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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Johnson; Jeffrey Will

recentlypowerful enough to drive graphics-intensive applications. Such systems are typically PC-basedutilizing a high-end graphics card and LCD projectors. These devices project a three- Page 9.1086.1dimensional image onto a large screen, giving the user a sense of immersion and allowing a Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationperson to see depth through binocular disparity. An overview of current hardware is given in[13]. The system used in this research is the Visbox virtual reality system

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2004 Annual Conference

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Paul Tatum; Mannur Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

is complex and interpreting the results can take time. Theinitial objectives of this project were to make sensors that can produce measurable data related tothe condition of the insulation of the wire. By manufacturing piezoelectric sensors that canmeasure the amplitude of a wave passing through a wire and changing the condition of the wiresinsulation, information can be collected and analyzed to determine the condition of the wiresinsulation.This project was successfully able to manufacture these sensors and demonstrate that they canmeasure the amplitude of the wave and detect the differences in the wave form as it is affectedby the change in the condition of the wires insulation. The sensors used are moderatelyinexpensive and easy to make

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

. Page 9.1.7“Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Applicants’ Accessibility to Their Data Record Each UG and G student has full access to his or her work progress. Studentsmaintain their work progress records (e.g., courses, grades, etc., Table 1). Similarassessment tables should also be developed to reflect the student’s research workprogress. From these tables, applicants are able to analyze their work, adjust and makeimprovements on a regular basis, and report to their advisors. Reports can regularly becollected by a student advisor and submitted to the IHE’s Fellowship Project Directors.The

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

; and two three-hour ‘Engineering Practice I and II’offerings. In order to keep our curriculum to the desirable 128 hours, only ‘Engineering PracticeI’ was added while the ‘Engineering Practice II’ material will be covered in the capstone designcourses, which will include projects proposed and sponsored by industry.Requirement #5: Return Old Engineering Core Courses to SchoolsIn a long standing agreement between the various CoE Schools, certain engineering core courseshad been taught by faculty members from given Schools for all CoE students that required thematerial. Since more and more Schools left this agreement to substitute their own specializedcourses, the core courses will now revert back to the respective Schools. This means that

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Berliner-Heyman; Nicole Koppel; Rosa Cano; Siobhan Gibbons; Howard Kimmel

chemistry, in particular how the world looksthrough the lens of a chemical engineer Topics covered include chemical kinetics,chemical equilibrium, and separation methods and how they affect our everyday life.They learn topics such as cosmetics and household products and create their own formulafor toothpaste, testing for smell, taste, texture and color. As a final project, the studentstest claims made by manufacturers about a chemical product in their laboratory Page 9.582.3experiments. For example, students were involved in toothpaste development, where Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Vyas Harinath; Pfumai Kuzviwanza; Jianzhong Lou; Leonard Uitenham; Keith Schimmel

to play an important role in the nation's economy as one of thelargest sectors of the chemical industry.5 Application of polymers in biotechnology isexperiencing the fastest growth. Large investments by both government and industry inbiotechnology are reshaping the career paths for both faculty and graduates of the traditionalpetrochemical-centered chemical engineering programs. Hiring by traditional petroleum andchemical companies has stagnated for the last two decades, whereas the health care andbiotechnology sectors are hiring more chemical engineering graduates. The U. S. Department ofLabor projects that the employment of chemical engineers will grow more slowly than theaverage for all occupations though 2010, and the overall employment

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey

, decoders, registers, and PLAs), Boolean logic and minimization, physicalconsideration (gate delays and fan-out), binary number representations and arithmetic, and CPUorganization. As recognized by the Computer Science curriculum committee, this is excellentbackground material for computer professionals, including IT practitioners. In the ITcurriculum, aspects related to digital communications and data busses and networks areemphasized (i.e. tri-state registers for use with busses, shift registers for serial networks).The laboratory experiments associated with these courses include projects with discretecomponents as well as programmable logic devices. Dealing with such components givesexcellent troubleshooting practice to the students. There is

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Damian Watkins; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

activitieswere conducted in a co-operative learning type environment were the group size varied betweentwo to four students. Outside of class the students were encouraged to collaborate but all writtenassignments were collected on an individual basis. The student was required to research andreport on the technology, implement the technology, and show its usefulness. The studentlearned the intricacies of the device, wireless networks, computer networking, andcomputer/device architecture. Projects range from using the pocket pc and/or laptops to create Page 9.230.4peer-to-peer networks over 802.11b or Bluetooth. An

