Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

Computer Science (SETCS), we continue to increase the number andimprove the quality of course offerings. A primary goal of the program is to provide anon-line curriculum that remains TAC-ABET accredited by conforming to TAC-ABETrequirements to ensure the quality of the on-line ARET courses. Development,applications, and testing of our course delivery method are addressed. The curriculumhas been designed to operate in our own interactive web-based environment forsubmission of coursework; concept diagrams, drawings, reports, assorted forms, andprogramming. Project submissions will be uploaded through our own CART CourseManagement System (CMS) for review, grading, and posted to the CMS for the studentto review. Students provide feedback evaluation

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

for theseskills, what other institutions have done in the areas of service learning and global studies tomeet these needs without jeopardizing the hard skills, offer an alternative for consideration,highlight some areas of concern and identify areas of engineering educational research that needto be addressed. As the above areas are covered, reports from various institutions cite how thismay actually assist in diversity recruiting.Context The literature recognizes a need for engineering students to have a better understandingof the global nature of our society and the complexity that can arise in addressing and integratingsocietal, cultural and technological issues. The National Academy of Engineering projects thatengineers of the

Conference Session

Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

the results of their work. In an analogousfashion to the capstone design project providing a measure of the students’ ability to perform adesign project, the capstone experimental experience requires that student teams demonstrate theapplication of experimental abilities to set up and analyze less-defined experimental problems.To assist in the organization of course content and its assessment, the following six componentshave been used to define design of experiments 2, 3: 1. Experimental Planning 2. Methods of Measurement 3. Selection of Instrumentation 4. Analysis of Data and Results 5. Uncertainty Analysis

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Owen; Robert Knecht; Abel Feltes

schools along the front range of the Rocky Mountains.A short-term goal of this project was to have students develop and demonstrate innovativeconcepts for weather stations. A longer-term goal was to identify and to select the mostpromising stations for development both on Earth and for planetary exploration. These studentswill describe their processes for constructing a weather station based on a project-basedcurriculum in engineering design. They will discuss the design of their station to gather climatedata for land use decisions as well as the potential for a weather network for planetaryexploration. Engineering design, a complex, interactive, Designand creative decision-making process

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy

allof the lecture material, a syllabus, homework problems, examinations, and possibly laboratoryexperiments. This is a daunting task for anyone, but especially so for someone who hasabsolutely no experience. Consequently, incorporating some type of voluntary teachingeducation into the PhD curriculum could provide graduates who are better prepared for their firstfaculty position and more confident that they are making the right choice in pursing a career asan educator.In this work, a one-semester junior-level electrical engineering class is taught by a team of onefaculty member (mentor, Phillips) and myself, a PhD-seeking graduate student (mentee,Murphy). The purpose of the project is to provide me with ‘real-world’ teaching experience thatwill

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Barbara Bogue

management and planning to succeed.The development of the AWE Project coalition, an NSF funded (HRD 01 20642) projectdesigned to develop effective assessment tools and models for WIE and similar programs (11,12). AWE comprises seven very different institutions, programs in varying states ofdevelopment, and a range of staffing and funding resources. AWE Partner Institutions are theUniversity of Missouri (Marra), Penn State (Bogue), Georgia Tech (Mimi Philobos), theUniversity of Arizona (Marie Reyes), the University of Louisville (Brenda Hart), the Universityof Texas – Austin (Tricia Berry) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Barbara Ruel). The threeyear project required that each institution and WIE director or research associate participate

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Fouad; Tarek Rizk; Fouad Fouad

undergraduate and graduate levels. The objective is to graduate engineers who are familiarwith the construction industry and have a better understanding of the role of the civil engineer inthe construction process. Courses offered include project management, project planning,contracts, bidding, estimation, and other topics that are of importance to construction.As a means to provide an incentive to the student, a certificate in Construction EngineeringManagement is awarded upon the completion of a required number of credit hours. Thecertificate prepares the undergraduate civil engineering student for a career in the constructionindustry. For those students who are not interested in a career in construction, the certificateprovides them with sufficient

