Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

several enabling technologies that makes manufacturing atthe nanoscale possible today. It is absolutely essential in the manufacture of integratedcircuits as well as a variety of surface coating applications.We benefit from gas plasmas everyday. Gas plasmas produce the visible light in ouruniverse, including our sun. In our offices, fluorescent lighting is based on producing agas plasma within a coated glass tube. We seldom think of the variety of materialscoated by a plasma deposition process, e.g. our eyeglasses with anti-reflective coatings.Gas plasmas are briefly mentioned in chemistry courses, but students enrolling inengineering technology programs lack an understanding of gas plasmas. The laboratoryactivities described in this paper are

Conference Session

A Century of College Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

engineers.They reflect the need and the opportunity to raise the bar in all three dimensions of thecivil engineering BOK—the what, the how, and the who.Although civil engineering faculty and practitioners must be instrumental in advocatingand teaching the BOK necessary for 21st century professional practice, civil engineeringstudents ultimately have the primary responsibility for their own education. Studentsmust be committed to excellence in their education. Success in the study and eventualpractice of civil engineering is likely to be enhanced if a person’s aptitudes, interests, andaspirations resonate with the unique and special attributes of civil engineering.The Next StepsWhile the First Edition of the BOK is now complete, updates are likely and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

within their chosen concentration.From 1997 through 1999, the retention rate for the ET Department at MTSU dropped a total of18%, while recruitment into the department dropped 20%, reflecting a nationwide trend in ETenrollment. In 2000, the first Solar Vehicle team was formed at MTSU. The project receivedconsiderable attention from ET students at the time, and after the competition, the vehicle wasused as a recruitment tool for the department. In 2003, a Moon Buggy project was added toaccommodate the growing interest in student engineering projects, followed by a Formula SAEproject in 2004.Since the formation of these projects, the enrollment rates for the ET department have improveddramatically as shown in Figure 2. Exposing prospective

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

American Society for Engineering Educations Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. R.M. Felder, “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students. Part 1: Models and Changes,” Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), 269-277 (Oct 2004).2. B.M. Kroll, Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press (1992).3. D. Vernier, “Data Collection with Computers and Handhelds,” Catalog for Vernier Software & Technology, 2- 5 (2004).4. National Science Education Standards, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John McGuire; John Kaplan; Kathleen Kaplan

May 2003 resulted in not a reduction of nine “pit” musicians, as the theaters hadproposed, but a slash of six. To fill in the void of the missing pit musicians, virtualmusicians are used.There is overwhelming empirical evidence that link engineering and music, but this is thefirst time in history where engineering innovations may render musicians obsolete. Infact, “virtual orchestras” may be the wave of the future. A pit musician costs around$88,000 a year. The small reduction mentioned above, substituting six pit musicians withvirtual musicians, will save a theater over $500,000 a year. That figure reflects merelythe monetary amount saved; not included are other intangibles, such as the stress ofhuman problems that may occur with the

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

infaculty-mentored research projects for six or eight weeks on each campus and preparedoral or poster presentations for the end of the program and at the annual NC-LSAMPUndergraduate Research Conference.The North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance was awarded the Bridge to the Doctoratesupplemental grant to support graduate students in their pursuit of a Masters degree in aSTEM field. North Carolina A&T State University has been designated as the leadinstitution for Cohort 1 of this project. Ten students have been awarded for 2003 through2005.Project OutcomesTotal minority STEM enrollment has grown since the baseline year from 4,632 in fall1994 to 6,230 students in fall 2000, reflecting an increase of approximately 35%.Since the baseline year

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leijun Li; John Pan; Ismail Fidan

journals and conferences using online reviewinclude IEEE Transactions, IEEE conferences, ASME Journals, ASME conferences, ASEEconferences, IMAPS conferences, and NSF Fastlane System. The percentage of facultymembers who conduct online reviews for journals reflects the number of journals that provideweb-based review services and require the reviewers to do online reviews. As more journalsswitch from traditional hardcopy-based submission and review practice to more efficient onlinereview practice, faculty members who conduct online reviews will grow rapidly.The survey results show that the use of online tools for research is not as common as that forteaching. While many factors may have attributed to this result, one relevant factor may be

