Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Magun-Jackson

planning the physicalarrangement of the classroom, organizing effective groupings, modeling acceptance, fosteringlistening and communication, and encouraging student-to-student interaction. From the firstmeeting with the students, the faculty must create a setting in which it is safe and acceptable todiscuss sensitive issues and to disagree with one another. Positioning the standards andexpectations of respect in the beginning of the term fosters good discussion, both in theclassroom and online. Many courses include group projects or group activities; faculty shouldthink about the arrangement of the room as well as the individual group participants. Bymanipulating group membership to include students who are in several different Kohlbergstages

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Hall

construction projects. Asignificant number of engineers, including construction contractor, consulting, andAHTD personnel, report that the training and certification program was their firstexperience in truly scrutinizing and fully understanding testing specifications – withsome reporting that the CTTP programs forced them to read testing specifications for the Page 10.369.4Kevin D. Hall Page 4 of 11Creating Professional Laboratories versus Academic Laboratories for Construction Materials Coursesfirst time. The laboratory certification program also

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Randal Direen; Frank Barnes; Edward McKenna; Driss Benhaddou; Deniz Gurkan; Alan Mickelson

webserver software so that they could be used together in thefuture. Page 10.496.4 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 2: OTDR virtual instrument front panel with readings illustrating the measurement of abreak after a short piece of single mode fiber.VI Student Instructor InteractionThe technological advances with the test and measurement equipments allowed themanufacturing facilities at various production lines to have a remote monitoring and controlover the processes. This e-learning project is in a

Conference Session

Documenting Success

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia White; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

based on competencies and STARs areessentially a demonstration of a particular competency. STARs are used by students as artifactsin their ePortfolio. A student’s ePortfolio is a collection of artifacts that demonstrate thedevelopment of the fourteen ISU competencies. Other artifacts could be, for example,classwork, design projects, and/or video of presentations.An ePortfolio consisting entirely of STARs would not be an acceptable demonstration that astudent has developed the competencies. There needs to be examples of actual student work thatprovide verification that the competency was achieved. However, some experiences may bedifficult to present in any other manner, as the demonstration of a competency may not result inan artifact that could

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis; Jennifer Light, Lewis-Clark State College

the attributesassociated with college success1 that were significantly different between the LLC students andthe Control students when asked to rate their importance. Page 9.686.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society of Engineering EducationTable 4. Attributes of college success rated significantly different between LLC and Controlstudents.LLC students thought it was more important to LLC Controlwork collaboratively on class projects t(117) = 3.081 p = .003 M

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

students' choosing. The project is completed using teams of two Page 9.63.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”students working together. A wide variety of Lego parts are available to the class, andmost students use these for the structural components of their designs, although studentsoften choose use of other construction materials. Currently the use of the lab time ispacked pretty full with this content related to working with the microcontroller andproject, and it is wished to continue to retain

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brandon Rogers; Joseph Ekstrom

classifications, or levels: RAIDb-0, RAIDb-1, RAIDb-21.RAIDb-0: full partitioningRAIDb, level 0 (RAIDb-0), is best described as database striping, or distributing the tables in thedatabase among backend nodes (Figure 1). RAIDb-0 is similar to common distributed databasesystems, such as Oracle RAC5, PostGreSQL Replication Project, and Emic Application Clustersfor MySQL6. Like these systems, stored data in a RAIDb-0 system is simply distributed amongnodes. No replication or duplication of information is performed. Crecchet indicates, “[that]like for RAID [Redundant Array of Independent Disks] systems, the Mean Time BetweenFailures (MTBF) of the array is equal to the MTBF of an individual database backend, dividedby the number of back-ends in the array.1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

to sequential logic designs using VHDL. During the lecture and labsessions, students showed very positive feedback. In the exam and lab projects, most studentsdemonstrated the ability to design moderately complex sequential logic blocks. The course andthe lab sessions were rated 3.69/4.0 overall in the 2004 Spring semester.Conclusion VHDL is a challenging course for electrical and computer engineering students due to itscomplex features. This paper introduces a new approach to teaching sequential VHDL models.The simple D flip-flop VHDL models are introduced first, and then the design concepts aremigrated to the complex logic blocks. The author’s experience in IPFW (Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne) shows that it is very

