Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

part,through a seminar style approach. Overall, the resulting course is a departure from a typicaldesign course.Course OutlineThe course plan can be roughly broken down into four parts. The major material introduced ineach part is as follows: Part 1. Introduction to design, team skills, professional writing, and reverse engineering Part 2. Human, social, and environmental issues in the design process; Introduction to oral communication, and critical reading Part 3. Project management and project planning Page 9.1171.1 Part 4. Major design project“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement in attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and team skills in addition to a background in BME applications have been successfully demonstrated with projects, papers, and presentations. This approach has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduate students and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is so high that it is planned for incorporation in all courses in the curriculum. I. Introduction This paper presents the results of having students use the instructor’s grading rubrics to assess both oral and written presentation. For the

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

technology, with a particularfocus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. McMurchie's background and teaching experience is inmanufacturing engineering technology, with a particular focus on materials science. We hadknown each other for four years when we began planning the course, and had taught one classtogether before. Given our interests, we decided that a course that focused on the impact ofchanges in materials on society over time would allow both of us to play to our strengths.Since our target audience was students already enrolled in the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology and Manufacturing Engineering Technology programs, we decided to use existingcourses as the basis for the combined course. This allowed us to avoid the complicated processof

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

impossible toapply standard search algorithms in any straightforward way because the numbers of states andactions are infinite. Much of the work in robot planning has dealt with ways to tame thesecontinuous state spaces.The question of moving a robot around successfully can be considered as problems of motion ina configuration space. Algorithms that handle a configuration space directly assume that anexact description of the space is available, so they cannot be used where there is significantsensor error and motion error. In some cases, no description of the space is available until therobot starts moving around in it. Russell and Norvig 5 identify five major classes of navigationand motion planning algorithms. We arrange them below roughly in the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

-likesetting1,2. The LF model emphasizes practical experience and consequently, EngineeringTechnology (ET) and other programs that emphasize hands-on experiences for students are wellsuited to implementing the LF model. This paper describes a project whose goal is to adapt theLF model for implementation in regular academic programs oriented to practical applicationswithout having to build an actual factory. This work is being accomplished by modifying five carefully selected courses in ourprograms, leading to the use of coordinated projects across those courses. The projects focus onthe making of functional model engines. In the various courses, students will generate CADdrawings of all the engine components, produce process plans for and make

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason; Arthur Western

humanities and social sciencerequirements, and it has been a popular elective, especially for technical students withsome entrepreneurial interests. The objectives for the course are: • Describe the role of the entrepreneur in society • Describe the importance of entrepreneurial behavior in organizations of all sizes and types • Identify traits and behaviors needed for successful entrepreneurship • Use tools of economic analysis to analyze opportunities and efforts • Apply the knowledge of the basic aspects of a business plan • Communicate effectively in written and oral reports • Describe sources of capital, talent and other resources for entrepreneurship • Maintain a sense of fun and perspective about

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Clark; Prudence Merton; Jim Richardson; Jeffrey Froyd

terms of faculty development and facility costs. Pilots should be planned both to study the proposed improvements as well as to support eventual adoption across the entire college.• Building support for curricular improvement within and beyond the College of Engineering required significantly more design and effort than anticipated by the change leaders. Based on the interviews, building support requires widespread communication, selection of influential faculty, political strategizing and assessment data. Communication plans require substantial up-front investment in addition to the Page 6.423.1 efforts required to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Delfino

plans forimplementing the World Water Vision over the next 25 years are discussed. It is clearthat many areas of the world are facing a water “crisis.” The vision’s goal is to providewater security for the world’s citizens in the 21st Century. Several goals include insuringthat every person has access to enough safe water at affordable cost [which implies adrive toward water privatization on a global scale], and that water resources are protectedand improved. The task is challenging and the funding requirements to meet the goalswill be enormous. To date, the engineering component of the process of transforming“the vision to action” has not been fully described. This paper will analyze the WorldWater Vision from an environmental engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

of their work, they in general rarely contribute to marketingreports. Half of the supervisors frequently write plans and proposals as compared to only 25% ofthe non-supervisors. Nearly all respondents believe that management skills can be taught.Nearly all respondents believe that spoken communication skills are more important foradvancement than written communication skills. A somewhat strange response betweensupervisors and non-supervisors is the importance of statistics in their performing their duties atFord. Nearly 67% managers felt that their statistics background was inadequate for performingtheir duties while only 6% of the non-supervisors indicated that their statistics training wasinadequate for performing their duties. Behavioral

