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Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Tisa; Greg Garwood; Peter Jansson

Page 9.1340.6understand tool from the user perspective. In our testing the Figure 3: Barcode/Manual Input Screenshot Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclients were pleased not only with the speed of the system operation, its completeness but also theability to store all the collected asset data in a simple to use database that could easily be downloaded toa PC for further processing and analysis at the home office.Future Plans The demonstration of the prototype to our utility and utility manufacturer clients has

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

”, American Library Association, Chicago; Vol. 40, No. 1, pg. 53-60. 7) Keown, Cherly (1999, August). “A Learning Curve”, American School and University; Overland Park, Vol. 71, No. 12, pg. 116 – 119. 8) McLester, Susan (2001, April 26). “Technology and Learning; Taking A New Approach to Education”, The Los Angeles Times, pg. T7. Authors Profile: Dr. Donald N. Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor of Engineering Economics at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economics, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Decision Sciences, Strategic Business Planning and Concurrent Engineering. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. He was PI

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

any self study is that it may identifyproblems that can be fixed. And once fixed then all should be well, but may not be.Barriers to success can be hidden and subtle. The climate in the college must beconducive to the success of the faculty. This will be the emphasis in a study which iscurrently being planned. In all that we do, we work to be a positive force in effectingchange that makes the College and University a better place for ourselves and others.ConclusionsThe mentoring program for women faculty in the college of engineering at Texas A&MUniversity is truly a ‘grass roots’ effort, initiated by an influential woman administratorwho opened the doors to the College’s internal workings for other women to experiencewhat otherwise might

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lumsdaine Arnold; Jack Waserman; J. A. M. Boulet

effective review, the time availablefor review is usually much less than an academic term. If students had effective, self-paced,computer-based learning tools, they could review and deepen their facility with the basic ideasand skills of applied mechanics relatively quickly.2-6 The goal of our work is to create suchtools, and so help prepare students for solving realistic engineering problems. In what follows, we describe the tools we are developing, as well as our plan for their as-sessment, summarize the status of that development, and discuss our experience with some of thelearning objects we have developed as a foundation for the learning tools.Structure of learning tools In a class in engineering mechanics, we usually find that students

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

sensors Figure 5. Firmware subgroupThe FPGA board has two built-in hardware interfaces to an eBOX-II: a serial and aparallel port. The data rate requirement for communication between the eBOX-II and therover is quiet low, therefore a standard serial communication rate of 9600 BAUD hasbeen selected. Furthermore, our students are already familiar with the design of aUniversal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) for the FPGA Board and theserial communication software for the eBOX-II. Commands are transmitted serially tothe FPGA and sensory information collected by the FPGA is returned to the eBOX-II viathis same serial interface. We plan to add a USB interface in the future to the FPGABoard to handle the

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Dunbar

Equalization basin construction plans. It is constructedof plywood lined with acrylic sheeting sealed with water proof epoxy, 2x4’s, 4x4’s, and steelbolts. The tank’s volume is a cubic yard or about 200 gallons. After a few layers of epoxy andcaulk, the tank sealed up and did not leak. Figure 5 shows the flocculation/sediment tank whichwas made of similar construction materials. Due to the need of sloping floors, it was moredifficult to construct and despite multiple layers of epoxy and caulk—the tank would notcompletely seal up and some leakage occurred. Figure 6 shows the entry to the filterconstruction. A layer of plexy glass was added to the top of the filter and holes were drilled toallow an even distribution of water across the filter. The

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Waldron; Rose Robinson; Michael Gregg; Jenny Lo

adjacent)classrooms for testing purposes. Tests cannot be (easily) started at the same time, and the faculty Page 9.337.7member must continually move from room to room to maintain a presence. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe authors did not enter the semester with a plan to offer common-room testing in this class. Thecommon use of Blackboard, however, was an early decision. Prior to the first of two tests in this class,one of the authors discovered that a classroom capable of handling

