Conference Session

Trends in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

Scientific Inquiry 3. Embedded Information Technology 4. Assessment and Learning Products 5. Learning Experiences with Instructional Technologies 6. Strategic Planning for Implementation The instructional material and techniques presented are to serve only as an informationalprecursor to later engineering hydrologic design coursework. It is not indented to replacecurrently accepted basic hydrologic design instructional methodology, rather is shouldsupplement current practices. Spatial information technologies are now a reality in industrial andresearch projects concerning hydrologic and other environmental parameters. This work isintended to serve as a suggested bridge from traditional to spatially distributed decision-makingand

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

graduatescience or engineering student, who realizes the value of advanced mathematics courses,eventually will include this great mathematics book on their shelf as one of their mostused reference books. The trick is to make the course interesting and “enjoyable” enoughthat students look forward to class, without sacrificing the proper challenges for thestudent to achieve a proper level of mathematical expertise as preparation for graduateschool courses. This paper discusses how to use a combination of: 1.) Textbooks, 2.) Special projects, 3.) Personal interest in the students, and 4.) Relating the material in the course to real world situations, to reach that goal. These techniques have resulted in positive student critiques

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Ali; Marcia Rossi; M. Javed Khan

opportunities to develop collaborative, technical and communication skills.The added advantage is that students actually are able to see a practicalapplication of the skills they are acquiring and have a sense of accomplishment.The ‘Calpoly Interdisciplinary Monarch Butterfly Nuptial Flight Research’ [3] is aninteresting example of interdisciplinary research in which students of behavioralecology, molecular and cellular biology, statistics and aeronautical engineeringare attempting to determine characteristics for a successful mating. The MindProject [4] of Illinois State University is designing ‘simulated persons’ usingartificial intelligence and robotic devices. Although the project is aimed atcognitive research, it has involved students from a

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

fundamentals and did well inindustry.Situation 3: An electrical engineering technology faculty member has been working for years asa consultant to a company where new electronic devices are developed, most being proprietary innature. Consulting occurs one day per week during the academic term and for four monthsduring the summer. This consulting is current and results in new knowledge being brought intothe classroom for students in electronics courses and senior projects. As the most sought aftersenior project advisor, this faculty member’s students are much sought after as they are ready forindustry on graduation day.Situation 4: A mechanical engineering technology faculty member has been conducting researchin metallurgy on a consulting basis, with

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William J., Jr. Park; Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

Session 1359 Applications of Real-Time Sensors in the Freshman Engineering Classroom Matthew W. Ohland, Elizabeth A. Stephan, Benjamin L. Sill, and William J. Park General Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634AbstractClemson’s NSF-sponsored EXPerimental Engineering in Real-Time (EXPERT) project isdesigned to assess the efficacy of using real-time sensors in freshman engineering classes. Wewish to determine if use of these devices enhances student understanding of both physicalconcepts and graphical representations of those phenomena.Where parallel activities can be designed (one set with and one set without real-time

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Joordens; John Long; John Florance

home campus. For students posted overseas, on-campusattendance at lab classes is virtually impossible.Deakin University teaches numerous off-campus students who live locally, interstate, andoverseas.4 In developing its undergraduate engineering courses, including electronics, theUniversity needed a means to deliver practical education to off-campus students. TheUniversity has applied numerous strategies in delivering laboratory activities for distanceeducation, including week-end practical classes, Internet-controlled experiments,5-10simulations,11-13 at-home activities or projects, where the student obtains his own materials,14and experimental kits issued to students.15,16 To satisfy this need in the case of first-yearelectronics, we have

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

includes – at an elemental level – all of the fundamental aspects of designas defined in the ABET accreditation criteria. The projects are based on real-worldscenarios; they are open-ended, permitting many possible solutions; and they requireformulation of problem-solving methodologies as well consideration of alternatives andeconomic concerns relating to the finished project. The final structure designed andoptimized by the students must be a simply supported truss of a specified span length, amaximum height restriction, and minimum clearance over the high water level of thecreek. Within these bounds the user has complete freedom to define the shape and