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

probably should be, but curricular time is at premium and the studentssometimes complain of the workload.On the other hand, because of its renewed importance we now see that design should be taught inorder to establish competencies for the next design course rather than just a motivational tool orfor professional orientation. Thus, looking ahead we can identify many needs. Some of theseneeds are relevant to engineering management (project scheduling, staffing, budget and riskmanagement, development processes and organizational structures, application of codes andstandards, and product planning.) The following section summarizes the embedment of severalengineering management topics to design curriculum over the course of three semesters.III

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Nored; David Compton

industry experience is through mentoring designprojects. At OC, no engineering student may graduate without completing a three-semestersystems design project. Project teams composed of electrical and/or mechanical students workthrough the difficulties of planning a project. They must plan a schedule and a budget, writestatus memos, and present reports to the rest of the college. During their presentations, they mustanswer questions submitted from an audience that includes professors and their peers. This isrigorous project designed to emulate the reality of industry.II. IntroductionThe founders of the engineering program intended to prepare every engineering student to enterthe workforce with the skills to be immediately productive, professional

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vascar Harris; Eric Sheppard

AfricanAmerican aerospace engineering B.S. degrees in some years. Given this information, thedepartment is making plans for its future.I. IntroductionThere has been much discussion of the under-representation of African Americans in the field ofengineering, and both causes and effects have been analyzed. References 1 and 2 are examplesconcerned with retention issues that are particularly relevant to this paper. Some of the keyissues identified in these references are the importance of financial aid resources and thecomplexity of addressing minority retention rates that lag far behind the retention rates of non-minorities. In response, many universities across the country set up programs to help recruit andretain underrepresented groups. This under

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

in engineering careers, but it is also strongly focused on a particularfive step design sequence, “Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve.”8 Although aspects of what isput forward as design are included in each of the curricula, the interpretations and approacheswere found to be quite different. Clearly, a universal concept of engineering design may not beforthcoming, but the breadth of interpretations for just this aspect of the curricula demonstratesthe disparate status of K-12 engineering education and curricula that include engineering design.In their findings and recommendations, the NAE/NRC Committee described the development ofsystematic linkages between engineering design and scientific inquiry and furthermore, positedthese connections

Conference Session

Outreach Projects: Promoting Energy Efficiency and Education in General

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

architects, mechanical and structuralengineers, lighting designers and specialist simulation modelers contribute to anintegrated approach. The integrated approach may involve the use of local weatherconditions, such as wind-driven ventilation and daylighting, as well as the characteristicsof the building shape, materials and space planning needs.In this paper, a methodology presented to our students in the framework of this course ispresented. This methodology is based on using actual buildings, where local weatherconditions as well as engineering considerations and architecture are used in an integratedapproach to achieve a successful design.We discuss the course program from the students’ point of view, and the experienceearned in design

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahesh Aggarwal, Gannon University; Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the tenure process at a teaching-based institution can use this article as aguide to create a portfolio/development plan that will contain the relevant information to satisfythe rank and tenure requirements at their institution. It is advised that the new faculty memberreviews in a yearly basis the contents of his/hers development plan with the department chair toobtain feedback and ensure a continuous progress towards advancement. By compiling thisinformation in a yearly basis, the new faculty member will be able to prepare his/hers tenure andrank application in a painless and smooth manner.2 Rank and Tenure Requirements before year 2000General requirements for rank and tenure at Gannon University consist of satisfying a set ofcategories

Conference Session

Impacts on Engineering Education Through Collaborative Learning, Project-based, and Service-learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu F. Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Divisions

