Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

interaction between Java and VRML can be described asshown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1 Interaction between Java and VRML (Source: JAVA for 3D and VRML Worlds)The Modules Page 9.446.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÀ 2004, American Society for Engineering Education This section gives the detailed description of the three modules for solving Couette,Hagen-Poiseuille, and Rayleigh flows.Couette Flow The flow was named in the honor of M. Couette11 who performed experiments on theflow between a fixed and a moving concentric cylinders

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

-sponsored projects.The program was recently classified 1 as a “philosophical Engineering program” based on certaindefining characteristics, including a strong liberal education background and “the philosophy thatsuch an education has intrinsic advantages over discipline-specific alternatives.” This paperdescribes the genesis and evolution of the Harvey Mudd engineering philosophy growing out of a Page 9.637.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationliberal arts environment and fashioning a new

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

undergraduate engineers to design thecomplex circuits that will ultimately be a part of smart communications systems on a single chip.These new technologies are also excellent motivational tools to help students put theoreticalconcepts into a current context. This is especially true in required undergraduate courses likeelectromagnetics (EM) that are heavily mathematics based.The integration of contemporary topics into EM courses is fundamentally different than the useof multimedia assets that help students visualize EM concepts that are quite mathematicallycomplex [1-3]. Contemporary topics that faculty introduce are frequently based on theirresearch or consulting activities. Increasingly, undergraduate students are involved in researchunder the

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

contexts. As a result, students arenot exposed to, or required to use higher levels of thinking for many years while attendingcollege, even though engineering problems almost always require this approach [1]. The linkedissues of compartmentalized learning and our inability to bridge the educational experience toreal world engineering problems are major problems with current engineering curricula.The Value of Case StudiesCase studies have revolutionized teaching within both the business and medical communities.The case methodology is a framework to embed learning in an environment that is as close to thereal world as possible. It challenges learners to explore resources, make assumptions, andconstruct solutions. Case studies are also ideal for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

-related services. Some specific objectives considered while designing thecurriculum were to: 1. Provide the industrial/manufacturing community with the technically trained manpower base to support manufacturing and commerce in the region; 2. Provide an educational center for retraining of workers with needed skills; 3. Provide graduates with desired skills in electronics and networking; 4. Fill a need for trained professionals in the computer networking, manufacturing, information technology, and telecommunication industries. Page 9.942.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vennes; Phillip Smith

design of a mechanical part or a mechanical system. Thesequence could be characterized as follows: Conceptualization, solids modeling, checkingthrough animation of mechanisms, checking by stress analysis, checking manufacturability,production of all necessary engineering drawings and documentation. Students are expected toutilize PRO/E in all their design courses and especially in their senior level capstone designcourses.1. Experiences in ‘Graphical Communications and Design’Introduction of solids modeling software at the freshman level challenges both the instructor andthe students. Three dimensional modeling software has become incredibly powerful and,therefore, complex. The fundamental tools and procedures available to the user are so broad

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, tooling, and robotics).Although this technology has been advancing swiftly in teaching, training, and learning,it is still in its infancy. Since this vital technology is very important for the progression ofthe manufacturing industry, an NSF grant has been awarded for the RP Education (DUEAward Number 0302314: Technician Education in RP and Virtual ManufacturingTechnologies). Project team members organized a workshop on Training the RP trainersat San Diego City College from July 27 to August 1, 2003. Tennessee Tech University(TTU) faculty and assistants attended this workshop because TTU was in the process ofbuilding a RP Lab and organizing workshops for high school students/instructors. Thispaper intends to report learning practices, adaptations

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Cliver; Mike Eastman

and services,works to foster the academic achievement, social integration and personal success of women,international, and first-year students.”1 This is accomplished through New First Year Orientationand the following programs: two required quarters of First-Year Enrichment which areextensions of the New First Year Orientation, International Student Services which is a primaryresource for the over 1,200 hearing and deaf international students from over 90 countries, and aWomen’s Center that addresses the wide variety of issues affecting women.Two years ago RIT re-designed the freshman orientation creating the New First Year Orientationprogram which provides students an opportunity to: 1) Meet the faculty and dean of the student’scollege; 2

