Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

surprised when unit test was completed in half a day. They said they had done a prototype of this code before the project started and it took 1.5 weeks to get it to work well enough to see any results. They have found only two defects since the code has been integrated with the rest of the software.” • “Our project increased its delivered quality by 10 times and reduced its effort by 20 percent compared to a previous project.” • “This is the hardest, most enjoyable, personally rewarding thing I have done outside of growing a family.” PSP and TSP in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Program The undergraduate software engineering (BSSE) program at the

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

to connect the abstract concepts of the Page 10.822.5classroom with the real world.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 5Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Paper # 854 Through an experiment of this type, undergraduates can integrate a number of conceptslearned in the engineering curriculum and get a feel for the variety of aspects of biomedicalengineering including transport processes, bioelectrical phenomena, osmotic pressure, proteinassay, and

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas MacIntosh; Susan Conry

arrive at the best solutions and that confusion and uncertainty are clarified through questioning and discussion that differences and conflicts occur, that they must be acknowledged, and the best way to deal with them is constructively and openly.Engineering curricula today are packed with technical content. Increasingly, there is so much forstudents to learn about their chosen discipline that there is little space in the curriculum forcoursework that deals directly with these kinds of issues. It is hard to find space in the typicalengineering curriculum for a course in teamwork skills. The theme of this paper is that strategiesfor guiding students in their acquisition of teamwork skills can be integrated in their

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

teacher assumes as an adviser. Students work in groups to solve challenging problems that are original,curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary. Students take the active role to decide how totackle a problem and what activities to pursue. Students gather information from a variety ofsources and synthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning is inherentlyvaluable because it is connected to something real and involves liaison skills such ascollaboration and mediation. The most important element is reflection. Students candemonstrate their newly acquired knowledge in the final report. Students are judged by thepresentation and peer assessment. The role of teachers, unlike traditional classroom teaching,is to provide

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Ellzey; Ted Aanstoos, The University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

diversity awareness as desirable traits of new-hireengineers. Similar goals appear in the ABET 2000 criteria. The Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at The University of Texas at Austin is developing an International EngineeeringProgram with the goal of increasing the number of undergraduate students with internationalexperience. A pilot six-week summer program in 2004 involved nine students earning six credithours in Grenoble, France. The program consisted of an upper-division technical elective“Engineering Standards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” and an American historycourse, “American Foreign Policy.” Student performance and feedback from this pilot semesteryielded positive results, and based on this success two additional

Conference Session

Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Fink

benefitindustry by exposing future employees and/or customers to their technology, but can also have majorimpacts on the relevancy of the curriculum in an academic program.The Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M University is collaborating with severalmajor companies (Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Inc., National Instruments Inc., IBM Inc. andTeradyne Inc.) to address a strong industrial concern at the lack of entry-level engineers who are preparedto do semiconductor testing. Concepts such as the real life performance of devices are not addressed in atraditional Electrical Engineering curriculum in favor of the more predictable ideal performance whichcan be easily modeled. Thus, students graduating are unaware that performance

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

member, and active in student advising,academic policy, and international issues on campus.JIM MORRIS is an IEEE Fellow and 22-year ASEE member, and has served as EE/ECE Department Chair atboth SUNY-Binghamton and Portland State. His research interests lie in electronics packaging, andnanoelectronics/thin films. He is actively committed to the development of international work/studyexperiences for engineering students. Page 10.1072.8FU LI is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at PSU. He is a senior member of IEEE, withresearch interests in the areas of digital signal/image processing , computer systems integration, and

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

work professionally.Bibliography• Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000• Dyment, Janet & O'Connell Timothy. "Journal Writing in Experiential Education: Possibilities, Problems, and Recommendations." ERIC Digest.• Gale, Xin Liu. "Theory Writing as Becoming: Past Experiences Thrice-Lived." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication (49th, Chicago, IL, April 1-4, 1998).• Lester, Nanct, et al. " Writing across the Curriculum: A College Snapshot." Urban Education v38 n1 p5-34 Jan 2003• Monroe, Jonathan

