Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

pre-college students in such programs need to involve tribal college, university, and school faculty inthe development and implementation of those activities. This paper describes the experience ofthe authors in a multi-year, multi-site project funded by the Office of Naval Research providingenhancement activities for reservation middle and high school students and activities to facilitatesmooth transfer of tribal college students to four-year colleges or universities. The studentactivities in the project were planned, designed and implemented jointly by tribal college,university, and high school teachers. The program has been a success not only in terms of theincreased student enrollment in the activities but also by systemically impacting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

Session 1793 Integrating Engineering throughout K-12 Classrooms: A Working Model for Involvement of Teachers Bonniejean Boettcher, Bree Carlson, Martha Cyr Worcester Polytechnic Institute/University of Massachusetts AmherstAbstractFour Massachusetts universities are working together to provide engineering design content andsupport for teachers from across the state. The focus of this NSF funded project is to provideprofessional development opportunities to strengthen the background of teachers, and to guidethem with implementation ideas and support as they bring engineering into to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Batta; Ron Zuckerman

Engenius Solutions: Creating an Entrepreneurial Revolution at RHITAndrew Batta, Aaron Capizzi, Jonathon Fruchte, Ron Zuckerman, and Dan Moore1 Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyUndergraduate engineering is changing at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology throughEngenius Solutions. Funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation, Engenius Solutionsallocates financial and intellectual resources in an effort to help undergraduate engineersthink like entrepreneurs as well as engineers in their careers. Project ideas are solicitedfrom students, faculty, staff and the general public for evaluation by Engenius Solutions.Those ideas that meet the specific criteria establish by Engenius Solutions are

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland

Session 1325 Clemson-FujiFilm Partnership for Introducing Design to Freshmen Matthew W. Ohland General Engineering, Clemson UniversityAbstractDetails of a partnership between Clemson University’s General Engineering program andFujiFilm’s Greenwood facility provide an excellent example of an industry-sponsored designproject. Two years of experience with students engaged in design projects based on makingmodifications to Fuji QuickSnap cameras have yielded creative results, and descriptions andphotos of the more interesting designs are available. The grading criteria for both the

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Monte Tull; Gerald Crain

Engineer. Many young graduates are confronted with the difficult tasksof learning the design process of their new employer, while trying to adapt to a new set ofbusiness priorities and metrics not associated with their educational experience. This course isdesigned to place them in a position of design responsibility on a multi-talented team, while theydirect a project from the point of establishing a comprehensive requirement to demonstration of aproduct. In a single semester, they are exposed to targeted research, project budgeting andscheduling, formal oral reviews, design audits, documentation processes and team organization.Industry sponsorship provides a meaningful use for the student product, budgets to allow creativesolutions to be

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

a new senior project curriculum. Senior civil engineering students must now complete a three-term, full academic year,senior project sequence that integrates engineering design with communication skilldevelopment. The class functions as a civil engineering consulting firm with civilengineering faculty leading design teams in geotechnical engineering, transportation andtraffic engineering, environmental engineering, structural engineering and planning. Twocommunications faculty are also part of the firm and provide in-house expertise intechnical communications. The firm is required to respond to a formal request for proposal (RFP), develop aconceptual plan within the proposal, and prepare and present a professional proposal tosecure

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

communities) of many civilengineering projects and provide continuity for design projects that extend over multiple courses.Undergraduates go to the Garden City website to access projects and related data and designinformation. They are also able to store reports at the website, creating an electronic portfolio.Finally, the Garden City website provides a central location for course webpages, tutorials,modules etc. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project,particularly as it affects teaching design principles throughout the curriculum.INTRODUCTIONThe following text is the Project Summary of “Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum”,NSF grant # 9872505.1 It is included here to provide a brief summary of the Sooner

