Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

/HigherEducation from the University of North Dakota and holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciencefrom the University of Iowa. Her dissertation examined the literature of higher education to determine how theliterature reflects the discipline’s development and practice. Through her work at North Dakota State University,she participated in the creation of a unique learning community that integrates service learning with leadershipdevelopment and problem-based learning methods for undergraduates. Using the Kellogg transformationalleadership model as background material for student leadership development, she is currently studying the theoriesand practices of John Dewey, Jane Addams, Paulo Freire, and bell hooks to support the model. She

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Dunlap; Donald Keating

).23. Kocaoglu, D.F. Engineering management: Educational strategies for leadership in technology management.Industry & Higher Education, 10 (6), 332-336 (1996).24. Schön, D.A. The reflective practitioner. New York: Basic Books (1983).25. Kostoff, R.N. Science and technology roadmaps. Springfield, VA: United States Defense Technical InformationCenter. Available WWW: http:// http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/kostoff/mapweb2index.htm (2001 access date).26. Keith, K.M. The responsive university in the twenty-first century. In, William G. Tierney (ed.), The ResponsiveUniversity: Restructuring For High Performance (pp. 162-172). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1998).27. Oblinger, D.G., & Verville, A. What business wants from higher

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

”, November 3, 2003.[2] Babbitt, Beatrice C., "University Curriculum Project - Professors Reflect onImpact",http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/Us_EU/conf/csun_98/csun_98_114.htm, 2003[3] Cala, Martin and Robert A. McCoy, "Corporate Connections: Developing Programs andRelationships", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference for Industry and EducationCollaboration, 2002. [4] Lord, Susan M. "Service-Learning in Introduction to Engineering at the University of SanDiego: First Lessons", Proceedings of the 1999 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,1999. Page 9.730.7Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

the rubber tire. It reflects theenergy losses that occur as the rubber is alternately compressed and expanded as it slides overthe irregular pavement surface texture. Deformation of the rubber will occur, and hence thehysteresis component will exist, even if the pavement surface is perfectly lubricated.In the United States, the most common method of performing skid tests is by means of a vehiclepulling a two-wheel trailer whose wheels have been locked in place. The friction force isrecorded and a skid number is calculated and assigned to the pavement section. Skid numbersare normally used by highway agencies to identify pavement sections with low skid resistance, todevelop priorities for rehabilitation, and to evaluate the effectiveness of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

concurrency control. Consequently, there wouldbe a big gap between CS543 and CS643, which discussed distributed database systems.We have redesigned CS543 and CS643 to reflect modern contents of database systems. CS543has been designed as an application-oriented course where students learn how to use a database.CS643 has been designed as a system-oriented course which covers DBMS implementationtechniques. Student surveys showed that these changes are welcome by students. Many studentsjust need to know how to use database systems rather than how to implement a DBMS whileother students are interested in going further into database implementation and performancetuning.3. Issues and ConcernsThe redesigned CS543 covers topics in Categories 1 and 2. The

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

of lab courses that will approximatethe existing lab curriculum within the existing two academic year window, decouple theco-requisite problem, and stop global warming. The proposed structure is reflected inTable 2. Table 2. Core Labs - AY 2003-2004 Semester Lab Prerequisite Core Courses Fall 2nd Year ECE Lab 1 None Spring 2nd Year ECE Lab 2 Intro to Signal Processing Digital systems Fall 3rd Year ECE Lab 3 Circuits Linear Systems Spring 3rd Year ECE Lab 4 Electronics

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

, 3. It is believed engineering colleges have a vitalrole to develop curriculum which meets the expectations of non-technical students. In order toenhance a curriculum reflecting the expectations of these students, it is necessary to respond toexpectations of non-technical students. A survey was conducted to allow faculty to determinestudents’ expectations and how well they were met by a general education course centered abouta computer aided design software program. Krupczak and Green4 used similar study to determinethe perspective of non-technical students on technical literacy. They found a clear definition oftechnical literacy was stated by their students. This included the ability to interact with technicalsystems and repair them when

