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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

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

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Richie; Timothy Lawrence; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

paper will discuss the approach used to conducta successful program, using only mentored undergraduate students to design, develop andoperate small satellites of nano-satellite and micro-satellite size. All of these satelliteshave Air Force and DoD space experiments as their mission.II. BackgroundThe USAF Academy started experimenting with small satellites via cadet-builtprototypes that were “launched” on high altitude balloons. These projects gave thestudents immediate, hands-on experience and allowed the Astronautics Department togradually evolve the curriculum to accommodate increasingly more ambitious spaceprojects. This initial development culminated in the launch of FalconGold in October1997. FalconGold was a 15 Kg fixed, secondary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

from that point (also a common practice)will duplicate the fundamental shortcoming of the simple algorithm (searching the problem spacefor numbers whose paired factor is not an integer). The next most likely factors are 3 and its pair,and many integers between S/2 and S/3 will needlessly be tested if the process begins at S/2.Starting low is still the best approach, and those students who realize this have learned thematerial well.Summary and ConclusionsBoth the similarities and differences between the primality project and this “greatest factor”programming exam question make them a synergistic package. The academic value of thismodule may be measured quantitatively through exam scores; high scores will indicate solidmastery of the subject

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

met once at the end of the semester to present the final design projects. An optional brief meeting at the beginning of the semester was also held to go over the Blackboard tutorial and course syllabus similar to the ones in the traditional format, as well as for testing purposes. Course materials in the form of lecture notes, text-based supplementary materials, discussion groups, and testing were offered through the Internet. The course used Blackboard as the course delivery platform. Test questions were drawn from the same test bank used for the traditional section. • Traditional section (Mixed Mode): A separate section of this course was offered using a mix of traditional and Online based delivery means

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

tasks; scaffolding; cognitive apprenticeship;learner control; and non-linear instruction3. It therefore encourages collaborative learning andteam-building. The intention of the subject library is for the students to perform guidedexperiments and discover the answers to their questions. More details about the library conceptare provided in another paper4.ContentThe Experiential Engineering Library collections will allow students to study problems ofinterest in emerging fields that come from a number of sources including: faculty research,senior capstone design course projects, commercially developed educational tools, and donationsfrom industrial partners. Our Mechanical Engineering faculty includes experts in smart materialsand nanomaterials

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

, entropy, specific heat atconstant volume, and the specific heat at constant pressure for twelve chemical species ofthe carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen (CHON) system. The MathCAD functions weremade available for students in ME 448/548 Internal Combustion Engines to use in theirhomework and projects. The CHON functions were generated to ease the complicationof using tabulated data for ideal gas properties and were used by the students to easilydetermine aspects of combustion such as the heat of combustion of a fuel, adiabatic flametemperature, equilibrium constant, and equilibrium compositions of reacting ideal-gasmixtures. The details and usage of the CHON-MathCAD functions are discussed, andspecific examples of their application to problems in an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

insights. For example, usinga process simulator, one can create a detailed model of an isothermal reactor and use it tosolve many textbook problems, but never realize how difficult it is to design and build areactor that is truly isothermal. For these reasons, we are developing wet-lab experimentsthat complement the computer experiments.Since time, space and money limit the number of wet-lab experiments that can beincluded, the intent of this project is to design two experiments that, between them, meetas many pedagogical goals as possible.Previous WorkAn experiment investigating the following competitive-parallel reaction scheme hasalready been developed:(1) H2BO3- + H+ ↔ H3BO3(2) 5I- + IO3

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

solved.• Since the computer does the grading, after problems are coded, demand on the instructor’s out-of-class time would decrease.Previous offerings of EGTE 321 used WebCT for posting of course materials and assignmentsand for group discussion features. Though it was possible to use LON-CAPA for these purposes,to ease transition effort, the instructor continued to use WebCT for its posting and discussionfeatures and used LON-CAPA for its homework system features only. The first two-thirds of thecourse were devoted to development of analysis and design skills in hydraulics and hydrologythat would be needed for a team project requiring the detailed design of storm-water

