Conference Session

Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Finelli, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

aims to shed light to one of the most important aspects of these programs: designprojects, and their handling within the curriculum. The overall goal of the paper is to provideguidance for institutions with similar programs.Assessment Planning and ApplicationWith several years of experience in using project-based learning in the curriculum, and havingadopted the above explained types of projects to teaching and learning, an instrument forassessing the effectiveness of different types of projects was designed and used for this study.The assessment instrument is presented in the Appendix. In this paper we present thepreliminary data set collected using the instrument and its analysis.The last question of the instrument was quantitative, and

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Thompson, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

commonseminar times and introduced them to Science Bound and the two. The first-year students weretold that they would be working with Science Bound students in two ways.The first way was having the first year students go to the high schools of the Science Boundstudents in Indianapolis. Students were expected to conduct short engineering and scienceprojects which would engage Science Bound students. These projects were designed to less thantwo hours in length. They included projects like building simple structures to support a load,designing or creating a vehicle to support an egg dropping from a height.Students wrote a short proposal on the type of projects that were planned. In addition to theplanned proposal students were required to verbally

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Janna, University of Memphis; John Hochstein, University of Memphis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

system.Table 2 is an example of a task planning sheet for the Fireplace Heat Recovery Project. The planshows a completion date selected for each task. By the end of the fifth week of the semester, forexample, a CAD model is to be developed. Also included in the task planner (although notshown in Table 2) is the name/initials of the individual responsible for completing the task.Each group member maintains a notebook or diary of all tasks completed for the project. Thediary contains any and all details of the work done by that particular member on the project. Thiswould include something as short as a phone call, or as detailed as calculations to predict when apump will cavitate.The Project Director meets with the course instructor on a weekly basis

Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Riddell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Harriett Benavidez, Rowan University; Julie Haynes, Rowan University; Dan Schowalter, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

several of the “pure” presentation types from theclassroom portion of the class. Teams must draw on their understanding of the variouspresentation types to synthesize a style appropriate for the purposes of the designpresentations.Technical Aspects of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Design ProjectThis design project is strongly motivated by real-world concerns. In 2001, the presidentsof all 52 NJ institutions of higher education signed a nonbinding covenant ofsustainability, agreeing to implement voluntary programs to assist in the goal of reducingNew Jersey Greenhouse gas emissions by 3.5% below 1990 baseline levels by the year20059. The Master Planning Committee of Rowan University has responded to thechallenge by declaring that “Master Planning

Conference Session

Student Teams and Design Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University; Donald Elger, University of Idaho

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

3 Brainstorming alternative ideas (subset of PDM) 8 1 Weekly project team reviews with instructor 8 0 Mentors (teaching assistants) in the lab 7 3 Creating team plans 5 2 Team size ( too few or too many teammates) 4 2 Following a team meeting agenda 3 1 Product specification/test plan 1 0 Team logbooks 3 3 Lack of tools in the

Conference Session

EM in a Global Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

concerning who the organization can effectively compete against in the globalmarket. It is a key component for determining the value perception of its customers.Basically, the customer centered organization is better able to identify new opportunities,determine a strategy, and be competitive. This is accomplished by monitoring the perceivedvalue expected by its customers and setting a long-term course to satisfy those expectations. Inmany cases, it is all too easy for organizations to become fixated on their competitors actions andlose sight of its customer focus. These competitor centered organizations plan their moves basedupon their competitors’ actions and reactions while customer centered organizations focus on theneeds and wants of their

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Plett, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Michael Ciletti, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; R. Dandapani, University of Colordo-Colorado Springs; T. S. Kalkur, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Mark Wickert, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

University of Colorado atColorado Springs (UCCS) we have successfully implemented key features of the Kolb/4MATlearning paradigm in a freshman-level course Introduction to Robotics1 and have recently propa-gated these features to a new sophomore-level course Introduction to Signals and Systems, taughtfor the first time in the fall of 2005, and the sophomore-level Circuits and Systems I, taught forthe first time in the spring of 2006. We are planning to implement features of this learning para-digm into one additional newly designed course: junior-level Circuits and Systems II, to betaught for the first time in the fall of 2006. We expect to completely redesign the systems coreclasses within the next several years.Our goals for this updated

