Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

students to build on each other’s work. Finally, DtM works with NGOs,corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result inproducts and services for communities in need.Since its launch in 2000, DtM has reached over 400 engineering students—roughly half of themwomen and minorities, and many of whom have realigned their life trajectories to include workin underserved communities. In 2002, DtM completed a proof-of-concept implementation inMIT's mechanical engineering capstone design course with Prof. Woodie Flowers. DtM is nowexpanding within MIT and to other schools in the US and UK.2.1. DtM Project AreasDesign that Matters works to address the needs of underserved communities in developingcountries as

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Entrepreneurship Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solt Michael; Malu Roldan; Burton Dean; Asbjorn Osland

positive regarding the NVF. A significant NVF exhibit was the Hewlett Packard Mobile Computing Grant (HPMCG). All teams completed projects that were impressive to most observers from the university and greater community but additional lessons were learned that will be important to subsequent comparable projects, as well as next year’s NVF.During 2003 a team of faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Humanities and the Arts, andBusiness at SJSU and also several entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley focused on new venturecreation by students. First, we’ll briefly summarize our experience with the SJSU Silicon ValleyBusiness Plan Competition (SVBPC) that took place in spring 2003. But the bulk of this paperwill focus on the

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeannie Brown Leonard; Janet Schmidt; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 2131 A Pilot Investigation of Functional Roles on Engineering Student Teams Ms. Jeannie Brown Leonard, Dr. Janet A. Schmidt, Ms. Paige E. Smith, & Dr. Linda C. Schmidt University of Maryland, College ParkIntroductionThe project team has become a primary learning environment for engineering students.Engineering education accreditation1 has been revised to include the ability to function onmultidisciplinary teams as a required student learning outcome in response to industryidentification of shortcomings in team skills2. Unlike

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming-Sung Koh; Mick Brzoska; William Loendorf

underrepresented students with the potential to be replicated in other technology and engineering programs at other institutions. • The design of a curriculum that bridges software and hardware technologies including: team-based projects, experience-based learning and extensive laboratory hands-on experience. • The formation of an SET Program Advisory Board comprised of actively involved individuals with diverse backgrounds in the development and maintenance of software intensive systems from industry and government. • The development of an SET program Assessment Plan to meet the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (TAC of ABET) criteria

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EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

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Martha Garcia-Saenz

1776 Applying Game Theory and Real Options to Competitiveness in Construction Businesses Martha Garcia-Saenz Purdue University North CentralIntroductionNet Present Value (NPV) has been the tool used to decide about the future of many projects for along time. Refinements in calculations are necessary on a daily basis because of global businesscompetition. Better tools for decision-making are indispensable for managerial flexibility inorder to respond quickly to changes. For many years, decision-making was tied to strategiesfixed in advance, and when

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Zvi Aronson; Souran Manoochehri; Peter Dominick; Kishore Pochiraju; Beth McGrath; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard

visualization and immersion in alternative designs of engineeredsystems. The product realization environment encompasses the real time execution ofengineering projects, products and services for example on the factory floor or the projectsite. The human environment encompasses all interactions, real or virtual, with all Page 9.1289.1project stakeholders from teammates to users. Cutting across all three environments isincreasing awareness for the need to incorporate the process of systems thinking.Systems thinking entails the notion that every engineering project, no matter how small,is treated as a system and not as a mere collection of components

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Service Learning in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

Session 3161 Service-Learning in CHE Senior Design Lisa G. Bullard, Patti H. Clayton, and Steven W. Peretti North Carolina State University ABET 2000 Criterion 3 explicitly states that engineering graduates must have “anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility,” “an ability to communicateeffectively,” and “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context.” Service-learning is the approach we chose to enhanceour students’ capacities in these areas. For the past two years, senior projects containing

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education forall students, including: majors in STEM disciplines; prospective K-12 teachers; studentspreparing for the technical workplace; and all students as citizens in a technologicalsociety.The Division’s grant programs sponsor projects in the two broad areas of curriculumdevelopment and workforce preparation. The scope and objectives of these programs areherein described. Some of these programs are congressionally mandated but administeredby the Division. Greater attention is given to the Course, Curriculum and LaboratoryImprovement Program that was developed by the Division to provide leadership andresources for the improvement of STEM education. Guidance is provided on how toprepare a successful

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

-semester design sequence with the first semester being a Page 9.444.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpaper design of an entire spacecraft and mission. The second semester is dedicated to design,build, integration and test. In order to accomplish this in a single semester, only a fewsubsystems can be done in detail, so the project is de-scoped from the previous semester’s designto be some portion of the design that the students can complete in a single semester.The benefits

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

, American Society for Engineering”OverviewThe class meets four hours a week, with students receiving three semester credits (or 0.75 unitsin the case of graduate students) for their efforts. The only prerequisite is an engineering graphicscourse that includes parametric solid modeling, although students are also expected to be familiarwith solid mechanics concepts. Class time is divided between a classroom equipped with acomputer and projection system, and a computer laboratory.In the classroom either the instructor gives lectures, or the students themselves makepresentations on topics that they have previously researched. Lectures cover such subjects astransformation matrices, geometric modeling (solids, splines, and surfaces), finite

