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Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

plans and exposes both engineering and businessstudents to the challenge faced by many actual companies. The objective of this paperis aimed to give an overview of the project which intends to design a cross disciplinecurriculum to enhance the knowledge innovation capability of our student under theimpact of knowledge economics. The design of this new curriculum is based on thereview of the educational goal of Yuan Ze University and the characteristics of thestudents we like to cultivate are as belowゑゴ1サcreative problem solvingゴ2サability to practice engineeringゴ3サapply advanced technologyゴ4サfunction multidisciplinary teamsゴ5サcommunicate effectivelyゴ6サunderstand global impact and societal contextゴ7サentrepreneurship This new curriculum

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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

Society for Engineering Education Figure 2. A cadet is shown giving a presentation about handheld computingHTML and XML-Based ToolsHTML (hypertext markup language) and XML (extensible markup language) pages can beformatted so that they can be saved and read on personal digital assistants.There are numerous ways this capability can be used to support teaching. For example,instructors at West Point have formatted all of the following into HTML and/or XML pages to beread on PDAs: • Instructor and student contact information • Course syllabus and guidelines • Course schedules • Reading assignments • Projects and other course assignments • Supplemental reading assignments

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Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Julia Williams

Session 2213 Incorporating Peer Review in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory David C. Miller, Department of Chemical Engineering Julia M. Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Unit Operations laboratory represents an important site for the development oftechnical and non-technical skills in chemical engineering students. Coming in the finalyear of students’ course work, the projects of UO lab give students the opportunity tocombine experimental experiences with team work and communication, a combinationthat chemical engineering educators would agree is

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

design, and produce the content in a mannerconsistent with television production at a relatively a low cost.The total budget for the project was fifteen thousand dollars and was assigned to a groupof six people. The project manager had a background in instructional design and videoproduction. While the instructors that worked with us were experts in their field, manydid not have formal instructional design experience. The project manager assisted theinstructors to create an instructional map that served as a basis for the television stylescript that was used during the production phase of the project. Three members of theteam were assigned to video compositing. Their primary responsibility was to usecompositing tools such as Adobe After Effects

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

extensively engage in more informal communication using e-mail and memos.Most routine communication takes the form of team-written memos, with e-mail reserved forvery urgent or very casual messages. Students also must prepare an informal oral presentation,two formal oral presentations, a “trade-show” presentation open to the entire campus and thegeneral public, and a single poster presentation of the project. All of these senior teamcommunication requirements involve performance-based skills, primarily speaking and writing.As of the 2002-2003 academic year, however, an additional individual writing project has beenassigned. This assignment is a private communication between the team leader and the SeniorDesign project adviser, in which the team

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

can provide virtual circuits through theInternet.In another linking through the Internet, the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) linksradios through Voice over IP (VoIP) on the internet connecting worldwide repeatersnormally limited to local communication [6] [7]. With IRLP, a small VHF or UHF hand-held HT (Handi-Talki) can be used to communicate worldwide.APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) uses 2 meter band transmitters connectedto a GPS receiver to send packets containing GPS coordinates. Mapping software on aPC connected to an APRS receiver displays the position of APRS transmitters. APRSuses a subset of the AX.25 protocol.The “Fuzzy Modes” use a FAX technology to paint characters on the PC screen ratherthan encode/decode

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Brakewood

development, timeliness and health and safety 6. The field journal concept at thisparticular construction site was also conceived to be able to address some of these items.The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina hasrecently introduced an introductory course in land development issues for engineers. In order togive the students exposure to many of the aspects of a land development project ‘system’, andalso to increase comprehension for the time related items in construction, it was decided that thestudents follow a nearby project with a field journal instead of the more traditional approach of Page