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

theimplementations, especially as experienced by the students, including preliminary data onimmediate student outcomes as documented for Fall 2003. The project is part of a three-yearNational Science Foundation sponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement -Educational Materials Development project with faculty partners from colleges of engineering at " Page 9.460.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIowa, Iowa State, Cornell and Howard universities along

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

real-process applications, charts, diagrams,hands-on practices, and demonstrations beside theory, equations, and words.(15,22-26) An effectiveteaching technique should engage students actively, stimulate sense of enquiry, and facilitatecollaborative learning, through, for example, group work.(22-32) In group-work activity, two orthree students can apply a newly learned concept in a short application, such as problem solving,which promotes problem-based learning.(22,25,29,30) Group-design projects, in-class presentations,computer simulations, experiments, would be part of the active learning and deep learning.(28-33)This would enhance the skill of transferring knowledge in higher order within a course or acrosscourses.(15,16) Some current

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

seeking or pursuing academic science andengineering careers. To that end, MentorNet is developing specialized components of its One-on-One Mentoring Program, enabling one-on-one mentoring relationships based on 1) matchinggraduate students and postdoctoral scholars with tenured faculty members as mentors (beginningin fall of 2003), and 2) matching untenured faculty with tenured faculty mentors (beginning infall of 2004). MentorNet will develop a comprehensive approach for this project, withprogrammatic features tailored to the needs of the specific protégé-mentor populations.Since the first matches in this new program were made in September 2003, participatingindividuals have not completed this eight month program, and thus evaluation results are

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

].In order to address these instructional challenges, a group at the University of Missouri – Rollahas developed a series of multimedia modules, as part of a large scale multi-year project tointroduce media-enhanced active learning into foundational classes in engineering [2-6]. Researchthus far has indicated that these modules can be used to enhance instruction in a number of ways.They can be effective as an adjunct to class in the form of homework [7], or even as a substitute Page 9.237.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

. Automated email notifications inform all involvedpersonnel of changes in participant enrollment or event cancellation.The website was designed on a development-production server setup using MacromediaDreamweaver and ColdFusion technology, accessing a SQLserver database. The database wascreated with scalability in mind for use in upcoming semesters/years. With slight modifications,the website could certainly accommodate disciplines/departments outside of the School ofEngineering.The entire web-based, database accessible project was created from the ground up within threemonths with two full-time designer/programmers. A third programmer was brought in to assistwith the final-stage alterations and enhancements. The main lesson learned from this

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

documented resourcefor those students from other disciplines searching the web for information, as was thecobra module. Because the topics are modularized, the instructors can pick and choosethe ones they want to include in any particular termAcknowledgements The funding of this project is provided by NSF under the grant DUE-0126497.We would like to thank our collaborators Prof. Will Medlin, Siris Laursen, Dr. DucNguyen, Anna Gordon and Michael Breson.References1. Dutton, J., Dutton, M. and Perry, J. Do on-line students perform as well as lecture students. Journal of Engineering Education 90, 131-136 (2001).2. Edwards, C. and Fritz, J. H. Evaluation of three on-line delivery approaches. Paper presented at the 1997 Mid-South

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carr; J. Steven Brown

need to reduce global-warming gas emissionsthrough more efficient and cleaner engine designs.Engine DesignThe engine is a 5 HP, overhead valve, four-cycle, recoil start, reciprocating engine with ahorizontal shaft. The stock engine includes a float carburetor. The prototype setup demonstratesthe feasibility of this approach for incorporating small engines into an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. The project execution will occur in several phases in order to provide experiencewith the equipment at progressive stages of additional instrumentation and power absorbingattachments and to minimize initial cash outlay. The current intention is to replicate thedeveloped prototype in order to provide enough units for three or four students per

