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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

describe a datawarehouse, developed from the registration web pages at Union College, which allows facultyand students to get on-line access to course enrollment trends, classroom availability, studentclass schedules, and other pertinent information. The results of this project were so successful inthe type of information that could be obtained that the administration became concerned aboutstudent privacy issues.IntroductionTraditional database systems, such as those used by bank tellers, librarians, and airlinereservation assistants, are often characterized as online transaction processing (OLTP) systems.They are required to process frequent queries, usually in real-time, that request information aboutthe current status of specific objects and

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

; ExpositionCopyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering”that others do not see and to stress self-fulfillment. The general theme is to create a joband not take a job. Much of our academic learning is based on a system of complianceand heavy structure. Thus, there is very little room for creative thinking andentrepreneurial development in this kind of structured learning environment. It is ourassumption that students can be encouraged to think creatively and entrepreneurially in across-discipline, problem-based learning environment. Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are involved in a research project todevelop an on-line course that will use principles of the Entrepreneurs in Action!research project as its theoretical

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

materials, manufacturing processes, and shapes for approximately 3000 engineeringmaterials. The program is very powerful, and is potentially useful for students in mechanicalengineering. Page 9.1350.2 1 The objective of this paper will be to describe the use of the CES-4 software in a juniorlevel materials and manufacturing course. During the course, students’ practice using thesoftware through several homework assignments and team projects. These will be discussed.Pr ocedur e: The Company, Granta Design, Ltd., has an educational arrangement

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

. Data-setdevelopment for these exercises is also discussed. MATLAB and the Image ProcessingToolbox are utilized to allow students to focus on higher-level understanding ofcommonly available image processing tools. The use of advanced tools allows students toattempt and finish meaningful examples. This paper focuses on exercises that serve as auseful complement to robotics curriculum and student robotics projects.1. IntroductionThis paper describes a single semester computer vision course tailored to fourth yearundergraduate students with strong engineering backgrounds and moderate computerprogramming skills. The students referred to in this paper are in the Weapons andSystems Engineering department at the United States Naval Academy. They have

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

) Instruments Design & Project Nuclear System Design Measurements Shielding Nuclear Weapons Military Experience Fig. 1. Learning Model for the NE Major at USMAprincipal topics of study. Courses in general engineering, science, and atomic and

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Session 3120 Virtual Laboratory for Machine Tool Technicians – Concept, Development and Examples Xueshu Song1, Radha Balamuralikrishna1 & Philip Pilcher2 Northern Illinois University/Rockford Abilities CenterOverviewThis paper is an outcome of an NSF sponsored project designed to pave the way for an Internetbased learning tool for training machine tool operators and technicians (Song et. al., 2000). Theobjective in using this novel approach is to accelerate and improve the process of learning anddevelopment of skills in machine tool technology. We present concepts using

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

from multiple engineering disciplines.Many universities utilize a design project approach when introducing undergraduate students tothe use of engineering science in a creative manner. [1,2,3,4] These design project courses aretypically “team-oriented;” that is, two or more students are required to work together to form asingle design solution to a problem. In such team-oriented design courses, there is a need for anorganizational mechanism whereby the students can report the level of participation of theindividual team members. The NAU Design4Practice [5,6] curriculum uses peer evaluations as ameans by which the students can self-report team participation, one of several methods used insimilar engineering courses. [7]The Design4Practice

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Kulkarni; Chung Leung

approximation coefficients (from application of the low-pass filter) ofthe transform. The multi-resolution theory is ‘per se’ defined only for one-dimensional signals.Since still images are two-dimensional discrete signals, our current research is restricted toseparable filters. The successive convolution of filter and signal in both dimensions opens to twopotential iterations: standard and non-standard decomposition. Since we are dealing with non-standard decomposition strategies, it iterates only the purely low-pass filtered approximationswhile leaving the mixed terms unchanged.Bi-orthogonal FiltersWith orthogonal filters, the wavelet transform can be viewed as projecting the input signal onto aset of orthogonal basis function. However, the standard

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

Page 9.40.2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering 270: Applications of CAD and RP for Biomedical EngineeringThe enormous potential of being able to scan existing objects, including complex organicfeatures, modify them or create new designs using CAD technology, and “print” a functional partis self-evident to anyone who has seen the equipment in operation. We have found that RP holdsextraordinary fascination to students and industrial visitors of all backgrounds, capturing theimagination and providing a strong attraction into the fields of science, engineering andtechnology. Rapid Prototyping provides an attractive environment for multi-disciplinaryactivities and projects, crossing

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TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Walter

Session 2148 – Building Bridges with Community Colleges Building Bridges to Engineering Careers for Underserved Students Ray J. Walter Waukesha County Technical Collegeabstract A project with Waukesha County Technical College, Marquette University, and other partners,funded by a Congressional Award, increases the number of underserved individuals completing adegree to enter rewarding engineering careers. This model program removes barriers throughcollaborative linkages with secondary and post-secondary institutions, businesses, andcommunity, minority, and professional organizations to recruit

