Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephan Hussmann; Nitish Patel; Julainne Sumich; Bruce MacDonald; Abbas Bigdeli

the work. Our assessments are made therefore by interviews and demonstrations ofthe work in the laboratory where these skills can be observed and brought out in to the open byoral examination, as well as by examination of written Engineering reports, where the studentsmust express their design process on paper. In addition Engineers usually work in teams so ourprojects are often undertaken in teams, and the interviews and demonstrations are presented bythe Design team, while staff examine group members individually to give a fair assessment.Confidential peer evaluations are used to monitor group dynamics and unequal efforts bystudents.The themes in design projects take students through each phase. The problems given to studentsare not fully

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

sometimes significantly simplify the VHDL specification andcombinational logic.4. Illustrative Design ProjectsIn the fall semester of 2003, an “Advanced Digital Design” course was offered to the senior andgraduate classes at Bucknell University. This course consisted of two components, includinglectures and laboratories. The lectures were comprised of three modules. First, logic synthesiswas taught. The issues covered included Quine-McClusky method for two-level logicminimization 11, 13, 14, multiple-level logic optimization 4, technology mapping for FPGA andstandard-cell implementation 10 as well as finite-state-machine synthesis. The second modulecovered the VHDL language 2, 3, 7, including the syntax and semantics of the language as well asthe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

, judging by student attendance and conduct during computer laboratory help sessions.Students do collaborate, and therefore benefit through the debugging assistance of theircoworkers, but produce individually written scripts for their particular version of eachassignment.Ranking All Previous Entries in the Competition Using the Current Rules A total of 85 bridges have been entered in the contest over the past four semesters. As away of spurring interest in the contest in current and former students, all of these entries areranked on the class web site (Table 1). Each semester the rules are changed so that a particularlygood design cannot be reused from semester to semester. Each semester some of the parametersaffecting the cost and/or the

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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

fabricated by students. This is just the beginning of an excitingchapter of discovery that will enable us enrich the student experience and shape the engineer of thefuture.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the contribution to this paper of the many faculty and students atGeorgia Tech in the Engineering Information Systems (EIS) Laboratory and the Engineering ComputingServices Department (ECS) Department. Their on going work provides the basis for the thoughtsincluded herein. Thanks also go to the faculty and students at UMD - College Park and University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign for their hard work in making this project possible, and to our associatesat John Deere and PTC for their guidance and support. Special thanks to

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Lance Calvert; Michael Shannon

develop courses that are relevant, challenging, rigorous, and pedagogically sound. This paper discusses the manner in which physics concepts are presented in theclassroom. Specifically, how we motivate the cadets, by bringing the military relevance ofphysics into the classroom and the laboratory. We place a heavy emphasis on the focusedpresentation of theoretical concepts coupled with innovative and interactive demonstrations andexercises centered around actual military hardware. A selective curriculum of physics topics,tailored to meet our program goals of educating future officers, has been developed andimplemented. This paper will highlight the techniques that provide a positive driving force tocadet learning and result in an Army

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gearold Johnson; Thomas Siller

in teams rather than independently and including cooperative learning,especially in the earlier undergraduate years; increased use of modern educational technology,with computer-based methods of delivering courses increasingly taking the place of traditionallectures; and integration of engineering with other disciplines, such as mathematics, physics andchemistry, writing courses, and social sciences and humanities more generally. Many of thecourses resulted in increased interactions with industry, with firms sponsoring courses andproviding equipment, supplies, and guest teachers. One enhancement was `just-in-time'teaching, where concurrent lecture and laboratory courses are sequenced so that lecture topics arecovered just as they become

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

electromagnetics: A geometrical approach for problems with plane symmetryDa Silva, J.A.P. (Applied Electromagnetics Laboratory, Escola Politecnica, Universidade de Sao Paulo); Rossi, LuizNatal; Cardoso, Jose Roberto; Silva, Viviane Cristine; Lebensztajn, Luiz Source: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,v 38, n 2 I, March, 2002, p 1313-1316Teaching electromagnetic fields and FEM for undergraduate studentsLebensztajn, L. (Escola Polit. da Univ. de Sao Paulo); Silva, V.C.; Rossi, L.N.; Cardoso, J.R. Source: IEEETransactions on Education, v 44, n 2, May, 2001, p 209LMGA-2D: A software package to teach FEA conceptsAbe, Nancy M. (Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo); Cardoso, Jose R.; Clabunde, Douglas R.F.;Passaro, Angelo Source: IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

laboratories usedin traditional engineering courses.Many of the examples currently used in Engineering curricula seem better suited to the "GreatestGeneration" than to the students in school today. While some of these examples are stilleducationally sound, twenty-first century students need twenty-first century examples. Ourexperiments are intended to promote learning through guided inquiry. There is a constant battlein educational circles between traditional explicit instruction where students are told what theyneed to know and then expected to know it and discovery learning where students are given afew parameters and then given the chance to “play” and figure out the way things work. Theformer seems more expedient and most engineering faculty seem