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hughes; Alok Verma

optimization Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education1and Lean implementation models for job shop and designed to build environments. Alok Verma has co-edited the proceedings of the International Conference on CAD/CAM & Robotics for which he was thegeneral chairman. He is serving as the associate editor for the International Journal of Agile Manufacturing.Alok has developed the training program in Lean Enterprise for Northrop Grumman Newport NewsApprentice School and continues his participation through a joint National Shipbuilding Research Program(NSRP) project to develop and design new simulation

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

-65% Engineers 4000 2000 0 <31 31-40 41-50 51-60 >60 Age (Yrs) SOURCE: DTIC/DMDC (DEFENSE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL DATA SYSTEM, APR 03 Figure 1. Naval RDT&E Centers Demographics Page 9.944.2 Further exacerbating the situation is the fact that the workforce focused on applied research(funding code 6.2) projects decreased twice as fast as the funding level in that category of

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikunja Swain; Mrutyunjaya Swain

them were borrowed from different books and the NI web site and were modified asneeded. This list consists of 23 projects with 89 VI modules that address various EET coursesand the EET faculty is constantly upgrading the VI modules to address the needs of changingtechnology. Page 9.786.3Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1 - List of VI modulesProject Name of VI Number of Level of Complexity VI TypeNumber individual

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zainulabeddin; Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

the changes: a) Moved from Assembly language to C language, b)Selected to teach Microchip PIC Microcontroller(s), c) Doubled the lecture time and labtime; have made a marked improvement in students ability to carry on with confidencethe design work in the area of Embedded System Design. This change has been reflectedthrough the number of projects completed in Senior Design. Many of these projects havesignificantly improved in sophistication and complexity. Page 9.515.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi

, and hold themselvesand their team members accountable. The process required to implement the given method willteach students some of the fundamentals of project management such as setting specific,realistic, and measurable goals. Page 9.1227.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducatorsConcept DevelopmentThis exercise was first implemented at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown during the2002-2003 school year. It was repeated, with modification, during the 2003-2004 year. In bothcases the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

engineering and science; onealso finds these topics in the introductory sections of texts covering a wide range of engineeringsubjects. For the introductory courses, the subjects of weight and mass and of radian measureare commonly included. Along with these topics, one may find more topics from math,introductory topics from engineering science, design, and student projects. Ideally, the topicscovered build upon the earlier material and will be useful to majors in any area of engineeringand technology.A study of work, energy, and power fits well in this package. The topic meets the criteria ofbuilding on earlier material in the course and of being useful in different engineering disciplines.It is found in courses on mechanics and has practical

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury

; Page 9.502.4r. knowledge of chemistry;s. knowledge of calculus-based physics.Various outcome based course assessment tools have also been identified [5], whichincludes Homework assignments, Quizzes, Exams, Class attendance, Design Project, andComputer Simulation.3. Effect of Personal ContactThe Thermodynamics course outcome has been measured using the above tools for thelast two years and presented in Figures 1(a) through 1(c). Each semester, after the firstexam, students who received low grades were identified, and most of the time they werefound to be those having low class attendance. Frequent personal contacts were thenmade with these students, inside and outside the class, expressing concern about theirproblems and trying to

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Blackham; Charles Higby; Michael Bailey

. Other advantages of imaging includefacilitating using the lab for multiple classes, research projects, and individual testing, since anentire lab’s computers can be imaged within thirty minutes. Some applications require the use ofmultiple operating systems such as both Windows and Linux. By creating an image that dualboots operating systems computer equipment is fully utilized.This paper shows the advantages of using imaging software to create and deploy images to largequantities of computers in a lab environment. A network is created with required machines,including a DHCP server, SID generator, an imaging server, and clients. Several images arecreated with different configurations, including dual booting operating systems. These imagesare

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Case Studies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Richards

emphasize design cases. 22, 23 The HarvardBusiness Review publishes case studies in most issues of their journal; some are useful forengineering courses. The Design Management Institute also regularly publishes case studies.There are many sources of good cases, but often our students are best served when we developour own.Writing and distributing cases: Cases are usually developed to illustrate the themes ofparticular courses. At the University of Virginia, cases been have developed for courses onInvention and Design, Total Quality Engineering, and Engineering Ethics. In Business Schools,cases are considered publications on par with the research projects of their colleagues in scienceor engineering.Developing and testing cases typically involves at