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

P. Ruby Mawasha, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Paul Lam, University of Akron

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

advantage, the Wright STEPP graduates are chosen to assist the instructors duringthe program. Every year, around 20 Wright STEPP graduates are hired on hourly wages to assistthe instructor in teaching duties. These students are not required to start teaching from day one.The Wright STEPP students are introduced to the instructors a week before the program starts,and periodically there after. Through these meetings, instructor guides the students and trainsthem in various skills in planning, organization, and leadership necessary during college.Through this program, students were able to develop mentorship and networking skills, and werealso able to hone their technical knowledge. With the idea of designing a program to prepare the first-year

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

responded to the initiatives,and how prospects for continued progress appear.IntroductionThe importance of departmental curricular reform is being increasingly recognized and manydepartments are engaged in this area1-3. In some cases, the National Science Foundation (NSF)has supported their efforts through Department-Level Reform (DLR) planning andimplementation grants4–15. Typically, curricular reform efforts focus on content. This isunderstandable since faculty members are passionate about critical content mastery that theyhope to see from their students. However, while increasing overall content knowledge meritssuch attention, there is more than content to be considered. How the content is presented, whatstudents are expected to do with that

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

business plan for new ventures and 3.40 products 14. Working knowledge of enterprise database systems 3.35 15. Working knowledge of concepts such as MRP, ERP and e- 3.34 commerce Table 1: Skills Valued by Employers of Engineering StudentsItems ranked on a scale of 1-5, where1=Very little value added to the company, 2=Some added value to the company, 3=Good added value to the company, 4=Moderately high added value to the company, and 5=Very high added value to

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Beheler, Collin County Community College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

attractthe girls, parents, teachers, and counselors to attend the session, and, as is typical in education,marketing and advertising budgets are sparse. Fortunately, the CTC grant has established methods of communication with the middle-schools and high-schools of the region such that announcements for events such as “Girls are IT”can be widely distributed through electronic means, public media means such as newspapers, andthrough written invitations delivered to the educational institutions. Approximately twelveweeks before the event, grant office personnel meet with the Public Relations department atCollin County Community College to develop a marketing plan specifically for this instance of“Girls are IT.” Based on this meeting, a timeline

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M.P. Sharma, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

International

carried from here. I had carried the sameinformation brochures that Dr. Suresh Muknahallipatna [18] had prepared for the recruiting tripthough Asia Foundation, a for-profit organization for recruiting graduate students from India.I had discussions with several faculty members and administrators at IIT on the topic ofInternational Engineering program initiative. The IIT administration showed interest in studentand faculty exchange programs with US universities, however they did not have a clear plan orexperience in doing so. This campus was perhaps ahead of other IIT campuses in internationalactivities (short term visitors from developed countries, research collaborations,…). Still, itseemed they were not prepared for providing facilities and

Conference Session

Emerging EM Areas

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Zafft, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

regards to thetask and development. The amount of external supervision required in a SMT is at a minimum.Team members learn to take responsibility for themselves in all aspects of their work. Animportant characteristic of a SMT is the power of people. Fisher [17] says that people are thecompetitive advantage. Commitment by members results in their empowerment andconsequently creates an effective self-managing team. “Self-directed work teams are the mostadvanced form of empowerment” (p.14). Cummings [16] offered a characterization of self-managed teams that is appropriate forthe purposes of this study. Self-managed teams are responsible for the whole task they areassigned. The whole task includes (but not limited to) planning, scheduling

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Joseph Staier, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

overhaul.During the summer of 2004, the authors rewrote the course, creating a new course that focuseson technology’s impact on society. By removing circuits and machines, the course now covers abroader range of electrical engineering fields such as image and signal processing, datacompression, electronic navigation, communications, and computer networks and security. Thecourse examines current trends; with a focus on how the Coast Guard and Homeland Securityuse technology and discusses the ethical issues that arise with the potential misuse of technology.The authors developed several innovative lesson plans, laboratories and even a series of debatesto improve the students’ understanding of technological trade-offs, while developing their

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Division Poster Sessions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Stephens, Lawrence Technological University; Mariam Iskandarani, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

understood area of entrepreneurial financing thatneeds to be investigated in an academic setting so that it may become a viable alternative forthose who are planning their own start up ventures but do not have access to large amounts oftraditional financing sources. The paper will focus on the techniques used in entrepreneurial startup firms to obtain forms of financing that are not the traditional debt loans or owner suppliedcapital. The paper will address the published data in the area of financial bootstrapping to assesswhere the academic community has progressed at this point in time in their understanding of thetechniques. The paper will then draw conclusions of where future research needs to head in orderto get a better understanding of this

Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Perwez Kalim, Wilkes University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

provided anincreased opportunity to enhance the oral and written communication skills of the students.In order to design, build, and test an experimental pump setup, which can be used in futureexperiments required a comprehensive planning on part of the student groups and the instructorin implementing these phases together. In the first phase, the system design including theselection of specific equipment and associated costs (capital and operating costs) werecompleted. Once the best design was approved, each team then acquired and assembled thedesired components as specified in their design. In the last phase all student teams joined handsand installed and tested the system together as a group. The students were also mandated tofollow the safe

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Recruiting Women

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emma Seiler, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of designing and building a prototype of a shoethat is sturdy, comfortable, and fashionable. They must try to “sell” their shoe to their fellowparticipants. Using this data, they must create a marketing plan and present it to a panel ofjudges.When not working on their project, participants visit each engineering department. Facultymembers give an overview of the department, usually followed by a tour of the labs or anactivity. For example, a visit to Aerospace Engineering would entail and overview of whataerospace engineers do and the tours of the wind tunnel and Raspet Flight Research Laboratory.Another example would include a visit to Chemical Engineering where the participants would

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform Duplicate Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Jay Snellenberger, Rolls-Royce; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce

innovation at project level,program level, and policy level of engineering leadership responsibility in the practicingprofession.As a consequence, the National Collaborative Task Force will accelerate its leadership efforts asa major action item to begin to define professional scholarship, to build on work alreadypioneered at universities,7,8 to share best practice, and promote new professionally oriented unitcriteria for engineering and technology faculty across the United States in order to advanceprofessional engineering education in the national interest.5. Conclusions ─A Work in Progress for Planned ReformWhereas the current faculty reward system at universities largely reflects the value system andmission of universities for scientific

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; George Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nikhil Sanghavi, Stevens Institute of Technology

onecredit.Course Website and Registration System A key enabler of the course function is a website and a registration system that is linkedto the website. A view of the homepage is shown in Fig. 1. The website, in addition to linkingto the registration tool, provides a Schedule of Events for the current semester to allow studentsto preview and plan which events they may wish to register for. An example is seen in Fig. 2. Inaddition there is a description of the course and its operation, links to the engineering Page 11.564.4departments and programs, to information on the engineering curriculum, and to a variety ofresources on careers

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

why, can help them put the approach into perspective. It is important that they understand that experimentation and design is part of the learning experience and part of being an engineer. 2) Assigning separate grades for technical results and process helped students feel more comfortable with falling short on the technical results 3) If time permits, more than one open-ended lab section can allow students to adjust their protocol if necessary. Along these lines, it was helpful to review proposals before the final lab. Groups either without a clear plan or an over-ambitious plan

Conference Session

Customizing Courses for Industry Training Needs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

applications demonstrations. However, in this case, two significantchanges have altered that scenario: 1. The ABET requirement for a documented change process injected a much stronger planning phase that required industry inputs. The emphasis on outcomes and systems thinking also showed that there are many combinations of content that can be used to achieve the desired effects. 2. The Department worked closely with its Industry Advisory Board to generate a strategy plan based on the Balanced Scorecard process. This process also emphasized outcomes in terms of graduate skills and their application context.The combined effect of both activities is that the expectations from the academiccourses have changed

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

. Additionally, we are stillworking diligently on charts on Microsoft Excel and SPSS that will serve as great references forour cost analysis in the future. We have planned several meetings with the ST-5 project manager Page 11.752.8to discuss and plan how to complete all of the essential data needed to perform our duties.Figure 9: Collaboration Project Poster5. ConclusionThe cost accounting process for space mission is important. For multiple production runs ofspacecraft, recurring costs are specifically important because they play a significant impact ontotal cost. It gives the general idea of how much money is being saved in comparison to a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

senior yearof a BS program in Industrial Technology on-site at the community college campus, a UniversityCenter concept already successfully pilot tested at College of the Canyons. The first cohort ofeight students began in Spring 2003 with a target date to complete a BS in Fall 2005. CaliforniaState University, Channel Islands agreed to begin the process of developing the junior and senioryear of a 2+2 BS in Information Technology with a target of curriculum approval through theCalifornia Chancellor’s Office Master Plan in 2004-2005 and the start of the first class in Fall2005. CREATE students from multiple colleges were recruited and a tracking system wasdeveloped to assess their progress as they completed courses and progressed to degrees

