Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Tricamo; Dennis Depew

constant technological innovation. During the last decade therehas been substantial criticism from industry and academia itself concerning several “competencygaps” that newly hired engineering graduates seem to exhibit relevant to the ability to actuallypractice creative engineering to meet real-world needs. Much of this criticism concerning thecharacteristics and skill-sets that we desire in experienced engineers is well deserved. Thecriticisms cover the gamut and identification of critical professional gaps from businessknowledge/skills; project management; written communication; oral communication/listening;international perspective; product/process design; open-ended problem solving through higherorder multidisciplinary and systems thinking

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H.Y. Shadow Huang; Ernest Tollner

representing the various loadingplanes and resultants. Stress concentration factors and associated calculation aids areincluded on a page. Development assumptions and comments are organized into a page.Finally, there is an input-output page walking students through the process of developinginputs and organizing key outputs for use. During the period of instruction on shaftdesign, students are provided with the model and do some hand calculations enablingchecking the model performance as particular topics are introduced. As a project orexam, students can then use the tool to do realistic power transmission problems wherethey design a variety of drives, the bearings and the shaft

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Gorka; Reza Kamali; Jacob Miller; Han Reichgelt; Eydie Lawson; Barry Lunt; Joseph Ekstrom

they were2 Human communications mentioned. It should be mentioned that there was3 Software a great deal of consensus experienced in the many4 Web system design Delphi studies that were conducted, lending5 Database further validity to the results.6 Project management7 Digital communications Another way to look at the results of these studies8 Data security/privacy is to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George York

Session 1520 Teaching Real-time DSP applications (Voice Removal) with the C6711 DSK and MATLAB George W.P. York, Christopher M. Rondeau, Dane F. Fuller U.S. Air Force Academy, COAbstractThis paper describes our efforts to teach real-time DSP applications at the undergraduate level.In particular this paper focuses on the voice removal DSP application, removing the lead singerfrom an audio recording. We find using a real-time DSP application that the students can relateto, like voice removal and other audio special effects, as a course final project highly motivatesthe

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

doingdifferent projects at different times in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. The idea is to capitalize on the teachable moment. If you stop and think about the way most people use the Internet, they start out looking for something -- maybe a vacation to Hawaii or what ever. They may end up learning about how nuclear physics works or something like that. It’s nonlinear. You go one place then it leads someplace else, and then you’re all over the place. I believe that’s the way people learn best because they are interested in it and it’s nonlinear. So you’re surfing essentially. So by allowing the students the ability in school to surf the knowledge that’s available, I think that’s one cool way

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nashwan Younis

stress as well as bearing stresses from the bolts, atorque wrench with an adjustable setting is used. Several bolt’s preload can be achieved byvarying the torque on the bolts and the students can visualize the effects of assembly stresses.Design Project 1Current technical advances and radical designs make the use of reflected photoelasticity ideal inthe establishment of design criteria as well as the reduction of weight. This is because the fringe Page 9.317.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

smart materials. These also include, teaching learning skills and creativethinking during experimental projects/exercises.Teaching learning skillsThe acquisition of process skills, i.e. learning how to learn, is equally important, if not moreimportant, than the acquisition of knowledge itself. Process skills refer to the abilities to source,analyze, screen, prioritize and apply a mass of information to solve the problem at hand. Suchskills are especially important in the new era where the growth of knowledge is explosive andlifelong independent learning is essential.Teaching creative thinkingSmall group discussions are conducted to improve creative thinking skills. Creative thinking isespecially important in formulating problems and exploring

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Moody

learning styles • Engaging presentation o Clear written and verbal communication o High degree of contact with the students o Physical models and demonstrations • Enthusiasm • Positive rapport with students • Frequent assessment of student learning o Classroom assessment techniques o Out-of-class homework and projects • Appropriate use of technology Page 9.626.2Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Page 9.1233.1 10. A knowledge of contemporary issues “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 11. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practiceThe four additional outcomes provide for depth in a specialized technical area, outcome 12, andadditional breadth, outcomes 13 through 15: 12. An ability to apply knowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering 13. An understanding of the elements of project management, construction, and asset management 14. An understanding of business and public policy and

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

Engineeringprogram at Penn State.1. The Learning Factory brings hands-on experiences to freshmen in the product dissection classes and to seniors in the capstone design courses. Students pursuing the Product Realization Minor are even more involved with the activities at the Learning Factory. The Society of Automotive Engineers also uses the facilities at the Learning Factory when building the Formula Car. The Learning Factory received the Boeing Educator Award in 1998 and has also participated in outreach to elementary and high school students including Take-Your- Daughter-to-Work Day.2. The senior capstone design projects are almost entirely sponsored by industry. Each student design team works on a unique project proposed by industry

