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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Kidd; P. Paxton Marshall

a structured approach to the design process,while allowing the students an opportunity to achieve a substantial and rewarding endproduct. The aim is to provide open-ended projects that develop students’ engineeringskills and also allow them to see more directly the connections between engineering andthe larger society around them. Collaborations with fine arts departments provideengineering students the opportunities to address social issues, while developingcreativity and technical skills. This paper describes a collaboration with the Dramadepartment to create special effects for student-written and directed plays.Introduction Engineering is fun. Well, at least it’s supposed to be. Unfortunately, many first-year engineering

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Shanehsaz; Michael Qaissaunee

(ATE) national centers, two of the premier engineering schools in thecountry, magnet high schools in Monmouth County that focus on technology andcommunications curricula, and a regional leader in the wireless telecommunications industry, ismodifying its existing Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree program in ElectronicsEngineering Technology to integrate wireless communications and security, and creating modelAAS degree and certificate programs in wireless communications and security articulated fromhigh school through community college and to the university level. As an NCTT RegionalPartner, the project staff will implement similar programs throughout the region and generallycontribute to program development and improvement at

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

Best of Ten: Reengineering Makes Industry Meaningful in College Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch Illinois Valley Community CollegeAn entrepreneurial project at Illinois Valley Community College immerses engineeringdesign and electronics students in reengineering over the entire course of their two-yeartechnical programs.The four-semester program brings freshmen engineering and electronics students into thecontinuous quality improvement loop in their first semester courses where they analyze andrecommend improvements on products previously designed and produced by student teams.In their second semester, the engineering and

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Musa Jouaneh

A Study of Learning Styles and Team Performance Musa K. Jouaneh1 Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881Abstract This paper reports on a study that was performed over a 4-year long period in which theperformance of undergraduate mechanical engineering students on a team project, enrolled in asenior mechanical systems course at the University of Rhode Island, was correlated with theirlearning styles as measured by the Brain Dominance Model. To measure the learning style ofeach student, the Brain Works program

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Drnevich

The Senior Design Process at Purdue University Vincent P. Drnevich, P.E., Ph.D. Purdue UniversityAbstract This paper examines the participation of practitioners in senior design based onexperience at Purdue University where senior design involves all seniors in their last semesterbefore graduation and is titled “Civil Engineering Design Project”. It is described in the catalogas “Planning, design, and analysis of a civil project; an integrated and realistic group projectinvolving as much as possible all major aspects of the civil engineering profession.” This highenrollment course (30 to 100 students per semester) has been taught

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

attitude and personality driven, a significant component involves the appropriateunderstanding and expectations of members representing other engineering disciplines that workon the same design project. The Citadel in Charleston, SC is a military college with traditionalcivil and electrical engineering programs. Traditionally, ocean and marine engineering subjectcontent has only been introduced in a few classes as related to faculty experience. During theirfinal semester, students select and take one of four Capstone courses that include (1) structural,(2) environmental, (3) transportation, and (4) site development. Students in these courses worktogether on multidisciplinary teams to design roadways, subdivisions, buildings, bridges, and awater

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

– a project with Mechanical Engineering students fromGeorgia Tech, University of Maryland and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigncollaborating to design an amphibious utility vehicle for the John Deere Corporation. They planto involve students from Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Business and other disciplines in thefuture.There are many other universities that educate their engineering students in multidisciplinaryareas by introducing new courses. However, literature is lacking that shows the work ofuniversities in multidisciplinary areas using their existing courses. Integrating existing coursesoffered by different departments to provide students a multidisciplinary experience is a new stepthat Kettering University faculty have

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Loren Sumner

Teaching with Technology: A Strategy for Pedagogy and Practicality using CAE Software Loren Sumner, Renee Rogge Mercer University / Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyEngineering schools across the country face the growing challenge of adapting to rapidlychanging technology. Computer aided engineering (CAE) software exemplifies this trend. TheMercer University School of Engineering initiated a three-year project to establish anengineering analysis center utilizing CAE resources in undergraduate education. Learningmodules have been designed and implemented to enhance teaching of engineering fundamentalswithout compromising the depth or breadth of course

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Wayne Sanders

Session 3661 Harmonious Combination of Tradition and Innovation – Making a Connection between Liberal Arts and Technical Courses, and East and West– Yuko Hoshino, L. Wayne Sanders Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper is the result of collaboration between a foreign language and cultural studiesprofessor in Japan and an engineering professor in the United States. It discusses a casestudy of the similarities between foreign language study and engineering courses at a privateengineering college in Japan. Project study in a Chinese language

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aiman Kuzmar

be done during school breaks andsummer time. This paper outlines the background behind this new collaborative undergraduateresearch program. It gives details on the pilot project, which started this program.IntroductionUntil recently, undergraduate students were excluded from the business of research. Onlyfaculty and graduate students in the academic circle and research organizations outside academiaused to conduct and benefit from research. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aleading research institute ended this practice by establishing the Undergraduate ResearchOpportunities Program in 1969.1 The academic community recognized the importance ofundergraduate research to the students themselves in particular, and to the society