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani, Virginia State University

show asignificant improvement in learning within the experimental group over the control group orvice versa. That is an optimistic result. Nevertheless, if the results in a similar study with alarger sample size turn out the same, this research is an indication that the interactivemultimedia is a reasonable substitute for traditional style of teaching in a technicalenvironment. The challenge; however, still remains in careful consideration of designing anddeveloping the right interactive multimedia tools. The authors plan to continue this studywith a larger sample to see the true effect of design aspects in learning and teachingenvironments. To explore the effects of time on the change in test scores, ANOVA withrepeated measures will be

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Beth Lakin; Gary Crossman

programshas their own version of the course. The Civil Engineering Technology program requiresstudents working alone or in groups up to three, to complete one of the following project paths:structural design, site planning and design, or construction. Each group must identify a mentor,either an experienced engineer in industry or a faculty member. The Electrical EngineeringTechnology program requires individual projects of each student. In most cases electricalprojects will culminate in a hard-wired device or prototype. Complex projects may result indemonstrated simulation. The Mechanical Engineering Technology program requires studentsworking alone or in groups of two or three to complete a mechanical design. MechanicalEngineering students may

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Joseph Goodman

somewhat and the EFDivision was notified that ME’s equipment and system administration resources (including Dr.Bohn) would not be available after fall 2001. Simultaneously the decision was made at thecollege level that the distance-learning model was not working for the majority of students and astructured, in-class, lecture format needed to be re-instituted. With the primary author as the solecourse director and developer, plans were immediately made to shift to EF resources completely.For several reasons, including limited financial resources, the decision to shift the system awayfrom proprietary software and hardware, using “public domain” system and application softwarewherever possible. Linux was chosen as the operating system, PHP4 as the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

available to the university fleetmanager. This activity could be easily extended to include data analysis and the development ofa management plan for minimizing CO emitted by the fleet vehicles, however time does notpermit this analysis in this particular course.Air Emissions Trading SimulationStudents participate in an Air Emissions Trading simulation modeled after EPA’s SO2 Emissionscap and trade system created in 1990 under the Acid Rain Program.22 This simulation is amodification of a simulation developed by the Air & Waste Management Association.23 Studentsare put in groups of 3-4, where each group represents a public utility or “company” and hasspecific pollution emissions characteristics. Each company emits a different amount ofpollution

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

successful in providing thenecessary stimulation, while there has been little connection to UAMS. Success has beenattributed to the co-location of both the Director and partner VIC with the UAF campus. At thispoint, the distance barrier to UAMS appears to be difficult to surmount. Discussions are ongoingin an attempt to develop a management plan that will allow for increased collaboration betweenthe two campuses and rapid progress in commercialization of innovations in the medical school.Measurement and EvaluationAssessment of outcomes for the Incubator is expected to require several years. However,program success must necessarily be judged on an annual basis. Therefore, some creativity isrequired in defining meaningful goals. At the time of this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

VOS Data Manager. Another factor facilitatingdistribution is the lack of need for an install procedure if Excel is already present on the machine.Finally, development and expansion of functionality can be accomplished rapidly, due to theavailability of built-in functions, modular design of the code, and an easy-to-use developmentenvironment. An experienced Visual Basic programmer planned and developed all currentfunctionality, including the existing report types, in less than 100 hours.There are also several limitations to the current system. Since data is stored in Excel worksheets,there is an upper limit of about 65,500 records that can be imported, or about 300 sessions’ worthof data. Other disadvantages of storing data in Excel include

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

course usinginteractive television (ITV). Starting 2003, we added an online section in addition to thetraditional and ITV sections. This paper focuses on our experiences with the online version of thecourse and how it compares with the traditional course offering. In future, we plan tosimultaneously use all three modes of teaching the course and at that time, we will be able tomake comparisons across the three modes.3. Design of Instructional MaterialsMost students and instructors are used to the lecture format, which introduces importantprinciples along with examples of applications, with the textbook serving to provide the detailsand reference material. An instructor can answer questions on the spot and change course if hesenses the students