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Fisher; Jed Lyons

guidance for the development, implementation and assessment of our efforts.This three-year program seeks to improve the teaching and communication skills of 30engineering students, to enhance the ability of 120 elementary school teachers to use engineeringapplications to teach science, and to inspire thousands of elementary children.A major objective of this and other GK-12 projects is to improve science learning of students andassist in the professional development of teachers in grades 3-8. These groups are targetedbecause this is the time when most young people are either turned-on, or turned-off, to science. Page 9.511.1Too often, science

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

students may stay in the program their entire academic career. Most otherretention programs typically invite or require students to participate during their first year only.Third, the program was developed with significant input from students and is still operated,assessed, and continuously improved by students with faculty oversight. This approach hasproven to have other benefits besides optimizing use of resources. Students involved in theprogram have assumed ownership for its success. They also have the opportunity to developnon-technical skills highly valued by employers, such as leadership, project management,communication, and teamwork skills. Fourth, the program recognizes and addresses criticaltransition stages experienced by students

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McCartney; Lynette Krenelka; John Watson; Dara Faul; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

were at times more than three weeks behind their on-campus peers in submitting the requiredassignments, projects, and tests. This delay generated additional load for faculty in terms of gradingand advising on-campus and distance students at different points in the course. In general, facultymembers considered that under these circumstances a distance student required up to 50% more timeand attention than an on-campus student. Page 9.1377.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationSecond

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

a particularly strong position toundertake major curricular and pedagogical reform.In support of reform activities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a newprogram, Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education in 2002. Thisprogram called for innovative strategies to effect reform, including streamlining thecurriculum through the reduction of legacy materials, introducing topics in emerging areas ofengineering, and forming integrated partnerships that cross disciplines and focus ontechnological systems. CSM engineering faculty interested in curriculum reform developed aproposal to this solicitation; the proposal was funded in fall 2002. This paper describes aspecific objective of the project, namely the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus L. Carter; Amy G. Yuhasz; Misty Loughry; Matthew Ohland

peer evaluationinstrument. It is not always clear, however, what characteristics of teamwork these instruments,or the students, are evaluating. In preparation for this multi-year NSF-supported project, the teamreviewed peer evaluation literature and instruments. The research team has an ambitiousassessment plan that will help develop an instrument that is easy to use and yet meaningful forboth faculty and students.IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a great deal of activity in engineering education research aimed atevaluating teamwork. Much of this is a result of the need to measure ABET’s EC 2000 Criterion3, outcome (d), “an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.”1 While there has beenconsiderable debate on how to apply the

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Fredericks Volkwein; Linda Strauss; Lisa Lattuca; Patrick Terenzini

-reported measures is quite high and isgenerally considered to be a valid measure of real differences in learning between groups.Sampling Procedure: The Penn State Survey Research Center assisted in sampling engineeringprograms for the study. The project team selected programs for participation in the study basedon a two-stage, disproportionate, stratified random sample with a 7x3x2 design. Randomizationensures that each institution in our population had an equal chance of having its programsselected. The sample is stratified on three criteria. The first stratum is the targeted sevendisciplines. The second stratum is the three EC2000 adoption statuses (early: 1998-2000,required: 2001-2003, and deferred: 2004-2006). The third selection stratum is

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

two courses in thermofluids as well as the materials-science course have a lab component. Students are also required to take two courses inelectronics and instrumentation during this year, which also have a lab component. The two-course sequence in vibrations and controls emphasizes the fundamental understanding of thetopics involved and utilizes MATLAB heavily for studios and projects. Group projects andstudios, both experimental and analytical, are required to be performed in several of thesecourses, culminating in technical presentations and reports.Several of the mechanical engineering courses and some engineering science courses havedesign component to some extent through studio or term projects, providing the opportunity tointroduce

