Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

without an accompanying lab.Course 2, with its emphasis on microfabrication was designed to have a weekly lab that wasdirectly coupled to the lectures. Course 3, with its emphasis on characterization, was designed toinclude lab exercises that demonstrate and provide exposure to fundamental characterizationtechnologies and practices. Certainly another constraint in developing lab activities is thephysical resources of the microsystems laboratory. The lab facility has many of the morecommon processes used in microfabrication and, as a result, lab activities are based around thosecommon processes. Given the nature of the microsystems area, each course was designed to bemultidisciplinary and to be open to students from all areas of engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

chairperson of the Industrial and SystemsEngineering Department at Lehigh University. He is also the director of the ISELP and the ElectronicsManufacturing Laboratory. Tonkay has been actively involved in curriculum development for the college’s commonfreshman year and the department’s new Information and Systems Engineering degree program.EMORY W. ZIMMERS, JR, Ph.D. is Professor of Industrial Systems Engineering and Director of the EnterpriseSystems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible for more than 200 funded research andtechnology transfer projects with over 115 industry and academic partners. He has authored or co-authored one textand over 180 technical reports and publications. He is a Fellow of SME and IIE technical

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Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

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Andrea Ogilvie

Session 3270 Developing an Appreciation for Careers in Research Through the Texas Research Experience Program Andrea M. Ogilvie The University of Texas at AustinAbstractThe Texas Research Experience (TREX) Program at The University of Texas at Austin hasproduced valuable research opportunities during the academic year for more than 280undergraduate minority engineering students. TREX provides students with a uniqueopportunity to establish strong links with faculty, gain hands-on laboratory experience, anddevelop an appreciation for research careers

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

Engineering. Presently, Dr. Lucas is on sabbatical at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC.TIMOTHY A. JOHNSON, PH.D. Timothy A. Johnson holds a BS Ed (1972) in education from Illinois State University, an MS (1976) in natural science from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. (1983) in BME from UNC-Chapel Hill. Research interests include cardiovascular electrophysiology, sensors, instrumentation and data acquisition, processing and display. As an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, he teaches linear controls and directs BME laboratory rotations.STEPHEN B. KNISLEY, PH.D. Stephen B. Kindly, graduate of Duke University (BSE 1973) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 1988) is currently an

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

would bethe ability to incorporate more advanced engineering/mathematical assignments as well ashelping students with their future courses that use Matlab. The main disadvantage of such amove is the extra work that is required for putting together the lectures, due to limited resourcesthat focus on using Matlab as a general-purpose programming language. The proposed modifiedcourse will also include several lectures in C++ and “good” programming practices.References[1] T.W. Martin, A. Azemi, D. Hewett, and C.P. Schneider, “PSpice in Electrical Engineering Laboratories,” Proceedings of the 1992 ASEE Annual Conference, pp. 1307-1308.[2] D. Andrews, A. Azemi, S. Charlton, and E. Yaz, “Computer Simulation in Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990, Teachers College Press, Columbia University, New York, 1999.Lewis, Clayton, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, personal communication.Biographical InformationDavid E. Clough is Professor and Associate Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder,CO. He joined the faculty at Colorado in 1975. He served for seven years as Associate Dean for Academic Affairsof Colorado's College of Engineering and Applied Science. He is responsible, in part, for initiation of numerouseducational program and facility innovations at the University of Colorado, including the Integrated Teaching &Learning Laboratory, the Herbst Program of Humanities, and the Women in Engineering Program

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mulchand Rathod

, K., "Globalization of Technology and the Economy: Implications for Mechanical Engineers," ASME, June 1994. 16. “2003 SPU Alumni Convention,” http://www.spualumni.org/, December 2003. BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR Mulchand S Rathod, PhD, PE, professor of Division of Engineering Technology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, served as the director/chair of the Division during 1987-2003. His prior appointments include State University of New York at Binghamton (1979- 87), Tuskegee University (1976-78), Jackson Engineering Graduate Program (1975-76), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of California Institute of Technology (1980-81), IBM (1981-85), and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gore

meet these intentions with anemphasis on "hands-on, can do" attributes. In addition to better hands-on laboratories and moreindustry collaborations (involving student projects), industry-sought-after certifications are beingconsidered and will be provided "if appropriate" to help achieve these intentions. In particular,the ET Department has decided that a Six-Sigma “Greenbelt” certification would be a goodcandidate to provide the desired attributes if included as part of the existing Industrial QualityTechnology course. This certification is typically part of “Continuing Studies” non-degreeprograms offered by universities outside the ET degree curriculum, which raises the question, “IsSix-Sigma certification appropriate for the college