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob White; Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt

twocourse structures based on a 5 point Likert Scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = StronglyAgree (Lecture-based average score = 3.70 and Lab-based average score = 4.22).As long-term evaluation of future offerings of this new course structure occur, a more thoroughassessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of the changes from the lecture environment tothe lab-based environment will be made. While student-based assessment of the course has andwill continue to occur, plans are also in place to interview and survey the engineering facultymembers that teach the courses to which IME 261 is a prerequisite to help determine if the newcourse structure has any effect on the statistical maturity of the student and their ability toappropriately

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

schedule. WEEK PROJECT ACTIVITY 1 Introduction to projects Brainstorming session on given project 2* Submit initial proposal of how project will be completed 4 Submit detailed outline of project tasks and schedule 7-8 Submit status report including work completed and plan for remaining work 10* Submit status report including preliminary results and conclusions 12 Project presentations Submit poster *Added Fall 2003In the Fall 2003 semester, two additional tasks were added

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

9.754.1manufacturing design course impacts their academic performance throughout their degree Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprogram, and even their future career (Newcomer, et al., 1999). Therefore, it isimperative for manufacturing educators to plan the content of this course to ensure thebest possible foundation for students seeking to enter manufacturing disciplines.Introductory manufacturing design courses used to be drafting-centered. Students in thepast learned hand-sketching skills and used drafting boards. A considerable amount ofclass time was

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

contributing, well-rounded member of society. Graduates of baccalaureate programs in Information Technology must have the ability to: (a) Use and apply current technical concepts and practices in the core information technologies; (b) Analyze, identify and define the requirements that must be satisfied to address problems or opportunities faced by organizations or individuals; (c) Design effective and usable IT-based solutions and integrate them into the user environment; (d) Assist in the creation of an effective project plan; (e) Identify and evaluate current and emerging technologies and assess their applicability to address the users’ needs; (f) Analyze the impact of information technology on individuals

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

content is maintained on twocompanion websites; an English version maintained at SDSM&T and a Mongolian translationmaintained at MUST. Currently, Mongolian students can complete roughly two semesters ofcoursework through available material. Additional courses are under final development for thecooperative program with the remaining elective courses planned for conversion within the nextyear.Students enrolling in the TM program in Mongolia must attend a one-week training session onthe alternative delivery format. Specifically, training sessions include use of email, downloadingcourse content and interactive exercises, and uploading materials to the course management site.Students are also required to attend one class session with a site

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

qualification of public schools teachers in technology education and pedagogicdesign to promote the betterment of its citizens qualifying them through the informaticsspecialization.The experience has showed that the social dimension of this program far exceeds the schoolborders and its first goal. The planned project has developed to a step forward. It is an extensionof the program. So a new step has started and it is called in Portuguese JEPOM that meansYoung Boys Being in the Municipal Orientation. It is a whole package that contains classes ofEnglish and Spanish besides informatics to the 18 years old boys that are dismissed of the Armyservice. They have classes and also some training to help tourists that come to the city withinformation or

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

successful. Students are now able to use theirplatforms to understand and try out new idea and designs. Reusing pieces from previousclasses that are well understood by students speeds the design process allowing student tocreate more complex and intriguing designs. The TekBots program plans to integrate another three courses in the next year and torevise several courses already in place to improve the teaching and lab experiences. Thenew courses include Signal and Systems, DSP, and VLSI Design courses. Page 9.32.7 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; David Hansen; Brian Self

, calculate the mass moment of inertia of the wheels or wheel/axle combinations, and plan to rebuild the car the following lesson. This allows the student teams to familiarize themselves with LEGO® Mindstorms, andFigure 2. Preliminary design of LEGO® cars. to have a little fun before the competition begins. Page 9.1203.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe following

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McLaughlan

rivers. The Forum activity specifically seeks to promotemultiple perspective-taking on a controversial science and technology public issue anddevelop conflict management skills, critical thinking and collaborative skillsTechnology Integration Report (60%) Task 3: In this component of the subject, studentsaddress issues surrounding the integration of Technology into a particular business or socio-political context. They produce a report which seeks to address the adoption, consultation orevaluation of a technology product, project, plan, policy or programme. The available reporttypes are an Impact Evaluation report, a Stakeholder Engagement Report, Product-ServiceEvaluation report and an Innovation Evaluation report.Structure of the Structured

