Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Kellogg

isavailable at the master’s level only and is specifically designed to meet the needs of practicingengineers and technologists who need a theoretical foundation for quantitative decision-makingand modern management techniques. The program requires 32 credits of coursework coveringfour basic areas: management, finance, operations, and quantitative methods. Students areallowed to transfer up to 12 credit hours provided the hours are from an accredited university andare approved by the student’s committee. Program requirements may be satisfied through eithera thesis or an independent project option. The program was converted from engineeringmanagement in 1991 as a response to changing industry requirements and has since become apopular program of study

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arlie Donaldson

illustrate comparison for the four cases treated.A major presumption in this approach is that the convective coefficient, the heat capacity, theemissivity and the resistance of the wire do not change substantially during the experiment. Theformer of these presumptions bears further examination on the part of the students; the latter wasstudied in an elective group project and found to be approximately valid, i.e., about 10%variation in electrical resistivity throughout the experiment was found. Consequence of variationin wire emissivity and heat capacity will be discussed later when analytical predictions arecompared to experimental measurements.In order to complete the integration of Eq. (1) for the latter three case, values for both theconvective

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”communication skill reinforcement comes in the form of their reading of the text and telling thewriter what they as simple readers of the text feel about its production. The simple things that Ihave reported in the text above are what they look for and report back to the writers. This is notmeant to be a massive “English” project. The graduate students are predominantly internationalso I am more interested in their role as fellow mechanical engineers who are giving theircomments to colleagues. I have found little problem if any in the evaluation of domestic studentsby internationals. In actuality, part of this work involves learning to

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McLaughlan

rivers. The Forum activity specifically seeks to promotemultiple perspective-taking on a controversial science and technology public issue anddevelop conflict management skills, critical thinking and collaborative skillsTechnology Integration Report (60%) Task 3: In this component of the subject, studentsaddress issues surrounding the integration of Technology into a particular business or socio-political context. They produce a report which seeks to address the adoption, consultation orevaluation of a technology product, project, plan, policy or programme. The available reporttypes are an Impact Evaluation report, a Stakeholder Engagement Report, Product-ServiceEvaluation report and an Innovation Evaluation report.Structure of the Structured

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasha Morsi

Page 9.129.9engineering, allowing students to learn more and at their own pace, to understand more deeply Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthrough the interactive nature of the tool, and to enjoy their learning experience more withminimal frustration.AcknowledgmentsThe Karnaugh Map Evaluator was programmed by a group of four students (Joseph Shaw,Robert Kost, Nayda Caasi, and Jay DeGuzman), under the supervision of the author, as a seniordesign project for their Computer Engineering degree in the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department at Old Dominion University.Bibliography[1

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Beltz; Marie Dahleh

in the major; some had previously taken Statics but wanted to earn abetter grade, and some were supposed to have taken Statics during an earlier quarter and wantedto get back on track with their peers. Obviously, when comparing the performance of thosetaking Statics in the Fall versus the Summer, one must bear in mind that the makeup of thestudent groups differs in these respects.About half way through the Statics course in Summer, 2003, the students were asked about theeffectiveness of the six-week versus a ten-week format. Although they had not taken Statics onthe 10-week format, they were asked to make this comparison by projecting their experiencewith Statics onto their past experience with other traditional, ten-week technical courses

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Tavares; Anthony Duva; Mansour Zenouzi

Page 9.923.2education. In fact a minimum of 40 percent of a program’s technical contact hours must beProceeding of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationassociated with a combination of laboratory and project work over the entire baccalaureateexperience.During the 1960s the students were taught to operate an industrial power plant, using a three-story Erie City boiler located in the power plant of the main campus. The steam produced wassupplied to a GE turbine located in a thermodynamics laboratory adjacent to the power plantwith an accompanying condenser for the exhaust steam. Vacuum pumps operated the

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

. Professors develop individualcourse assessment plans identifying appropriate techniques for each outcome for eachcourse. Assessment practices are not limited to survey data, however, but may alsoinclude the following: Written or Oral Exams Individual or Group Exercises, Home Work or Projects Performance Appraisals Simulations Targeted Written Surveys and Questionnaires Exit Surveys and Interviews Focus Group Discussions External Examination by Another Member of the Staff and Faculty Behavioral Observations At the program level, program chairmen in consultation with their respective staff andfaculty will complete a comprehensive assessment of the program based on faculty

