Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

transfer of learning in an introductory course inStatics and Dynamics at the U.S. Military Academy. The authors developed a rather unorthodoxcourse project that was explicitly designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice theapplication of newly learned concepts in an unfamiliar context.The Statics and Dynamics course is taken by second-semester sophomores and first-semesterjuniors at the Academy. The student population includes approximately equal numbers ofengineering majors and non-engineering majors (to include many humanities and social sciencesmajors). Thus the course must address a broad range of student capabilities and motivations. Inpractically all cases, students are taking this course as their first engineering course

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

digital, analog, mixed-signal, MEMS, computer-aided design (CAD), and design method-ology IP, including standardization of the deliverables for IP of these types. The current demandfor IP of this nature far outweighs its availability7 and thus UMIPS can accelerate microsystemsand SoC research while preparing students and researchers with experience developing IP compo-nents and using these components in an IP design framework that will almost certainly becomeubiquitous in future microsystems and SoC development.II. Recent research developments and the founding of UMIPSSeveral independent but related University of Michigan research projects were combined in orderto develop the microsystem recently presented by Senger, et al.8 This microsystem was

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Johnston; Diane Douglas

departments and a topic well discussedin the 2001 ASEE conference2,3. The curriculum of the course was built around fourpillars: drawing, design, communication and teamwork.The Engineering Design LabThe University of Calgary invested 1.28 million dollars as a start up contribution to thedesign and construction of four technologically advanced laboratories for the first yeardesign course. The four linked labs circle around a central broadcast booth; instructorscan broadcast to all labs simultaneously and are able to monitor lab activities throughfeedback screens. The four labs accommodate 150 students at one time; students work atlab tables in teams of four. Each lab has a document camera, a projection screen, acomputer terminal for every two students

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

followed across different capstone classes with application to machinedesign and automotive capstone classes is presented. The developed process fosters creativity,develops students’ communication skills and provides a logical product realizationengineering/management experience.The educational design process starts with team building and brainstorming focusing oncreativity as right brain activity. From the brainstorming list of projects one is selected based oncreativity, effort and timing. Each team proceeds to develop a written and oral proposalcontaining product history, state of the art, Bill of Product, development and simulationmethodology, project management/impacts and cost estimates. The Bill of Product represents theset of product

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

3160 Rural Economic Development through Building Energy Efficient Houses for Under $3,000 J. STRUEBER, V. Harris, E. Meyer, E. Carter, E. Maweza, M. Matshaya, Tuskegee University/Tuskegee University/University of Fort Hare/Tuskegee Uni- versity/University of Fort Hare/University of Fort HareAbstractThis paper looks into creating community-based economic development through materials de-velopment and building small energy-efficient housing for the rural areas of the Eastern Provinceof South Africa. This is a student exchange project between Tuskegee University and the Uni-versity of Fort Hare, Republic of South Africa

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

scales, as appropriate, and themanufacture of the product at the macro scale. Therefore, a new class of design projects will beneeded to replace the traditional continuous chemical manufacturing process that is most oftenthe subject of the capstone design class. This paper describes one such design project assignedto the West Virginia University class of 2004.The ProblemThis class was assigned the task of investigating transdermal drug delivery systems. They wereto identify potential pharmaceutical products for use in a transdermal patch and suggestopportunities for a profitable venture to manufacture such a product. They were to learn thecomponents of transdermal patches, including their chemical composition, their function, andtheir mechanism

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips-Lambert; Charles Camp; Paul Palazolo

2004-824 Changing the paradigm of power in the classroom to teach, promote, and evaluate leadership training within an existing Civil Engineering curriculum Authors: P. Palazolo, C. Camp, A. Lambert, E. Lambert, N. Dennis University of Memphis/University of Memphis/University of Memphis/ University of Memphis/ University of ArkansasAbstract:This project evolved out of three years’ worth of data from junior/senior-level engineeringmajors who completed both pre and post-semester surveys asking them to rate their perceptionsof preparation and training in a variety of areas. Not surprisingly, the majority of