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

construction of a prototype, a group of business students enrolled in MGMT 301,“Project Management,” conducted a market study during Summer 2003 to assess the marketpotential of OPTX. A letter survey was sent to 100 private and public middle-school teachers inthree geographic (rural, suburban, and urban) areas of Michigan. Forty-nine responses werereceived (49% return rate). Sixteen percent of the respondents have taught between 1-to-5 years,31% 6-to-10 years, 22% 11-to-15 years, and 24% 16 years or more.The major findings of the survey were: 1. All respondents agreed a new approach is needed to teach light reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission; 2. 90% of all respondents stated OPTX would be useful for multiple lessons; 3. 12

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Fisher

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe traditional way. The demonstrations, lab exercises and projects, and field trips that thestudents planned and carried out were outstanding. One student had been an automobilemechanic. He showed the class various sensors and actuators typically found on cars anddemonstrated how they worked. One of the labs was about building electric motors out ofcommon materials found around the house. One project culminated with a tournament of battlerobots. (No, the instructor did not win.) Team-built electric cars were raced up and down thehallway. They built a miniature fire truck that actually pumped water from an external tank andsquirted it out a “water cannon

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Hoit

esThe development of the survey system tool was done using the Microsoft SQL Server 2000database as the backend. We used Active Server Pages technology to develop the web-basedinterface for the project. The following is a list of the basic functions of the survey system;1. Cr eate Sur vey: The system allows the authorized user to create a survey. At his/her disposal the user has several question types to choose from. They can group questions in to sections for better understanding.2. Administer Sur vey: Once the survey is complete, the system will let the user specify email addresses of students that the survey link is emailed to.3. Take Sur vey: Students can log in to the system using their University of Florida student id numbers

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Thakar; Vinay Kadekar; Todd Sparks; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

? If so, what topic? Do you see any correlation between today’s topics and the courses you are teaching? Overall, what is your opinion of today’s topic? On a 1-5 scale, how would you rate your understanding of manufacturing technology? (1= little understanding, 5=great understanding)In the future, such workshops should focus on activities. While lectures are necessaryfor laying groundwork for more interesting activities, most of the feedback receivedduring workshop asked for more time with hands-on activities.IX. AcknowledgmentsThis project is supported by NSF DUE-0202247 and the Society of ManufacturingEngineers Education

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

think well, the question arises whether systems thinkingassists us in our “conceptual engineering” – that is, does it help us to think? Other writers havealready attempted to answer that question. In the field of leadership studies, for example, onecould investigate the work of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann,16 Jay Forrester,6-10 RussellAckoff,1 W. Edwards Deming,5 Peter Senge,20 and Margaret Wheatley.21 There is no reason toduplicate their work here. We endorse this project because we certainly believe it is ethical tothink well, but for present purposes we ask ourselves instead a second question, from the otherdirection, as it were, and that question is whether systems thinking helps us do ethics.According to what are known as cognitivist

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Dilorenzo; Kurt Gramoll

. The Flashinterface allows for outstanding information access in an intuitive format. This applicationexemplifies how a graphical interface can be implemented to aid in education and informationsharing in industry. The system design is adaptable for other types of information managementfor education.VI. AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge the support of this work from the Defense AmmunitionCenter in McAlester, OK through the project “Demilitarization Knowledge ManagementApplication for Transitioning the Ammunition Stockpile”. The authors would like to thankTyrone Nordquist, Greg Olson, Tim Isenberg and all the employees of the Defense AmmunitionCenter for their generous time and beneficial input which was vital to the success of

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hengzhong Wen; Kurt Gramoll

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile there are many well known DBMS, such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MicrosoftAccess, etc., this project selected SQL Server due, in part, to its ability to service over 5,000users while still be reasonably priced. The SQL Server is also designed and optimized forWindows NT which also runs the web-server for training system [4]. Secondly, although bothSQL Server and Microsoft Access are mid-size DBMS, the SQL Server can store more data thanAccess. Also, Microsoft Access can serve only 64 connections where as the SQL Server iscapable of supporting up to 1,000 current connections