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Summers, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

are included in class discussions besides what is being discussedalready, students will develop a larger knowledge on what is going on in otherindustries besides cars or manufacturing industries.Absolutely! I have applied for internships and even had a co-op at a distributioncenter. I plan to choose a career in logistics or possibly a service industry. …since our major is so broad, we need to broaden the examples used in our classesto help prepare or students for the various problems in the "real world". Page 11.1299.4 Sorry for the enthusiasm, but I really do wish that there were a course or courses that covered these topics within industrial

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Wood, Florida Tech; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

vehicle and the way in whichtasks were partitioned over multiple student groups and the results in terms of studentinvolvement and vehicle behavior as well as plans for the future.IntroductionTeachers are always looking for “Real World” applications which capture theimagination of students as they progress through the educational process. NASA foryears has encouraged students using space applications1 but accessibility to the spaceenvironment is problematic at best. The marine environment is in many ways as rigorousin terms of limits on design, and as described in various manuscripts, 80% of the oceanenvironment remains unexplored2. In addition, conventional ocean exploration requiresextensive financial support for manned operations, thus there

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simo Lehto, Helsinki Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

International

successof the work. There are three basic types of reaction:-active positive responses: taking care of the problem or turning the problem intobenefit/victory (leading to continuing the work)-passive responses: giving up or fleeing (leading to interrupting the work):-active negative response): struggle against the obstacle (leading to interrupting or continuingthe work depending on the outcome of the response).These three reactions correspond to the three modes of survival. The first requires consciousthinking and planning. The second and third are usually unconscious reactions that basicallycorrespond to the methods of survival in the animal world: freezing, fleeing and fighting.Requirements of the three modesThe routine work can be divided to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton

program planning projected that 30 IE students would begin their studies atTAMUC during the first year it was offered. To our surprise and amazement, seventy (70)students joined the program during the Fall 2002 Semester. To date, the program has graduatedeight undergraduate IE students. All eight are now employed in the IE discipline with verycompetitive salaries, representing such reputable companies as Raytheon, MCI, and UnitedParcel Service.In preparation for the EAC-ABET accreditation visit, the initial request for an accreditationassessment is made to ABET by January 31st, in the calendar year when the assessment site-visitis planned. It should be noted that the entire schedule of events is provided on the ABET WebSite at: http

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Hudson, University of Texas-San Antonio; Dawnlee Roberson, University of Texas-San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Page 11.276.6For the academic portion, the lesson plan is generic enough to be applied anywhere, and can beexpanded or contracted to adapt to the needs and experience of the students. Anyone who cancomfortably teach an introduction to the electrical engineering lab should be able to teach theLabVIEW portion, and a bioengineer or a physical therapist with research interests can teach thebiology and biomechanics. The accelerometers would not have to be used, but any data-gathering device that has electronic output could be utilized, and the data gathered can becorrelated to a type of physiological data.SummaryThis course was given during the second year of this federally funded four year program, and thefaculty plan to give this course during

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekhar Bhansali, University of South Florida; Ashanti Pyrtle, University of South Florida; Louis Martin-Vega, University of South Florida; Peter Betzer, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

techniques for college-level science andengineering instruction; with development of professional and “soft-skills” including technicalwriting (research manuscripts and proposals), conference presentation preparation (oral andposter), professional etiquette, time management, strategic career planning and interviewingskills. The courses were cross listed in both Colleges of Engineering and Marine Science.These courses were designed as half-day biweekly sessions that started with a working lunch.This enabled the students to interact and share their concerns, challenges, successes and failureswith the group. The courses were offered separately in Fall and Spring, ensuring studentinteraction for two semesters.C. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority PhD

Conference Session

Innovative and Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

this way allowsthe students to learn software tools that can be used in other courses and industry.BackgroundThe UHD Engineering Technology department has recently obtained more LabVIEW and VisualBasic software to further the development of all engineering and technology classes. Theelectrical power systems course exercises and projects have benefited from the acquisition of thissoftware. Furthermore, it is planned to also use other software packages in the electrical powersystem course in particular Intergraph Smart Plant Electrical software. The use of the SmartPlant Electrical software is planned for the upcoming fall semester. Note that the Smart PlantElectrical software is used by industry to design various aspects of electrical power