Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

be projected Page 9.1347.6onto the computer screens of all conference participants. This would allow for various users to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationremotely access and participate in laboratory demonstration or sessions at a remote site. Humannature dictates that the audience in a room tends to look at whoever is talking - so this is a logicalfeature. However, this feature does not allow for multiple people talking at the same time, aswould be the case in an animated discussion

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

a very high level ofsophistication. A crude prototype of the hardware and a few examples of laboratorieswere developed to demonstrate to the faculty the potential of this approach. While thefirst couple of minutes they were very skeptical, they quickly got excited about how thiscould change what they could teach and the experience for the students. Once thefaculty had accepted the idea, work began on developing a meaningful pilot experience. The design of the TekBot experiences in class made the experiences progressivelymore complex. An early laboratory involved the students developing C and assemblycode that is downloaded to the TekBot that replicates the analog controller and PLDcontroller previously designed in other TekBots courses

Conference Session

BME Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Lalush; C. Frank Abrams; Peter Mente; Marian McCord; H. Troy Nagle; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

used had to use for special variables did. The that they did not (like RAMP functions, or any documentation already know how functions that they had to teach explains what kind to use. themselves how to use) or if they of functions they used only the functions that they used and if any of already knew how to use. those functions Equations are explained so that were functions that someone unfamiliar with the they did not know original model would understand how to use already. it based on the SIMULINK

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

work on the software on there own schedule withoutrelying on laboratory access.The choice of the computer interface hardware is more challenging due to the plethora of dataacquisition and control devices, boards and systems available on the market. Available computerinterface components include those using the IEEE-488 bus, PCI/ISA plug-in cards, VXI/PXIcards, PCMCIA cards, USB, parallel port, and RS-232 (serial port). Each of these interfaces hasits particular application-specific benefits. However, most student projects require themeasurement and control of very few parameters that does not justify the purchase of anelaborate analog and digital I/O system. In these situations, the Dallas-Maxim 1-Wire devicesprovide an elegant solution.The 1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Brakewood

andanalyzed. It might also serve as an effective technique in other engineering courses.This assignment also addressed several of the attributes in the New Engineering EducationParadigm, particularly, using an inquiry-based learning approach, teaching a technique that canbe used for life-long learning, using a complex construction site to stress a ‘system’, andfocusing on health, safety and sustainable development issues 6.Bibliography1 Shapira, A. (1995) Bringing the SIte into the Classroom: A Construction Engineering Laboratory. Journal of Engineering Education 84 (1), 1-52 ABET. (2003) ABET website http://www.abet.org/.3 Felder, R.M. and Brent, R. (2003) Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mukai

targeted course, Mechanics of Materials, for his firsttime at the University of Wyoming without the materials being implemented from theUniversity of Washington. Because of staffing issues, the PI did not teach the targetedcourse again until Spring 2003. The adapted materials were used in this class andevaluated by exit surveys and reflective notes. The students’ preferred learning styleswere determined by surveys.The Spring 2003 class that used the new materials was comprised of 35 students.Administration of the course is at the college level and instructors for the course comefrom various departments and are rotated. Due to circumstances beyond the control ofthe PI, twelve of the students in the class were repeating the class. Course grades were

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

the end of a textbook chapter. Theyimbed often-conflicting technical needs and issues. The engineer must be able to assess asituation, pose a problem, develop a solution and effect change. Yet, aside from a capstoneexperience at the end of the curriculum, few students are prepared to apply learning beyond theway it is covered in the lecture or presented in the textbook. They are uncomfortable solvingproblems that are not well structured and require the integration of multiple concepts to craft asolution. They have little experience with either under-constrained or over-constrained problems.Unfortunately, this traditional approach to teaching and learning in engineering does noteffectively encourage knowledge and skills transfer to other

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

teams are made. Discussion of the teaching/learning principles underlying this Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationapproach are given in [1]. For a class of thirty students, team creation can take up to an hour, inaddition to time spent creating, printing, distributing, and collecting the surveys.The guidelines for cooperative learning specify how teams can best be made. See, for example,[2, 3, 4]. Student learning is improved by placing students into teams that are heterogeneous inacademic achievement, grades in prior courses, writing skills, extracurricular participation, andother criteria

