Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Molina

details. The approach showed useful to help students’ understanding andinsight of deterministic engineering algorithms.IntroductionTeaching students how to solve problems is a growing concern of Engineering and Technologyeducation. Problem solving in the Engineering/Technology practice is usually directed to thedesign of products or processes, and this connection makes the teaching of engineering problemsolving a natural part of design classes. In recent years new undergraduate courses have beenimplemented that expand creative thinking in engineering design by including solving problemand project based-learning [1]. A number of innovative teaching techniques can be employed forsuch purpose, being the “studio” methods particularly successful to

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

48 hours Non-technical university core and electives 27 hours Required chemical engineering courses 45 hours Chemical engineering electives 6 hours Other engineering courses 6 hoursThe required chemical engineering courses include the following areas. First year introduction 1 hour Material and energy balances 4 hours Thermodynamics 6 hours Page 10.1310.6 Transport

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Singer

nationalchain stores.The Collaborative Design enhancement training is broken into several topic areas:1. First, faculty will investigate collaborative design tools (Internet based and either low cost orfree) and how the design industry uses this technology to aid in the design process.2. The second topic is a primer/review class in parametric design software, the use of 3Dparametric design software allows easier coordinated changes to designs.3. The third component of the training brings the technical concepts into the classroom. Theparticipants will work with their corresponding development team counterparts (Sinclair andVentura College) to develop design changes on readily available household items found atnational chain stores. After completing the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

education. The Toolkit has beenincorporated into Virtual PLC, a web-based system for PLC education. Future enhancementsmay include the development of additional explanatory feedback for certain ladder logicarrangements and extending the programming language from ladder logic to functional blockdiagram.1. IntroductionThe programmable logic controller (PLC) has been described as the most ingenious devices everinvented to advance the field of manufacturing automation1. Thousands of these devices havebeen used for such applications as monitoring security, managing energy consumption, andcontrolling machines and automatic production lines. As an essential part of manufacturingautomation, PLCs are covered in many automation and control-related courses

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

, and a specialized body Page 10.960.1of knowledge.1 The committee’s analysis of the civil engineering profession suggested that, of Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthese three characteristics, only the first two were adequately defined. Thus began a broad-basedeffort to define and articulate the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge. In January 2004 thiseffort came to fruition with ASCE’s publication of Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the21st Century—a report describing the

Conference Session

Engineers in Toyland - Come and Play

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Erickson; J. Ledlie Klosky; Stephen Ressler

sent directly from user to user (i.e., between IM clients); messages are not routed through the central server. This direct electronic connection between users is the technical characteristic that causes IM to be such a responsive communication medium. • As users communicate back and forth, their respective messages appear in a window on both computers. As each new message arrives, the previous ones remain on screen but scroll upward, leaving a complete record of the electronic conversation. This record can be saved as a log file at the end of the IM session.1 Page 10.140.1Aarons suggests that IM

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

standard, code-specified loading; • display an animation of the load test, with members color-coded to indicate tension (blue), compression (red), and internal force-to-strength ratios (color intensity); • modify the design to strengthen any inadequately designed members; and • minimize the cost of the design, by modifying member properties or structural geometry.WPBD resembles standard CAD software but has a substantially simpler user interface (Figure1). Simplicity has been attained by integrating the geometric constraints of the design problemdirectly into the user interface and by following Cooper’s goal-directed principles of user-interface design.15Figure 1. West Point Bridge Designer user interfaceWPBD is more than

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

nowincludes: 1) providing a strong presence and program for its constituents (and others) each yearat the annual ASEE conference, and 2) achieving the membership level to become an ASEEDivision. A third, somewhat more focused, emphasis from the beginning has been to represent asignificant part of its constituents in the development of the understanding and recognition ofmultidisciplinary (and non-traditional) engineering programs1-5 for which there are no ABETaccreditation program criteria. A specific and significant initiative, with roots back to that initialassembly in 2001 that has become the MECC, is the proposal that ASEE become the engineeringorganization that represents these programs in the accreditation process (as ASME now does forME

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

commonexample is the temperature control system found in most homes. A control system keepsthe air in a home at a certain temperature. It does this by sensing the ambienttemperature, comparing it to the desired temperature, and producing a control action thatkeeps the ambient temperature at or near the desired temperature. This paper describes asystem that involves designing, building, and demonstrating a regulatory control system.The system maintains the temperature of a process at a desired set point. The designincorporates a PC-based data acquisition system (DAQ) along with LabVIEW, agraphics-based programming language by National Instruments. LabVIEW has been usedin many control systems applications [1-5]. The software implements a proportional

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Farison

. This ranking is distinct from the rankings ofengineering programs at institutions with doctoral programs in engineering.Here, from the current U.S. News webpage1 (copied February 28, 2005), is their introduction tothe most recent rankings (released in 2004): “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs Think your future lies in engineering? On these pages, you'll find the U.S. News rankings of undergraduate programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. The rankings are based solely on a peer survey of deans and senior faculty that asked them to rate each program they are familiar with on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished). On the following page are programs at schools that offer doctorates

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Howell

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering University and department characteristics The ABET listing gives the date of first accreditation of each program. Table 1 summarizes the number accredited by decade. While the rate of additions peaked in the 1970s, IE programs continue to be added at a rate of about one per year. The most recent additions are • University of San Diego in 2001, • SUNY Binghamton in 2002, • Wright State University in 2002, and • Cal State Hayward in 2004. Table 1. Decade of first accreditation 1930s

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Fraser

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering University and department characteristics The ABET listing gives the date of first accreditation of each program. Table 1 summarizes the number accredited by decade. While the rate of additions peaked in the 1970s, IE programs continue to be added at a rate of about one per year. The most recent additions are • University of San Diego in 2001, • SUNY Binghamton in 2002, • Wright State University in 2002, and • Cal State Hayward in 2004. Table 1. Decade of first accreditation 1930s

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hansberry; Guido Lopez

,contract and arrangement plans. Literacy in architectural graphics enables engineers of alldisciplines to function more efficiently.The drawings bellow are used to teach first year engineering technology students how to readand make architectural based plans. Students may use these architectural plans to layoutmechanical and electrical building systems.Architectural Problems Used in Student InstructionFigures 1 and 2 below are used in student instruction to expose students to common architecturalscales. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 1 is used to help students recognize architectural scales, while Figure 2 requires thestudents to use the scales to define an object to be designed and

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

consequently must have met the overall program educational objectives. Page 10.1429.1The key point is that the assurance of meeting program educational objectives for every graduate Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education(e.g., via Student-Learning Objectives Assessment) is different from justifying that the programmeets ABET EC2000 criteria (Program Outcomes). Thus, in this paper, we: 1. Layout a process for justifying that a graduate from the program will indeed meet the program educational

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

these tools using student examination andhomework scores, student teaching evaluations, focus groups, and a special web-based DeviceConcept Inventory developed in this project are described.Introduction Traditional passive, lecture-based instruction in semiconductor device theory, even whenit is of excellent quality, has only limited success in promoting conceptual understanding andstudent achievement. The importance of interactive engagement in technical courses has beenwell documented in the literature.1-3 Yet there is a critical national need for engineers who arewell trained in device theory to support the semiconductor industry, which has become thelargest manufacturing industry in the United States. The inherently difficult nature

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Essaid Bouktache; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 3548 Academic Quality Management Based Assessment C.R.Sekhar, O.Farook, Jai. P.Agrawal, and E. Bouktache Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis paper describes an Academic Quality Management (AQM) based assessment process andthe outcome results that showed positive student’s acquired knowledge and retention.Continuous improvement is the theme emphasized by ABET 1 and our AQM based assessmenthas worked for us and is used in the continuous improvement of course delivery to improve thelearning and

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

1 Session # 2560 Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students Bethany S. Oberst, Ph.D. United Arab Emirates University (UAE) Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. World Expertise LLC (USA) Ion Tiginyanu, Ph.D. Technical University of Moldova (MD)AbstractIn 2003 the Technical University of Moldova

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruno Osorno

“Electrical conversion course is offered, it is done as anMachines.” It is no wonder that almost elective in most institutions.all textbooks [1] used in the area haveextensive chapters dealing with The effect of graduating students with anmagnetic circuits. This paper is a study electrical engineering degree without anof an effective way of transitioning a energy conversion course is verytopic from one area of electric detrimental to their basic knowledge. We willengineering to another (from discuss this issue further down the road inElectromagnetic Fields to Electric this paper. Staying focused on the

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

growth in these countries.IntroductionAt the Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders passed the MillenniumDeclaration, which formally established the Millenium Development Goals. Since thenthe MDGs have become the international reference standard for measuring and trackingimprovements in the human condition in developing countries. They have the advantageof (i) a political mandate agreed by the leaders of all UN member states, (ii) offering acomprehensive and multi-dimensional development framework, and (iii) setting clearquantifiable targets to be achieved in all countries by 2015.The full list of Millenium Development Goals follows:Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Olsson; Lars Håkansson; Johan Zackrisson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

thecommunication infrastructureThe remote laboratory is illustrated in Figure 1. The experiment server in the photo to the left islocated in a small storeroom equipped with only a mains outlet and network socket. A controllerand the instruments are plugged into a PXI chassis (PCI Extensions for Instrumentation) Page 10.80.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationmanufactured by National Instruments. The card stack on the top of the chassis is the circuitassembly robot. The two desktop units to the left in

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Griffin; Julie Swann; Robert Kirkman; Matthew Drake

provide recommendations for improving ethics in engineeringeducation, such as an integrative approach delivered at multiple points in the curriculum andincorporating discipline-specific context.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology requires that engineering programsintroduce students to ethical issues that arise from the practice of engineering [1]. As a result,many engineering departments have recently worked to incorporate ethics into their alreadycrowded curriculum. In this paper, we compare two general approaches to teachingprofessional ethics to undergraduate students, with a particular focus on the effectiveness ofeach mode in improving moral judgment.The College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerald Sullivan

of the three dimensional structure ofmaterials, while at the same time reinforcing their solid modeling skills. This paperreviews the exercises developed to complement the materials curriculum, and describesthe lessons learned in this first attempt at applying solid modeling as a visualization toolfor material science education.1. IntroductionMaterial science is an extremely diverse body of knowledge, comprised of conceptsranging from quantum level interactions between atoms, to explanations of the effects ofindustrial processes on material properties. Central to the understanding of these conceptsis the ability to visualize and reason about the somewhat abstract three-dimensionalarrangements of atoms that make up the structure of materials

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Drummer; James Frendewey; Sheryl Sorby; Kris Mattila; John Sutherland; Leonard Bohmann

agree. Panelists are also free to add new items to the categories/characteristics or they canmove things from one category to another. Results from the first round of the survey are used tocreate the second survey instrument, with some items deleted from the categories and someadded to them. For the second survey round, panelists are asked to rate each item using a 4- or5-point Likert scale, with 5 being very important and 1 not important. Categories andcharacteristics that receive low rankings are deleted from the survey and a new instrument isprepared. For the third round, panelists are asked to rank-order the categories as well as thecharacteristics within each. Results from rounds 2 and 3 are combined to create the surveyinstrument for the

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Charlesworth; Thomas Drummer; Kedmon Hungwe; Sheryl Sorby

practice should help learners to reflect on theirlearning and become more metacognitively aware of their learning process. These skillsare important in the overall development of learners.There have been several studies examining what type of pre-college activities tend to bepresent in students who have well developed spatial skills (Deno, 1995, Leopold, Sorby,& Gorska 1996, and Medina, Gerson, & Sorby, 1998). Activities that require eye-to-handcoordination are particularly useful in developing these skills such as: 1) playing withconstruction toys (e.g., Legos) as a young child, 2) participating in classes such as shop,drafting, or mechanics as a middle school or secondary student, 3) playing 3-dimensionalcomputer games, 4) participating

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Plesha; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo

: 1. balance laws (e.g., momentum,∗ angular momentum, energy, etc.); 2. constitutive equations (e.g., friction laws, drag laws, etc.); and 3. kinematics or constraints. On the other hand, it is new in the sense that we are applying it in freshman and sophomore-level mechanics courses. We will close with several examples from statics and dynamics for which we use our approach.IntroductionEngineering courses in mechanics differ from their companion courses offered by physicsdepartments in that, in engineering, there is a strong emphasis on issues concerningengineering standards and design on the one hand and on the acquisition of effectiveproblem solving techniques, on the other. In this paper we focus