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Devine

, teaching was done with more confidence and thought, much attributable to the practice classes during ETW. Video tapes of classes were also made to allow after class assessment and reflection of what the students saw during class. There is ongoing thought of how much of the ExCEEd model to adopt and how will it work out for the particular instance of each class now being taught. Class and the job of being a professor are all considered in the realm that focus is on student learning. Thus, at different times, for different classes, different aspects of ExCEEd have been used in class. The general opinion is that teaching and student learning has improved significantly due to ETW attendance. The reaction of students has been positive

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

a written status report, everytwo weeks: 1. What issues are you having with the technical aspects of the project? 2. What logistical issues (ordering problems, scheduling, software issues, etc.) are you facing? 3. What issues in team dynamics have arisen since our last meeting and how are you dealing with them? 4. What do you think the highest priority task is during the next two weeks? 5. What is the largest barrier to accomplishing that task?These questions resemble the journaling activities used at Clemson University [24] andthe University of Texas at Austin [25] in which students write reflective piecessummarizing key concepts, discuss concerns, and (at UT Austin) create an analogy forthe

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Zeytinci; Philip Brach

for storage. 6% was chosen as areasonable value to reflect the value of money with time. Traditionally this might be the currenthome mortgage rate. In the Washington, DC area the home mortgage rate is quite varied, so 6%was accepted for this problem. Assuming 75 % of the basement area used for storage, $5,400(0.75 x 300 x 24) was used as the benefit due to recovery of storage space.Analogously, the value assigned as a benefit for recovery of confident use of the garage forparking is $3,600 (1.0 x 300 sq. ft x 0.06 x $200). The long term benefits from the new drainagesystem and provisions to accommodate potential back up of water (check valve and over-flowsystem) were established by estimating the increased value of property due to the new

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Scott

, experience, and custom. Theiterative process of engineering design is characterized by a series of distinct functions: identifyingneeds, defining options, making decisions, gathering data, preparing a plan, and implementing aplan. Demonstrating these functions, along with introducing the students to open-ended problemsolving, produced both universal and culturally distinctive results. This paper will demonstrate various cultural distinctions affecting the progress and success ofadapting an engineering model to a Middle Eastern culture. In a sense, this paper reflects the Page 10.125.2colonization of a Western academic community in the Middle

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

type of testing (or other forms of assessment)used in the course and which reflect the amount and nature of the information that mustbe learned will go a long way to promoting academic success. Page 10.376.5 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Question #7 - Learning Strategies: What types of learning strategies do my studentsneed? Will they need to collaborate with others in small or large groups? Will studentsneed to listen, maintain their attention for long periods of time, or take extensive notes?Students

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Adams; Ken Burbank; James Zhang

, and then RF power reflected from themixer can be measured with the mixer connected to the directional coupler. More details aboutmeasurement procedures can be found in the Mini-Circuits application notes 7 . (5) RF System Performance Once the students gain a solid understanding of the functionality and performance parametersof an RF communication system through the experiential exploration obtained above, they areready to put the modules together to build a complete point-to-point RF communication systemand to further investigate system performance. In our case, we use a 900 MHz point-to-pointsystem for RF performance testing. The main purpose of this experiment is to let the students see the operation of a complete RFsystem, and gain a

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

: “The senior project shouldcontain elements of criticism and self-reflection.” Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Geography Arizona State University West University of Minnesota Computer Science P. Stevenson Jr. Library University of Colorado Bard College Social Sciences Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Hawaii North Carolina A&T University Physics Communications and Media Studies Case Western Reserve University Tufts University Robert E. Kennedy Library

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Loving; Joyce Yen

Cultural Change Program (CDCCP) which was developed with ADVANCE Visiting Scholar Chris Loving. The program’s structure reflects the need for skills development and frequent, ongoing opportunities to address cultural change. Emphasized is exploration of cultural change concepts and acquisition of related individual and leadership skills. Concurrently, these concepts and skills are used to create and implement specific initiatives to improve the climate for everyone in the department. This paper will describe the CDCCP theoretical framework, program structure, and resulting impact.Introduction and BackgroundMore than three decades ago, researchers began to study the differential experience of womenfaculty

