Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

general trends and entities and events statistics Table 1: Contrasting OLTP and OLAPA Warehousing ProjectAt Union College, every Computer Science major in the senior year must undertake anindependent capstone design project. Its purpose is to encourage the student to bring togetherconcepts from his/her coursework and allow the student to do independent research on a subjectof interest. One student’s idea for a project stemmed from a request from a professor in theComputer Engineering department. The professor lamented about the difficulty in arranginggroup meetings with her four advisees. It was usually done over email and took several dayssince most initial suggested times conflicted with

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

program at Northern Arizona University is a 13 credit hour sequence ofteam-based engineering design courses beginning in the freshman year and culminating with asenior capstone design course. The sophomore course [8] divides 60 to 80 students from fourdifferent engineering majors into 9 to 12 mixed-discipline teams. Each team is responsible forthe design of one of three subsystems that make up the overall design project, with groups ofthree teams being combined to form three to four integrated project teams, called divisions.Project team and subsystem team activities and products are evaluated and graded. Team gradesare then allocated to individual students based on a combination of instructor assessments andpeer evaluations.The peer evaluation

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

comprise a tour of UML notation, which is commonly used in both programming andsoftware design courses. The point is not that engineers should see UML notation; if that werethe intent, then adequate introduction could be done in a first programming course. Rather, thepoint is that engineering students (beyond just Computer Science and Engineering majors)should have an experience of software design. Today, that design experience is often reservedas a senior capstone course for CSE majors.A key point of a design course is that students should see many different kinds of softwaremodels, such as structures for data management, visual direct manipulation, real-time control

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

collegescience/math core and introduced a new engineering design course (E4) for first year students.Warren Wilson, the first Chair of the Engineering Department presented the course objectivesthat were to become the goals of the engineering program for the next thirty years15: 1. Acquaint students with engineering practice; 2. Develop skills, by use, in computation; 3. Foster creative ability through projects; 4. Gain insight into management through group projects; 5. Develop appreciation for non-technical aspects of design; and 6. Foster willingness to responsibly attack open-ended problems.The Clinic courses and the first-year design course expose students to client-based designproblems. Each year about 25 new Clinic projects

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, tooling, and robotics).Although this technology has been advancing swiftly in teaching, training, and learning,it is still in its infancy. Since this vital technology is very important for the progression ofthe manufacturing industry, an NSF grant has been awarded for the RP Education (DUEAward Number 0302314: Technician Education in RP and Virtual ManufacturingTechnologies). Project team members organized a workshop on Training the RP trainersat San Diego City College from July 27 to August 1, 2003. Tennessee Tech University(TTU) faculty and assistants attended this workshop because TTU was in the process ofbuilding a RP Lab and organizing workshops for high school students/instructors. Thispaper intends to report learning practices, adaptations

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Session 1692 The Mechatronics Road Show: Building on Success in Mechatronics Curriculum Development Sandra A. Yost, Daniel D. Maggio Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ College of Engineering and Science University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MichiganAbstract:This paper describes a progression of successful pre-college programs that have grown from acomprehensive mechatronics curriculum development project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

example,the flume required a controllable dye injection system. The wind tunnel is an open circuit tunnel Figure 5: String in Turbulence. A timed exposure reveals the motion of three 1.5 mm diameter strings in the turbulent flow generated by a box fan. Brianne Hovey, Jason Campbell, Nate Lee, Derek Paul, Kate Schwerin.in a large laboratory, precluding the use of smoke visualization. Development of visualizationhardware for some of these facilities was found to be outside the scope of the course asstructured, with the present emphasis on the creation of images. In the future, these facilities willbe developed as student projects via independent study, capstone design projects and paidassistantships. Students were more successful

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

- Page 9.528.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationrate planting, and yield mapping. For these applications, fast computation speed is always acentral issue and is an excellent application of our research on hardware/software tradeoffs. Figure 1. Redroot pigweed at different density levels.For example, one capstone project focuses on agricultural applications involving variable-ratetechnology (VRT). Infrared sensors are used to collect information (Figure 1). Then, distributedcontrollers evaluate the input and generate variable-rate application recommendations in real-time

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

systems. He maintains anactive interest in incorporating student centered learning practices in running the engine researchfacility. This is used to modify and calibrate engines used in Future Truck, Formula SAE, andClean Snowmobile Competitions. For his efforts in this area he received a UniversityTransportation Centers Student of the Year award in 2004.DENNY DAVISDenny Davis is professor of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University andDirector of the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project, a PacificNorthwest consortium of institutions developing improved curriculum and assessments forengineering design education. Dr. Davis teaches and assesses student learning inmultidisciplinary capstone design

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

,students, in addition to the ISAT courses, must also satisfy a required 30 credit hours ofliberal studies (general education) electives. Twenty-one credit hours are available asapproved electives to encourage the student to develop further in an ISAT related area ofinterest. The capstone of the program is a senior project, in which students work in teams offour to six members to solve an industry or government-related problem. These problems Page 9.212.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationare usually