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

Session Number: 1608 Civil and Infrastructure Engineering for Sustainability Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft, Prof. Mike Xie, Mr Nomer Angeles School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University Melbourne, AustraliaIntroductionIn 2002, the School of Civil and Chemical Engineering at RMIT University began a project torenew its Civil Engineering program, ready for the new 2004 academic year. This programhad high acceptance in the marketplace (high graduate employability) but average studentsatisfaction scores (as measured by the national CEQ data).As part of this renewal process

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

, and the role ofsenior capstone design in the curriculum is more summative than formative, leaving little roomfor remediation and subsequent improvement. First-year design experiences can providecontext, motivation, and excitement, but first-year students are typically without the technicalbackground to experience a genuine electrical and computer engineering (ECE) design processthat fills an unmet need and addresses all of the tradeoffs between technical and nontechnicalmatters that occur in product design.For over 30 years, the undergraduate engineering programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have featured a substantial senior capstone design project as one of three degree-requiredproject experiences. While faculty reviews of the

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

student involvement and for increasing the quality of the experiences. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringTypes of Research Experiences Available to Lafayette StudentsLafayette College facilitates three different mechanisms for student research, as described in thefollowing paragraphs.Independent StudyA student takes an independent study during a semester for course credit (for a Civil Engineeringmajor, this course typically counts as a civil engineering elective). Any student may request towork with a faculty member on an independent study project, and the project may take a varietyof forms

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tord Dennis; Robert Fulton

design and deliver a product over a two-year period. This paper documents one of the pilot DCPD projects conducted by students and facultyat Georgia Tech and the University of Maryland College Park during the spring semester of 2003 toidentify and explore potential issues relating to the “Grand Experiment". We introduce our 2-yearcapstone DCPD project which began in the fall semester of 2003 with Mechanical Engineering studentsfrom Georgia Tech, University of Maryland and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign collaboratingto design an amphibious utility vehicle for the John Deere Corporation. We also outline our plans forinvolving students from Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Business and other disciplines in the springsemester of 2004 to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Lloyd Massengill; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

Session 3125 Development of a Joint BME, ME, and EE/CE Senior Engineering Design SeminarPaul H. King, Ph.D., P.E., Donald L. Kinser, Ph.D., P.E., Joel Barnett, Ph.D., Lloyd Massengill, Ph.D., Andrew Dozier, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, 37235AbstractIn the spring term of 2003 the design instructors from the departments of BiomedicalEngineering (PK), Mechanical Engineering (DK, JB) and Electrical and ComputerEngineering (LM, JB, AD) met to discuss the possibility of collaboration oninterdisciplinary design projects and the development of a common design lecture for allfour majors

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

domestic hot water and space heating using a radiant floor. There is also a stone-linedsunroom for collecting and storing solar energy, and adjustable louvers over the extensive south-facing glazing to regulate incoming solar radiation. Data logging, control and user interface areintegrated by a LabVIEW-based automation system. The house continues to serve as alaboratory for multidisciplinary capstone design team projects. The project, which allows students to learn energy concepts in an integrated realisticsetting, provides numerous benefits for engineering students that are often lacking in standardengineering instruction, and that are being emphasized by the new ABET EC 2000 criteria. Itintroduces them to holistic systems thinking—that

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

. Objectives3.1 Objectives in Creating the CourseIn looking at the computer engineering curriculum at the University of Evansville (UE) it seemedthat the spring term of the junior year was the best time to offer such a course. This allowsstudents to obtain adequate prerequisite preparation. It also gives them the opportunity tofollow-up and complete a major capstone project which includes real-time and embeddedsystems during their senior year. The objectives in creating the course were: • Keep hardware and software costs low so that the course can be offered inexpensively and so that students can do course assignments in their home/dorm as well as in a lab. • Use hardware and software similar to that currently being used in industry

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Dunbar

Session 2213Construction and Testing of a Pilot Scale Drinking Water Treatment Process Paul D. Dunbar*, Lori Morris+, and L. Yu Lin++*Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Paducah Extension Campus,Paducah, KY/+Ensafe Inc., Memphis, TN/++Christian Brothers University, Department of CivilEngineering, Memphis, TNAbstract This project was a senior design project for a civil engineering student. The project’sgoal was to build a cost-effective and energy efficient system to treat surface water on a pilotscale. Due to its relatively inexpensive costs and the safe nature of the project, this type ofproject can serve as an

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Pietryga; Gregory Dick

documentation.This paper focuses on the third of these.The programming course at UPJ has always included programming projects. Nominally,one programming project is assigned each week. No assignment is made in those weeksduring which an exam is being administered. In the second half of the course moresubstantial projects are assigned; these may be intended for one and a half or two weeksduration. The result is that students typically complete about ten programming projects.Students submit a report documenting their experience with each project. The report Page 9.146.1includes: Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