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

(MSGC). The research focusedon modeling and simulation of an Underactuated Surface Autonomous Vehicle (USAV).The small, low cost USAV development forms an integral part of the Ocean AtmosphereSensor Integration System (OASIS) project led by the NASA scientist who is also a co-author of this paper. The discussion is not exhaustive but provides a starting point for thedesign and real-time control efforts that will follow to develop a fully functional smalland low-cost USAV.Significant research efforts are being devoted to the design and control of UninhabitedAerial Vehicles (UAV)1 and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 2-4 largely driven Page

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Adams

Wheeler Conserving Transducers Dynamics Wheeler 6 Elasticity Adams Structures, Dissipation of Thermal 7 Energy Adams 8 Microfluidic Systems Morris 9 MEMS Packaging McInerney MEMS Applications: Capacitive accelerometer Hudson 10 Electrostatic projection display Ahmed DNA amplificationThe

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

SESSION NUMBER _________ The Transition from Textbook Problems to Realistic Problems J. A. M. Boulet, A. Lumsdaine, J. F. Wasserman University of TennesseeAbstract The vision of this project is to help students make the transition from textbook problems torealistic engineering problems in which modeling precedes analysis and analysis requires inte-gration of concepts from various courses. To fulfill this vision, a self-paced, internet-based suiteof learning tools is being developed. They are structured to provide “just-in-time” informationand to allow a user’s errors to shape the learning

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

differentknowledge and skills than do college entrance and placement requirements. Similarly, thecoursework between high school and college is not connected; students graduate from highschool under one set of standards and, three months later, are required to meet a whole new set ofstandards in college.”1 Since a foundations class is usually the first course encountered byfreshmen within a chosen major, there is a clear bridging responsibility taken on to introduce thestudent to the demands, style, and culture within the major.The foundations course can help meet two out of the three recommendations from the StanfordBridge Project:2 • Provide all students, their parents, and educators with accurate, high quality, information about, and access to

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

the activities and milestones are vary vague and no specific andimmediately usable performance measures are introduced. Nisanci and Nicoll 16 proposed aneleven step project planning network for investigation and implementation phases of leanmanufacturing. The precise activities and evaluation-implementation sequences of the networksteps need to be devised by users themselves. In all these methods, there is no exactperformance measure that would point initial improvement efforts towards the biggest wastes orcompare them to a standard (for example standard achievements in an industry). Obviously,such "industry standards" do not exist, or rather are kept unpublished since they are at the core ofa set of competitive advantages of a manufacturer

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

the preservice teachers to broadly applicable engineering content such as problem solving and design while they actively learn about performance assessment.The freshman engineering class at the University of Arizona is a critical component of thefoundation necessary for engineering students to learn and flourish in their later coursework, yetlittle is known about what students actually learn during their 15 weeks in the course. In theclass, teaching is approached with a variety of techniques, including large lectures on broadtopics, small classes involving technical material, team-based design projects, and classroomactivities; the class therefore serves as an excellent case for K-12 preservice teachers to see andassess in practice the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aisha Lawrey

workshops and activities for students,educators, and parents in the local area. One activity that was done in conjunction with theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers was two fun-filled days at the Liberty Science Center.Liberty Science Center is a science museum that is located in Jersey City, NJ. At the Centerbooths were set up where engineers worked with students on projects that explore simpleengineering concepts.Another Engineers’ week activity was to a trip for high school girls to the L’Oreal Company.This event was part of “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.” The students toured the facilities,explored how certain L’Oreal products are made and talked to female engineers who work at theplant

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson

. For instance, theFoundation Coalition is supporting assessment tool development efforts in a number ofengineering subjects. These efforts have focused on developing “concept” inventories. Theseconcept inventories focus on determining student understanding of the subject’s fundamentalconcepts.Separately, a NSF-supported effort to develop an assessment tool for statics was begun in the lastyear by the authors. As a first step, the project team analyzed prior work aimed at delineatingimportant knowledge areas in statics. They quickly recognized that these important knowledgeareas contained both conceptual and “skill” components. Both knowledge areas are describedand examples of each are provided. Also, a cognitive psychology-based taxonomy of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

process at an ACSA Technology Conference in 1992;1 sincethen the assignment has been further developed, expanded, enhanced, and refined.Professionals must be able to write daily reports to document progress on the job or project activities, toevaluate, and to summarize the work of others. They must be able to compose clear, succinct technicalreports on a regular basis; they also need to be able to speak in front of groups of people, ranging fromdirecting workers in the office, to the instructing at the jobsite, to making formal public presentations.This means being able to write and speak clearly and concisely and to present the material so it can beclearly understood by the intended audience. Professionals also need to review a seemingly endless

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Gandolfo; Ken Alford

Program is a two-year teaching development program. Its’ central purpose isto develop that “pedagogical content knowledge” that Lee Shulman has identified as crucial tocollege-level instruction.3 Faculty members who voluntarily enroll in this program meet inmonthly seminars to discuss assigned topics from undergraduate student development throughcourse design, testing, and grading. In order to earn a completion certificate, faculty membersconduct a classroom research project that culminates in a publishable paper and develop ateaching statement that includes a personal philosophy of teaching. Currently, approximately80% of the new instructors volunteer for this program.The Center for Teaching Excellence sponsors the TALENT (Teaching and Learning