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Gu

required to submit their names. This method will improve the communication and enhance outcomes from students—more learning, better grades, and higher overall satisfaction with the course. 11. Think/Pair/share: Students are asked to digest the concept and share his/her thought with his /her neighbor. This method will improve the interaction among the students. 12. One-minute papers: With books and note books closed students summarize the “most important” or “most useful” points they leaned from a particular lecture, reading assignment, laboratory, or discussion” 7. The use of one-minute paper is to help entice student away from passive copying of

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wien Lohachit; Gary Jeffress; Alex Sadovski; cody ross; Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and Electro Scientific Industriesin Portland, Oregon. Steidley received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.RAY BACHNAKRafic (Ray) Bachnak is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) at TexasA&M University-Corpus Christi (A&M-CC). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical andComputer Engineering from Ohio University in 1983, 1984, and 1989, respectively. Dr. Bachnak was previously onthe faculty of Franklin University and Northwestern State University.WIEN LOHACHITWien Lohachit received his B.S. degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology from the Universityof Houston-Downtown in December 2000. Mr. Lohachit is currently a

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

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Gary Crossman; Alok Verma

Technology Clinic at Old Dominion University- MeetingProfessional Needs. Industry and Higher Education. ., March, 1989.8. Verma, A. K. & Hackworth, J., Design and Construction of an Automated Battery Testing Machine. @ International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 1999.9. Homkes, R. A., Writing and Publishing Your Way to tenure. @Proceedings of the ASEE annual conference, June 1996.10. Fulton, Carol, Licklider, Barbara L., Re-engineering faculty development: lessons LEA/Rned, @Proceedings of theASEE annual conference, Seattle, June 28- July 1, 1998.BiographyALOK K. VERMA Alok K. Verma is Associate Professor and, Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory at OldDominion University. He joined the Engineering

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Ohland

1996.Facilities for 35mm color film finishing and packaging, graphic arts film finishing, and 35mmfilm production were added in 1997. In 1999, Fujifilm began coating data storage media inGreenwood and opened the Greenwood Research Laboratories. Greenwood’s most recentadditions were a medical imaging products facility and a second color film and photographicpaper factory added in 2001.1 The current site, with 8 plants, a research facility, and Fuji’slargest automated distribution center in the world, is an educationally rich environment forengineering students. Fuji Film Greenwood is a participant in Clemson’s Cooperative Education(co-op) program.Clemson and its General Engineering curriculumClemson University is a land-grant institution

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

in American universities, government laboratories, and industry. Topics include research and development strategies, innovation and creativity concepts, the R&D process, and the management of R&D organizations and personnel.EMEN 5400 Explores the methodology for the management of new Page 9.229.3Principles of Product products from idea inception to product discontinuation. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

be accomplished without the Tablet PC, butease of creating and updating notes and having a single lecturing platform for all types of contenthave justified its use to the author. The author is presently investigating using Tablet PCs in a laboratory course as aninteractive lab book for student results. One can envision using the Tablet PC to provide theprocedure, run simulations, control test equipment, capture test data and provide a means ofcapturing handwritten comments. In addition, we will investigate using Tablets for students todocument their activities in a senior design course. Rather than submitting formal reports on aregular basis, the Tablet would provide a paperless trail of the design process and enable theinstructor to

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 2. Basic block diagram of the 7106 IC.The new course was first taught in the fall semester of 2003 with 14 students and the author aslecture and laboratory instructor, to work out the bugs that always exist in a new course. Of the14 students, 10 had a successfully working project at the end of the semester, 3 had significantPCB design errors that were corrected and resulted in a semi-functioning project, and 1 studenthad several major PCB design flaws that prevented his project from functioning. The authorconsidered this a successful first run

