Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Stoian Petrescu; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

Session 1153 Introducing first-year students to engineering, economics, and social responsibility: ADA compliance as a first project Margot A.S. Vigeant, James W. Baish, Daniel Cavanagh, Richard J. Kozick, Stoian Petrescu, Richard Zaccone, Ronald D. Ziemian All: Bucknell University College of Engineering. Departments: Chemical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Computer Science and Engineering/ Civil and Environmental EngineeringAbstractExploring Engineering is a

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Kissoff

Session 1621 Simulated Constr uction Management Thr ough Web-based Obser vation of an On-Campus Constr uction Pr oject Nicholas V. Kissoff Univer sity of ToledoAbstr act A unique experience was afforded The University of Toledo Construction EngineeringTechnology (CET) program through the cooperation of a local construction manager. Theconstruction of a new multi-story student residence hall on campus was to be managed by a firmthat had also developed its own web-based project management/workflow software system. TheCET program was

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sven Nielsen

Session 2003-1190 NEW MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WITHIN THE AALBORG PROJECT BASED LEARNING MODEL Sven Hvid Nielsen, Associate professor Department of Production Aalborg University, Denmark e-mail: i9shn@iprod.auc.dkABSTRACT: Aalborg University’s thirty years of experience with project-organised andproblem-oriented studies has proved by continuous assessment to be an important innovationin higher education. The curriculum in engineering as well as in natural science is project-organised from the day the freshman arrives until graduation. In the design-oriented projectwork the students deal with some

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

Session 3232 Quantized FIR Filter Design: A Collabor ative Project for Digital Signal Processing and Digital Design Cour ses Kishor e A. Kotter i, Amy E. Bell, J oan E. Car letta Vir ginia Tech / Vir ginia Tech / The Univer sity of Akr onAbstr actWe describe a collaborative, team-based filter design project for students in two senior-levelelectrical and computer engineering courses: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Digital Design(DD). The objective of the project is to replicate real-world issues involved in the design andimplementation of digital filters. These issues can not be

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

Session 3115 An Assessment of How the Sooner City Project Addresses ASCE's Body of Knowledge R.L. Kolar, R.C. Knox, G.A. Miller, K.K. Muraleetharan, and D.A. Sabatini School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019Abstract.ASCE's Policy Statement 465 (PS 465), the result of a decade-long process, outlines the Body ofKnowledge (BOK) that students should possess in order to enter the practice of civil engineering.Similar to ABET's EC 2000, PS 465 advocates an outcomes-based assessment by promoting 15outcomes, 11 of which

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hyun Kim

Session 2756 IMPROVEMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE THERMAL FLUID LABORATORY THROUGH INNOVATIVE LABORATORY DESIGN PROJECTS H. W. Shawn Kim Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Youngstown State UniversityAbstractAn innovative method was employed to create a number of experimental design projects throughwhich students learn conceptualization of experiment, fundamental mechanisms, experimentalprocess, data analysis, verification of physical laws, principles or phenomena. The MechanicalEngineering Program at Youngstown State

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

Session 1793 Evaluation Issues in the Renewal of Engineering Education: Lessons from NSF-Funded Projects Michael S. Trevisan Washington State UniversityAbstractThe field of engineering education is in the midst of reform. Support for these change efforts isavailable through competitive programs within the National Science Foundation (NSF). Therequirement to evaluate funded projects, particularly for program improvement, is an expectationacross agency programs, and critical for program development and attainment of programoutcomes. Three NSF

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chris Swan

Case Study of a Project for First-Year Students that Integrates Research and Community Service Christopher W. Swan Tufts University AbstractOver the last 20 years, recycling programs have developed throughout the United Statesand internationally. However, once the “recycled” material is placed at the curbside orbrought to the recycling center, what happens next? Researching and describingrecycling was the project aimed at providing first-year engineering students a “windowon research”. The students were tasked to develop a poster document and presentation touse to inform community policy makers and citizens on the recycling

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alan Scaroni; David DiBiase; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

2433 An Assessment of Active and Project Based Learning in Energy Conservation Education for Non-Technical Students Sarma V. Pisupati, Jonathan P. Mathews, David DiBiase, and Alan W. Scaroni Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering Department and John A. Dutton e-Education Institute College of Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802AbstractA 3-credit general education course on “Energy Conservation and EnvironmentalProtection” was developed for mostly non-science/engineering students

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Matthew Dettman

Development and Assessment of a New Project / Practice Based Civil Engineering Curriculum Matthew A. Dettman, P.E. Western Kentucky University1. IntroductionWestern Kentucky University is currently in the process of developing a new undergraduateengineering programs in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering focusing on engaging thestudent in a project / practice based environment and preparing them for a career as a practicingengineer. This paper will discuss the process of developing the civil engineering program thatbegan with the creation of goals for the engineering department up to the present day with aclearly defined