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Baumann

masteryof subject matter at Baylor University. 30 Although not completely unique, the new program atCCSU joins the small subset that integrates first-year experiences into its problem-solvingintroductory course. Additionally, the culminating team design project which uses several learnedproblem-solving principles and skill sets seemingly makes it special compared to programs in theliterature surveyed.II. First Year Experience Activities IntroducedInstructors for FYE sections of courses at CCSU receive training prior to their course offerings.This training imparts a better understanding of first-year students, provides a specific profile ofthe CCSU student, and reviews the results of surveys given to FYE student populations. Upontraining completion

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; John Uhran; Catherine Pieronek

-Year EngineeringStudents,” 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2002.2. The College Board, “Guidelines on the Uses of College Board Test Scores and Related Data,” College EntranceExamination Board, 2002.3. Pieronek, C., McWilliams, L.H, Silliman, S.E., “Initial Observations on Student Retention and CourseSatisfaction Based on First-Year Engineering Student Surveys and Interviews,” 2003 ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2003.CATHERINE PIERONEKCatherine Pieronek, J.D., has served as director the Women’s Engineering Program at the University of Notre Damesince 2002. She has worked as a senior systems engineer on NASA spacecraft projects at TRW Space & DefenseSector, and as

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Stirewalt

identifies distinctphases that are performed sequentially (Figure 1). Briefly, analysis produces a systemspecification; system design produces a system architecture that allocates responsibilitiesto major hardware and software components; detailed design develops (or reuses)interfaces for individual software modules; and implementation implements thesemodules.Each phase produces a tangible artifact; however the only executable artifact is the finalimplementation, and in real projects, software development may proceed for severalyears before a fully developed executable appears. Thus, much of the software-engineering body of knowledge includes principles, notations, and heuristic methods thatsupport these early phases and (to some extent) the

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

Telecommunications Classrooms with an Emphasis on Soft Skills, www.nctt.org/experientiallearning 4. Workman, J. Siurek, A. Smith G., Development of a Multimedia Laboratory Supplement for an Introduction to Materials Course: A Computer Graphics Technology Senior Design Project, Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec, June 2002Biographical Information Page 9.891.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

-based instruction,” Computers & Education, 40, pp183-191, 2003.[3] R. A. Bartsch & K. M. Cobern, “Effectiveness of PowerPoint presentations in lectures,” Computer & Education, 41, pp 77-86, 2003.[4] S. M. Butzin, “Using instructional technology in transformed learning environments: An evaluation of project child,” Journal of Research in Computing Education, 33(4), pp 367-384, 2000.[5] M. H. Hopson, R. L. Simms & G. A. Knezek, “Using a technologically enriched environment to improve higher-order thinking skills,” Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 34(2), pp 109-119, 2002.[6] S. T. Marina, “Facing the challenges, getting the right way with distance learning,” Ed at a Distance, 15

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordy Skattum; Clifford Mirman

Tech 302 Tech 496 - p:Tech265,302,395 Supervision in Ind - (f,s) Graphic Pres and Comm - (f,s) Industrial Project Mgmt - (f,s)as well as a 23 credit hour technical area of study. To satisfy the needs of the on-campusstudents, the Department offers technical areas of study in plastics, computer-aided-design,manufacturing, and safety. However, there is also a 23-credit special technical studies area thatallows the Department to transfer the technical Associates of Applied Sciences (AAS) degreesfrom the various Community Colleges. For the off-campus programs, students are instructed totake basic and fundamental courses and complete an AAS degree, in addition to the NIUmanagement/supervisory

