Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

traditional engineeringprograms while they integrate educational components or leave engineering and pursue aneducation degree with an engineering context.The time is right for engineering programs to acknowledge engineering education as a legitimatearea for scholarship and discovery through the creation of graduate programs in engineeringeducation. ABET’s EC 2000 has intensified the interest in assessment and evaluation. The paceand demand for educational reform is increasing to address the continued underrepresentation ofwomen and minorities, new and emerging technologies and fields and globalization. NSF’ssupport for engineering education has continued to rise through funding of educational programsand linkages between research and educationThe

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

Engineering Education Page 9.1190.1Some of the institutions proceed directly into the design of machine elements. Someinstitutions introduce an advanced stress analysis course (advanced strength of materials)before going in to the design of machine elements. In some cases, the mechanicalengineering curriculum presents a combination of basic and advanced strength ofmaterials in a single course that precedes the course on the design of machine elements.However, most of the curricula cover the design of machine elements in a single course;some institutions do it in a typical lecture format, while some others do it in a lecture anda lab format. The author

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

in assessment of math skills of their students. Some results were presentedin state conferences on HS SME curriculum improvement. Though the ONR project hasseemingly a significant impact it is hard to entirely attribute the impact to the ONR project.When the NDSU faculty traveled to the TCCCs for the Sunday Academy and Summer Camps,they experienced the NA culture at a variety of levels from the contact with the tribal elders tothe interaction with student parents. The cultural activities designed as an integral part ofactivities helped the NDSU faculty understand the lifestyle of the NA students. Additionalactivities such as tribal ceremonies, social functions, history lessons, visits to historical sites, anddiscussions with tribal

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Matzen

, J. "LabVIEW For Everyone," Prentice Hall, 1997.14. Wirgau, S.A., Gupta, A. and Matzen, V.C., “Internet-Enabled Remote Observation and Control of a Shake Table Experiment,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2004, submitted.ABHINAV GUPTA is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at NC State University. His research and Page 9.156.12educational activities have been focused on integration of emerging computing (numerical and information)technologies with the engineering knowledge for improved understanding and visualization of structural“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Williams; Hadi Saadat

digital computers in the loop, one can readily generate C code from graphical simulation tools such as Simulink block diagrams for real-time controller implementation. This has provided the impetus for establishment of a real-time instructional control laboratory at Milwaukee School of Engineering. In this paper the development of this innovative integrated real-time control system laboratory will be described. Next modeling, simulation, controller design and implementation of a few typical laboratory experiments and projects of different complexity are presented. This paper also reports on Simulink modeling of the nonlinear inverted pendulum with some research results for different swing-up

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

. Facultycoordinators and teams have identified outcomes that are assessed in their courses. Everyterm the course is taught, each professor teaching the course is asked to assess to whatdegree the outcome is treated in the course. A rating of “high,” “medium” or “low”indicates that the outcome is assessed for all students at that level; “some” indicates thatsome students (but not necessarily all) are assessed for that outcome; “none” indicatesthat the outcome was indicated for the course but not assessed or addressed in theparticular offering of the course.As an example, consider the Computer Engineering program curriculum. Approximately60% of the Computer Engineering required courses have “high” or “medium” treatmentof outcome (c), whereas only 8% of the

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

the same time otherrevisions were made to our curriculum such that the number of total credit hours required wasnot modified.Although the students are required to take a quarter of statistics, there appeared to be very littleconnection between the concepts learned in that course and the analysis necessary as part of thelaboratory projects. Also, despite the widespread use of Design of Experiments (DOE) inindustry and the desire of many of our employers to find students with a background in DOE andstatistical analysis, our students generally did not have any formalized training in this area unlessthey selected an elective course on this topic which is periodically offered in the mathematicsdepartment. Thus, the new course addresses topics not

