Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Williams

software includingMathCAD, AutoCAD, SmartNotebook, and PowerPoint. The computer, the document cameraand a VCR were all connected to the same data projector. The user switched between computer,document camera, and VCR images by means of the projector remote. Figure 1 shows theclassroom after modification. The data projector hangs from the ceiling. The VCR, computer,and document camera are housed in the teaching station on the left. The SmartBoard sits on thefront wall between two whiteboards. The SmartBoard, a projection screen linked to the computer, offered a number of excitingpossibilities. When used with PowerPoint, a touch of the screen acts as a mouse click, advancingslides or animation. This frees the user from always lecturing from

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

lacking in nationaland even regional dissemination and adoption of these educational materials and products. TheNSF unofficially endorsed NCTT’s new concept in the belief that it might provide improvedresults in the attainment of this goal and at the same time leverage grant monies dedicated to thisarea of technology education.Several of the prospective collaboration partners had either submitted NSF ATE project grantapplications at NCTT’s urging or already had received NSF funding before the formulationstages of NCTT’s future mission. In most cases, the new partner community colleges weregeographically dispersed around the nation and were already active leaders in ICT relatedtechnology education in their regions. In all cases, they desired to

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

largeblocks with which basic electronic components may be arranged and interconnected using largewires and banana plugs. Typical lab projects using the board involve DC and AC circuits, relays,diodes, op amps and other IC devices. These projects guide students through exercises using acombination of the actual circuit and a MultisimTM simulation. A web site is given from whichlab manuals may be obtained.IntroductionAs electronics becomes a part of seemingly every device and system, it has become essential forall engineering disciplines to have some exposure to this topic. Since few students have anyphysical contact with even the most basic electronic elements (resistors, capacitors, inductors),providing a hands-on experience must be part of the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ibrahim

, chemistry, andphysics. In [10] integration went beyond the freshman engineering to cover the entire engineeringcurriculum. This study supported the concept that integration help engineering students to better“understand the functional core of the engineering process.” Another extensive evaluation of First-Year Integrated Curricula, [11] listed ten advantagesand five disadvantages to the approach. Fortunate for this proposed approach, the disadvantagesdealt with the logistics of managing different courses and different instructors. The advantages,each and every one of them, strongly highlight the national need for this proposed project. Mostimportant is the one advantage in the subject paper stating: “Re-arranging topics so studentslearn

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Tront

through digitallibraries. Faculty members attempting to create materials for collections of engineeringeducation content in a digital library face several challenges. Lack of training in soundpedagogical practices, a shortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, shortsupply of required development resources and time to produce completed and tested works, anda lack of emphasis on improving teaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the majorobstacles to materials development. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors to create anactive, engaged, and sustained virtual community of engineering educators who energeticallycontribute to and share materials from a common collection of courseware.New members of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

our classes,but more especially the reasons why we do them and how we believe that they will help the students tolearn and achieve the objectives for our courses. Although cooperative projects are becomingincreasingly common in technical programs, there may be situations in which faculty members prefer toassign individual projects to balance student exposure to different types of work. These situations shouldalso be analyzed in the teaching statement as it reflects the faculty member philosophy on balancingcollaborative and individual work.Faculty members do not have control over the size of the classes they teach. However, we have controlover how to approach differently a large class than a small class, by choosing the techniques that best

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

, fastestgrowing area of the DCI 4. From ancient civilizations to modern day infrastructure, DCI playedan essential role in the progress and the well being of societies -- with innovative, advancedmaterials, processes, and equipment being both its tools and final product into the future.That said, many would frequently view certain industries such as telecommunications,computers, automotive, and aerospace as cutting-edge and ultramodern, while take for grantedany innovations in the DCI, be it in buildings, bridges, roads, or any other project. In spite ofthis, the fact of the matter is that DCI and its collaborators are currently developing a multitudeof new, state-of-the-art materials, processes, and equipment – with even newer items added tothe already