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

thisway, teachers gain a deeper understanding of embedded system design. They also have manynew practical skills that can be put to use in the upper elementary and middle school classroomsimmediately. This project involves the active participation of thirty elementary/middle schoolteachers (ten each year), from both rural and urban areas in Kansas, and provides participantswith the tools and knowledge necessary to feel confident as resources for students and otherteachers.The next section provides some background information. Then, Section 3 describes the researchexperience through on-campus activities completed last summer and on-going activities inprogress during the current academic year. Finally, the paper concludes in Section 4 with asummary

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

program which promotesthe development and commercialization of products and processes throughindustry/university research partnerships. Through MIPS, University faculty andgraduate students conduct research projects for Maryland companies. The feature thatdistinguishes this program from other research programs is that MIPS proposals areevaluated not only on technical merit, but most importantly on potential for economicbenefit. Maryland companies with MIPS projects gain access to the creative talents and Page 9.1249.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe; Tim Mulroy

more difficult to define. The concept of quality is a highly contested within HE3resulting in a variety of views as to what features a high quality placement might have. Fromthe educational viewpoint, the key quality indicator might be evidence that studentsundertaking placement perform better than their peers who did not, and most engineeringeducators would probably accept this as being the case. In the UK, the government fundedPROFILE project has sought evidence for better academic performance from students whohave undertaken an internship, and conclude4, ‘It has long been realized that students returning from work experience out perform students who haven’t been in the workplace in terms of performance in their final

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Session 1426 A Microfluidics Laboratory Teaching Module A. J. Aranyosi *,+, Aleem Siddiqui*, Hür Köser#, Dennis M. Freeman *,+ *Massachusetts Institute of Technology / #Yale University / +Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a teaching module to engage undergraduate engineering students in anintroductory research project. Pairs of students proposed and carried out self-designed projectsto study diffusion in microfluidic

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

here.GoalThe principal goal of this project is to increase awareness of and interest in engineering among alarge, diverse population of middle-school and high-school students. In bringing engineering toa broad audience, we seek to overcome students’ common misperception that engineering is anendeavor for the “technically elite.”We suggest that this goal can be achieved by creating an authentic, engaging engineering designexperience; by offering the experience as a competition that will capture and hold students’attention; and by ensuring that the design experience is readily achievable by any student in thetarget population, while still presenting a challenge to those who are already technologicallyinclined.The Influence of Other Engineering

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Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rezak

1970s had no reason to anticipate a change inthe 7% annual growth rate for electricity demand, it was ordering new capacity to meet theexpected demand. Utilities were projecting that the lead time between ordering and commercialoperation of a nuclear power plant was eight years. These two parameters led utilities to orderand plan for construction of approximately 200 new nuclear power plants by the year 2000. Circumstances changed radically in 1973. The decision by the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC) to decrease oil production and raise prices, coupled with the Araboil embargo on the United States, drastically affected the price and utilization rate of energyworldwide, and, hence, impacted the world economy. Specifically

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominic Halsmer

submit exhibits to a personal “website” via the internet along with demographicinformation which allows for aggregation and disaggregation of data for program improvement.Faculty members develop rubrics for evaluation of exhibits and assessment of student work.Since students have access to their e-Portfolio accounts for a minimum of eight years, it isplanned to gather additional data from graduates on an ongoing basis. Portfolio exhibits includesupporting documents, evaluations and recommendations, evidence of competencies, writtensamples, projects, evidence of creativity and performance, and evidence of extracurricularactivities. Hardcopy items may be entered by using a scanner. Specific choices for engineeringexhibits are shown in Table 1

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

TIMSS-R). Toaddress this issue and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, NationalScience Foundation (NSF) has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universitiesnationwide. One of these projects is Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP)currently being conducted at the University of Cincinnati. Project STEP involves nine graduateand eight undergraduate fellows, twenty-two secondary science and mathematics teachers, andten UC professors (from the College of Engineering and College of Education). Every fellow isplaced in a secondary school to work with one or more teachers. The main responsibility of afellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are technology-driven and inquiry-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

year. While this shows that civil engineering involves measuring the surfaceof the earth and determining boundaries, little more about the nature of civil engineeringis determined. Finally, the students that have stuck it out hit the wealth of courses inCivil Engineering during junior year. However, each course is normally taught as aseparate entity, usually relating very little to other courses being offered at the same time.It finally takes until senior year that the students have enough knowledge to be able tosynthesize that civil engineering is a whole, with all the pieces working together to makea successful project. Indeed, that is one of the purposes of the senior design/capstonecourse. Other academic programs have 1000 level