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Davis; Maximillian Peeters; John Curtis; Jennifer Miskimins

courses throughprovision of projects and direct monetary support. Additionally, it has been our experience atCSM that industry advisory committee members from the three subject disciplines support andencourage the development of the capstone experience. Advisory committee members from thethree participating CSM departments, who are also potential employers, provide consistentencouragement for the continued development and improvement of the capstone coursediscussed in this paper. Interviews of recruiters from a variety of employers echo the support forthe capstone courses importance and significance. This interest likely arises from studies thathave shown direct monetary benefits realized through teamwork across the PE, GE, and GPdisciplines

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

themain concept of teaching. Many years ago the EPS course team realized that to break downtraditions and to move away from formally taught courses is difficult; but it must be done inorder to be able to cope with the fast growing field of new technology.IntroductionThe paper reports our experience gained from the learning and teaching methods used on thisinternational teamwork semester known as EPS. This 17 weeks semester programme isabout group project work performed by interdisciplinary and internationally mixed teams of4-6 students. EPS emphasizes the development of technical as well as personal competencesto meet identified needs of society, industry, university and students. On this courseparticipants are given the opportunity to use their

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Artigue; Mark Anklam; David Miller; Dan Coronell; Atanas Serbezov; Sharon Sauer; Alfred Carlson

students’ overall learning in laboratory so as to better prepare themfor industry and/or graduate research, we have (1) created a new lecture course on engineeringexperimentation to accompany the laboratory, (2) increased the emphasis on experimentalplanning and data analysis for each lab project, (3) implemented a peer-review and reportrevision procedure, (4) require students to follow industry standards for recording data inlaboratory notebooks, and (5) completely revised the department’s Lab Manual to reflect thesechanges in emphasis. This paper describes the organization and effectiveness of our revisedlaboratory sequence in comparison with our previous approach.IntroductionThe unit operations laboratory is generally regarded as an ideal

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yeu-Sheng Shiue

trips and hands-on projects. One of the highlights of this class is the manufacturingbowl at the end of the semester. Students are divided into four groups to compete in theknowledge of manufacturing. The winning group is selected by means of the double-eliminationprocess. A gaming device that consists of a console and two push-button control boxes iscreated for the competition. Seven sets of multiple-choice questions are created in PowerPointpresentations. Prior to the end of the semester, a final project is assigned to have each group ofstudents design their own trophy for the competition. This project illustrates students’ creativity,their ability to work as a team and their manufacturing skills.The competition serves as a review of

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

andsafety for the sponsoring institution. Issues such as these inevitably draw the attention ofadministration requiring explanation and justification.Many capstone courses utilize design and build projects sponsored by industry5,6. Whileproviding valuable interaction for students, the involvement of sponsors brings more issues todeal with along with a new group of interested parties.We will refer to each of the interested parties and individuals as stakeholders. When consideringthe design and organization of a capstone program, the institution should carefully consider thevalues of their stakeholders along with the educational objectives that they wish to accomplish.The design of the program influences both the scope of stakeholders and which of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Is It Senior Design or a High Tech Start-Up? Ken Ports Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe Senior Design course taken near the end of an engineer’s undergraduate tenure isincreasingly recognized as a “capstone” activity, enabling these future professionals to applytheir collegiate education and experience in a team environment to solving real world problemsor to creating new capabilities. Ideally, Senior Design teams are also cross-functional, tobroaden the projects and better replicate the professional world. In addition, there is a growinginterest in linking Senior Design with entrepreneurial activities, even to the point ofcommercializing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

DISTRIBUTED DESIGN IN THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – PLATTEVILLE Mesut Muslu Electrical Engineering Department University of Wisconsin – PlattevilleAbstractA variety of processes and methods exist to teach engineering design in universities today.Although some programs introduce simple design projects in freshman year, many programsprovide design experience through a few concentrated courses in junior or senior year. Manystudents report that design methods are typically taught in high-level courses and in acompartmentalized fashion. In such cases