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

set of materials sufficient to teach a signal processing lab is nowavailable, and the materials have been successfully used each semester since the fall of 2002 as thesole text for a large DSP lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Collabo-rative development continues to expand these materials so that they will soon be in use at multipleuniversities. Being open, they are freely available to all educators and users for modification,extension, and use.2 Overview of the Connexions projectConnexions is a collaborative, community-driven approach to authoring, teaching, and learningthat aims both to convey the dynamic continuum of knowledge and to ease and speed the courseand curriculum development process. Launched in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Leifer; Jamey Jacob

were only able to simulate the effects of geographical distribution and the use ofdistance communications tools on student projects. However, groups of geographicallydispersed students enrolled in the same curriculum do in fact exist, and provide an opportunity toevaluate the effects of distributed collaboration on the outcome of a project. One such programis at the University of Kentucky, which recently established an Extended Campus Engineering Page 9.466.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

Educationactivities. All documents are accessible at http://www.engr.utexas.edu/aim/curriculum/#hands.The FIC technical team developed an online question bank that allows teachers to generatecustomized homework, quizzes, or tests (see http://www.engr.utexas.edu/aim/questionbank).Based on our experience in 2002 and input from teachers, we offered only two professionaldevelopment workshops in the fall semester of 2003. Each workshop covered two activities.Thirteen teachers attended the algebra workshop and four teachers participated in the calculusworkshop. A focus group will be held in April 2004 to receive input from the teachers on theirexperience with the activities.Additional activities are currently in development and will be ready for summer 2004. In

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

-accessible withpermission. The course material with design tools, such as a design case library and optimizationprograms, will be jointly developed and used by faculty members and students around the Pacific Rim.Although a capstone design course is usually required in an engineering curriculum, the format andcontent can be very different at different engineering schools. The paper discusses the effort to findcommon ground in different educational systems. The paper also addresses the perceived subtledifference resulting from cultural preference in teaching and learning engineering design. Someconsiderations for a change of methodology in teaching and doing mechanical design are proposed.Benefit and possible solutions to potential problems are

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

unique assessmentphilosophy developed.II. Program DescriptionA. CurriculumThe curriculum for the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering (Table 1) is similar toits parent curriculum at the College Park campus2, including the number of credits andprerequisite requirements. The courses build on each other and are offered in sequence such thatthe students can graduate in a timely manner. In designing the framework, each of the four yearswas structured with a purpose and a focus. The basics and the fundamentals are maintained inthe first two years, while enhancing the excitement and the challenge by adding introductorycourses in design. The technical knowledge to be conveyed was integrated into elements that areoffered in the third

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

toidentify “design” as a vital component of the curriculum. In fact, Criterion 3.c requires that “…programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to design a system, component,or process to meet desired needs” and Criterion 4 requires a “… curriculum culminating in amajor design experience …”. Such a capstone experience is a major component of the Design ofThermal Fluid Systems course (MECH 4314), required of every student, in the MechanicalEngineering program at The University of Memphis. Continuous improvement processesconducted by the faculty of that program have identified a need to improve the ability of itsgraduates to effectively plan and execute an engineering project of significant scope to beconducted by a multi

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

elective courses in relevant disciplines suchas finance, telecommunications management, economics, and industrial engineering. A keyresource supporting the program is the Telecommunications Interoperability Laboratory1, afacility designed to provide students with unmatched access to carrier-grade telecommunicationstechnologies. Students entering the program are expected to have undergraduate preparation inelectrical and computer engineering. This paper describes the curriculum and program goals, aswell as the motivation behind their development.2. Motivation, Program Goals, and Organizational StructureTelecommunications is an important enabling technology which pervades all sectors of theglobal economy and the production of skilled technical

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

curricula are basedon applications of conservation laws. Conservation of mass and energy is typically the firstcourse in a chemical engineering curriculum. Conservation of momentum including statics anddynamics is often the foundation course in mechanical engineering. Finally, conservation ofcharge provides the basis for an introduction to electrical circuits. With the support of a NSFgrant (1988-1994), a team of educators at Texas A&M University developed the textbook,Conservation Principles and the Structure of Engineering [6]. This text presents the applicationof the conservation equations across all engineering disciplines and is used in a cornerstone,sophomore-level course in their unified engineering curriculum. The textbook that we