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Industrial ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Schildgen; Jon Duff

, American Society for Engineering Educationeducation and knowledge relevant to the specific field of study. Further, the question ofaccountability requires that culminating work be regularly peer reviewed in the context ofaccreditation. 1By far, the literature answers the question: Is it advisable to include a senior capstone experiencein engineering and technology programs? It is advisable. The only questions remaining are: Howcan senior projects be efficiently implemented as a curriculum requirement, be validated byindustry, and meet regional and professional accreditation guidelines?An extensive 1995 review of capstone projects at nearly 300 engineering departments in 173schools 2 brought Todd and his fellow authors to conclude: “This type of

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephen B. Taylor; Darin W. Nutter; James A. Davis; Joseph J. Rencis

, Z.T., Mobasher, A., and Jalloh, A., Synthesis of Engineering Best Practices and ABET AC2K into a New Mechanical Engineering Curriculum, Session 2266, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, St. Louis, MO, June 18-21, 2000.5. Karunamoorthy, S. and Ravindra, K., Integrated Curriculum Design in Mechanical Engineering – Opportunities and Challenges, Session 2566, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle WA, June 28-July 1, 1998.6. Wood, J.C., An Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Engineering Technology Freshman Curriculum, Session 2248, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle WA, June 28-July 1, 1998.7. Johnson, K.V. and Rajai, M., “Student in the

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shane Brown

to develop collaborative study groups. Weed out cultures are characterized bystudent perceptions that a class or curriculum is designed to fail a portion of students that are notacademically fit to survive. Tobias found similar results from students who claimed that therewas no sense of community in the classroom and that students were not interested in formingstudy groups due to competitive grading schemes [13]. Astin proposes that students who havecontrasting values and beliefs than the peers in their major are likely to leave that peer group infavor of one that has similar values and beliefs [4]. Referring to Table 1, this is an example of alow trust environment that is fostered by the social norms put in place through the

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

outweighed by an obligation to expose (other) unethical activity?To what extent is this action similar to a student viewing someone else’s unprotected computercode and then submitting it as his/her own work? Or suppose the student just viewed it, but didnot submit it; would that still be unethical? This case can serve as interesting, current, case studyin privacy rights in a computer network.1. IntroductionThe ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2001 [1], in its Social and Professional issues area,lists seven “core” units that should be a part of any curriculum. Unit SP7 is “Privacy and civilliberties.” Students need to understand the importance of placing appropriate access restrictionson sensitive information, and of not breaching the confidentiality

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

amount of time on the debugging and troubleshooting. This two-phase lab practicehelps students to learn both the hands-on troubleshooting techniques and basic principles ofdigital systems. Using VHDL in the teaching students can get confused with its usage becausethe instructor has to focus on the features of VHDL language. In contrast, the author’s approachbetter helps the students to learn and understand the principles and practices of digital logicsystems.Conclusion Teaching digital systems with bread-board and Xilinx schematic CAD tools andFPGA/CPLD board represents an integrated approach to introducing digital system principles,processes and implementation. It is more effective in the teaching of digital logic systems thanthe

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

J. L. Kimball, “The Portfolio As a Tool to Evaluate and Assess the Effectivenessof a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum,” Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th AnnualConference. 'Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change'. Proceedings. Volume 2, page 1114. Retrieved 12December 2004 fromhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/5004/13772/00636049.pdf?isNumber=13772&prod=CNF&arnumber=636049&arSt=1114+vol.2&ared=&arAuthor=Gunn%2C+D.W.%3B+Corleto%2C+C.R.%3B+Kimball%2C+J.L.12. M. C. Paretti, “Work In Progress: Using E-Portfolios to Assess Communication Skills,” 34th ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, available on CD and at http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/.MARIE C. PARETTI, Ph.D.Marie C