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

Session 2406 A VIRTUAL TOUR OF A REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Mohammed E. Haque, Ph.D., P.E., Mur tuza Aluminiumwalla Texas A&M Univer sity, Texas, USAAbstr actVisits to construction sites are ideally complementing our classroom instruction for constructionengineering and management students. However, various complicating issues, such asunavailability of construction projects during the academic semesters and impracticality due toconstruction site risk for a large group of students make it impossible to rely on site visits.Considerable pedagogical advantages can be

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

because it is felt that students should concentrateon understanding the fluid flow characteristics and not spend time learning how to create andmesh the models. Students are required to enter input parameters such as viscous model, fluidproperties, and boundary conditions. The system’s velocity and pressure characteristics are thenanalyzed using vector, contour, and x-y plots. Feedback from students has indicated that thefluid visualization post processing tools (i.e., vector and contour output plots) gets theminterested in the project and motivates them to do a thorough analysis of how changes inReynolds number affects the fluid characteristics of the system. Furthermore, it is felt that anearly introduction to CFD may inspire some students to

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Stockman; Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

provided a good learning experience for the faculty involved. Lessonswere learned about different aspects of the program, including: the curriculum selection,marketing, delivery methods and outreach to the target students. Results of the first yearwere reported in proceedings of the CITC 32 and ASEE 20031. Changes were made tothe program in its second year of implementation and this paper presents those changesand discusses the results.Introduction: Review of Changes in SAITThe original 2002 session of the Summer Academy for Information Technology (SAIT)was held over a two week period. Three focus areas from Information Technology werechosen for curriculum tracks and a master project was devised that would combine thesub-projects from each of the

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

Projects FilmCompany in New York City, Incident at Morales is a 36-minute dramatic case study cast in aninternational setting which emphasizes the ethical responsibilities of engineers and the resultingbenefit to the public.BackgroundIncident at Morales is the result of efforts of an 8-member team, serving as executive producers,plus several assistants and advisors, and a producer and writer. The executive producersconsisted of engineers, engineering faculty, philosophy faculty, and practicing professionalsfrom industry.Executive Producers 1. Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASEE, Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University, Project Director 2. Steven P. Nichols, Ph.D. J.D., P.E., M.ASEE, Mechanical Engineering & Assoc. VP/Research

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Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Janis Terpenny

, leave the income taxintricacies to finance/accounting people. The purpose of this paper is to reinforce the necessityof after-tax economy studies in practice. An example is presented that illustrates four methodsfor taking income taxes into account. Two of the methods produce the correct rank ordering ofprojects while the remaining two do not. We recommend that an income tax specialist beconsulted in practice when the projects under consideration are complicated with respect to theirtax ramifications.1. IntroductionWhen deciding among mutually exclusive alternatives, managers as fiducial agents for acompany’s owners are principally concerned with the after-tax profitability (present worth,annual worth, internal rate of return) of a capital

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Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

, effective engineering innovations begin with strong engineering leadership forimprovement with the creative recognition of meaningful unsolved needs as the driving force, which thenmust be solved creatively and responsibly through application of the purposeful systematic engineeringmethod and approach which is integrative with directed applied research when the need for researcharises during the directed creative technology development project.4.4 The Changing Concept of Scholarship for Changing TimesFrom these perspectives, the panel believes that it is time to redefine scholarship in a broader context especially that of professional scholarship, teaching, and engagement for the advancement of engineeringpractice to meet real-world human needs

