Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ibrahim

engineering education as well as practice. Theintegration of topics will allow students to learn related concepts simultaneously. This promotesa broader based level of understanding as compared to the current more narrow application-specific understanding of each topic. The resulting knowledge will go far beyond improving asophomore-engineering course in the sense that such knowledge is essential in product designand safety.1. INTRODUCTION AND JUSTIFICATION Dynamics, which is the second course in engineering mechanics after statics, is afundamental course in most fields of engineering studies as well as physics and mathematics.While dynamic equilibrium is a natural extension of static equilibrium, students usually havemore difficulties

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

such as Amazon.com and Campusbooks.com grew to prominence (andreliability) the program shifted the practice over to having the students buy them online. Coursematerials were delivered by hand, email, or by fax.V. Administrative Legwork.In most cases the students could rely on faculty to deliver materials to the campus for submittalor handling. The intent of the program was that a student never need set foot on campus, andthere were many instances where that intent was met.VI. Thesis Topics.By looking at the list of thesis topics presented below, it is clear that the subjects were related topower plant projects in all aspects. Table 1 Thesis Topics of Students at the Remote Power

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

PDA to creating CAD drawings. Using the computer to solveengineering problems is not just an easy concept for today’s students to grasp, it’s anexpectation (1). In fact, an issue that frequently arises while teaching engineering to thisgeneration of students is their attitude of “Why should I learn how to do this; the computer isgoing to solve the problem for me.”Concurrent with the rise of the personal computer, and its unprecedented computing power, isthe proliferation of software tools available for solving engineering problems. Today, there arenumerous commercial packages that an engineering technologist may run into on the job, andmore that are being developed all the time (2). Preparing the student to use these computer basedtools

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis

graduate student interest has seen a documenteddecline in both of these areas [1]. This is mainly due to two reasons: a) the abundance ofavailable positions in the computer engineering and the telecommunications industries, and b)the false impression that electric power and control theory are considered to be “old knowledge”with no space for future development compared to the impressive achievements in the modernfields of computer engineering and telecommunications.Despite this situation there are still many engineering and engineering technology programsnationwide that offer courses with updated material in the fields of control and electric powersystems. The Electrical and Information Engineering Technology (EIET) program at theUniversity of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jones; Steve Hsiung

requires buffering circuit protection designs.The only drawback of using external ports on a PC is the fixed addresses that are assigned by thePC system. The definition of the PC parallel port bits are summarized in Tables 2, 3, and 41. A simple direct connection between the PC parallel pins to the outside world withtransistors and an FET to drive high-power outputs as well as a buffering FET to aid the readexternal signal inputs is presented in Figure 1.Table 2. PC Parallel Port Data Register: at Address (Base Address) = $378, or 0X378, or 888Pin #: DB25 Bit Signal Name Inverted? Pin: Centronics Direction 2 0 Data Bit 0 No 2

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

engi-neering curricula. Major established methods for determining deflections of beams, as taught insuch a course, may include the following: 1-6 (a) Method of double integration (with or without the use of singularity functions), (b) Method of superposition, (c) Method using moment-area theorems, (d) Method using Castigliano’s theorem, and (e) Conjugate beam method.The conjugate beam method was first derived, defined, and propounded for determining de-flections of beams in 1921 by Westergaard.1 It may well be called a “Westergaard method.”Readers interested in the development of this method are advised to refer to the original paper byWestergaard.1 Additionally, note that this method is one of the established

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

turnaround time is less clear, though low time quanta tend to have a negativeimpact on turnaround time as well.For example, given ten processes with the runtimes specified as below (in arbitrary time units),and assuming an overhead of 50 time units for each process switch, we will examine the effect ofthe following algorithms on response time and turnaround time. • Batch Algorithms 1. First Come First Served 2. Shortest Process First (run to completion) 3. Longest Process First (run to completion) • Interactive Algorithms 1. Round Robin, Q=1000 2. Round Robin, Q=10000 3. Round Robin, Q=10 Table 1 – Processes and Required RuntimesProcess 1 2 3 4

