Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

: the current generation is approaching retirement and the challenges offuture technology demand an even greater combination of breadth and depth ofunderstanding.A series of short courses has been prepared to address some of the skills required bypotential chief engineers. The courses can be taken individually or they can be combinedinto a non-academic certificate.To formulate the certificate requirements, we followed the methodology used by theparticipating companies to design complex products. A detailed evaluation of the chiefengineer job specification and skills led to an analysis of best practice and coursesalready available to JACME2T and the companies. The translation into specific coursemodules was undertaken by the authors and with

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

management assignments. Local high technology companies wereconcerned that many engineers were entering management positions responsible for project ordevelopment teams or promoted to managers of small departments or work groups with littlepreparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a reward for a job well done forengineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkward position. As Matson1 andLancaster2 have reported, and this author observed while working in industry, engineers usuallyfind themselves very poorly equipped to take on their management assignments.As the program evolved over the next 16 years, the enrollment grew to include students fromColorado, from across the United States, and from around the world. As

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

interests and efforts to recruit underrepresentedminority students in engineering and technology areas. These efforts were the results of severalfundamental changes that occurred in the late 70s and 80s and policies that were enacted at thefederal and state levels. Some of these were:• Concerns about the demand for engineers in the U.S. to outpace their supply. There was also a need to maintain or increase enrollment in engineering and technology areas. These disciplines saw some of the largest drop in undergraduate enrollment; the total undergraduate enrollment of full-time and part-time students decreased by over 8% between 1988 and 1997 [1,2].• Minorities and women would represent a significant portion of new workforce in the U.S

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

Session 3513 Updating the Chemical Engineering Curriculum for the 21st Century Dana E. Knox & Robert B. Barat Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractThe field of chemical engineering is evolving, and curricula must evolve to match the new worldin which graduates of our programs will find themselves. There is a general consensus that thereshould be ever-greater emphasis on biological-based processes and on batch

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

limited by current or dominant technologies; seek fundamental and incremental change. 9. Create awareness in and engage communities and stakeholders. In addition to these principles the conference participants felt strongly that there is a dutyto inform society of the practice of green engineering. These principles were based in part on aprevious paper giving 12 green engineering principles and examples of their use [3]. The need to introduce green engineering concepts to undergraduate students has becomerecognized to be increasingly important [4]. The U.S. Engineering Accreditation Commission -Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) chemical engineering programcriteria require the incorporation of safety

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

courses provide both graduate and upper-levelundergraduate students from diverse disciplines with the ability to design and fabricate completemicroscale and nanoscale systems. The first course in the sequence, Fundamentals of Microscale Engineering, provides anoverview of the important technologies from a fundamental point of view through a lecture-onlyformat. Topics include scaling, microfabrication technologies, microscale and nanoscalephenomena, and microfluidic applications. The second course, Fundamentals ofMicromachining Processes, is lab intensive and concentrates on the most frequently usedmicrofabrication technologies, such as wet bulk micromachining and surface micromachining.Hands-on experience and instruction is provided for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

reflect and act.) Develop a supportive relationship with students; challenge them to learn inside and outside the classroom. Encourage yourself and students to take risks and try out new ideas and challenges. Partner with others on campus to deepen students’ learning.Motivation and Objectives According to various studies [5, 6, 7, 8] including the Boyer Commission [9] and NSFEngineering Coalitions [10, 11, 12, 13], the engineers of the future must be well trained bymaking: 1. research-based learning a standard 2. an inquiry-based first-year 3. creative use of information technology 4. a multi-disciplinary capstone for integrating, broadening and deepening the total experience of the majorThese

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session 3649 ENGINE AND DYNAMOMETER SYSTEM SERVICE AND FUEL CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENTS Emin Yılmaz Department of Technology University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853 (410)651-6470 E-mail: eyilmaz@mail.umes.eduAbstractThe goal of the “ETME 499-Independent Research in Mechanical Engineering Technology”course is to introduce students to designing, manufacturing

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session 2756 USE OF ENGINE PERFORMANCE TESTING AS A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT Emin Yılmaz Department of Technology University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853 (410)651-6470 E-mail: eyilmaz@mail.umes.eduAbstractThe goal of the “ETME 499-Independent Research in Mechanical Engineering Technology”course is to introduce students to designing, manufacturing, upgrading, repairing and

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

Session 3530 Portfolio Assessment and Improvement for a First-Year Engineering Curriculum Larry D. Stetler, Stuart D. Kellogg, Jon J. Kellar, David J. Dixon, Glen A. Stone, Larry A. Simonson, Zbignew J. Hladysz, Jason T. Ash, and Heidi L. Sieverding South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701Abstract:For the past five years, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has redefined its first-year engineering curriculum. The program, now required of all first year engineering students,incorporates curricular elements developed by the Foundation Coalition and elements from theEPICS program at the Colorado School of Mines. As part of the course, students are required