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

individual to a professionalone, accomplished in working with business and industry methods. The changes have beenmade in response to changes in the students and their needs as graduates.In the nine-month experience, the first portion focuses on team building, leadershipdevelopment, problem identification and certification, and design feasibility determination,through differing communications requirements. In the latter parts of the course sequence, inparallel with the technical aspects of the design project, the setting of milestones, managing theproject, and performing and documenting engineering work are augmented by keyprofessionalism topics. These span the range from “selling oneself” and selling the projectconcept, to considering global

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Howard Evans; Shekar Viswanathan

Creating a Differentiated, Relevant, and Accessible Engineering Management Program Shekar Viswanathan and Howard E. Evans School of Engineering and Technology National University, 11255 North Torrey Pines, La Jolla, California 92037. U.S.A.AbstractThis paper summarizes the step-by-step approach adopted in developing a unique, relevantand accessible master’s program in engineering management based on a modular conceptwith specializations in project and program management, security and safety management,industrial engineering management, and supply chain and e-Logistics. The interactions amongpractitioners and academicians leading to the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Nutter

Virtual Simulation Curriculum Integration Paul Nutter Ohio Northern University Department of Technological StudiesAbstractManufacturing simulation is being used extensively to model, analyze, and optimize complexmanufacturing operations by many major corporations, including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin,Daimler-Chrysler and Toyota. Companies are utilizing these advanced 3D digital manufacturingtools as a component of their product life-cycle management. In many cases a simulation ismandatory prior to any significant new operation, project or process implementation.Manufacturing technologists and engineers will

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

, the students work in teams to solve open ended designprojects. Two projects are given during the quarter. For the first project, the studentswork in teams of three to develop and build a mechanical system to accomplish a simpletask. During the second, a “paper” design of a more complex system is completed. Thesecond project is accomplished by dividing the task into subsystems which are designedby teams of four. Each team of four is then required to select a representative to insuresuccessful integration of the final system with other teams. Team formation is based onthe student’s problem solving preferences in a manner devised by Prof. Douglas Wilde ofStanford University. This paper will examine the success of this team forming strategynot

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs

challenges associated with nanotechnology.Similar courses developed for non-science and non-engineering majors are intended to broaden thetechnological understanding of these students. Senior capstone design projects (in engineering) and seniorthesis projects (in the sciences) are the basis for interdisciplinary, industry-sponsored projects innanomanufacturing. Implementation of these course activities is expected to begin in the spring semesterof 2005, and outcomes will be reported. The primary evaluation of this activities related to this educationplan will be conducted by the Research and Evaluation Group of the University of Massachusetts,Amherst, Donahue Institute.Introduction: The ProposalThe plan was simple. As shown in Table 1, the three

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer; Robert Houghtalen; James Hanson

grants (NSF, 2004) states: “The REU program,through both Supplements and Sites, aims to provide appropriate and valuable educationalexperiences for undergraduate students through research participation. REU projects involvestudents in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects speciallydesigned for the purpose. REU projects feature high-quality interaction of students with facultyand/or other research mentors and access to appropriate facilities and professional developmentopportunities. Active research experience is considered one of the most effective ways to attracttalented undergraduates to and retain them in careers in science and engineering, includingcareers in teaching and educational research.”NSF thus expects

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

courses in software engineering and HCI and assign studentsto community projects where students practice the principles they are learning and completeworthwhile products for real-world clients. This paper presents some of these experiences andcompares the interaction design and software engineering methodologies. The conclusionsreached by the authors provide a basis for further study of the integration of these two paradigmsand a preliminary integrated model of the two methodologies.INTRODUCTIONIn San Jose, California, in June of 2004, the San Jose Police department began using a newmobile dispatch system in every patrol car. Police officers commented that, “the system is socomplex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

course is on spacecraft design tools. The students becomefamiliar with the spacecraft design tools that are used in the final design course. The toolsinclude STK, IDEAS, NASTRAN, and MATLAB/Simulink. They also become familiar withsystem software such as Aerospace Corporation Corporation Conceptual Design Center tools andspacecraft cost estimation. The second course is on spacecraft system engineering where theyreview the design aspects of all subsystems, systems engineering, and do an individual designproject. In the final capstone course, they do a team spacecraft design project. The spacecraftperformance requirements are given by a sponsor. The students have mentors in each subsystemfrom industry, Aerospace Corporation and government

