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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

Management for Students of Technology: A Case Study in Information Technology Education Dr. Sam C. Geonetta University of Cincinnati, College of Applied Science 2220 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45245Introduction In her article on graduates of engineering and technology programs Kerry Hannonobserves that “. . .corporations want the whole ball of wax—soft skills, science skills, anddiversity.”1 Loria Yeadon, a patent attorney who holds a master’s degree in electricalengineering, emphasizes the need for technology professionals to be “business-minded”.2 InInternetWeek, Nick Evans states that “Most will agree that

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching and Outreach

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

A HANDY TOOL FOR CONVENIENT ERROR PROPAGATION ANALYSIS: A USER FORM FOR ERROR INFLUENCE COEFFICIENTS Sheldon M. Jeter Georgia Institute of TechnologyINTRODUCTION Complete uncertainty analysis in experimental engineering requires two distinctand complementary calculations. Statistical analysis of repeated measurements is neededto compute the Uncertainty A, which is the uncertainty due to random variation.Complementary physical analysis of the measurement system is also needed to evaluatethe Uncertainty B or the range in possible bias or built in error. The more interesting andimportant applications of Uncertainty B analysis are

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

An Online Homework Generation and Assessment Tool for Linear Systems Yong Yang, M.S., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Andrew Bennett, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics Steve Warren, Ph.D., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USAAbstractOf the students enrolled in upper-level Electrical & Computer Engineering (EECE) courses atKansas State University (KSU), a percentage consistently struggles with concepts from earliercalculus and differential equations courses. This raises issues regarding how much mathematicalknowledge students retain and

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jr., Hartley T. Grandin, Hartley T. Grandin,; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1368Problems in statics require only Steps 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. These five steps have not been employedin the treatment of statics problems in any statics or mechanics of materials textbook.Furthermore, Steps 1 through 8 have not been suggested in any mechanics of materials textbook. Pedagogically the step-by-step solution format allows a student to build a structure intheir minds of how to efficiently approach a problem and solve it. The authors believe that thisstep-by-step procedure will help students build logic, promote analytical thinking, provide a truephysical understanding of the subject and

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry

Page 10.1385.1to a more active classroom, there is clearly a spectrum of reactions. This research addresses thequestion of whether there are patterns in student response according to learning style. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationMany learning style models have been used successfully to predict or explain differences instudent response to subject matter and to teaching and learning environments.6,7 One of the morecommonly used instruments with an extensive research base is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI), which is based on Jungian theory of psychological type. Only a brief summary

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

. Page 10.1231.5Keep in mind that bodies considered here are rigid bodies. The term “force system” denotes asystem of forces and moments, if any. The work done by a force system on a body during a vir- Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtual displacement of the body is the virtual work of the force system. By Newton’s third law,internal forces in a body, or a system of pin-connected rigid bodies, must occur in pairs; they areequal in magnitude and opposite in directions in each pair. Clearly, the total virtual work done bythe internal forces during a virtual displacement of a body, or a system

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

: “Network courses are often based on one or more of the following areas: TheOSI model; Performance analysis; and Network simulation” 1. The OSI model is apopular approach that is used extensively in the Cisco Networking Academy Program(CNAP) 2 and in other Cisco learning materials. With respect to simulation Davisdescribes the Optimized Network Engineering Tools (OPNET) system that that canmodel networks and sub-networks, individual nodes and stations and state transitionmodels that defines a node 1. However, Davies gives no indication as to the accuracyof this simulation or of the limits of its application. The development and testing ofnetworking simulations may depend upon student’s possessing knowledge and havingsuitable experience in computer

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kirk Schulz; Noel Schulz

Session 2275 Work/Life Balance for Dual Career Faculty Couples Kirk H. Schulz and Noel N. Schulz James Worth Bagley College of Engineering Mississippi State UniversityAbstractDual career faculty couples face a unique set of challenges within the academic world. Whilethese couples face the same challenges as all dual career couples, faculty couples have to alsocombine these normal stresses with special challenges of working as a faculty member. The firstchallenge is the original job search and finding two positions. The next challenge is to

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationsymbolic development is somewhat more difficult, to be done in a general form, with thestudent understanding in mind, and hence, it is not attempted at this time. Figure 3: GUI for Cross Product Program % MATLAB Script to solve Simultaneous Equations disp('Program to solve Equations: am*xv=bv'); disp('Enter LHS coefficients as a matrix, denoted by am'); disp('Example LHS input: [2.1 3.2 3.4;4.5 5.4 6.8;45. 34. 32]'); am = input('Enter LHS coefficients as a matrix:'); disp('Enter RHS as a column

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

Social Components:All REU students are required to attend a weekly seminar program. Our 2004 program involvedthe following topics: • Membrane Science and Technology in the 21st Century (presented by the REU Director) • How to read a Technical Paper (presented by the UC Vice-President for Research) • Research Methods (presented by the REU Co-Director) • Intellectual Property (presented by the Director of the UC Intellectual Property Office) • Research Ethics (presented by the Director of the Emerging Ethnic Engineers program) • Post-Graduate Opportunities (presented by a new female Assistant Professor) • Critical Thinking (presented by the Associate Head of Chemical & Materials Engineering) • Mind Your Manners (presented by a