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

and implementation of that camp is a true division of labor between theCOE and the teachers. COE faculty propose activities for each of the engineering disciplinesbeing explored, and teachers tie the activity to the goals and objectives they teach. The entireteam tries every activity, engineers seeking technical accuracy and teachers weighing in onwhether the activity meets the content goals and is appropriate for the targeted grade levels. Theplanning week of the camp is spent on the university campus, allowing the teachers a view intothe engineering school. Laboratory tours and presentations of leading edge research projects arepart of the agenda. The camp itself is held at a middle school, and while co-taught by both theengineers and the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

the context of an “ecosystem” e.g., business needs, regulations, cultural issues). This has been presented for several semesters by a venture capitalist with ties to the university. • The role of Industrial Design. This is important to the engineering students who are the majority of class members. It is presented by a Professor of Industrial Design.During several semesters student team members were given additional opportunity to makepresentations to their classmates by having them present the lectures based upon the material inthe text. This was felt to have the additional value of exposing them to a “teaching” experience.To further support this idea, in semesters when there were few teams, each team was asked

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Technology Programs at CMUThe engineering technology programs at Central Michigan University (CMU) are designed toprepare students who aspire to careers in electronic, manufacturing, or mechanical areas7. Eachmajor requires a minimum of 24 semester credits in mathematics and science, 21 credits intechnology core that emphasizes hands-on laboratories, 21 credits in technology specializationthat emphasizes engineering science and design, and 9 credits in technical electives that studentscan use to strengthen their technical backgrounds in one of the areas.The students who wish to pursue one of the ET majors must be first admitted into the university.A typical student who receives a general admission would have a high-school GPA of 3.3 and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

• Strategies and programs for recruitment and retention of students, with an emphasis on students from underrepresented populations • Instructional Materials, Teaching Guides • Manuals, Resource guides • Conference papers, position papers, monographs, etc. • Research/technical reports • Technical and employability skills standards • Degree and Certificate program listings, articulation dataSome of the materials are directly available at the NETEC site. In some cases, links are providedto the projects themselves, and in other cases, materials may be purchased for a fee. The methodof distribution is determined through negotiation with the creators.Clearinghouse users are also provided with linkages to a wealth of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering and the College of Engineering for fabrication of test specimens andcalibration of the different instruments to be used. This included laboratories on the maincampus of the University of Cincinnati, as well as the Large-Scale Structural Test Facilitylocated at Center Hill, about two miles from the main campus. The remaining weeks of theresearch project dealt with analysis of moment-rotation results from previous experimentaltesting1, 2, as well as designing, fabricating and erecting the test set-up for full-scale testing of T-stub connections subjected to cyclic loading. Though specimens for four tests were designed andfabricated, but due to time limitation only one test was conducted at

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

conducting measurements of both components atdifferent temperatures. The British Pendulum Tester was used in a laboratory setup to measurethe two components of friction on test briquettes. To simulate the polishing of pavement surfaces Page 9.809.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationas a result of repeated application of wheel passes; the briquettes were subjected to cycles ofmechanical polishing using aluminum grit and a drill press equipped with a rubber-polishingdisc.Briquettes representing

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

) laboratory at James Madison University as part Page 9.671.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof an integrated security solution for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)system. [6] CSA goes beyond traditional endpoint security solutions “by identifying andpreventing malicious behavior before it can occur, thereby removing potential known andunknown security risks that threaten enterprise networks and applications.” [7] Specificinnovative features of CSA include: ‚ Proactive defense

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

programs to enhance the skills of their employees.They expect those working in higher education to develop leadership competencies in the Page 9.731.1individuals they are sending into the workforce. To that end, there is clear evidence that teaching Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents leadership skills, and giving them opportunities to apply that knowledge within theirchosen fields of study is imperative.3 These skills and opportunities give the student an addedadvantage during the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

Collection

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

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

technical projects. Topics include selecting projectSystems alternatives, managing project teams, developing project plan elements, risk management, monitoring and controlling projects, and financial analysis. Students apply skills learned to a representative project.EMEN 5040 Establishes the foundations to understand the urgency forQuality, Strategy, and Value quality improvement and excellence goals as an executiveCreation priority based on the teachings of W. Edwards Deming. Covers the systems approach, theory of variation, theory of

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

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

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sven Nielsen

the professional learning process by abalancing of teaching/experience, theory/practice, disciplinarily/interdisciplinary and bystrengthening the link between research, education and practice. This presentation draws onthe author’s experience since 1974 with the never ending development and implementation ofthe Aalborg experiment.Introduction: The Aalborg ExperimentAalborg University (AAU) was established in 1974 as an innovative experiment in highereducation with 900 students from four different schools, now with more than 13,000 students.The innovation was mainly to use the project-based educational approach to overcome someof the problems of the traditional course-based educational system. The curriculum inengineering as well as in the