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

LOKESH JOSHI; James Sweeney; Edward Hall; Alyssa Panitch

, green integrated technology,omnipresent computing including implanted systems, nanomachines, designer foods and crops,intelligent goods and appliances, and the development of “super senses” using sensors andelectronic or genetic technologies.2 In the 2004 annual technology opinion survey of IEEEFellows, 72% of respondents listed biomolecular engineering as the field that will have the“biggest social impact” over the next 10 years.3 The National Academy of Engineering also hasincluded biotechnology within its projected core knowledge set for the “2020 Engineer.”4 Inrecognition of these trends a one-semester ‘Biology for Engineers’ course is now indevelopment at ASU that will become a required component of the undergraduate curriculumfor all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jing Pang

. For example, they can use the JK Flip-Flops designed in Figure 2 as Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcomponents to build a 4-bit binary counter with parallel load.Usually, the fun lab projects greatly fascinate students. Students are very excited to see somereal world applications such as displaying the year and date in a serial shifting sequence on aseven-segment display.Other general designs are the data transfer circuits, the serial/parallel shift register, themultiplexer, the encoder, the decoder, the finite state machine, the arithmetic logic unit, thesimple microprocessor, and so on.For

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

turbulence.These results add to the growing body of evidence supporting alternative instructional techniquesas effective methods for teaching engineering. Future research will expand upon the findings of this pilot study. This study will berepeated with a larger group of engineering undergraduates. In addition, the order of instructionaltechniques will be switched with the lab demonstration presented prior to the lecture.AcknowledgementsFinancial support for this project has been provided by grant # 0126842 from the NationalScience Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.Bibliography1. Reynolds, O. (1883) An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine Whether the Motionof Water in Parallel

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed

sequence. Byintegrating with the preceding and succeeding course coordinators a course coordinatorestablishes the following: 1. Course learning objectives to meet departmental established outcome 2. Course syllabus 3. Course textbook 4. Course exams and projects. 5. Course feedback and assessment 6. Course continuous improvementAt the teaching faculty level adhering to the established course syllabus and continuousfeedback to the course coordinator is essential for the local and global success of theprocess.Implementation of the Lean Academics ApproachTraditional educational approaches lack educational output uniformity due to un-enforcedcommon course standards. For example, in nearly every multi-section core course veryfew exams are

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

the VaNTH ERC, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored projects, “Biomedical ImagingEducation: Safe, Inexpensive Hands-On Learning” and the Vanderbilt BME RET Site Program.ROBERT D SHERWOOD – Dr. Sherwood works in the area of science education within the Teaching and Learningat Vanderbilt and has been an investigator on the VaNTH ERC since its inception. He is currently on leave fromVanderbilt at the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Division of Elementary, Secondary andInformal Education within the Education and Human Resources Directorate. Page 10.1402.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John L. Falconer; Janet deGrazia; Al Weimer

to the multiple-choice questions by aiming the clicker at a wall-mountedreceivers and pressing A,B,C,D, or E. The H-ITT acquisition program display is also projected ontoa screen for the entire class to see. The ID number (or the student initials) of each clicker isdisplayed indicating that the student response has been successfully collected, but it does not showthe student answer. The H-ITT Acquisition program summarizes the data and displays the classresponses in histogram form,. After class, a separate program associates student names with the remote ID numbers andgrades the responses instantly. It allows the instructor to assign point values to each answer for eachquestion (e.g., 3 points for correct answer, 1 point for incorrect

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

(1996).5. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/rockets/act1.html6. M.E. Loverude, C.H. Kautz, and P.R. Heron, “Student Understanding of the First Law of Thermodynamics: Relating Work to the Adiabatic Compression of an Ideal Gas,” American Journal of Physics, 70(2), 137-148 (Feb 2002).MICHELE PERRIN (MS EE & CE) has fifteen years of experience introducing students to pre-engineering throughthe use of technology. She has taught classes at the high school and college level in physics, robotics, and computerprogramming. In 1998, she was named a Tandy Technology Scholar and in 2000 she studied in Japan on a teacherexchange. Her current projects include designing electronic sensors and presenting workshops to teachers