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi; Bob Lahidji

College.He has also taught at community and technical colleges, and practiced engineering and project management formore than ten years in private industry and consulting. Dr. Eydgahi has published and presented at a number ofnational conferences including American Society for Engineering Education, The Chair Academy, The League forInnovation and others.BOB LAHIDJI is the Department Head in the Industrial Technology Program at Eastern Michigan University. Hisprimary interest and expertise are in the area of manufacturing process and CNC/CAM. Dr. Lahidji has beeninvolved with manufacturing firms as a consultant in the area of improving manufacturing processes. He has writtennumerous articles and is the co-author of the textbook “Maximize SURFCAM

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

Session 2004-124 ASEE ANNUAL MEETING Salt Lake City, Utah June, 2004 The Trebuchet Project: Launching a “Hands-On” Engineering Technology Approach To Conducting Hands-On Statics and Dynamics Laboratory Courses Francis A. Di Bella, PE Assistant Professor Northeastern University, Boston, MA Mechanical Engineering TechnologyABSTRACT“…Hands-On, real word engineering experience” is the refrain that is

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

perhaps anengineering student will identify that the redundant sixty-four to twenty mapping of codons toamino acids becomes data for a switching circuit with “don’t care” inputs. By looking atbiological processes as switching circuits, the engineering student gains knowledge of biologyand the full relevance of engineering principles to other disciplines.This paper will explore some of the applications of biology to switching circuits. Theinformation will include possible engineering student projects and assignments, and lessonslearned from teaching biology to engineering students. Page 9.1293.1“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

Session 1793 A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING REUSABLE, INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS IN AN ENGINEERING DIGITAL LIBRARY: THE GROW-NCERL PROJECT Muniram Budhu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 USA. E-mail: budhu@u.arizona.eduINTRODUCTIONLibraries have always played a key role in education. They provide a place for the storage andretrieval of a large body of human knowledge. Digital technologies are now transforming andexpanding the traditional roles of library. Digital libraries provide an assortment of tools for auser to search, retrieve, create, customize and share content

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elton Graves

The Impact of Calculus Reform as Seen by Engineering Seniors Elton Graves Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractDuring the academic years of 2001-2003 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology participated in aNSF sponsored project to determine The Impact of Calculus Reform on Long-term StudentPerformance. The project was broken down into three major components. The first componentwas to compare registrar data for students who had taken a traditional calculus curriculum withthose who had taken calculus in a “reformed” curriculum. The second component was aquestionnaire to discover the views of graduating seniors to the use of

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

methodology includethe use of educational objectives as design “functions” and the use of pedagogical theoriesand learning style information as part of the “analysis” step in the design process. Detailsof each step in the process are presented. The methodology is used to compare the use oforiginal and redesign projects. This comparison highlights some distinct advantages ofredesign oriented hands-on projects.1. IntroductionThere is considerable literature that addresses the advantages of using hands-onexperiences in engineering curriculum [1-14]. Although assessment indicates that theincorporation of hands-on experiences almost always improves a given course, thereappears to be a dearth of information regarding the effective design of hands-on

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

://www.ise.ufl.edu access date: 12 / 31/ 2002HAMMAD S. CHAUDHRYHammad Chaudhry is a graduate student at the UF majoring in Industrial & Systemengineering. Mr. Chaudhry is a research assistant at UF, where he has worked on severalmanagement related projects. He earned his undergraduate degree in ElectricalEngineering from NED university of Engineering and Technology.M. ALI ABBASAli Abbas is a graduate student at the Industrial & Systems Engineering department atUF. Ali has his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from NationalUniversity of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Ali has worked on a variety of Page 9.725.6management related

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

combustion engine system with the assistance of theNational Science Foundation, the author is attempting to provide a compact, versatile educationalsystem that is appropriate and useful in a traditional classroom setting. For the system to be useful there are several categories of objectives that must be appliedto its design. General objectives associated with any project include the optimization of size,weight, and cost. This becomes particularly important for commercially viable systems.However, during this phase of the project, called the proof-of-concept phase, these objectives aresecondary to the ultimate goal of providing a system that is both safe and realistic in itsdemonstration of thermodynamic principles. Here, the primary