International

students come to their colleges with different motivations, goals, plans, attitudes,and expectations. College study requires them to complete all their assignments to reach all thegoals with no requirement compromised. As a part of college study courses with computer labassignments usually provide instructors with a unique opportunity to motivate students to workhard to achieve their goals and to sustain their knowledge as well as to measure student learningoutcomes on this matter. Research finds it is still difficult to predict or measure how muchstudents are able to sustain their learning outcomes before their graduations. This research aimsto first ensure that all student lab activities and exercises are designed to not only for them

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

submission of the Senior Project Design Report –II (during week #15 of the spring semester). • Periodic log book review (bi-weekly): Students maintain design journals which are periodically evaluated. • The grading rubrics for SP-I (Table 1) and SP-II (Table 2) were developed and adopted.Forming a Senior Project Team and Improving its Chances of SuccessTables 3 and 4 together provide a summary of the essential elements and stages of teamdevelopment as well as some suggestions for planning and improving the chances of success fora team based project (7).ConclusionThe efforts of a group of faculty at the School of Engineering of the College of New Jersey wereshared with the engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Ellingson, University of Saint Thomas; Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas; Scott Edward Morgan; Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

glider. Figure 4 Functional Block Diagram including ownership. Figure 5 Brief survey of existing ocean gliders.Operations are planned to be controlled from a ground station that receives periodic updates fromthe glider(s) including position, health and scientific data and sends routing commands back tothe vehicle(s). Design of the ground station is planned for a future year of the spiral.The preliminary layout of the five year plan is:  Year 1 – Development of requirements and preliminary design of subsystems to meet requirements. Page 25.174.6  Year 2 – Refine requirements and solutions. Detail and build proof of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gisemba Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul A. Bosela P.E., Cleveland State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, analysis of indeterminate structures by compatibility methods,moment distribution method, slope deflection method.CVE 403 Construction Planning and Principles of Estimating. Types and uses of constructionequipment and study of construction procedures; study of different types of estimates, direct andindirect costs, insurance, taxes, and bonds; analysis of construction schedule planning by CPM orPERTCVE 422 Reinforced Concrete Design. Analysis and design of reinforced concrete members byservice and ultimate strength methods; flexure, shear, displacement, and anchorage of beams;combined axial and bending stresses in columns; one-way slabs and continuous beamsAll of these courses are required for the Bachelor of Engineering degree. ESC 211, CVE 312

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Bloom’s Taxonomy. The current pedagogy removes students from applying higherorder cognitive skills. By using the Mouse Factory, students must select the most appropriateimprovement project to undertake, design a sampling plan, implement a control chart andevaluate the effectiveness of the implement control chart. Assessment of student behavior andattitudes will be discussed and evaluated.IntroductionThe American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)1 defines engineering managementas “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing andcontrolling activities which have a technical component.” Quality-related activities are widelyaccepted as an important field of engineering management and industrial engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Luces Faulkenberry

proposed association was to encourage dialogue and forge linkages among allelectrical and electronics technology teachers at all of the institutions in the greater Houston andGulf Coast region.MethodsAn internet search resulted in several sites that dealt with starting a nonprofit organization. Onesite4 provided questions and answers as well as referencing books available about startingnonprofit organizations. A very complete site, written by Carter McNamara6, contained manydetailed instructions on starting nonprofit organizations as well as writing strategic plans for alltypes of organizations. McNamara points out that the very first steps of starting a nonprofitorganization are a very clear mission statement, stating what kind of a nonprofit

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

April Wilson; David Ollis

5eager to participate in the program, although the students’ projects did not advance theadvisors’ work. These faculty suggested that the students could have benefited fromhaving more time to research their topic area and prepare their presentation. A sentiment expressed by the French professors and project advisors was that theydesired to have received information earlier about the students’ academic backgrounds.The selection of the NCSU students was completed only about two months before thecommencement of the program; future programs will feature an earlier selection process.. To help the CPE organizers plan the program for next year, they should beprovided copies of the students’ transcripts and resumes with course descriptions

