Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andre Sayles

, Encourage Creativity At All Levels. 5. Assessment At Individual and Organizational Levels. Plan For Improvement. Table 2. Example LDPM ImplementationBenefits of the LDPM will be revealed in many ways. A common understanding of howdiversity works opens the door to conversations that otherwise would never take place. Thiscommon understanding also promotes creativity and innovation from individuals who werepreviously uncomfortable discussing diversity. Finally, organizational members begin to valuedifferences and voluntarily support organizational diversity efforts.AssessmentSince the LDPM is a new concept, a formal assessment process is yet to be developed. On thesurface, it appears that both

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"management. The College of Engineering at NC State is experimenting with the integration ofservice-learning especially at the freshman and senior year. The remainder of this paper willpresent our experience with a two-year service-learning project in a senior design ChemicalEngineering course.Description of Service-learning Projects in CHE Capstone Design CourseSpring 2002 In planning for the Spring 2002 offering of senior design, both instructors (Bullard andPeretti) had recently completed an on-campus Service-learning Faculty Associate trainingprogram and were

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

important aspectof this second phase has been the handoff of the project from one team of students to thenext. Information transfer has been smooth, and continuity has been maintained. Theexperiences of the students in working through this phase of the project are described.IntroductionThe Microturbine Demonstration Project is a collaboration among the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering, the City of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy.The City of Milwaukee was planning the renovation of a city-owned building into a smalloffice complex. City engineers hoped to incorporate cutting-edge energy technology intothe building redesign. Their choice was installation of a 60-kW microturbinemanufactured by Capstone Turbine Corporation, along

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

launched, there must be a ground station for the operationof the satellite while in flight. While planning the launch of FS-1, the Department ofDefense Space Test Program needed a ground station in the United States for a micro-satellite named PICOSAT. PICOSAT was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd(SSTL) in Guildford, UK and was partially funded through the DoD ForeignComparative Testing Program. This ground station was located in the USAFA SpaceSystems Research Center (SSRC). The ground station for FS-1 was collocated with thePICOSAT Ground Station and has developed into the present system. A floor plan of thepresent FalconSAT Ground Station is illustrated in Figure 6. The PICOSAT section ofthe Ground Station is an automated system and

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim White; James White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

course include orbital fundamentals, rocket fundamentals, andan introduction to space mission planning/operations. In addition to outside lecturers from thespace operations community, teaching aids used in the course include the following: 1. Large and hand-held orbital elements models, (“whiz wheels”) to illustrate orbital fundamentals; 2. Computer-based demonstrations such as STK to illustrate orbital characteristics; 3. Full-size examples and models of past and present satellites and rockets and their subsystems; 4. A demonstrational micro-satellite that has fully functional compartmentalized subsystems.The micro-satellite is particularly helpful in illustrating the physical concepts, components

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Page 9.931.1number of learning objectives including developing team and computer skills, creative problem Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationsolving, and effective project planning that are addressed through a team-based conceptualdesign experience. The content and delivery method of ENGR 1201 are quite similar to otherschools where the initial course in engineering is common to all majors2,3,4. The class is amixture of lectures that give “engineering survival skills” (computer, library, professional)combined with a semester-long team project that requires planning, conceptual design, and

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil

severalyears. In early 2001, the College of Engineering & Computer Science (CECS) formed acommittee to come up with a plan to address the math-related retention issues at WSU. Thecommittee proposed the idea of developing an engineering course which would teach thestudents only the math they really needed to know in order to progress into their sophomore andjunior years. The committee surveyed the various departments to determine exactly whatmathematics material was critical for their core engineering courses, and developed a pilotprogram to test the feasibility of the concept. The proposed content of EGR 101 consists of the mathematical prerequisites for thefollowing core engineering courses: PHY 240-244 (General Physics I, II and III), ME