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Shapiro

functioning, including interpersonal communication, listening, learning to be positive and supportive, conflict resolution, and encouraging all members to participate. • Group processing. Specific attention was also paid to having groups assess their functioning and effectiveness. In part this was done through the progress reports, but it was addressed explicitly in class as well. Mid-term assessments included reflection on the groups and feedback was provided. Also, at times individual groups had issues that they brought up with the professor. Those were handled by first making sure that the group had used appropriate processes to try to resolve the conflict. When necessary, though, the

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

– Time intensive for 800+ • Performance assessment.Video of design teams “in + Can be at individual and students per year!action” or reflecting on team levels – Only linked toprocess application level of Bloom’s taxonomy.It is clear that each approach in Table 2 has strengths and weaknesses. Not being at theindividual level is a big weakness of both design reports and final designs, with final designs alsobeing hampered because they are not process-focused. Using video would require a prohibitiveamount of time to watch and reliably score the tapes. The remaining option, having

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

focus andprocedures. During implementation, the coach observes evidence of achievement, and the use ofstrategies and decision-making procedures. During analysis, the coach mediates by having thestudent reflect upon what has been accomplished. The student will summarize impressions andassessment of the event, recall information that supports impressions and assessment, compareplanned with performed strategies and decisions, compare planned with achieved results, andinfer relationships between goal achievement and strategies. During application, the coachmediates by having the student synthesize new learnings, prescribe new applications, reflect onthe coaching process, and recommend refinements.3.5 Developing a Student Assessment PlanIn addition

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

just before it willbe used, for example in a laboratory exercise or an assigned project. JiTT, on the other hand, is atechnique used to enhance the interactivity of a lecture period by creating a feedback loopbetween the instructor and the student.The JiTT strategy reflects recent efforts in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, as well as education research in general and inspecific disciplines, such to understand how people learn. A recent report by Bransford(4)discusses what principles of knowledge organization underlie people’s problem solvingcapabilities, how people transfer learning in one setting to another, and how these results can beused to design new and better learning

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell

Page 10.1478.2allows for the easy declaration of most of the preconditions, in terms of declaring the purpose ofeach parameter and, if necessary, any constraints upon that parameter. Correspondingly, the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationJavadoc @return tag provides a mechanism to describe the meaning of the returned value, thepotential range of values and how special circumstances that may occur are reflected in thereturned value. Given that the card game assignment described here is targeted toward first-yearstudents, attempting to have them incorporate comprehensive documentation could

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

and managed by student teams. Since this was an open-endedrequirement, we added creativity as one of the grading criteria to award innovative ideas.Students were highly motivated and came up with many surprising and effective ways tocover their topics. Providing this flexibility allows students with different learning stylepreferences, such as those represented by the VARK learning inventory (Visual-Auditory-Read/Write-Kinesthetic), to develop learning materials that reflect their optimallearning situations 13 . The different learning orientations that are reflected in thepresentations of the individual student teams provide a rich and diverse set of learningexperiences for students in the course.For example, one team was assigned to cover

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Jones; Karen Berger; Tamara Knott

event are provided in the sections that follow.Activity DescriptionsThe activities for the event were chosen from activities previously used for VT-SWE’s long-standing “Girl Scouts Exploring Engineering Day.” This provided us a set of establishedactivities that had already been tested with a similar audience and were known to be effective.We selected the activities to reflect our budget, a need for simplicity in set-up (because of Page 10.616.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconcerns

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

) ability to critically interpret the results of the problem solving; and (f) ability tocommunicate the results of the problem solving. Underlying and pervasive through this processis the ability to work in a team towards the problem solving goal.Undergraduate engineering education as reflected in engineering curricula in the United Stateshas focused strongly on criterion (a) above to the detriment of the other items in the list. Indeed,many if not most engineering classes have focused on a thorough grounding in the “basics” of agiven discipline as delivered through lecture. This slow but steady evolution to greater relianceon lecture about more and more material is a reflection of exploding amounts of knowledge inthe engineering disciplines over

