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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

Enhancing teaming skills in engineering management students through the use of the Effective Team Player – Training Program (ETP-TP) Bianey C. Ruiz Ulloa – M.S., Stephanie Adams - PhD University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recent trends in business have pointed to teamwork as an important tool forachieving success in the workplace. This has motivated organizations to start looking forteaming skills in new employees 1,2,3,4. Although employers may be willing to provide onthe job training, they expect that their new employees, at least, possess the understandingof why this skill is important in the organization 5. For this reason accreditation boards at the collegiate level such as

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ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

system with long-term personal usage in mind. Page 9.101.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education1-Wire MicroLAN OverviewFigure 1 shows a schematic layout of a typical 1-Wire system connected to a PC. Allcommunication between the computer and the 1-Wire devices is through the DS9097U adapterconnected to the serial port. Power for the adapter electronics is derived from the Data TerminalReady (DTR) and the Request To Send (RTS) signals of the RS-232 serial port. Communicationbetween the PC and

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

-college students in suchprograms need to involve all available resources to include TCCC, university, and HS facultiesthrough the development as well as the delivery of those activities. With this in mind, the student Page 9.121.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationactivities in the project were planned, designed and delivered jointly by the three faculties. Theactivities were designed to subtly stimulate the interest of NA youth in SME careers and to assistHS faculty to bring about a systemic

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon DeReamer; Nick Safai

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwould provide a broader knowledge base to each participant, thus opening their minds tonumerous new areas of study. Although many ideas were discussed regarding the content of each activity, it wasdecided that each activity had to meet several requirements. Some of those requirementswere: a. The activity had to be challenging to teens age 12 through 15 b. The activity had to use materials and equipment that the Community College already possessed c. Some faculty member had to have expertise in the area d. The activity had to be fun and motivating for the participants We decided

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

,technology development, improvement, and the responsible leadership of purposeful technologicalinnovation to advance the quality of life. Because creative service to society has been, and continues tobe, the primary mission of the engineering profession, the panel believes that the engineering professionitself, perhaps more than any other profession, can benefit from a redefinition of creative professionalscholarship and creative engagement.However, making reform of faculty reward systems a reality requires us to “break out of the box” ofconventional wisdom about engineering graduate education. The panel has become aware through ourcollective experiences, successes, and mistakes that Barwise and Perry’s theory may be correct … i.e. thehuman mind in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

1526 Development of Hands-On CFD Educational Inter face for Under gr aduate Engineer ing Cour ses and Labor ator ies Fr ed Ster n, Tao Xing, Don Yar br ough, Alr ic Rothmayer , Ganesh Rajagopalan, Shour ya Pr akash Otta, David Caughey, Rajesh Bhaskar an, Sonya Smith, Bar bar a Hutchings, Shane Moeykens Iowa/Iowa State/Cor nell/Howar d/FluentAbstr actDevelopment described of an educational interface for hands-on student experience withcomputational fluid dynamics (CFD) for

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi; Bob Lahidji

building. However, while theorganizational cultures may be different, there are common elements that characterize effectiveleadership, according to Covey1. For example, he has identified seven habits of highly effectivepeople. These include: 1. Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision; 2. Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Leadership; 3. Put First Things First: Principles of Personal Management; Page 9.844.2 4. Think Win/Win: Principles of Interpersonal Leadership; “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004

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Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

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2004 Annual Conference

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Robert Houghtalen

trained in theory and classical solutions will be a much wiser user ofengineering software and a better engineer. We conclude with a quote from a survey completedby a practicing engineer: “Having been away from academia for 20 years now, I’ve lost theoryand classical solutions ability. The refresher was valuable. With those in mind, the computersolutions fall together and speak for themselves.”Bibliography1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). (2003). “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” (http://www.abet.org/criteria.html).2. National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). (1997). Engineering Licensure Laws: A state-by-state summary and analysis, NSPE, Alexandria, Va.3. Lawson, W. D. (2002). “In

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

engineering area. The Foundation Coalition has stated,“Curriculum integration implies restructuring learning activities to help students buildconnections between topics. A seminal study by Seymour and Hewitt concludes that one of thereasons students leave science and engineering is that they lose interest. Building connectionsand establishing greater relevance is important.”Since it appears that little is being done to acquaint students with the actual importance of theseearly courses with their future work, one would feel that any effort to provide connections wouldimprove the current status of career development services. Many students enter Michigan StateUniversity with engineering in general or a specific engineering program in mind. They come

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Muhlbaier; Peter Jansson

shop, a stereo-lithography machine, 3D wax printer, high-pressure water jet, and a hostof other CAD/CAM and computer resources. With these combined assets and a motivatedentrepreneurial team of undergraduate students the Rowan Engineering Clinic provides a hands-on, minds-on educational experience that helps students go from concept to prototype and fromcolleagues to business partners.BACKGROUNDSince the Autumn of 1998 professors from Rowan University with funding from NCIAA, NSFand regional business have funded over a dozen student originated, developed, and designedbusiness ideas. The Rowan Venture Capital Fund has helped students explore in real ways what