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

To promote creativity and inspire innovation through the use of unstructured and open-ended problems, the design project for Machine Design this past year at St. Thomas was based on a national collegiate design contest: the 2003-4 ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Student Design Contest, Mine Madness. Mine Madness entails designing and manufacturing a vehicle from scratch to retrieve simulated mines from a simulated minefield within an allotted time. Students embarked upon an exciting educational journey which is documented (through text, photos, and available video) from the professor’s perspective; starting with project inception through course end, to the official design contest itself at the

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

LTC Robert Powell

professional responsibilities as student leaders and futurecommissioned officers. Participating agencies gain by having additional personnel to work onengineering projects, and by having the opportunity to expose future Army leaders to theimportant functions performed by their organization. Some AIAD opportunities extend beyondthe summer into the academic year as CAPSTONE projects. These projects continue to allow acadet the opportunity to discover the “real world” applicability of their academic endeavors.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of our program, its purpose, our process formatching skills with a participating agency and follow-up feedback from cadets. This feedbackis used to assess the viability of the program for future students

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

been intricately woven into the undergraduate engineering curriculumand is a key component of the teaching-learning engineering environment. The objective is touse undergraduate research to teach engineering skills such as research methodology, design,development, manufacturability, testing, and implementation. These skills are necessary forsuccessful engineers to be proficient, regardless of specialization. Primarily, the success of ourresearch utilizing only undergraduate students has come from the project managementmethodology implemented to stimulate success both in the research endeavors and for thestudents who participate. The research process involves interdisciplinary undergraduate researchteams with a minimum of one-year student

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

, University of Oklahoma (OU) during 1999 and 2000, and then at theDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Cincinnati (UC)during 2001 to 2003. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site was funded bythe National Science Foundation (NSF). The purpose of this REU Site was to encourage talentedundergraduates to enroll in graduate school by exposing them to research, and to increase theirinterest in graduate research. In this paper, first the basic approach adopted to plan the REU Siteis presented, followed by a description of how it was administered each year. Then a detaileddescription of the projects executed in different years is presented. In the end the evaluationprocess used, and the outcomes from the

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

. Aimed primarilyat women, the program targets incoming first year students, undergraduates, graduate students,and faculty. RISE SRT is a ten-week team-based research experience. The team structureincludes a Faculty Mentor, a Graduate RISE Fellow (a graduate student currently working withthe faculty member on the identified research project), an Undergraduate RISE Fellow (anundergraduate student familiar with the faculty member’s research), and up to four RISEScholars (undergraduates new to the project recruited nationally). Since the program began insummer 2002, ten research projects have been completed.Over the past two years the research experience has been assessed from a variety of perspectives,including a series of focus groups (e.g., RISE

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza Beheshti; Edwin Dado

importance Page 9.394.11 In the continental Europe, “civil engineering” is considered as the most generic discipline. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof IT for the BC industry. However, researchers still seem to live under the impression thatthey have all these fantastic solutions and the only thing lacking is a way to make the BCindustry using them. Several EU research projects have tackled this issue from theperspective of educating the practitioners and tried to bring

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

producing parts in a real environment. Since the hands-onlabs are very important to concrete the CAD/CAM/CNC concepts, lack of adequate CAM andCAD application hardware is the “weak link” in the current enhancement effort. MIT students’lab practices were limited to conventional CNC turning and milling projects. There was no hightechnology equipment beyond a couple of CNC machines. Therefore, implementing RP filledthe gap between CAD/CAM and provided MIT students with the opportunity to practice hightech prototyping assignments.A Generic Overview on RPRP consists of various manufacturing processes by which a solid physical model of a part ismade directly from 3D model data, without any special tooling. CAD data may be generated by3D CAD modelers or

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

Session 1520 Asynchronous Communication Between Network Processes Sub Ramakrishnan, Mohammad B. Dadfar Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Phone: (419) 372-2337 Fax: (419) 372-8061 email: datacomm@cs.bgsu.eduAbstractThis paper concerns a project that provides hands-on exposure to students of a typicalundergraduate data communication course. The project is implemented in C++. However, it isapplicable to other