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”relating to structural as well as foundation systems, applied computer methods, andawareness of integrated applications of the project are included in the curriculum. In fact,the current curriculum is so robust and relevant that SDCET currently has a 100% jobplacement for all graduates for the last seven years. Graduates can look forward toserving in various positions of leadership and responsibility dealing with structural designand construction of building, bridges, or other similar public or commercial private sectorprojects. Graduates may also see opportunities working for government agenciesincluding construction of state or

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

features are common to all design but some are specific to foundationengineering practice. The discipline-specific features are associated with the sitecharacterization requirements of foundation engineering.Preparing the studentsThe specific discussion of ethics was not done up front. Instead, the topic was introduced as itnaturally occurred in the design process. The setting for the instruction was largely role playing.The students were told at the first class meeting that they have been hired out of college into ourgeotechnical design firm. They were new project engineers and I was their supervisoryprofessional engineer. The students have had a soil mechanics course as a prerequisite and wereenrolled in a concrete design course during this

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

University. Bothconventional and alternative energy resources are covered in the course. Design aspects ofenergy conversion devices such as gas turbines and photovoltaic cells and contemporary topicssuch as distributed power generation, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), and environmentalimpacts caused by energy generation and consumption are introduced in the course. The paperprovides the contents of the course in details: textbooks, reference materials, course topics, webresources, computational tools, exams, and group projects. The results of the course outcomeassessment based on student surveys are also provided.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

their appearance is frequently a focus of attention.”12 In addition, the report found that fewerwomen and girls than men and boys were represented in all forms of media except teenmagazines. The report concluded that “the combined effect of these studies provides allconcerned about America’s girls with a clear agenda: give girls an unequivocal message that theyare valued for who they are, what they do, and who they want to become.” This project seeks todo just that.RationaleThe Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of MarylandBaltimore County (UMBC) applied to and received funding through the National ScienceFoundation (HRD 0404813) to develop a video that would use the power of media to give youngpeople

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

pitfalls related to their particular projects. Additionally,advanced ethics topics are explored in two upper-level technical electives, examining key issuesof environment and sustainability and considering critically the role of engineering in globaldevelopment.The theme of celebrating multiple perspectives unifies this work. Not only are studentsencouraged to develop the skills of approaching ethical problems from many differentviewpoints and engaging in respectful dialogue with peers who hold different positions, but alsothis difference of perspective is modeled throughout the curriculum as students experience ethicsthrough varying pedagogies, teaching styles, and learning activities. Assessment of student progress includes evaluating student

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

, and each involves a design challenge thatrequires creativity and teamwork. 1This project involves faculty and students at the University of Virginia (from both theCurry School of Education and the School of Engineering and Applied Science), teachersand students in local middle schools, and administrators and parents. So far over 150middle school students have used these materials. Thirty-seven fourth-year MechanicalEngineering students participated in this project last year as part of a new senior designsequence; this year thirty-five new undergraduate students are involved. Eight middleschool teachers have used these ETKs in classes so far, and, in August 2003, seventeenmiddle school teachers came to a workshop at UVA to evaluate our

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

semester of2004.Introduction The CWRU-Valparaiso teaching/research partnership is designed to experiment with a newmodel for involving undergraduate students in Civil Engineering research. The fundamentalconcept is to have faculty from CWRU and PUIs team-teach special topic research courses takenfor academic credit at PUIs during the academic year. The goal of improving research exposurefor PUI students was recently identified at an NSF workshop. Team-taught courses offered atPUIs that focus on the topics of ongoing NSF research projects at “research universities” appearto be excellent opportunities for accomplishing this. Furthermore, students of these courses willbe given the opportunity to continue on into more advanced summer research

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

EducationCurricular materials adhere to and follow recent trends in engineering education and incorporatesproject-based learning 6, 9, 18, cooperative learning 6, 8, 14 and technology-enabled learning 13,14.Aspects of the curriculum have been taken and or modified from the EPICS program at ColoradoSchool of Mines, Foundation Coalition, and the SUCCEED Coalition, (see, for example 1, 2, 4, 6-8,14, 16 ).Course sections are limited to 25 students that are subsequently divided into five 5-memberteams. All sections are taught in a common classroom that is equipped with tables and chairs(each team has a dedicated table), overhead LCD projection, and wireless notebook PCs. Thereis also a sixth table that is used as a common work space. The course is 2 credit

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

conversation regarding what kinds of research should be fundedwith federal and state tax dollars. The NRC report was an attempt to encourage that conversationthrough an initial discussion of scientific research which is seen to provide the most valuableevidence. Hence, having one’s work seen as “scientific” opens doors to funding sources that arenot available for “non-scientific” work. Funding, of course, is critical to the tenure and promotion process. Faculty members inSTEM disciplines who want to make education research their primary research program must beable to get funding for their projects. Furthermore, funding from federal sources, such as theNational Science Foundation, may carry more prestige than funding from small

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Paper 2004-51 The Recognition of and Increasing Value of Professional Engineering Skills Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractStudies by EAC/ABET have identified skill gaps engineers and engineering technologistslack upon graduation. Some of the skills identified were project management, teamwork,engineering economics, organizational behavior, decision-making, andcommunications12. Hundreds of ASEE conference attendees, in 2003, listened to keynotespeaker, Shirley Jackson, discuss the increased importance of “soft skill” education forengineers today. Dr

