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Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

1 Session 3661 Abundance, Order, and Meaning: Reconceptualizing the Role of Technology in Global Cultures W. Bernard Carlson Department of Science, Technology, and Society School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia One of the key outcomes of ABET 2000 is to provide engineering studentswith "the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context." In my view, the intellectual challengein

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Gill; William Haering

Page 9.1164.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationand learning, along with their responsibilities to high quality research, service and outreach.This thinking follows Ernest Boyer’s5 Concept of Scholarship and recognizes that teaching is aform of scholarship at its highest level. Boyer’s four interwoven categories include: Discovery(research), Integration (synthesis), Application/engagement (practice) and Teaching (learning).This point of view was expressed in reference [1] in a discussion of teaching as a scholarly act,“At bottom, the concept entails a view that teaching, like other scholarly

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

and faculty at CSM, resulting in theplanning of a second minor degree in Humanitarian Studies and Technology, which would servestudents in applied science and economics. In this paper, we present some of the problems andissues associated with this multidisciplinary endeavor, involving engineering, the sciences andthe humanities.1. IntroductionThe 21st century has brought Americans a new awareness of anguish and discontent in lowerincome countries, and an emerging recognition of the need for U.S. participation to amelioratethis suffering. Attendant with these issues is the demand for enhanced security, safety, andequity for the disadvantaged. At the same time, engineering graduates shy away from politicallife, community service, and

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Elzey; Dan Bauer; Paxton Marshall; Kathryn Neeley

picture' encompasses economic, political, social, and ethical components.It is important, but not enough, that engineers are taught excellence in design to achieve safety, reliability, cost and maintenance objectives. It is important, but not enough, to teach them to create, operate and sustain complex systems. It is important, but not enough, for them to understand and participate in the process of research. It is important, but not enough, for them to develop the intellectual skills for life-long learning.... Engineering is not just about doing things right, but also about doing the r ight things.1 NSF Acting Deputy

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

program designed to providegraduates with skills in the marine science area for industry, the government, and academia. Theprogram is described in detail in Ref. 1. Various departments on each campus are contributing to this program in different ways:some with existing courses and research experience, and others by creating new courses for theprogram. The Mechanical Engineering Department on the Lowell campus had some researchand practical experience in the field of Ocean Engineering and related fields, and had offered acourse many years ago called “Mechanical Engineering Problems in Oceanography.” A fortyfoot long wave tank had been used for studying oil spills on water, but long since dismantled,and the department had participated in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

Session Number 1526 PLANNING A NSF ATE NATIONAL CENTER IN NANOMANUFACTURING EDUCATION Paul M. Hallacher, Douglas E. Fenwick, and Stephen J. Fonash The Penn State Nanofabrication Facility Over the past decade, microfabrication has been subsumed by nanofabrication,and it is estimated that the United States will need between 800,000 and 1 million newnanofabrication workers in the next 10 years (Breslau, 2002; Roco, 2002). Severalindustry sectors are driving this workforce need. First are the established industries thattraditionally use micro- and nanotechnology, such as microelectronics, informationstorage

Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

EducationThis rather brief description of how the method works illustrates several important principles thatare very obvious to the perceptive user of the method. These include, but are not limited to, (1)equilibrium must be satisfied for all members and at all joints, (2) the moments along a beam arebasically those resulting from the loads on the member modified by the end moments, (3)moment (and forces) flow more to a member as that member’s stiffness increases, (4) memberstiffness depends upon material stiffness, member size, and member length in a simplerelationship, and (5) a load in one location has an decreasing effect at members located furtheraway. It can be argued that the physical demonstration of these principles is much more visiblein the

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

topics that relate to the successful completion of larger projects that the students may beinvolved with in industry. Central to the support of the project is a discussion of both the basiccircuitry used in the project , the internal functions of the IC used, and the additional circuitsused in a particular semester. The basic circuit is shown in Intersil application note AN023: Figure 1. LCD Digital Panel Meter Using ICL7106 (1)Circuitry that can be added to the above basic circuit includes: • Multiple DC voltage ranges • AC voltage ranges • Autoranging • Current rangesAn example of the finished project will be displayed at the ASEE conference presentation. Testresults will also be presented. As a result of the first

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Harris; David Cordray

Impact of Assessment on a BME Undergraduate Program Thomas R. Harris, David Cordray Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235IntroductionLearning theory suggests that effective instruction should be “student centered, knowledgecentered, assessment centered, and community centered”1. We have been engaged in a largestudy aimed at exploring and testing these concepts for biomedical engineering education—theNSF Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center onBioengineering Educational Technologies. The set of concepts that have been applied toimprove learning have been labeled the “How People Learn (HPL) Framework”2. This paper isan

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

level. Table 1 shows placementlevels of minority and non-minority freshman students over the 3-year period. Table 1 Math Placement Level of Freshman Cohorts Year of Entering non-minority freshmen who Entering minority freshmen who Entrance placed at or above pre-calculus placed at or above pre-calculus (Math 105), % (Math 105), % 1992 84 44 1993 80 38 1994 82