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Thomas; Albert Rosa

solution to theproblem. In the early 1990’s the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)began emphasizing the importance of design in the curriculum. What ABET sought to influencewere programs wherein students had some experience with design before they attempted theircapstone design project. Although design was usually added to other than circuits courses, a fewbrave circuits instructors began to add some design content to their courses. Some circuits textsbegan to include some design problems. Today including design content in the first and/orsecond circuits course is still far from being universally adopted. Many students, especiallythose in non-electrical/computer engineering programs, view linear circuits as uninteresting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

from sitting in a designated exit seat if they cannot speak, read or understand the instructions.”H) Activities for experiencing design basics and exercising the “more than one solution”approachTransportation projects. Several teams are formed to solve specific real-lifemultidisciplinary problems in intelligent vehicles. Each team (also called “E-Team”) isassigned a task. The teams use problem solving strategies to generate ideas, choose the bestsolution, complete comprehensive patent and marketability searches, and design prototypes.Examples for E-Team tasks that were suggested to the students:•Sensor fusion system for detecting obstacles•Smart bumpers to minimize collision effects•Advanced collision-warning system•Radar-based system

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Strong; Scott Amos; Richard Callahan

first step inaddressing these issues. For example, students could be introduced to the sampling proceduresfor inspection by variables1. They could then be assigned a project that requires thedetermination of appropriate sample size and procedure. Additional assignments might involveappropriate data collection and recording procedures for control charts as described by theAmerican National Standard for Control Charts2.Gage Repeatability and ReproducibilityWhen collecting data for analysis, assuring that accurate gages and gaging methods are used is acritical first step. Incorrect use of common measuring devices such as calipers and micrometers

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

Visited: 9/25/03 Engineering Design Project II5 University of GE103 - Mechanical http://www.ge.uiuc.edu/crsinfo/crsdesc/ge103.ht Illinois–Urbana- Engineering Desktop ml Champaign Graphics and Site visited: 9/18/03 Design ME170 ProEngineer http://www.mie.uiuc.edu/content/asp/programs/c Computer Aided ourse_offerings/100_level_mechanical_engineer Design ing_courses.asp

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Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa Lin

, No. 4, 2002, pp. 697-713, http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/cody.pdf17. Apache Web Services Project, http://ws.apache.org18. Java Servlet Technology, http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/archive.html19. Java Technology - The Source for Developer, http://developers.sun.com/20. JDBC Basics, http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/basics/21. Java Remote Method Invocation, http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/rmi/22. Java Native Interface, http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jni/ Page 9.836.1023. ebXML- Electronics Business using XML, www.ebXML.org Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Cox; Janice Bordeaux; David Caprette; Beth Beason; Ann Saterbak

. Without a primary focus on generic capabilities, it is especially difficult to holdstudents to the expectation that as they advance in a laboratory program the quality of their workshould advance as well.Many interdisciplinary capstone design courses in engineering implicitly emphasize genericcapabilities. Generic capabilities such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking andmaturity, together with content-specific knowledge, are important to a design group’s success [3-4]. To facilitate this type of interdisciplinary learning environment, students from differentdepartments may be grouped to work on capstone design or laboratory projects [5-8]. Studentsmay also be required to work on projects or experiments requiring knowledge across

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Cottrell

Society for Engineering EducationResearch Activity. As indicated earlier, the appropriate method for evaluating transportationresearch activity is not clear. Involvement in the UTCP and the annual meetings of the TRB wasused here, but there are other measures. These would include financial measures, such as theamount of research funding or the number of funded projects, as well as research products, suchas publications by and citations of the faculty. The number of transportation-themeddissertations and theses completed might also be a measure of the level of research.Faculty. Although Cottrell (4) addressed the number of full-time transportation faculty at eachinstitution, this paper did not attempt to summarize this statistic. In the research

Conference Session

Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyler Cummings-Bond; Robin Adams

. Accuracy of the final compiled list was evaluated with a set of test subjects knownto have CAREER grants yet not be in traditional academic careers paths. As of 2003, thenumber of CAREER recipients in engineering related projects totals 548. Given the goals of thegrant, this population may be described as “low-risk” in that the likelihood of obtaining tenure isquite high.Searching for Current PositionSearching for current position information was time consuming and required many validationsteps. Google® was the primary web search engine used. When Google did not return usefulsearches we used a number of other strategies such as searching the PhD granting institution todetermine if the subject was still hosting a website and using Dogpile®, a meta

