Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

tradition ofaddressing this issue of entrepreneurship in our curriculum by the universities and colleges is thesenior capstone project. But the author thinks that the recent tendency of developing coursesaimed at teaching entrepreneurship must be accelerated throughout the United States andbeyond. The ultimate outcome will enable the engineering and technology graduates to work forsomeone or to start their own companies. This will benefit the society by reducing burden ofunemployment. Entrepreneurship in the engineering and technology curriculum is presented hereafter studying from different perspectives.Global Accreditation of Engineering and Technology ProgramIt is a familiar fact that we are not producing enough engineers and technologists from

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwell known that “doing science” results in basic understanding and long term retention, and yetthere has been a steady movement away from “hands-on” to lecture and ineffectivememorization.GoalsThere are four major goals for this model K-12 program. 1. To provide for these needs with a program that has the potential for being available in every public and private school in America. 2. To make a systemic change both in participation and in assumption of responsibility in teaching Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, (SMET). It is imperative to get local colleges

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

and statistics on occupations by gender. During theworkshops, teams discussed how to teach material that traditionally favors boys in a genderequitable manner, and assembled criteria for gender equitable methods. At the workshops, eachteam started to work on units to pilot in their respective 8th grade classes. Following theseworkshops, each of the four schools held several teacher training meetings (mini workshops)where the middle school teachers participated in the development and were trained in thedelivery of the pilots.Each of the four teams’ projects are outlined in the sections below.Northeastern University Project – The Great Orange Squeeze4Northeastern University’s project has students using basic science concepts and an 8

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Kenrow

in maintaining anIC fabrication laboratory.We propose using professional Technology CAD (TCAD) simulation tools [1] as a powerful, yeteconomical aid in teaching undergraduate students about silicon wafer processing,semiconductor device physics, and device operation.Who uses TCAD?TCAD simulation tools are widely used throughout the semiconductor industry to speed up andcut the costs of developing new technologies and devices. Since a decade the R&D departmentsof semiconductor companies have incorporated TCAD in their design process, and recently themanufacturing sector has begun to utilize TCAD as well, e.g., to analyze the impact of ICprocess variation, and to investigate possible IC process optimizations as well as for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

relating to quality control education were identified. The followingrecommendations are made considering this input: • Provide additional coverage of the most common applications in quality such as capability studies, statistical process control, and gage control. These areas should be practiced enough to become second nature so that students are ready to apply them as they begin their careers. • Supplement problem solving with hands on exercises that encompass the entire process. If a laboratory section is not included in the course, bring sample parts to Page 9.416.7

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Farid Tranjan; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley; Deborah Sharer

.Institutionalizing SFSIn the past two years, the College of Engineering and the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at UNC Charlotte have committed $66K in matching funds to the SFS program tosupport student salaries. Faculty have eagerly assumed teaching and mentoring responsibilitiesand provided opportunities for undergraduate research to ensure student success and facilitate aneasy transition to graduate school. The department has also provided support for internships inthe microelectronics clean room and in research laboratories, thus incorporating SFS into itsacademic infrastructure and annual budgeting process. The program is now part of the Collegeculture and this commitment will continue once external funding is no longer

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dae-Wook Kim

ornaments at a low cost. The teamsbrainstormed their production strategies, and the team spokesperson then communicatedthe plans to the larger group which incorporated public speaking. After listening to allthree presentations, Mr. Leonard then conveyed Dillon Works’ strategy for making thisproduct for an actual client. The PSCME staff concluded the field trip by linking themorning activities in the Material Science Laboratory with the process that Dillon Worksemployees undertake when experimenting with ways to manufacture innovative products.5. Pr ogr am AssessmentAll aspects of the workshop were evaluated by the students. At the end of each field trip,students were asked to complete an evaluation form. The questions inquired aboutdemographic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

communities) of many civilengineering projects and provide continuity for design projects that extend over multiple courses.Undergraduates go to the Garden City website to access projects and related data and designinformation. They are also able to store reports at the website, creating an electronic portfolio.Finally, the Garden City website provides a central location for course webpages, tutorials,modules etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project,particularly as it affects teaching design principles throughout the curriculum.INTRODUCTIONThe following text is the Project Summary of “Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum”,NSF grant # 9872505.1 It is included here to provide a brief summary of the Sooner