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis

eliminated. Finally, all of these changes can be integrated into the existingcomputer data acquisition system, which is part of the base LX 4000 package.AcknowledgementsWork on this projected has been conducted with the help of many faculty, staff andstudents. The author would particularly like to express his gratitude to the followingindividuals: Mr. Ray Rust, Senior Engineering Technician; Mr. Geoffrey Lindberg,Undergraduate Student; and Dr. Homayun Navaz, Associate Professor of MechanicalEngineering. Further, some of this work was accomplished with the financial supportprovided by Nasa under an STTR grant, NAS3-02044, “Study of NOx Production for ANew Fuel in a Small Jet Engine.”System SpecificationsThe following sensors and transducers are used

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

experimental and simulationinductive exercises in our process control class.AcknowledgementThe development of the process control kits is supported by NSF-CCLI grant #0127231 withmatching funds provided by Lafayette College. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation or Lafayette College.References:1. Lant, P., and Newell, R.B., “Problem-Centered Teaching of Process Control and Dynamics”, Chemical Engineering Education, 30, (3), pp. 228-231, (Summer 1996).2. Bequette, B.W., Schott, K.D., Prasad, V., Natarajan, V., and Rao, R. R., “Case Study Projects in an Undergraduate Process Control Course”, Chemical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

, the initial parameters for the PID controller can be created. The performance ofdifferent methods using the ISE (Integral of the square error), or ITSE (Integral of the time-weighted square error) as a criterion can also be evaluated. The above-mentioned criteria can beimplemented with an on-line monitor of error and time. The base program used is LabVIEW®by National Instruments [7]. Page 9.402.1 Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition © 2004 American Society for Engineering Education This is one of the projects given to the students during the

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

, with the anticipation that this will nurturethe scientific background and design skills of undergraduate students. The secondary mission ofthe laboratory is to disseminate the same knowledge and/or skills between graduate students,faculty, and practicing professionals. The laboratory will also be an effective venue to integrateteaching and research. The specific outcome expected from this project is to enable OSU’students, and consequently OSU’ graduates to effectively incorporate daylighting systems intothe design of buildings, which should result in the conservation of energy used to operatebuildings, and the mitigation of related negative environmental impacts. The paper reports on theneed of daylighting laboratories and their relevance to

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leirad Carrasco; Charles Turner

constrains.Nonetheless, “What Students Learned” is considered an achievement itself. Students involved inthe GEBDC faced a one-of-a-kind learning experience. They were exposed to a ‘real life’scenario. At the same time, students were able to put to test their knowledge and abilities to dealwith a tangible project. They were exposed to all the aspects involved in the design andconstruction of a facility of this kind. Such experience made them to understand howinterdependent the engineering profession is. Consequently, students when ‘thinking asengineers’ must contemplate that interdependency sometimes limits and restraints a designproject. Many aspects are involved while designing in this case, designing a sustainableengineering building, and consequently

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

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2004 Annual Conference

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Donald Merino

”, American Library Association, Chicago; Vol. 40, No. 1, pg. 53-60. 7) Keown, Cherly (1999, August). “A Learning Curve”, American School and University; Overland Park, Vol. 71, No. 12, pg. 116 – 119. 8) McLester, Susan (2001, April 26). “Technology and Learning; Taking A New Approach to Education”, The Los Angeles Times, pg. T7. Authors Profile: Dr. Donald N. Merino is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor of Engineering Economics at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economics, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Decision Sciences, Strategic Business Planning and Concurrent Engineering. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. He was PI

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

few of thedemands of faculty time. Having a community of female faculty with whom a genuineconcern for each other’s professional and personal achievements and failures was felt,was comforting particularly for those who often felt isolated and invisible among theirdepartment colleagues. Probably because of these gatherings, friendships have grownthat would have not occurred because people’s paths may not have otherwise crossed.Over the years we have celebrated together, commiserated together, and laughed a lot.Getting OrganizedIn Fall 2002, the TAMU NSF Gender Equity Project sponsored a career planningprogram conducted by an outside consultant to assist female faculty in developingsuccessful career strategies. Twenty female engineering and