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Page 9.1058.2faculty member or professional scientist mentor at an industrial, governmental or“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”university laboratory site. The objectives of this program are:• To increase the number of students who participate in undergraduate research.• To enhance students’ learning and commitment to their studies.• To increase the number of students attending graduate schools.• To provide students with professional development training. Research in the undergraduate engineering curriculum remains a significantcontributor to the educational preparation of new practitioners for an

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg; Jim Lampe; David Stanley

engineering graduates have an adequate understanding of how Page 9.316.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”to manufacture anything. Fewer still seem to understand the process of large-scale, complexsystem integration which characterizes so much of what we do in our industry, and it has becomeincreasingly clear to us in industry that the curricula in most of the major universities in theUnited States overemphasize engineering science at the expense of engineering practice.”(Bokulich, Gehm, &

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian Leslie

foundation and skills so that notime need be spent in class teaching the students programming. In addition, the authors willmake themselves available for consultation with any faculty that wish for or require additionalhelp.The long term goal is make one or both of these packages an integral part of the undergraduateengineering curriculum. Not only will this expand the scope of problems that can be addressed incourses, but will provide the student will valuable skills when they enter the workforce.References1. Chapra, S. C. and Canale, R. P., “Numerical Methods for Engineers, 4th Ed.”, McGraw Hill (2002)2. Brannan, K. P. and Murden, J. A., “From C++ to Mathcad: Teaching an Introductory Programming Course with a Non-Traditional Programming

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

and society.The historical paradigm often has inherent difficulties when attempting to integrate highlyspecialized professionals into functional, efficient, and effective teams focused on technologycommercialization and product development. Due to the training and specialization of thedifferent professions (scientists, physicians, engineers, business individuals), there tends to be a“silo effect” where each professional has an immense amount of knowledge and expertise withinhis/her own area, but has difficulty crossing disciplines to understand and function successfullywithin a team format.Entrepreneurship results in the creation of economic value by utilization of research andtechnical information and knowledge in inter-disciplinary projects

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

integrated sequence of eight core courses in which manytopics to be developed “across the curriculum” are emphasized, an ongoing planning to integrateIT topics into a combination of new or reorganized required and elective courses, and a recently-implemented practice-oriented Masters of Engineering program.IntroductionThe work of the civil engineer will change dramatically as we move beyond the first few years ofthe 21st Century. The challenges of world’s expanding population and societal expectations, thechanging global marketplace, and the growing environmental concerns, when coupled with therapidly growing Information Technology (IT) resources, lead to the conclusion that civilengineering will grow as a vibrant, needed, and rewarding profession

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

April Kedrowicz

engineering programs) to include (among other things) an abilityto function on multidisciplinary teams, an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility, and an ability to communicate effectively.5 In addition, national leaders ineducation cite the importance of a broad-based curriculum, a curriculum that is integrative andinterdisciplinary and emphasizes the non-technical aspects of engineering, including teamwork,communication skills, leadership abilities, and knowledge of ethics.4As students make the transition from student to professional, they are faced with many demands.What is becoming increasingly obvious is that technical ability is necessary, but not sufficient for

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thompson; Terri Fiez; Larry Flick; Edith Gummer

to look for workable solutions to specific problemsrather than universal solutions.4Recent criticism of scientific approaches to curriculum design, implementation, and evaluationhave been accompanied by an alternative approach often referred to as design or developmentresearch.11 Central to the idea of design research is that the design of the curriculum and theresearch on the effectiveness of the curriculum are not separated. Design and research areiterative processes that provide feedback for each other through cycles of design,implementation, and evaluation. The design is based on theories of learning while the researchon the design provides clarification of the theory as it is put into practice. Clarification theninforms changes in the

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

, organizations and society, including ethical, legal and policy issues; (g) Demonstrate an understanding of best practices and standards and their application; (h) Demonstrate independent critical thinking and problem solving skills; (i) Collaborate in teams to accomplish a common goal by integrating personal initiative and group cooperation; (j) Communicate effectively and efficiently with clients, users and peers both verbally and in writing, using appropriate terminology; (k) Recognize the need for continued learning throughout their career. This Committee has also defined the main topic and sub topics of the core curriculum. The main topics are as follows: Security, Social & Professional Issues, Information