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

series of project courses that representtheir roles/assignments as members of their enterprise. In addition, students take a number ofprofessional development courses that were created specifically for the Enterprise Program andcover topics such as Teaming, Communications, Leadership, Project Management, Ethics,Economics, Entrepreneurship and Finance. Each professional development course is equivalentto one-semester credit or 14 contact hours of instruction, hence, these courses are veryconcentrated in their subject matter, providing students with the most critical information andinstruction in order to enable them to employ their new-found knowledge directly in theoperation of the enterprise.The philosophy behind this approach is that students

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Bala Maheswaran

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationpitfalls. A large body of literature exists supporting the importance of teaching teamwork to ourstudents. For example, the Foundation Coalition promotes student learning communities. Thesecommunities are used to build a sense of group identity and cohesiveness so that students maybuild a better understanding of the material they are learning (Clark et al., 2003; Astin, 1992).Transitioning from the importance of student teamwork to faculty teamwork in curriculumdevelopment is evident in a number of additional papers. Balamuralikrishna et al. (2003) discussthe importance of faculty collaboration or teamwork to develop student design projects thatimplement multiple discipline or simultaneous

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

society’s needs; technologies are the result of engineered designs created tosolve societal needs and wants4 These common threads can be strengthened when educationalsolutions and opportunities for engagement are consistently, creatively, and thoughtfully applied.In8, the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue University wascreated to provide undergraduates with a real design experience within a service-learningcontext. EPICS teams perform their designs within four main areas of focus: 1.) Education andOutreach, 2.) Access and Abilities, 3.) Human Services, and 4.) Environment. Included withinthe realm of Education and Outreach is a concerted effort to focus on the integration ofengineering within the P/K-12 community

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

. Thismay especially be the case for the student who has not experienced an industrial electricalcourse.It is believed after this second lab that the student is adequately experienced in thedevices that PLCs replaced and that it is time to move on to PLC programming. Aphilosophical approach to labs requires that labs or projects should be visually easy tosee. Machines from industry are not available and most students have not seen a typicalmachine. It is believed that a better approach is to select labs from experiences commonto the student.A first PLC project is given with the program already written. The student must masterthe programming of the circuit using the programming language of the PLC. In A-B, thechoices are RS-Logix, RS-Logix 500 or RS

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

, Engineering Graphics and Computer AidedDesign (EG&CAD) teaches the skills of using a solid modeling system to create parts,small assemblies, and documentation. More importantly, EG&CAD also emphasizes theuse of vectors in creating solid models and thereby provides students reinforcement oftheir linear algebra knowledge. The students normally take EG&CAD during their firstyear and then have the opportunity to use solid modeling in their sophomore and seniordesign projects as well as some special topic electives. In addition, several other coursesare now using solid models as a way to demonstrate fundamental principles2. With anincreasing dependence on solid modeling skills required, it is imperative that the coursecontent in EG&CAD be

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

measures: effort, size, quality, schedule measures Derived measures: yield, productivity, defect density, etc. Planning Proxy-based size and time estimation Task and schedule planning Quality Quality measurement and analysis management Code and design reviews Design documentation and verification Defect prevention Process Process improvement proposals (PIPs) improvement Project postmortem, with data analysis and “lessons learned” Table 1 Personal Software Process

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

businessand pharmacy due to honors program requirements. Its main audience is second year honorsstudents with at least the introductory honors course (HONR 100 - The Discipline of Reason)under the belt. Topics are covered through lectures (40% of course time) complemented byreading assignments and homeworks, laboratory assignments and a quarter-long design project(60% of course time). Students are evaluated on their attendance and participation to classactivities, their performances on homeworks and laboratory assignments, a paper that activatesthe students’ imagination and creativity, and a successful completion and presentation of anopen-ended quarter-long design project.Upon successful completion of HONR 218, the students will gain