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

based on both test performance in the class as well as interest in pursuing aresearch project. These two issues are key elements since one wants motivated students as wellas those intellectually prepared for open-ended projects. During this same time period, thestudents were also exploring topics for their senior capstone design project and theundergraduate research project provided added synergism.The undergraduate research phase of the project began in earnest late in the spring semester andcarried through the summer and fall terms. The students were presented the foundationalmaterial using a variety of methods including in-person tutorials on the subject by the facultymentor, on-line tutorials on the foundational material, and readings of

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Paper 2004-51 The Recognition of and Increasing Value of Professional Engineering Skills Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractStudies by EAC/ABET have identified skill gaps engineers and engineering technologistslack upon graduation. Some of the skills identified were project management, teamwork,engineering economics, organizational behavior, decision-making, andcommunications12. Hundreds of ASEE conference attendees, in 2003, listened to keynotespeaker, Shirley Jackson, discuss the increased importance of “soft skill” education forengineers today. Dr

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the construction industry is no exception. Ithas also come from the collaboration and the hard work of risk takers.Universities and industry organizations have traditionally maintained informal ways of workingtogether, including student internships, faculty exchanges, and industry capstone projects tocomplete a degree program.A more recent phenomenon is the formal collaboration between a university (or group ofuniversities) and an industry organization (or group of organizations). The purpose of theseformal collaborations is to meet the construction technology education and training needs ofundergraduate and graduate/adult learners through joint ventures such as higher educationprograms, graduate programs (degree and certificate) and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Fry

each of the disciplines about how they relate to oneanother in a larger picture.In the spirit of interdisciplinary product development, students in the College of Engineering andTechnology at Brigham Young University participate in a “Capstone” experience that is meant toexpose them to the comparative peculiarities of the three disciplines of Manufacturing,Engineering, and Industrial Design. Despite the success of various individual team projects, ageneral dissatisfaction exists in the ranks of the students about what the actual benefit is for alltheir collaborative effort.Interdisciplinary Product Development efforts (both in and outside of industry) suffer from onesided biases based on the discipline of the sponsoring body. Engineering based

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

likelihood of theirsuccess in a conventional programming class in a future semester. Equally significant, the coursemaintains student participation in the technical curriculum and will therefore be likely toimprove student retention. Other students seeking Matlab instruction, additional problem-solvingdevelopment, or an introduction to elementary game programming are also invited to enroll. Thecourse has also been accepted as a technical elective for non-engineering majors but is notapplicable toward the college’s Engineering Technology or Engineering Science degrees.The structure, curriculum, and class project used in the initial offering of the course are presentedin this paper. The real centerpiece of the course was a collaborative class project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

theseskills into the final capstone design course. Somehow this is to be the magic bullet in which allthese skills suddenly coalesce through one design experience. Research suggests, however, thatstudents need quasi-repetitive activity cycles and practice in multiple settings to developproficiency.3Integrative Approach to Soft Skills DevelopmentThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has begun to implement an integrative approach to the development of these softskills in its undergraduate biomedical engineering degree program. This approach anchors softskills development in the context of problem solving and design experiences over the 4-yearcurriculum. It provides multiple opportunities for the

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

-solving skills, basic design skills, report writing and presentation skills,teamwork, and experimental skills are emphasized to varying levels.A.3. Major RequirementsStudents begin taking the required courses in mechanical engineering in their sophomore yearwith Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering and Thermodynamics. During the junioryear, the focus is on providing the strong technical base required of all students in the program.These offerings combined with those given in the second year form the mechanical engineeringcore that must be mastered before beginning the capstone design experience and thespecialization of the final year of study. Typical core courses are fluid mechanics, heat transfer,material sciences, and vibrations. The

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

on density and porosity in single-action compaction, 2) the spatialvariation of density and porosity within a part prepared using double-action compaction, and 3)the effect of sintering atmosphere on densification (using Fe and Cu metal powders).3. The ExperimentHigh-purity alumina (doped with 0.05% MgO) was chosen for the student project because it isthe best studied ceramic. The alumina powders specified as RC-HPF DBM were provided byReynolds Metals Company (Bauxite, AR). The average particle size (from sedimentationanalysis) was 380 nm, and the specific surface area (from the BET method) was 8.19 m2.g-1;these data were supplied by the manufacturer. The powder size analysis from sedimentation testshows that ∼60% powders are finer than

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

ourselves or to the world around us. Because this activity is so much a partof our lives, we cannot separate it from any of the other activities that we perform. Communicationis not an entity unto itself. A number of years ago Ronald L.Miller and Barbara Olds in "A ModelCurriculum for A Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design", Journal ofEngineering Education reported that at Harvey Mudd College, engineers enrolled in design classesmust, as part of their design experience, "interact with their client in a professional manner andcommunicate with a variety of audiences (peers, faculty members, clients, etc.) orally and inwriting." It is embroiled in all the activities of existence. It is, therefore, vitally important thatengineers