Conference Session

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

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

Education Session 3260has Spring vacations from February 20 to April 5. Our plan was to let the UGA classes tocontinue as normal and to record these lectures during these "time gaps" for later use by the KUstudents when they get back in class, then in May we would teach directly to the KU studentsonly, as the UGA students had finished their term.All assignments and tests from the Athens students will be handled in the traditional manner.The same assignments will be distributed to KU students using e-mail and collected from themthe same way. However these e-assignments will be corrected using a Tablet PC system whereasthe instructor can manually mark up

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Grommes

and a tribal collegehave been formed to address issues that challenge their respective communities. The objectiveof this exchange is two fold: 1) educate engineering students on concepts of sustainability andthe practices and tradition of native cultures and 2) to partner with individuals in the communityon the deployment of energy efficient and sustainable technologies. These objectives bothpromote lifecycle thinking with respect to the investment in better efficient facilities. This paperpresents early lessons learned in the partnership through team work, leadership, problem solving,project planning and delivery combined with global awareness, cultural sensitivity, andversatility through this cross-disciplined, cross- cultural exchange of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

specific skills to teach. Any instructor teaching a junior-level course in a crowded curriculum is bound to ask, “Is it worthwhile for me to sacrifice classtime from teaching biomedical engineering in order to help students improve their writing? Isthis trade-off a good one?” Careful planning is necessary therefore to ensure that the writingassignment will indeed support key course goals and not just be a superfluous assignment thatstudents will perceive as busy work. In BMD ENG 301, both team-based writing assignmentsfocus on topics that students need to explore: • How information is coded in the nervous system • The recovery of neural function through biological or artificial meansThe first assignment especially, because of its

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

the Boomer – Xer dichotomy although the author doesnot employ Generations Theory nomenclature. An example is the discussion of the divergentvalue systems of the Boomers that represent the school system senior planning and financial staffcompared to that of the Xers who represent the majority of classroom teachers and principals.This clash of generations represents an important practical challenge in order for knowledgetransfer to occur.References1 H. Petrowski, The Evolution of Useful Things, 1992, ISBN 0-679-74039-2. This book extends the exploration of engineering and offers insights into the creative processes of invention and design.2 R. Williams, Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change, 2002. The author, a History of

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

strategy and the general plan of work10,37,and they possibly need to undergo some form of organisational socialisation34. The best, andoften only, people able to provide this training and socialisation are the existing developers,who are in the process diverted from their primary tasks.The net result is that more time is lost in bringing the new developers up to speed and inadditional coordination efforts than is gained in productive time.Brooks’ law has an intuitive appeal and has been generally supported in theliterature7,15,17,41,45. Writing recently, Brooks acknowledged that his law was a grossgeneralisation and yet, in the absence of anything more conclusive, it remained the “bestzeroth-order approximation to the truth, a rule of thumb to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

operations such asplug-in/dynamic-linkage, debugging, memory handling, and object creation/destruction routines.Our plan is to make the system available under several platforms from the WEB to handhelds.For each of these platforms a common 2D/3D graphical user interface (GUI) will be developedwith few variations in the implementation depending on the system.Functionalities implementation: the Laplace equation solution algorithmThe purpose of this section is to illustrate the algorithm applied in the simulator to solve theLaplace equation for a given region of space using the FEM method. The development of theprogram basically involves four basic steps:1. STEP I: Generate the mesh 1.1. Sketch the desired domain and enter the electric and geometric

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

, rubber couplings. The plan was to use the gasoline engine-dynamometer system in other courses. Since the engine has been sitting unused too long it wasunsafe to start the engine without properly servicing it. Therefore, the author decided to servicethe engine as a laboratory exercise for the EDTE 341 course. Allowing students to work on a realengine was also a big step forward upgrading the level of the course for MET and TechnologyEducation students. The enrolment in the EDTE 341 course was five students, therefore the classwas divided into two groups. Initially one group worked on the single piston transparent alcoholengine and the other group worked on a 4-hp Briggs&Stratton gasoline engine. After the groupsfinished disassembly, checking

