three semester hour course iscomprised of two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. The course replaced theprevious survey course. In the lecture portion, all registered freshman engineering students, upto 200, meet together in a large auditorium. The room features curved, classroom riser seatingwith tables as a workspace and a visual presenter and computer connected to a projection system.The projection system is comprised of a large screen at the front of the auditorium

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

the computer basics course in order to apply software development skills during thesame semester. In addition, the wireless handheld Internet devices are addressed from thestandpoint of acquiring computer skills and the applicability to time management and studyskills. The paper concludes with a survey and retention data to support the concepts and futureresearch directions. The research reported in this paper was part of a larger project supported bya grant through the State of Arizona Proposition 301 program. Page 9.592.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Granlund

project based learning module the students were given a chance towork in project teams and design a desktop CD Holder and build a working prototype oftheir design. The module employed a series of 11 Knowledge and Skill Builder (KSBs)activities and gave students experience in the design process and evaluation along withmanufacturing techniques and materials and how they impact product design.The paper also describes a design project that was completed by freshman two-yearengineering technology students in their introductory engineering graphics/CAD course.This project required the students to design and generate a set of working drawings for anaccelerator pedal of the ASME Student Baja Vehicle. The ASME Baja Vehicle was builtby the Altoona College

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

Session 2260 Student Design for the Developing World Richard Vaz, Stephen J. Bitar Worcester Polytechnic Institute Timothy Prestero, Neil Cantor Design that MattersI. IntroductionThe Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) has instituted a sophomore-level course entitled “ECE Design” to focus on teachingdesign as a process, with the specific intents of better preparing students for their senior capstonedesign projects, and at the same time