Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

projects undertaken by the ACCeSS members, and then discusses insome depth one of the technical projects performed by an undergraduate student at the U.S.Naval Academy with support from a faculty member as well as an engineer from a consultingcompany. The project is a physical hydrodynamic model test program for surface effect shipdesign and analysis. The project has served to engage students, faculty and industryprofessionals within and outside of the U.S. Naval Academy in an exciting, technicallychallenging, multidisciplinary effort that has application to the military and commercial industry.IntroductionThe Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design and Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS) is aconsortium of several academic and industry partners. The

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

outcomes from this step strongly influence both the rest of thedevelopment effort and the ultimate success or failure of the product. When students work inteams in product development (PD) projects, they often tend to start generating solution conceptsright away without carefully identifying all the stakeholders that must be taken intoconsideration, determining all the customer needs, and establishing their relative importance. Thereason for this may be twofold. First, many engineering students believe that in their professionalcareer they will seldom be actively involved in the identification of the customer needs. Second,it is more appealing for engineering students to embark in the creative and open-ended process ofconcept generation than to

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris

classes followthe same schedule, and participate in the same experiential learning component but havedifferent curriculum, texts, and faculty. The classes meet together or separately in order tofacilitate a learning community surrounding the product innovation process. Faculty membersevaluate students in their own disciplines. The objective of the project is to design a new to theworld product and create a market entry plan. The engineering and marketing students worktogether to research and develop a product that the customers want and that can be produced fora price the customers are willing to pay.The complex collaboration between marketing and engineering students is facilitated using amodified product innovation process. The model provides a

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ziegler

, engineering, math, and science have dropped offsignificantly and continue to decline. Student scores in math and science in the United States(US) are significantly lower than other developed countries. To alleviate these declines, schoolsare attempting to interest students from kindergarten to grade 12 (k-12) in technology,engineering, math, and science disciplines. Schools across the US have implemented a variety offormal programs such as Project Lead-the-Way in attempts to promote student interest in thesefields. Additionally, technology and engineering have been introduced to middle and secondaryschool curriculums using a variety of less formal methods. For example, students can participatein structural load competitions, mousetrap powered vehicle

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

and society.The historical paradigm often has inherent difficulties when attempting to integrate highlyspecialized professionals into functional, efficient, and effective teams focused on technologycommercialization and product development. Due to the training and specialization of thedifferent professions (scientists, physicians, engineers, business individuals), there tends to be a“silo effect” where each professional has an immense amount of knowledge and expertise withinhis/her own area, but has difficulty crossing disciplines to understand and function successfullywithin a team format.Entrepreneurship results in the creation of economic value by utilization of research andtechnical information and knowledge in inter-disciplinary projects

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

Session number 2756 Hands-on learning and implementing using LabVIEWTM for undergraduates in 13 weeks 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.myAbstractSecond year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash UniversityMalaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practice. Studentswere exposed to National Instrument’s LabVIEWTM software and hardware for the firsttime. They were required to

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jones; John Hackworth

varied an exposure to digital. For this reason, the labs in this course aremeant to be a mixture of basic digital review as well as upper level digital design topics. Both the on-campus and DL versions of EET 315W labs are divided into two parts. Thefirst half of the course consists of six labs designed, tested and simulated with Multi-Sim 7.0electronic simulator and one hardware lab. The second half of the lab challenges the student todesign, build, test, transfer to wire-wrap, retest, troubleshoot, and then demonstrate a majorhardware project. The specifications for the project force the student to use the design theoryand techniques developed via the seven labs. The on-campus students have the advantage of theuse of the departmental

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) defines Engineering Managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technological component”1. This definition is followed by thesentence: “Engineering Management is rapidly becoming recognized as a professionaldiscipline.” Engineering managers are distinguished from other managers by the fact that theyposses both an ability to apply engineering principles and a skill in organizing and directingtechnical projects and people in technical jobs”. The Systems Engineering Management courseuses a systematic approach to both the system design / engineering and management aspects. Inaddition, the course offers the link between

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

multiple sections offered inthis course. This learning model is being applied to half of the sections. Students register forone of the offered “Introduction to Digital Logic” sections. Students have no knowledge thatthere are different modalities of instruction. This method assures a nearly random assignment tosections. The remaining sections will receive the traditional approach to instruction. Thesections using the learning model receive instruction through a combination of lecturing, activelearning exercises, collaborative learning exercises, and peer instruction exercises. In thesesections, students are engaged in challenge projects and presentations. Instructors and teachingassistants are provided with special training workshops on techniques

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

2406 Teaching Real-life Risk Management to MS Construction Students Gouranga C, Banik, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060AbstractThe nature of the ‘messiness’ of the real projects in which we are involved determines how ourconstruction practice proceeds. In order to train future construction students, we need to preparethem with the skills to deal with this