Session 1649 Remote Sensing with GPS Sensor and Cellular Modem David R. Loker, P.E., Ronald P. Krahe, P.E., Jeffrey Kirsch, Ted J. Yowonske, R. Joseph Cunningham, Joseph R. Petrovich Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote sensing project is presented for a senior technical electivetelecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate Program atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several noteworthy characteristics of thisproject. First, the project used a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith Miller; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

PolytechnicInstitute (WPI) and the Worcester Public Schools (WPS) have formed a partnership to developtechnology/engineering curriculum materials for grades K-6 and to prepare teachers, who do notgenerally have a technical background, to implement them. The participants are WPI faculty,graduate fellows in engineering and science disciplines, undergraduate engineering and sciencestudents, and WPS elementary school teachers. This partnership is innovative because it is thefirst to address the Massachusetts technology/engineering frameworks in grades K-6.Project ObjectivesNSF has a longstanding interest in addressing pipeline issues in technical education, and thisprogram represents an opportunity to interest young children, especially girls andunderrepresented

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Crowley; Susan Miertschin

Session 2158 Developing Information Technology Career Path Awareness through Student Online Portfolios Ed Crowley, Susan L. Miertschin University of HoustonIntroductionAt the University of Houston, the College of Technology operates a relatively young InformationTechnology (IT) program that, like other similar programs, continues to develop its identity.Most IT students at UH are developing their own professional identities as well. To foster thisdevelopment, IT faculty designed a learning focused portfolio project with a primary goal

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

showcase students’ problem-solving skills andtheir ability to analyze and synthesize information. In the College of Engineering at the University of Texas (UT), an electronicportfolio system called Polaris is in use and undergoing iterative development. Thissystem developed in house has been created so that students can document theireducational progress and share what they have accomplished with an audience (i.e., theirprofessors, their peers, prospective employers, their parents). By using Polaris, studentshave a tool to record their course work, present projects, and evaluate their owneducational progress. Polaris benefits students by giving them a personalized yet professional lookingwebsite. Also, the system provides students

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Taylor; Jacqueline Mozrall

, manufacturing processes, layout, and ergonomics to name a few. The students are alsoprovided with a set of tools/software to learn and use throughout the integrated sequence thathave been identified by faculty, students, and co-op employers as key tools for IndustrialEngineers, namely AutoCAD, Access, MS Office, and MS Project. The classroom andlaboratory experiences are supplemented with plant tours, common case studies, and a variety ofdemonstrations. Analysis techniques are typically taught in team-based, application formats thatprovide the student with exposure to the methods, which has been shown to increase theenthusiasm of students. The main thrusts of the new curriculum are active learning and exposure,with details and theory to follow in more

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

tomiddle schools. Models are being developed to demonstrate concepts that encourage girls andboys to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Each primarily female teamincludes engineering faculty, middle school teachers, industry volunteers, and undergraduatestudents. Teams are creating flexible curriculum activities that are classroom tested anddocumented for national dissemination.Funded by a three-year NSF grant (HRD GSE 0217110), the collaboration is in its second year.Pilots are underway with assessment points to incorporate lessons learned from classroomtesting. Each team selected different concepts to develop: - NU’s project has students using basic science concepts and the 8 steps of the engineering design

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

Session 3642 Engineering Management Technology Transfer in Naval Engineering Curricula Robert H. Mayer United States Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper will describe new project management opportunities within the ocean engineering andnaval architecture programs at the U.S. Naval Academy. Specifically, engineering managementskills and techniques have been adapted to naval engineering settings and included in a newproject management area of concentration.One elective course, in particular, introduces students to various inventory

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

Session Number 3250 CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE COURSE CLAYTON RAY DIEZ, DAVID N. YEARWOOD, LUKE H. HUANG University of North DakotaIntroduction An undergraduate program may normally provide students with about 40 coursesin the process of preparing them for training towards a profession. While these coursesare spread out in different fields, it is often a challenge for students to effectivelymaximize the application of knowledge learned from theses course to carry out aprofessional project. Yet, it is precisely what is expected of graduates. On the other hand,after several years of

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

. It is propelled by a N-size solidrocket engine and is expected to climb to about 22,000 ft with a maximum speed of Mach 1.5.The instrumentation includes an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors to measure thelocation and behavior of the shock wave during the supersonic flight phase, and strain gauges forthe determination of the structural behavior of the rocket. This rocket was finally launched inNovember of 2003.At various times during the planning, assembly, and instrumentation phases of the project,participants included local high school students, college students from sophomores to graduates,and an OU alumnus with high-power rocketry experience. Students participated in various ways:on a voluntary basis, by signing up for a

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

SESSION 1566 The Balanced Scorecard in a Capstone Design Course John I. Hochstein, Jeffrey G. Marchetta, William S. Janna Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis, TennesseeAbstractIn response to a perceived need to improve the project management skills of program graduates,the authors introduced the general principles and structure of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)system to seniors in a capstone design course. This paper briefly presents the principles of theBalanced Scorecard, describes how they were