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

students discover how imagination,creativity, technology, and engineering tools combine to turn their ideas into reality. Activelearning in a collaborative, discovery-oriented design environment that involves students in acompetitive, real-world type of project provides the opportunity for the students to acquire and/orapply multiple talents and skills. The students are constantly challenged during the two weeks asthey conceptualize and plan a product, develop models, build prototypes, evaluate and redesigntheir product, and present a finished product prototype and marketing strategy to the “contractingcompany” (i.e., industry people, Institute participants and parents).Participants. Students completing the 10th or 11th grade received Summer

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

Systems Engineering and Director of the EnterpriseSystems Center at Lehigh University. Zimmers has been responsible for more than 200 funded research andtechnology transfer projects with over 115 industry and academic partners. He has authored or co-authored one textand over 180 technical reports and publications. He is a Fellow of SME and IIE technical societies.LAWRENCE R. BUTLER, P.E. is the founder and President of Butler Engineering and Contracting, Inc. Anengineering design/build firm that specializes in custom designed machinery, Butler Engineering and Contractinghas successfully installed many advanced integrated manufacturing machines and systems throughout the easternUS.JENNY WANG-CHAVEZ is a project lead and instructional designer at

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Swiezynski; Don Myers; Ray Luechtefeld

,shedding insight at the national level [2].Based on 1990 U.S. census data as well as 1993 and 1995 national longitudinal surveys, Burton,Parker, and LeBold concluded that as of 1995, 2.6 million people in the United States had earnedat least one engineering degree, and about 1.6 million people identified their occupation as“engineer” [3]. Additionally, they indicated that approximately 19% of people with engineeringdegrees also have degrees in other fields, usually business or science [3]. Since nearly one inevery five people with a bachelor’s degree in engineering also has a degree in another field, it isimportant to assess graduate level offerings.The intent of this survey project is to evaluate the educational needs of UMR alumni. This

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe mentoring roles a faculty adviser is expected to fulfill. 1 In their capacity as faculty adviser, amentor develops a plan of coursework and facilitates a research project for the graduate student.As a career adviser, the mentor helps the student prepare for a career and introduces them to theirown network of professional contacts (Tip #7). As a skills consultant, the mentor helps themhone their communication skills (written and oral) and provides them with opportunities todevelop their teaching and proposal writing skills (which are relevant to industrial jobs as well asacademic). Finally, as a role model, the mentor

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lin; Richard Pfile

. Setting up the classfor a singleton access allows placing the loadLibrary method in the constructor that will only beinvoked once. 3The actual native code that interfaces the National Instruments card is written in C and is built asa DLL by specifying a DLL project.4 The C code for the Java Native Interface must followspecific rules. For each native method declared in the Java program, a C function needs to bewritten. A utility program named javah.exe comes with the Java Development Kit (JDK) that Page 8.872.6“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Ramachandran; Kevin Dahm

setting. Each student startswith $10,000, and is presented with a list of investment opportunities. Students apply theprinciples learned in class to the possible investments and make decisions, such as how much tobid on a particular item in an auction. Additional investment opportunities are introduced weeklythroughout the semester. The required analysis grows in complexity as the students’ knowledgebase increases. The game is interactive; for example the owner of a factory must negotiate theprice of raw materials he/she needs with the owner of a mine. The actual software is currentlybeing developed through an NSF-CCLI sponsored project. The software will be web based, andwill be a combination of standard HTML and Active Server Pages with a

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; Greg Wilkins; Clay Gloster; Robert Lent; Linda Schmidt

theBESTEAMS project. In addition to team training, she is interested in engineering design processes,facilitating the success of women and minorities in engineering and advises the local chapter of Pi Tau Page 8.934.9Sigma."Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering"JANET A. SCHMIDT, Ph. D., Director, Student Research, Clark School of Engineering. Dr. Schmidt aco-PI of the NSF sponsored BESTEAMS grant. A licensed psychologist, she is responsible foradministering and assessing the project. Her other interests include