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

, and an increase in the cost of higher education.1. Arguments in Support of the Tenure SystemThe AAUP, an influential body representing the interest of faculty members, has justifiedtenure on the ground that it ensures (1) freedom of teaching and research and ofextramural activities, and (2) a sufficient degree of economic security to make theprofession attractive to men and women of ability. The AAUP believes that tenureprovides the most reliable means of assuring faculty quality, educational excellence, andacademic freedom. It holds that the freedom to carry out research and to criticize auniversity’s administration would inevitably be circumscribed without tenure.Academic freedom is seen necessary to produce new knowledge for the benefit

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Orth

Session No. 2221 Utilizing Educational Delivery Systems in a Mechanical Construction Course Daryl L. Orth, Ph. D. Purdue University Department of Building Construction Management West Lafayette, IndianaIn education, a delivery system is the organizational approach the instructor uses to deliver,organize, present, or communicate his/her instructional message or topic to the learners (Dickand Carey, 1996)1. The four most common delivery systems are non-projected media

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Molu Olumolade

find on their way to reaching the goal’s solution, there is a goodchance that important information will not be studied. Dolmans et al.1 found in their study,correlating student directed study and faculty objectives, that students did not stay on track andmany important objectives were omitted.Motivation:In our program, engineering technology students have to go through a course of industrialinternship before they graduate, which they normally complete during the summer session. Inthe past couple of years, it has become difficult to find appropriate industrial projects for thesestudents. It is therefore feared that if this continues, students may be spending more than thenecessary number of years to graduate. But in order to keep the students

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

Session 14552004 ASEE – Salt Lake CityGraduate Studies DivisionInvited Panel Session:Professional Graduate Engineering EducationRelevant to the Needs of IndustryInvited Panel Paper #3 Draft Enabling the U.S. Engineering Workforce to Perform: Developing Financial Sustainability to Ensure High-Quality in Professional Graduate Engineering Education D. R. Depew, 1 A. L. McHenry, 2 S. J. Tricamo, 3 D. H. Sebastian, 3 J. M. Snellenberger,4 D. H. Quick,4 I. T. Davis,5 J. P. Tidwell,6 D. D. Dunlap, 7 D. A. Keating, 8

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

between academia and the design and construction industry (DCI) isever increasing. The 21st Century shall witness even more innovative applications within thedesign and construction industry that require the introduction of new building materials,equipment and methods, as well as qualified and well-trained personnel 1.Important questions may be raised here, such as: Why collaborate and what are the collaborationbenefits? How would we start -- and then operate -- a collaboration? and, What makes acollaboration successful? The discussion of these and similar questions will shed light on theprocess of collaboration, the benefits of collaboration, the successful collaborationprogramming/administration, and lessons learned. This would help those in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

- termecological and environmental effects of building the Three Gorges Dam. Other far-reaching effects of the project on areas such as energy, industry, business, culture, societyand transportation are now starting to become a tangible reality rather than speculations.Time will show to what extent the fears and concerns that many are having were justified.SummaryThe largest project in the world, China’s Three Gorges Dam (TGD) – 1.44 miles (2.31km) long and 620 ft (185 ms) high – is well into its third and final phase. Since Sunday,June 1, 2003, waters of the Yangtze River – third longest river in the world after the Nileand the Amazon – have been flowing through water diversion holes at the bottom ofTGD in the portions completed during Phase I (1993-1997

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

deals with energy and has long been anessential part of mechanical engineering curricula all over the world. Heat transfer processes areencountered in a large number of engineering applications such as heat recovery systems. It isessential for thermal engineers to understand the principles of thermodynamics and heat transferand be able to employ the rate equations that govern the amount of energy being transferred.However, the majority of students perceive these topics as difficult.Recently, Abu-Mulaweh [1, 2] has designed, developed and constructed: 1) Portable refrigerationsystem experimental apparatus to demonstrate thermodynamics processes and systems which arefundamentals to understanding the basic concepts of thermodynamics. 2) Portable