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mario Simoni; Marc Herniter; Bruce Ferguson

%) Diode Circuit Analysis 4 (13%) Single Transistor Circuit Analysis 9 (29%) Device Modeling 7 (23%)One aspect of this exam for which we have received comments is the inclusion and number ofbasic circuit analysis questions. These questions are necessary for two reasons. First, they removesome ambiguity from interpretation of the ECI’s results by helping to identify the reasons forincorrect answers. These questions were carefully chosen to reflect the background knowledgethat is necessary to correctly answer the electronics questions. As such, they can help determine ifa student answered incorrectly because they did not understand the electronics

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

established time limit of 20minutes for their presentations.Student EvaluationThe success of the course was reflected by the student evaluation ratings. The course instructor evaluation by theundergrad students was 4.76/5, which is very much above the department average. The course rating was 4.69,which again is much above the average. Similar excellent ratings were also given by the graduate students (4.76/5and 4.51/5, respectively). The only other concern expressed by a few was that there was too much material for a 3credit one semester long course.ConclusionThe idea of using an interdisciplinary team to teach the topic of fuel cells has been very successful at ASU. Theexperience has been very rewarding for both students and faculty, and is a

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

has been teaching design courses as part of the ME curriculum at the PurdueSchool of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI (Indiana University - Purdue University atIndianapolis) for more than a decade. The design courses have undergone many changes over theyears to reflect current theory and practice in the field. Engineering design courses are integratedinto the ME curriculum, beginning with a basic introduction to mechanical design examples andbackground during the freshman year to advanced capstone design projects in the senior year.Recently, there is a growing interest in synthesizing innovation and creative processing inengineering curricula through art [9, 10]. Patton and Bannerot [10] discusses nicely the designprinciples and process

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

manufacturing sector and does not cater much to the needs of non-manufacturing industrial arena. This certainly is not a true reflection of the completerequirements of the entire industrial setup in Pakistan, which is primarily dominated bythe service industries. When it comes to manufacturing applications, the curriculum atthe IME department specifically includes typical design courses like Computer AidedDesign (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). This makes the NEDcurriculum a little more comprehensive than that of the ISE department at UF. Althoughthe IE department at UF does not offer courses in these specialized areas, yet the studentshave the flexibility to take courses like CAD and CAM, and other similar courses, fromMechanical

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

were introduced to the topic through a discussion of the engineering design process as presented in the Massachusetts Framework (see Figure 1). It is our belief that the design process is best learned through application, followed by discussion and reflection, so we made this introduction brief. 2. Students worked in teams, applying the engineering design process to redesign aspirin Page 9.1197.4 bottles that would allow easier access for physically challenged users. Each group began Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

rather than group labs, the lab sizes have been limited to 6 students to help optimizethe learning experience in the labs. Unfortunately, this also limits the number of students whocan participate due to the expense of setting up multiple laboratories. Another challenge associated with this course is that, while this course is the second in aseries for students in the NSF IGERT program, the first course is not a prerequisite for thiscourse. Thus, a number of students have a good introduction to microscale phenomena whileothers who enroll have had little or none. This disparity does end up being reflected in grades atthe end of the term, even though the two IGERT classes do not directly overlap. Student evaluation data are available

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rich Shiavi; Christopher Rowe

,focusing on computer modeling and simulation techniques for solving engineering and mathproblems. Since technology was just becoming user-friendly, MATLAB was a good choicebecause of its uncommon combination of ease of use and breadth of functionality.MATLAB originated in the late 1970's when Cleve Moler wanted to provide interactive accessto the FORTRAN linear algebra software packages EISPACK and LINPACK, motivated by hisbelief that a person should not have to learn FORTRAN in order to learn numerical computation.MATLAB was initially focused on constructing and manipulating matrices, and applyingalgorithms for eigenanalysis and linear algebra (“MATLAB” stands for “matrix laboratory”,reflecting these origins). In 1984, Cleve Moler and Jack Little