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Van Wie; Kristin Wood; Robert Stone; Julie Linsey; Matthew Green

Functional Representations in Conceptual Design: A First Study in Experimental Design and Evaluation Julie S. Linseya, Matthew G. Greena, Michael Van Wieb, Kristin L. Wooda, and Robert Stoneb a The University of Texas at Austin/ bUniversity of Missouri-RollaAbstractFunctional modeling is an abstraction technique intended to help engineering designers performconceptual design. Functions are constructs that describe a transformation between an input flowand an output flow. A primary characteristic of functions is their independence from thephysical aspects of a device or artifact. In this sense, functions are form independent

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Harder

Development of Heat Transfer Laboratory Experiments Utilizing Student Design Teams Robert F. Harder, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering George Fox University Newberg, OR 97132AbstractTeams of students designed and developed experiments for a new four-credit course in heattransfer at George Fox University as a part of their initial laboratory experience. Over the pastthree years, students have developed eight experiments that cover a broad range of conduction,convection and radiation phenomena. The new heat transfer

Conference Session

Security

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hua Xu; Ronald Glotzbach; Nathan Hartman

effort. It shouldbe an ongoing process integrated into the application development lifecycle. Security, like otherWeb application components, is best managed if planned at the initial phase of the applicationlifecycle. This strategy will help project managers and security professionals establish securitypolicies, conduct risk assessment, and address potential risks in a cost-effective manner. It Page 10.23.1ensures system architects design secure application infrastructure. It makes sure application Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005

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New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

Session XXXX A Student Centered Approach to Improving Course Quality Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) Madara M. Ogot and Gül E. Okudan School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe aim of this study was to develop an approach based on the QFD method to use appropriatepedagogies found in the literature, that will lead to an increase in student satisfaction with theireducation experience in a redesigned course. The key elements of the approach are to obtain andcategorize in the students’ own words

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

. Page 10.1046.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education It is also important to note that because of the presence of a variable delay, the frequencyresponse is not actually represented by equation (1) because the filter is not a time-invariantsystem. However in most introductory signals and systems courses study is limited to linear,time-invariant systems. For our purposes, it is sufficient to conceptualize the flanger at anygiven time as a comb filter, and to keep in mind that the frequencies that are eliminated by thisfilter are a function of the value of the instantaneous time delay ∆t

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

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Eric Inglert; Kathleen Ossman

of an architect, a humanitiesprofessor, and four engineers with expertise in construction, electrical, and mechanicalengineering technologies developed the course. The faculty team's initial question was "what isan effective learning strategy to encourage a deeper level understanding and a holistic integrationof historical and technological concepts?" Problem Based Learning (PBL), with its emphasis onsynthetic understanding and developing meaning over mere fact collection and recall, was anatural choice during course design.1 This paper is written as a case study that records howlearners, using the action-oriented learning attitude implicit in PBL, engaged in the process ofmaking sense of open-ended problems, reports on their successes and

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

teachingexperience and want to improve your performance as a teacher. Where do you start in preparingthe course and the individual lessons such that the students are engaged in learning, and maybeentertained as well?This paper will try to answer these questions by offering helpful hints from a team of participantswho recently completed the ExCEEd Teaching workshop and applied its lessons at their homeinstitutions. The ExcEEd (Excellence in Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop sponsoredby the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) provides the content and structure forpresenting the pedagogical basics that every teacher should know. The workshop consists of 12seminars covering how people learn, what constitutes good teaching, and how to prepare a

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

your discretion. It sounds like a lot of time,but most people sleep more, relax more and attend to other things more than allowed in thisexample – so figure it out – time is the enemy.E-Mail: This is a huge time sink that is often a distraction to every facet of the day. The email“bongs” and we answer. There is useless stuff there and it is read. There are messages from Page 10.868.2people we want to talk to and we respond, and there are business messages that we need to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Information Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Priesmeyer; Mary Fernandez; John Fernandez

. This paperaddresses methods for teaching and conducting usability evaluations, including the use ofan emotions measurement instrument.The main goal of HCI is to build interactive systems that are easy to learn, effective touse, and enjoyable from the user’s perspective5. These characteristics are summed up inone word – usability. Usability can only be understood from the user’s mind-set. Glass(as cited in Pressman7) contends that even the quality of a system is not as important asthe user being satisfied, because if the user isn’t satisfied, nothing else really matters.Therefore, usability is of utmost importance in measuring a software product’s positiveimpact on the user.Since the focus is on satisfying the needs and desires of the user, the