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

approach is more “realistic,” i.e., more attuned to the realities of engineering practice, than are the compartmentalized, disciplinary, or otherwise Page 9.905.7 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education limited approaches that they have been exposed to throughout most of their educatio n. 2.) Support Students by Teaching Them to Integrate. Because the breadth of perspective and habits of mind required for integration place significant

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wronecki

Process ofReaching Goals” Crisp Publications Inc3 Burnette, C. 1982 A Role Oriented Approach to Problem-Solving. In Olsen, SA., (Ed), Group Planning andProblem Solving: Methods in Engineering Management. New York, NY John Wiley & Sons4 Buzan, T. 1993 The Mind Map Book, New York, NY Penguin Group5 KAPKE, B. Allen, P., Bearne, A. & Smith, R. 1977 Energy Matter and Form: Toward a Science of ConsciousnessBoulder Creek, CA University of the Trees Press6 Wronecki, James A. 1999 The IdeasA+ Design Process, The University of the Arts Page 9.680.6 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

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Tim Orling; Lisa Christensen; Blair London; Linda Vanasupa; Katherine Chen

Engineering EducationThe first week activity also must be completed within 60-90 minutes, and not require extensiveknowledge of materials engineering concepts. Setting the correct mind frame to the course wasaccomplished by introducing some of the concepts of materials that would be encountered laterin the lab (and lectures). This activity serves as a positive prologue to materials engineering, andthe objectives are listed in Table 1.Laboratory ActivitySimilar to visiting foreign countries, the venture (or introduction) into the Materials Worldnecessitates exploration and documentation with a travelogue that includes pictures. Theitinerary for this lab activity is provided in the form of a scavenger hunt list. Ten objects are tobe found and

Conference Session

NEE Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

Session 3575 Transitioning from Industry to Education: The First Year William R. Loendorf Eastern Washington University School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Department of Engineering Technology and Multimedia DesignAbstractAfter years as an engineering professional in industry, a career transition into a related field wason the horizon. The events at the beginning of the 21st century lead to the downsizing ofnumerous companies and the eventual elimination of countless jobs. As the economy weakened,it became increasingly difficult to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Education2 Bransford, JD, Brown, AL, and Cocking, RR (Eds.) 1999. How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience, andSchool. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.3 Brophy, SP. 2003. Constructing Shareable Learning Materials in Bioengineering Education. IEEE Engineering inMedicine and Biology Magazine 22: 39-46.4 Klein, SS and Roselli, RJ. 2003. The Iron Cross. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pre-CollegeEducation: Best Practices in High School Engineering.http://www.asme.org/education/precollege/bestpractice/bp.htm5 Sherwood, RD and Klein, SS. 2003. Biomedical Engineering Topics in High School Science Instruction: InitialDevelopment and Field Studies. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education AnnualConference &

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Mills; William Cleghorn

immediate needs of industry. Their confidence and interpersonalworking skills are severely tested and developed. Industry gains access to bright inquiring minds, solutionsand the equipment and services on the University campus that might otherwise not have contributed to thesolution. The potential exists for the industry partner to assess the benefits of an engineering solution and touse the MMO Connections Program to evaluate the benefits of hiring these engineers into permanentpositions. The work completed by students has included new product concepts, processes, a prototypedesigns, software that simultaneously permit the student to develop engineering skills. A few outlines oftypical projects are provided in the Appendix

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Commission on the Future of State and Land-GrantUniversities recommends that we create new learning environments (18). Both commissions indi-cate that major curricular innovations are needed, not minor adjustments. Seely (34) documentssimilar major innovations in engineering education in the early part of the 20th century.Regarding our focus on Sooner City, we note that extensive research has shown the importance ofproject-based learning for retention and in-depth understanding of concepts (39). A recent resourcethat provides the scientific basis for project (experiential-based) learning is How People Learn:Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, a publication of the National Academy of Sciences thatsummarizes the current state-of-knowledge with

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

Session XX60 “Let’s Go Folks!”: A K-12 Special Program Beyond Social Parameters Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and SciencesAbstract“Let’s go Folks!” This is the appealing name of a project which main goal is to help students ofK-12 to develop the necessary skills to choose careers like engineering that for many reasons isso necessary for the development of a country. São Vicente City Hall present administration hasdecided to implement a special program for K-12 in public schools of the city, which resulted inthis

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1408 I think the Omega story—you really don’t think about it but it puts you in a state of mind that you really don’t know about and every decision and everything from there on goes back to that certain state of mind. I mean you honestly don’t comprehend it while you are doing it but you are—like—well Omega is like this and this. I don’t know--it’s kind of like playing a role, if you say you go home with your parents you act completely different than you do when you are with your friends. It’s like you walk into a different environment and your mind

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Inside the Class

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori M. Bruce; J.W. Bruce

great deal ofemphasis on the research productivity of the engineering faculty, in addition to their instructionaleffectiveness. Therefore, we were charged with helping the NEEs become effective instructorswithout overly distracting them from building their fledging research programs. This papershould be read with this background in mind.2 Effective new engineering educators Educators should judge their performance by “what is learned” rather than by “what is taught”.In [1], the author studied a collection of “quick-starting” or exemplary new faculty members (notexclusively NEEs). Boice defined “quick-starting “ faculty as being “on track” toward tenureand promotion in both instructional and research duties. Boice found that quick