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

system it is common practice to educate architects,engineers and construction professionals in separate programs. In a typical civil engineeringprogram, often there is no significant portion of the curriculum devoted specifically to theintroduction of concepts from architecture and construction. In the real word, of course, asignificant amount of interaction and cooperation between architects, engineers and constructionpersonnel is required for the successful completion of any project. Chan et al.1 reported that thetraditionally segregated roles that professionals such as engineers, architects and surveyorsoccupied in the construction industry were changing and that transprofessional practice wasbecoming more commonplace. They suggested that

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

Educationinexpensive 1. With the lack of resources to build the very schools, it is easy to imaginethe resource deficits that existed, in small schools, when compared to larger schools anddistricts. Although the situation has improved somewhat, there is still a resource gapbetween larger and smaller schools.While the one room school houses of old have evolved into modern schools with betteraccess to information, the fact still remains in smaller towns and school districts thatshrinking enrollment, less money and strained resources have put a squeeze on all but themost necessary equipment and subjects. With these constraints, the students of ruralschools must still compete to find a place in an ever increasing global economydominated by workers with the

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Wankat

Conference, and finally from the ASEE Annualmeeting.Improving teaching was a continuing concern of SPEE and ASEE. Calls to improve thepedagogical training of engineering professors were heard as early as 1901, and formal trainingwas started during an industrial summer school in 1911. More extensive summer programs wereheld from 1927 to 1933 which “concentrated on both the content of the subject and on methodsof organizing and teaching it.” (reference 1, p. 138). The Hammond report in 1944 called for amore systematic development of teaching skills. The influential Grinter report called forpostgraduate training in pedagogy: “it is essential that those selected to teach be trained properlyfor this function.”2 Since 1927 a number of summer programs on

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dona Johnson; Harriet Hartman; Beena Sukumaran

childcareinfrastructure that assists women in pursuing employment in fields such as engineering. In thispaper, it will be shown that when most of these factors come together, the enrollment of womenin engineering can be significantly improved as for example in Kerala, India.Kerala is the southern most state in India (Figure 1). It has an area of 15,005 sq. miles [38,863sq. km.], about one percent of the total land area of India. The state stretches for about 360miles along the Malabar Coast on the western side of the Indian peninsula; its width varies from Page 9.674.120 to 75 miles. It is bordered by the states of Karnataka in the north, Tamil Nadu to the east

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

Session 1526 Initial Steps in Establishing a Community to Develop Engineering Courseware Joseph G. Tront1 Brandon Muramatsu2 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 2 University of California, Berkeley, CAAbstractEducational courseware modules are beginning to find broader use supplementing traditionalengineering lectures as well as distance learning classes. Developing high quality materialrequires a considerable amount of effort compelling faculty to share modules

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Fontenot; Kendrick Aung

/performance ratios are possible. In addition, utilizing existing or donatedhardware can keep the out-of-pocket cost down further. According to the Netlib Repository atOak Ridge National Laboratory (http://performance.netlib.org), a single Intel Pentium 4 at 2.53GHz can achieve approximately 1 to 5 GFLOPs depending upon certain criteria. However, otherfactors such as bus speed and network connection type (i.e., hubs vs. switches vs. fiber) do playan important role in cluster hardware configuration. In the present project, no evaluations Page 9.691.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

describeschanges needed to revitalize curricula as the results of 1) a self-assessment to ensure that thecourses support the department curricula, 2) an investigation of similar programs instituted atother colleges and universities, 3) joint coordination with Rock Valley College (RVC) tostreamline courses at both institutions, and 4) a survey with the department’s industrial advisorycommittees. Additionally, various instructional technologies that were specifically designed forteaching in a multimedia environment commonly referred to as “Smart Classrooms” are alsopresented and described in this paper. Finally, students’ surveys regarding the use of PowerPointpresentations, Blackboard or on-line courses, videocassette education product, computersimulation