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

disruption to an already full curriculum by integrating engineering with existingscience lessons. Lessons are organized around the engineering design cycle concept as a unifyingframework. Sample curriculum modules developed to date include • Brainstorming about such topics as removal of leaves from the school grounds, or the absence of chalk in the classroom; • Testing the optimum amount of water needed in a water rocket (made from a 2-liter plastic soda bottle and pressurized by a bicycle pump) to introduce testing, data collection and graphing; • Designing a “dream house” to introduce sketching and economic design constraints; • Designing, building, and testing (using individual stream tables made out of foil

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy; Afsaneh Minaie

are computer science, software engineering,networking, and computer engineering. In this curriculum, the students matriculate into the CNSdepartment after successfully completing the requirements of 30 hours of core courses commonto all computer science students. The students continue taking core courses until the firstsemester of their junior year, when they begin choosing their electives from differentspecialization areas.Since our school does not offer a stand alone engineering program, the computer sciencedepartment curriculum contains an area of specialization in computer engineering.In this paper, we elaborate the detail content of the curriculum for our computer engineering areaof specialization. In order to make our computer

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

courses. These models havebeen used as the pedagogical foundation for both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula innetwork technology and the results evaluated. Work to date suggests that these models stronglysupport student learning at all levels. A wide range of students were analysed and significantlystudents who had studied a number of networking units but had not been taught via these modelsscored lower than novice students taught using such models.1. IntroductionRapid developments in network technology have resulted in the inclusion of ACM/IEEErecommendations for Net-Centric computing within the Computer Science Undergraduate Bodyof Knowledge. Accordingly ACM/IEEE networking curriculum now represents an increasinglysignificant component

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

support of the US Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), a Green Engineering Project has fostered efforts to incorporate green engineeringinto the chemical engineering curriculum. This paper focuses on the integration of greenengineering concepts into the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum that coverseparation processes (distillation, extraction, absorption, membranes, etc). The paper describeshow the green engineering topics are “mapped” into a separations course and presents a sampleof the novel types of problems that were developed for instructor use. Green engineering is defined as the design, commercialization and use of processes andproducts that are feasible and economical while minimizing: generation of pollution at

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

process control1-2. There are several web sites6-10 and books11-13 dedicated to usingLEGO Mindstorms to do just about anything. Additional references describing the use ofthe LEGO Mindstorms in the chemical engineering curriculum are also available14.At their own initiative, students that took the hands-on design course integrated theLEGO Mindstorms into their AIChE Student Chapter Chem-E-Car to win the 2002regional competition. The students then became interested in working with the author ofthis paper in developing the AFE alternative energy project as part of MTU’s EnterpriseProgram. By the end of summer 2002, funding had been secured from the United StatesArmy. After a brief description of MTU’s enterprise program, the alternative

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

. Each week, students participate in acreativity/teamwork exercise. These activities will be described in the paper. Students evaluatetheir peers’ teamwork skills at mid and end semester via web based software. This work isfunded is partially with an NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) GrantAward 0127139. A description of the creatively/teamwork exercises as well as the lessons ondesign, ethics and project management will be made available athttp://www.humboldt.edu/~eae1/CCLI02/.Introduction and Course DescriptionFaculty members in Humboldt State University’s (HSU) Environmental Resources Engineering(ERE) program are revitalizing an introductory course, ENGR 215: Introduction to Design, toimprove the retention and

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Darrell Sabers; Reid Bailey

column entitled “Shopping Cart” shows how to apply the rubric to the shopping cart question from Figure 2. In this case, the proposed process is good (as indicated by the word “positive”) in that the shopping cart concept is analyzed for structural integrity. Recognizing this is worth one point (of the three total for this level). The proposed process is not good (as indicated by the word “Negative”), however, in that no other areas besides structure are analyzed for the shopping cart. Recognizing that other areas need to be analyzed is worth one additional point and giving at least one example of an additional analysis that would be needed is also worth one additional point. In Table 1, sample scores for