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

pursuing academiccareers.IntroductionMentorNet (www.MentorNet.net), the E-Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering andScience, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in offices at San José State University, whichsince early 1998 has offered online mentoring programs particularly to serve women studyingengineering and science. MentorNet's mission is to further women's progress in scientific andtechnical fields through a dynamic, technology-supported mentoring program and to advancewomen and society by developing a diversified, expanded and talented workforce. MentorNet’svision is three-fold: to establish excellence in large-scale e-mentoring, to create the e-community of choice for women in engineering and science through online mentoring

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Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Taylor; Jacqueline Mozrall

Session #2457 An Integrated First Year Curriculum in Industrial and Systems Engineering James B. Taylor and Jacqueline R. Mozrall Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractA new, integrated first year curriculum has been developed in Industrial & Systems Engineering(ISE) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) that possesses increased practical content,additional active learning opportunities, and a stronger sense of identity among first yearIndustrial Engineering

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

Learning – To facilitate the transition from student toward engineer, we decided to provide students with the means to conduct experiments outside the Page 9.1071.1 laboratory proper. Each team now purchases a PICkitTM 1 Flash Start Kit Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition CopyrightÀ 2004, American Society for engineering Education programmer/evaluation board from Microchip Technology, Inc., shown in Figure 114. At only $36.00, it is an economical solution that can be used to program microcontrollers via a USB port and conduct

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

information system projects' unique characteristics and cautions to take whenusing available techniques. Such inclusion will help to place engineering students in a morecompetitive position for their future career goals.Intr oductionThere has been a continued integration of information systems into all fields of engineering,especially industrial engineering. Several academic departments have changed their names toreflect this integration and others have started courses that integrate information systems intotheir traditional areas of teaching and research. Information systems (IS) are powerful andvaluable tools that support communication and decision making in an organization1. They useinformation technology (hardware and software) to capture

Conference Session

Rethinking Collection Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Clay

) 75 High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory (HTGL) 52 John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center 138 Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) 459 Rapid Prototyping Laboratory (RPL) 96 Scientific Computing & Computational Mathematics 163 (SCCM) Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) 12 Structures and Composites Laboratory 13 Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) 9 Western Regional Hazardous

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

and is a Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. He has served as an officer in the ASEE Biomedical Division and as mentor for various Process Education Institutes. RICHARD BENNETT Richard Bennett is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and he is currently working with the Freshman Engage Program for the College of Engineering. His experience includes the development of video web lectures that are available to the students after the initial presentation. TOBY BOULET Toby Boulet is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. He has been active in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leotis Parrish; Devdas Pai

complex and abstract concepts. This latter considerationhas a direct and potentially negative impact on the retention of students especially in the science,mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) areas.Implementation A pilot program, focused on improving retention and graduation rates, was funded byindustry (General Electric) in 2001. This program, monitored by Dr. Eric Cheek of the Collegeof Engineering, limited itself to courses in Electrical Engineering. The SI program began toreally gain momentum in the Fall 2002 with additional sources of funding in industry (Intel) andthe government (National Science Foundation) being tapped by the second author of this paper.From a program managed and coordinated exclusively by the Dean’s

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Fry

Session Number: 1461 Classic Rhetorical Pedagogy as a Model for Interdisciplinary Design/Engineering Instruction. Richard Fry IDSA/ITEA Assistant Professor, Industrial Design Program School of Technology Brigham Young UniversityEngineering, Industrial Design, and Business are three disciplines that work together in the worldof product development. Power struggles exist over who is most important. Because of thesestruggles, ultimate success is often difficult to achieve. These struggles exist because of ageneral lack of understanding between

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

to participate. Studentteams design small, autonomous, battery-powered vehicles in this competition, which is open toengineering and engineering technology students at two-year colleges or students in the first twoyears at a four-year college. The competition takes place during the ASEE Annual Conventioneach year in June. The 1998 competition was in nearby Charlotte, NC, so the club was able toscrape together enough funding to build a car and to send Gordy, Ezzell, and two students to thecompetition. The students were ecstatic as the captured first place in the competition. TCC hasnow won two 1st place awards and two 3rd place awards in the five years of the competition. Thebenefits of our participation in these competitions have been

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education5. ConclusionsPreparation, implementation, and the preliminary assessments of the workbook strategy forvarious chemical engineering courses are presented. The workbook strategy incorporates thefollowing in teaching: (i) classroom analysis, (ii) workbook beside the textbook, (iii) group work,and (iv) ‘blackboard’ as information technology aided platform in education and communication.The preliminary assessments show that the strategy may reduce the mismatches betweenteachings and learning styles, facilitate greater interactions between students and instructors, andstimulate critical thinking, problem solving, and active

