Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

analysis tools must be used efficiently in engineering core courses so that teachingof fundamentals is not compromised. This paper describes a shaft design project assigned in ajunior level machine design course, and compares the teaching effectiveness of a traditionalanalysis by “hand” versus a computational approach using COSMOS/Works. Both approachesare found to be beneficial for student learning, and the experience suggests that a finite elementanalysis tool complements, but does not replace, traditional analysis techniques in the classroom.IntroductionThe use of modern computational tools in an undergraduate curriculum is a necessary componentof today’s engineering education. Introduction of new topics or techniques inevitably creates

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringEach student in the math course must complete 4 Matlab projects. These Matlab projects are tobe done on the students own time. (There is a computer lab reserved for the ASPIRE program inorder for the students to complete the tasks). The students are assign homework each night andthe homework problems are randomly collected and graded. Quizzes are given and based on theunderstanding of the material covered for each class session. Students are given 3 in class tests.Engineering Problem-SolvingThe instructor of this course exposes the students to the skills of how to solve pencil and paperengineering problems. Also, assignments cover

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Kenrow

-called TCAD framework tools, like GENESISe from ISE [1], canovercome this dilemma. GENESISe is a work environment, which creates a user-friendlyinterface for the TCAD simulation tools. It organizes and maintains simulation projectsautomatically. GENESISe allows to set-up TCAD simulation projects in a parameterizedmanner. Within this work environment the student has easy access to certain parameters(predefined by the instructor). For example, the student can modify these parameters and rerunthe simulation after reading a brief instruction page. The interested student can always venturebeyond the prescribed parameterization to explore the subject at hand to any depth withoutlimits. Some TCAD vendors [1] offer free self-study introductory training

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

for a networks course following a laboratory based approach to Despite the difficulties of including security related support an active learning environment. The suggestedtopics at the undergraduate level, the recent trends suggest methodologies for delivering the course are engagedthat undergraduate programs in computing include learning, project-based learning, cooperative learning, andsecurity related topics. The CS volume of the Year 2001 problem-based learning. However, in this paper we onlyModel Curricula for Computing (CC-2001 [3]) contains emphasize on the developed labs. The specificseveral modules with area

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

awordprocessor.A critical and challenging part of an on-going project to develop spreadsheet modules for use inthe materials science and engineering curriculum is finding the best way to introduce these intoexisting courses. This paper describes an effort to integrate spreadsheets into a sophomore-levelintroductory materials science course.Why Spreadsheets?While spreadsheets have been around for many years, dating back to the late 1970s and early1980s when the availability of programs such as VisiCalc and Lotus 123 alone justified thepurchases of the hardware, the engineering student and instructor today have many more optionsfor mathematical and number-crunching software. TKSolver, Maple, MatLab, Mathematica, andothers offer powerful modeling and

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Michigan State University. She was part of a research team studying bestpractices in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Undergraduate Reform for SRI and NSF, and policyevaluator for an NSF Rural Systemic Reform project on math and science curriculum reform in the Navajo Nation.Taner Eskil is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan StateUniversity. Mr. Eskil holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and will soon complete his Ph.D. research in the areaof internet agent support for electronic commerce. Mr. Eskil has been instrumental in developments in the College ofEngineering freshman gateway course in computational tools.Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Mohammadzadeh

ball, V is the speed of the ball, t is the density of the air,A is the projected area of the ball normal to the air flow, and CD is the drag coefficient.Neglecting the surface roughness of the ball, the drag coefficient CD depends on, airviscosity, air density, ball speed, and ball diameter. That is: C D ? f ( o , t , V , d ) (2)Where o is the air viscosity, t is the air density, V is the speed of the ball, and d is thediameter of the ball. The effect of all these parameters on the drag coefficient can belumped into a single dimensionless parameter known as Reynolds number (Re). That is: Page

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session 1359 INSTRUMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL AND HOMEMADE PASSIVE SOLAR PANELS Emin Yılmaz University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, Maryland 21853 (410)-651-6470 E-mail: eyilmaz@mail.umes.eduAbstractThe purpose of this project was to compare water-heating capacities of a commercial passivesolar panel and a home designed passive solar panel. The home made solar panel consisted ofsix, 10 ft long parallel, ½ in

Conference Session

The Climate for Women in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Christine Anderson-Cook; Amy Bell; Steve Spencer