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

quarter with three 1-hour lectures and one 3-hourlaboratory each week. The laboratory content of the course is dominated by learning howto use the Handy Board microcontroller and a variety of sensors and actuators. Thelaboratory sessions are currently devoted to hands-on exercises that provide them withexperience using different sensors and controlling several types of output device with themicrocontroller. The students complete six or seven weeks of canned lab exercises toacquaint themselves with the programming skills and capabilities of the microcontrollerand sensors. They spend three to four weeks designing, programming, and building aproject that requires the microcontroller be used to sense, control, and respond to somedesign problem of the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

number of requests per minute successfully served bythe database engine. Results of the testing are compiled and interpreted, showing performancetrends and comparisons of the database implementations.IntroductionIn 2003, Brigham Young University’s School of Technology began building a laboratory forhardware and software testing and performance analysis. The lab contains 20 workstationcomputers, a few high-speed machines and switches, and one Itanium 64-bit computer. Thepurpose of this lab is to provide students and faculty with a means to perform research that canbe used to characterize the performance of a system. This experimental environment is ideal forcreating and performing benchmarking tests to scientifically describe the performance of

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

). Additionally, thereis a unique research opportunity for both educator and NASA career employees in the NASAAdministrator's Fellow Program (NAFP).NAFP Program The NAFP program provides opportunities for both NASA employees and theMathematics, Science, Engineering, and Technology (MSET) faculty of Minority ServingInstitutions (MSIs). The NAFP program is designed to enhance the professional development ofthe participants. Furthermore, NAFP program assists NASA by increasing the ability of theparticipating MSIs to respond to its overall research and development mission. The NAFP hasbeen successfully implemented since 1997, with participants from all NASA Centers, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and MSIs, which are listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

keytheorists, namely Jay W. Forrester, W. Edwards Deming, Russell Ackoff, Peter Senge, andMargaret Wheatley, and outlining some of the central lessons that would enable a person familiarwith systems thinking to make a difference at an interpersonal, team, and organizational level.ForresterKnown and credited for being the creator of the field of systems dynamics in the mid 1950’s, JayForrester’s ideas about the behavior of systems began to emerge long before. Born in Nebraskaon July 14, 1918, Jay W. Forrester went on to received a B.S. degree in electrical engineeringfrom the University of Nebraska in 1939 and his M.S. degree from MIT in 1945. He stayed on tobecome director of MIT's Lincoln Digital Computer Laboratory until he changed his focus

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Handbook for College Teachers, 4th edition ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1993.[10] R. A. Guzzo and M. W. Dickson, "Teams in organizations: recent research on performance and effectiveness," Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 47, pp. 307, 1996.[11] J. R. Katzenbach and D. K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.[12] J. S. Byrd and J. L. Hudgkins, "Teaming in the design laboratory," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, pp. 335, 1995.[13] E. Seat and S. M. Lord, "Enabling effective engineering teams: a program for teaching interaction skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 385, 1999

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

environmental burden of a product, process or activity byidentifying and quantifying material and energy usage and waste outputs at every life stage.LCA involves three steps: identification of scope of analysis, life cycle inventory, and impactanalysis. Such an approach has two attractive features for engineers. First, it is a rational andquantitative process that is easily appreciated by engineers. Second, because it examines allstages of the life cycle, it allows engineers to easily identify what design or processimprovements will lead to the greatest reduction in environmental impact.The present paper will describe a laboratory experience used in a senior level materials andprocess selection design course developed by the author. The project

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

. Each of the other goals from Table 1was addressed chiefly through use of a design project, which was the focus of laboratory work aswell as several supporting class lectures. The specific goals of this project, and their relationshipto the course goals, is given in Table 3. A further characteristic of this project was that, becauseit occurs early in the semester, it should be non-discipline specific and require no more than themath and physics skills the students have developed after 2-3 weeks in those courses.Table 3: Module 1 Project GoalsGoal Teaching Course Goal Assignment medium medium (Table 1)Work on an ill 1 course lecture 4