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

information was given on non-power applications in the field of nuclear engineering. It was felt necessary to give thestudents a full breadth of the scope of nuclear engineering to get them interested andinvolved in the concepts presented later in the course. Students were also asked to pickone of the many topics discussed in class to be part of their project topic. The projectrequired each student to do a short Power Point® presentation and write a brief 5-pagereport to be submitted at the end of the semester. The list of lecture topics is given inTable 3.Table 3:- Lecture Distribution for CHEG 4103.002 Lecture 1 Syllabus Day & Introduction Lecture 2 Historical Journey Lecture 3

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Csavina

as well asround-out their professional development. These experiences are diverse: one-day shadowing,teaching a lecture, creating a new course with a faculty mentor, creating on-line courses, etc.The program culminates in a Capstone Fair where second year participants showcase theirexperiences in PFF. 3Upon completion of the first year, students receive a certificate stating they have completed theExploratory Phase of PFF. Second-year participants receive such benefits as travel funds forPFF-related projects as well as a Graduate Student Tuition Waiver. If students complete thesecond year they not only receive a certificate from the Graduate College for the ParticipatoryPhase, but they are also recognized as “PFF Fellows” by the National

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner

standard 8051 assembler.The addition of the Visual Wimp to the laboratory simulation environment reinforces conceptslearned in lecture, shows students the dataflow through the processor, and helps them debug theirprograms. Student performance in lab shows that students understand the operation of theprocessorbetter after using the Visual Wimp.The WIMP51 is an ongoing project. In the future, the Visual Wimp may also be used in thelecture course to demonstrate the operation of the processor when the concepts are firstintroduced. Future lab experiments will ask students to change the hardware of the WIMP51 toextend the instruction set. The WIMP51 and the Visual Wimp have already been shown to beeffective teaching tools and will continue to improve

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

interactions that inevitably occur in close-knit groups working toward acommon research goal. Hence, while the goal of this project is the training of professionalscientists and engineers that have a strong desire to work with experts in other disciplines and arewell-trained for either industrial, governmental or academic careers, it is essential that quality,focused research be performed.In addition to the student’s PhD research, other classes and activities have been developed toachieve students who have the characteristics articulated above. In addition to the student’smajor disciplinary classes and intensive research work, the program includes interdisciplinarycourse work; laboratory rotations, internships; experience mentoring younger

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hassan ElKishky

electrical en gineeringcurriculum stems from the fact there is a need for electrical power engineering graduates to beequipped with a reasonable background in high voltage engineering in order to be able to fill theposition of retiring expert electric power engineers. Specific positions in the electric powerindustry require more depth in high voltage engineering than others. Research and developmentand electric power engineering consulting firms require more extensive understanding of highvoltage engineering. Project engineers, design engineers and testing engineers are positions thatneed a reasonable background in high voltage engineering, and testing in particular.Out of 88 universities responded to the survey by the IEEE Electric Power

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Wrate

above, some of the moreunique tasks underway or anticipated include: providing interns for data collection and energyaudits, review of ongoing projects (second look design assistance) to determine if energyefficiencies could be improved, and modeling of renewable energy and energy efficiencyoptions.While it is to early to tell if this initiative will be successful, one thing is certain, Wisconsin isattempting to deal with proactively with its energy concerns.AcknowledgmentThe author offers his sincere thanks to Mr. Hugo Heyns, Wisconsin Focus on Energy ProgramManager, and Drs. Deborah Jackman and Owe Petersen, and Prof. Michael Swedish for theirongoing work on this project.Bibliography1. Sweet, William and Elizabeth A. Bretz, “How to Make

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

. It is intended to illustrate theconcept of micro mixing to the students so that they have a first-handawareness of the limitations of the ideal reactor models.ApparatusA team of undergraduate students assembled apparatus and developed anexperimental procedure during the Fall 2001 semester, as an Engineering 11Clinic project. There are two distinct experimental setups: one uses a 2 Lreactor with baffles and a Lightnin Mixer as shown in Figure 1, the other anordinary 600 mL beaker with a magnetic stirring bar. In the first setup a Figure 1: Mixersyringe pump is used to add the limiting reagent, sulfuric acid, at a controlled

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin

the avionics and communication disorders perspectives, cross-disciplinarybenefits can be derived. One way of implementing multiple perspectives is by organizing cross-disciplinary teams to work on projects in both communication disorders and avionics systemsdesign. The possibility of cross-disciplinary benefit – providing low cost communication devicesfor people with communication impairments - might occur if low cost items become availablebecause of their use in mass-produced products.The academic technology community can provide a stimulus for cross-disciplinary approaches togenerating low cost systems for communication impaired people by encouraging entrepreneurialdevelopment of systems in Avionics/EET. The following is a summary of topics