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Matsson

signals from the force gauge, the pressure transducers and the inlettemperature sensor. Moreover, the temperature after the compressor stage will bemeasured together with the temperature before the turbine stage. This will enable thestudents to perform continuous sampling of a wider range of properties.ConclusionsThis paper has shown a model jet turbine project done by undergraduate students inmechanical engineering. It was initiated as a project in manufacturing processes wherethe students designed the engine mount and a safety enclosure. The turbine was used in afluid mechanics laboratory where the students applied their knowledge gained from thethermodynamics course. The measured and calculated thrusts were in good agreementwhile the engine

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Brook Zurn; Jeff Frolik

Educationstudents as to the advantages and disadvantages of the various instruction methods they had beenexposed to. Without exception students specifically compared chalk/white board lectures andPowerPoint type lecturing styles (noticeably absent was active learning/project based courses).A summary of their input is given in Table 1 below. TABLE 1: Survey of student impression with lecturing styles Method Advantages DisadvantagesChalk/whiteboard Learn by seeing the progression of Spend most the time writing. material. Difficult to listen, write and understand all at the Flexible format so that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

technician level is common acrossthe various industries that are applying micro- and nanofabrication, a single, unifying centerto crucial to discourage the proliferation of applications-focused micro- and nanofabricationtechnician educational programs. The NSF ATE project Planning for a National ATE Centerin Micro-and Nanoscale Manufacturing was awarded in June 2003. The first step in the planning process was to identify potential industry and educationpartners for a national center. The Regional Center for Nanofabrication ManufacturingEducation has maintained an active industry advisory board since inception, and hosts jobfairs involving dozens of companies three times each year. The industrial users of the 12NNIN sites represent another

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Rates,” NACME Research Letter, Vo. 2 (2), 1991. 6. Snyder, N., and Bowman, B., “Improving the Pre-Engineering Education of Low-Income Minority Youth: Lessons from a Demonstration Project,” ASME Tech. Soc. Publ., Vol. 2, 1-6, 1989. 7. Baker, G., “Pre-College Preparation of Minority Students for Careers in Engineering,” Trans. of the American Nuclear Soc., Vol. 46, 35-36, 1984. 8. Das, M., “Novel Summer Camp for the Underrepresented Minority High School Students,” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf., Washington, D.C., 1997. 9. Engineering Institutions Ranked by Minority Retention Rates and Relative Retention Index, NACME Research Letter, Vol. 4, 1997. 10.Bibliographical InformationKeshav S. Varde is a Professor of

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Fry

each of the disciplines about how they relate to oneanother in a larger picture.In the spirit of interdisciplinary product development, students in the College of Engineering andTechnology at Brigham Young University participate in a “Capstone” experience that is meant toexpose them to the comparative peculiarities of the three disciplines of Manufacturing,Engineering, and Industrial Design. Despite the success of various individual team projects, ageneral dissatisfaction exists in the ranks of the students about what the actual benefit is for alltheir collaborative effort.Interdisciplinary Product Development efforts (both in and outside of industry) suffer from onesided biases based on the discipline of the sponsoring body. Engineering based

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lesley Hubbard; Peter Mente; Susan Blanchard

and engineering professionals. (3g) b. Prepare effective written materials. (3g) d. Work effectively in multidisciplinary teams to complete projects. (3d)3. To develop in students professional, ethical, and societal responsibility in Biomedical Engineering practices. After completing the B. S. in Biomedical Engineering, graduates will be able to: c. Demonstrate professional behavior. (3f) Page 9.1130.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

such as Amazon.com and Campusbooks.com grew to prominence (andreliability) the program shifted the practice over to having the students buy them online. Coursematerials were delivered by hand, email, or by fax.V. Administrative Legwork.In most cases the students could rely on faculty to deliver materials to the campus for submittalor handling. The intent of the program was that a student never need set foot on campus, andthere were many instances where that intent was met.VI. Thesis Topics.By looking at the list of thesis topics presented below, it is clear that the subjects were related topower plant projects in all aspects. Table 1 Thesis Topics of Students at the Remote Power

