Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Adams; Faramarz Mossayebi

capturing a signal and playing it back. The hardwaresetup consists of a personal computer connected to a Texas Instrument’s DSP Starter Kit(DSK), namely the TMS320C6711 DSK [1], in addition to speakers and a microphone.Texas Instrument provides an integrated software development package, named CodeComposer Studio, for this hardware platform to write, debug, and download the code,normally written in assembly (or C). The students are not required to develop the codebut rather become familiarized with this hardware/software platform, which is used in thenext three follow-up experiments.Spectrum Analysis experiment At the beginning of this lab period a brief lecture is given to impress upon thestudents the importance of sinusoidal signals in DSP

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

access. However, it is also possible to make lectures accessible to the generalpublic by serving it through the standard web port (Port 80).Theory of Operation The development of the LIVE system is predicated on one underlying assumption dealingwith capabilities that were currently available in all classrooms at Texas A&M University,College Station. Each classroom has been previously mediated with an instructor podium thatprovides a touch screen display connected to a computer with its video output routable to anLCD projector which can select from multiple inputs and project this information to a screen atthe front of the classroom. The LIVE development team was able to make use of the some ofthese resources so that an integrated

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

Document: 2004-2305 Software Engineering Emphasis for Engineering Computing Courses: An Open Letter to Engineering Educators William Hankley Department of Computing & Information Sciences Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 hankley@cis.ksu.eduAbstractSoftware is an important component for engineering development for all engineering fields, notjust for computing sciences. This paper addresses what might be included in a service course forengineering majors on the topic of software development

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per G. Reinhall; Paula R.L. Heron; Lesley Low; Brian C. Fabien

this issue and assist in a seamless transition forthe students going from physics into engineering.MethodologyThe tutorials developed for use in the instruction of freshman physics by the PEG wereused as a model for the engineering tutorials. The main goal of the physics tutorials is toincrease student understanding of the concepts of introductory physics. The developmentof the physics tutorials takes place in an iterative cycle of research, curriculumdevelopment and curriculum implementation as described below.Research on student learning of specific topics indicates the areas of student difficultythat the curriculum must address. This research includes the systematic analysis ofstudent responses to questions administered after lecture

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

Page 9.340.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”degrees awarded (695) during 2000-20013. The strategic plan of the College of Engineering wasapproved by its faculty on October 13, 1998, and subsequently revised on September 25, 2003.The vision and mission statements, which are an integral part of the strategic plan, are well inconsonance and they subscribe to preparing “best professionals in engineering” and “strongeducation in engineering.” This commitment to excellence is reflected in our college’sphilosophy “to provide a firm educational

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

-media software and hardware tools,development and integration of 2- and 3-dimensional visualization tools to the undergraduatefluid curriculum becomes necessary. This paper discusses the development of a Virtual RealityModeling Language (VRML) application to be used in an undergraduate fluid mechanics courseat Lamar University. Simple fluid flow problems such as fully developed flow in a pipe aresolved by an application written in Java programming language. The solutions obtained aredisplayed in a VRML application that also provides user interaction. Users can change certainparameters of each problem within a given range, and the VRML application provides thesolution of the problem with new parameters.NomenclatureH

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”create a greater awareness of communication, provide readership in the engineering area, and obtainfeedback that will be valuable to the writer. It is with these ideas in mind that graduate students inmechanical engineering were chosen to provide the means by which to accomplish the above tasks.RationaleGraduate students in MSU's Department of Mechanical Engineering have for many years beenevaluating the technical content of reports in a variety of courses. Using their own expertise theyread text, make appropriate comments on technical content, and suggest ways to improve thecontent material. The act of critiquing and correcting as a process is an integral part of the system. Itbecame