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

learning.Assessment will be provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of these pedagogical basics on thestudent learning and professor’s classroom performance.I. IntroductionSo how do you like to learn a new concept? Read a textbook and/or journal article on thesubject? Maybe throw in some type of experiment with technology to simulate the theory? Felderpoints out that in most areas we as faculty learn differently than how students learn best.1 Ourmission is to assist students with varying learning styles to learn new concepts. So how dostudents like to learn? How do they learn best? Considering the 1990 Seymour and Hewitt2 studythat shows 40 percent of engineering undergrads switch from science, mathematics, andengineering disciplines due primarily to poor

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

guides to assist the States in thedevelopment of technical education programs. The guide for Electronics Technology wasextensively used to design new electronics programs at the post-secondary level [1]. The statedgoal of the curricula proposed by the guide was to produce competent technicians that couldwork with engineers and scientists: doing research and development work or serving as customer(field) service, operations (manufacturing), and communications technicians. As already stated,although forty years has past and incredible technological change has occurred in the field, littlechange has occurred in the typical curriculum leading to a degree in the electronics area. Evenwith the addition of new technical subject matter into the typical

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hjorth; Barb Eichler; John Morello; Ahmed Khan

theirinterdisciplinary backgrounds in engineering, psychology, history, anthropology and sociology,to develop brain-based and constructivist learning/teaching approaches that promote critical,analytical, and expert thinking in students. This STS course introduces students to the influencesof technologies on society and explores the relationships between societies and technologies.There are essentially four objectives to this course: (1) developing a strong understanding oflocal and global forces and issues which affect people and societies, (2) guiding local/globalsocieties to appropriate use of technology, (3) alerting societies to technological risks andfailures, and (4) developing informed and encompassing personal decision-making andleadership and providing

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

Culture Shock: Acclimating as a New Faculty Member Adrienne R. Minerick1, Jason M. Keith2 1 Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39672 / 2 Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractNobody said that the first year of teaching engineering and mentoring graduate studentsat a college or university was going to be easy. With the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kai Li; Xin Tang

Developing an Efficient Remote Lab Environment for Online IDS Courses1 Xin Tang, Kai Li Department of Technology Systems, East Carolina UniversityAbstract - In this project, a remote lab network environment was developed to support ouronline IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) courses. We created the lab network with the criteriaof availability, flexibility, reliability, and economy in mind. The designed lab network is shownto be a reliable working environment, and has proven to be flexible for conducting variousindividual as well as collaborative IDS experiments. By minimizing the hardware/softwarerequirement on the

Conference Session

Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

rating of the activities and the entire workshop experience has been verypositive. Several months after the workshop, participants report increased confidence andnetworking, aiding them in their career development.1. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF)’s ADVANCE program seeks to “increase theparticipation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increasedrepresentation and advancement of women in academic science and engineeringcareers.”1 With this goal in mind, we developed the “FORWARD to Professorship”workshop to address unmet needs of women seeking, interested in or occupying tenure-track assistant professor positions in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM). Thisworkshop was developed from a

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Bilodeau

Session A Novel Student Laboratory on Electromagnetic Induction, Magnetic Field Measurements and Shielding T.Bilodeau, D. Hartle , R. Jennings, and T.Dawley Electrical Engineering Technology Department 120 Nevaldine Hall State University of New York at Canton Canton, NY 13617Abstract This paper describes a novel laboratory procedure ( referred to as the MagneticField Effects Laboratory, or MaFEL ) that enables Electrical Engineering Technologystudents to gain insight

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

networkingcourses start by giving an overall overview of OSI model 5,6.On the other hand courses based on performance analysis use analytical based modelsthat are often specialized in their area of application. This may involve the use of Page 10.1298.1complex mathematics which may not be suitable or relevant to an employer’sexpectation for many computer networking students. However, its advantages include Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthe use by students of powerful mathematical tools. A major disadvantage is thatthese

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

Session 2461 Discovering the Power of PowerPoint: Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides from a Skillful User’s Perspective Michael Alley Kathryn A. Neeley Engineering Education Dept. School of Engineering & Applied Science Virginia Tech University of VirginiaAbstract Slides projected as overheads or by computers have become a conventional and dominantfeature of engineering presentations in academia, business, and professional societies. Thetraditional

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

. In our approach both qualitative and quantitative critique of the answer is considered. Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 5Problems in statics require only Steps 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7. These five steps have not been employedin the treatment of statics problems in any statics or mechanics of materials textbook.Furthermore, Steps 1 through 8 have not been suggested in any mechanics of materials textbook. Pedagogically the step-by-step solution format allows a student to build a structure intheir minds of how to efficiently approach a problem and solve it. The authors

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

Making a Large Class Small Benson H. Tongue Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 947201 I’m teaching HOW many next semester?As budgets shrink and class sizes grow, educators are hard pressed to maintain qualityin their classrooms. At Berkeley, the class size of our required undergraduate mechanicalengineering courses has ballooned from 40-60 students per professor up to the current level of130-170. Although less than the 500-600 students that routinely fill introductory chemistrycourses, 160-odd students certainly would seem to mandate that what once