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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

, critical thinking, constructing new knowledge based on these answers, and problemsolving.5, 6 Studies conducted with science students found that inquiry-based science activitieshave positive effects on students’ science achievement, cognitive development, laboratory skillsand understanding of science content as a whole when compared with more traditional teachingapproaches.7, 8 Students participatingin hands-on activities, performingtheir own science experiments learnmore than those who do not.9, 10 Ahands-on inquiry-based approach isparticularly appealing to studentswith disabilities (special education),teaching them to use kinestheticmodalities, verbal modalities,pictorial representations andcreativity.11 Other studies have shownthat students in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

, four-hourcredit course required of all freshmen students. It is offered each quarter. Instruction manpowerconsists of the program director and four graduate teaching assistants (GTA). One assistant deanmanages the budget, ordering materials, hiring, and unusual student problems.MethodologyEach quarter there are two lecture sections, five computer laboratory sections, and fiveinstrumentation sections. The lecture sections are limited to 50 students each and the laboratorysections are limited to 20 students each. The lecture sections are two hours long. The laboratorysections are two hours long. Each student is required to enroll in a lecture section, a computerlaboratory section, and an instrumentation laboratory section. In addition to

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

technique has been successful and we hope to optimize its use in thisintroductory course as well as introduce it into future biomedical engineering courses.Bibliography1. Beasley, C. A., Culkowski, P. M. and Guffner, G. E., Integration of Lecture and Laboratory in a Technology Program, Engineering Education, 433, April, 1990.DANIEL P. CAVANAGH is an associate professor of biomedical and chemical engineering at Bucknell Universityin Lewisburg, PA. In addition to currently holding the Emmitt Memorial Chair in Biomedical Engineering, he isalso Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program. Dr. Cavanagh teaches a variety of biomedical and chemicalengineering courses in addition to researching intravascular gas embolism and dialysis.SAMANTHA J

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

andinteractive software for use in engineering Dynamics courses. In this case it was claimed thatsome improvement in student performance can be obtained by the use of these tools.In a previous paper [11] the author discussed his experiences on using simulation software(commercially available) for Dynamics teaching and improving learning. Feedback fromstudents showed that the simulations can help visualize and understand mechanical systemsdynamic behavior.However some of the approaches mentioned above can sometimes be difficult to implement.Some of the reasons for that could be software availability, difficulties integrating software andweb tools into an already long syllabus, class size and lack of laboratory time for the discipline.For these cases, a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Derby; Stephen Frempong; Willie Ofosu

The Pennsylvania Stet University are compelled to modify course content to include latestinnovations in the technology. Although it is easy to modify the lecture component of thecurricula, laboratory exercises can only be done in small scales within controlled environmentwhich does not justify the expense for some of the equipment. For example, a laboratoryexercise in digital aerial photogrammetry requires an aircraft equipped with an on-board GPSreceiver, digital aerial camera and many other accessories. It is obvious that the expensesinvolved in acquiring the equipment for this exercise far exceed the financial resource of theprogram. There is therefore a need to find innovative ways to expose students to the equipment,technology, and

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youssef Shatilla; Adnan Zahed

class through the useof checklists. Students are given the chance to assess other students work products to learnhow to appreciate and reward quality. They practice continuous improvement first hand bygiving feedback on the learning process at the end of each class. They demand and expectinstructors to follow up on their feedback to see if they “walk the talk”.Management of the CourseFollowing are management issues that need to be presented to give a clear and completepicture of the course.Active LearningIn a study done by the National Training Laboratories it was found that the learner’s retentionrate is highly affected by the learning environment. To lecture is at the top of the learningpyramid and to teach is at the bottom. In conventional

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Hart

Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinspired, I proposed an optional laboratory project on class-D amplifiers, and fivestudents participated. The hardware that the students used to implement their class-Damplifier projects and student opinions about the experience are described below.The HardwareClass-D amplifiers contain a triangular-waveform generator for the high-frequencycarrier signal, a comparator to compare the carrier signal with the audio signal, and powertransistors arranged in an H-bridge to switch the output voltage to either a high or lowvoltage depending on the output of the comparator. A passive Butterworth filter on

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glen Archer; Leonard Bohmann

; Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. Some fundamental topics in introductory circuit analysis: a critique;Davis, A.M.; Education, IEEE Transactions on , Volume: 43 , Issue: 3 , Aug. 2000Pages:330 3352. A new design-oriented laboratory for the introductory circuits core course at Penn StateUniversity; Mayer, T.S.; Medunick, J.R.; Chunyu Zhang; Jackson, T.N.; Frontiers in EducationConference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. 'Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change'.Proceedings. , Volume: 1 , 5-8 Nov. 1997 Pages:506 - 510 vol.13. Laboratories for introductory circuits and electronics; Takach, M.D.; Heeren, R.G.; Frontiersin Education Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 , Volume: 2 , 1-4 Nov. 1995 Pages

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Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Session 1148 Strategies for Embedding Scholarship in the Educational Experiences of Engineering Technology Undergraduate Students Abi Aghayere College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe hallmark of Engineering Technology (ET) programs is its student-centered curriculum andhands-on approach to teaching. Many institutions with ET programs now require scholarship oftheir ET faculty in addition to their teaching duties. In many institutions that have alwaysemphasized scholarship and research

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Application of Technology in Engineering Education Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractThis paper focuses on introducing the faculty to a collection of powerful software tools andtechnologies that can be used effectively in a teaching and learning environment. This presentationadditionally illustrates some of the techniques that can be employed in conjunction with using thesetools and technologies to further enhance the teaching effectiveness of the faculty and promotestudent learning. Sample tools utilized in this study include WebCT, Adobe Acrobat, MicrosoftEXCEL, Macromedia FLASH, MATLAB, LabVIEW, as well as, a series of other

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

otherwise become discouraged while taking the traditional physics,calculus, and chemistry prerequisites.1,2,3The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Montana State University(MSU) has developed and implemented a new laboratory experience in EE 101, our requiredfreshman-level introductory course, as part of an ongoing course and curriculum evaluationprocess. Students in EE 101 now work on a custom autonomous robot kit, assembling theelectronics and chassis components step-by-step with soldering irons and hand tools, whilegaining an understanding of basic laboratory instruments, measurement procedures, and circuitconcepts. The students learn to work both independently and with a partner to complete theassembly, measurement, and

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

critical final link for a thorough understanding and appreciationof scientific and engineering theories. Every possible effort should be made not to deprive thefuture engineers or educators from this vital component of their education [1]. It is thereforenecessary to continue development of effective and efficient pedagogical methods andtechniques for the engineering laboratory experience [2].Laboratory apparatus is generally expensive due to low production levels, specialized featuresand significantly higher Design Costs built into the final cost. For example, the range of cost fora typical educational fatigue testing apparatus is from $28,500 to $32,500. These units arebasically adaptations of the R. R. Moore Industrial Fatigue testing devices

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

field, yet undergraduate engineering students in civil and environmental engineering arerarely exposed to digital imaging through their coursework. The College of Engineering atRowan University received funding from NSF to integrate digital imaging technology (DIT) inour undergraduate engineering curriculum. Faculty from all engineering disciplines withexpertise in DIT participated in this exciting project to develop hands-on experiments forundergraduate engineering students. Experiments developed were such that all engineeringdisciplines would benefit from the endeavor. Certain digital imaging experiments havegenerated a lot of excitement in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program as many ofthe laboratory experiments are extremely

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Mohammadzadeh

Session 1368 Learning About Stress and Strain Transformations by Comparing Theoretical, Experimental, and Finite Element Results Alireza Mohammadzadeh Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State UniversityOne way of teaching a new physical concept effectively to students is to arrive at that physicalconcept via different approaches. Stress and stain transformations, together with combinedloading and von Mises failure criterion for ductile materials, are among those subject matters insolid mechanics in which students have

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

recent hiring of a new faculty member with anuclear engineering background dedicated specifically to the development of the programit is expected to boost student enrollment in courses offered at PVAMU campus and theTTVN classes. Also a national recognition by numerous DOE laboratories of the need toincrease minority enrollments at such institutions is expected to influence students at theuniversities to consider nuclear engineering as a prospective career option. The uniqueness of the PVAMU program comes from the way it is setup. It isbased in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the NASA Center for AppliedRadiation Research (CARR) is an integral part of the program. The course curriculum isdesired to include specific topics