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chean-Chin Ngo; Kurt Gramoll

motivation for the current project to develop a web-based Multimedia Engineering FluidMechanics eBook (www.eCourses.ou.edu), which is both informative and interactive. The goalis to enhance the learning experience of the student in studying fluid mechanics, and also perhapsattract more students to become enthusiastic in the field of fluid mechanics. To encourage usingelectronic media, the material of this eBook is freely open for any institution or student to usewithout cost or conditions through the Internet. This eBook can be used as a stand-alone tool fordistance learning or for regular classes in which students are expected to go over and review thematerials before class on their own. Instructor can then make better use of the class time

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Ramachandran; David Silverstein; Kevin Dahm

a semester-long project,that simulates practical economic decision-making. Students started the semester with $10,000and “ran their company” throughout the semester, applying the principles learned in class to aseries of possible investments presented by the instructor. The game thus filled the role of thetraditional homework problems, but had some additional goals and benefits: It created a framework for active learning of the material. Students had to not only learn various economic analysis techniques but also determine which ones were most applicable to the case at hand. It created a classroom environment that was fun, relaxed and informal while still being instructive.The game was first developed and used at Rowan

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

TeamworkEffective instructor-to-student communication Oral and written communicationsEffective student-to-instructor communication Incorporation of leading edge technologiesEffective student-to-student communicationAnytime, anyplace learningSelf-paced scheduleSimulates an in class "feel"Class sizeFeedback clear, timely, and meaningfulAdequately prepared for online courseIncorporation of leading edge technologiesSelf reported learningChallenging learning The Genesis Project, a Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) and NationalInstruments Initiative, brings together electrical engineering programs from throughout Texas todiscuss and implement new ways to engage students early and throughout their electricalengineering experience with

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TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

foundation in a broad range ofvarious courses in the different disciplines across engineering by using the web. This wouldprovide undergraduate students with access to various opportunities and capabilities in theircurriculum using the web to access different materials engineering related goals, activities, andlearning experiences. The web development work illustrated in this communication will provideundergraduate engineering students a user friendly approach to learning and better understandingthe principles of basic fundamental engineering materials, chemical engineering, materialsdesign, engineering science, chemistry and metallurgy necessary for a more fulfilling andexciting undergraduate engineering experience.IntroductionThis project is

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mikaya Lumori; Ernest Kim

BalunsThe laboratory exercise design and development goals were: ‚ Analysis of the product chosen: Develop a theoretical understanding of the topic chosen. Perform required research. Use appropriate mathematical relationships and electromagnetic theory. The operational wavelength is the 2-meter amateur radio band (144.0-148.0 MHz) 3. ‚ Design the product: Use sound design techniques to develop the project chosen. The end result must be the electromagnetic product (e.g. antenna). Use appropriate design equations and software. ‚ Use appropriate means to test the product. Test appropriate parameters and compare to theory (radiation pattern, radiation resistance, and efficiency if possible).In developing

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

pilot characterprograms. As of May 1999, nine states have initiated such projects. In Virginia, Georgia,Florida, and Mississippi legislation has been passed mandating that Character Educationprograms be implemented statewide. As a result, teacher education programs are nowbeing called on to provide a basic framework of Ethics and Character Education topreservice teachers. Greer (1998) believes that matters will certainly grow worse if theschools of education-and their colleagues in the liberal arts colleges-do not prepare thenation’s future teachers to teach effectively about morals and character.Developing an Ethics Education ComponentIn the fall of 1998, discussions began in our traditional four-year teacher preparatoryprogram on how to

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Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

minimum of four (4) recognized major civil engineeringareas; the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data inmore than one of the recognized major civil engineering areas; the ability to perform civilengineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professionalcomponent of the curriculum; an understanding of professional practice issues such as:procurement of work; bidding versus quality based selection processes; how the designprofessionals and the construction professions interact to construct a project; the importance ofprofessional licensure and continuing education; and/or other professional practice issues [1].Regarding this criteria, the curriculum is design to meet