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

facultymembers have sufficient qualifications to teach the courses and areas to which they are assigned. It isalso critically important that faculty members participate in professional development activities (i.e., life-long learning) in order to stay current in their fields as the self-study report requires detailed descriptionsof such activities for each faculty member. The department should have a professional developmentplan for faculty development, which should be available during the accreditation visit. As previouslymentioned, the faculty will be interviewed and if opportunities for professional development are lackingthat will probably come out in the interviews.Criterion 6Not every program can have new facilities and equipment, but every

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

serve to showcase evaluation challenges as engineering educationcontinues its drive for reform. Recommendations are offered for meeting these challenges andimproving evaluation capabilities in engineering education programs.BackgroundThe last decade in engineering education has seen considerable interest and work in the teachingand learning aspects of engineering education programs. Faculty across the country haveengaged in systematic investigations of programs, revised curricula, piloted and institutedalternative teaching strategies, and developed educational competencies for the technical andprofessional practice components of engineering education programs1,2,3.The focus on competencies has inevitably led to the need to develop and measure

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

@iastate.edu Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ® 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexploit” new knowledge. It has been pointed out that in the current engineering classroom, students areoften taught using abstract symbolic and mathematical formulas “without a context, without anopportunity to interact with the course material or apply it through practice” [1].Most engineering courses are designed to teach students real-world problem solving, but most oftoday’s undergraduates lack real world experience and find it difficult to construct the "mental models ofthe course materials” [1]. Hence one of the challenges facing educators is to

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

outcomes. Further, faculty teaching such courses willnaturally gather data relating to student performance on these course objectives.Therefore, it is logical to propose that this data be used independently of the classroomgrading for the purpose of program outcome assessment.Based on available literature, relatively few schools appear to be using student work in aformal way to assess program outcomes. This may be due to a variety of reasons,including legitimate questions that have been raised in the assessment literature regardingthe validity of using transcript data to assess program outcomes. However, by not usinggraded course work, it is possible that a large quantity of potentially valuable assessmentdata that is routinely gathered by faculty

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite– wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structuraland Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol 2 pp. 1459-1465.8. Carpenter, C.L. and Oloufa A. 1995. Postoccupancy Evaluation of Buildings and Development of FacilityPerformance Criteria. Journal of Architectural Engineering 1(2):77-81.9. Chapman C. and Ward S. 1997. Project Risk Management Processes, Techniques and Insights.Chichester, Wiley.10. Colaco, J.P. 2003. Uses of composite

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

agency, museum or school, or government agency), and a faculty orindustry advisor. A pool of graduate teaching assistants provides technical guidance and administrativeassistance. Each team is vertically integrated, consisting of a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors.Each team is constituted for several years, from initial project definition through final deployment. Eachstudent may earn academic credit for several semesters, registering for the course for one or two creditseach semester. The credit structure is designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significant scope and impact to be tackled by the teams. Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

in-depth by working directly with the SWE members on their projects, then having the opportunity to teach what they have learned to the younger girls. The SWE members become involved in reaching out to the next generation of potential engineers. When the SWE members become active in helping others learn about science and engineering, they are more likely to feel camaraderie with their peers, mentoring each other, and thus are less likely to feel isolated and drop out of engineering. Thus, by this tiered mentoring approach, we are recruiting the younger girls into potential engineering careers and working to retain the college level women in their engineering programs. Planning for this project was done using a Logic Model formulation

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

theavailability of support facilities, such as labs and shops. Past topics have included the design oftrebuchets, sumo cars, hill-climbing vehicles, and rope climbing devices. While few of thesetopics meet all of the desired criteria mentioned above, they are all easy and inexpensive toimplement, require minimal lab/shop support, and are relatively inexpensive in terms of studentcosts.During the fall semester of 2003, there were three sections of BE 1210 with a total enrollment of401 students. Limited faculty resources and a lack of teaching assistants resulted in a singlefaculty member teaching all three sections. This scenario has been the norm for this course formany years. In an effort to again improve the team design project experience for the

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

Technologywhere she teaches design, controls, graphics, and mechanical measurements. Her BS and MS are from theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

/Answers (1 point) • ORAL GRADE (12 points) Page 9.958.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education MINI DESIGN PROJECT 2 DESIGN OF A COMMERCIAL-SCALE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR A GOURMET-QUALITY FOOD DISH • BACKGROUND: Batch processes in batch reactors (such as pots & pans, ovens, etc.) are used for preparing most gourmet foods in a food laboratory (kitchen). The