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Cordray

Impact of Assessment on a BME Undergraduate Program Thomas R. Harris, David Cordray Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235IntroductionLearning theory suggests that effective instruction should be “student centered, knowledgecentered, assessment centered, and community centered”1. We have been engaged in a largestudy aimed at exploring and testing these concepts for biomedical engineering education—theNSF Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center onBioengineering Educational Technologies. The set of concepts that have been applied toimprove learning have been labeled the “How People Learn (HPL) Framework”2. This paper isan

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina; George Clark; Aniruddha Mitra

Session 3565 Effects of Variable Mix on Student Mathematics Performance George Clark, Aniruddha Mitra, and Gustavo Molina Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractEngineering and Engineering Technology students encounter a wide variety of variables in theircoursework. To prepare for courses in their specific majors, these students usually take a commoncore of mathematics classes, which are typically taught using x and y. The authors wished todetermine whether students’ mathematical performance using other variables was on a par with theirability to manipulate x and y. A ten problem quiz was

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Messervey; MAJ Dave Borowitz; LTC Keith Landry; Ronald Welch

the world in which our future army officerswill be leading soldiers’ demands that each graduate of the United States MilitaryAcademy at West Point be a disciplined problem solver who has internalized theengineering thought process. In fact, Engineering and Technology is the first of sixdomains of knowledge listed under the Academy’s Academic Program Goals (Page 6 –Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World1). As such, every future “armyleader” at West Point must take an engineering sequence, or “track,” as part of theiracademic program regardless of major or field of study.The Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering offers two of the six availableengineering sequences at the Academy: civil and mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

graduate students from their respective institutions’ business schools. The RICPE hadidentified a need for students with a technological background to participate with thosecompanies with a significant technological or engineering focus to their business.This opportunity for greater collaboration with the local business community was very timely.Over the past two years, the administration and faculty of the SECCM had been working totransition the senior engineering capstone design course to a “client-based” format. Under a Page 9.568.1“client-based” scenario, all of the projects offered to student teams for their capstone projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

variety of simple, non-threatening situations. Hisrequest of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology was to createa system that could display certain visual patterns on a Stimulus Box and record an individual’sresponse time to that visual stimulus by measuring the trigger pull on a training pistol. Toaccomplish this Dr. Hudson enlisted the assistance of two Electrical and Computer Engineeringgraduate students, Darwin S. David and Ross Loven.The Graduate StudentsThe graduate students were completing their second semester of their Master’s Degree study.Both students had completed their Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at MinnesotaState University, Mankato in the previous year. The students had both completed

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Stewart; David Elrod

Session Number 1338 Assessing Student Work in Engineering Graphics and Visualization Course David Elrod, Michael D. Stewart School of Civil and Environmental Engineering/George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GeorgiaAbstractAdvances in computer technology have led to significant changes in the content of the freshmanengineering graphics course. Course topics, textbooks, and software choices differ from oneinstitution to another, depending in part on the programs of study the

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education • “Prepare students for a broad range of careers and lifelong learning … feature multidisciplinary, collaborative, active learning and take into account students’ varied learning styles,” 1 • “Include early exposure to ‘real’ engineering and more extensive exposure to interdisciplinary, hands-on, industrial practice aspects, team work, systems thinking and creative design” 2, and • “Create an intellectual environment where students can develop an awareness of the impact of emerging technologies, an appreciation of engineering as an integral process of societal change, and an acceptance of responsibility for civilization’s progress.” 3More

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

Session 2542 Making the Link between Engineering Management and Undergraduate Research David F. Radcliffe and Josh Humphries Catalyst Centre for Society and Technology The University of Queensland AustraliaAbstractThis paper describes and analyses an innovative engineering management course that applies aproject management framework in the context of a feasibility study for a prospective researchproject. The aim is to have students learn aspects of management that will be relevant

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

full or part-time undergraduates. Moreover, over half of these studentstraditionally study in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, or France. Domestic college students’lack of cultural exposure is a serious liability in today’s climate of growing globalizationof business and technology; this problem is especially acute in engineering, whichaccounts for only 3% of all U.S. students who study abroad.1 In response to this problem,we present an innovative model of international engineering education that is novel indesign, large in scope (seventy-five students expected for Summer 2004), and non-traditional in location.There are numerous impediments to the successful creation of accessible, affordable,safe, and intellectually challenging study-abroad

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

2221 Developing a European Master in Construction IT E. Dado1, R. Beheshti21) Assistant Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Designand Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands.E-mail address: e.dado@ct.tudelft.nl / 2) Associate Professor. Delft University of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences, Design and Construction Processes, Building Informatics Group, Stevinweg 1,2628 CN, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail address: r.beheshti@ct.tudelft.nl1