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

aligned with national science and mathematics standards. Therefore, in thefuture, students will come into engineering and technology programs at the post secondary levelalready having these basic visual skill. This paper will discuss this new national project and howits approach to technogical and visual literacy can impact instructional approaches to engineeringdesign graphics at the secondary and post-secondary levels.IntroductionThe NSF VisTE (Visualization in Technology Education) Project is designed to promote the useof higher order thinking and communication skills and the understanding of technology,mathematics, and science through the use of graphic visualization tools. High school studentsusing simple and complex visualization tools

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

identifiedrecommendations for best practices in new engineering curricular models and the bullets belowsummarize these points. • Implementation of “engineering up front”: the exposure of freshmen to hands-on, real- world engineering practice early in their undergraduate education, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects. Many engineering programs have postponed this experience until the junior or senior year. • Integration of students working in teams rather than independently, including cooperative learning, especially in the earlier undergraduate years. Although the study found an emphasis on a team approach as a difficult process (including problems related to team composition, organization, methods

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

complete with a challenge to map boundariesand trails for the National Park, to reduce erosion, or to improve water quality; all critical issuesto the infrastructure of the Island. Contracting by the Department of Environment and Tourism,teams from the International (EPICS) course practice engineering design in a culturally diverseenvironment. The Design (EPICS) program at CSM Technicalintroduces multi-disciplinary teams of first Process Knowledgeand second year engineering students to Knowledge Valuesdesign, technical communications, andteamwork through an open-ended, client- Researchbased project. The program emphasizes an Skills Design

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

Session 2632 VLSI Design Curriculum Richard B. Brown, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Gordon Carichner and Catharine June Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122Abstract—The Intel Foundation has funded a project at the University of Michigan to develop,document, and disseminate a world-class VLSI curriculum. This paper, which is the first presen-tation of the project, describes the overall curriculum at a high level

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

the GEAR-UP program were from area middleschools including Sulphur Springs, Greenville, and Commerce, Texas, an area of roughly 250square miles. Transportation, snacks, and the mid-day lunch were provided to the students whoattended class for three consecutive weeks (Monday through Thursday) between 9:00 AM and12:00 noon. Students participated in an engineering project to design, build, test, market, andcompete in a paper airplane competition. The program resulted in 36 classroom contact hoursbetween the faculty and the students in the program. Three full-time engineering, technology, and educational administration faculty membersfrom TAMUC were involved in daily events that included project management, cost engineering,design

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) -This program seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents)receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Two types of proposals are solicited: Type 1proposals provide for full implementation efforts at academic institutions, and Type 2 proposalssupport educational research projects on associate or baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM.Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) - The CCLI program seeks toimprove the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education forall students, based on research concerning the needs and

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the senior students and carefully evaluate theactivity. Students were allowed to practice their teaming skills through the planning andimplementation aspects of the assignment and their communication skills through the reportingphase. This paper provides the relevant assignments and student feedback on the experience.The ProgramIn the week before classes began in fall 2003, careful planning went into the pairing of incomingfreshmen mechanical engineering students with senior capstone design teams in the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering. The projects in the capstone design course ranged from automotive Page 9.1031.1 “Proceedings of

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

and a fundamental skill for engineeringand technology students. These developments have revitalized educators’ interest in spatialvisualization 1, 2.Spatial visualization skills may be tested by various formats 3, 4, such as surfacefolding/unfolding, symmetry, revolution, projection, section, and rotation. Among these formats,rotation of a 3D object about one or more axes is a popular method.Psychologists have studied spatial visualization from the perspective of cognition and perception.Shepard and Metzler 5 designed an experiment to investigate the reaction time of visualizingrotated 3D objects. The objects were composed of ten face-to-face connected cubes with threeright-angled bends and two free ends, and distinct by the number of cubes

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Ibrahim Karaman; Jeff Froyd; Terry Creasy; Winfried Teizer

Session 1464 Undergraduate Educational Components for Nanoscale Issues in Manufacturing Jeff Froyd, Terry Creasy, Ibrahim Karaman, Winfried Teizer, Rita Caso Texas A&M UniversityAbstractEngineering designers during the next fifty years will work intimately with tools and applicationsmade feasible by nanotechnology. Therefore, engineering undergraduates must be able tointegrate concepts and principles of nanotechnology into their knowledge bases as soon aspossible. The project “Nanoscale Issues in Manufacturing” will transfer knowledge gainedthrough nanoscale

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mya Poe; Dennis Freeman

designed and implemented in acollaboration of technical and writing professionals at MIT, which led to a tight integration of thewriting process with two research projects: an experimental project in a wet lab and a theoreticalstudy using computer simulation. For both projects, students worked in pairs to develop a formalproposal and draft a 10-page scientific paper. After receiving substantial feedback from thetechnical staff, writing staff, and peers, students revised their manuscripts. Comparisons acrossdrafts suggest that peer-review, staff critiques, and the opportunity for revision are all critical tothe educational process. Although written feedback is staff intensive, we have found thatteaching assistants can be taught to provide excellent