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

nearly all engineering development contracts. TheRFP specifications used in the courses are adapted from actual equipment specifications used inthe procurement of major system development, such as a redundant air traffic control computersystem and a digital telephony switch.Teams are chosen by the instructor and, as far as practical, contain equal numbers of ComputerScience, EE students, graduates, and undergraduates.The major benefits of the RFP methodology and the significant award (exemption from the finalexam) are: • Generating an extremely high level of interest, which is a key to learning. • Developing lively and interactive project presentations, since each team has worked on the same design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

, and student affairs staff who are participating in this project. • Conducting workshops for instructors, faculty advisors, student affairs staff, and student mentors. • Randomly selecting a cohort of 25 students from a group of freshmen in a particular discipline who have volunteered to participate in this project. Four, eight, and sixteen cohorts will be selected in the first, second, and third year of the grant respectively. Each cohort will be residing in a close proximity (not as roommates) within in a residence hall. • Forming learning communities, each one consisting of a group of 25 students, one faculty advisor, other instructors who are teaching this group of students, student

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

in academia and industry. Hosted by the EqualOpportunity in Engineering (EOE) Program for more than 11 years, this paper captures lessonslearned over the years and describes how to create a successful undergraduate research programon your campus. Along with an overview of the TREX program and its benefits, the followingessential program components are covered in detail: program funding, partnerships with faculty,promoting the program, the application and selection process, student placement, managing theprogress of multiple research projects, and project close out requirements. In addition, studentperspectives on the benefits of the TREX program have been incorporated into this paper.The EOE Program at UT Austin was established in 1970 for

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

human-powered submarine projects in previous years (seeRef. 2). A number of graduates from the program had gone on to work in such organizations asthe Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Electric Boat, and the Office of Naval Research. In order toformalize this past experience for the new IGS program, and also to provide increased courseopportunities for students in Mechanical Engineering, it was decided to create a new technicalelective in Ocean Engineering, to be offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thesequence of events was to include a sabbatical leave for the author to develop additionalbackground in this field, followed by creation and offering of the courses. The sequence usedcould be used by any college or university to develop

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

What are They Thinking? – Assessment and the Questions Students Ask John A. Mirth, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 608.342.1642 mirth@uwplatt.eduAbstract This paper presents an assessment method whereby an instructor can gain insight into howa student is thinking about a project. The method relies upon the submission of a series ofindividual progress reports during the course of a semester. Each progress report is submittedas the set of questions that the student has

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George F. List; Stacy Eisenman

Session 3215 The Undergraduate Research Advantage: The Split Perspective Stacy Eisenman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland and George List Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAbstractUndergraduate Research Projects (URP’s) are unique opportunities. They can provide studentswith wonderful learning experiences and faculty with

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Mater; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 1692 METS Pilot Program: A Community College/University Collaboration to Recruit Underrepresented Minority Students into Engineering Mary R. Anderson-Rowland1, Mary I. Vanis2, Debra L. Banks1, Bassam Mater2, Donna M. Zerby1, and Elizabeth Chain2 Arizona State University1/Maricopa Community Colleges2AbstractMaricopa Engineering Transition Scholars (METS), funded by NSF, is a collaborative projectbetween Arizona State University and five Maricopa Community Colleges. The project aims toincrease the recruitment and retention from untapped labor pools in community colleges intouniversity engineering

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

Document: 2004-1744 Writing Self-Assessment for First-Year Engineering Students: Initial Findings Chris Leslie, Elisa Linsky, Gunter Georgi Polytechnic UniversitySeeking to understand what and how students are learning about writing in its first-yearengineering course, we have implemented an assessment project for Polytechnic University’score engineering course. Building on an innovative Writing Consultant program that already wasimplemented for EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, the assessment project drawsseveral projects from English composition instruction to improve the

