Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

efforts to recruit and retain students,many engineering educators reinforce this belief by arguing that the undergraduateengineering curriculum provides credentialing that leads to higher paying jobs anddevelops enhanced cognitive skills that prepare the student to perform that job [2]. Whilethis viewpoint has merit, emphasizing salary may trivialize other, more significantbenefits of the higher education process. Behavioral scientists classify thought processes into cognitive and affective domains[2]. The cognitive domain includes higher order thought processes such as logic andreasoning and is the primary (and in many cases, the only) target of engineering curricula.The affective domain includes attitudes, values, and self-concept

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

Session 3461 A Handbook to Address ABET Criterion Four Issues Tim Healy Santa Clara UniversityIntroductionThe School of Engineering at Santa Clara University has developed an EngineeringHandbook to address a number of issues that have often not been treated in engineeringprograms. These include the eight issues specified by ABET under Criterion Four, aswell as three additional issues that are of particular interest to Santa Clara University. InABET’s words1:“Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminatingin a major design experience based

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Driscoll

become the students’ bestadvisor. The faculty are more intimately involved with the students than is generally the case in adepartmental structure. From these meetings all the faculty have a better understanding of theprogram and the integration of the students’ education. The faculty also has a betterunderstanding of all the courses a student takes and how each contributes to the whole program.Furthermore, the continuous dialogue at the meetings has made us realize that we are in factaccomplishing an ongoing assessment process, not only for student issues but also for the overallprogram.Recommendations and SummaryWe believe that implementation of multidiscipline engineering programs and curriculum reform,started in response to requests by

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

Session 1725 Assessing Individual Per for mance Within a Team Using Peer Evaluations J er r y M. Hatfield and J ohn T. Tester Nor ther n Ar izona Univer sityIntr oductionWorking in teams is an integral part of the engineering process, and team assignments andactivities have become widespread in engineering education. The challenges of assessing teamperformance and the contributions of individual team members increase rapidly as the numberand size of the teams increase. The process can be even more difficult when the teams containstudents

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey LaCombe; Eric Wang; Chris Rogers

presented or simply the desire torevise an existing laboratory course, many universities are attempting to modernizeundergraduate laboratory experiences. Coupled with diminishing budgets and increasedaccountability for expenditures, many universities are turning to on-line, virtual laboratories.Virtual laboratories are often cited as being cost effective and having high availability to thestudents. This method does not give students the hands-on experience, however. Our solution toaddress the issue of modernization bounded by economics is through using LEGO® bricks. Wepresent several examples in this paper of how the LEGO® RCX programmable brick can be usedto teach traditional engineering laboratory experiments.These popular interlocking bricks are

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

outcome-based capstone courses which isnot only satisfying the TC2k criteria and but also allowing the seamlessly integration ofcourse-level and program-level assessment. The course is intended to enable EETstudents to succeed as an entry-level technologist and/or engineer in industry, and toestablish an important feedback mechanism for overall program evaluation. A usefulframework for accomplishing educational performance excellence and an assessmentmanagement process for course and program outcomes assessments is also presented.This paper also presented the experience of one program and some the lessons learned forsatisfying ABET TC2K criteria requirements. It is our hope that this paper will provide auseful resource to professors in

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Burt; Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

relative to specific principles of major mechanical andelectrical systems.For example, to help visualize the cam in motion, like the one shown in Figure 3, computersimulation using Working Model 2D [5] was developed, as shown in Figure 5. Anothersimulation, as shown in Figure 6, was also developed for the 4-dwell cam as shown in Figure 2.Courseware on motors and sensors are also being developed. This type of learning modules isnecessary as kinematics is an elective course in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, and notall students have exposures of cams and linkages.DiscussionThis paper reports on the benefits to the capstone design courses as an outcome of the Gillette /North Carolina A&T State University partnership. Within the framework

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solt Michael; Malu Roldan; Burton Dean; Asbjorn Osland