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

; Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education"formwork. The collapse of a temporary structure during construction involves a high risk ofserious injuries, deaths and substantial property loss. A clear understanding of the design oftemporary structures is a critical function not only for the designers but also for developers,contractors, suppliers of construction equipment, inspectors and all users of temporary structures.These temporary structures may pose substantial challenges for the contractors since the projectsdesign professionals rarely mention them in the project documents. The lack of clear design, planand specifications for these structures leaves a large number of choices open to the contractor.Since no typical plan

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

-based experiences are planned collaboratively with graduatestudents and instructors and are evaluated for application to classroom settings.During the development of the course considerable care was used in the planning of instruction, Page 6.1107.2use of instructional materials, and evaluation of practices suitable for teaching elementary and “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Education”secondary school students. Methods for teaching science, mathematics and engineering contentto elementary and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip McCreanor

focused on why they were learning atopic, the project based teaching format also produced a just in time teaching format.This paper will present the project used to teach the hydraulics class, a qualitative analysis ofhow the use of project-based teaching affected this class, and modifications planned for the nextoffering of the course. Suggestions for the design of projects will also be presented.1.0 IntroductionHydraulics is currently taught as one-half of a 3-credit course in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The topics covered include fluidproperties, fluid pressure, forces on submerged surfaces, fluid flow in pipes, pipelines, pipenetworks, and pump design and selection. The first semester

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley E. Bishop

/representation and control This projectemphasizes issues beyond the traditional single-robot approach to mobile systems, requiringdesign of an entire array of mobile robots and an integrated communication and behaviorstrategy. Other potential topics include distributed sensing and functionality, centralized /decentralized control of robot swarms and advanced map-based path planning. Interfacingbetween the robots and a PC base station allows units with simple and inexpensive processors tobe coupled to the computational power of a centralized platform for data synthesis anddissemination.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we offer an outline of thedesign project and discuss the test domain selected. In Section 3, we discuss

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pannapa Herabat; Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

included one or two participantsfrom outside Civil Engineering, such as Engineering and Public Policy or the Heinz School ofPublic Administration, and one or two part-time students. While the majority of the graduatestudents would be classified as focusing on Engineering Planning and Management, students arealso drawn from the other disciplines offered, namely Environmental Engineering, ComputerAided Engineering, and Computational Mechanics. The course has also served as a core coursefor the National Science Foundation funded Graduate Research Traineeships “IntegratingScience, Technology and Management in Global Civil Infrastructure Systems.”The parent of this course is a course initiated in the Department of Civil Engineering atMassachusetts

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

, Page 5.314.1local and private agencies to plan developments, determine the most appropriate location forsiting facilities, manage resources, and for supporting management decisions. As a systemwhose functionality depends on spatially referenced data, the GIS technology has mainly beenapplied by geographers, surveyors, environmental scientists, conservationists, planners and otherprofessionals who deal with spatial data on a regular basis.In several universities, GIS is taught in many departments such as civil engineering, geography,agriculture, environmental sciences, business, and planning. GIS instruction in thesedepartments are tailored to satisfy applications within the discipline. A common link to all theseapplications, which is the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

Session 3630 Helping New Faculty Get Off to a Good Start Rebecca Brent, Richard M. Felder North Carolina State UniversityCollege teaching may be the only skilled profession that does not routinely provide training to itsnovice practitioners. New faculty members at most universities have traditionally had to learnby themselves how to plan research projects, identify and cultivate funding sources, writeproposals and get them funded, attract and supervise graduate students, and present their researchresults in an effective manner. They have also had to teach themselves how to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

continuing evolution of the teaching mechanisms in boththe IE and PT courses involved. Various successes and failures are noted as well as plans for thefuture.IntroductionThe problem of providing students with “real world” problems which are also academicallyrigorous remains in the forefront of educational planning. In 1997 the Society of ManufacturingEngineers published a list of competency gaps found by industry in newly hired engineeringgraduates. (See http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/eduhtml.pl?/mep/intro.html&&&SME& ) These Page 5.392.1gaps included communication skills, teamwork, project management, and continuous or lifelonglearning