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

A Multilevel Assessment Process for Student/Faculty Teams in a Project-Based Learning Environment David DiBiasio1, Natalie Mello2, and Fabio Carrera2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering and 2Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division Worcester Polytechnic InstituteIntroductionHigh tides, sinking buildings, 12 million tourists a year - all contribute to the problems of Venice,Italy. Canals designed to handle limited human-powered boat traffic are now inundated bypowerboats. Biological, chemical, and mechanical factors damage centuries-old walls, resultingin annual repair costs of several million euros

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

compete in a connecting rod designcompetition. As an added benefit of the project, students have an opportunity to reinforce theirCAD/CAM and dimensioning skills learned in a first-year CAD/CAM design course.Working in teams of two, students designed, machined and tested a connecting rod. The pinconnections in the rod were represented by two 3/8” holes 3” apart. Students were to design thegeometry of the part around and between two holes. The part was to have a maximum width of1”. Students documented their designs through design calculations and a dimensioned CADmodel, generated machine codes using CAM software, machined their parts, measured their partsto ensure accuracy and tested the rods to failure using a tensile tester. Grading was based on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

Session 1532 Projects with Applications to Wireless Communications - An Innovative Approach to the Digital Design Course Kathleen A. Kramer and Derek R. Maxwell University of San DiegoAbstractAdvances in wireless and broadband communications have been fueled by the advances indigital design, with more and more aspects of modern communications systems relying upondigital techniques. Digital design work by electrical and computer engineers is thus oftenapplied to wireless and other communications systems. Efforts to make a junior-levelundergraduate course in digital

Conference Session

Motivating Students to Achieve

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Socha; Valentin Razmov

Session 3475 Order Out Of Chaos: A Table to Help the Design of Project-Based Courses David Socha§†, Valentin Razmov§ § Department of Computer Science & Engineering † Center for Urban Simulation and Policy Analysis University of Washington, Seattle { socha, valentin } @ cs.washington.eduAbstractThe project-based software engineering course that we teach uses several different teachingmethods to instruct students in a large

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mark Patterson; C. Richard Helps

Session 2249 Evaluation of Cooperative Competition as an Educational Strategy in Project-Oriented Technology Education Richard Helps, Mark Patterson Brigham Young University/University of DaytonAbstractCompetitions can create an effective learning environment by engaging students in active andcooperative learning. And while competition and cooperation are usually considered byeducational researchers to be opposites, they can be used in conjunction to support learning. Thisstudy discusses the results of teaching upper-division and graduate-level technology courses

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Erik Bowman; Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3266 A Community Public Service Capstone Engineering Design Project: A Collapsible Ramp for an Electric Cart/Wheelchair Kenneth E. Siegenthaler and Erik C. Bowman Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractA capstone engineering design and construction course, required for graduation at theUnited States Air Force Academy, has often involved community service projects. Onesuch project was the design and construction by students of a collapsible electriccart/wheelchair ramp for a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Bowen

Session 1793 Motivating Civil Engineering Students to Learn Computer Programming With a Structural Design Project James D. Bowen University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstract Like many other schools, at UNC Charlotte a student’s first Civil Engineering courseincludes instruction in a high-level computer programming language. For many years thelanguage taught was Fortran, but for the last few years students have learned programming aspart of instruction in the MATLAB modeling language. Inclusion of computer programmingearly in the curricula has

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Brian Thomas; Carolyn Skurla; Walter Bradley

Teaching Freshman Engineering Using Design Projects and Laboratory Exercises to Increase Retention Carolyn Skurla, Brian Thomas, Walter L. Bradley, Baylor UniversityIntroductionThe primary goal of the freshman engineering course at Baylor University is to help students toappreciate the exciting career possibilities that a degree in engineering will provide them.Obviously this can be accomplished with descriptions of what engineers do, including interestingvideos and speakers from industry; however, we believe that the best way for students tounderstand what engineers actually do is to give them the opportunity to practice engineering.The analogy to

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Session 3431 A Model-Driven Multi-Year Assessment of a Software Development Project for Engineering Instruction Richard H. Hall, Timothy A. Philpot, Nancy Hubing, Ralph E. Flori, and Vikas Yellamraju University of Missouri – Rolla1. AbstractThis paper is a review of a series of evaluation studies that were utilized to inform and evaluate alarge scale instructional software development project at the university of Missouri – Rollaentitled “Taking the Next Step in Engineering Education: Integrating Educational Software andActive Learning.” This

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Koichi Iwasaki; Kazuo Morita; Chi Thai

Session 3260Development of a Synchronous Distance Education Project Between UGA and Kagoshima University Chi N. Thai, Kazuo Morita and Koichi Iwasaki University of Georgia, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, Athens, GA 30602-4435, U.S.A. / Kagoshima University, Department of Environmental Science & Technology, Kagoshima, Japan AbstractAn IT architecture was proposed herein to deliver synchronous distance education materials fromUGA to Kagoshima University. This architecture was designed for extensive