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Engineering Education”much modification to satisfy the complete formal education component of the BOK and that itwould be to our students’ disadvantage to seek a BOK B.S. Our current B.S. curriculumemphasizes project-based design and a broad civil engineering education, with an outside-client-based senior capstone design project. Therefore, we can not achieve the Specialization Areaoutcome (outcome 12) with the existing curriculum. Further, it was clear that even withsignificant modification to the scope of course work, additional credit hours would have to beadded to the curriculum. The Civil Engineering Department has a high success rate in graduatingstudents in four years. The additional credit hours may reduce that success and lead to anincrease

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mellinger Margaret

, there are points in the curriculum where further information resources are Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclearly needed, and where targeted library instruction is valuable to improve the quality ofstudent projects and research papers. Examples include technical and professional writingcourses, design, capstone or synthesis courses for which students seek external sources ofinformation, and thesis or dissertation work requiring a comprehensive literature review. Also,certain pedagogical frameworks such as active learning or problem-based learning provideopportunities to introduce students

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Non-Professional Activities 50% Engineering Workplace Professional Activities 40% Co-op / Internship Capstone Design 30

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Katehi; Leah Jamieson; Katherine Banks; Kamyar Haghighi; John Gaunt; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman; Phillip Wankat

faculty’s skepticism of engineering education as a scholarly activity has created anenvironment at many institutions that make the pursuit of deeply focused and productiveengineering education research program anywhere from difficult to impossible. In someinstances, engineering faculty with a high level of interest in engineering education carry aboveaverage teaching loads and are advised to develop and maintain traditional engineering researchprograms to ensure tenure. These faculty pursue engineering education projects as a sidelineactivity that often must be accomplished with little resources (e.g. time, funding, or graduatestudents). Alternatively, engineering faculty pursuing engineering education are relegated tonon-tenure track positions

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jensen

methodology is thenimplemented in the context of an example that compares the use of original design andredesign projects in a senior capstone design course.2. Reference Design MethodologyWe have chosen a product design methodology as a basis or starting point for formulatingour methodology for designing hands-on activities. There are two reasons why we believethis is a good choice. First, development of both products and hands-on activities can beconsidered an “ill defined problem” in the sense that there is not an optimal uniquesolution. As the product design methodology shown below is based on a generic stencilfor solving ill-defined problems, it qualifies as a reasonable starting point for formulating anew design methodology for hands-on activity

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Nelson

approximately one quarter of the 128 credit hours asspecified in a typical engineering program. This leaves ample room for the addition oflaboratory courses, a capstone project, electives, and general studies, allowing an institution tocustomize their program. For example, as depicted in Figure 1, ABET currently requires one andone-half years of engineering topics and one year of mathematics and basic science. The discretestructures area and the probability and statistics area often apply as mathematics rather thanengineering areas. The core hours listed for the other 16 knowledge areas in the Appendixwould constitute approximately two-thirds of the required minimum engineering content.Integration of engineering practice into the computer engineering

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

major design experience for all graduating students Strategy A: Review and revise curriculum for design courses Action 1: Introduce corner-stone design courses in all programs Responsibility: Vice-dean for Academic Affairs Milestones: New major sheets include these courses, end of Fall 2004 Action 2: Investigate feasibility of a two-semester sequence for capstone design course Page 9.702.8 Responsibility: Vice-Dean Academic Affairs Milestones: Decision whether to extend the course to two terms, Fall 2004 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

Session 24685. Design. With a strategy incorporating a computer equation solver with the ‘raw’ fundamental symbolic equations, design and redesign activities can be naturally introduced in the first mechanics of materials course. The authors’ aim in this introductory course is to introduce design through short, simple and well-defined projects. As the student progresses to more advanced courses, i.e., machine design, structural design, etc., projects become lengthier, open-ended and difficult, leading to the capstone design experience. The implementation of this approach carries with it the following significant challenges:1. Symbolic Equations. The difficulty in requiring a symbolic approach with sophomore and junior engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

: “the American educational system needs to producesignificantly more scientists and engineers …”. However, A draft paper from project onthe economics of advanced training at National Bureau of Economic Research19 raisesquestions about any predicted shortages of engineers.The state of Arizona has established a plan to increase its high-tech economy thatincludes increasing the number of science and engineering graduates14,15,16,17,18. Arizona’spopulation increased 93% from 1989 to 2001. As a result, Arizona is one of the highestgrowth states in the number of high school graduates. It is projected that there will be5,947,000 Arizona Residents by 2008 and 8,305,000 Arizona Residents by 2020. Atabout that time the population of the Phoenix