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Brandt; David Hansen; Steven Kuennen; Pamela Neal; Cary Fisher

project management, and close interaction with faculty serving as coaches and mentors.This course’s organizing project gives plenty of opportunity for creativity and enough breadth to touch onall appropriate disciplines. Students are organized in small problem-solving design teams. Traditionallectures and evaluations are replaced with web-based instruction and hands-on projects. Computer toolsare employed where appropriate, and students are evaluated on both individual comprehension and groupexecution of the project. Throughout the semester, design teams deliver two oral presentations and a finalwritten report.The course gives students early experience wrestling with challenging educational outcomes; studentsapply the systems engineering approach

Conference Session

Applications in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chen Lin; Cheng Lin

hydraulic components with PLC programs.To let students have hands-on applications in this course, a two-hour/week lab is alsooffered to train the students to integrate mechanical, pneumatic, and electricalcomponents with ladder diagrams or PLC programs. The lab basically includes threemain sessions: (1) four weeks of pneumatic applications, (2) four weeks of pneumaticcomponents, electrical sensors, and ladder diagrams, and (3) five weeks of PLCprogramming using IDEC3 and TRiLOGI4 PLCs. In addition, the simulation software ofAutomation Studio5 is used in each project so that students can check their designs beforeimplementing their projects. Depending on the number of students enrolled in each lab,several small groups are formed so that they

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gore

engineeringtechnology versus engineering, and the confusion that seems to be present in both industry andacademia. A new model was needed in order to define an ET education that attracts studentswhile meeting the needs of those businesses and industries that hire ET graduates. After ourstudents, graduates, and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) Industry AdvisoryCommittee were surveyed, a new model was developed. Without going into details of thismodel (a topic for another paper), its key elements provide the following intents for ourgraduates: 1. Fast track to technical project management. 2. High-value specialty knowledge positions (not design engineering positions).Each relevant ET course is being evaluated to see what is needed to

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

by hand.In the following sections, each numerical method topic is summarized along with thecorresponding project assignments. Screen shots of output from selected projects are included inthe appendix. The project handouts are freely available in PDF format on the course website atwww.coe.uncc.edu/~gkwatkin/ETGR3272/. They are also available in Word™ format by emailrequest to gkwatkin@uncc.edu. i. Modeling, Computers, and Error Analysis The course begins with an introduction to common methods used in posing engineering problems for computer solution. Computer basics, such as bits, bytes, binary representation of numbers, and error analysis are introduced. Programming concepts, such as code structure

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

Session 2225 Achieving EC2000 Outcomes in the Capstone Design Via Structured Industry Advisory Board Involvement Kathleen A. Kramer University of San DiegoAbstractThe capstone design sequence was selected as a focus for the structure of the activities of anindustry advisory board. The focus on the capstone sequence provided both a framework forongoing industry involvement and an improvement in student project results. Activities includedsupplying input on changes in the approach to the design process within the capstone sequence,such as team

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Reising

Session 2425 Capstone Design in Electrical and Computer Engineering Delivery and Assessment of ABET Criterion 3 James A. Reising University of EvansvilleIntroductionSeveral changes have been made to the Senior Design Project Course Sequence at the Universityof Evansville as previously described in “Senior Design Project Course Sequence, Electrical andComputer Engineering”1 to provide students with additional exposure to the non-technicalaspects of engineering and to enable assessment of the outcomes of ABET Criterion 32, listedbelow for

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajesh Malani; Enno Koehn

ABET and listed in the Program Criteria for Civiland Similarly Named Engineering Programs and the General Criteria (Professional Component)has been enhanced by being involved with the steel bridge and concrete canoe projects. Theresults are also compared with students who have practical civil engineering experience. Inparticular, the findings suggest that students who are directly involved with project work believethat four areas have been greatly enhanced. They include: structural engineering, projectmanagement/scheduling and estimating, constructability and team work. Understanding ofengineering codes and standards, health and safety issues, materials engineering, and ethicalconsiderations are also perceived to be enhanced. Furthermore, the

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Peerman; Michael Payne; Vivian Chang; Sonya Havens; John Lendvay; Eliot Metzger