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

grade level, applicationof the engineering design process through redesign and design projects, student teaching ofengineering topics, and team development of interdisciplinary engineering curricula. Pre- andpost-workshop student surveys indicate that the intended learning outcomes of the workshopwere met. The experience positively impacted how students viewed engineering and theirintentions for including it in their teaching.INTRODUCTION “Most people think that technology is little more than the application of science to solve practical problems…They are not aware that modern technology is the fruit of a complex interplay between science, engineering, politics, ethics, law, and other factors. People who operate under

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Froyd; Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson

Institutional Transformation. In this project, 26 colleges anduniversities sought to accomplish institution-wide changes on their campuses. Theirstudy of six of these institutions found that change processes “at each institution wereclearly influenced by deeply embedded patterns of behavior, expectations, values, andbeliefs about how that institution function[ed]”19. Leaders at each institution had to“craft” change strategies that “fit” their institutional cultures. The culture was themodifying element of the change process, and was manifested in the people within theorganization.20From a case study of a state college, Tierney21 developed a framework to diagnoseorganizational culture in order to understand management and organizationalperformance. His

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

The Research Communications Studio as a Tool for Developing Undergraduate Researchers in Engineering C. Long, E. Alford, J. Brader, L. Donath, R. Johnson, C. Liao, T. McGarry, M. Matthews, R. Spray, N. Thompson, and E. Vilar University of South CarolinaAbstractThe NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) project at the University of SouthCarolina, responding to groundbreaking theories in How People Learn, is among the firstattempts to measure students’ responses to research-based learning in a distributed cognitionenvironment. As an alternative to the unguided research scenario often encountered by part-timeundergraduate researchers, the project

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

led to thedevelopment of assessment tools and strategies package. These were adopted for common useby all programs with each one at liberty to modify or be selective about the recommendedmethods or tools. The package contained an outcomes assessment matrix, an assessmentstrategies matrix, and various custom-designed assessment forms for integrating ethics, oral andwritten reports, teamwork, peer evaluation, course/project evaluations, exit survey, alumnisurvey, employer survey, and internships. Felder and Brent11 have also reported on a strategy forintegrating program-level and course-level activities to fulfill the ABET criteria.Principal Drivers for ChangePeggy L. Maki12, Director of Assessment, AAHE, stated, “All too frequently higher

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Eichinger; Mark Wilson; Anton Kruger; Marian Muste; Tao Xing

laboratoryexperiments.The paper presents a "proof-of-concept" remote-controlled experiment developed by IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (former the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research) for the FluidsLab of the College of Engineering (CoE) at The University of Iowa (UI) through an InstructionalComputing Awards project sponsored by the UI’s Academic Technology Advisory Council. Theinteractive real-time fluid viscosity experiment allows individuals or groups of students toinitiate, conduct, and conclude measurements using physical hardware located in a remotelaboratory from practically any place, at any time, replicating step-by-step the experimentalprocedures used in the classroom. The experiment is housed at a dedicated website,http://vfl.iihr.uiowa.edu/atac

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David McStravick; Marcia O'Malley

undergraduate engineering education5, 6, 8, 9. In fact, Dr. Kauler states, “Engineers areprimarily goal-oriented, and a language is a tool to achieve the goal. The tool should do so aseasily and quickly as possible. A project should not become bogged down in the distractions of alanguage’s intricacies, yet this is often what happens. The learning curve for a language is an Page 9.1403.2important factor as is the poor retention of learning due to infrequency use of a language. Thelatter phenomenon is a common problem for engineers, who tend not to spend all of their time Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver

drafts at intervals. Deadlines are important to keep studentshonest and on track. Completion of smaller pieces of work makes a large project more feasible without cheating.Many instructors have warned that it is important to revise tests frequently and have several versions available. Webcourseware allows for test questions to be selected randomly, so that several test versions can be created easily.Instructors can monitor test beginning and submission times for collaborators using the authoring software. There isanother approach used 40 years ago at a mid-western university. The tests were so incredibly hard, that even sellinglast year’s final through the local bookstore didn’t benefit students much. It did recover the department’s