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Session 1693 Integrating Entrepreneurial Projects into a SuccessfulMultidisciplinary Capstone Design Program at the University of Florida R. Keith Stanfill, Erik J. Sander, William J. Rossi, H. A. Ingley, E. Dow Whitney, Marc I. Hoit University of Florida Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering / University of Florida College of Engineering / University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration / University of Florida Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / University of Florida Department of Materials Science

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Kun-jung Hsu

Session 1121 The Application of CRA Technique in the Education of Trans-national Construction Project Kun-Jung Hsu Department of Construction Technology Leader University, Taiwan.AbstractThe management of a trans-national construction project often encounters multiple risks.This paper discusses the framework of CRA technique, and applies it to a trans-nationalconstruction project. The globalization trend shows that CRA in a trans-nationalconstruction projects become more and more important. The paper begins with a

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yan-Fang Li; Sang-Hoon Lee; Vikram Kapila

Session 2220 Development of a Matlab-Based Graphical User Interface Environment for PIC Microcontroller Projects Sang-Hoon Lee, Yan-Fang Li, and Vikram Kapila Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Email: [slee05@utopia, yli14@utopia, vkapila@duke].poly.eduAbstract Peripheral Interface Controllers (PICs) are inexpensive microcontroller units with built-inserial communication functionality. Similarly, Matlab, a widely used technical computingsoftware, allows serial

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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John Greco

Session 1793 Designing a Computer to Play Nim: A Mini-Capstone Project in Digital Design I John Greco, Ph.D. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042AbstractThis paper describes a design project suitable for inclusion in an introductory course indigital circuit design. The project is the design and realization of a special-purposecomputer to play the game of Nim, an ancient game involving the removal of pieces fromstacks. Two players alternate turns, and each turn consists of removing any number ofpieces from any one stack. The person taking the last

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Merino

Session 1139 Web-Based Project Based Learning (PBL) Activities - A Technogenesis Example using a Senior Design Lab Kate D. Abel, Ph.D., and Donald N. Merino, Ph.D. P.E. Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractEducation represents one of the largest areas for the application of online Project BasedLearning (PBL) activities. But does the use of web based PBL help improve student learning?This question is the subject of this paper.To examine this hypothesis, student achievement in an Engineering Economic Design coursewas examined. The Engineering Economic Design course requires

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Azzedine Lansari; Akram Al-Rawi, McKendree University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

isdifferent from the traditional educational planning. The desired outcome is first identified and thecurriculum is subsequently created to support the intended outcome8,9.The impact of technology to enhance teaching and learning has been very significant in almostevery subject discipline. Most faculty have become comfortable using personal productivitytools such as Microsoft Office, electronic mail, the Internet as well as a number of otherapplications. The 1999 National Survey of Information Technology in US Higher Educationidentified instructional integration as their single most significant Information Technology (IT)challenge. In fact the campus project survey indicated that assisting faculty efforts “ to integratetechnology into instruction

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mahbub Uddin

, DMAIC is used for improvement of product, process and services, while DMADV andDMEDI are used for design and development of new product, process and services. The flow Page 9.776.3charts for application of DMAIC and DMADC are illustrated in Figures1 and 2 respectively [2]. Define • What is the business case for the project? • Identify the customer? • Current state map

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ismail Fidan

techniques, tips, shortcuts, andinsights designed to increase student efficiency. Topics and tasks are carefully grouped to leadstudents logically through the AutoCAD command set, with the level of difficulty increasingprogressively as skills are acquired through experience and practice. High quality workingdrawings include a wide range of applications that focus on mechanical drawings but alsoinclude architectural, civil, and electrical drawings. Each chapter is also supported by anextended AutoCAD project. The objective of the course is to educate students so that theyflawlessly and efficiently produce industrial design projects. Figure 2: Course Chapters in WebCT-based ‘CAD for Technology’III. AssignmentsThe “Quizzes and Surveys

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

TechnologicalUniversity and Russel C. Jones, managing partner in World Expertise LLC, designed anelectronic conference that took the form of a global poster session using the Internet andthe World Wide Web. The intent was to simulate electronically a traditional session inwhich presenters gave summaries of papers describing and analyzing projects inengineering education, and engaged in dialogue with members in attendance at thesession. The hope was that such educators would use provided web locations to share'best practices' with their peers globally, and in the process of reviewing other such Page 9.516.2submissions would continue their own professional

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Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hazem Said

Session _3260__ Towards Using Problem-Based Learning in Teaching ComputerProgramming – Step 1: Developing Synchronized Multimedia Lectures Using Video and PowerPoint Hazem Said and Fazal khan Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing Technology, University of CincinnatiIntroductionThis paper is motivated by the first author’s desire to implement Problem-based learningor Project-based learning (PBL) in his computer programming classes. PBL is a popularteaching pedagogy that emphasis student's understanding of the course contents. Theclassroom and instructor's role in PBL