Session 1754 Description and Assessment of a Business Plan Competition and New Venture Fair at San José State University By Malu Roldan, Ph.D., Asbjorn Osland, Ph.D., Michael Solt, D.B.A., & Burton V. Dean, Ph.D. College of Business, San Jose State University Abstract: After the first business plan competition, in May 2003, San José State University (SJSU) faculty and community entrepreneurs serving on the university’s Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship (SVCE) concluded that the process should be spread over an academic year. Hence, the New Venture Fair (NVF) was born, which was held Dec. 16, 2003. The feedback from all sources has been very

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

customized survey. Results of the survey for the Fall 2002offering will be presented later in comparison with results from an identical survey administeredduring the Fall 2003 offering. The evaluations were generally positive for the initial (2002)offering, especially with regard to learning how to work in project teams. But the instructor feltthat the conventional approach he followed during this initial offering allowed little opportunityfor the students to integrate their knowledge and apply it to a real-world project related to thestudents' majors. The revised course offering in Fall 2003 addressed this problem.Revised Offering, Fall 2003 Over the summer and fall of 2003, we used CCLI project funds to develop and buildhardware and

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Frenzel

colleges continue to teach the “history of electronics” andoften fail to include critical modern technology subjects that technicians need to know tobe successful in today’s electronics job market. Surveys of industry, colleges andtextbook publishers indicate that community colleges do a good job of teaching thefundamentals, but much of the curriculum is still based on technology and job skills thatare no longer relevant and valuable to employers. Furthermore, the subjects taught andthe contexts in which they are presented do not appear to be aligned with current industryneeds. The evidence that electronics curricula lags behind industry job skill needs andthe advancement of new technology is discussed in more detail in a recent publication 1and

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ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

. Technology is changing so rapidlythat children and teachers are unaware of university research and workforce needs. The need isgrowing exponentially and it will take an integrated effort of the entire community to meet the21st century needs. In California, and many other states, this challenge can only be met byincluding a much higher proportion of groups currently under represented in technology:specifically women and minorities.Hands-onHands-on activities are acknowledged by almost everyone as superior to lecture or reading.Figure 14 indicates how powerful hands-on experience is in retention of things learned. Doingscience however has many other even more powerful benefits. Discovery, where a completestep-by-step procedure is not provided, is one

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

tools. 2. The application of the project management tools using Excel was found to be easy. 3. The importance of the project management for design projects was understood. 4. The introduction of the topics was effective and timely. 5. The impact of the project management tools’ application on the design performance and time efficiency was recognized. 6. The instruction was effective.Overall, these results indicate that integration of project management tools using Excel issuccessful. In fact, one student stated that “Good time management will help me throughall my work, all through life so will the group skills that I learned.” This statement is sopowerful in that it captures the true intent of this curriculum

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Azemi

require programming, but mayrequire problem solving, should also justify the use of Matlab in engineering programmingcourses. Moreover, since Matlab is an integrated part of many advanced engineering courses andtextbooks, an early exposure to this software is beneficial.VII. Our proposed planBased on the presented discussion, and the fact that currently there are only limited resourcesavailable to teach Matlab as a general-purpose language [23]-[25], and there may be somedepartments that would like their students to be exposed to C++ or FORTRAN, we propose toteach the course, as a pilot project, by reversing the time spent on C++ and Matlab: namely

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

offer complete ASU bachelorsdegrees, featuring small classes, an integrated curriculum, and cost savings for students.A Chandler-Gilbert Community College is collocated on the campus. Page 9.398.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The Futon School of Engineering, with an undergraduate enrollment of 4700 students, islocated on the ASU Tempe Campus. The Fulton School offers traditional disciplinespecific engineering degrees in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civilengineering, chemical

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

andthen transfer to Marquette University to complete their bachelors degree. Since 1995, over 50engineering-related students have already successfully transferred from WCTC to MarquetteUniversity to complete their bachelors degrees in engineering.project objectives The project goal is to increase the number of underserved individuals who persist tocompletion of an engineering degree. Capitalizing on the existing relationship between WCTCand Marquette University, the following objectives were developed: 1. Establish Advisory Committees to advise and develop strategies and resources to assist with recruitment, support, and retention of underserved students for transfer engineering programs. 2. Integrate program curricula to optimize