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

the author during the fall semester of 1997. The departmentof Technology has two engine-dynamometer systems in the Power and TransportationLaboratory. They were purchased in 1984 and came with the new, 50 000 square-ft Arts andTechnologies building. The gasoline engine-dynamometer system was used once in 1985 to testSUN2 Interrogator 1805-9 Engine Diagnostics unit. The diesel engine-dynamometer system, todate, was never used. The gasoline engine is a 1984 Pontiac 6000, 2.5 liter, throttle bodyinjected, 4-cylinder engine. The diesel engine is a 1984 Volkswagen 4-cylinder engine. Bothengines have the same model dynamometers. The engines are directly connected to thedynamometers by flexible-insert, rubber couplings. The plan was to use the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mancine; Scott Harper; Ryan Scott; Hassan Rajaei

API should result in shorteneddevelopment times for experienced C++ programmers. The extensible architecture of theSimPlus object hierarchy additionally allows for highly customized behaviors to be used inspecialized simulations.We aim to further improve the tool and there are number of improvement candidates. The eventlist could be improved adding a Calendar Queue. The simulation engine can be modified tosupport distributed and parallel simulation. For the latter, we have recently implemented a Page 9.1098.14parallel version of SimPlus whose description will be published soon. Finally, we plan to use thetool by other students to assess its

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

in the mechanical engineeringdiscipline. The School uses a graduate attribute mapping process to link learning outcomes Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwith Engineering Australia graduate attributes and matrices for KNE353 is provided in Table2 and the matrix for KNE453 is provided in Table 3.In KNE353 all three research outcomes are subsumed into a case study (aluminiumproduction). This focuses on product flow and process planning of aluminium manufacturing,which reinforces graduate attributes “h” and “j”. The students do not use the direct researchoutcomes as specific case studies as

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stani Vlasseva; Valentin Razmov

its costs and benefits. We find that feedback that is grounded, unbiased, timely,frequent, and easy to assess tends to work better for students and educators, so we evaluate eachcovered technique against a set of such desirable qualities.This type of information can be especially useful for educators planning new courses, as they tryto produce low-cost, high-quality feedback that students will listen to and can understand, and asthey need corresponding feedback mechanisms that support a variety of learning styles and areeasy to use.1. IntroductionProviding feedback to students is considered beneficial for their learning, and instructors spendmuch of their time doing that. What instructors often do not know is whether and to what

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

global economyreplacement part for the P55NE transistor by Morocco. My students found that amusing, but I pointedout to them that the average person doesn’t realize how global the electronics business is.As an example of international standards and their effect on our ways of doing business, I showed thestudents a short report4 from Business Week Magazine that indicated the European Union plans torequire lead-free solder in all electronic equipment by 2006. The students immediately realized that ifEurope did that, then we would have to do the same if we wanted to sell any products there. I thenshowed them web pages for AEP, Cinergy, and AES, which operate electric utilities in Indiana. To thestudents surprise, all three “local” utilities

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Covington; Jeff Froyd

support.Once the project got underway, senior administrators played an active role in planning activitiesassociated with the project and participating in a number of events. For instance, Dr. Watson(now the Associate Provost and Dean of Faculties) along with Dr. Newton (now the Dean ofScience) and John Niedzwecki (the Executive Associate Dean of Engineering) attended projectteam meetings, suggested potential candidates to invite to the TAMU campus as guest speakersand organized and participated in meetings with guest speakers. Their valuable participation sent Page 9.297.3a strong message to faculty and students that the goals of this project