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

premise of this paper is to propose that the topics of fundamental engineeringgraphics can be applied, while providing a more stimulating experience. This can beaccomplished through exercises that require open-ended design solutions. The authoruses this approach through short, detailed design assignments. Additionally, theseassignments require students to implement machine components from industrial catalogs.The following sections illustrate examples of such detailed design exercises.Orthographic Projection & Manufacturing Processes Exercise:A bracket is needed that will bolt to the machine base and support the idler pulley shaftshown in figure 1. Design a bracket that will satisfy this need. The wall thickness of allsections of the bracket

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

Vanderbilt University in the departments of Biomedical andMechanical Engineering have long been stand-alone full year courses (3-3). Studentexchanges between the two courses first took place in the 2002-2003 school year, when 6ME students joined BME teams and 1 BME joined a ME team. This exchange wasnegotiated basically as a gentlemen’s agreement between the two instructors in charge(King in BME and Barnett in ME). The EE/CE (Electrical Engineering & ComputerEngineering) department that year offered an optional senior design class. This coursewas taught by Massengill (EE/CE) with the assistance of Barnett and Dozier (and G.Cook). The EE/CE offering was to be a trial run before an EE/CE curriculum changerequired all EE/CE majors to take the

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

laboratories. He served asassociate dean for six years and as department chair for twelve years.He is the author of three textbooks, all published by the Prentice Hall Publishing Company, aunit of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.1, 2, 3 His first book waspublished in 1972 and he has continued to generate new books and new editions since that time.The books are designed for undergraduate courses that emphasize the application of theprinciples of mechanical design.Design of Machine Elements SoftwareEach copy of the new 4th edition of Machine Elements in Mechanical Design includes a CD-ROM containing MDESIGN, an extensive set of 28 calculation modules developed by theGerman company, TEDATA. Derived from the very

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joan Walker

educators’ efforts to establish experiences that support students’understanding of design and professional development. Page 9.950.1 1The method we used to explore expert-novice conceptions of the design process wasconcept mapping. Concept mapping was invented by Joseph Novak and his colleagues inthe 1970s [1]. The technique emerged from a need to summarize extensive interview dataabout K-12 students’ understandings of scientific phenomena, such as physics. Conceptmaps are spatial representations of ideas and their relationships. A concept map containsthree

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein; Pete Hylton

, fluidpower, material science, economics, manufacturing, and introduction to computers. Eachsubject’s ten questions have been prepared by the faculty member responsible for the course.Scoring is by an electronic scanner. Results are given to the students as soon as possible as itbecomes a part of their course grade. Page 9.704.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Circle the correct answer of those following each question. 1. The integral of x dx is: 1 2x

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

equivalent courses.Table 1 lists the core courses. Table 1 Telecommunications Concepts Principles of Telecommunications Networks Telecommunications Network Protocols Telecommunications Project Management Operating Systems for Telecommunications Telecommunications Policies and IssuesThe core program was developed by faculty with extensive experience with the undergraduateTET program. It includes graduate versions of the basic undergraduate courses and is designed tochallenge both graduates of undergraduate telecommunications programs as well as technicallygrounded individuals who are new to telecommunications

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

proposedmodel curriculum as a basis to tailor their own curricula and address society needs.1. IntroductionShortage of skilled Information Technology (IT) workers puts enormous pressure on collegesand universities to prepare students for future job markets and to expose them to a broad range oftechnologies and methods. Business today needs college graduates to make an impactimmediately and become productive employee, almost immediately after joining the work force.These institutions must provide students with the knowledge, problem-solving skills, and toolsneeded for a successful entry-level job.Many academic institutions in the US and worldwide are aiming to generate an IS curriculumthat can balance the needs to produce graduates with the skills