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Depew

Session 22552004 ASEE – Salt Lake CityGraduate Studies DivisionInvited Panel Session:Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward SystemsRelevant to Professional Graduate Engineering EducationInvited Panel Paper #1 Draft Issues Driving Reform of Faculty Reward Systems to Advance Professional Graduate Education: The Need for Criteria that Support Engineering Practice and Technology Leadership D. R. Depew,1 G. R. Bertoline,1 M. J. Dyrenfurth,1 A. L. McHenry,2 D. D. Dunlap,3 R. J. Bennett,4 S. J. Tricamo,5

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

three schools. Group I was from the predominantly middle Page 9.914.3class school. It was a regular grade eight physical science class with 32 students. Group II was a Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclass of 26 ESL students from one of the at risk schools. Group III was comprised of 13 studentsin a voluntary after school program, Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)in the other at risk school (see Table 1 for a break down of the groups by gender, age

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Darnell Austin

happensthrough reflection on experience. 1 Reflection is a meaning-making process, which moves the learner into a deeperunderstanding of experiences and links between the connections. The role of reflection is tomake meaning, linking experience with knowledge. In other words, for Dewey, learning happens Page 9.861.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwhen students reflect on an activity. Educators should promote both the activity and thereflection process. Positive reflection is a community

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

the procedure for assessing the course or program, a determination ofany areas of weakness, effecting necessary changes to improve the course and then, re-assessingto find out how well the adopted measures worked, thus “closing the loop” on the continuousimprovement process.The Civil Engineering Technology (CET) program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) ispreparing for an ABET accreditation next fall. In preparation for the accreditation visit, theauthor carried out a survey of students in the online and on-campus structural analysis courses togauge how well the predetermined set of intended learning outcomes (ILOs) were achieved. Thestudents were asked to rate the ILOs for each of the six modules in the course on a scale of 1 to 5(5

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

loads.3, 4Most programs 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 provide a cursory treatment of structural loads within thestructural analysis course, and to the author’s knowledge, no civil or structural engineeringtechnology program offers a stand-alone course in structural loads.To solicit input from the Industry on the need for this course, the letter shown in Appendix 1 wassent to ten structural engineers within the Rochester, New York area, one of whom is on ourAdvisory Board. Six responses were received and sample comments received from theseengineers in support of the development of this course include the following: • Course content looks good. I’m not sure how in depth you get into seismic but how a building is categorized seems to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Visco

, the most popular) to assess teaching is to look at the student evaluations of thecourse instructor. Such a situation is very unsatisfying because things unrelated to teaching suchas whether the instructor purchased pizza for the class on the day of the evaluations or if theprofessor is perceived as physically attractive [1] can affect the numerical scores on the studentevaluations. While pizza or good looks might equal higher scores, it likely won’t change studentcomments on the evaluation (and, possibly, suppress them).Is there a way, as an instructor, to improve student evaluation scores and student comments in ameaningful way? In this work, the author will demonstrate that there is, through techniqueslearned at the 2002 ASEE Chemical

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

inventory of scholarly activities. This inventory will be helpful in measuringthe success of the strategies by comparing the faculty scholarly output from year to year. Someof the strategies currently being implemented by the FAS to enhance scholarly productivity arenow discussed.Scholarship WebsiteWith the help of web-based course management software currently used at RIT for all courses,the FAS developed a scholarship website and acts as the moderator and facilitator for thewebsite. All faculty in CAST have access to the website and can post works or ideas-in-progressand can participate in discussions and peer review on the website. The point of entry to thewebsite is the “Syllabus” page shown in Figure 1 where some “ways and means” (see

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

Engineeringand Engineering Technology Colleges, 2001 Education, the percentage of bachelor’s, master’sand doctoral degrees awarded to women is the highest for biomedical engineering (BME) Page 9.982.1discipline [1]. The bachelor’s degrees awarded to women in engineering was 19.9% [1]; BME Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education40%, chemical Engineering 35% and industrial engineering 34%. The master’s degrees awardedto women in engineering was 22.1%; BME 38%, agricultural Engineering 35% and chemicalengineering

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

greatestreasons that students initially dislike the course. For instance, students must beable to decide when something can be modeled as an ideal gas. This is typicallythe only equation of state that they are familiar with when they enter the courseand would prefer to apply it for all circumstances. To assist students in learningdecision making, we have found the flowchart in Appendix 1 to be very helpful.The flowchart is used in conjunction with the information presented in Appendix2, to complete the learning of property evaluation. The flowchart emphasizes the Page 9.615.1thought process students should be following as they approach thermodynamicsproblems and are

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

that constitute the technical core of the safetyand fire protection academic program. Simulation principles used in specific courses and itsapplication are described to illustrate the value of computer simulations in studentunderstanding of critical variables during fires.Integration of the program into the existing department curriculum was also an importantconsideration. The department offers three other engineering technology programs in fieldsthat are related to safety and fire protection. Courses from these programs were incorporatedinto the curriculum and enhanced with additional safety and fire protection considerations.Figure 1 shows students doing research on the effect of ambient temperature on the vitalfunctions of an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Elaine Millam

of Science in Technology Management(MSTM) in 1997.When the MSTM program was created, we established specific program objectives andeducational outcomes which can be found on our website listed in the bibliography. Wealso put in place a well-defined process for admitting students to the program. Theobjective of this process was to ascertain that the MSTM program was a good fit for eachstudent, and that the students resonated with the objectives of the program. Required foradmission were: 1) a goal statement, 2) a letter of endorsement from their manager and 3)a personal interview with the Program Director to review student and program goals andengage in a discussion to establish expectations of student and program.Among the expectations of

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Elahinia

Systems Laboratory toprovide Mechanical Engineering students with hands-on experience on integrated designand manufacturing of intelligent systems [1]. As another example, a case study has beendone in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. In theirstudy, they have integrated shape memory alloy into a first-year engineering course and afirst-year engineering project. The results, that have been reported both qualitatively andquantitatively, showed the successful impact of the experience [2].ME4006 (Experimental Laboratory II) is a successful, large-enrollment laboratory coursein mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. This course interweaves instruction onengineering principles with instruction on engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

implementation, and reports validation statistics on the initialdata collected.1. IntroductionA common goal of many engineering design capstone courses in the US and elsewhere is to teachthe students a “good” design process. In fact, many course instructors evaluate student designteams in these courses primarily by how well they define and/or follow a prescribed process. Theunderlying assumption is that good design processes lead to good design outcomes—but is thattrue? And if so, how can we know whether a design process is good? We propose that thegoodness of a design process should be measured by the quality of its outcomes. As part of alarger to study to better understand student engineering design processes, we needed a way tomeasure design

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

12 keyprocess variables to design outcomes, and conducted a computer design of experiments to extractthe effects that the process variables have on the response variables (i.e., project outcomes). Inthis paper we report the results of this modeling effort and discuss their implications for thegeneral model of engineering problem-solving presented in various forms in many engineeringtextbooks. Our results suggest modifications to the engineering problem-solving model to makeit more suitable for engineering students.1. IntroductionSolving open-ended problems is arguably the cornerstone of the engineering endeavor.Employers look for engineers who are effective at solving open-ended problems. Engineeringaccreditation demands evidence that

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Saherwala; Mohammed Haque

processes forformworks for reinforced concrete construction.Visualization and Animation TechniquesThe visualization techniques that are used to develop a web-based design and constructionprocess visualization are broadly classified under the following categories:1. Image visualization/Animation2. Interactive flow-chart based analysis/design3. 3ds Max based Design Animation and WalkthroughThe image visualization and animations are powerful tools for teaching design courses. If astudent has a difficulty with an analysis and design problem, the animations of the structuralresponse to loads and the 3-D animated free-body diagrams explicitly show the foundations ofthe design mechanics by showing the connectivity between cause and effect. This technique