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

whole experience are summarized. Hopefully, thisdocumentation will help others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduates. Enhanced analytical and computational capabilities and higher strength materials have led tolighter, larger and more complex and unconventional civil structures. To design such structures,one must be able to evaluate their overall behavior under both static and dynamic (seismic)heavy overloads, both in laboratory and field environments. The inherent non-linearities indescribing the material behavior and the interaction between the components of a structure,makes simply using analytical tools for studying the response inadequate. This can only be doneby experimental testing. Research projects for the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Leifer; Jamey Jacob

tasks in the laboratory [3]. Although the studentsparticipating in this project pledged not to discuss their work with each other face to face, theywere certainly familiar with each other, if only because they attended class together. “Remotelylocated” team members likely had an informal rapport with each other that may have increasedthe effectiveness of their communications efforts at the outset of the project. This factor mayhave led to the final outcome of this study, which found that the distance technology did notsignificantly impact the final quality of the teams’ work positively or negatively, at least in thisparticular instance. Because their course was limited to one section of students collocated at WPI, the authors ofthat study

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

,Evaluation of Small Dams, Measurement of Chemical Transport Rates in Laboratory and Natural Systems,Laboratory and Field Instrumentation, and Physical and Numerical Modeling. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer.Beena SukumaranBeena Sukumaran is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University,Glassboro, New Jersey. She obtained her Ph.D. from Purdue University in the School of Civil Engineering withparticular emphasis in Geotechnical Engineering. She obtained her M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from AuburnUniversity and her B.S. degree from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. Her research interestsinclude evaluating the performance of suction caissons in different soil conditions, effect of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

conceptual understanding is a costly process for the instructor in terms of both time and effort. Page 9.1360.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIdentification of Problem and Implementation of LON-CAPA Enhanced PBLEGTE 321 is a four-credit lecture/lab course that meets weekly for two one-and-a-half-hourlectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. EGTE 321 is a required course for theConstruction Technology and Technical Management concentration in the department’sEngineering

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

% Laboratory Classroom 20% 10% 0%Figure 2. Number of students in engineering internships and co-ops at Iowa StateUniversity. 250 Internship Co-op

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

. Page 9.379.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering7. Analyze Each SolutionEach solution was analyzed taking into account the needs of the industries as well as the practicalavailable resources for classrooms, laboratory space, supporting library, faculty and the timerequired to get an engineering program up and running. The department Chair, who also wasresponsible for assigning the various numerical values, conducted the study.Table 1: Summary of Type of Program AnalysesCriteria Weight Discipline BS in BSE with Discipline BS in BSE with specific General

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

approximately 300hours of preparation time to get his class online, the hardware and software systems areavailable to him. His university has made the high fixed cost investments. However, hecan consider his personal development time of 300 hours as a fixed cost for his course.RevenuesThe fees charged for online and traditional classes may be different. The justification fordifferent and usually higher fees for the online offerings is that there is higher instructorcosts in preparation and more time spent in online questions/chat and in the overhead orfixed costs of the online system. Usually there are different fees for laboratories thannon-laboratory courses, so the precedent for different and higher fees is established.In general, there is

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

- ing in several.The following provides some of the reasoning for the CEES assessment shown in Table 3. 1. Technical core - Level 3. CEES maintains a science-based approach to engineering education, where students receive a grounding in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering science before embarking on sub-specializations of civil engineering. Through this course sequencing, the students do have an ability in (at least) four areas. 2. Experiments - Level 3. Besides general chemistry and physics labs, six required courses have formal laboratory/field components. In addition, courses that have Sooner City design components use a combination of virtual and real data sets for

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Page 9.1058.2faculty member or professional scientist mentor at an industrial, governmental or“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”university laboratory site. The objectives of this program are:• To increase the number of students who participate in undergraduate research.• To enhance students’ learning and commitment to their studies.• To increase the number of students attending graduate schools.• To provide students with professional development training. Research in the undergraduate engineering curriculum remains a significantcontributor to the educational preparation of new practitioners for an

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-technologysector. Several companies have investigated re-locating to the region or establishing start-upcompanies in the area. A key concern voiced by these companies is the need for a professionalworkforce in the region that can be drawn on to fill critical technical positions. In addition, therecurrently exists a dearth of trained individuals with expertise in optoelectronics, which is criticalto many high-technology products and future development.In response to regional high technology industry needs, a master’s program in opto-electronicswas established at WSU, combining the research strengths of the physics and electricalengineering departments. NSF funding was obtained to develop and support the initial stages ofthe program. Course and laboratory