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Monica Cox, Purdue University

during the 2003 spring semester, this study will explore the presence or absence ofthe following within observed classrooms: (1) faculty’s signaling with cognitive organizers andusage of content linkages, (2) faculty and student in-class assessment patterns, and (3)professors’ pedagogical patterns. These three areas are reflected in seventeen items that comprisethe GR. Preliminary information about the percentage of observed instances of these Likert scaleitems will be examined, and patterns across traditionally-taught, nonHPL classes and HPL-oriented classes will be explored.Faculty Sample During the fall of 2002 and the spring of 2003, the first author, a trained classroomobserver who has collected classroom data with the VOS for three

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

upon stu- dents. We even think those grades reflect well on us; they show how popular we are with bright students. And so we are quite satisfied with ourselves, too. Page 9.645.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education There is something inappropriate -- almost sick -- in the spectacle of mature adults showering young people with unbelievable praise. We are flattering our students in our eagerness to get their good opinion. That our students are promising makes it worse, for

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Austin’s College of Engineering that reflects the demographics ofthe college age population within the state of Texas, 35 percent ethnic minorities.IntroductionThe Texas Research Experience (TREX) Program was created at The University of Texas atAustin in 1992 to provide technical learning experiences for African American, Hispanic, andNative American undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Engineering. TREX wasinitiated to address the following challenges: (1) lack of African American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican students pursuing graduate degrees in engineering; (2) large percentage of AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, and Native American engineering students with limited exposure to and/orinvolvement in research projects on campus; (3

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

engineering faculty at a research-orienteduniversity.We will review in brief how ABET arrived at its current state and present evidence thateducational initiatives must align with the goals and objectives of the research faculty at majoruniversities for those initiatives to have lasting impact there. Frank, anonymous feedback from across-section of engineering faculty will reveal that ABET 2000 is in trouble, lacking thegrassroots faculty support necessary for a stable accreditation system. The claim will be putforward that any such system must derive broad support, from more than a few true believers,and must not reflect a faddish wave of buzzwords.To conclude, we will present a few notions of a revised accreditation process that could be, atonce

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

tower in a limited amount of time using limited quantities ofspaghetti and marshmallows. Following this competition, the design teams are asked to reflect ontheir performance by participating in a classroom discussion. It has been observed by the authorsof this paper that, generally, the most successful teams are the ones who first discuss an action Page 9.783.2plan and then carry it out with effective teamwork. This is the most important point which is “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

formallyassess their perceptions of this specific project; however, their responses to our course-endsurvey reflected strong outcomes in the specific areas that this project targeted—motivation tolearn, critical thinking, and the instructor’s use of effective techniques. The results aresummarized in Table 1 below. Student responses were scored on a five-point Likert scale, with 1indicating strong disagreement and 5 indicating strong agreement. Course USMA Survey Question Average Average My motivation to learn increased because of this course. 4.35

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zac Bunnell; Garett Scott; Sundararajan Madihally

0.4 0.2 0.0 15 20 25 30 35 40 Water Flow Rate (lb/min)Figure 2: HETP values versus water flow rate for air at 12.8 SCFM. (data shows propagationof maximum uncertainty).HETP values were calculated and graphed against liquid mass flux. As shown in Figure 2,HETP values increased as liquid mass flux increased. As liquid mass flux increases, mass-transfer decreases; therefore, HETP values increase to reflect the lower mass-transfer efficiency.The HETP values calculated were found to be reasonably close to the expected values (~0.8 ft

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Heaslip

successful leverage of partner universities topresent an academic program highly-valued by both participants and their employers. Itappears to reflect a style of industry-focused post graduate engineering education that has ahigh potential for success in other jurisdictions. Page 9.264.7

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smith; Steven Nichols

longer reflective paper. In these assignments, students should articulate what theylearned from the video and from subsequent discussions.To encourage wide-spread use of this educational tool, the National Institute for EngineeringEthics has sent a free copy of Incident at Morales to all engineering deans for use in engineeringethics education and to all major engineering societies for use by practicing engineers. It hasalso been used in Central and South American countries as well as several countries in Europe.It is the belief of the authors of this paper and the video team that Incident at Morales is a highlyeffective method of communicating ethics to students in engineering education and to engineersin industry.Reference: Davis, Michael