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

materials science Senior Year – process control, senior design project, senior laboratory, technical chemicalengineering electives such as petroleum operationsStudents would learn programming skills during their freshman year and make active use of theirskills in isolated instances throughout the remainder of their undergraduate academic career. Thesenior design project would be the course most likely requiring computer programmingexpertise.During the 1980s and 1990s the computing resources available to chemical engineeringundergraduates expanded dramatically. Universities began requiring that all students have theirown personal computer (Drexel started this practice in 19832). Even those universities that didn’thave this requirement

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

programmingassignments. Early assignments deal with using tools and composing standard components thatwill be used in the course project. The project consists of design phase, including severalreviews of the design models, followed by implementation of core parts of the design. Themajor code evaluation is to check that program code matches the design model documents.BackgroundMost engineering students take at least one computing course. If they take only one such course,that course is usually a programming course. Sometimes an engineering department will teachits own computing course, for example a course on numerical computing using FORTRAN.That occurs at our school because the CIS department does not teach FORTRAN. In other casesengineers take the core CIS

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Osman El-Sayed

policy of Mohamed Aly, the founder ofEgypt's Royal Dynasty, to modernize Egypt and integrate it in the international economy.Engineers were needed to take in charge the large infrastructure projects (specially in the field Page 9.537.1of irrigation) and the new industries required by the new modern state. "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"The first school of Engineering dates back to 1816 and was located in Saladin's Citadel. It wasfollowed by a regular school

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Hutchinson; Larry Erickson; David Steward; Lakshmi Reddi; Alok Bhandari

Research-Integrated Curriculum in Geoenvironmental Engineering Alok Bhandari, Lakshmi N. Reddi, Larry E. Erickson, Stacy L. Hutchinson, and David R. Steward Departments of Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5000IntroductionRapid growth in global population and industrial development in the past few decades have ledto several environmental problems related to soil and groundwater. As public agencies, privatefirms, and academia embarked on projects aimed at seeking solutions to waste management andsubsurface contamination problems

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Robertson

capture the knowledge and train the next generation of Chief Engineers. JACME2T provides training for its member companies by sharing internal resources and also by commissioning academic presenters to develop and deliver new course material. Topics are usually focused into 1 or 2-day courses which may then be combined as certificates. A certificate typically requires about 100 hours of class time. In the past 3 years, JACME2T has delivered more than 250 Project Management and 70 Software Engineering certificates. The challenge from the Board was to develop a Chief Engineer Certificate as the first step in the path to a long-term solution. Solution methodology New JACME2T programs are defined and commissioned by Learning and Competency

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marybeth Lima

details).2. Live by the 80/20 rule: you get 80% of a project finished in 20% of the total time it takes to complete that project, but the last 20% of the project takes 80% of the time.HINT: In academia, you can “80” most things. You will have to, because being on thetenure track is like trying to juggle 100 balls at once when you can really only handle 50.3. Keep your mouth shut in faculty meetings until you know the identity of the village idiot and the identity of the respected sage (every faculty has at least one of each). You want to be aligned with the sage and not the idiot. • Corollary: avoid statements like “At My Dissertation University, we did…” unless you are directly asked. Established faculty members tend to dismiss

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

how they learn we introduced them to Gardner’s3 nine stylesof learning: mathematical-logical, verbal-linguistic, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic,interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, musical, and existential. We had them do anexercise in which they used each of the nine styles to learn something during the day.We also had them take an internet-based inventory, that covers eight of the ninecompetences, athttp://www.ldrc.ca/projects/tscale/?PHPSESSID=5411287433414017d900a24e8c73b66dto get an idea of where they scored high and low. Forty junior-level electricalengineering students took the inventory. With 50 as a maximum they scored thefollowing averages: Mathematics 38.5 Music 34.7 Naturalistic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leotis Parrish; Devdas Pai

able to providea larger pool of qualified applicants for permanent hire. This project is serving as a model for theother programs in the college. A&T’s CoE, along with the other schools on campus, has enjoyed surging enrollmentincreases over the last three years. This increased enrollment has benefited the campus in termsof increased faculty and staff positions to serve the students, but has given rise to an equalnumber of challenges – such as strains on physical resources such as classrooms and computingfacilities. More importantly, there has been an imperceptible but very definite creeping up ofclass sizes in the lower-level critical core classes – the ones where one-to-one interaction iscrucial for students to grasp the more

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

. The course culminates in a final project that requires students toproduce a three-dimensional object, of their choosing, which is related to their major field ofstudy. The final projects are posted on a course website gallery after each semester. Students arenot expected to have a math background beyond basic mathematics. This requires faculty toteach students to build models without relying on complex mathematical parameters.Student DemographicsStudents enrolled in the class came from a broad range of majors including: radio TV & film,graphic design, music, art, math, urban studies, journalism, biology, psychology, chemistry,political science, business, child development, theater, health science, interior design,criminology, sociology