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

refined skills as students move through a sequence of laboratorycourses.Student self-evaluations and instructor evaluations have been developed from the core teachingobjectives and have been implemented during the 2002-2004 academic years. This collaborationand the resulting assessment tools have enhanced existing outcome assessment methods that arecontributing to ABET accredited degree programs at Rice University.One key benefit of this effort has been the increased communication among the instructors forthe existing laboratory courses. Cooperation among laboratory instructors has led to thedevelopment of a plan for continuous adaptation and change, aimed at coordinating laboratorycourses in the science and engineering departments. Efforts to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe list of recipients is maintained on the ERM website [13]. Perhaps unlike the PhD, the AFGrecipients have been recognized for significant contributions to engineering education and maybe farther along in reaching their employment objectives. As such, this population may bedescribed as “medium-risk” and it is likely that the study results will illustrate mixed success inobtaining tenure or a professional academic position.Group 3 – National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Recipients. This grant is awarded totenure-track faculty to establish an academic research based and as such facilitate a successfultenure process. A critical aspect of each grant is a plan for integrating research and

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

Page 9.34.11globally applicable.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the future, we plan to perform a comprehensive study of hands-onapproaches/experiences to include documenting, categorizing, dissecting, and analyzingthe different approaches. This work may be based exclusively on a literature review or itmay also include empirical work. During this extensive literature review, we would hopeto extract principles and guidelines of successful hands-on approaches and artifacts. Also,we hope to be able to generalize this design methodology to include concept generation ofhands-on activities across Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Renato Pacheco; Renato Carlson; Lucia Helena Martins-Pacheco

Session 1532 Engineering Education Assessment System Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Renato Lucas Pacheco, Renato Carlson, Lúcia Helena Martins-Pacheco Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIntroductionThis paper presents a new methodology for the study, plan and formative assessment of ateaching/learning environment. Formative assessment is that frequently informal assessment,aimed at improving some process, and usually beginning before the process has beencompleted1.The methodology involves course and student accompaniment, aiming to improve theteaching/learning process of a course

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

process itself, which never forget is (or should be) a creative endeavor (Santamarina2002). For example, 1) the client approaches the engineer with a need; 2) the engineering firminvestigates the project parameters and potential solutions, often through a design team orcharette approach; 3) the engineering firm presents its plan to the client; and 4) after numerousiterations, the final design is formalized. Countless variations of this simplified process exist, Page 9.883.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jammie Hoskin; Brad Wambeke; Ronald Welch

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

. In addition to the quantitative physiologycourse, it has been used in a microfabrication course and an introductory chemical engineeringcourse, both at MIT. The lab module is planned to be used this spring in a bioMEMS fabricationcourse at Yale, a course in molecular and cellular sciences in the Harvard-MIT Division ofHealth Sciences and Technology, and courses in bio-instrumentation, chemical transport, andsilicon biology at MIT.Design ObjectivesIn creating the lab module we first established several design objectives to guide development, todirect design choices, and to use as criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the lab. Theseobjectives are listed below.Reinforce Lecture Material. The lab should allow students to get hands-on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Caswell; Clifton Johnston

of the design trinity in order to build a convincing story or argument around thedevelopment of their design. The introduction of the design trinity is structured to allow thestudents to focus on one component at a time, while maintaining the importance of theirinterdependence, before allowing them to apply these concepts concurrently to severalprojects.Familiarization is introduced through a two-week project focused on sustainable design in thedeveloping world. The latest project asked the students to develop a plan for implementingwater, sewer, electricity or heating in a small village in southern India. This type of projectrequired the students to spend a significant amount of time familiarizing themselves withgeography, resources

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ellen Ford; Keith Levien; Ellen Momsen; Willie (Skip) Rochefort

Engineering Education”graduates and a limited number of ethnic minority students who plan to enter the OSU College ofScience the following fall term. The purpose of STARS is to help these students make asuccessful transition to OSU. STARS students live on campus and take regular college classesduring the summer.OSU KidSpirit Summer Day CampGrades: K-8thEleven One-Week Sessions June 14-August 27Coordinators: Karen Swanger/Katie Ekstamkidspirit@oregonstate.eduhttp://kidspirit.oregonstate.edu/KidSpirit, sponsored by the College of Health and Human Sciences, is an innovative youthsummer day camp program Monday-Friday for children grades K-8. Children may attendmorning, afternoon, or all day. Programs are based on grade level. All activities