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Williams; Hadi Saadat

digital computers in the loop, one can readily generate C code from graphical simulation tools such as Simulink block diagrams for real-time controller implementation. This has provided the impetus for establishment of a real-time instructional control laboratory at Milwaukee School of Engineering. In this paper the development of this innovative integrated real-time control system laboratory will be described. Next modeling, simulation, controller design and implementation of a few typical laboratory experiments and projects of different complexity are presented. This paper also reports on Simulink modeling of the nonlinear inverted pendulum with some research results for different swing-up

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

and measurable, and the most significant causes of poorquality and productivity are controlled or eliminated.The first CMM model developed was the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM).Its use enhances the capabilities of the software development organization to deliver software ontime, within cost, and meeting the objectives of the system and the customer. This documentedsuccess resulted in the proliferation of CMM-based models to improve engineering processes, Page 9.1316.1which in 1998, prompted industry, the US government, and the SEI to begin the CapabilityMaturity Model Integration6 (CMMI) project to provide a single

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

learn todeal with ambiguity and vagueness. This lack of a single right answer required our students todevelop new methods for dealing with problems because most of their previous experienceinvolved textbook-type problems with a single right answer. Furthermore, engineering studentsin Taiwan tend to be especially anxious about making mistakes. Page 9.508.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Project design, however, is concerned with whether students are approachingproblem-solving in a logical way, and whether they can

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; John Demel; Richard Freuler

creationof an Engineering Education Coalitions program by the National Science Foundation. TheGateway schools agreed to adopt or adapt Drexel's E4 program9-12 for freshmen and sophomoreswhich put engineering "up-front" and specifically included hands-on labs and incorporateddesign projects. Introducing design in the freshman year13-17 of engineering course work was amark of change for a number of engineering programs in the last decade. Page 9.271.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationPutting

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

, mentoring activitiesand peer support, we have systematically organized the Center’s programs into severalcomplementary categories.• Teaching, curriculum reform and standards• Science and math for access for children with disabilities• Access to college curriculum through the Pre-college Academy• Urban outreach• Women in Engineering and Technology Initiatives• The Trio Programs• The Bridge to Engineering ProgramElementary Science Outreach ProgramInitiated in 1987, The Elementary Science Outreach Program was developed in collaborationwith the Newark Public Schools.1 STEM graduate students assist teachers with hands-oninquiry science activities in their classrooms once a week. The project has succeeded in helpingteachers to change some of their in

Conference Session

Support and Partnership Opportunities

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

and Management,Integrated Business and Engineering, Integrated Computer Science and Business, and acampus-wide, year-long experiential program in Integrated Product Development.Entrepreneurship teaching – graduate: Historically, entrepreneurship education atLehigh has focused on the graduate MBA program in the College of Business andEconomics. This program has recently implemented an entrepreneurial track led by anexperienced and successful entrepreneur. The graduate MBA has been augmented by acombined MBA and Engineering Masters program, where students earn dual degrees inbusiness and engineering. Also at the graduate level, one of the authors, Professor Ochshas offered a new product development course with industry-sponsored projects

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Ray

Carbondale/3Graduate Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleAbstractThe purpose of this project is to develop a web site to provide environmental engineeringfaculty with digital images of water and wastewater processes in order to enhance theclassroom learning experience. In addition, a CD-ROM of the same material will soon beavailable. As this project nears completion, the number of images is increasing rapidly.We have quality digital images of water and wastewater processes. This currentlyincludes approximately 100 different still images and 10 video clips. There are alsoapproximately 150 images of various water resources and hydrologic processes. The stillimages are

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe ABET Accreditation Criteria, the first describing the usual role of the master’s degree and thelast three addressing profession practice topics: 12. An ability to apply knowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering, 13. An understanding of the elements of project management, construction, and asset management, 14. An understanding of business and public policy and administration fundamentals, and 15. An understanding of the role of the leader and leadership principles and

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

program as juniors. All programs were developed in closepartnership with industry and are designed to meet accreditation standards.The National Science Foundation awarded PRIME a three-year Advanced TechnologicalEducation (ATE) grant (Division of Undergraduate Education - DUE # 0101637) towards theimplementation of a comprehensive approach to manufacturing education. The goal of the ATEproject is to support the implementation of an industry-driven regional network formanufacturing education at different levels, at times and locations best suited to new andincumbent technicians and engineers. Highlights of the ATE project include:• The implementation of an active learning model consisting of Exploration, Dialog, and Application steps for

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Turner; Keith Johnson; W. Andrew Clark

avoided by reading literature written to assist with theteam dynamics5.One possible solution is to allow teams to select a group member from their discipline, butleaving the balance of the selection to the instructor, or insist upon selection of different sub-discipline categories. This problem is an issue primarily in the broad based disciplines such asbusiness. In technological oriented projects, teams typically are comprised of those students thathave expertise in and around the focal technology and while this may result in a rapid solution tothe problem the solutions typically have a narrow focus and do not evaluate “out of the box”solution sets. Insertion of team members with diverse educational background and experiencemay result in