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

intended as a learning tool for undergraduate Electrical and ComputerEngineering students to help in the understanding of one of the most fundamental concepts ofdigital circuit minimization and design.This software has been in place now and is located at www.Digital-Logic.org 5. It is intended tobe introduced to the Undergraduate students at the department of Engineering and thedepartment of Technology at Norfolk State University and a survey is planned for Spring 2004.A comparison survey will be conducted to compare Senior Students who never used the softwarewith the Sophomore/Junior students who did use it to see the impact of this type of tool.It is the author’s belief that Digital-Logic.org 5 will further improve the educational process in

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erik Bowman; Kenneth Siegenthaler

original SOW required the ramp to weigh 30 pounds or less, this was soonmodified to the 70-pound limit of checked baggage on an airline. The cadets soonrealized that the only way they could meet the 30-pound requirement was to use veryexpensive lightweight high-strength materials, such as graphite epoxy. These veryexpensive materials far exceeded the budget. Aluminum alloys were the only practicalmaterials solution. Because of the previously discussed cutoff safety switches behind therear wheels, the ramp had to be longer than originally planned. The cadets respondedvery well to the additional challenges as they appeared. They demonstrated greatpatience and ingenuity in developing a strong light-weight design that met all of therequirements of the

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

topics they have been addressing in their coursework.CONTEXTThis work presented in this paper is unique largely due to the collaboration between the Collegesof Engineering and Education. In this section, the context for the collaboration is established.Assessment of Student Learning in Introduction to EngineeringThe engineering course focused on in this collaboration is ENGR 102, Introduction toEngineering, a class taken by approximately 800 students each year in 20 different sections. Thefive learning objectives of the course are that students should: ‚ Learn how to use the design process to meet expressed needs. ‚ Become effective team members. ‚ Become effective communicators. ‚ Create career plans & develop the personal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

. Page 9.22.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 3. Experiments planned for the Telecommunications Lab courseLab Subject Lab Concepts and Modifications EquipmentNo. Source 1 RF Subsystems USF Lab introduces students to basic components and RF Signal operation of the heterodyne receiver. This generator equipment based lab will be adapted from the USF

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Amy G. Yuhasz; Matthew Ohland

automation of data collection allows some of the team members to disengage, and lose out educationally. Our proposed solution is to form 2-3 person teams in the laboratory rather than 4-person teams. It is hoped that careful planning can achieve this logistic change without requiring additional laboratory equipment—if groups can alternate activities in the laboratory, and thus use the same equipment at different times, this should be possible.ConclusionsThe experimental design of the EXPERT project is both statistically sound and educationallyappropriate. The results of the study should test the benefit of using real-time sensors whilecontrolling for variability due to individual preparation and ability, lab, instructor, and

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

blur the three “units” into one introductory chapter. This general layout for freshman instruction in MatLab has been used for two terms in CSE131 at Michigan State University: Spring Semester 2003, and Fall Semester 2003. CSE 131serves approximately 400 students per term, and acts as a gateway course to most of the engineer-ing majors at Michigan State. To date, anecdotal evidence only is available to judge the efficacyof the proposal. However this anecdotal evidence supports the view that freshman level instruc-tion in MatLab will profit if this very general view is followed. We plan to analyze student exam-ination data from prior semesters to student examination data for Spring, 2004, to obtain moretangible comparisons. This report is

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

supply circuits, with thegoal of integrating them into the Kinkajou Projector for the next stage of testing in Mali. We arealso now planning the next set of design challenges for the ECE Design course, in order toprovide more engineering students with examples of how engineers can improve livesworldwide.Bibliography1. Polizzotto, L., and W.R. Michalson, “The Technical, Process, and Business Considerations for Engineering Design,” Proceedings of the 31st Frontiers in Engineering Conference, Reno, NV, October 2001.2. Vaz, R.F., “A Sophomore-Level ECE Design Experience,” Proceedings of the ASEE 2004 Annual Conference, paper 2004-1632, Salt Lake City, UT, June 2004.3. http://www.designthatmatters.org/4. http