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Allen; Teri Reed Rhoads; Teri Murphy; Andrea Stone

answer distributionanalysis, reliability, discrimination, and focus group comments. Four questions are analyzed indetail: 1) one that was thrown out, 2) one that underwent major revisions, 3) one that requiredonly minor changes, and 4) one that required no changes.IntroductionThe concept inventory movement was spurred by the development and successfulimplementation of the Force Concept Inventory1,2. The FCI was developed as a pre-post test toidentify student misconceptions when entering a course and check for gains upon completing thecourse. After many rounds of testing, it was discovered that students gain the most conceptualknowledge in interactive engagement courses, as opposed to traditional lectures3.The success of the FCI prompted

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadezda Berezkina; Ilya Leipunsky; Guido Lopez

technique frequently and specifically used to detect surface discontinuitiesof components and parts. This technique has been used for more than one hundred years in theUnited States. In effect, records of its use can be traced to inspections of locomotive parts andcomponents in the late 19th century. When using this technique, surface defects are revealed by amaterial (the penetrant) that seeps into and out of the surface discontinuity much like coffee isable to reveal cracks in a ceramic coffee cup (see figure 1).In its early stages of development, PT was performed using oil diluted with kerosene as thepenetrant material. The oil trapped in the discontinuities allowed railroad inspectors to visuallytest and evaluate the integrity of parts and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

been presented with an engineering problem to utilize a data acquisition system to acquire real time, electrical signals with varying voltage as a function of time. Students were required to design and build a simple signal generator, capable of generating a periodically square waveform with frequency less than 1 kHz. At the same time, they were exposed to National Instrument’s LabVIEWTM software and hardware for the first time. Each year, students who enroll for GSE2800 module, are required to complete a given project in only 13 weeks. In the year 2003, a team of 3 students was put together to design, develop and test a software program that they had coded in LabVIEWTM, which is a graphical programming language. The main aim of this project

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Hassall; Jose Arquero; John Joyce; Ian Robinson; Michael Bramhall

onEngineering, Accounting, and Business Studies degree programmes at Sheffield HallamUniversity.ResultsResponses were received from 312 Engineering, 236 Accounting and 380 Business Studiesstudents. The analysis of the population in terms of previous educational background is shown inTable 1. Table 1: Educational Background of students Educational Background Accounting Business Engineering Mainly numerate/scientific 32% 6% 65% Mainly literate/humanities/arts 8% 26% 1% Mix of the above 60% 68% 34%There were clear differences between the three groups of students. The engineering group ofstudents

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

deal with water resource management, powerconversion, generation and storage, and civil infrastructure development. The students, throughthe Junior and Senior clinics will develop a sustainable design solution for an Engineers WithoutBorders project in a developing country.IntroductionThe goal of sustainability education is to ensure that present and future generations [1]: • attain a high degree of economic security and social equity • create and ensure democratic participation in their communities and globally • maintain the health of the ecological systems upon which all life and all production depend.Rowan University has decided that sustainability education and practice is extremely importantto the students and

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

concept and program that is at the core of thisinitiative. We then describe how the concept was promoted amongst engineering facultyand the success of that promotion in terms of the participation of faculty in each of the firstthree years of the initiative. We conclude with some examples illustrating the activities ofthe several study groups.The Faculty Study Group Concept and ProgramThe current Engineering Study Group Initiative grew out of the Faculty Study GroupProgram described in detail by Wildman et al.1 This campus-wide program was initiated atVirginia Tech in 1996 by the Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (CEUT).The faculty study group was envisioned by Wildman et al. as a means by which facultycould join with colleagues to

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

intellectual property, etc. We answerthese questions in the sub-sections that follow by first providing a generic model for anembedded computer. We then use this model to define the concept of an embedded system.Model of an Embedded ComputerFrom an abstract perspective, we view the embedded computer as a basic system building block(see Fig. 1). Our embedded-computer model incorporates the following importantphysical/logical attributes. Input—I(k) Embedded Computer Output—O(k) Clock—C(k) State—S(k) Page

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano