Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jonathan P. Mathews; David Morales

comparison to their counterparts who procrastinated much less(7% difference in submissions on the due date), and were not as susceptible to lowerscore(s) on average when they did procrastinate. An e-mail intercession late in thesemester failed to change submission habits.Learning within the online environment is becoming increasingly popular and accessibleto on-campus students. The Penn State University Registrars schedule of courses [1] lists atotal of 33 WEB courses (spring 2005 semester) available to University Park campusstudents. A “WEB” class being defined as all instruction taking place online. Themajority of these classes meet the general education requirements: 21 out of 33 classes.With 9 courses (7 of which are general education) being

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

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Valerie Grash; Andrew Rose

collaborative effort by the authors incorporating a fine arts perspective in twocivil engineering technology courses and a technical perspective in a fine arts course.IntroductionEngineering education focuses on preparing students for careers in technology and theprofessional practice of engineering. Accreditation organizations,1 professional societies,2 aswell as universities3 realize that in today’s diverse world, engineering graduates need to be well-educated in areas beyond the typical technical knowledge necessary for engineering practice. Asa result, exposure to and appreciation of the arts and humanities and the social sciences is a vitalcomponent in preparing engineering graduates who will better serve the needs of society.Although most

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

discussed.1. OverviewThe dam design competition was created to expose high school students to the cutting-edgetechnology implemented in the finite element computer code TeraScale_Dysac. In addition tocreating excitement in the students toward engineering, the project aided the traditional highschool curriculum by giving team building experience and requiring higher level learning skillsin the students. The web-based nature of TeraScale_Dysac has the potential to bring similar Page 10.689.1experience to remotely located high schools. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

-specific content, and students greatly anticipate testing of the finalproducts. However, limitations in class size and learning objectives prevent these coursesfrom addressing perceptions of engineering as an inflexible discipline. In contrast, theinterdisciplinary nature, small class size, and guest speakers of the seminar coursedirectly address attrition due to perceptions of engineering as a rigid and uncreative field.Table 1 below illustrates the different focus of the seminar course with respect to ABETCriterion 3 outcomes. It is clear from this chart that existing introduction to engineeringcourses address many of the technical criteria, while the seminar courses provide studentswith context. An important factor in approval by the curriculum

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Anna Lambert; Aaron Robinson; Charles Camp; Jeff Marchetta; Laura Lackey; Stephanie Ivey

Learning Styles and Freshman Attrition: What Are The Links? Stephanie Ivey1, Laura Lackey2, Anna Lambert1, Charles Camp1, Jeff Marchetta3, Aaron Robinson4 1 Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Memphis/ 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Mercer University/ 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Memphis/ 4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of MemphisAbstractOne of the most urgent issues in engineering education

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education"The CurriculumThe curriculum for the proposed program is outlined in Table 1. The program maintains theSchool of Engineering-wide first year courses (Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, Great Ideas, FirstYear Seminar and Introduction to the Use of the Computer) for a strong foundation inengineering principles. In the sophomore year, students will begin exploring the basis for themajor, obtaining background in earth science, microbiology, fluid mechanics, and physicalchemistry as well as continuing mathematics and an introductory course in environmentalengineering. This year contains the one new required course that

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa McNair; Ben Miller; Judith Norback

skills in order to positionthemselves for upward mobility in the workplace.1 A modest estimate claims that scientists andengineers spend 25% of their professional time writing a variety of technically orienteddocuments (about 15% formal, 10% informal)2,3,9, and the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET)4 has made an unmistakable statement by requiring that oral and writtencommunication skills be included in curricula. We must also recognize that computer scientistsneed to be increasingly versatile in their workforce communication skills. In computer sciencefields, a trend of interdisciplinary teams in the profession is on the rise. The professional field ofcomputing has been described as having shifted to the “information

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

isonly 670 grams. Control is accomplished by inserting rods made of the same compositionas the core into holes in the reactor core. There are a total of four rods; two safety rodseach worth $0.42 in reactivity; one course control rod of the same reactivity as one of thesafety rods, and one fine control rod with an integral worth of $0.14. The control rodsdrives include magnetic latches that must be engaged before movement and two speedsof drive movement.The reactor is surrounded by a graphite reflector, a lead shield, and a tank of water thatserves as a neutron reflector and additional shielding. Figure 1 shows the control console.The maximum power of the reactor is 5.0 Watts, which indicates that thermal feedbacksneed not be considered. The

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

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Seyed Allameh; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

number ofsubsystems including a drive mechanism for generating load, a load measurement unit, adisplacement measurement subsystem, and their related controls. Fig. 1 shows the schematic ofthe microtensile tester developed after an original design from Johns Hopkins University2 whichwas modified to accommodate measurement for large strains. The load train started with amotorized Velmex (Velmex , Inc., Bloomfield, NY 14469) unislide drive equipped with agearbox of 1500:1 ratio, connected to a linear stage providing strain rates as low as 10-4/s. Aswith nearly all variable speed motors, lower speeds could be achieved, however, load capacitydropped below the desirable levels. An “L” bracket machined and installed on the unislide drivemade it

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

all information regarding hisor her company and enter instructions through the use of menus, and the database is updatedautomatically through the ASP scripts.Table 1 summarizes the pages. All of these pages were constructed using a standardized HTMLtemplate. Most of the pages listed in the tables are single-function pages that the student can useto either view specific information (e.g., see all the raw materials currently stored in his/herwarehouse) or complete a specific task (e.g., purchase a fishing boat.) The “Main” page,pictured in Figure 1, is essentially a menu that allows the student to navigate to these single-function pages, and access to it is password protected. The “Manager” page, which is alsopassword protected, is only

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat

10.1209.2in the course is VHDL. The major components of an computer architecture are briefly Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationreviewed and the design of a bit-sliced datapath is undertaken in a series of homeworkprojects. In the next section the projects used are highlighted. They teach the student theuse of the language at various levels of abstraction, from the gate level of modeling toabstract algorithmic modeling.II.A.1. The 1st Assignment. The first assignment is the design of a multiplexer for theimplementation of a functional unit that can perform any of the 16 functions of 2 inputs.This requires a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tristan Utschig

Page 10.388.2serve not only multiple institutions, but also multiple engineering fields within those institutions, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthe nature of the pre-engineering program must be quite broad. Thus, the introductoryengineering course – Engineering Fundamentals, Analysis, and Design – cannot be designed toserve any specific program. It must, by nature, aim to build engineering skills essential for anyflavor of engineering.The course has three main goals: 1) introduce engineering as an overall profession involvingengineering analysis and design along with describing the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw

developed a list of ten guidelines for effectively communicating asinterns: 1. Define very specific goals. 2. When discussing ideas with management, be general in technical descriptions. 3. Be realistic about how long a project will take to accomplish. 4. Keep management informed. 5. Do not overstep your bounds. 6. Document your work. 7. Work hard and be dependable. 8. Be a team player. 9. Be self-motivated. 10. Always look for ways to learn and improve.3.1 Define very specific goals.Every IT project must have a vision. The vision for the Virtual Demonstration Garden was toproduce an online web application that provides resources that help the community create water-efficient landscapes

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Goo; Maura Borrego

comparison to previous semesters without the response systems. Plansto develop a common bank of materials ConcepTests, building on existing conceptinventories will also be discussed. Practical details about the equipment and software willbe shared as well.IntroductionConcept inventories, or multiple-choice exams focusing on 20-30 major concepts of aspecific field, have recently experienced a surge in development as assessmentsindependent of high-stakes testing. In recent years, concept inventories have beendeveloped and tested for reliability in such fields as physics (mechanics)1, statics2, fluidmechanics3, materials4, and chemistry5. In developing these inventories, faculty focus onconcepts and reasoning over computation, using varying degrees of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Lucas; Chul Kim

. Pocket PCs operate on much smaller screens than desktop computers which limitsthe size of page a Pocket PCs can view at once. It is thus desirable to have one question per pageon the PocketPC screen where as Oncourse requires all questions to be on one page. Web Server The Internet Exam Authoring Student Units (Wireless Mobile PCs) Figure 1 System Configuration Page 10.34.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

informationliterate.The outcomes, which are based on those developed by ACRL (2000) for each year of study aredescribed below:By the end of the sophomore year, the students should be able to:1. explore general information sources to increase familiarity with a topic2. identify key concepts and terms that describe the information need3. define a realistic overall plan and timeline to acquire the needed information4. read text, select main ideas, and restate textual concepts in their own words5. identify verbatim material that can then be appropriately quoted6. evaluate a website for authority, reliability, credibility, purpose, viewpoint, and suitability7. reflect on past successes, failures, and alternative strategies by maintaining a log of information

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Cherith Moore; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

Session 2592 Women Engineering Students’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs – The Longitudinal Picture Rose M. Marra, Mieke Schuurman; Cherith Moore Barbara Bogue University of Missouri – Columbia / The Pennsylvania State UniversityIntroductionMany sources and historical data have shown the consistently low representation of women inundergraduate engineering curricula and in the engineering workforce. Specifically, womencomprise approximately only 20% of undergraduate engineering school enrollment nationwideand only about 8.5 % of the United State’s engineers 1. Establishing WIE programs atapproximately 50 colleges

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Goodman; Maurice Aburdene

of five course projects in a random signals and noise course8.Computer communication networks are ubiquitous and have many configurations including localarea networks (LANs), wireless networks, satellite networks, and Internet9-15.We will considernetwork models shown in Figure 1. The probability that a packet is damaged on a computer linkis p. We will consider each of the network models and analyze the performance of the networkbased on the values of p. Specifically, we are interested in the probability of packet losses in thenetwork and the expected number of packet transmissions for a large number of packets.We begin with an e-mail that is broken into K packets and then transmitted over a computer link.The probability of losing a packet is

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

curricula. Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory (CIE 111) was the first course to incorporate the new plan. CIE 111 is a 1-credit laboratory component of a basic course in civil engineering materials, incorporating topics in material variability, plastics, metals, wood and concrete. Historically, students produced five full academic lab reports during the semester, with less than satisfactory results for the most part. Recent enrollment growth (to around 100 students) introduced further complication. The new ECP approach replaced the academic lab reports with five case-based memo assignments, which allowed for more specific instructional goals, more meaningful feedback to students and a

Conference Session

Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

enough income to expand the student experience with design. This paper willmake the argument that generation of revenues with such programs are necessary to meetpedagogical goals.In addition, a management strategy for generating money and meeting educational goalswill be presented. Techniques for working with university development officials will alsobe discussed, as well as looking for new ways of cultivating an institution’s alumni baseas a ground for project creation. The author’s own successful program, with consistentmodest but sustainable revenues of $60,000-$80,000 will be discussed as a model for alow investment, high-return program for senior design.1. IntroductionMany noteworthy books have been written in the past ten years regarding

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bongsu Kang

Page 10.832.2 vibrations. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education The topical prerequisites for this subject are fundamental dynamics, ordinary differentialequations covered in typical undergraduate calculus courses, linear algebra, and the state spaceanalysis. In addition, basic programming in Matlab is required.DiscussionNondimensionalization Consider a simple one degree of freedom pendulum shown in Fig. 1. The equation of motiongoverning the angular displacement θ is θ&& + ω n2 sin θ = 0 ω n = g l (1)where

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

Page 10.1374.2yellow is used for situations in which further information is available, usually in blank areas of “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”the screen. For example, the governing equation ΣFx = 0 might appear in yellow, indicating thatclicking will show the application of that governing equation to the FBD at hand.StaticsFigure 1 shows the table of contents page for the statics software. The arrangement of chaptersgenerally follows that of the standard sophomore-level textbooks. Clicking on any of the chapterbuttons immediately brings one to the chapter-opening page of that particular

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Craig; Maurice Aburdene

improvements. We refined the formulas, provided spacefor other methods of assessment, and added graphical presentations of the results. We alsodeveloped a second spreadsheet to consolidate the results for all courses on one sheet for theentire program.While this method was designed as an aid to maintaining documentation for ABET accreditation,it could apply to any case where multiple assessment methods are compared and evaluated.Examples from Recent CoursesThe spreadsheet can be explained by the following example. Figure 1 shows data from the EEsenior design course. The spreadsheet template provides for eight course outcomes on the leftside of the sheet, but this course used only six. Moving to the right, the X marks identify theprogram outcome

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

wavelengths above the cut-off wavelength. • Chromatic dispersion – this occurs because the group velocity, which is the pulse propagation velocity, is wavelength-dependent. Any real optical pulse includes a range of wavelengths and components at different wavelengths propagate at different velocities. • Polarization-mode dispersion – this occurs because the pulse propagation velocity is polarization-dependent. Polarization-mode dispersion is usually significantly less than chromatic or modal dispersion.This paper focuses on chromatic dispersion, which is the most common type of dispersionencountered in optical fiber telecommunication.Figure 1 shows the wavelength dependence of the group delay (the inverse of the group

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Igor Verner

collaboration are presented. Students'reflections on their learning practices are discussed.1. IntroductionA robotics course at the introductory level of engineering education involves students inhands-on practice through which they can learn many engineering subjects and applications.The robotics course can be especially effective if it meets two goals:1. Practical-technical -- designing and producing a working robot prototype capable of performing the given assignment through a project-team effort.2. Instructional -- providing systematic learning of science and engineering subjects by all the students in the robotics course.An experiential learning approach which organizes learning-by-doing processes so that thelearner can acquire both

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Dunn

Page 10.1142.1addition, the popularization of easy-to-use scheduling software has “democratized CPM schedulewriting....but it has also put scheduling in the hands of many inexperienced and poorly trained “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”practitioners.”2. The paper outlines, in detail, several straightforward approaches that can beemployed to achieve accurate updates to CPM construction schedules.1) The importance of accurate updates. Students in civil engineering technology programs often gain practice in developing CPM construction schedules. They are exposed to the essentials of

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Carlos Oncina

the inherent need (to improve any process) and from specific requirements inTAC/ABET 1. Criterion 3 states the need for outcomes and metrics in a CQI process. Similar towork by Besterfield-Sacre 2 and Soundarajan 3, we recognize the need for incorporatingassessment metrics into a CQI process for accreditation purposes. Criterion 4 describes ‘ProgramCharacteristics’ that state the need for a capstone course. At Central Washington University(CWU) we designate this respective course as MET495.A portfolio system, Livetext™ 4, for documenting our CQI efforts has recently been adopted byCWU. Though the TAC/ABET criteria are listed in its database, the metrics and templates mustbe developed to implement it. We are currently involved in developing

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

of their impression of the Center ofTown and the elements that they felt were needed to increase the activity and vitality of thecenter. The second phase consisted of analyzing the data and performing several design studies.These studies were performed by architecture, art, and engineering students enrolled inArchitectural Design II, Site Planning, Design Systems, Water Quality Engineering, and CivilEngineering Senior Design Project. The final phase consisted of developing recommendationsbased on analysis of the data gathered in phase 1 and the design studies conducted in phase 2. Page 10.276.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society