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Tracy Van Zandt

. Page 9.437.10 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"VI AcknowledgementSome of the work presented herein was partially funded by the NSF Engineering EducationDivision Grant EEC-0314875 entitled “Multi-Semester Interwoven Project for Teaching BasicCore STEM Material Critical for Solving Dynamic Systems Problems”. The authors aregrateful for the support obtained from NSF to further engineering education.VI References1) Starrett,S., Morcos,M., “Hands-On, Minds-On Electric Power Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 90, No. 1, pp93-100, January 20012) Pavelich,M.J., “Integrating Piaget’s

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

successfully identified situations towhich their classroom instruction in engineering mechanics can be applied; and they havesuccessfully modeled, analyzed, and drawn well-reasoned conclusions about those situations.The student solutions (particularly the narratives that accompany their calculations) alsodemonstrate considerable enthusiasm for this rather unorthodox homework requirement. Thesuccess of this project suggests that the “new and unfamiliar contexts” necessary for stimulatingtransfer of learning need not be confined to traditional engineering problems.References1. Bransford, John D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, ed. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, 2001.2

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2147 Academic Quality Management C. R. Sekhar, O. Farook and Jai. P. Agrawal, E.Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis Paper describes the implementation and outcome results of an Academic QualityManagement (AQM) program and one of the tools used in three of the courses taught in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Purdue UniversityCalumet, Hammond, IN. A number of papers have been presented at the ASEE and otherprofessional society meetings on the subject of

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

positives.I suggest that ABET needs to review engineering programs with the following principles inplace:1. Examine programs in a minimally invasive manner.2. Determine whether the curriculum, as delivered, meets minimal standards for the degree awarded.3. Determine whether the faculty and facilities are sufficient to deliver the degree program.4. Investigate whether there is an active, periodic mechanism for program improvement that involves review by and input from external constituencies (alumni, employers, colleagues).Some might claim that this is exactly what ABET 2000 accomplishes, but many faculty woulddiffer. In their minds, how should ABET change? Here are several suggestions

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

, chemicals,pharmaceuticals, metals and mining, pulp and paper and other durable goods. In all of thecritical industries, there are initiatives under way to become more automated and connectedelectronically. The communication medium of choice (also called the information highway)is the Internet, which was not designed with security in mind. Critical enterprise data andoperations system control capabilities are accessible to individuals on enterprise local andexternal networks. Estimates of the worldwide economic impact of security attacks are inthe billions of dollars, and rising. The indication is that no industry is immune to computerattacks but it is prudent to take adequate measures to protect the most critical industries.The challenge of

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Baaba Andam

students from Page 9.1183.1grades 9-12 were equally represented. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright À 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationCOURSE CONTENTIn the fall semester students are introduced to philosophy of the mind as they explore machineconsciousness. These issues are revisited and applied to content presented throughout the rest ofthe course. Next, the students explore the history of artificial intelligence. While they do notwrite computer code, they do use a variety of classical AI software applications. Then

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Melvin Corley

Stephen Coveys’s book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People5were presented on three consecutive class periods, one per period. The three habits presentedwere:‚ Habit One: Be Proactive‚ Habit Two: Begin with the End in Mind‚ Habit Three: Put First Things FirstStudent discussion followed each presentation. The students were broken into small groups andhad to decide upon courses of personal action to take as a result of their discussion.We had a certified financial planner come in and make a presentation. This was done bysomeone who is an excellent and provocative speaker. He presented a number of issues that areimportant to new engineers. Many of them had not thought about these topics before. As aresult of this

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

education is in serious need ofreinvigoration. In both electrical and mechanical engineering, energy is increasingly regarded asa "mature discipline", which fails to attract and inspire the brightest young minds entering theengineering profession. It hardly matters that deregulation of the electricity industry and ournation's increasing reliance on imported petroleum have created ever more pressing challengesfor energy engineers, or that breakthroughs in computers, semiconductors, and chemicalseparation technologies have created heretofore unattainable options for the creation, deliveryand utilization of power. As is so often the case, perception trumps reality, and energyengineering remains in the backwater of most schools engineering curricula

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed; Sasima Thongsamak

2004-2399 Leveraging Expertise in Time of Economic Constraints Sasima Thongsamak, Dr. Glenda R. Scales, Cheryl Peed Virginia TechAbstractTo address the need to improve the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) atVirginia Tech, the college relied upon the expertise of students completing graduate theses andgroup projects in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. This arrangement allowedgraduate students to work on real problems as well as conduct applied research projects for anorganization – the College of Engineering. The students benefited from the

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

theirfuture engineering careers, that they have to keep an open mind about their designs and processplans, that it was a challenging endeavor trying to meet with other students, to practice trueteamwork, and to communicate, discuss and compromise their ideas for the betterment of qualityand low cost. Figure 2. Student Survey for Course Assessment Combined Manufacturing and Design Survey (IME and MECH, Fall 2003) This survey is to be used for student assessment of the combined team projects of the vehicle design class. Please rate on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best): 1) To what