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Hebrank; Glenda Kelly; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

contexts. It has beenrecognized in the development of the National Science Education Standards as an essential partof teaching K-12 science in this country.3 Thus inquiry is more than just a scientific approach toinvestigating questions and enhancing knowledge process and content. It has far broader socialimplications by teaching and modeling cooperation and communication skills while solvingproblems, sharing and reflecting on new discoveries, and disseminating those discoveriesbroadly for the good of society. Inherent in the inquiry model is a non-competitive, respectfulattitude towards the uniqueness of individuals and the wonder of the inquisitive minds ofchildren. Inquiry is particularly well suited to fostering team building and team

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Hyer; Catherine Eckel; Margaret Layne; Elizabeth Creamer

department or other departments.In this department, I think it’s very friendly” to “I have to be a little careful, frankly. I’m theextra one here; my wife was the one hired”. The language used in the department to describe adual hire situation reflects departmental attitudes: “Some view spouses as an opportunity; some people view them as a problem. The way it’s phrased here is it’s a two- body problem…. I wish they would view it more as a two- body opportunity.” (Male, first hire)Some of the faculty interviewed felt that spousal hires had to overcome a perception that theywere not as highly qualified as their colleagues: “I do think that there is a stigma associated with it. It’s probably with everybody; it’s probably

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

seem to be a non-threatening forum for feedback.The last 12 weeks of the semester integrated the Pizza Project into the class activities. Theywere placed in teams of four and given a scenario in which they were all design teams workingfor a company that had been contracted by Fred’s Pizza. Unlike design problems that request acourse of action given a well-defined problem, the students were instead given a symptom toalleviate: Customers of Fred’s Pizza are calling in to complain that delivery pizzas are arriving cold, and that grease is leaking through the boxes and staining tablecloths.This open ended statement was developed to reflect the nature of industrial problems.Unlike textbook exercises, in industry, we are not given all of

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

competence with these outcomes. Theoutcomes of the course reflect intended exposure to the appropriate measurement methods,principles for further study, and extension beyond the course materials via open-ended problemresolution, documentation of experimental results and proper reporting based on audience, anduncertainty analysis associated with laboratory investigation.These assignments were matched with the course outcomes. A target score of 8.0 for alloutcomes is proper, based on the grading methodology and first time preparation. Studentperformance and student self-assessment indicate that students achieved the course outcomeswith a student assessment of Outcome 2 being slightly less than target, which is discussed below.Student assessment of

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

vector, while that at right reflects theactinide composition after 60 MWd/kg of burnup. V:BUDS normalizes the bar graphs such thatthe total neutron consumption rate in the unit cell equals unity. Additionally, there is a user-specifiable option, visible in Figure 2, to limit the display to those species contributing more thana given percentage to the total. In Figure 4, this percentage was set to 5%; hence, a number ofactinide and other species not crossing this threshold are lumped into the ‘Other’ category. Page 10.192.7Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

cycles,whereas nonferrous metals show no such point. For nonferrous metals, a value of 5x108 cycles isusually assigned as the fatigue limit. There are several theories available for prediction of failuredue to cyclic loading [6]. Depending on the situation at hand, the designer must apply thesuitable theory as no one theory will optimally address all design requirement. However, all ofthem reflect on the fact that this type of failure is not yet completely understood and extra caremust be taken when dealing with fatigue phenomenon. Shigley and Mischke present a rathercomprehensive view of the issues involved with the variations of behavior of different materialsin the fatigue analysis process [7]. The goal in the current experiment is to create

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Schielack; Carol Stuessy; George Nickles

3 RPs with peers & reflect/ revise/ report research partners classroom teachers in electronically and face-to-face a Mentoring/ Action during a summer throughout the two-year Research graduate conference period course VI Teachers V follow their RPs to Teachers