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

for demonstrations on the use of DAMA (demand -assigned multiple access) and PCMA (paired-carrier multiple access), as applied to applicationsof satellite communication used in oil exploration. Students also were introduced to the designmethodology used in two other advanced projects. Engineers participating in the studentactivities all emphasized the need for life-long learning. Follow-up back at the universityincluded use of an excel-based simulation to calculate link budget. Figure 2 Network Operations Center at ViaSat [3]Example 3 – Silicon WaveThe primary motivation for including a Silicon Wave on-site experience was to give the studentsan opportunity to get practical knowledge of the Bluetooth wireless

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

focus is on career exploration and community service. Students select one areafrom 20 that they are interested in exploring. In July 2001, the Director of Women inEngineering coordinated hands on workshops for 12 4-H students. The first day involved handson exercises in three different areas of engineering. The second day involved a communityservice project – the students learned about the design and maintenance of bridges throughstaining a local foot bridge. Evaluations are given to all participants and students are given anopportunity to provide their mailing address for further information and for tracking purposes.The next event is scheduled for June 2002. This event is a unique opportunity to expose studentsto engineering and 50 percent of

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

targetedstudents. However, a major problem encountered by administrators of all of the activitiesdescribed in this paper was the challenge of getting eligible students to recognize the need, or toappreciate the rewards for participating. Yet an analysis of the performance of all eligiblestudents verify that some type of intervention strategy to improve the academic performance of anumber of engineering freshmen, especially those who place at the lower levels in mathematics,is critical to giving them any reasonable chance of succeeding in the study of engineering.AcknowledgementsThis project is related to the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition (NSF Award EEC-9444246), which is supported in part by the Engineering Education and Centers Division of

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger; Renata Engel

learning groups, andtypically encompass open-ended exercises as well as design projects. Such learningstrategies are thought of as best for promoting active learning, critical thinking, andconceptual understanding. They usually produce high levels of student satisfaction, andare regarded as valuable preparation for the “real world”.In today’s teaching environment, the effective instructor uses all of these strategies inorder to educate students. In fact, it is possible that elements of all of these methods willbe employed during a single classroom period for an engineering course. For example, aclass might begin with a lecture to present new material to the students, followed by adiscussion (question-answer) session, and finally a small group

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Segalewitz

discussion and team projects. Depending on annual enrollment, multiple sectionsare available with each now limited to approximately 25 students. Although sometraditional “lecture” material is presented throughout the course, the majority of thelearning is accomplished through group discussion and individual discovery facilitated by asubject matter expert (SME). SMEs include personnel from the Career Services Center, theLearning-Teaching Center, the Marianist Family, or University engineering technologyprograms.The University’s computer requirement puts all students on the same technological level,and since all buildings, including student housing, are connected to a high-speed fiber opticnetwork, information access is commonplace throughout the

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchel Keil; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

-1) orientation. The nutation angle qi, ismeasured from zi-1 to zi axis about the Bi Bi/ axis which is a perpendicular to theprojection of zi axis on xi-1yi-1 plane. The precession angle fi is measured form the xi-1axis to the same projection and yi represent the spin angle about the zi axis. Figure 3. Modified Eulerian angles Based on this definition of the modified Eulerian angle and the above constraintcondition, a vector transformation from the ith to the (i-1)th reference frame isrepresented by the ith transformation matrix [3] shown below: éc1 c 2 c 2 - 3 + s 2 s 2 - 3 c1 s 2 c 2 - 3 - c2 s 2 - 3 - s2 c2 - 3 ù êc c s - s c c1 s 2 s 2 - 3 + c 2 c2 - 3

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Mallini

-major courses lends the impression that the courses are anafterthought. The less experienced students work better with equipment, supplies, and proceduresthat are well organized and streamlined. Separate equipment and components specificallyselected for the non-major lab exercises leads to better class preparation. It also discourages thesituation of novice students finding burned-out components for their introductory labs and thesituation of advanced students finding burned-out components for their design projects. In the beginning of the course, my attempt to model the laboratory component after otherengineering labs that I have taught resulted in much frustration for students and instructors. Inthis terminal course, students without