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

. Spacecraft contamination engineering influences spacecraft operations becausecontamination can degrade the physical properties of thermal and optical systems. The presenceof contaminants in the field-of-view affects sensor's operations. Without proper contaminationcontrol, contamination induced degradation will render millions of dollars worth of instrumentsuseless. Over the past decade, the NAFP Fellow (Dr. Chen) has spearheaded spacecraftcontamination engineering projects at NASA, leading a contamination engineering team thatgrew from a small team of 12 to more than 36 NASA scientists, engineers and on-sitecontractors. The purpose of the spacecraft contamination engineering course is to build onfundamental knowledge from physics and

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Summers; Julie Phillips; Nathan Harter; Mark Dean; Donna Evanecky

, Vol. 16(2).5 Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and the new science. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.6 Forrester, J. W. (1990). Principles of systems. Portland: Productivity Press.7Galagan, P.A. (1991). The learning organization made plain: An interview with Peter Senge. Training &Development (37– 44).8 Ackoff, R.L. (1995). Evolution of Management Models. The Center for Quality of Management 1050 V2.1.9 Forrester, J. W. (1995). The Beginning of System Dynamics. The McKinley Quarterly (4) 4-13.10 MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (n.d.) Retrieved January 10, 2004 fromhttp://web.mit.edu/sdg/www/JayForrester.html.BiographiesMARK DEANDr. Mark L. Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University, New

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Natasha Beretvas; John Pearce, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Conversion) hardware and virtual instruments(on the PC) to display the results of circuit measurements in real time. The instruments arerealized completely in software and represent a nearly complete instrument suite, includingarbitrary waveform generators and noise sources. The hardware can be connected to a standardlaptop PC over its PCMCIA bus, and can thus be simultaneously projected onto existingclassroom video systems. This allows the instructor to show circuit solutions in real time usingreal physical devices, with attendant uncertainties in component values, offset voltages, leakagecurrents, and noise. With ELVIS, circuit behavior can be seen by students during lecture rather

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Timothy Cromley

at www.uspto.gov and discussion below.)4. How to Value a PatentThose interested in evaluating a patent should recognize that some investments in R&D or high-tech bear much fruit while many others do not. A project involving telecommunication satellitesin which Motorola and others had invested $5 billion, for example, went into bankruptcy.21Similarly, more than 862 dot-com companies reportedly failed during the 1-1/2 year periodstarting in January 2000.22 Moreover, merely obtaining a patent is no assurance that theunderlying technology has any significant economic value. The top 10% of patents in bothGermany and the U.S. accounted for over 80% of total patent value.23 One economist, BaruchLev, suggests that “the majority of [those

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Stratton; Maureen Valentine; Carol Richardson

engineer, senior engineer, director of engineering, design engineer,president/owner, project engineer, associate professor, department manager, and team leader.The MET Northeastern University survey job titles were engineer, manager, technician,designer, student, and other. Northeastern University reported that 43 of 55 (75%) respondentswith a MET bachelor degree were functioning as either an engineer or manager and 6 of 55(10%) as technicians or designers while 50% of the associate degree respondents were workingas technicians or designers. Northeastern University reported that 45 of 62 (70%) of the EETBS graduates were functioning as either an engineer or manager and 4 of 62 (6%) as technicians.The University of Dayton survey (1992-1996

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Cheng

controller’s functions based upon the given control systemspecifications. The GUI design method used in this project also demonstrates the feasibilities forimplementing other techniques in SISO control study using MATLAB-based programming andtools.Bibliography 1. Phillips, C. L., Feedback Control Systems, 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. 2. The Mathworks, Manual of Simulink, Version 5, 2002. 3. The Mathworks, Manual of Control Tool Box, 2002. 4. The Mathworks, Manual of MATLAB, 2002BiographyFRANK S. CHENG is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at CentralMichigan University. He received a M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Chenghas taught courses in

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suguna Bommaraju

was administeredrandomly about 5 times over the semester. At the beginning of the semester one-minuteevaluations were administered every week and later spaced bi weekly (total 7). The assessmentof teaching effectiveness and learning was mostly from the student’s perception. Center for theenhancement of learning and teaching has helped tremendously throughout the project. As thisprogram was implemented for the first time, there was no external help either in terms ofteaching assistants or other faculty members.III.1 Weekly QuestionnaireAt the end of the class, students are asked to fill out a weekly questionnaire. These weeklyquestionnaires are conducted randomly throughout the semester. The number of studentsparticipated in these assessments