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bales

session.The final third of the subject is devoted to a project that requires students to design, build, test, 1and debug a circuit for use by others. We work with MIT's Service Learning Initiative to selectthe projects. For example, one term the project was to create a solid-state timer for inexpensivetoy pianos used by autistic children at a school in the Boston area.The autistic students are allowed, at times, to play with the toy pianos for a-20-minute-longperiod. This raises two problems for their teachers. First, a teacher has to remember when achild's time with a piano is over. Second, a teacher then has to get the child to relinquish the toy(often the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ward

Page 9.281.2week-long project component. Other camps that are similar to Camp GEMS include the Science Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 3592Technology & Engineering Preview (STEPS) program at the University of Wisconsin – Stout9which is supported by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and is replicated at other locationsin Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota and the Girls Researching Our World (GROW) programat Kansas State University10. Again, these programs emphasize hands-on

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

majors material, lab, & knowledge synthesis projects OR Figure 2: The five-lectures of core content are applied to three main audiences: the public, college freshman and college seniors/graduate students. The synthesis course content reinforces and builds upon material introduced to the students as freshman. While graduate students have more stringent requirements, the core content themes are consistent. Presentations to the general public can consist of either the first freshman lecture or a one- hour overview version of all five freshman blocks. See Section 3.1 for block content details.2.1 Creation of a Nanotechnology MinorThe

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

detailed, including plant development,improvement and modernization of its systems, and data acquisition and control systems(DACS) programming. Individual student research projects that contributed to thecontinued evolution of the facility are described, and the usefulness of maintaining such afacility as a training tool in dealing with legacy systems is discussed. Through fivedistinct iterations of programming environments and hardware exchanges, some integralcomponents have remained untouched through years of refinement, due to their robustinitial design and continued reliable service. Recognition of system limitations andcapabilities is essential to successful upgrade of systems such as these. Theimplementation of a user-friendly interface for

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Nicholson

continue to survive and remaina vibrant and significant portion of the economy, providing jobs as well as necessaryservices. Historically the construction industry has selected the least expensive initial Page 9.773.1cost alternative to get a project built. Designs have traditionally been undertaken tominimize the initial investment required of developers or owners. With a growingawareness of the negative environmental impacts of the design and constructionindustries, these industries have begun to re-orient themselves onto paths where fewerraw materials are being used and the selection and specification of materials to be usedhas begun to take into

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

projects. The full model and the lessons learned will be described.IntroductionEvaluation of engineering education programs and products is critical to ensure quality andenhance the dissemination of these materials. The National Science Foundation has taken aleadership role in ensuring adequate program evaluation by making it an integral element of Page 9.67.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”proposals and by publishing several evaluation guides.1,2 Education program and productevaluation is a

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Sheardown; Donald Woods

criteria and pertinent, agreed-upon forms of evidence.Principle 5: Assessment should be based on multidimensional evidence: static anddynamic situations; small assignments and lengthy projects; academic, social andpersonal contexts; under a variety of performance conditions (exams and homework,written and oral, performance as an individual and as a member of a group), formativeand summative data and with different persons being the assessors (self, peer, teacherand trained external observers).To remove ambiguity from the assessment, the following six issues in practice should beaddressed.[2-4, 6]1. Goals: What is being assessed? Knowledge in chemical engineering? Skills? Attitudes?Have the goals been expressed unambiguously in observable terms

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wiesner; Karen Miu

for a rudimentary search and focuses on a small number of well-established sites open to the public, which include tutorial materials and provideinformation, data, and links to other resources.The initial idea of the NSF-funded project was to develop a guide that would includetutorials materials on power and energy. But it soon became obvious the Internetprovides access to useful information, including tutorials. It became clear that the realtask is to develop a reference tool that would quickly bring users to resources fromtrusted sources. This tool, the Pathfinder on Power and energy, was to be more than apage with links. It would organize and vet a set of annotated links with input fromexperts in the power and energy field.To develop the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mauro

Session - 1420 A Robot-Based Computer Engineering Module for Manhattan College’s Intro to Engineering Course Robert Mauro Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, New York 10471IntroductionDuring the past two years the School of Engineering at Manhattan College introduced a newformat for its Freshman Introduction to Engineering course. Instead of centering around a singlesemester-long engineering design project, the course was modified to include

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

fragmented market and rapid hardware obso-lescence. Freely available open-content materials that enable and promote both local customizationand further development by a community of educators offers a fresh approach to lab text develop-ment that can surmount these barriers. In this paper, we overview a joint effort organized by theConnexions Project to develop a large pool of DSP lab modules sufficient to serve as the complete,stand-alone text for several types of DSP lab courses.1 IntroductionDigital signal processing (DSP) laboratory courses are difficult to serve with conventional commer-cial textbooks. First, the market is relatively small, thus precluding a major investment by authorsand publishers in the hope of a substantial commercial