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

students to make the connectionsbetween academic disciplines while building teamwork and communications skills beginningtheir first semester. Developed by technical college faculty and published by the South CarolinaAdvanced Technological Education Center of Excellence (SC ATE), the new curriculum hasincreased student retention to 75%-100% from semester to semester and increased graduationrates more than 10 fold from historical ratesi. Table 1. Sample data from Florence-Darlington Technical CollegeRetention rates Fall 2003 to Spring 2004 75.0% (36 of 48 students)Graduation rates Pre-ATE curriculum 12.0% (statewide, N=1614

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

the nosecone, an altimeter bay with housings for the para- chutes, and a lower interface that connected to the motor. Upon Figure 1. The Rocket determining the amount of space needed for the equipment in each section to ensure a successful launch, test, and recovery, itwas noted that a second piece of the outer trunk was necessary for our rocket system. Dr. Rocketwas able to supply the required additionModifications were relatively simple for the outer trunk of the rocket. Both tubes were cut inspecific locations to provide the required lengths for the three sections of the rocket. Thenosecone was then attached to the end of one tube

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Qaissaunee

, American Society for Engineering EducationProject Design The wireless project has will address the demonstrated need through the development andimplementation of AAS and credit certificate programs with multiple entry and exit points toprepare technicians for the wireless communications industry. The project components includecurriculum development and adaptation, program development, professional development forhigh school and community college faculty, and development of a 2+2+2 articulation, in wirelesscommunications. The following objectives and supporting activities ensure attainment of thisgoal.Objective 1: Create education and training programs in wireless communications leadingstudents to AAS degrees, certificates, and occupational

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

form of smog, acid rain, globalwarming, and ozone hole are discussed. For each pollutant, the following topics are covered indetails: • Origin and chemistry • Sources • Environmental and health impacts • Current remediation techniques and technologies • Future challengesThe main focus of the discussions is on the sources of each pollutant and the technologies forremediation, reduction, and elimination of these pollutants. The materials from the text areoutdated for this part of the course and WWW provides many resources especially from the websites of DOE and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).Outcome and Assessment The following is the list of outcomes expected from the course: 1. Explain different types

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Willcox; Gergana Bounova

utilized (for example: terminology and context of use).The level of mathematics skills of sophomores and juniors at MIT has been identified as aproblem by a number of the faculty that teach core subjects in the Department of Aeronauticsand Astronautics. This issue manifests itself in a number of ways and, in particular, has anegative impact on students’ ability to grasp engineering subject material. Specific problems areobserved during lectures, where questions often arise regarding basic mathematic manipulations.These questions are also posed in the form of “muddy cards” – cards on which studentsanonymously write down the muddiest part of the lecture.6 Some examples of such muddy cardstaken from a junior-level controls class are shown in Table 1

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

Team-Based Written Communication Exercises for Biomedical Engineering Juniors: Where To Do It and What Works John Troy, Penny Hirsch, H. David Smith, Bugrahan Yalvac Northwestern University Abstract: ABET EC2000 challenged engineering educators to structure learning so that (1) competency is built progressively throughout a curriculum and (2) the notion of “competency” includes not only bioengineering knowledge, but other important professional skills, such as teamwork and communication. Meeting this challenge is difficult in an over-crowded biomedical engineering curriculum, where mastery of domain content is generally emphasized

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lili Zhao; Chris Brus; Julie Jessop

and secondary PVST:R scores to identify any significant associations.Specific Aims – Phase OneThe specific aims of Phase One are 1) to document whether significant gender differences invisual-spatial ability among first-year engineering students at the University of Iowa, as assessedby PVST:R score, can be found, 2) to determine if visual-spatial ability correlates with otherwidely-used predictors of success in engineering, such as standardized tests scores (ACT, SAT)or high school GPA’s, 3) to evaluate the relationship between visual-spatial ability and otherknown, socially-mediated retention factors, 4) to explore a possible connection between PVST:Rscore, a student’s academic performance, and a student’s choice of engineering discipline

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

meetings.Goals of Student CommunicationIdeally, all communication with students, in and out of the classroom, should be focused towardsaccomplishing a few key goals: Goal 1: The student’s understanding of the specific material being discussed should be increased. This is Imparting Knowledge. Goal 2: The student’s perception of the interaction should be positive. He should feel comfortable about approaching the instructor in the future. This is Comfort Level. Goal 3: The seeds of desire for further knowledge should be planted, and the student should feel excited about in-depth pursuit of the subject. This is Intellectual Excitement.While one could certainly argue the

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

Page 9.1433.2opportunities in information technology and technology-related careers. This goal will be Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationachieved through the development and completion of the following four objectives.Objective 1: Create a four-minute, high quality video presenting diverse images of successfulwomen in science and technology careers and targeting girls and young women ages 12 - 20.Objective 2: Develop a speakers program involving female UMBC students and faculty andrepresentatives from the business community, who will use the video as an exciting entrée to adiscussion of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hesham Shaalan; dulal kar; Rafic Bachnak

board applications, mixed-signal simulation and design,system modeling and algorithm development, digital design methods, interfacing, andthe use of microcontrollers as basic building blocks in data acquisition and controlapplications. The laboratory supports several courses and gives Computer Science (CS)and Engineering Technology (ET) students unique training opportunities and benefits.Microcontrollers have been used in a variety of applications, including cameras,automobiles, printers, video games, toys, and phones. As a result, the study ofMicrocontrollers has been included in many engineering and technology curricula [1-3].The Control Systems Engineering Technology Curriculum at A&M-CC includes acourse that covers microprocessors and