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

solution of algebraic Riccati equationsThe electrical engineering faculty at the University of North Florida also desired to provide hands-on controls laboratory experience to the students. A one credit-hour controls laboratory course(EEL4657L) was added into the curriculum as an elective in fall 2000. The prerequisite for thecontrols laboratory course was the first controls course. The controls laboratory course covered theapplications of proportional, PD, PI, and PID controllers in position and speed control of dc motors.The theory of designing these controllers can be found in many controls textbooks [6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15].A controls laboratory was developed to support the controls laboratory course. There were eightstations of equipment in

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

inquiry-based teaching and learning in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.22, No.1, 3-18, 20032. Boyer, E. Scholarship revisited Priorities for the professoriate. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, University of Princeton, NJ.1990.3. Bullen, F., Beasley and Payothornsiri, S. Integration of student project work into academic research: An Australian/Thailand perspective. Proc.4th UICEE Conference, Thailand 227-231, 2001.4. Grotheim, K. and WELCH, B. J., “Aluminium Smelter Technology”, Second Edition, Aluminium-Verlag, Page 9.1122.10 Dusseldorf

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

participation. The research team structure is based ona business model of modular components. Students and professors are both an integral part ofthis modular structure, with students involved at various levels, including management. Eachcomponent is treated as an individual hierarchy with its own set of goals, yet responsible to theoverall management structure and research objectives. The challenges that are naturally inherentto using only undergraduate students for research are addressed in this paper via a description ofboth the team structure and multi-level student participation. Dissemination of results is a criticalportion of the research process, with requirements for external publication an integral part of theobjectives set for the team

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

Session 2468 Effective Teaching and Learning of the Conjugate Beam Method: Synthesized Guiding Rules Ing-Chang Jong University of ArkansasAbstractThere are different established methods in Mechanics of Materials for determining deflections ofbeams. No matter which established method is used, one rightfully expects an identical solutionto be obtained for the same problem. Well, not so fast! One will here see a puzzling scenariowhere a certain problem is amenable to solution only by the conjugate beam method, but not byany of the

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

courses withexposure to content in areas such as mechanics, electrical phenomena and programminglogic. In addition the course contributes significantly to the development of timemanagement, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills. Page 9.1025.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationIntr oductionTeaching and learning may be enriched by integrating new technologies in theengineering curriculum, particularly in laboratory-based courses. Traditional pedagogicalapproaches of teaching theory before

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

integrated schedule,program assessment, and an in-depth look at the key components – presentation ofteaching pedagogy, veteran classes, new faculty practice classes, class assessments forboth veteran and new faculty, and administrative classes that help smooth new facultytransition into the department. We will also highlight a one-week course for thoseschools that are not able to devote time to train their own faculty. We will assess the CME faculty training program’s effectiveness both through thecomments of those new instructors who have participated in the program as well ascomparison of their student ratings to other instructors at the USMA. Through thisassessment, we will show whether the faculty training program is an effective use

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

for the tool donations, their MTF colleagues for supportand advice and the Intel engineers who formerly used the Anelva.Bibliography 1. John Robertson, Lakshmi Munukutla and Richard Newman, “Delivery of a common microelectronics technology curriculum at several degree levels”. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002. 2. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is fully described in an extensive web site at http://public.itrs.net.Biographical informationJohn Robertson is a professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Technology at ASU’s Eastcampus in Mesa, Arizona. From 1994 to 2001

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

(EDRC), sponsors severalproject-based engineering design courses which are open not only to Carnegie Mellon’sEngineering School, but to the entire university community. The topics addressed includeIntegrated Product Design, Rapid Prototyping, and Design of Wearable Computers (1).The Engineering Design Projects Course, which is now in its fifth year, is unique in that teamsof students, usually from many parts of the campus community, work on design projectssponsored by industries (both local and national), non-profits, or organizations within theuniversity. The intent is to give the participating students a hands-on, integrative,multidisciplinary experience in the important field of engineering design—an opportunity for thestudents to practice