, West Lafayette, IN, 1998. Page 9.1117.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education[11] Goodman, I. F., Cunningham, C. M., Lachapelle, C., Thompson, M., Bittinger, K., Brennan, R. T. and Delci, M., “The Women’s Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) Project,” Goodman Research Group Inc., April 2002.[12] Hall, R.M. and Sandler, B.R., “The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women?,” Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

methodologies and others do notconsider the linkage between basic inventory management principles with lean manufacturing.This paper presents an approach to implement lean manufacturing from the existing condition ofmass or batch production. The implementation consists of series of activities or projects thatneed to be done from start to finish and repeated again. Some projects have to be done beforeothers can start. The paper also shows how some important principles of lean manufacturing canbe taught using inventory management concepts. Page 9.164.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

tend to damp out intellectualexcitement somewhat.Instant MessagingThere are two primary networks that now dominate the Instant Messaging arena, and the growthof this communication mode is nothing short of phenomenal. According to PR Newswire(2002), an authoritive study of internet use predicts “IM accounts will grow from 225 million in2002, to reach 989 million in 2006. It also predicts that Instant Messaging will becomeincreasingly commonplace in corporate environments over the next four years, projecting thatworldwide IM accounts for business purposes will grow from 35 million in 2002, to reach 118million in 2006”. When combined with the observations of the authors, and Madden’s 2003study, the picture is clear-IM use is ballooning, and young

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jianping Yue

20% of the students receiving the grant werefrom underrepresented groups in science and engineering, and approximately 40% of therecipients were women. The scholarships and fellowships are managed by each state consortiumand detailed information can be obtained through Space Grant’s websitehttp://calspace.ucsd.edu/spacegrant.Space Grant also sponsors the NASA Academy for undergraduate students of the memberinstitutions. NASA Academy is a ten-week summer program at several NASA centers.Participants work as research associates on projects under the guidance of NASA scientists.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Ames Research Center inMoffelt Field, California have maintained regular Academy programs. The Goddard

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Kulonda; Thomas O'Neal

Research at the University of Central Florida. In that role, he directs theoperation of the UCF Technology Incubator, perennially ranked among the top incubators in the country.He has served as business development manager for several entrepreneurial ventures and has UCF degressin electrical engineering, business administration and engineering management. He is currently a doctoralcandidate in Engineering Management at UCFDENNIS J. KULONDA is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. Hisresearch and teaching is focused in Engineering Management. He has extensive experience in thedevelopment and management of industrial engineering projects in operational and financial planning andis developing a third edition of

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jones; Beth Tieszen; Dennis Schulte; Ann Koopmann

usingCoET-required courses such as freshmen, sophomore and senior seminars, and required AGENand BSEN courses. These seminars and course include the selected survey requirement on the Page 9.640.4syllabus assuring completion of the surveys at the “right times.” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education ResultsThis section provides a snapshot of the kind of data being acquired, but the project is very earlyin its evolution and conclusions at this time

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Pinkus; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Mark Sindelar; Larry Shuman; Carl Mitcham; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Harvey Wolfe

- Page 9.283.4ess, initially utilizing the first three of four sequential levels proposed by Jones in his “model for Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationethical decision making”: recognizing a moral issue, making a moral judgment, and establishingmoral intent [48]. In doing this, we drew upon Pinkus, Chi, McQuaide and Pollack’s experiencegained in the cognitive study they conducted to understand how students learn ethics using acase-based reasoning approach [49]. This study was part of a larger initiative that developedPETE (Project Professional Ethics Tutoring Environment) a web-based tutoring

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

Fellowand Life Member in the American Society of Engineering Education.LEVELLE BURR-ALEXANDER is the Project Manager for Instruction for the Pre-Engineering Instructionaland Outreach Program and serves as the NJ Affiliate Director for Project Lead The Way®. She has degrees inChemistry and Biomedical Engineering, and is currently completing her Ed. D. in Curriculum Development andSystemic Change. Ms. Burr-Alexander has nearly two decades of experience in curriculum development andimplementation of educational programs for educators and students in science, mathematics and technology.HOWARD KIMMEL is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-CollegePrograms at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Drez; Deepthi Werapitiya; Jerald Rounds

and evaluations are also discussed.History of the Construction Supervisor Certificate ProgramThe University of New Mexico (UNM) in partnership with the Albuquerque TechnicalVocational Institute and the Construction Advancement Institute (CAI) launched a fully onlineprofessional Civil Engineering certificate program in the fall of 2002. The ConstructionSupervisor Certificate (CSC) program was created based on projected demands in the Page 9.1047.1construction industry, as tracked by CAI. The professional certificate requires a total of thirty(30) credit hours for completion, and includes lower and upper division courses. The upperProceedings of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

6 are also followed. Themore rules that are used, the more shocking and awing the presentation will be. Keep in mindthat the presentation took very little time yet was effective at LTU.There are many ideas for shocking and awing presentations that take very little time. To recruitmechanical engineering students, a university may want to present a demonstration aboutprojectile ballistics. A shocking and awing demonstration can accompany the presentationinvolving the burning of smokeless gun powder and black powder. The resulting smoke andflame will shock and awe the students (see Figure 2). The SAE Formula Car performing variousmaneuvers can be used as an awing demonstration. One of the senior projects teams built a 2person hovercraft (see

