Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

to the eleven weeks timing with two 120minutes sessions per week.Process Educational Objectives To provide students with a comprehensive and realistic product realizationengineering/management experience and be applicable to any capstone class, the following arethe main preset educational objectives of the developed process:Objective 1: Creative thinking in design1.1 Students will be able to brainstorm and think creatively to achieve alternate design solutions.Objective 2: Teamwork and communication skills2.1 Students will be able to form teams and work effectively with others to achieve design goals.2.2 Student will be able to present their ideas, plans and design alternatives in written and oral formats.Objective

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Massarani Marcelo; Jose Siqueira; Celso Furukawa

. The whole experience isextra-curricular and available to all undergraduate students.The Entrepreneurship Marathon (EM) consists of 25 hours of experiences, organized in threeconsecutive days. Most of the activities encourage the participant to think, act and react as anindividual and as a member of a team. Notwithstanding the reference to the sport, all activitiesare indoors.Two facilitators are necessary for each EM, though not all the time. About 30 to 40 students canparticipate on each marathon. The EM is the first step of a 8-step program on entrepreneurship.Table 1 shows a short description of each step. Table 1 – Steps of the CME entrepreneurship programStep Description Objectives1

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

manufacturers in a number of industries including sectors suchas auto parts and furniture. In the Grand Rapids area approximately 28% of the population aredirectly employed in manufacturing, the highest percentage in the country, according to the GrandRapids Chamber of Commerce. These industries are already served by graduates from Grand Val-ley State University, Grand Rapids Community College and other institutions. For example, over80% of the Grand Valley State University Engineering graduates accept employment with localmanufacturers.3. The SituationCurrently there are a number of motivational activities available to students in the GRPS and sur-rounding districts, as shown in Figure 1 and listed in Figure 2. We have broken these activities

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”“business” side of the engineering profession would be an extremely valuable lesson to theireducational process.As part of the assessment process, the following course objectives were developed with regardsto the Baldrige program integration: 1) Identify the various perspectives for defining quality and introduce the Criteria forPerformance Excellence to engineering students as an integrative framework for guiding thecontinuous improvement process and the role it plays in business 2) Develop a working knowledge of the tools (Seven Step Problem Solving Process, etc.)used to plan and implement continuous improvement

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

of these functions in a collaborative way with the instructor. Table 1 illustratestypical student results after this exercise. Table 1: Characterization of Functions from the Students Point of ViewTeam Leader: Supervision (organize, coordinate, delegate), background research.Team Engineer: Work with calculations, experimental data collection, and application oftheory.Team Idea Person: Development of new concepts, brainstorming, optimize efforts Page 9.1207.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

continually supports learning communities as a systemic approach toimprove educational outcomes7-8. The most important aspect of the learning community is that itprovides an opportunity for students to build relationships with one another and with facultywhile being immersed in the content. Moreover, it also calls for faculty to interact with oneanother more frequently and to provide quality personal attention to students The concept of learning community was implemented through the development of atested curriculum, taught by knowledgeable faculty, and delivered through a seamless pathwayfrom high school, through the community college, to the university. Table 1 shows the coursessequence for the first cohort students recruited in Fall 2002

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Narciso Macia

. BackgroundAutomatic control systems have been evolving over the past 150 years[1]. These systems beganas simple mechanical feedback devices and have evolved into complex electronic and computercontrolled systems. The education of students in control systems is one of the functions ofArizona State University East's College of Technology and Applied Sciences.This project consists of completing an apparatus that demonstrates the automatic control of waterlevel in a tank that is being randomly filled. Random filling of the tank represents a real lifeunpredictable disturbance to the system. Automatic control is accomplished with the use of apersonal computer operated with LabView software. Automatic control is accomplished bysensing the water level and then

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

and scientific careers in the US in their August, 2003, report The Science andEngineering Workforce: Realizing America’s Potential 1. A national policy imperative wasrecommended by the NSB in this report: The Federal Government and its agencies must step forward to ensure the adequacy of the US science and engineering workforce. All stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of US citizens pursuing science and engineering studies and careers. (p. 10) Science and technology have been and will continue to be engines of US economic growth and national security. Excellence in discovery and innovation in science and engineering (S&E) derive from an ample and well-educated

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

, and finally, advanced level elective courses on DITtopics.Some of the experiments have already been developed by Rowan faculty from funded research.The proposed modules are indicated in Table 1. Page 9.463.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1: Proposed Digital Imaging Experiments # Proposed Experiments 1 Visualizing Pollutant Diffusion and Determining Pollutant Diffusion Speed from Analyzing Sequential Images 2

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Devine

as necessary components of accredited degree programs 1 . Theneed for improved writing skills for engineering students is apparent in other articles as isongoing efforts to improve them over several years2, 3, 4, 6 . The same case is true of engineeringtechnology students. Employers and graduates identify the value of writing skills. Furthermore,the author’s experience of several years of engineering practice reinforces this need for effectivewriting skills.General StrategyThe general strategy of the writing assignments is that stud ents concentrate on writing technicalinformation that they read or learn from personal communications. This is in the third year of anacademic career for the author who has made writing assignments in most every