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Wong; Vikram Kapila

the B.S. and M.S. degrees,respectively, in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Pi TauSigma and Tau Beta Pi. He worked for the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH, during the summers of2000 and 2001. He is currently a doctoral student at Polytechnic University. His research interests include control ofmechanical and aerospace systems.VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSFfunded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

computer laboratory period per week. The lectures focus onfundamental engineering concepts and problem solving. Prior to Fall 2002, each lab period wasorganized into a series of four or five tasks to be completed either by teams of four students orindividual students, as specified by the instructors. Typically, tasks provided the students withstructured exploration of the use of new computer tool syntax/procedures and simplefundamental engineering problems. Each lab concluded with a "check for understanding" on thenew concepts covered in the lab. Students then applied the theory introduced in lecture and thesyntax/procedures learned in lab to the solution of homework problems and team projects withengineering context.In Fall 2002, four MEAs were

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

• Signal Flowgraphs • Schematics and Diagrams as necessary • Circuit Responses • Summary or ConclusionAdditionally, other pictorially descriptive materials that the student designer deems necessary toget the point across to the reader should also be included. This report must be grammaticallycorrect and organized as professionally as possible. These reports were not meant to be the quickand dirty physics laboratory reports of old, but rather state-of-the-art professional documents.Students must also produce a PowerPoint presentation and present it in front of their engineeringpeers (classmates). This may also seem trivial for those academics reading this article, but it isreally a traumatic experience for those students who take

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

themselves as learners, problem-solvers, and creative thinkers. In this paper we will present the underlying concepts, describe some sample, discuss some of the issues,and our ideas for continuation. For the purposes of this paper, we combine a number of different initiatives of oursfrom a variety of settings. The principles of learning through design and construction of engineering projects isconsistent throughout. However, we have applied this in schools, in informal settings such as community centers inpoor, urban neighborhoods, and in projects with children in our laboratory. What is important is not the setting, butrather the nature of the activity and what the children accomplish. Significantly, children, including minoritychildren

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

partnerships for networking and leverage • A professional services referral network • Linkages to faculty consulting and collaborative proposals • Access to specialized equipment, laboratories and other university capabilities • Coordination and offering of curricula, courses and training • Other special activities Page 9.1152.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEntrepreneurial teams and students in senior design work directly with Florida TechStart to helpfacilitate the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEach form was returned to the instructor who evaluated the peer review. Then individualinterviews were conducted by the instructor to assess each student’s progress.In the last week a laboratory activity was conducted. A single-phase resistive-inductive-capacitive circuit was analyzed on paper with phasor diagrams and evaluated in the laboratoryusing an oscilloscope. A take-home final test was conducted, with comprehensive problems.At the end of the five-week period the instructor individually met with the students to discussthe problems of the final exam and assess their overall

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Cockney College”, because of its aim to extend access to universityeducation from the very rich to the growing new middle class.The first academic sessions of the University started in October 1828. Chairs were established inseveral subjects which had not previously been taught in English universities, for instancemodern foreign languages and English language and literature. The systematic university studyof law began at UCL. Instruction at UCL was primarily by means of lectures and writtenexaminations - reflection of practice in Scotland and Germany rather than Oxbridge. Theteaching of engineering was pioneered at UCL, the first Professor of Mechanical Engineeringwas appointed in 1847. Also the first undergraduate teaching laboratories in

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Carmo D'Cruz

technicallabs, facilities and equipment (4) Access to databases and researchers (5) Access to research anddevelopment financing through programs such as SBIR – federal grant funding is greatlyenhanced when incubator clients submit a joint proposal with a university or federal laboratory(6) Additional services and resources including patent knowledge, alumni who may act asadvisors, business contacts and strategic alliance facilitators or investors, access to a far-flungnetwork of laboratories and technical expertise, and access to investment by universityfoundations.All the above mentioned research findings and other issues and environmental factors wereconsidered when designing the entrepreneurship programs at the University of Central

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

Page 9.734.3distributed energy systems (fuel cells, solar cells, wind turbines), sensors for monitoring well Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwater levels and quality, and sensors for contaminant transport and containment. Thisknowledge and the associated technical skills will enable CSM engineering students to helppeople in remote communities improve their access to energy and power.Modifications to existing Engineering CoursesIn soil mechanics laboratory, civil engineering students will be introduced to sensor technologiesfor identifying and quantifying soil contaminant species and