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

uncertainties of real laboratory and design work. Finally, use your students asworkers early and often.References1 Campbell, M.E., Oh, Now I Get It!, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 88, No. 4, .p. 3812 Newberry, C. F., Rutherford, J.W., Gouhin, P. J., National Aerospace Design Competitions: Industry/UniversityPartnerships, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 4, p. 3193 Dutson, A. J., Todd, R. H., Magleby, S.P., Sorenson, C.D. A Review of the Literature on Teaching EngineeringDesign Through Project Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 1, p. 174 Bayless, D. J., Using Industrial Summer Intern Programs as a Tool for Engineering Education, Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 88, No. 4, p. 4655

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

engineering programs within the department. The background and justificationfor the new environmental engineering degree program are given here, and the process ofobtaining the approval and support of the Departmental faculty. The curriculum of the newenvironmental degree program is also presented, along with how the curricula of the CivilEngineering and Environmental Engineering degree programs complement each other, thebenefits and problems associated with this new degree program, its impacts to students on theireducation and to faculty in both teaching and research.BackgroundClarkson University is a small, independent, technology focused, national university withprograms in business, communication, engineering, health sciences, liberal arts

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chris Ramseyer; Beth Brueggen

their donation of materials.We thank Kyran Mish, director of Fears Laboratory, for his understanding and support and MikeSchmitz, lab facilities manager, for his help organizing the lab.Bibliography1. J. Fredricks Volkwein & D.A.Carbone, “The Impact of Departmental Research and Teaching Climates onUndergraduate Growth and Satisfaction,” The Journal of Higher Education, March – April 1994 pp. 147-1672. A.C. Schoenfeld & R. Magnan, “Mentor in a Manual” 2nd Edition, Magna Publications, Inc. Madison,Wisconsin, 1994 pp. 267 Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Moore; Jeffrey Richardson; Michelle Perry

attainable in a traditional classroom or laboratory environment.IntroductionTechnology has allowed instructors to introduce visual elements into the traditional classroom.Visualization through custom animations can provide a very realistic insight into thefunctionality of digital systems. Visualizing the dynamic behavior of physical systems is animportant part of the learning process for engineering and technology students.LearningLearning is the active process, or experience, of gaining knowledge 1 . Knowledge can be gainedthrough reading, listening, or interacting with new material. The basic premise of learning is thatnew information is related to existing knowledge 1 .Research suggests that learning is hierarchical in the sense that complex

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell

students to multidisciplinaryengineering principles through application to drug delivery systems. This project modifiesmeasurement techniques and laboratory experiments widely used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

2005-1601 Multi-section Freshman Classes with Laboratories: Lecture as Intro vs. Lecture as Wrap-up Jon Sticklen, Mark Urban-Lurain, Timothy Hinds Taner Eskil, Marilyn Amey Michigan State UniversityIntroduction A common instructional model for freshman engineering is the lecture/laboratory model.In this model, students usually spend two to four hours per week in a large lecture sectiontypically of one hundred or more students, and three to six hours per week in smalllaboratory (or recitation) sections typically of twenty or fewer students. Although not universal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

. Schmalzel, H.L. Newell, “The competitive assessment laboratory: introducing engineering design via consumer product benchmarking,” IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 197-205, 2003.Biographical InformationROBI POLIKAR is an Asst. Prof. with the Electrical and Comp. Eng. at Rowan Univ., Glassboro, NJ. His researchinterests include signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, with applications to biomedi-cal engineering. He teaches wavelet theory, pattern recognition, neural networks and biomedical systems at Rowan.He is a member of IEEE and ASEE, as well as Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu..RAVI RAMACHANDRAN is an Assoc. Prof. with the Electrical and Comp. Eng. at Rowan Univ., Glassboro, NJ.His research

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale

shelter. Students on severaloccasions have stated that upon leaving the class, they not only learned the class material, buthad fun doing it.IntroductionStructural Materials, CVEG 2113, is a required civil engineering class at the University ofArkansas. The class is typically taken by second semester sophomores or first semester juniors.The course introduces students to construction materials used in everyday civil engineeringapplications. Approximately two-thirds of the class discussions involve concrete materials withthe remaining lectures concerning steel, wood, and fiber reinforced polymers. The classschedule consists of two fifty-minute lectures and one three hour laboratory each week of thesemester. The laboratory is designed to emphasize