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Fisher; Anthony Ellertson; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

, thedanger is that students become less self-directed and engaged in their learning, consequentlycoming to see their university experience as being one of less engagement with both faculty andthe subject [1, p.5]. Johnson, Johnson & Smith point out that traditionally, education works tocompartmentalize faculty and students, where students are considered interchangeable parts in an“education machine.”[2]. Fink argues that “If higher education hopes to craft a more meaningfulway of educating students, then college professors will need to think a new and better way ofteaching, one that focuses on the quality of student learning” [1, p. 27].We believe that the new ABET 2000 Criteria [3] provide us with pedagogical opportunities forcrafting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hector Estrada

perform these calculations,including sophisticated structural analysis ones such as SAP20004. ASCE 7 is the main source for the load calculations implemented in the wind loads analysiscomputer program. The program is intended for use as a tool along with the ASCE 7 Standardand it is not intended to replace, but to complement and supplement the wind loads analysis partof ASCE 7.OVERVIEW OF ASCE 7 ASCE 7 allows three procedures for determining the minimum design wind loads onbuildings and other structures, particularly for the main wind-force resisting systems andcomponents and cladding elements. Method 1 is a simplified analytical procedure based on thesecond method but limited to building systems meeting a specific criteria; Method 2 is

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

EducationCurricular materials adhere to and follow recent trends in engineering education and incorporatesproject-based learning 6, 9, 18, cooperative learning 6, 8, 14 and technology-enabled learning 13,14.Aspects of the curriculum have been taken and or modified from the EPICS program at ColoradoSchool of Mines, Foundation Coalition, and the SUCCEED Coalition, (see, for example 1, 2, 4, 6-8,14, 16 ).Course sections are limited to 25 students that are subsequently divided into five 5-memberteams. All sections are taught in a common classroom that is equipped with tables and chairs(each team has a dedicated table), overhead LCD projection, and wireless notebook PCs. Thereis also a sixth table that is used as a common work space. The course is 2 credit

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

inactivestudents. SIMS identifies students as follows: 1 a. Entering from a high school. b. Changing majors, c. Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) student, d. Transferring from another University, e. Transferring from a Junior College, f. Transferring with military service courses, g. An international student,The order of the above list and the categorization of students into specific types below have nospecific meaning other than students have to be identified for discussion purposes. It is assumedthat other Universities have a student information management system that identifies students ina similar manner.Advisors use SIMS to study a student’s academic history to develop a degree

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaston N'Guerekata; Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

to 1)understand the learning process; 2) develop faculty who model best practices in integratingteaching and instructional technology; 3) increase the short and long term retention of electrical Page 9.703.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”engineering and computer science students; and 4) increase students’ ability to applymathematics to engineering and scientific problems. The innovative course unit redesign is comprehensive in pedagogy, assessment andresource support

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bowman

after completing theirMechanical Engineering undergraduate degrees.Club Learning The students involved in the club are typically freshman or sophomores level students.They usually participate for 1-3 years. During the academic school year they do about three tofive different design, build, fly (DBF) projects. These projects will be described below. Early in the school year, one hour is spent teaching the student a simple airplane designprocess. The goal is to get the students involved as soon as possible designing, building andflying planes. Little time is spent on theory. Many details are left to later lectures or for thestudents to learn on their own. The students learn the relationships between airplane weight,wing surface area

Conference Session

TYCD 2004 Lower Division Initatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

been documented elsewhere [1]. The Center appliedfor and received a four-year grant in 2003 to serve as an NSF ATE Resource Center untilSeptember of 2007. As a National Resource Center, NCTT has embarked upon the unique andambitious course of developing a national network of regional partners that will participatecollaboratively with NCTT to achieve its mission of providing appropriately skilled techniciansand technologists for the telecommunications and ICT related fields.This presentation will look at the process and challenges encountered by NCTT and its partnersin the implementation of this first of a kind national collaboration that marks a next step in theevolution of the NSF’s advanced technology education program as it enters its

Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Levenburg; Paul Lane; John Farris

interest in entrepreneurship.Following the goal of assessing the level of interest in new ventures and new venturecourses across all university areas, three important research questions were identified. 1. To what extent do students across the University population possess the characteristics that are commonly viewed as indicators of entrepreneurial intent? 2. To what extent do students have an interest in innovating new products or services? 3. What is the level and extent of interest in taking courses in new ventures (entrepreneurship)?MethodologyThe study was conducted among all students enrolled in courses during the summer of2003 semester at Grand Valley State University. The

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Enhancing Infrastructure Management Education through Collaboration Gerardo W. Flintsch, Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Zhanmin Zhang, Susan Tighe Virginia Tech / Lafayette College / University of Texas at Austin / University of WaterlooIntroductionEfficient and well-maintained infrastructure systems are essential for societal stability, economicgrowth, and sustainable competitiveness. Although the United States is served by some of thebest civil infrastructure systems in the world (valued at more than 20 trillion dollars)1, many ofthe current systems are reaching the end of their service lives. For example, the United Statesinfrastructure