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Stockman; Tom Wulf; Hazem Said

participants all do the same activities, each day was divided intotwo sessions and students picked two of the three available tracks in which to participatefor the length of the Academy. Table 1 shows an outline of the daily schedule. Studentparticipants were required to choose one track only for their presentation on Friday. Page 9.1137.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1: Daily schedule for high school students participating in the 2003 SummerProgram Monday- Thursday

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

realized to help students who are in computer programmingclasses. Page 9.1252.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Programming Learning Center (PLC)The Programming Learning Center (PLC) was established in the fall of 2001 ascollaboration between the Center for Information Technology and CommunityDevelopment (CITCD) and the department of Math, Physics and Computing Technologyat the College of Applied Science.1 The PLC aspires to make learning computerprogramming exciting and a valuable experience to

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kun-jung Hsu

the summation of non-critical elements ( C ) andcritical elements ( ∑ C crit = ∑ C L ,crit + ∑ C N ,crit ) : C = C + ∑ C L ,crit + ∑ C N ,crit (1)Whenever any critical cost element fluctuates, the total cost will fluctuate in response. Aftereliminating interdependencies between critical elements, the expected total cost is theexpected value of all critical cost elements categorized as Local Cost and Non-Local Cost. E [C] = C + E [ ∑ C ]+ E [ ∑ C ] L ,crit N ,crit (2)The Process of CRA under Dual-uncertaintyBased on the hierarchical CBS of the cost estimate, we examine the

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Said

knowledge base. Figure 1 shows the main client interface for the onlinelearning center. Any student who has access to the internet can access the online learningcenter, ask questions and browse the answers. Students can also provide feedback byclicking on the feedback link. Figure 1: The student interface to the online learning centerQuestions are sorted by category depending on the programming language. For example,to browse all accumulated knowledge base for all questions related to the C++ language,one would click on the C++ category and the category will expand based on the topic ofthe question as shown in figure 2. Page 9.963.2

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

/procedures are also discussed to evaluate the course by assessing students’ performanceand effectiveness of the course.Keywords: Teaching tools; Biomaterials; Micromechanics of fracture; Failure analysisapproaches; Methods of course assessment.1. IntroductionThe late l9th century ushered in the concept of aseptic surgery, and with refinement of thisprinciple came the possibility of implanting foreign materials into the body with an acceptablylow risk of rejection due to infection. However, at this time there existed no suitable material towithstand the challenges posed by the biologic environment, particularly in regard to strengthand corrosion resistance. Developments in metal refining and processing in the first half of the20th century, stimulated

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kun-jung Hsu

redevelopment. However, the value ofmarketplace and community contraction resulted to various ideas and social meanings.From 1999, Taipei Civil Affairs Department has been a leading role in coordinating amongDistrict, Li (neighborhood) and Community organization. And to guide “communityplanning” and “participatory design” the redevelopment of neighborhood parks underCommunity Empowerment Programs as well. Figure 1 depicts the mechanism of participatorydesign in Taipei Neighborhood Park. Spatial Quality Control Community User Groups Community

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordy Skattum; Clifford Mirman

recognition,especially as the students and their families examine cost and accessibility issues associated withhigher education [1-5]. While the route to transfer is difficult in any major, the difficulty isincreased in a vertically structured curriculum like Engineering and Technology. In these areas,the entry point and course prerequisites are of great concern. Within the State of Illinois, thereare many Community Colleges, each offering a multitude of different programs. In order to Page 9.322.1provide the population with access to quality cost-effective education within the various areas of Proceedings of the 2004 American

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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ferry; Andrew Otieno

Page 9.434.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroduction.Although manufacturing accounts for a larger share of total employment in Illinois than in thenation, Illinois’ labor productivity for manufacturing, as measured by the value added perproduction hour worked, trails the national average by less than 1 percent, according to the mostrecent statistics1. This has been attributed in part, to the diversified nature of the state’smanufacturing base and the lack of specialization in higher-value-added manufacturingindustries. There is evidence that in the past 10 years the level of

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

, intellectuallyhonest views of reality; prepare all students to function in a multicultural society; and better meetthe learning needs of all students, including those who are diverse. (1)Course and pedagogy development as part of institutional change for responding to culturaldiversity and combating racism is an ethical imperative for campuses with diverse student bodiesbut it has equal relevance for more homogeneous campuses. (2) For this institutional change tosucceed, it must be part of its culture. An organization’s culture is reflected in what is done, howit is done, and who is involved in doing it. It concerns decisions, actions on an instrumental anda symbolic level. (3