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Johnson; Harold Larson; Charles Standridge; Shirley Fleischmann

required to successfully complete this one project. Page 8.193.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationEach module of the course contains activities of interest across all of the engineering disciplines.The use of sketching is a common part of any design activity. Ethics issues concern all engineersand are a fundamental part of any curriculum. The honor code of our engineering school ispresented including rules of thumb for dealing with ethically challenging situations. A videoportraying several

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Jensen

-computer mouse interaction. Students gather data on the accuracy andspeed of drawing a line between concentric circles using both a pencil and a mouse. Simpleindustrial engineering theory14 is used to translate experimental data into a controllability index.The Bridges/Walkways case study is the classic engineering project involving the construction ofa bridge or walkway to achieve a technical specification (usually, allowable load) using limitedmaterials (usually, a limited number of popsicle sticks).It should be noted that the Trebuchets and Bridges/Walkways case studies can be used as thebasis of entertaining competition between groups. Students typically compete for moderateprizes in a number of technical and non-technical categories. In the

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

Engineering Education Session 2613f. design a drug delivery deviceIn the process, the questions will reveal the material needed to proceed and set up the curriculum.Students will need to develop some background. Only a limited set of questions can be addressedbut with proper guidance, they can be answered. The emphasis will be on the molecular basis forthe solution of the problem. Note that the questions relate to material with which most studentshave some familiarity.The second approach is to develop hands-on first- year design projects, possibly in combinationwith the “questions” raised above. (Fuel cell, battery, microbrewery, separations,biotransformations). As an example : how to produce alcohol from a

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

individual faculty member. Such asustainable freestanding curriculum could be disseminated amongst departments and universities.One test of its disseminability will be its effectiveness as a teaching tool in an undergraduatebiotransport course at Northwestern University during the Fall 2003 semester.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of theNational Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363. The authors are grateful toProfessor Tomas Lorenzo-Perez, and Learning by Doing, an I-Campus project of the MIT-Microsoft Alliance for assistance with the implementation of the on-line tutorials, to JairamEswara for providing the exam data from the original curriculum, to Itty ‘James’ Samuel for

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

. Dr. Zakharov is professor of MADI Technical University,Department of Physics (since 1976), lecturer of General Physics, Theory of Oscillations, Geometrical Optics andOptoelectronics; Senior Researcher (part-time) at the Institute of Molecular Physics of Russian Research Center“Kurchatov Institute” and Program co-coordinator (part-time) of U.S. Civilian R&D Foundation, Moscow office. Hewas Scientific Secretary and project coordinator of the International Science Foundation –ISF (1993-1996) andProfessor of Physics and Mathematics at Universidade E. Mondlane in Maputo – Mozambique (1981-1983). Dr.Zakharov has participation in international conferences and symposiums: IGIP'2000, March 2000, Biel, Switzerland(report), ICECE'99, Rio de Janeiro

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

criteria capture the essence of an educational experience that we consider to beintegrated. In large part these criteria will be relevant regardless of the size or structure of theintegrative project. 1.) Integrated curriculum planning is supported on an ongoing basis by the institution: • both HSS and engineering faculty are involved and carry equal weight in discussions and decisions. • the HSS faculty include people who have knowledge of engineering practice and the contexts in which engineers typically function. • the planning group has institutional support that allows continuity over time and adequate resources in the present. • the institution

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr; Heather Smith

modified an existinglaboratory.The integrated labs premise of this study came when the authors participated in an NSFsponsored proof of concept project to modify one laboratory experiment in a sophomore levelmaterials engineering course.9 The project chooses a corrosion of metals laboratory. A“traditional” lab experiment, which required measurement, observation, and conclusion, wasmodified to an integrated corrosion lab. The integrated lab had all the attributes of the traditionallab except it also included statistics and design (creative synthesis) and incorporated multi-mediain the form of an interactive CD-ROM. (The format of both new and old labs is explained later

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Enke; Susan Murray

to be true for most distance students, others fall on the oppositeextreme – they “tune out,” possibly since to these students the experience does not feellike a real class, or technological barriers prohibit them from participating in the course.Instructors can take steps to reduce feelings of non-involvement. Distance students can beasked to email a self-introduction to the class. Learning job titles and company names canmake the disembodied voices seem more a part of the class to the other students. Pairingdistance students with on-campus students or other distance students for class activities,homework, or projects can improve the quality of the work and the sense of belonging. Aparticularly effective arrangement is to have the distance