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

projects.• A group of 4 – 7 students works on issues of an industrial enterprise, typical 6th, 7th and 8th semester projects. Cases from the specialisation Industrial Technology: • Co-operation with a larger enterprise on 6th semester. The starting point is a manufacturing and quality point of view in connection with two automated TIG welding processes was carried out in the laboratory with the 14 critical parameters on which a profound theoretical examination was afterwards based. An advanced mathematical model was developed together with development and programming of a neural network. • Co-operation with a small enterprise on 7th semester: After profound analyses of the company’s order

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

with new situations in industry.Assessment MethodologyStudent attitudes towards new technology used in a learning environment are an important factorin the assessment of student learning. An extensive survey was developed to assess studentattitudes toward the Tablet and use of the Tablet in the classroom, laboratory, and outside ofclass. Significant research has been conducted to study student attitudes toward the integrationof information technology in the classroom. Many of the survey questions were taken from theseprevious surveys. Doolen, Porter and Hoag used a survey to measure six areas related to PDAusage – anxiety, confidence, liking, usefulness (general), usefulness (course), and enthusiasm3.This PDA study used constructs from a

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anne Spence

. Anothermathematics related project, Adventure Engineering, uses engineering-based curricula in middlegrade science and mathematics classes.2 The Adventure Engineering project focuses on problemsolving and the engineering design experience. A third project saw engineering graduate studentsassisting high school mathematics teachers in developing hands on approaches for algebra andtrigonometry classes.3 These laboratory activities were incorporated into the normal lesson plan.Both high school students and teachers benefited from using laboratory activities to demonstratespecific principles such as linearity and trigonometric functions.Adding new engineering courses to the curriculum is a luxury that most school systems can notafford. With the addition of so

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. We thank Chet Plank, Chris Davis, Clay Hamblen, Daniel Seaton, Justin Cochran, Nadja Bliedung,Sean Cook, Ven Raju, and Srinivas Kumarasetty who developed the STEM connections to the case study CD-ROMdiscussed in this paper. All these undergraduate and graduate students were part of the LITEE project.Biographical Information Shivram K. Sankar worked as a undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory for InnovativeTechnology and Engineering Education (LITEE) during Summers 2002 and 2003. He is a senior at the Weinberg

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Janet L. Yowell; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan; Lawrence E. Carlson

Coordinator for the Integrated Teaching andLearning Program’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and highschool math and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University andher MS in civil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is a founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory andProgram. She received her Ph.D. in environmental health physics and toxicology from Purdue University. She spentthe first 13 years of her career in leadership positions in the energy and software industries, and served nine years asthe director of a CU water resources engineering simulation and optimization research

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

Chemical Engineering, Washington University. He received M.S. from WashingtonUniversity in 2003 and has been nominated as a web page designer for Association of Graduate EngineeringStudents at this University.Dr. PRATIM BISWAS is the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science and Directorof the Environmental Engineering Science Program at the Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory atWashington University in St. Louis. His major research interest focuses on the examination of particle formationand growth dynamics in high temperature environments. He has published extensively in his field and has made

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

attacks and countermeasures. Emphasison laboratory experiments.Course Learning Objectives:Upon completing this course a student will: • Understand the ethics of using hacking tools • Be able to describe the TCP/IP network protocols and the effect of an open network protocol on security • Be able to snoop traffic from a network and decode the data • Be able to describe methods to counter traffic attacks like snooping, spoofing, redirection, and flooding. • Understand the importance of passwords and methods to select good passwords • Be able to crack passwords and understand the importance of authentication • Understand the issues of social engineering when used to discover passwords • Be able to describe

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

description is given below: Prerequisite Courses: M 115 (precalculus), a laboratory science course; co-requisite: M 117 (Calculus I). Students will be introduced to typical problems encountered in various branches of engineering and will gain experience using computer tools to solve these problems numerically. This course will require extensive use of a spreadsheet program and the development of programming fundamentals. Topics include simple statistical methods, logical and numerical functions, solving sets of algebraic, differential and difference equations, regression, interpolation, integration, data types, assignment and conditional statements, program flow control, passing parameters, returning