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

Figure 5 – TPC-W Database SchemaFor RAIDb level 1 and 2, database tables were evenly distributed throughout the cluster. InRAIDb-1 organizations, the entire database was replicated on each node. For odd-numberednode RAIDb-2 systems, one node contained the entire database, while the remaining nodesprovided equally partitioned redundancy. For even-numbered node RAIDb-2 systems, all tableswere equally distributed and replicated among the available nodes.Testing ClientThe Java–based testing client was created to gather data about database performance by playinga series of “recorded” SQL statements. By using the same statements, and the same series ofstatements, change in performance reflects actual change in throughput and disassociates anychange in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

. Page 9.1073.6 The first suggestion was that when the groups have completed the drawings and planningfor the engine, they should exchange the manufacturing responsibility with another group to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”make. Any changes to the design would require a consultation with the design team and thedrawings altered to reflect a revision change. This is the method that the manufacturing industryactually follows; machinists do not normally alter the dimensions, tolerance, or design withoutthe engineering designer’s approval. This suggestion will be incorporated in the current

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

engineering degree requirements to 128 credithours. Faculty must carefully design degree programs that reflect these directives and at thesame time minimize the potential effects of such directives on the public’s health and safety.Elizandro and Matson1 have presented a systematic methodology for administering degreeprograms in this type of environment. That approach extends the ABET Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs2 by defining curriculum effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness refersto the achievement level of ABET Program Outcomes and Program Objectives, and efficiencymeasures the portion of the curriculum devoted to each Program Outcome and ProgramObjective

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

studentsin evaluating their ethic and moral decision-making. This model is designed with theassumption that there are some givens in our institutions and society. Our institutionsmay have a Code of Ethics similar to the Professional Engineer’s Code of Ethics includedin some coursework. Some corporations have Value Statements and Statements ofIntegrity stressing the importance of ethical decision-making. Our society holds all of usaccountable for certain norms and expectations, reflecting our requirements of being agood citizen. This model also considers personal values, attitudes, principles, andperceptions as powerful influences on decision-making. However, this model is designedto show that most decision-making is made in a split second, a moments

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

teamwork, problem solving, professional and ethicalresponsibility, communication skills and the use of modern tools received relatively higherratings, which reflects the trends in the workplace requirements. Figure 4 clearly shows thevarying levels of satisfaction of graduates with respect to their preparation in the college. Thedata is stratified with five-year increments (nominal duration for graduation). The collegegraduates prior to 1995 consider themselves not prepared for most of the outcomes.Significant improvements in the level of satisfaction of the graduates after 1995 is due to theefforts of the college to improve design education and its integration in the programs.Furthermore, in the latter years, there has been an increased awareness

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Seek new challenges and take informed risks. Understand that knowledge is gained through making connections with faculty and other students and among different disciplines, courses, and experiences.The resulting faculty goals to meet this mission are: Set high expectations for learning in your courses. Reflect critically on your own teaching and students’ learning. Enhance the role that the Miami Plan principles play in your courses, even in the large- enrollment ones. (The Miami plan is a broad set of distributed course requirements which encourages students to think critically, engage with other learners, understand contexts, and

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

evaluation. If not, the class gets a poor one.Id. Good evaluations can be reflections of something other than good teaching: they cansometimes be the result of teachers pandering to students’ prejudices, or never challengingstudents. Id.Evaluations also do not necessarily have a high correlation with how much students havelearned: while correlations may be positive when objective indices of student learning are usedas criteria, many are weak in magnitude or modest. [5] Some researchers have found thatevaluations are influenced by the halo effect by things irrelevant to student learning, such asgrading leniency. [6] However, it is the authors’ opinion that this “halo effect” in summativeassessments can be mitigated by careful structuring of the