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thad Welch; Robert Kubichek

, “Communications Measurement Laboratory.” This new course was designed to reinforce student knowledge of their course work in signals and systems, digital and analog communication systems, and digital signal processing. The primary course objectives were to familiarize students with vector signal analysis and develop a thorough understanding of I and Q-based demodulation techniques. This paper provides an overview of this course and describes student projects that utilize a vector signal analyzer (VSA) to detect, localize, and record decimated I and Q data as would be available at the output of an intermediate frequency (IF) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) stage of a software defined radio (SDR).1 IntroductionThe

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

Reaching 6th through 8th Grade Students through the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers Program Alice E. Smith1, Cynda Fickert2, Mark Jones3AbstractThe National Science Foundation instituted a novel program recently called Research Experiences for Teachers(RET) which allows principal investigators to request a funding supplement to existing grants to enable interactionwith K-12 teachers. At Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, the Department of Industrial and SystemsEngineering received funding for two teachers for the summers of 2002 and 2003. A science teacher of 6th and 7thgraders and a math teacher of 8th graders joined the research team on the project “Relating Field

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Kahn; Marina Bers

An Examination of Early Elementary Students’ Approaches to Engineering Jason Michal Kahn, Marina Umaschi Bers Tufts University A five-week interactive workshop gave us the opportunity to study the engineering learning processes of early elementary children, allowing us to gain a sense of their innate engineering abilities and the processes they could be taught in the context of the Project Inter-actions study at Tufts University Department of Child Development. Forty children participated in the research, split into four groups of 10 each, each group participating in 5 workshop sessions of 2 hours each

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

. Although the ATE programemphasized community college faculty development, the Foundation felt it was important toinclude high school teachers as well. Bringing the two faculty groups together could potentiallycreate greater partnerships which could lead to articulation agreements, ultimately creatingpathways for students who might not otherwise transition into a college program.While the emphasis on the subjects taught was math, science and technology, the industry focuswas on engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. These industry areas were chosen because of a perceived critical technology skillsshortage in these areas, future positive job projections and their obvious dependence on strongmath and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

Role of Axiomatic Design in Teaching Capstone Courses Edwin Odom, Steven Beyerlein, Christopher A. Brown, Daniel Drew, Lloyd Gallup, Sam Zimmerman, and Jeremy Olberding University of Idaho/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractHelping undergraduate engineering students learn effective design practices that are applicable tothe modern workplace is one of the most complex challenges of engineering education. Onestrategy to help students master open-ended design projects is to use a systematic process.However, students often want to jump past the front end of the design process and thiscompromises the quality of the final product. This paper examines the suitability of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Reid Bailey

year, nine departments offered senior design classes in theCollege of Engineering. All but one of the departments offered two semesters of senior design.The structure and content of each course reflected the nature of each discipline and thedepartment in which it was offered. For instance, the chemical engineering course involved thedesign of a plant (without implementing the design) while mechanical engineering projectsinvolved the design of devices and required construction and testing. Most of the nine differentcourses, however, involved a team of students identifying needs, developing designs, buildingdesigns, and testing the designs over two semesters. Projects came from a variety of sources,with primary sources being industry, faculty

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

A case study of eradicating weakness in accreditation owing to vital role played by industrial and government leaders in academia Kanti Prasad, Ph.D.; P.E. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell MA 01854 Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduIntroduction In the fall of 2000, we were visited by ABET for regular accreditation forour Electrical Engineering Program. We were cited ‘weakness’ in our course16.499 Capstone Project. Although the design content was of great quality, but itlacked in elucidating the design impact on society, its environmental implication,ethical content, and economic

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jason Moore; Mitchell A. Thornton; Ronald W. Skeith

such a language is not found, too much timeis wasted teaching the basics of new languages to cover all of those programming topics. Perl is aversatile enough language to cover all of these topics. At first, students are given small text manipulation programs to learn how to use regularexpressions, vi which is a common Unix text editor, and develop in a Linux environment. Theassignments gradually get larger with each requiring an additional skill to complete. All of theassignments build to a final project that requires a mastery of several skills to successfully finish.The class size is usually around 30 students. Students are given three examinations that test theprogramming skills learned from the assignments. Students are expected to