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Billy Koen

studentsresearch and analyze the heuristics or sota that professional engineers use to make decisions, wepiloted a new research assignment in our Engineering Communication course in the summer of2005. The assignment challenges students to research and write about how professionalengineers and corporate leaders face challenges. Simply put, students are required to pursue asemester-long research project focusing on a corporation that employs engineers and that hasfaced a crisis. Because the assignment requires students to investigate the practices and policiesthat companies use to address the challenges they face, it obliges students to examine the state ofthe art in corporate practice and evaluate the ways professionals respond to problems. Thisarticle

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

the SUCCEED“best practices and lessons learned”, and involved local faculty in role playing exercisesin order to create new versions suitable for local piloting and installation. The positivereceipt of such workshops encourages the present summative article on this approach tocreation and piloting of multidisciplinary design courses and projects. A second dimension of course creation is also considered, namely, creationconsistent with the existing or modified administrative requirements of institution andengineering school. In particular, it was found desirable that each college provide anatmosphere conducive to supporting such design experiences via arranging for thefollowing circumstances: (1) The scheduling of courses must

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

recently worked on a scholarly project with the author.The author concludes that embedding scholarship in the ET curriculum is very desirable andsuggests some ways and means to facilitate and nurture student scholarship in ET.IntroductionSeveral institutions with Engineering and Engineering Technology (ET) programs now requirescholarship of their faculty,1, 2, 3 including those institutions for which teaching has always beentheir primary focus. Since many of these institutions have mostly undergraduate programs, theyalso now require that faculty scholarship involve undergraduate students and be integrated intothe student learning experiences in order for the scholarship to be meaningful. An example ofthis trend appears in the 2004 Rochester

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

discussed.1. OverviewThe dam design competition was created to expose high school students to the cutting-edgetechnology implemented in the finite element computer code TeraScale_Dysac. In addition tocreating excitement in the students toward engineering, the project aided the traditional highschool curriculum by giving team building experience and requiring higher level learning skillsin the students. The web-based nature of TeraScale_Dysac has the potential to bring similar Page 10.689.1experience to remotely located high schools. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Janice Singleton

challenges. Several things drive the interest of industry and suppliers to involve the academiccommunity in technology research. First, there is an opportunity to expose students and faculty tocurrent issues, processes and procedures in use in industry. Not only do the students directlyinvolved in the research benefit from this, but also students who are exposed by assisting,observing, discussing and listening to the challenges of the project derive benefit. Engineeringdevelopment projects, particularly when they must be integrated back into a company’s ongoingoperations, offer an opportunity for faculty to develop and integrate procedures and projectmanagement principles that are current and realistic into their teaching materials and frame

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Armstrong; Donna Riley

throughout the semester to plan their contribution tothe installation, which included fabricating art objects (including a representative circuit andcapacitor) and producing a GIS map of materials flows in capacitor production. Each class hadits own set of conventional deliverables including term papers, ethnographic research projects,ethics essays, and formal project reports.The collaboration process is discussed, including how such projects are generated, how twodistinct cultures of students can be brought to work productively together, and how to work wellwith off-site collaborators, which include a Sprague engineer as well as the art collective. Finally,reflections are offered about the impact of this collaborative project on students, the

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Water Level Forecasting along the Texas Coast: Interdisciplinary Research with Undergraduates. G. Beate Zimmer, Philippe E. Tissot, Jeremy S. Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412.Abstract:While pure mathematics makes it sometimes difficult to involve undergraduates who have notyet completed the higher level math courses in research projects, research in applied mathematicsis generally more accessible to these students. We present an example of an integrated researchenvironment including faculty, research professionals and students which has facilitated theproductive

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

industry, government, and graduateengineering/technology education. Leaders in each arena are engaging in dialogue centered onstrengthening the competitiveness of remaining industry and developing regional resources tosupport entrepreneurial startups. Leaders and scholars argue that a robust strategy includescollaborative engagement projects which create innovative technologies (intellectual property), ahighly trained and creative professional workforce, and resources which support entrepreneurialstartups. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into efforts being made by WesternCarolina University (WCU) and its graduate Engineering Technology (ET) program tosimultaneously foster professional growth in its students and meet the technical

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

as the capstone course taught to on-campus students.This constraint represented a major challenge, not only because the distance-learning studentshad different educational backgrounds and experience levels, but because the content had to bedelivered in one semester (e.g., Spring 2004), whereas the on-campus students had two semesters(e.g., Spring 2004 and Fall 2004) to complete their projects. Other challenging differencesincluded project selection, team formation, team project monitoring and final course assessment.The instructional team also faced the challenges of integrating their teaching approaches andstreamlining the topics and reading materials required of all students, while placing an increasedemphasis on creative thinking and the

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

as computer science. A unique aspect of our program is that most courses are team-taught by faculty from the Schools of Engineering and Management. This facilitatesintegration in real time for our students of the engineering and management perspectives.Also, our courses offer numerous opportunities for exposure to real-world problemsthrough project work. Student teams maintain frequent contact with companyrepresentatives. Presentation skills are constantly refined through many opportunitiesduring class. Our P2D3 course is uses three popular texts4-6 along with selected supplementaryreadings and notes. Topics covered include the theory of the business, the voice of thecustomer, value creation, intellectual property, concept development