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

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

readily recognize and apply theirengineering background to solve unstructured problems, both locally and beyond US borders.We present an innovative and unique approach to curriculum reform that contains fouroverarching objectives: (1) the integration of fundamental concepts across the curriculum; (2)teaching students to synthesize different concepts to solve unstructured problems; (3) providingproblem solving methods and strategies within a societal framework that allows for theirapplication in a local as well as a global context; and (4) creating a portable developmentmethodology that can be readily adapted to other engineering disciplines. Our broad objective isto develop a technically sound undergraduate IE curriculum that will (a) be tightly

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”After four decades of an unbalanced emphasis on research at the nation’s schools of engineering, manyengineering faculty are expert for teaching research, but they are ill prepared and have little experiencefor teaching engineering practice at the graduate level. Yet, less than 5% of U.S. engineers are engaged inacademic scientific research, which represents a major “disconnect” between U.S. engineering educationand practice. Fred Gary, former corporate vice president of engineering at General Electric Company,pointed out several years ago that technology development is the primary function of engineers inindustry.10 Most engineers work on development and production-related tasks and in

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

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

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Wayne Unsell

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

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

testing.Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) enables manufacturers to directly utilize information generatedby designers to manufacture parts. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) ties all of these innovationstogether tracking mountains of data, enabling distributed multidisciplinary teams to share information inreal-time over the Internet. In 2002 Georgia Tech and PTC of Needham, MA founded the PLMCenter of Excellence at Georgia Tech to explore the concepts of fostering and teaching multidisciplinaryDistributed Collaborative Product Development (DCPD) in an academic curriculum. With several pilotprograms securely under our belts, we embarked upon a “Grand Experiment” involving students frommultiple schools and many disciplines collaborating virtually to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

Page 9.637.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationits current, more formal form, Engineering 4: Introduction to Engineering Design16. Designed asan introduction to conceptual design, and adopting a Clinic-style approach of student teamsworking for real, not-for-profit clients (e.g., schools, hospitals), the course has been successfullytaught since 1992 as both a prerequisite for Clinic itself and a motivator that attracts students tothe Engineering major. It has also served as a pedagogical laboratory, out of which has evolved astudio style of teaching the course, very much in the traditions of

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai

bemade in the design process. The procedure was completed by using the decision making processto rationally select the design which best satisfied the criteria.11.0 Program Availability The program utilized in this paper is available to Electrical Engineering Educators at nocost. Interested individuals may contact the lead author at arubaai@howard.edu.12.0 References 1 M. Polujadoff and R. D. Findlay, “A procedure for illustrating the effect of Variation of parameters on Optimal Transformer Design,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 202-206, November, 1986. 2 W. M. Grady, et. al., “A PC-base Computer Program for Teaching the Design and Analysis of Dry-Type

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

as a "do-and-say" exercisedeveloped to help students to overcome difficulties of absorbing the simple truss vs. frameconcepts. To an observer a bicycle frame is a spatial combination of triangular elements; to amechanics course student that immediately constitutes a truss. However, the experiment andtheoretical analyses help the student to realize that the working loadings in the bicycle violate thetruss assumptions. Using this experiment as an example, the authors follow to emphasize that theperceived need for reforms of the undergraduate education in mechanical engineering is notnecessary; rather the teaching tools and methods used should become more proactive and studentoriented.Statics and Solid Mechanics at Grand Valley State University

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

arelooking for the “work-ready engineer,” an employee who can “hit the ground running” and addto the productivity of the company early in their employment. Employers assume that newengineers know how to gather, evaluate and use the information they will need for their projects,whether or not they have access to a library within the company. Engineers are expected toorganize research information in laboratory notebooks or other formats and to communicateresearch and results in a meaningful and coherent manner. For engineering entrepreneurs, theinformation they will need to communicate is likely to include not only technical and productinformation, but information on business and marketing as well.Atkinson and Figueroa studied business students

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharnnia Artis; Bevlee Watford

, and values; (b) members ofthe community working together to accomplish tasks that require many talents, skills, andvalues; and (c) communities that feel a sense of place that can support and nurture the group’sactivities.HypatiaHypatia is essential to advancing the mission of CEED, which is to increase the number ofunder-represented students in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The mission ofHypatia is to bring together first-year women engineering students in a residential environmentdesigned to provide encouragement and support in pursuing engineering degrees. This isaccomplished by uniting participants’ academic and residential lives with special programmingthroughout the year to teach strategies and skills for academic success