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Bowman; Cliff Goodwin

proud ofhimself. He had learned a great deal about online course design. His pride however wasnot sufficient to overcome his sense of frustration at how long the project was taking andhow it was interfering with his other responsibilities, especially his research, writing andhome life. Twigg kept track of his time on the project and had logged about 200 hours onthe project thus far. He feels like a permanent fixture at the Center for Teaching andLearning. He even attended an office birthday party for one of the center’s staff memberslast week. He had attended way too-many-to-count group training sessions, not tomention all the individual consultations with the center’s staff. The really depressing part,Twigg kept thinking, was that he was only

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

JoAnn Lighty; Holly Moore; David Richardson; Nick Safai

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary A. Nelson; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

“alternateconceptions”).1 The topic has garnered considerable interest among engineeringeducators over the past few years and several concept inventories on engineering-relatedtopics are being developed, most notably by the group led by Evans associated with theFoundation Coalition.2 The goal of our project, funded by the Assessment of StudentAchievement (ASA) program at NSF, is to develop and test an inventory for the thermaland transport sciences, based on the model of the Force Concept Inventory pioneered byHestenes and colleagues.3 Once our CI has been developed and validated, it will be madeavailable to interested engineering faculty for use as a classroom formative assessmenttool that can provide valuable information for tracking student understanding

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

and thetime element assigned to the particular project. In addition, the user must have a thoroughunderstanding of the software functionality and the ability to gather information related toimplementing a particular modeling strategy. This process of strategy development andimplementation coincides with components of learning theory. As engineering graphicseducators, it is helpful to reflect on how students learn in our classrooms and laboratories as wellas reflect on how we develop instruction. This paper outlines three theories of learning that areapplicable to graphics education, discusses the assumptions about the learner and the learningenvironment, presents the components of learning for each theory, discusses major issues relatedto

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Horvath; Cecilia Lucero

persistence in science and engineering graduate programs. Uncovering Page 9.646.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe nuances of underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students’ experiences is key toaddressing issues of enrollment, persistence, and attrition. To this end, the National Consortiumfor Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) is proposing aqualitative research project designed to understand the socialization of underrepresented minoritystudents in STEM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph LaLopa; Mara Wasburn

such programs.7, 16 However, The New Faculty Project, which studied new faculty hiresfor the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, discovered thatdespite the attention paid to mentoring programs, the proportion of new faculty who have Page 9.219.2mentors has remained unchanged for the past ten years. Of those who do have mentors, most are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationassigned pairings within their departments. Very few mentoring programs exist

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning: Instruction & Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Easton; John Stratton

. The tabulated resultsindicate a projected annual growth rate of nearly 20 percent.The FutureTechnology improvements have permitted the rapid growth in distance learning. Not only hasthe geographical reach of a university been expanded, but the concept of coursework without aclassroom setting has been fully accepted. Already, the transition to “blended courses”, that iscourses that combine classroom activity with online learning, is underway. The convenience ofanytime, anywhere a laptop can access the internet is too attractive a concept to disappear. Thefuture will bring more innovation, faster access, and greater utilization. Distance learning is hereto stay

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yakov Cherner

). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 7. G.Gibbs. Learning by Doing. A Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods (1988) http://www.chelt.ac.uk/gdn/gibbs/ 8. Mary E. Lee, Distance Learning as "Learning by Doing". Educational Technology & Society (1999) 2(3), http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_3_99/mary_e_lee.html 9. National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press, (1996). http://www.nap.edu/html/nses/html/ Page 9.792.7 10. Benchmarks for Science Literacy (Project 2061), Oxford Univ. Press, NY

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

9.889.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclassifying normal movements. The module could then record whether the students usedthese examples. It is hoped that the new module will include the training of the modelingof joints for statics and dynamics. This project demonstrated the potential power of the learning about how studentslearn; however future work will review alternatives that may involve less developmenttime.References 1. Felder, R.M., Felder, G.N., Dietz, “The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Student Performance and

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Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Asghar Bhatti

range of additional design topics were suggested for inclusion at theundergraduate level also, including high rise buildings, bridges, shell structures, advancedconcrete structures, advanced steel structures, earthquake resistant design, and blastresistant design.In the area of practice and marketing, topics of project management, marketing services,business development, communications, quality control, and cost estimation weresuggested as being needed at the undergraduate level.There may be a number of themes that can be developed from the results, although in abroader sense the results simply appear to be all over the place. The first theme is thatperhaps practicing engineers are not as familiar with the various examinations needed toobtain