Session 2651 Community-Based Approach to Environmental Education Vivian Chang, Eliot S. Metzger, Michael Payne, Sonya M. Havens, Wade R. Peerman, and John M. Lendvay University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAAbstractThe Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco, California, is a diverse communitythat experiences an inordinate amount of pollution. Within this five square mile area, heavyindustry, the city’s sewage treatment plant, and the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard(HPNSY) all act as concentrated and diffuse pollution sources. This research project focuses

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

. Page 9.983.3 "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education and Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education"Review TypeThe study used several types of peer review and examined the different perceptions studentshave with regard toward the strategic goals of each. The types were: A. Private one-to-one peer review of student projects. (3-D Peer Review Model: private, known, improvement) B. Public peer review comparing student projects during class presentation. (3-D Peer Review Model: public, known, assessment) C. Blind peer ranking of student projects in journals, shown only to the professor. (3-D Peer

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Connolly; Herbert Rabin; Eric Schurr; David Barbe

institutions. MIPS accelerates the commercializationof new technology by jointly funding commercially directed collaborative research anddevelopment projects between USM faculty and company researchers. Faculty,postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have the opportunity to perform research thatdirectly leads to commercialization of new products. Companies are able to access expertuniversity faculty and state of the art facilities to conduct cost effective research anddevelopment. They also benefit from access to a vibrant student labor pool. MIPSprojects have covered a wide range of technologies in engineering, computer, physicaland life sciences. Since 1987, MIPS has provided matching funds for more than 445projects worth a total value of $120

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Caulfield; G Kohli; S P Maj

Sociology in Software Engineering Craig Caulfield, Gurpreet Kohli , S. Paul Maj Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western AustraliaIntroductionThe sociology of software project management is an often under-represented component inthe education and professional development of software engineers even though factors suchas team formation, role assignment, motivation, training, hiring, and many other peopleware18practices have been identified many times as at least equally important to the success ofsoftware projects as the technical14,16,18,42,44,45,46. The reasons for this may be two-fold: theseeming arbitrariness of the sociological factors in software development is at odds

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

industrial designers are free to explore.Developing design skills in professional engineering programs allows students to learn viaactive engagement and group project work. Green and Bonollo3 describe designmethodology as a process that includes the “study, principles, practices and procedures ofdesign”, with a focus on the understanding of the design process. It could be argued thatwhat is truly being taught is design methods, design processes and design methodology.Such content is not appropriate for a first year design unit where potential engineers should Page 9.415.1be introduced to generic design that spans disciplines and encourages

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ghanashyam Joshi

andapplications specifically useful to engineering and technical graduates. The main topics in thecourse are planning, forecasting, decision making, project management, time management,quality control, optimization, reliability and risk analysis, and scheduling. The engineeringmanagement course offers students with ample opportunity to demonstrate their mastery ofcourse materials and related ideas through guided class discussions, open ended projects,assignments, research reports, and tests. The main distinction of this course when compared to atraditional management course is less emphasis on non-technical topics such as accounting andbusiness management.The observations and experiences learnt from the development and teaching of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

format for the class allowed us to successfully addressfour issues: to establish and achieve higher expectations for the teams, to improve eachteam’s understanding of the fundamental engineering and science of its project, toencourage and increase the interactions between the teams, and to help the students tobetter “think through” the writing process which in turn helps them to better understandthe organization of their project.IntroductionThe multidisciplinary capstone design course at the University of Houston, taken by thestudents in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), IndustrialEngineering (IE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME), has been described previously 1.This course is a one semester, three-hour credit course

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

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

Real-World Applications

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Fuehne; David Lenart

facilities; although no specific projects were attemptedusing the hospital’s systems. This paper will outline specific projects at the hospital thatmay be assigned to students to supplement the classroom material. These projects willbe presented to the junior-level Applied Thermodynamics class in the fall of 2004.Quantities such as power, heat flow, energy and efficiency will be explored along withthe various thermodynamic cycles utilized throughout the hospital. Pressure,temperature, and volume data will be recorded and compared, especially between heatexchanger components.Examples of systems to be investigated include the water chiller with its cooling towerand associated air handling capabilities; the boilers, which produce high, medium andlow