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Beltz; Marie Dahleh

include Statics, Dynamics, and Strength of Materialsin the Summer since they are pivotal courses in our curriculum. Our study targets the Staticscourse and addresses whether the concentration of material into a six-week session affectsstudents’ ability to achieve the desired learning outcomes. We have constructed an assessmentprogram that consists of student focus groups, student surveys, an analysis of the performanceand retention of students subsequent to taking Statics, and a standardized quiz administered tostudents approximately two years after taking the course. In this contribution, we discuss theassessment instruments in detail and our evaluation results to date. We have analyzed data fromthree ten-week offerings of Statics and three six

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

Session #: 3249 GIS and Undergraduate Engineering Recruitment, An Exploratory Study at DeVry University, Pomona. Alan Price DeVry University, Pomona, CA.AbstractEnrollment in undergraduate engineering programs in the United States (U.S.) has declined overthe past two decades. Studies have shown that the number of bachelor’s graduates inengineering has declined since 1985, while the number of ABET accredited engineeringprograms has increased by approximately one-third during the same time period. This suggestsgreater competition among new and old

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

-design-implement-operate] initiative has been well received byundergraduates, who have thoughtful suggestions for improvements. Some feeling of imbalancebetween fundamentals and other skills. Offerings in CAD/CAM, machining, fabrication desired."The intent of this course is to respond to this perceived gap, while exploiting synergies withother engineering departments that have articulated similar needs. We have developed an intense6-credit-unit IAP (independent activities period)1 course that takes students through theconception, design, and implementation of a single, complex structural component. This activitysupports the learning objectives of the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) initiative[1,2,3] and leverages the latest technologies

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

departmental unitto assemble the expertise necessary to offer an integrated curriculum, interdepartmentalcooperation in the development of fuel cell related courses and curricula is beneficial. At ASU,the introductory fuel cell course is taught by a team of three faculty made up of an electricalengineer, an electrochemist, and a mechanical engineer.10 Each faculty member teaches thematerial appropriate to their background. The goal of this course is to provide technically maturestudents with broad based understanding of fuel cell physics and technology at an introductorylevel.The philosophy of the ASU programs is based on the recognition that fuel cell technology will bedeveloped by teams of experts, and that few individuals will attain a depth of

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

Pacific CrestABSTRACTDevelopment of a complex set of life-long learning skills in the cognitive, social, and affectivedomains is an important goal of engineering education. This is complicated by the reality thatlearning skill development transcends the temporal and spatial boundaries of isolated courses(SCANS 1991). This work responds to the need for a shared language to promote and reinforcelearning skill development between courses and across the curriculum. The research questionthat motivated this work is whether greater specificity in learning skill definition than thatprescribed by ABET Criteria 3 and 4 can be a useful tool for daily teaching/learning. This paperoutlines the philosophy, organization, and application of a classification of

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

. 2 (2003): pages 292-93.10. Splitt, Frank G. "The Industrial Needs of the Engineer in the 21st Century: An Update", ASEE New England Section 71st ASEE Annual Fall Conference. Boston, MA: Northeastern University, 1993.11. Al-Holou, Nizar, Nihat M. Bilgutay, Carlos Corleto, John T. Demel, Richard Felder, Karen Frair, Jeffrey Froyd, Mark Hoit, Jim Morgan, and David L. Wells. "First-Year Integrated Curricula Across Engineering Education Coalitions" Proceedings of the Frontiers of Education 28th Annual Conference. Session 1240, Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1998.12. Cortese, Anthony. "Engineering Education for a Sustainable Future." Engineering Education

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

aidedmanufacturing. However, students in MFGE 4376 were not able to see an immediate practicalneed for the course. Therefore, we decided to use robot systems (robot manipulator and its Page 9.1166.1sensor and actuator based accessories) to teach controls theory. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationOur Approach – The EquipmentThe key approach of this paper was to use multi-degree, robot manipulators as a vehicle fordemonstrating the practical aspects of automatic control theory. Robots were chosen for avariety of