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

Transitions: From Conceptual Ideas to Detail Design Durward K. Sobek, II Montana State UniversityAbstractIn previous meetings, we presented preliminary work on coding student design journals as part ofan effort to better understand how design processes affect design outcomes. We have alsoconducted a number modeling efforts on a dozen student mechanical engineering projects thatcorrelate key process variables to design quality, client satisfaction, and designer productivitymeasures. One of the main patterns across the different analyses is that system-level design,which falls between concept design and detail design, consistently appears as a

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

systems that have historically been restricted to specific laboratory facilities. Thepaper’s presentation will demonstrate the pedagogical practices, the interactive materials, andaccompanying hardware/software that turn the Tablet PC into a mobile laboratory suite -integrating a function generator, multimeter, 5v power supply, and scope. A description of theinitial pilot project deployment is provided along with an explanation of how the student’slaboratory results will be integrated into a WebCT course management system (from connectionsto the hardware system) for automatic grading and review.BackgroundEngineering students are typically running multiple applications while simultaneously usingbrowsers, instant messaging and search engines on

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

by taking advantage of the course's semester long design project as avehicle for instruction. By asking students to prepare a proposal, the instructional team is able toteach the fundamentals of persuasive writing within the context of a bona fide sellingopportunity. Page 10.1223.1We were aware that there was a risk of diluting our ability to help our students master thepreparation of lab reports by assigning a proposal, but we thought the necessity of teaching Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Mecum; Leslie Wilkins

Early and Sustained Gender Equity Programs Enrich Pipeline of Female Engineers Leslie Wilkins, Isla Yap, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectIntroductionLaunched in Fall 1999, the Women in Technology (WIT) Project encourages women and girls topursue science, technology, education and math (STEM) careers in the counties of Maui, Hawaiiand Kauai in the state of Hawaii.Among programs in the United States addressing the under representation of women in STEM,WIT is unique in several ways: While most such programs in the United States are administered by government or educational institutions, WIT is administered by

Conference Session

Sustainability Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gina Tang; Courtney Richmond; Joseph Orlins; Catherine Yang; Demond Miller; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Anthony Marchese; Mariano Savelski; Paris von Lockette; Stephanie Farrell; Yusuf Mehta; William Riddell

Engineering Education Conference Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationallows the students to perceive the multidisciplinary nature of pollution prevention research andsustainability concepts. Overall the program generates an appreciation for the need ofengineering design and scientific inquiry to address sustainability for protection of theenvironment and future generations.ObjectivesThe REU objectives as outlined in our NSF proposal are as follows:• Generating excitement among the undergraduate students by providing them with the opportunity to work on engineering issues of national and international significance,• Providing undergraduate students with the opportunity to work on fundamental research projects

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Danielle Julie Carrier; Katherine S. Vaughn; Carl Griffis

brainstorming, creation andevaluation of alternatives and, its prototyping. Throughout the semester, the studentspractice their design skills on three sequential projects. This presentation will go overtypical roadblocks encountered by Biological Engineering freshman, while tackling thedesign problems.

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

K. Madhavan

Engaging Students in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Course K. Madhavan, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 650 East Parkway South Memphis, TN 38104-5581AbstractThe components of the undergraduate course in Design of Foundations in the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Christian Brothers University (CBU)are discussed. The course consists of the following: classroom lectures, project casestudies, failure case studies, ethical case studies and open-ended design problems.Examples of case studies with discussion questions are provided in this paper.Undergraduate CEE Program

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Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Thompson; Matthew Roberts

The DORC* Factor: Engaging Students in Reinforced Concrete Design Matthew W. Roberts, M. Keith Thompson Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Wisconsin—Platteville 1 University Plaza Platteville, WI 53818-3099AbstractTo better engage upper-level undergraduate students, a beam design and testing class project andcase studies are used in the reinforced concrete design course at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (UWP). Details are furnished on how the project and case studies are used

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

. The class isproject based, and as such, the focus is on applied engineering work, where students developanalytical, technical, and people skills, and practice applying them to real world situations.Students are required to work in large teams on a complex design problem, in which they gofrom generating ideas for new products, to concept development, to detailing and building aworking prototype. Team projects therefore are the key component through which studentsacquire and apply technical and managerial skills to design, build, install, test, and improve acomplex product. 2.009 provides students the opportunity to develop a broad understanding ofthe product development process and the steps and methods required for each part of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

develop an EE degree program.Graduates will earn a Bachelor of Science in EE, and will enter the workforce as electricalengineers, systems engineers, project engineers, digital engineers and computer engineers.Graduates will also be prepared for positions in management through courses in engineeringmanagement and economics principles. The EE program is designed in line with the EngineeringAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC ofABET) program guidelines. Graduates of this type of program are currently in great demand andobtain jobs with industry, engineering firms, consulting agencies, governmental agencies, andmanufacturing facilities where they work to design, develop, and implement military