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

at two- and four-yearcolleges and universities located within the mountain region of the U.S. As of the 2003-2004academic year, 40 of the 185 schools in the region were teaching at least one course intransportation; 36 of these were four-year institutions. A total of 32 of the 40 institutions wereoffering a degree in a transportation-related field. The combined results of three differentsurveys of transportation professionals, each performed by other researchers, along with inputfrom the author, identified a set of 15 essential topics to be covered in a comprehensivetransportation education program. None of the institutions in the study region were offeringcourses in all 15 areas, but four schools were covering over 50% of the essential

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

taught the art of verbal and written communication correctly. Yes, thereare courses that attempt to instill these techniques into the student, but are students really gettingthe point? In fact, are the teachers who are teaching technical communications to these studentsproviding adequate examples and demonstrating proper technique that specifically focuses on thestudent’s future job market? From personal experience, it seems that only the very top studentsseem to be adequately prepared in this area. What about the rest? These folks seem to be fallingbehind the learning curve. This situation may take some time for these students to recover from.In industry, time is money. Only those students who have been prepared properly will advancequickly in

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

because they recognize that they will be nobetter prepared the second time than they were initially. If the course is required for an ETdegree (as it is in most cases), it can effectively serve as a barrier to successful completion oftheir chosen program of study in the same way a moat encircles a castle. A teaching institutionwhich does not provide a reasonable transition to the material in its introductory courses risksalienating a sizeable portion of its potential enrollment. When students can’t climb the castlewalls, a drawbridge across the moat should be offered to provide the access they require.Struggling students will endure an additional setback. By the time many realize the gravity oftheir situation, the semester deadline for adding new

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

“learning takes place inside the learner and only inside the learner”. However,Simon also recognizes that “whether from books or people, at least 90% of what we have in ourheads . . . is acquired by social processes, including watching others, listening to them, andreading their writings”9. The RCS takes into account this socially distributed nature of learningby building an optimal environment for research learning to occur. The learners’ knowledgeconstruction process is aided by an environment of distributed cognition in which participants atall levels—experts, mentors, accomplished novices, and novices—teach and learn from eachother1. The RCS addresses both the learners’ cognitive development and the development ofcommunications abilities in a

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

hand toolsand found objects. Social factors in design for this project primarily relate to the decision of howsafe is safe enough, and disparities in drinking water standards among countries. Students design,season, and test their filters over the course of several weeks. Testing can be accomplishedthrough the use of standard laboratory methods if they are available and convenient, or throughthe use of fairly inexpensive synthetic agar substitute gels – where one places the water sampleand counts the number of colonies of coliform bacteria that develop. While the latter method isless precise, it should allow students to have some measure of the effectiveness of their filter, andto track its improvement over the seasoning period.A second, more

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationMechanical Engineering (ME) agreed to work together to pilot a joint capstoneexperience while the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering decided tomaintain their own approach. Separate ECE and ME course listings were maintainedwhile the administration and teaching responsibility of the courses was given to theDivision of Engineering Discovery and Design, the organizational unit that alsoadministers the common first two years in engineering at SUNY-Binghamton. For the new multi-disciplinary capstone course, projects were generated in thefollowing three ways: (a) in-house through the sponsorship of a SUNY-Binghamtonfaculty

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

(Criterion 3). This retreat workshop enabledeach program to develop or re-define their mission statement, to develop outcomes based coursesyllabi, and to map the outcomes to program educational objectives. This retreat led to an ABETEC 2000 mock visit sponsored by Raytheon Missile Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard andBoeing in January 2002 with team members representing both academia and industry. Theobjectives of the mock visit were to visit the laboratory facilities, conduct interviews with facultyand students, evaluate the first drafts of the individual self-study reports, and to offer candidcomments and recommendations to incorporate assessment and continuous qualityimprovements within the programs.Early Lessons LearnedThe results from the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Knight; Christine Cunningham

) Though the concepts are theoretical, the implications are concrete. The messagesstudents gather from years of socialization influence their attitudes about science andmath, their self-efficacy beliefs, their choice of coursework, and even their future careerplans. Girls begin to form negative attitudes about their abilities in science, especiallyphysical science, as early as second grade [12]. Sex role stereotypes have negativeimpacts for both men and women. Men who choose non traditional careers in nursing andelementary school teaching often are regarded with a critical eye. Similarly, women whocontinue onto careers in non-traditional fields such as science and engineering arenegatively stigmatized [13]. A student who is interested in

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students