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

traditionalRF/microwave background). These tutorials will be discussed further below.The course fundamentally involves “hands-on” circuit design at the IC level; state-of-the-artcommercial RF/microwave CAD and layout software is used in conjunction with the course.The CAD environment will be discussed further below. The culmination of the course is amajor course design project involving the design and full-custom layout of a functionalblock/component RFIC for wireless communications applications. The project guidelines arepromulgated, and student design teams (typically 2-3 students per team) are assigned, ~10weeks into the semester; the projects are due at the end of the semester. Typically no finalexam is given, and the final design project report

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

. While Jenkins, et.al.,(2002) describe a two-semestersequenced capstone experience that requires the technical work to be performed in the firstsemester, while professional issues are dealt with in the second semester. Farr, 2001 advocatesusing project based design experiences where the student must prepare a real product for a realclient. Still others, (Kolar(2000), Wood et.al.,2001) suggest an integrated and systematicapproach to design which spans the entire four year curriculum. In the Civil Engineeringprogram at the University of Arkansas the culminating design experience prescribed in Criteria 4has been satisfied with a course titled Senior Design, CVEG 4494, a four credit hour, singlesemester course dedicated to a culminating design

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

Session 1331 The Engineering Problem-Solving Process: Good for Students? Durward K. Sobek II, Vikas K. Jain Montana State UniversityAbstractAs part of an ongoing effort to better understand student problem-solving processes to open-ended problems, we have coded 14 mechanical engineering projects (representing about 60journals) according to abstraction level, design activity, planning, and reporting. We alsodeveloped quantitative outcome measures that are reported in a separate submission to thisconference. We then developed a computer model of the journal data that correlates

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

integrated development environment provides editing, versiontracking, and testing capabilities such as breakpoints and memory management. Testing of theprototype will take place during the 2003-2004 academic year with the finished controllersavailable beginning in the 2004-2005 academic year. This paper describes the programrequirements, research, design, and testing of this controller, as well as the motivations for theproject and its diverse team structure.1.0 IntroductionOver the last year, a group of Ohio State students and faculty have been designing a newmicrocontroller for use in the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program. Thegoal of this project is to design a controller that can be modified and expanded to suit the needsof

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Sun; Robert Comerford; Musa Jouaneh

Assistive Technology Devices: A Multidisciplinary Course Musa Jouaneh, Ying Sun, Robert Comerford University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881Abstract This paper reports on a team-based, project-oriented engineering and business course atthe University of Rhode Island. The class is a two-semester course sequence that emphasizesinvention, innovation and entrepreneurship with focus on the marketing, design, anddevelopment of assistive technology devices. Faculty from the Colleges of Engineering andBusiness Administration guide multi-disciplinary teams through innovative product-orienteddesign projects in the field of

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Krchnavek Robert; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; John Chen; Shreekanth Mandayam; Paris von Lockette; Yusuf Mehta

teaching. The work is an effort to provide students with digital imaging experiencesthat make them ready for the marketplace. Projects involve the development of digital imagingexperiements and curriculum and also the creation of a leading edge digital imaginglaboratory/studio. This studio will facilitate the use of nontraditional learning approaches thatencourage interactive learning, team building, and creative problem solving among students andinstructors. A number of hands-on visual experiments are being developed and used to introducestudents to the multidisciplinary engineering principles and use of DIT. Activities have also beendeveloped for K-12 outreach.IntroductionDigital Imaging Technology has advanced with great speed over the past few

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

hasbeen extensively applied to exchange the course offerings between the Tulsa and Normancampuses. The addition of a course exchange program has enhanced both the initial offering ofthe Telecommunications Systems degree and those of the Norman campus Engineering andBusiness programs from which it is spawned. In addition, OU’s research objectives areenhanced by the relationship between Tulsa and Norman faculty, in cooperation with industryand government partners.3. CurriculumThe program requires all students to complete a minimum of 32 credit hours, including aprofessional project. All students are required to complete the following common corecoursework: TCOM 5113 - Telecommunications Industry Overview – 3 credit hours This course