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

, 1998, pp. 70-76.39. Bommer, M, C. Gratto, J. Gravander and M. Tuttle, “A Behavioral Model of Ethical and Unethical Decision Making, Journal of Business Ethics, May 1987, pp. 265-139.40. Steneck, NH. 1999. “Developing Teaching Assessment Tools for an Integrated Ethics Curriculum,” Proceed- ings, Frontiers in Education 1999, November 10-14, 1999.41. Miner, M. and A. Petocz, “Moral Theory in Ethical Decision Making: Problems, Clarifications and Recommen- dations from a Psychological Perspective,” Journal of Business Ethics, 42, pp. 11-25, 2003.42. Shuman, LJ, ME Besterfield-Sacre, H. Wolfe, CJ Atman, J McGourty, RL Miller, BM Olds and GM Rogers “Matching Assessment Methods To Outcomes: Definitions And Research Questions,” American

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

results complementdocumentation from the American Institute of Steel Construction including comments fromstudents participating in the steel bridge competition.I. IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) believes that the practice of civil engineering is broad and diverse, including numerous disciplines. As a result, the breadth of the professionalComponent of civil engineering education is necessarily broad. This precept is recognized bythe ASCE Committee on Curriculum and Accreditation and has been adhered to in thedevelopment of the criteria for accreditation.In this regard, numerous students and practitioners believe that being involved with theAmerican Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) steel bridge and/or ASCE concrete

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Yi Min Huang; Larry McKenzie; Michael Trevisan

competencies for the first 2 years of undergraduateengineering education and an assessment system to evaluate student attainment of competencies asentering juniors. Several institutions across the country have piloted or adapted the assessmentsystem for programmatic feedback. Some programs are using the assessment system as a means tosupport ABET accreditation expectations.As engineering programs in the United States work to integrate ABET expectations, particularlythose focused on engineering design, more information is needed to properly support faculty in thisendeavor. To increase understanding of assessment in the context of design capstone courses, a two-phase descriptive study of assessment practices in capstone design courses was conducted. The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcomprised of “competencies” (skills) and “attitudes” (perspectives) about each quality.Engineering educators focus on helping students attain these qualities through the processof creating a product or process in which students learn by “establishing objectives andcriteria, generating alternatives, synthesizing, analyzing, constructing, testing andevaluating.” Although there are efforts to integrate design throughout the curriculum [2],most programs typically rely upon a senior level capstone design experience. A review ofthe literature in

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.

work well. However, for the most part the course did not have a significantdesign component, although there were some design and simulation laboratory problems. Also,using the course as Caltech did as an introductory undergraduate Electrical Engineeringlaboratory would not be well suited to an Electrical Engineering Technology program likeSPSU’s, since every course but two in our curriculum already had an accompanying laboratorycomponent and the subject matter would be too challenging for the average sophomore andjunior.The textbook is very good and the instructions for the laboratory problems are thorough.Occasionally students have trouble understanding the procedures, but a little clarification by theinstructor is all that is needed. It

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

the technological level of theirbusinesses to offset the loss of low skill level manufacturing work to foreign competition. As themanufacturing environment evolves, the level of education of the workforce will increase. To pre-pare for this change in the Grand Rapids area a new initiative was begun to increase the number ofstudents pursuing manufacturing education.The Articulation and Integration of Manufacturing Education (AIME) project [2] is focused onincreasing the number of students pursuing manufacturing education by streamlining the educa-tional process. The first goal of the project is to expand the number of high school graduateschoosing manufacturing careers. This begins in the middle schools when students are starting toform

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

deployment.Despite repeated attempts to recover the spacecraft by the cadet-faculty operations team,the mission was declared a loss after only one month [3].Although it was considered a technical failure, FS-1 represented an academic success forthe program because cadets participated from “cradle to grave” in a real-world missionwith an all too real-world outcome. Cadets designed and built FS-1’s payload andsubsystems, which were integral in the mission operations from devising operations plansto participating in the launch campaign. Cadets also manned the Academy’s groundstation during overhead passes of a satellite not operating under normal conditions.Cadets involved with trouble-shooting the anomalies soon after deployment certainlygained deep insight

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”I. Introduction Undergraduate research should be an important part of our Engineering Technology (ET)curriculum because it better prepares our students for the graduate school. This additionalexperience also helps our majors in their career regardless of the job type because they learn towork independently as undergraduate researchers. However, it has been our observation that ETstudents are far less motivated to do research and report writing than those in other fields such asBiology, Chemistry and Physics. This is more apparent at Middle Tennessee State University(MTSU) since we have a large number