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Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Classr oom Par ticipation System (CPS) The Classroom Participation System (CPS) is an interactive, computer-basedinstructional tool that allows the presenter to poll the audience on important topics during a livepresentation or lecture. Each attendee is issued a handheld responder that looks like a televisionremote-control device. The presenter can pose a multiple-choice question to the group duringthe talk, and each audience member in return presses a button corresponding to their answer tothe question. Using a classroom computer or laptop hooked up to a projector, the CPS registersall the responses to the question, calculates class data, and then projects it onto the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) increases theeffectiveness of undergraduate engineering education in preparing engineers for careers in theglobal technical economy. The unique 18 month program developed at Purdue in partnershipwith Karlsruhe and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities integrates: language education; culturalorientation; three month domestic and three month international internships at the same partnerfirm; study abroad; and a two semester face-to-face-, multinational design team project, with onesemester abroad and one at home. The program is bilateral, with nominally equal numbers ofstudents from each university participating in the paired exchanges. Curriculum articulation is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

tohelp motivate children to develop interest in STEM courses. Too many graduates go out into theworkforce ill prepared to solve real-world problems in a cooperative way, lacking the skills andthe motivation to continue learning (NSF, 1996). Therefore, the first goal of this project is todevelop course material to show the relevance of STEM education in solving real-worldengineering and technological problems. The teaching of domain-specific knowledge has long been recognized to be the primaryobjective of school and college education, but many students lack the breadth of knowledge andskills that are fundamental to the practice of their profession (Aldridge, 1994; Leidner andJarvenpaa, 1993; Fergusson, 1992). There is now a growing

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Harvey

LCI. The LCI, developed byChristine Johnston and Gary Dainton of Let Me Learn™ and the Rowan University Center forthe Advancement of Learning, is a survey that asks students to respond to statements aboutpreferred ways of learning and expressing their learning (for example, they are asked whetherthey would rather write a paper or build a project, or whether they want explicit instructionsbefore doing an assignment or would like to figure it on their own). Respondents also givewritten answers to three open-ended questions about what promotes or obstructs their learning.Responses to the LCI statements, using a Likert scale ranging from Always to Never Ever, yieldscores for each pattern in the ranges of Avoid, Use as Needed, and Use First.8,9

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

developed through oneof the projects of the Center for Information Technology and Community Development(CITCD) at the College of Applied Science.7 It was first created to supplement theoperation of the walk-in learning center after realizing that more students are utilizing thewireless network of the university and are doing their projects and homework away fromthe department labs. The idea behind this application was to provide a tool for students tofind assistance and help even if they are doing their work outside department labs.The walk-in learning center (Programming Learning Center or PLC)8 is staffed by juniorand senior students and is available to assist students in their programming projectsand/or homework. However, students have to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

was back to attempting to find a fit for myself at H-D®. After relaying thisinformation to my initial contact at Harley®, he told me that he might have a project for me thatwould fit very well and gave me the names of a couple of managers to contact when I got toMilwaukee.The Successful InterviewI left Blacksburg, Virginia on July 27th, 2003 to ride my 1999 Harley-Davidson Electra GlideClassic® on a 4,000-mile journey. Initially, I rode to Milwaukee to meet with the folks atHarley-Davidson®, then out to Sturgis, South Dakota for the biggest bike rally in the U.S., thento Boulder, Colorado to see the hands-on learning facilities at the University of Colorado. Thendown to Taos, New Mexico to house sit for a couple of weeks. Finally I started

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

the classparticipated in the design process, experiencing the iterative nature of the process andlearning basics of software evaluation and web programming.The course was first offered in the spring of 2003 with an enrollment of five and again inthe spring of 2004 with six participants. Both the in service teachers who participated inthe design process and the high school students who tested the resulting simulationsreported positive experiences.Why is it so hard to explain engineering to people who are not engineers?This project is based on the idea that high school students could be best informed aboutengineering indirectly; using the high school teachers with whom they were already incontact. We sought to make the participating teachers