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed; Sasima Thongsamak

University, Old Dominion University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.1 Byparticipating in CGEP, students can obtain Master’s degrees, certificates, or non-credit seminarprograms, either on campus or via interactive video conferencing.This program has been inexistence since 1983 and has served the Commonwealth of Virginia Page 9.863.1well. Yet it was time to undertake a major self-study to ensure that the program continues to “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American society of Engineering Education”meet the quality standards and needs

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Chesler; Donna Riley

workshop participants to conceptualize and discuss career issues in a novel,representative way and allowed other participants to see their struggles and accomplishmentsthrough their eyes. Thus, visual representation of positive and negative aspects of being a part ofthe engineering academy may be a useful strategy for men and women in engineering to discusstheir career issues and to find community support.I. IntroductionIt is well known that women are under-represented in the engineering workforce nationwide [1].In colleges and universities, fewer women than men become engineering faculty members andfewer women than men make rapid progress up the academic ladder [2]. There are many andvaried explanations for these disparities including that there

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

for them to learn. In practice, the nonlinear technology curriculum is introduced one activity at a time based Page 9.1198.2on the teacher’s interests, student’s interests, current technical innovations, resource availability,and students’ past successes. (Table 1 shows a list of the curriculum used in the 6th grade tech Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationclass for the semester I conducted my research.) The curriculum is Table 1dynamic and covers state and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lewinski; William Hudson

of clusters of lights on the face. There are9 clusters of lights in a 3 by 3 pattern. Each has three lights (red, yellow and green.) The lights areinstant on/off, light emitting diodes. The clusters of lights are spaced equally with 3.25 inches betweenclusters. The stimulus box front panel is a 10 inch black square. The stimulus board can be seen inFigure 1. Page 9.862.3 Figure 1 – Stimulus Board Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

9.284.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Hanna and Wilson6 noted that an instrument for measuring team operations shouldadequately cover four components central to team performance: 1. Task functions (approach to goals and decision-making processes) 2. Team functions (cohesiveness or general liking and attraction to team) 3. Outcomes (solution quality to open-ended problems) 4. Satisfaction (feelings about participation in the team)Satisfaction correlated closely to productivity (ability to accomplish goals) and cohesiveness (theteam’s pride, commitment and

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Productauthentic engineering environment in whichstudents explore a complex suite of skills, Computer Teamdepicted in Figure 1, through coaching and Skills Communication Skillsmentoring from an experienced staff. SkillsStudents learn through practice how to use a Figure 1: Graphical Representation of Mission for Designvariety of processes critical to decision (EPICS) Programmaking associated with engineering design. We take our international course to the island of St.Kitts/Nevis to add a cultural dimension to the program

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers; Jeff Goldberg

contexts.Future work would investigate whether students are indeed becoming lifelong learners bysurveying their use of library information tools after they graduate.Introduction In this work, we advocate for the systematic inclusion of information literacy (IL) acrossthe undergraduate engineering curricula to meet the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) requirement for "teaching lifelong learning skills"1. Our previous paper2showed that IL skills can be seamlessly included in engineering courses by modifyingassignments and adjusting syllabi. We showed that treating the IL skill set as an after-thoughtmarginalized the concepts of both lifelong learning and information literacy. Much of thediscussion in our previous work

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmen Boje; Nicolae Dragulanescu

, within a company. Even if electrical, electronics and computer engineers are alreadyinvolved in some information transmission theories, models and methods, all engineers haveto know how it is possible today to generate, process, communicate, store and useinformation in the most advantageous way.1. Introduction “Information concept - as it was employed within different disciplines, during manyyears - had a heteroclite2, ambiguous and polyvalent3 character, despite its considerableheuristic4 value”5. Over the years, each category of information professionals succeeded to1 Epistemological: related to the epistemology, i.e. to the study or the theory of the origin, nature, methods, andlimits of knowledge2 Heteroclyte: being out-of-the-way

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

profession also has some disadvantages. There are areas of academia that arefrightening, not the least of which is struggling to achieve “tenure.” There may also be aperception of boredom, repetition, and that academia is either a very easy profession or a verydifficult one in terms of hours and effort required.The author will give her perceptions of what she has learned over more than three decades ofserving in academia, including being the first female faculty member on an engineering faculty.Factors such as a sense of humor, “getting it in writing,” and a sense of satisfaction in knowingthat you made a difference will be discussed. The career/family balance will also be examined.I. IntroductionMy mother was a teacher (grades 1-8) before she

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

requiring just algebra and trigonometry. Whatwas truly interesting was that county and city regulations specified minimum designrequirements that are adequate for most small scale developments. Page 9.1111.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society of Engineering Education The basic course structure, topic list and timing are:Introduction – A brief history of civil engineering, what it encompasses, how it relatesto our courses and the direction of the class. (1 day)Legal Structure – Starting with the U.S. Constitution and the nature