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Viva Austin; Keith Koenig; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Society for Engineering Education”primarily purchased from Keithley-Metrabyte, but after National Instrument Hardwareand LabVIEW became more commonly used in the US, a transition was made toLabVIEW. LabVIEW programming is now required for individual student projects andis used in the development of new laboratory experiments. Transitions to newer versionsof software are coordinated for the semester following the semester in which newversions are released.The elimination of the programming language requirement in the aerospace engineeringcurriculum at Mississippi State University has left students with a general lack ofprogramming familiarization. This is gradually being rectified, however, by the use ofMathCAD, Matlab, Maple and Mathematica (the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hanson; Julia Williams

Session 1274 Developing Writing-to-Learn Assignments for the Engineering Statics Classroom James H. Hanson, Department of Civil Engineering Julia Williams, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractResearch in engineering pedagogy has argued for the efficacy of writing as a means to improvingstudent learning in the engineering classroom. Unfortunately there are few models of suchassignments. This project, the result of cooperation between faculty in civil engineering andtechnical communication, was

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

Session 1601 Design Competitions as Tools for Change in Secondary (9-12) Technology Education: A Regional Case Study Joseph A. Betz State University of New York at FarmingdaleAbstractTechnology Education faculty at the secondary level share a kinship with college levelEngineering, Engineering Technology and Architecture faculty in the kinds of open-endeddesign and team problem-solving projects given to their students. This kinship also provides amutually beneficial relationship in terms of recruitment and access. However, there is afundamental difference

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Hyre; James Squire

primary goal of theseconferences is the promotion of undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activityperformed in partnership with faculty or other mentors. A secondary goal is to help facultydiscover new and more sophisticated ways to incorporate undergraduates in research and toencourage students to undertake research projects of their own.In this paper we describe how to create and direct a first-time undergraduate research conference.Specifically we examine the steps of planning, budgeting, forming and managing the necessarysubcommittees, raising interest among potential presenters and attendees, managing abstractsubmissions, and orchestration of the conference event itself. We also describe some of thepitfalls that can occur to

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Frederick Meyers; John Demel; Frank Croft

. Drawing Geometric Const'n. Geometry Geometry Graphing Charts & Graphs Intersections Kinematics Kinematic Simulation** Lettering Mathematics Orthographic Projection Orthographic Proj'n. Orthographic Proj'n. Multiviews & Aux. Orthographic Proj'n. Orthographic Proj'n. Reading Drawings Dwg. Stds. & Codes Reading Drawings Scales

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

. Instead, we have experimentedwith speaking, writing, and teamwork in several courses as figures 2 and 3 indicate.iii I am omitting a deep discussion of ethics for the purpose of this paper. The integration of ethics instruction is in itsformative stages and we have developed a junior level course that was collaboratively created by both engineeringand philosophy faculty. This course is team taught, and relies heavily on guest speakers from industry to share their Page 9.940.5experiences and provide case studies. As a result, my focus is on the communication skills and teamwork aspects ofthis project. Proceedings of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

management and data integrityProject management. The management of the database itself will be enhanced by separating thedistinct functions of database maintenance and database analysis. The former will be managed bya team at Clemson University and the latter by a team at the University of Florida. This approachwill help ensure that the dataset is validated before analysis. The project teams’ familiarity withthe partner institutions and their data management practices in the past 15 years will be asignificant asset in understanding how to correctly interpret institutional differences. Changes infile formats, changes to ensure Y2K compatibility, changes in academic policies, and evenchanges from quarter-hour system to a semester-hour system have

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Willcox; Gergana Bounova

the linkages between engineering, physics and calculus. In a study to assessmathematics proficiency of students at Grand Valley State University, it was determined thatstudent problems in this area are widespread and originate from many sources.1 Some resourcesexist that attempt to address these problems. Examples include the dAimp project, 2 which iscurrently developing online resources for engineering mathematics. The goal is to put together aseries of manipulatives that lend greater understanding of mathematical concepts to engineeringundergraduates. Project Links aims to link the concepts of higher mathematics to real-worldapplications through interactive web-based modules. 8 One of the major challenges associatedwith developing such