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Juliet Hurtig

projects which require multidisciplinary teams in order to be successful. Manysuch programs have been initiated, including those discussed in [8][9].This effort described here differs from some of the above work in two major ways. First, theprojects varied considerably, including an industry-sponsored project, a national competition,and an internally-funded research project. Secondly, this was not done through the developmentof a new course. Rather, the multidisciplinary projects were simply some of the projects fromwhich students could choose as part of the standard capstone course. It is hoped that the lessonslearned from these initial teams will allow smooth integration of further multidisciplinaryprojects in the future.Design Teams:Four

Conference Session

Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Painter

available in an engineering curriculum. At TSUenvironmental justice is presented to students in the context of how these issues caninfluence the ethical practice of Environmental Engineering with regard to the design andsiting of hazardous and solid waste facilities. Two class assignments based onhypothetical scenarios demonstrate the nature of environmental injustice and how theseoccurrences impact decisions regarding waste facilities. A third assignment based on acase study presents a series of ethical failures leading to harm to human health and theenvironment and emphasizes the role of environmental justice concerns in precipitatingthe ethical failures. The assignments are briefly described below. The actual assignmentsare accompanied with a

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

Element Software for Enhancing a Vibration Analysis Curriculum”,Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society forEngineering Education, (2004).5Graham, L., and Khan, M., “Use of ANSYS and MATLAB in an Introductory Finite Element Page 10.206.6Course”, Computers in Education Journal, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 32-37, (2002). “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”6 Baker, J., Capece, V., and Lee, R., “Integration of Finite Element Software in UndergraduateEngineering

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995. 4. Aorshas, S, Verner, I. M., and Berman, A., “Calculus for Engineers: An Applications Approach,” Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE-2003, Paper No. 4607, Valencia, Spain, 2003. 5. McKenna, A., McMartin, F. and Agogino, A., “What Students Say About Learning Physics, Math and Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2000 Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000, p T1F-9. 6. Anderson, C. W., Bryan, K. M., Froyd, J. E., Hatten, D. L., Kiaer, C. L., Moore, N. E., Mueller, M. R., Mottel, E. A. and Wagner, J. F., “Competency Matrix Assessment in an Integrated, First Year Curriculum in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Schmucker, Trine University

AC 2005-862: AUTHENTIC ENGINEERING DESIGN IN A FRESHMAN“TRANSITION TO COLLEGE” COURSEDoug Schmucker, Trine University Page 10.241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Authentic Engineering Design in a Freshman “Transition to College” Course Douglas G. Schmucker Western Kentucky UniversitySummaryThrough a series of three hands-on, learn-by-doing projects, students prepare to enter a civilengineering program in this first-semester course. This paper documents these three projects anddescribes how the course is integrated with university criteria for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

Page 10.1436.9VR models seemed to have a purpose, and was not just an add-on to the lessons. Students seemed Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmore engaged in collaborative groups formed to solve problems during the lessons. Primary suggestions made by the instructors from the Curriculum and Instruction Departmentincluded providing opportunities for students to have more hands-on experiences with the VRtools, increasing student group activity, increasing opportunities for student to manipulate the VRmodels, and increasing student engagement during class sessions. Evaluation results

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Blake

be found in allengineering disciplines.The use of this sort of information can be generalized. Through the generalized form, atechnique useful across engineering disciplines can be taught to students. One must understandthe meaning of the value, relate this to a mathematical expression, and solve for the desiredunknown. This understanding may come from intuition, a formal definition, or fromexamination of the units. With experience, using this type of information becomes astraightforward task. Often, it is not straightforward for new students. Exposing student to thissort of problem helps to prepare them for other courses, projects, and for employment.For several years, the author has included an engineering computation module based on rates

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lorin P. Maletsky; Charles E. Gabel

attached to neighboring letters to form a word by using interlockingfeatures that were hidden when viewed from the front. Additionally, each letter was comprised oftwo separate pieces that were connected using visible features. To provide an additionalchallenge for the students, each letter was machined from a different material and each piece wasfabricated three times to demonstrate the concepts of mass production and interchangeabilitywith other parts. Pairs of students were responsible for the design, tool path generation, andfabrication of each piece. The project has taken approximately one month and has beensuccessfully completed during two offerings of the course.IntroductionIn design and manufacturing courses in an engineering curriculum