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

Session 1526 Spreadsheets to Promote Interactive Engagement in Semiconductor Device Courses R. Venkatasubramanian and B. J. Skromme* Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706AbstractThe development and initial implementation of a prototype “virtual laboratory” based onMicrosoft Excel spreadsheets with associated Visual Basic for Applications modules isdescribed for use in semiconductor device courses for engineering undergraduates. Thespreadsheets use graphical methods to illustrate quantities

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

leads to: employmentopportunities for graduates, co-op activities, and potential development of collaborative researchprograms. Nevertheless, the present status of most adjunct faculty is tenuous, subject to shiftingenrollment, and considered as a temporary arrangement, or until a “full-time” faculty isappointed. Unfortunately adjuncts, often with proven records of excellent teaching, aremarginalized by the academic systems in place today; and their efforts and contributions to theacademic process are undervalued. If fair treatment, and proper recognition are accorded toadjuncts; then, their morale, loyalty to the institution, and their teaching effectiveness wouldimprove markedly.Next, the paper reports on a success story of an adjunct, a

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

Enhancing Engineering Problem Solving Skills in a Mechatronics Course Olakunle Harrison, Viveca K. Deanes Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AlabamaAbstractA mechatronics course provides an excellent opportunity for teaching students problem solvingskills in a multifaceted engineering context. This nontraditional mechanical engineering courseinvolves the integration of mechanics concepts with electronics and software schemes. Thecourse provides an excellent environment for teaching engineering design skills and exposesstudents to multidisciplinary problem solving exercises. Students in the course described get ahealthy dose of the variety and

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

engineering program, senior design is uncommon to the750 non-ABET-accredited physics programs. It is in the senior design experience the studentsapply their technical laboratory skills and broad physics background to open-ended problemsoften in the research groups. To the extent practical we use the senior design sequence as anopportunity for a true undergraduate research experience. By directing senior design studentsinto the physics research laboratories, we align the teaching mission with the research interestsof the faculty thereby reducing the natural tension that exists in faculty at research universitiesbetween research and teaching. Senior design begins with the student selecting an area of interest and then meeting withindividual

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasuhisa Komura; Tien-I Liu; Stefan Setiadharma; Akihiko Kumagai

thestudents with an excellent opportunity for exposure to mechatronics technologies as well as theexperience of being a part of a real-world engineering product development.IntroductionIn engineering education, it is essential for both students and faculty members to experiencesolving real world technical problems through industry sponsored projects. The key fordeveloping successful industry-sponsored projects is to identify clear mutual benefits for both theeducational institution and sponsoring companies1,9,11. This paper describes the activities at theComputer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Laboratory at California State University,Sacramento for generating industry-sponsored student projects especially for master’s degreestudents. The most of

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Kurpius; Dale Baker; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

actions and knowledge about their current practice. Consequently,we used four analytical themes (Reflections on Practice, Changes in Practice, Intentions toChange Practice, and Change in Knowledge) to examine the likelihood that what teachersencountered in the course would transfer to their classrooms. Three graduate students allowed usto gather data over a semester to develop in-depth cases. The teachers were Alice, an elementaryteacher; Denise, who taught at a Science Center; and Dana, a high school chemistry teacher.Alice intended to change, or changed things, such as teaching the design process explicitly,learning the science behind engineering concepts, developing activities for young children, usingeveryday contexts, and planning a model

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

introduction of newerprotocols. The two buildings are approximately 500 meters apart. The free-space optical link uses1550 nm wavelength in normal usage but has a wireless link operating at 2.4 GHz as the back-up.The line of site alignment will be achieved using telescopes initially but will have automatictracking alignment system. The wireless back-up link is used only in very dense fog conditions.This paper presents the design of only the free-space optical connection, some parts of which areimplemented in laboratory setup.I. Introduction The technology of establishing a high-speed networking between two buildings orcampuses is one of the three: 1) copper wire, 2) wireless and 2) optical fiber technology. Thecopper technology is low