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

spend time interacting with customers to establish their trueexpectations. The problem is that, in the “real world,” an engineer working in PD needs to besubstantially involved in the process of identifying product requirements. In addition, withoutdirect interaction with the customers, it is not possible to have a clear understanding of what theywant. This, in turn, usually leads to the selection of a product concept that either fails to satisfysome key customer expectations or sub-optimally trades-off one attribute against another. To overcome the problems stated above, it is important to emphasize in PD courses aformal process to identify customer needs. Furthermore, students must apply what they learn sothat they can really acquire

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shaundra Bryant; David Cavallo; Arnan Sipitakiat; Anindita Basu

our star student and truly showed brilliance in his work[Papert, 2000]. His means of working was to take an idea and try to apply it in every means he could conceive. Hewanted to understand things deeply and thoroughly. He would work for weeks on ideas and projects. It is easy to seehow such a student could fall through the cracks in a school environment where one can only work on tasks for shortperiods of time, where a curriculum is pre-determined, where subject matter is divided into the disciplines, andwhere the projects are not one’s own. Page 9.965.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

credibility and support, as evidenced bythe fact that it is fully institutionalized within the College of Engineering. The latter isparticularly important as 2001-02 was the last year of NSF SUCCEED funding.MAPS offers peer mentoring, Supplemental Instruction (SI) for gateway courses, tutoring, studygroups, skill development workshops, professional development activities, and a technical andprofessional development resource library. MAPS is also intricately integrated with academicadvising, the freshman engineering curriculum, and the junior/senior professional developmentcourses. Continuous improvement is driven by assessment results including, but not limited to,demographics, academic performance, percent of students earning a D or an F or

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 1 Example fatigue lifetime graphFor most students, graphing the fatigue data was the hardest task of all the engineeringexploration activities. However, this also illustrated an important point about the variability ofdata. Some students seemed surprised that we did not get the same results on every test. Thispoint was also made when we analyzed the Charpy impact test results described in anothersection.DesignDesign is an integral component of engineering. Students in cooperative groups were asked todesign a structure with 3 packages of drinking straws and one roll of masking

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

to today’s basic undergraduate civilengineering programs, the outcomes prescribe significantly more technical and professionalpractice content. The 21st Century civil engineer must demonstrate:1. an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. (ABET a) Commentary: A technical core of knowledge and breadth of coverage in mathematics, science and civil engineering topics is stressed in this outcome. Underlying the professional role of the civil engineer as the master integrator and technical leader are most of the following: mathematics through differential equations, probability and statistics, calculus-based physics, biology, chemistry, ecology

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leirad Carrasco; Charles Turner

. D.candidate in the Environmental Science and Engineering program provide two perspectives onthe challenges and outcomes of this effort. This paper is of interest to faculty members involvedin the integration of sustainable design concepts into the curriculum. The contest provided acooperative learning experience for both students and faculty, and consequently, madesignificant contributions to the student’s engineering education.BackgroundUTEP initiated green engineering and science efforts in 1997. UTEP joined forces with VirginiaTech (VT) to submit a proposal to a large energy corporation for the development of a studentand faculty exchange that would initiate a greening program in the Colleges of Engineering andScience at UTEP. UTEP would build on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George DeSain; Farid Tranjan; Ken Burbank

two universities are already linked through grant activity in the Carolinas MicroOptics Triangle. The new program will have an emphasis on optical communications andphotonics. Graduates are expected to be the process and test engineers for the photonicsindustry.Intr oduction:The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC-Charlotte) has a strong Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) Department, with close ties to the Department of Physics andOptical Sciences. Western Carolina University (WCU) has a Department of EngineeringTechnology with programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) andTelecommunications Engineering Technology. To reflect the addition of the new engineeringprogram, the Department will now become