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Carl Eger

-learning, students become involved in a project that meets specific educational objectives Page 10.216.1while providing a needed service to the community. Service-learning can range from a singleProceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcollege course where the students are required to do some community service to multi-year,service projects that are fully integrated into the curriculum. Service-learning has been found tohelp students develop technical and non-technical skills, make connections

Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

, isdescribed along with students’ assessment in the context of their reflections.IntroductionThe integration of community service projects in undergraduate engineering curricula, to provideexperiential learning, has created a great deal of interest among educators in recent years. Tsang(2000) stipulates that the notion of combining service with engineering design projects is notnew considering that many senior design projects have provided assistive technology to meet theneeds of people with disabilities. Tsang (2000) further discusses the many benefits of service-learning, coupled with design-across-the-curriculum, and the significance of integrating design atall stages of a student’s academic development in a meaningful context. Evidently

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

broughtto public attention the need for a comprehensive energy strategy to ensure a sustainable supplyof energy for our nation. Alternative energy sources to support our infrastructure are becomingmore and more significant as we look towards the future. Establishment of the NextEnergyCenter in Michigan is an important step in that direction; and to prepare technical workforce foralternative energy area would be an important milestone in taking forward our nation towardsthe future. In this paper, the necessary curriculum, courses, and degree program were explored toaddress the alternative energy technology workforce needs. Also, various avenues with the prosand cons were explored, identified, and recommended. The project work done dealt with

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

discipline. Itcompares the present-day BOK with the BOK of the future for construction engineeringstudents. It puts the construction engineering students at a level comparable to the levelof a civil engineering student. It defines the need for an integrated constructioncurriculum, and an integrated BOK for the future construction engineering students.Present-Day Body of Knowledge Taught in a BS-Level ConstructionEngineering/Technology DegreeConstruction professionals are builders. In recent years, the term constructor has beenused to define individuals who are builders, yet their expertise goes beyond that of homeor commercial builders. Constructors are essentially contractors who know how to buildunlike engineers who know ‘Why’ that goes with

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.11. Niemi, E.E., “Development of an Ocean Engineering Course as a Technical Elective for Mechanical Engineers,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, 2004.12. Tsinker, G.P., Handbook of Port and Harbor Engineering, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1997.13. Wilczynski, V., and Douglas, S.M., “Integrating Design Across the Engineering Curriculum: A Report from the Trenches,” Journal of Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education, July, 1995.Author InformationTIMOTHY W. MAYSDr. Mays, PE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Educational Technology Standards for Students. Accessed December 28, 2004. < http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html >.Biographical InformationMALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is the curriculum outreach coordinator for the Integrated Teaching and LearningProgram’s K-12 Engineering Initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former middle and high schoolmath and science teacher, she received her MAT in secondary science from Johns Hopkins University and her MS incivil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.DARIA KOTYS-SCHWARTZ is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an NSFGK-12 Outreach Fellow for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.She

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

. For an engineering study abroad or semester at sea course to work, it is critical that the coursework be adapted to the new country or countries visited. The authors found that students related especially well to lectures where they were able to integrate their classroom learning with their in-country experiences. For example cellular manufacturing concepts that originated in Japan were first discussed. Then, students witnessed the Japanese obsession to detail and time during a Mitsubishi Electric plant visit, and also in taking a shinkansen (bullet train) or in a grocery Page 10.124.6 store where individual tomatoes and

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

recent hiring of a new faculty member with anuclear engineering background dedicated specifically to the development of the programit is expected to boost student enrollment in courses offered at PVAMU campus and theTTVN classes. Also a national recognition by numerous DOE laboratories of the need toincrease minority enrollments at such institutions is expected to influence students at theuniversities to consider nuclear engineering as a prospective career option. The uniqueness of the PVAMU program comes from the way it is setup. It isbased in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the NASA Center for AppliedRadiation Research (CARR) is an integral part of the program. The course curriculum isdesired to include specific topics