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

activities student post-assessment with a written assessment form after the final opportunity to meet alumni alumni post-assessmentThis project will be refined and continued in Spring 2004. Additional alumni assessmentthrough a questionnaire is being collected now to get further input and to determine if a post-course mentoring relationship has been established. The author’s personal assessment is that thisproject, although time-consuming for the professor, was enjoyable and rewarding for allconcerned.References1. Dyrud, M.A., " Communication and Civil Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Senior Projects," American Society for Engineering Education 2002 Conference Proceedings, CD ROM, 7 pp. Available online at

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

supply will be anominal 12 Volts from either a typical automotive battery or a 12 Volt battery pack. The circuitmust be as efficient as possible to extend battery life. In addition, the circuit should indicatewhen battery voltage is low and shut itself down if the voltage drops below a certain level. Thecircuit must be integrated into the Kinkajou Projector and not add more than 10% to theproduction cost. Prototype cost should not exceed $50.Each design challenge was taken on by nine teams of three students each. The DtM staff playedan active role as members of the teaching team. They visited an initial meeting of the ECEDesign course to describe the underlying problems in Mali, discuss the work done to date on theKinkajou Portable Library and

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emilia Hodge; Chang-Yu Wu; Anne Donnelly

in St. Louis, Environmental Engineering Science Program, St. Louis, MO 63130/4University of Florida, Office of Academic Technology, Gainesville, FL 32611AbstractA comprehensive evaluation program was developed as part of an NSF Course Curriculum, andLaboratory Improvement grant to develop three undergraduate computer simulation modules.Aerosol science and technology is generally taught at the graduate level and the goal of thisprogram was to develop materials that would bring this subject to the undergraduate level. Toachieve this goal, an evaluation plan was developed that included formative and summative, andcognitive and affective measures. This was a collaboration between content and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

number of engineering students that enter internships in community or international service. As a result of the newly established agreements with sponsoring organizations such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, Engineers Without Borders, the Namlo Foundation, Golden Independent School, and the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil, we anticipate an increase in students participating in these endeavors. Furthermore, we plan to establish additional agreements with similar agencies during the course of the project.2. Program Implementation2.1. Curriculum Development and EnhancementsSenior Design/Service MissionsSenior design is a linchpin of the program, through which some students engage in designprojects

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

using actual machineddimensions.One difficulty in this type of experience is the students’ inability to account for interactionsbetween stress risers. This could be resolved somewhat by allowing students to use an FEAprogram to verify their predictions. One difficulty with this approach is giving students a falsesense of their ability to use FEA software. In addition, the extra workload introduced for studentsto learn a new software program was deemed unnecessary.A definite advantage of this project is its relationship to other courses in the curriculum. Studentsuse their CAD/CAM skills acquired in their freshman CAD/CAM course and are exposed totensile testing which is more fully covered in their Materials Science Course. In addition,students

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Gill; William Haering

recognizing the integration of outstanding active andcollaborative learning and innovation. She is a member of AAHE and holds a B.S. in Communication and an M.S.in Communication Instructional Systems Design from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Page 9.1164.11 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Elahinia

most of the students have had no experience with shape memory alloys before. Another contributing factor is the way that the experiment was conducted; the students had to design their own lab procedures. Also the communication of the results in the form of reports and presentations played a major role in making the lab more attractive and a better learning experience.References[1] Moini, Hossein, “Active Materials & Microcontroller Applications in Design ofIntelligent Systems,” 1998 Annual Conference (Seattle: ASEE, June1998).[2] Penrod, Luke, Talley, Diana, Froyd, Jeff, Caso, Rita, Lagoudas, Dimitris, andKohutek, Terry, “Integrating smart materials into a first-year engineering curriculum: Acase study

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

or curriculum, in a continuous feedback andreevaluation procedure. At first, it was thought and developed having in mind an electricalengineering course, but it can be used in other engineering courses or even adapted to otherundergraduate and graduate courses. It can be used to evaluate aspects such as: How doteachers understand their courses? Which are their beliefs about several aspects of theteaching/learning process? How are students developing the desired creative abilities, whichare very important for the modern engineer? And also: Which is the degree of satisfaction ofstudents and teachers involved in a considered course?Educational assessment, a critical aspect in the teaching/learning environment, has beenstudied by several